Chimulirenji Implicated In Fertiliser Scandal
Everton Chimulirenji who was the de-facto Vice President of Malawi from May 2019 toFebruary 2020 and former Ministerof Disaster Management Affairs and PublicEvents has been implicated in a K76 million fertiliser scandal.
A statement from the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) indicates that on September 4 2020, the graft bursting body received an allegation that in the 2019/2020 fiscal year, Chimulirenji, abused his office to influence Chief Commissioner of Prisons, Grace Wandika Phiri to instruct a Malawi Prison Service procurement officer to award a contract worth K200 million for the supply of fertiliser to Optichem without following procedures.
A thorough investigation by ACB established that Priwil General Dealers, a company belonging to Prince Henderson and Willy Herbert Chimulirenj...