Leaked information from National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) indicates that the outgoing Chief Executive Officer (CEO) who retired in 2019 and has been on month to month salary is planning to field his longest serving member at the institution as his successor.
The coming in of the Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Gerald Viola has met very hostile environment.
Our informants have indicated Viola once complained in a plenary session to Mr. Tonde the tutor of Malawi Institute of Management that he had no job at NFRA because the CEO was not giving him anything to do and that he has no job description.
Our source further says Viola went on to give an example of National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) where his fellow DCEO has mandate over some institution departments of Human Resources and Administration, Security, Communication and Strategic Management.
Tonde is reported to have advised the NFRA CEO to give Viola a job description a thing 8 months after being hired does nothing apart from taking tea and reading newspapers.
Investigations have revealed that the CEO is not happy to have Viola as his successor to avoid finding possible faults in his accounting procedures.
In a dramatic move to discredit Viola the CEO and his longest serving member planned to hire two business persons to play a syndicate to implicate Viola in issuing a fake LPO which the Publication has seen.
The hired guys got the LPO, wrote on it deliberate wrong information just to make Viola’s image dented.
Looking at the LPO one easily notices flaws that the LPO has no stamp, no signature, no details of where to supply the maize, what kind of the maize to be supplied, and writing on his Facebook page Viola said an NFRA LPO has a maximum of K30 million and not up to K3.3 billion.
Maize price in January was K250 per Kg but the fake LPO shows K330 per kg a price Viola disputes that only Reserve Bank of Malawi and Ministry of Agriculture determine the price for buying the grain by the Agency.
It is 100 percent believed all the move aimed at implicating Viola in a very bad syndicate which according to the audio telephone conversation we have listened to started in the office of the CEO and ended back in this office.
Viola is being fought for being an appointed officer and the whole syndicate vows to tell the world the President appointed a thief and that DPP administration is a corrupt Government.
