By Chifundo Masanche
Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has called for fact validation exercise on hygienic conditions of Central Poultry (CP) premises.
The call comes following the company’s resumption of business operations, after the closure by the Lilongwe city authorities as a preventive measure to contain further spread of the Cholera outbreak.
In a letter addressed to city authorities, CDEDI Executive Director Sylvester Namiwa said the organisation feels that consumers and indeed the general public are of the view that both CP and the city authorities owe Malawians an explanation.
“As a mouthpiece of the voiceless, CDEDI has on behalf of millions of the consumers of your products, developed interest and embarked on a fact validation exercise, hence our interest to physically visit the CP premises for inspection in order to validate the information that is already in our possession,” Namiwa says.
According to Namiwa, the organisation intends to visit the company’s premises on January 26, 2023, for fact validation exercise.
“CDEDI would also like to seize the opportunity during the said visit to discuss the long outstanding complaints to the company by the city residents of Area 1(Falls), Area 36, and those along the M1 road, who happen to continuously and painfully endure the pungent smell from your open waste disposal vehicles that literally pollute the air every time they carry refuse to the Area 38 dumping site in Lilongwe,” Namiwa said.
