In what can only be described as a desperate, malicious, and intellectually bankrupt abuse of state power, Malawi Police, on Tuesday, 16th December, 2025, acting on instructions from panicking and shameless DPP politicians attempted to carry out an illegal search at Namuleri Farms in Kasungu South, a thriving agricultural enterprise owned by the Honorable Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, Mr. Simplex Chithyola Banda.
The pretext? A laughable and insultingly ignorant claim that Namuleri Farms was using subsidized fertilizer allegedly sourced illegally from the National Economic Empowerment Fund (NEEF). This claim alone exposes a ruling elite so detached from real production and enterprise that they cannot distinguish between subsistence farming and large-scale commercial agriculture.
What the architects of this political witch-hunt conveniently ignored is that Chithyola Banda had already obtained a valid court stay order, legally barring the execution of the said search warrant. Yet, in open defiance of the law and contempt of the judiciary, the police proceeded to the farm regardless, confirming growing fears that Malawi’s security institutions are being reduced to tools of partisan vendettas.
When the police arrived, they did not find a hiding suspect or stolen fertilizer. Instead, they found the owner himself, boots on the ground, working alongside his employees, embodying the very ethic of productivity the current regime neither understands nor respects.
Chithyola, calmly presented the stay order and informed the officers that they were acting unlawfully. Then, in a move that completely humiliated the political cowards who had sent them, The Malawi Congress Party Kasungu South Member of Parliament personally took the officers on a tour of the farm, not to comply with illegality, but to educate them and, by extension, their clueless political masters.
The Prolific Leader of the Opposition instructed the officers to report back a simple fact: Namuleri Farms spends approximately K600 million annually on fertilizers alone. He challenged the DPP power brokers to explain whether, in their wildest fantasies, NEEF could ever finance such an operation. The answer, of course, is an emphatic no.
Chithyola Banda, further told them to convey that Namuleri Farms produces annual maize yields capable of feeding a family for over 40 years, and that its scale of production outperforms even some long-established white-owned commercial farms. This is not luck. It is not politics. It is generational expertise, five generations of farming embedded in blood and discipline.
This reality is deeply uncomfortable for a ruling clique who’s only known skill is looting public resources. Unlike Namuleri Farms, whose wealth is grown from the soil, the wealth of these politicians has been harvested from government coffers, fertilized by corruption, Cashgate-style theft, and systemic abuse of office.
This shameful episode is not about fertilizer. It is about envy, fear, and political insecurity. It is about a government that hates success it did not steal, cannot comprehend wealth it did not embezzle, and sees independent, productive citizens—especially those in opposition—as a threat.
The attempted raid at Namuleri Farms stands as a damning indictment of a regime that no longer governs, but persecutes. A government that mistakes intimidation for leadership, and police raids for policy, has already lost its moral authority.
Malawians are watching. And they are learning, yet again, who works—and who steals.
*Views expressed in the article are those of the author