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Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has stressed that it is vigilant against all form of smuggling, including that of cooking oil.
This follows a development that took place on Tuesday when a truck with Mozambican registration number was involved in an accident on Friday near Magalasi on the road to Chileka in Blantyre and as the owners were transferring its goods to another truck on Monday, it was exposed to have been carrying cooking oil from Mozambique.
Sources told Nyasa Times on Tuesday alleging that the cooking oil was being smuggled to Mwanza border from Muluzi border in Mulanje.
A source, who shared pictures of the truck and its contents in 20litre containers, had alleged that the goods on the truck was originally covered with a tarpaulin and as it was being transferred to the relief truck, they thought it was smuggling cooking oil.
A truck with Mozambican registration number was involved in an accident on Friday near Magalasi on the road to Chileka in Blantyre and as the owners were transferring its goods to another truck on Tuesday, it was exposed to have been carrying alleged smuggled cooking oil from Mozambique. A source, who shared pictures of the […]
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Consumer Association of Malawi (CAMA) Executive Director, John Kapito has suggested that perhaps the cooking oil manufacturers should engage farmers to grow more of the raw materials their industry need such as soya, groundnuts, sunflower and others.
Kapito made the suggestion when CAMA in collaboration with Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) asked the manufacturers not continue attributing that the current price increase of refined cooking oil is due to the 16.5% value added tax (VAT) which government re-introduced last year.
CAMA Executive Director
Kapito said, according to their findings on the grounds, the current price increase of refined cooking oil is due to many factors, including the increase in globally price of the imported crude oil, which the manufacturers themselves disclosed during the press conference CAMA organised at College of Medicine Sports Complex in Blantyre on Wednesday.