In 2017, lawmakers passed an insertion to the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Act, which stated that the 60% of Government’s procurement needs must be from black indigenous Malawians.

A year after the insertion was enforced, government was involved in a scandalous K53bn uniforms procurement deal and another K2.8bn police rations procurement deal, both businesses handed to foreigners, contrary to the insertion.

As the cases are being investigated, the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Industry has stressed that the law is still in full force.