Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda is under fire from the UN diplomatic community for "deliberately exaggerating" to a newspaper reporter that United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon personally phoned him to meet at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe on Sunday.
The UN Chief landed in Malawi to refuel his plane and never stepped out of his plane but managed to meet the Agriculture Minister after he pressed the local UN agencies to schedule a meeting.
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