By Staff Reporter
Malawi Minister of Mining Dr. Ken Zikhale Reeves Ng’oma was red hot as he mesmerisedly set the 2025 National Youth Summit ablaze leaving the youthful audience craving for more of his finely sieved articulations on the Innovation Creativity Entrepreneurship (ICE) Model mechanism to spur shared economic exponents of the country’s mines.
Contributing under the theme, ” _Harnessing Youth Innovation for Economic Empowerment and Sustainable Job Creation Towards Malawi 2063_ ” as one of the panelists, the minister appealed for an intellectual ICE overflow and technology-driven mining practices in the young blood.
Motioned the challenge Ng’oma, “We are only guaranteed of meaningful mining development and growth in the country if all relevant players embrace diverse technologies including Artificial Intelligence (AI). Too, ICE Model is a homegrown landmarking tool in the maximisation of youth appetite and eventual eminence attainment of the field.”
“The fact is that strategic positioning of environment-friendly technologies in our mining practices will promote a key trading element of traceability that would assist investors and traders with smart deposits location. Not only that, this would also ensure trade integrity and sustainable investment as gem sellers would be traced to determine selling points and prices too. In return this would ably direct the country whether to trust a particular investor with a contract or not depending on efficiency,” added the minister.
He further challenged that proper management of mineral resources would illuminate the national capacity to exponentiate the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) leading to a hilarious exit from the economically-debilitating overtime compounded International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans.
“We need a participative approach towards mining development and investments through application of ICE. As a country, we have potential to scale up revenue sources through mineral exports. It is possible to liberate ourselves from the IMF loans. We may be geographically characterised as small but in terms of availability and potential of our mining resources, China and Russia form our likes,” said Ng’oma.
How could the composed minister Ng’oma drop the microphone without burning a public recognition of the modern economic philosophy of the inventive State President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera as championed in the Agriculture Tourism and Mining (ATM) Strategy.
“We have talked much about government strides in the management, development and investments in the mining sector. May you please kindly allow me to express my heartfelt gratitude to President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera for coining such a result-oriented Agriculture Tourism and Mining (ATM) Strategy. Fellow Malawians, with full swing evidence my confidence attests that this strategy sets the country to travel on an appropriate highway in a possible chase for economic self-reliance as part of Malawi 2063 realisation,” appreciated Ng’oma.
Appealing for all Malawians to re-usher President Chakwera in government come Tuesday September 16, 2025 Ng’oma had this to say, “We must re-elect President Chakwera if we’re to harvest fruits of the ATM through ICE application.”
Turning to his ministry initiaves Ng’oma disclosed that plans are at an advanced stage to create a first ever Gold Marketing Board to foster an excellently-structured national marketing system that would witness Malawi earning handsomely from her precious stones.
“We intend to establish Malawi Gold Board Marketing. This will ensure that the nation reaps faithfully from the crust,” assured Ng’oma.
In the dying moments of his masterpiece, the minister revealed that government had landed on promising mining investment deals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the People’s Republic of China among other countries.
“Let me reveal that we have orchestrated lucrative mining deals with investors in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and China especially on titanium,” revealed Ng’oma.
Since his appointment as Minister of Mining Honourable Ken Zikhale Ng’oma continues to prove his rational choice theory and thinking beyond measure on how to increase economic productivity of the mining sector under the futuristic President Chakwera’ ATM Strategy.
