Kalulushi District Commissioner Joshua Mutisa has warned that it would deal with traders selling a 25 kilogram bag of breakfast mealie meal at K75, 000.
Mr. Mutisa said K75, 000 was not a recommended price of a 25 kilogram bag of mealie meal in the country.
Without stating a specific punishment to be taken against traders violating the law, Mr. Mutisa said government was not sitting idle but checking on those who were allegedly exploiting the public.
He told ZANIS in Kalulushi today that his office had carried out a survey in the district and found out that a 25 kilogram bag of breakfast mealie meal should not exceed K55, 000 in Kalulushi.
”I wish to take this advantage to warn our traders that government is not sitting idle, but watching them and if they fail to follow the law, the consequences will be bad,” he said.
Mr. Mutisa explained that Kalulushi district and the Copperbelt province have enough stocks of maize, noting that the current shortages were artificial.
He pointed out that the maize shortages in the province were created by some unscrupulous business people who wanted to make huge profits from subsidised maize.
He added that there were people in the area that were using small boys to buy mealie meal in bulk so that they could resell.
Mr. Mutisa has since warned the people using boys to buy the commodity to stop and advised traders not to buy more than two bags of mealie meal because there was no need.
And a check by ZANIS in Kalulushi today found that most traders in the town centre were defiantly selling a 25 kilogram bag of breakfast mealie meal at K75, 000.
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What?
Scandal!
My people continue to suffer :o:o:o:o:o
Oh My gosh, 75 sawa? :((
Yaba! Kwena imilile ya shupa pa Zed.
Twachula and nothing is happenning to curb aba bamukulu. 😕
No, imwe, There is no ukuchula here> It’s just that sometimes us Zambians we are so used to complaining that we have stopped using our brains to solve problems. Who does Mr Mutisa think will come and solve his problem? He is a DC for God’s sake, and that is why he is there. Why can’t he just go to the bank as a district and borrow K100million and flood the district selling at a reduced K60,000 per bag? Even after paying interest on the loan he will still make about K12million profit. Now, he will have helped bring down the prices, as well as make a bit of profit. that’s enough credibility to go back to the bank and repeat the cycle again. He doesn’t need RBB to intervene. Wake up!!!
Its not kalulushi only kitwe, bulangililo its k80,000.Bushe tuleya kwi BANDA.
It is a free market economy, dont blame traders but policy makers.
Unga wa dula maningi nikisi, kwasala chabe pa panga chigayo chamalasha ati ni gaya milisi. 75 PIN !!!! wadulisa maningi zo ona . Ine nizayamba che kudya viwaya
Viwaya mutu wameno viwaya viwaya mutu wa meno viwaya
nizingati battery yamu wiless ladio nifuna kunvela sewelo pa ladio one
Mealie Meal…zed drama. please dont play nalye. if ubuteko is crying wat more ise? imwe bantu we need to remember ati RB analila namuzake Mbombo. these people proved they cant rule. but vicourage kwamene vachoka vidabwisa mwandi. from tears to power…no mercy bazanga…uyu Banda na nsima yake yatiyofya…apika nsima nidani ati Banda basopo zuzaiona…ati least chiluba apika no pasa, kwa Kaunda kweve a n ni free. Mwanawasa awe nibantu kani yansima yayi…but pa bond pali wadyela akaipika suiona…mudala pali chigolo pali Banda che…onani che chimimba…please chitako chifundo imwe please…
Too bad
Zanbians will continue to suffer cos of wrong choices they make.
They have no one to blame but themselves.
Ubunga zo ona?!! And they want to be giving Zimbabweans mealie-meal? [-(
The only place were there is mealie meal in kalulushi is kukomboni, so mutisa rush there and take them to task.
Has comrade Mutisa bothered to find out where these traders are sourcing the commodity and at what price. Only then can he say and act conclusively. Playing for political recognition will not help.
stop exporting mealie meal(maize) before the rains otherwise you will kill your own pipo :((:((:((**==
Zambians should find other staple foods. Can’t we learn from the history of others. Just simple research and experimentation with other available foods is all it takes, how hard can that be? Probably we are waiting to be advised by IMF or some western research institute,because our mount Makulu research institute is redundant or a photocopier.
what