Supply of mealie meal in major trading centres of Kitwe and Kalulushi has continued to be erratic with some milling companies restricting the sale of the commodity to one bag per person.
A survey conducted revealed that the commodity was being sold between K50,000 and K80,000 per 25 kg of breakfast because of limited stock.
Shoprite in the Kitwe business centre had run out of the commodity and was expecting delivery of mealie meal by mid day yesterday.
At Nakadoli market in Chimwemwe township, traders were selling limited stocks at exorbitant prices while Mark Corporation director Mark Chisanga said that shortage has forced the price to skyrocket.
A trader at Nakadoli market, Maria Kamboyi said that most millers were allowing a person to buy a single bag and that there was corruption among some traders who were conniving with suppliers to buy in large quantity at the expense of individuals.
Kalulushi district commissioner Joyce Nsama said that shortage of the commodity had persisted with Nkana general dealers selling a bag of mealie meal at K55,000.
Ms Nsama said that Mpongwe milling delivered 400 bags to Nkana general dealers in Kalulushi last week but by yesterday only 20 bags were remaining.
She said that traders on the ‘black market’ were selling the commodity between K75,000 and K80,000.
“I am appealing to other milling companies to supply the district because the prices have gone up and people cannot afford. Mpongwe milling has a breakdown of its machinery at the plant and we hope that they will soon resume full capacity production,” she said.
K75,000 you can buy tons of cassava, pumpkins or sweet potatoes, why nsima all the time?
You don’t know what you are talking about.
FYAKULANDA TAMUKWETE
Next year likely to experience more than this, because harvest expected to be poor, due to delay to pay farmers and distribute agriculture inputs on time.
UNIP SHOW IS BACK
Kopala wamwenako, just come to Ndola the freindly city and probably the cleanest in the country. We have mealie meal here!! The jeraboz of Kitwe have invaded our shoprite and there is none here too. But retailers in markets and other places have the stock going at K50,000. All the best mwebena Nkana
This is becoming boring now. It is no longer news!
This will soon become normal. Airpower band once sang a song ‘That is the Way We Get Buy’. When you live near a sewage, you stop smelling it. That is the way we will continue gettng by. Well, we got the change we wanted, so let’s just live with it.
Ni Donchi Kubeba
Eat your feaces and drink your urie for your wise vote, echanji mwalefwaya kabili, tefye?
Calm down.
ITS DONT-KUBEBA,,ENJOY WHAT YOU SOWED..THIS IS JUST NOVERMBER,,REMEMBER THAT THEIR IS STILL DECEMBER,JANUARY,FEBRUARY AND MARCH…..