Government says it will soon meet the distillers of the local brandy, known as ‘tujilijili’ to persuade them to stop brewing the liquor in sachets.
Youth Sports and Child Development Minster, Kenneth Chipungu has observed that the packaging of the brandy in sachets has resulted in the drink by the youths.
Mr. Chipungu told Journalists in Lusaka that government will meet the distillers and ask them to start packaging the brandy in larger bottles to make them out of reach of children.
He said that the youths are now drinking the tujilijili even in classes, saying this has led to the excessive abuse of alcohol in the country.
He said government is concerned with the way youths have been abusing alcohol in the country, adding that the situation needs urgent attention.
Mr. Chipungu said what was more worrying was that the youths who are abusing alcohol were mainly under the age of 18 years.
He said if the situation is left unchecked, it might result into the country having illiterate people who have no vision for the future.
Mr. Chipungu has since advised youths to look after themselves properly and stop abusing alcohol but instead concentrate on completing their education and prepare their future.
Over 150 under age youths have in the last two weeks been arrested in Lusaka, Ndola, and Nchelenge for abusing alcohol and patronizing bars.
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Alcohol abuse is not because of alcohol packaging it’s because of moral decay. With suggestions like these you wonder what kind of brains or lack of does this person Chpungu have. If the youths are morally disabled theres no container that will stop them from getting high, besides bottles are way more expensive that satchets to manufacture. Govt should not be spouting lousy opinions that will cost distillers a lot of production costs, govt should be looking into the reason why these youths are drinking like such.
Ya this suggestion is just a lame excuse for failure by government to address the issue of childhood delinquency.Tujijili is not the real contributing factor it is the lack of proper recreation facilities that is causing this,so it is much beter to go to the real root of the problem than blaming utujijili.
WHO CARES ITS ZAMBIA
u cant blame tujilili 4 the high rate of alcohol abuse in zambia ther must be another reason y our youths r drinkin lyk this
Mr official check the unemployment rate
As a grade seven, I can afford a wholesome pack of aka jilijili. Now, where’s my leavers’ ball?
A preacher lost his rooster (male chicken) and all his search efforts proved fruitless. He then decided to mention it in church so that anyone who knows its whereabouts,could advise accordingly.
The following Sunday while in church in the pulpit he asked: “Who has a cock?” All men stood up including his 87-year old grandfather. Embarrassed and not knowing what to say next, he said: “I mean, who, amongst you saw a cock last night?” All women in the church stood up including his13-year old daughter.
The priest started to blush when he realised what implications that will have on his image. He then said, “No, no, no. What I mean is, who in the last two weeks in this church, has seen my cock?” All the nuns stood up and the preacher collapsed.
The youths rounded up in kalingalinga were drinking CHIBUKU! Chipungu is himself very dull and has no vision for the future of himself, the youths of this country nor the entire nation. Shut your trap, you fool! This is very irritating. Just because you are dull, and your minister does not imply you should insult our intelligence. Learn to shut up and you will not expose you dullness.
This is packaged kachasu and what the govt is suggesting is no solution at all. Dont we have enough brands of beer already?
Give the children recreation facilities like parks and the like
Ba Chipungu your suggestion does not make sense, all they have to do is have 3 or 5 put together the money for satchets and buy a bottle and share which comes to the same thing, besides bottling is expensive, bushe kufumafye mutulo ati we have started bottling
Poverty and depression cause people to drink. Mr. Minister work on reducing the un-employment rates and will see a drop in tujilijili consumption.
If it just me or does the ‘child development’ seem misplaced in the “Youth Sports and Child Development” Ministry
They should also change the name to something that will market the product not tujilijili…….
They should export tujilijili to SA naifwe we should taste kaili.
That i sa manufacturers business strategy fo packing in those satchets.Mr. Minister that is not a solution of repacking tujilijili in bottles, the way forward is to education your children and tell them the dangers of that stuff
# 7 yaba ala this is funny ,you have made to laugh luchelochelo.
Number 7 you are out of context
Instead of banning the sachet version of tujilijili (aka “tufyompix”), why doesn’t government enforce restricted retailing of alcoholic drinks. Zambians sell this items all over the place, to who ever! Even if that price was set at 10pin, 10 kids can still put there coins together and buy the bottle. So that will not help. Tackle the root of the problem, not its symptoms!
Branding plays a part as to the target market, so if this Brandy is colourfull and the adverts show kids, it will obviously attract kids. there is need for education and the Companies need to be fined if found to break the law, Serving Alcohol to kids should be made illegal as they have done in other parts of the world.
‘yaba’ you sound like he-the preacher……..very funny indeed
NOOO…mr minister!that aint a solution,but zoona we have a dull bunch of chaps in leadership!Chipungu iwe,have you ever heard of that story of a man who concentrated on mopping the floor when his bathtub was overfilled and water was spilling….instead of first CLOSING the tap?
Well if all the strategies fail, then why shouldn’t we just ban the sale of beer – fi shakers, chibuku, mosi, utujilijili & imported beer. Hmmm but iyi nalanda teti ichitike!! Anyway this has nothing to do with packaging or cost of beer. the question is whether where these kids come from people speak strongly about alcohol abuse in particular parents. Or are the parents in the forefront abusing alcohol, the situation which will seriously compromise their ability to come out strongly against alcohol abuse.
so children can not have enough money even when they are from a rich family.
whoever made this suggestion cipuba.
How can one think you can control the abuse of alcohol by increasing the size of the bottle.The bigger the bottle the bigger the problem.Maybe they should consider increasing the size of shake x2 pack so that it would be difficult to take it home.
They should even think of increasing the size of everything including the brain of Bwezani and his ministers….