Traders of the banned of Tujilijili have resorted to selling the commodity in hidden places to elude the law enforcement officers who have been confiscating the commodity in Ndola.
Ndola City Council (NCC) public relations manager Roy Kuseka said that traders had withdrawn Tujilijili from their shelves because the council and state police officers would grab them.
Kuseka said that the council had continued to confiscate the illicit beer but could not find much when it went to selected high density townships such as Chifubu, Kawama, Nkwazi and Kantolomba.
Only three boxes containing 200 sachets were seized from traders in Chifubu township.
He said that most people had stopped trading in the illicit beer sachets openly for fear of having the commodity consfiscated from them.
Mr Kuseka said that the NCC was aware that some traders were still holding on to the sachets.
“It is difficult to tell whether the people are concealing the beer sachets or not, but we found nothing on the surface in the above
mentioned areas. But what police are doing is to search the store rooms in the bars and warehouses when they go out for a clean up,”Mr
Kuseka said.
Kuseka said the council and the Zambia police would remain vigilant on the matter until the city was swept clean of beer sachets adding that
Ndola residents should report anyone trading on to the illicit beer.
So far, over 300,000 sachets of tujilijili have been seized and destroyed.
This is also happening in Kitwe. I work for a company that is trading in the same, we have secretly reported to the police, but when they visited our warehouse, they came out smiling. They were surely oiled. Some one please help us. We have hundreds of sacks in our ware house and these chinese are still selling the banned comodity.
Tamwatukwanishe………lol!
The ban will only cause the black market to thrive and flourish
The black market is already thriving…. I’m told that I will find a school-bag of Bols when I get home in 3 weeks :)
BEMBA’s are the hill billies of Zambia. They benefit from the hard of the rest of us and comment irrationally on LT. When was the last time you saw a Bemba posting anything meaningful? Except Nine Chale who has Disappeared the rest leave much to be desired. How nice LT used to be back in 2007-2008 when posters were smart and LT was unbiased.
Tiye panke we mbusi we. Go kiss a toilet bowl. Mumona kwati when we dont contribute to gabbage, it’s a sign of weakness. You are so wrong iwe kolwe.
@Nzelu,you see how foolish you are.Initially you insulted Bembas by saying their comments are meaningless,what about yo comment,does it relate to what is being discussed? So pliz dont bring yo dirtness on net. Ndiwe chipuba zoona.
Prohibition,people will make a lot of money.where there is a demand it will be met by unscrouples people.Life is hard being intoxicated makes it easier.
Read the history of “The Prohibition” in the United States, 1920 to 1933 and see the parallels with the Tujilijili issue..
No 5 Nzelu. Atinshi. U r the same ones!
Anyone with side effects of Tujilijili should punished.
Please clean the compounds of Tujilijili, they ran us out of business!! I’m glad my customers are now flocking back for my speciality…kachasu!!
Kachasu Brewer, u have brought up a good point. If Kachasu in this morden day is being brewed and imbibed, dagga is still being smoked and sold openly in Chibolya compound in Lusaka, right next to town centre. what more utujilijili which is easy to conceal? It wil just be underground business kwasila. Its a tough one.
I suggest that the council should give an incentive to those who still have the sachets so that you woo them to come out in the open. Offer to give them money if they turned in the sachets they have. I wouldn’t want to just lose my capital like that overnight.
jili juice….seriously it will start attracting a lot of dough…i am going to invest in it…drugs have super normal profits…so is jili juice going to bring for my business..atleast…trading in marijuana, cocaine + jili juice…more money in my pockets……lol..