Ms Nawakwi said President Lungu and his Government has told the whole world that mealie meal prices in Kasama had gone down when the truth was that nothing had changed as people are still buying the commodity at K90 to K100.
She charged that President Lungu was dreaming of a day when prices of the commodity will go down but that there won’t be any change in the prices because the President is not putting up measures which would lead to the reduction of what his dreaming of.
“There is no mealie meal here in Northern Province which is going at K45 and the truth is that the President is not telling the truth and he should come out in the open and apologize to the people of Northern Province especially those in Kasama that he is lying or he was misinformed or he is dreaming of a day when mealie meal will be at 45.
I have gone around Northern Province and I have not found any shop selling mealie meal at the price our President is broadcasting to the Nation and what he has been doing can only described as lies and what I’m talking about is not politics but the truth and it is wrong for a President of the Nation to be broadcasting falsehoods to the world,” she said.
She explained that prices of most commodities will continue raising due to PF’s reckless borrowing which has induced the high inflation in the country.
She wondered how some people have continued to praise the PF Government with the prevailing high cost of living and the economic hardships in the country.
And the opposition leader has charged that the PF have ceased to be a government but a political party in office preparing for the next elections.
“How can anybody say that these people are working with this kind of suffering in the country. Commodities have sky rocketed, people are losing jobs everyday and somebody has the audacity to tell us that the PF Government is working. Just look at the price of cooking oil and soap, the prices have doubled and in some cases tripled in the last three months our people are hardly affording three meals a day.”
She also noted that the reconciliation prayers was mockery to God and a move meant to deceive Zambians that the President was a peace loving person.
“Mr. Lungu called for peace and reconciliation prayers on 18th October but that was just for show and a mockery to God because how can a person who genuinely called for reconciliation prayers be the one insulting and harassing his people. He went to Copperbelt and told the teachers in Chingola that he will smoke them out and that if chases them “nishi kutumpa kwabo” just a week after prayers.
Are mealie meal prices and the ZRA vs Post Newspapers the leading stories?
Edith, I thought EL is buying from abroad hammer mills in order to extract Millie meal as he thinks that Millie meal is made FROM hammer mills?
I think Edgar was thinking in dollars, he forgot that the prices are following the daily price rise of forex.
He just said other day that $1 = K7pin, when in fact it was $1 = K14, 000
Pretty we Zambians are gud at making an elephant out of an ant. Madam edith has no right to say such things abt E. Lungu. Its the Zambians’ fault that they are failing to have 3 meals a day. Surely u don’t expect the PF to introduce coupons. U pipo are just lazy.
Zambians are stup!d fools. Where on earth will such id!ocy be allowed to roll on and on. Even when things are going in the way of Zimbabwe they are just watching while cheering “ifintu ni fulwe”. Damn! Bane be serious for once! Presidency is a serious issue not just picking anyone else as long as he is human. Hope this will teach you a lesson!
one chipuba was appointed ps of energy,then mr frank bwalya got shocked ang buried his head like an ostrich
Point of correction: It`s PS incharge of Water iwe kapoli..
Thax mama Nawakwi we need u and hh to teap up form a formidable opposition,thax for informing these loud speakers pf official who have been lying to us over cheap mealie meal in kasama,let kambwili apologise on his znbc tv at 1900 hrs today without shame, we need u who understand what a research is which doesnt rely on speculation but verified facts!to all those who celebrated frm this pronouncements see hw yo party pf is treating zambians,fooling them like babies
Ba Nawakwisa, we are tired of your politics of name calling, calling a k45 as k90 have you lost your ability to read? Am sorry I hope nobody takes you serious because you are never serious personally.
e nawakwi akuwayawayavye that woman is full of hatred a politician who cant even win favor from the place where she comes from ,i remember one campaign period she came here in nakonde boosting even if u don’t vote me i have enough money such that i can spread the money from here to Lusaka
Bushe? Aka ka mummy Kalyupwa or not?. Nga kalyupwa Umulume Tatomboka elyo Nga Takaupwa Emulanduwine. Abaume Balakatina Kansoselo Shalamba sana.
Umwanakashi uwabula umucinshi, kwena umulume wakwe alicuula!
@ bulldog
Could you please interpret your posting so we may not be left out?
Nawakwi siwakwi is a better and seasoned politician unlike the popular hh and mumba. She is the only opposition leader who has a chance of getting closer to pf than the rest who only campagns on online medium.
You need mental check up at Chainama Sir.
If HH is not a seasoned politician, then why are you always talking about HH? Why is PF & ECL in panic mode over him?
And now PF has banned all gatherings on the CB becoz of HH & Miles Sampa! Is this the democracy we struggled for?
@HH Techilema-Hope that you are not a ghost or a megalomania!Try to upgrade your poverty crippled grey matter & be rational as well as radical in your hollow compulsion.Let’s time to get serious or never!HH will win even without your diabolical vote,get a life you stupid silly adult of the 21st century.
@civilized I love yo wild and out of this world imagination. Which HH and what winnining are u dreaming abt hahahaha. U know how to waste yo grey matter my lady.
Boy, this Edith Nawakwi woman surely hates ECL. She is even accusing him of things he never said! It is not ECL who said mealie meal in Kasama cost K45. It is Mr. James Chirwa, the Executive Director of the Zambia Cooperative Federation (ZCF) who said this. He was on ZNBC about a couple of weeks or so ago, boasting that the decline the price of mealie meal produced by solar powered milling plants would would have a “Dangote effect”. Edith, you are the one lying!
I entirely agree, yes its the Executive Director of ZCF who was on TV where they even showed the milled mealie meal and his assurance to the nation was that by end of December, these milling plants will be in most Provinces, Lusaka and Copperbelt inclusive!
So I dont know why this Nawakwi is lying! Could it be that the last hope of the opposition has been erased now? The Dangote effect is here to stay. Have you ever heard anyone from the cartel praising the PF Government and President Lungu on the price reduction in Cement? Its now very clear that the high prices of most goods (mealie meal included) is a cartel thing!
Nawakwi must also be reminded that that MAIZE COMES OUT OF THE FIELDS BUT MEALIE MEAL IS AN END PRODUCT FROM THE MILLING PLANTS, so ECL is far ahead of these twits.
Another liar like your president. You must be very poorly informed. Visionless ECL was in Kitwe hardly two weeks ago and pronounced from a hill that Kasama and Solwezi had cheaper mealie meal at K45/25kg as a result of his solar milling plants in these towns. Don’t defend the undefendable. You a bunch of visionless failures.
Thx your excellency, if i were the president i wud consider resigning than ruling through manupulations and lies.
Iwe Nawakwi, whats wrong with this woman sure? If people from Kasama were to read these lies, this woman would be skinned alive. Our families live in this part of Zambia and everyone has confirmed that mealie meal by ZCF is going at K45 and this has made the opposition scamper in all directions.
If you look at that picture this devil is standing on, that mealie meal is called “Kasama Milling” and NOT ZCF MILLING.
Just accept imwe ba opposition that whilst you are so engulfed in the dollar and load shedding thing, President Lungu is working and providing solutions to the masses. Imwe ba opposition have remained in the old thinking by lying and shouting loud you will get the sympathy of the people, NO, people want solutions and PF is just doing that!
MIND YOU, THESE MILLING PLANTS ARE…
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MIND YOU, THESE MILLING PLANTS ARE SOLAR POWERED AND HENCE PRODUCTION IS 100%. Just wait until you see the ZCF bags in Lusaka and Copperbelt at K45 a month from now.
The Under 5 and Carlington Maize (Nawakwi) thief are in disarray!!!
We’ll wait to see this K45 mealie meal. But as of now, instead of calling madam Nawakwi names, just tell us which shops you’ve found this commodity.
Ba UFO. Instead of insulting Nawaki, please mention the shops this “cheap” mealie meal is in? And by the way, a little economics will tell you that this “cheap” mealie meal, if it comes at all, is below market value. A 50Kg bag of maise costs K75. You need 1.5 of 50Kg bag to produce one 25Kg bag of Maize, which will cost K56.25. So to sell it at K45 means Govt is subsidizing it. What will happen is that people will buy it in bulk and smuggle it out to sell it at K120. This will lead to shortages. Ask KK about subsidizing mealie meal! This is not a long term solution. We have experienced it before, lining at 02:00hrs to buy Mealie meal. PF is a failed project. Kuya bebele.
@ UFO. By the way, criticising based on knowledge and facts is not being unpatriotic. Promising things that you cannot deliver, just to stay in power is being unpatriotic. Believing everything that a politician says “becoz you want to be patriotic” is being gullible. In the end, it will help no one, least of all you.
In pic 1, no one appears to be interested in this prost1tute because balimusula, husband grabber! Those are real women who dont tolerated nonsense from the liars and deceivers.
Wait til ECL tours Norther Province, just wait.
Yes Lungu is working very hard. K14.80 per dollar and K100.00 a chicken , 40% borrowing interest rates and very soon 50% increase in electricity tariffs. what we may witness is scramble for this mealie meal and long ques. Just wait Kaunda days are near. Chimbwi no plan.
let us wait and see. For me the cooperative millls are a good idea. I just hope it want fail like during KK era.
@ Ptargat
Lets be positive and upbeat about our country and ensure we are part of the solutions than this thing of just pointing fingers and blame game.
Our fore fathers (KK’s era) did their part and we have so many people out there who need jobs and they applied themselves diligently to these initiatives, why should we be talking about the Milling plants failing? Lets change our attitude and be proud of of our country, this is what all our friends do in other countries.
In doing so, I dont mean people must be pompous but rather proud and dedicated to see things happen for the good of us all. You cant just blame everything and all things on Government, what have done yourself to ensure that you part of the solution? Be patriotic and you will live better!
IWE NAWAKWI BAUME BABA SHUPA BALUNGU TABATILE ATI AMASHOP YONSE MUKASAMA LIMBI TAUMFWISHA BATILE ATI KU CHIGAYO CHA BA COOERATIVE MUKASAMA.IF YOU SAID YU ASKED COOPERATIVE AND THEY TOLD U ITS MORE THAN K45 I WUD HAVE AGRID NOT THAT NONSES.KUFWENAPOFYE WALIBELELA.