GOVERNMENT is today expected to sign a Statutory Instrument (SI) to regulate the prices of mealie meal which has gone high some parts of the country.
President Edgar Lungu said when he addressed a mammoth rally at Mpezeni Park Square in Chipata yesterday that Government has decided to move in by signing an SI in order to regulate and reduce the price of mealie-meal which was high in some parts of the country.
The President wondered why some retail shops were selling the commodity at higher price instead at cheaper.
Mr Lungu said it was sad that some business persons were exploiting the people by giving lame excuse about the dollar.
He said it was nonsense that despite the dollar appreciation, others wanted to find room by increasing the commodity.
“The price of mealie meal is very high despite the dollar appreciation so tomorrow (today), Government shall sign a Statutory Instrument (SI) to regulate the high price of mealie meal in the country,” he said.
He said most of the millers were being supplied with the Government subsided maize and wondered why the prices of mealie meal had not come down.
President Lungu has also asked the people of Zambia to give him a five years mandate in order to implement developmental projects which the Patriotic Front (PF) Government was currently implementing in the country.
He said for the last four years, the PF Government has done a number of developmental projects which included hospitals, roads, health posts, and schools.
“Iam asking you to give me a five years mandate in order to continue with the developmental projects and as you can see, PF has done developmental projects in four years as if it is 50 years so that we have been in power,” he said.
President Lungu said being a God fearing President he was happy that Zambia would have enough food adding that Agriculture Minister Given Lubinda would announce the 2016 maize floor price for marketing season.
He assured the people that his Government would not allow maize to be going beyond the borders without proper export permit.
He further warned the people the PF rank and file that he would not allow corruption in the adoption process.
He said it was unfortunate that some reports were merging that some party officials were involved in the corruption during the ongoing adoption processes warning that such trends would not be condoned.
He said he became party president without involving himself in corruption stating that such people who were involved in corruption were denting the name of the party.
President Lungu also thanked opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) for endorsing him ahead of the general elections.
He said he was happy that some MPs and others have endorsed him ahead of the general elections.
He said he decided to deal with the lower organs of MMD before moving to leaders like Dr Nevers Mumba, former republican president Rupiah Banda and Lunte MP Mutati.
About ten MMD MPS and an independent candidate endorsed the candidature of President Lungu ahead of the 2016 general elections.
Those who endorsed are Lumezi MMD MP Isaac Banda, Kapoche MMD MP, Nicholas Banda, Milanzi MMD MP Whiteson Banda, Mkaika MMD MP Peter Phiri, Chadiza MMD MP Allan Mbewe, Rufunsa MMD MP Kenneth Chipungu, Kasenengwa MMD MP Victoria Kalima and Chipata Central MMD MP Reuben Mtolo Phiri .
Others are Nyimba MMD MP Forrie Tembo,Chipangali MMD MP Vicent Mwale and Luangeni Independent MP Charles Zulu.
Mr Mtolo Phiri who represented said the MPs were happy with what the PF Government had done to implement various developmental projects.
And musicians such as Dandy Krazy, Mampi, Chester and MarkyII also joined the chorus in endorsing the candidature of President Lungu.
Speaking at the same meeting, MMD Provincial Chairperson Jacob Mwanza and Katuba UPND MP Jonas Shakafuswa asked the people of Eastern Province to rally behind President Lungu if meaningful development was to be realised.
The President who was accompanied by Justice Minister Dr Ngosa Simbyakula, PF Secretary General Davies Chama and Local Government Minister Stephen Kampyongo returned to Lusaka immediately after the rally
GOING BACK TO THE DAYS WHEN WE HAD PRICE CONTROLS THIS IS GETTING WORSE AND WORSE NEXT WE WILL HAVE TO QUEUE FOR BREAD AND OTHER BASIC NEEDS. DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECTS HAVE SET THE COUNTRY BACK 50 YEARS DUE TO EXCESSIVE LOANS – ZAMBIA NOW HAS MORE DEBT THAN WE HAD IN 1990!!!!!!!!!
Wakwatu Wakwatu.
I miss Kapata. I lived in this suburb in my early age. I also had se’x in this same suburb during my primary and secondary days. Kapata
Millers will be accessing cheaper maize as mentioned by GBM so this has nothing to do with price controls Lungu us talking about
Moronic deceptive crook of a president
So sad crowd, very few fists in the air.
The opposition would be arrested and tear gas fired for holding a rally before official campaign period. How can the President still be wondering about the price of mealie meal 14 months in office…and when we say he has failed PF cadres call us all sorts of names..
What a disgrace of a President! Lungu does not even understand that it is the Kwacha, his own national currency, that has appreciated and not the dollar! It is the Kwacha, Mr Drunkard, that has appreciated. No wonder Zambia is going no where when the President does not understand which way the national currency has moved.
KK tired that, and ended up damaging the economy.
Whilst this may sound good to consumers, it may be bad business; farmers and millers will be subsidized or else the supply side goes down upsetting the equilibrium on supply and demand. More Government subsidies, more Government borrowing equals to economy collapse resulting in more difficulties for citizens.
But of course after elections, boom…price controls out and the meal meal prices will double and nobody will care…..more suffering!
Ngonistan mps have endorsed changwa, others would have been called names.
BLAME THE OPPOSITION PARTY LEADERS WHO ARE WORKING WITH THE MILLERS TO PUNISH THE CONSUMERS SO THAT THEY CAN VOTE FOR HH AND UPND. ANYWAY, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT THE GOVERNMENT TO DO- SIT BACK AND PRETEND THINGS ARE OKAY. MWALOBE LYAUMA. ECL PLEASE LOOK AFTER THE POOR ZAMBIANS AND THEY WILL LOOK AFTER YOU DURING ELECTIONS AND BEYOND. GOOD DECISION ON THE PART OF THE GOVERNMENT TO SERVE THE POOR ZAMBIANS.
PRICE CONTROLS ARE A SIGN THAT THINGS HAVE GOT OUT OF HANDS. CONFUSION IN POLICIES. EXPECT MORE OF THESE. HOW DO YOU EXPECT INVESTORS TO COME AND INVEST IN AN UNPREDICTABLE ENVIRONMENT? THAT’S WHY THE IMF TURNED DOWN THE REQUEST FOR HELP.
This is the waste decision that PF has made. If you are passing a SI for mealie meal control, please pass one for input costs as well. The cost of electricity has gone up for businesses and yet someone wants to decide the profits for millers. In a long run, millers may close their milling companies and invest their money in other business ventures and the govt will remain with their SI and people without anywhere to buy bunga from.
Thank you Mr President. please control them and let those who want to close down do so. We can not allow thieves steal from Zambians like this.
I disagree with the President on this move. The best solution would be to have abundance of Maize/Mealie meal and the retail price will automatically go down. First things, lets empower our farmers so that they can produce more. This can be done by reducing the farming inputs; fertilizers, diesel, seed, weed killers, farming equipment and whatever else farmers need to produce more grain. Then we need to minimize all maize exports until all our food reserves are full with sufficient for more than 2 years supply. In fact we should only export finished products such as maize meal or stock feeds and not raw corn. We should only export old stock so as to create room for fresh harvest. We cant force retailers to sell maize at a reduced price when they bought the corn stocks at a higher price.
THE STRONG WIND OF CHANGE IS SWEEPING ALL ACROSS ZAMBIA! WATCH THE PACE . WAIT AND BEHOLD WHAT HAPPENS AFTER 10 MAY. ZAMBIA FORWARD. VIVA UPND VIVA! VIVA HH VIVA! FLIGHT HH 2016 READY TO TAKE OFF!
First the utterly Lazy Bum Edgar wastes funds on imported Chinese Solar Hammer Mills now realizing it was a silly idea he now conjures up another stup*d idea from UNIP socialist era Price Controls.
This is very disheartening!! How can the President talk of regulating mealie meal prices by way of SI? The President should know that he is a lawyer and that not all problems require legal solutions. This is an economical problem where the prices follow the law of supply and demand and other factors with some multiplier effect. Please dont use law to solve an economical problem. Govt has failed to regulate transport fees. Inputs are expensive and a farmer should have been allowed to sell at the law of supply and demand and NOT SI!!!!!!
Is this really the best that this dull drunkard can do??????
Copy and Paste FAILED UNIP policy from the 1990s?? Was he drunk, hungover or just asleep the last time this was tried?
The clown is so grossly incompetent I would not even give him a job as a messenger in my company! He would probably stop for a drink on the the way and forget where he was supposed to go!
Now he has definitely forgotten where Zambia is supposed to go!
Let HH be given a chance to address those rallies too and not use those thugs of Police men to chase him. This Dora will wait her pants soon. This time Eastern Province is going to be a thorny bedroom for your Lungu. Let’s wait until the boys hit the road.
UNIP and MMD days reloaded. Price controls back in the game.
Price Control days are back. Blame the opposition-led cartels which are abusing the stomachs of the citizens. We can’t have the masses being exploited by these greedy millers. Good move. All are animals are equal.
what has the opposition got to do with mm prices!!!!!!!! you are obviously one of those people who believe everything they read or hear!!! Higher mm prices have to do with the shortage of maize / load shedding and increased production costs!!!!!!!!!! what this will lead to is milling companies closing down becuase the cant afford to produce mm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Kudos, only PF are animals, and you are equally the same.
You are an !diot. No surprises here.
Good move, peg the price at k48
Let them millers close down . Who cares.
I am a bit confused…how is it possible that ECL body guards who are wearing suits in the pics are running/jogging while he is walking? Are they running in slow motion are is ECL also jogging but not evident from the pics?
The gangly drunkard has such long strides that his guards have to run to keep up. One small step for Chagwa, is one giant leap for his bodyguards!
What is your problem?
@Queen your ignorance is typical of most ZWD/ UPND commentators. I advise you to buy some airtime and make a call to any ZNFU office to get confirmation on this or better still ministry of Agric (this was announced by Lubinda only a few days ago).We have over 100,000 hectares of maize being grown by commercial farmers alone and for your information these commercial farmers normally yield in the range of 8 to 10 tons per hectare. When you add the over 1 million hectares being grown by small scale farmers and the rain as a matter of fact in Zambia (as oppossed to the rest of Southern Africa) has been very good in the Copperbelt, Luapula, Northern and NW provinces with some areas of Central, Lusaka and Southern getting good rains late in the season.
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@ bla, I am a Chipata resident. I way physically at the rally, I tell you people were so excited. One of the above pictures tells it all where a man knelt on the road as a gesture to show respect for the Presidential team that was on its way to the rally. The park was too small to accommodate the people who were in attendance. Those that are not happy with the rally, let them be. God is in control. When HE says ‘YES’, who are we to say ‘no’. So the people you see jogging were so motivated by the large number of people in attendance. Thanks for MMD MPs for supporting ECL. What can they do?, MMD is limping.
We predicted Mealie- Meal Prices would drop, UPND/ ZWD commentators insulted us as usual but here we are..I expect once the 2 million tons of maize in the fields is harvested and offloaded we will see mealie meal prices drop by 50 percent or more.
Already maize per kg has dropped from K2 to K1.1 on the open market.
PF govt working for all to see, with or with an IMF loan!
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With or WITHOUT an IMF loan
and where is the 2 million tons of maize going to come from ?????? There was a drought and most farmers’ have lost there crops!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude, did you even read the article? Do you understand the meaning of price controls? Your dull govt is messing with a free market and we all know how that turned out in UNIP when KK did it. Read and understand. Do not be a typical shallow PF cadre.
@Dudelove you know you UPND guys will always complain, even when the dollar was at 5 you complained, mealie meal prices are now getting lower you want to complain but that’s the role of blind, dull and evil minded UPND chaps like yourself. You dream evil, hope for the worst on all who oppose you so that for some self centred reason you can be proven right. Sorry to dent your ego but your track record of being proven right is almost zero percent. You will be shocked once again when you lose in August the majority of Zambians won’t vote for your uncle HH.
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We here in Eastern Province are expecting a bumper harvest. There are few areas that did not have enough rainfall. Me alone as a farmer I am expecting over two thousand 50kg bags of maize. In our farming block, we are more than two hundred farmers. You think we cannot feed ourselves?
@Misozi
The crowds you saw at Mpezeni park are to be expected for Lungu. It’s a pattern of things. Were you old enough in 1991 to understand how things unfolded with your province? Allow me to give you an insight into the thinking of people of eastern province. When you see those people jogging and kneeling in the road for Lungu it means something is going to unhappen to Lungu like it unhappened to KK in 1991. I say this because the eastern province acts as a lagging indicator of things that will happen. It boils down to this: every province in Zambia in 1991 rejected KK except east province! It’s like this, when a person is clearly headed for a massive loss that’s who east vote for. The only province in Zambia that wanted suffering to continue by voting for a failed leader. Lungu,…
Iam asking you to give me a five years mandate in order to continue with the developmental projects. What developmental project drinking jameson,buying more pangas and fatten your ka small body. Very pathetic president and just clueless,visionless,useless,brainless,dullness,hopeless and a drunkard Wrungu.
He is the national leader as such he deserves respect full stop.
@James, this clueless clown has now shown he has NO UNDERSTANDING of economics. ZERO. NIL.
No wonder his lawyer business failed! He is COMPLETELY out of his depth!
What this TOTAL FAILURE deserves is to get a BIG BOOT out of State House so that we can have some seriousness in running the economy.
@ Lutuku, hang yourself. If you leave in Lusaka you cannot see the development the PF has done. Go to Western Province, Kalabo in particular. Have you ever been there? Go to Muchinga Province, have you been there? I am sure you born in Lusaka, schooled in Lusaka.
President Lungu said being a God fearing President he was happy that Zambia would have enough food adding that Agriculture Minister Given Lubinda would announce the 2016 maize floor price for marketing season.Kuzibila uchristian kukulu nisochabe.Even with putting up tuma fake dance in front of Deadnbc cameras.What ashame all for the sake of getting votes.Wina azashula tu jemason my august
WAKO NIWAKO………opposition are likely to win like Leicester city is going.
see the number of MPs compared to those the defected to UPND?
@2020visionless-Go through the simple literature in the article again -mealie meal prices are not reducing as you moronishly read & understood,instead your irrational & non proactive pathetic PF leader(s) want to FORCE (regulate) the prices of mealie meal!Get this Chimbwi webo!
True. This will only push the prices of meal UP!
Because cheap mealie meal will all be bought by traders to sell in neighbouring countries and Zambians will have to buy on black market at double the price
In other words we will be subsidising mm for all our neighbours and borrowing eurobonds to import our own!
Really the stupidest thing this drunk has ever done! If he had just an ounce of brains he would have known this has been tried before AND FAILED.
Why has God cursed Zambia with such idiiots???
@Muzekezeke,if you check the seas of people turning up to support ECL’s rally,you would be foolish to assume a victory for HH.Easern province,like we keep telling you has now been added to the stronghold of PF to the detriment of upnd’s success in August.I always wonder how upnd thinks will win elections when I look at how strong PF still is on the ground?
Ask RB about the seas of people he used to have in 2011 ba political novice.Muzanya jemason mu august
All the MPs in support if him are from one region and its ok for everyone, if it was HH receiving that support from his tribe man, nga pali insele pano. Yes you can fool some people some times but not all the people all the time. By the way Lungu shud stop frequenting to chipata, Zambia is not only Chipata Mr god fearing president so u call yourself. You’ve been there 5 times in 1 month 3 weeks.
It is just because all the MPs from Southern Province are UPND.
Avancée – Aluta Continua – Forward with unprecedented infrastructure development IN THE LAND….AS
LUAPULA AWAITS TO HOST THE MOTHER OF ALL RALLIES.
GO GO FORWARD ECL it’s a bush fire….
Nafuti nafuti 2016 ecl
They are choked, let’s go Lungu nafuti nafuti.
Satana HH just have look, why do you want to force yourself as presidentt of zambia. We are just waiting no dought you should be the one and your other sons of Satana whom you sent to nganga and started ritual kill people tto win election. God is watching you & will expose you very shortly. Why haven’t you condemned the killings and accidents, but if it is to do with cadres fighting you are on top with your foolish condemnation.
OK, we failed to implement SIs on the copper mines, so now we are targeting mealie-meal
With Lungu as state President we are in trouble. Doesn’t Lungu know price controls were tried in the past but never worked? Price controls do not solve the supply problem. They instead create parallel market (black market) where the product will be in short supply and more expensive.The solution to high mealie meal prices is to flood the market with maize then the price will come down. ZFRA should increase the supply of maize to millers. KK during his rule failed to bring down prices thru price controls. Why is Lungu re-inventing the wheel? Hasn’t Lungu got advisers? History repeats itself in spite of Zambians living in the digital era. ECL has failed Zambia dismally. Its time to show him the exit door.
No other solution, ECL must rule again!
@ Basic economics, I sympathies with your basic knowledge in economics, the govt is not introducing price controls on all commodities, No they are simply controlling the price of a product which they have an interest and always subsidize thru FISP. The millers cartel have worked against govt for far too long since the Kaunda days. Its time to put this sarge to an stop by regulating the price of mealie meal. Mind your Govt is the buyer (Maize) of last resort at great cost to the nation, hence it must also ensure that regulation is promptly done. Just like they control the price of fuel and electricity! its that simple paw..
@Basic Economics
You forgot to mention that in addition to KK controlling price, he went further and actually bought mealie meal (50kg) for each and every family in Zambia using coupons. But as usual it backfired, no, it didn’t achieve the intended objective because the same vultures in power took advantage of this coupons and pocketed all the mealie meal and zero for the suffering masses.
Chagwa, ni milisi ya anyoko? You spent the last year sneering at farmers as bakachema and now you want to control the price of mealie meal. Does maize grow in bottles at the bars where you worship? Let the bakachema get fair prices for their hard work. The maize inputs were bought when the Kwacha was at K15/$. Now you want to crook bakachema with a fake manipulated exchange rate! Si milisi za anyoko!
By the way, Southern Province is no longer Zambia’s maize-belt.
Ndipo kenze ka mammoth rally aka.78% of the crowd are just curious spectators comprising poor and illiterate lumpens.Copperbelt will dictate this year’s elections outcome.
Next it will be Tarino no Coca Cola, and US dollar shops only for expatriates and party members. Where will this end
I wonda were upnd caders buy their meali meal,coz they seem to be against any idear to reduce the price of meali meal
@Hatombwe. The correct way to “control” the price of Mealie Meal is not by a statutory instrument (SI), but increasing supply. This will ensure that farmers, who have already spent on in-puts, get a fair share for their labour.
Introducing Price Controls will lead to shortages. Believe me, this “formula” was tried by KK in the 80’s. One result will be an increase in smuggling as an arificially low price (say K70), will be more profitable in Congo (at K150). Corruption will increase. And shortages will increase within the country. All Government needs to do is off-load more maize on the market, as they have done for the dollar!
Kikikiki upnd dreamers cannot stomach this mammoth rally!!IT WAS VERY HUGE RALLY GUYS AS WE EVEN SAW IT ON ZNBC TV!!”LELO LELO LELO BA UPND!!WE TOLD YOU THAT RELAX,PF CANNOT LOSE 2016 ELECTIONS!!ITS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE!!LOOK AT THE MMD MPS WHO HAVE ENDORSED PF AND EDGAR LUNGU-A LOT AND THEY ARE VERY POPULAR IN THEIR CONSTITUENCES!!WHEN WE TELL YOU THAT VOTING PATTERN IN 2016 WILL BE REGIONAL,UPND REJECT THIS FACT!!NOW LOOK AT THOSE MMD MPS,YOU MEAN THEY ALL DO NOT KNOW THE PARTY WHICH IS POPULAR IN EASTERN BETWEEN PF AND UPND?LEVY NGOMA OF SINDA WILL 100% LOSE HIS SEAT FOR CROSSING OVER TO UPND!!expect mmd mps from muchinga,northern and luapula to endorse and join pf soon!!NOW WE SHALL SEE WHICH PF AND MMD MP FROM PF STRONGHOLDS WILL JOIN UPND AFTER PARLIAMENT IS DISSOLVED AS DREAMERS IN…
IF HH HELD A RALLY IN CHOMA OR MAZABUKA, THE TURN OUT WOULD BE THE SAME. SIMILARLY IF GBM HELD A RALLY IN KASAMA THERE WOULD BE A MAMMOTH ATTENDANCE. MY CONCERN IS THE SUPPORT HE GOT FROM THE MMD MP’S THAT IS ACLEAR SIGN OF TRIBALISM BEING PROMOTED BY OUR UNPRINCIPLED AND RECKLESS LEADERS. THEY ARE NOT REALIZING THAT THEY ARE DANGEROUSLY DIVIDING THE NATION INTO TRIBAL COMPARTMENTS. WHY NOT SUPPORTING THEIR PARTY PRESIDENT?
At mammoth rally in chipata,its like HH holding a rally in monze.Muza shula manzi mu august
Ba Muzekezeke na ba Manomambulwa – It is different — all MPs in Southern Province are UPND.
This is a sign of a failed leadership and not even staged worship on the road will save Changwa on 8/11. he is campaigning and yet he is campaigning freely. and toothless ECZ under Isaacs is mute over it. shame.
Keep on ranting you devil worshippers!!if these millers cannot do the right thing( reducing mealie meal prices),you want Govnt to fold their hands and leave us Zambians suffering in the hands of the cartel?to hell with your upnd!!PLEASE HARD WORKING PF GOVNT,INTRODUCE PRICE CONTROL FOR MEALIE MEAL!!WHY SHOULD ANY NORMAL PERSON LISTEN TO UPND, A BITTER PARTY WHICH ONLY CELEBRATE THE SUFFERINGS OF ZAMBIANS?CAN ANYBODY SEE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UPND AND SATAN?REAL CHRISTAINS NEVER WISH ANYBODY BAD THINGS THE WAY UPND DO-SHAME!!AM PRETTY SURE THAT THE ALMIGHTY GOD EDGAR LUNGU AND HIS TEAM WORSHIP SHALL DELIVER VICTORY FOR PF IN 2016!!GO PF GO!!
Comment:price control will only be implimented to those millers who will get FRA maize not frm open markets coz millers re getng de commodity at cheaper prices frm gorvnt nd ova charge de consumers, thers no SI to control them but this tym arnd wen signed they wil hv no option bt 2 follow since it wil be law.so its either get FRA maize nd be controlled or get it frm open markets in August afta harvast 2 avoid this.
Lungu will perform better in eastern however HH will prevail overall this year.PF will perform like UNIP in 1991.VIVA HH .Ba cheap sana.
This PF government is really in shambles, indeed we are being led by iiiiiiiidiiiiiiots!
It is sad and dangerous to the country to have a president who reasons that if the kwacha appreciates today, then tomorrow commodity prices must fall.
Balatampo ukututuma, shivering kwati wa malaria, seleni tubombeko, Nafuti Nafuti Eddie Chagwa Lungu. Kolopa kolopa Dot Com
Yaba! No plan for sure. It’s shocking to see that Lungu does not understand basic economics. Lungu cannot defy the supply and demand rule and win the war. KK tried and failed. This move confirms that FRA exported most of the maize intake for 2015. The only way to bring mealie meal prices down is to over supply millers with cheap maize. Price controls will only worsen the supply side and fail to meet current mealie meal demand. No wonder IMF could not lend Lungu’s govt money becoz he does not understand how govts work and how economies are prudently managed. Team Lungu must go come 11th August 206#
The current mealie meal fiasco is not a supply and demand issue. This intervention is in order for the staple food given the unjustified price increases.
Any person with eyes can tell that pf will win with landslaid in the first round. They are now confortably in comand of eastern, muchinga, northern, luapula, c/belt, lusaka and part of central. Whilest upnd will only win in southern, n/western and western. Viva president lungu.
Why only Eastern province MPs majority supporting Lungu.If it was UPND it was going to be a tribal party.This is Zambia
@real namwanga…thank you sir for reminding these naysayers and evil minded UPND thugs.
These UPND chaps will be shocked the voter turnout will be high in pro PF areas compared to what happened last year..HH is still not popular outside his traditional strongholds
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“The price of mealie meal is very high despite the dollar appreciation so tomorrow (today), Government shall sign a Statutory Instrument (SI) to regulate the high price of mealie meal in the country,” he said.
What an out of touch Lazy Bum we have put in State House…isn’t ithim and his ministers who blame global issues when the Kwacha depreciates….where has he been when the price of crude on the market has dropped to an all time low to reduce the price at the pump.
This is a sure sign of lamentable failure by a govt with no tangible consistent economic policies…these selfsame empty tins will tomorrow be reading speeches are liberating the economy; when they are introducing price controls in desperation.
@uncivilised sam sometimes I get tired answering back to you daft, evil minded chaps but for the sake of other readers it gives me an opportunity to once again drive a point home.
Are you on the ground? When was the last time you visited the open market for maize? Do you know how much a galon of maize is? Do you know that the price has reduced by almost 50 percent on account of the market forces alone?? Now if the Capitalist Millers with their Capitalist thinking like your Hungry Hyena (HH) of maximising profit are not instructed by Govt to reduce prices what do you think will happen? But you don’t care because you want people to suffer so they can vote for your HH. Very evil and selfish thinking which is why most Zambians won’t vote HH.
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So how is it that PF is allowed to campaign at this date? Price controls failed in the past and due to the nature of Zambia’s broders they will continue to fail – certain people in Lundazi will become rich via this SI because they will be buying at K65 and selling across the mountain at K150, more than doubling their money. Anyone who thinks you can close the border and deny basic economics is mentally unsound
True, there were a lot of people to see and listen to the president. I just the opposition can also be allowed to freely talk to the people. This was indeed a big crowd. Jonas has now jumped on to the PF wagon!!!
Viva Chagwa viva
PF will win in Luapula, Northern, Muchinga, Easern, Copperbelt, Lusaka and half of Central province and that makes it 6 and half provinces. So where will UPND get numbers to win the election as they claim? Dreaming as usual! If GBM gets maize from FRA at a subsidised price and doesn’t want to reduce the price of mealie meal, then he needs to be price controlled period!
Please shoot yourselves in the foot, PF. It’s makes a good narrative for the opposition.
We are now going back to Kaunda. As government, you cannot place a cap in prices unless you have back up supplies. A black market will surely spring up and even more money will be made.
So campaigns have started. Oh when is the next rally my president?
President Lungu will win these elections without any doubt. The reasons are many and in favour of the PF. We told you tribalists that change your leadership because this bitter and jealous Kachema of yours is no match to seasoned and humble men like Edgar Chagwa Lungu.
There is no way Zambians can vote for HH and GBM who insult Zambians at will, smuggles mealie meal and maize out of the country just for his own selfishness, does not believe in God, its just not possible! Moreover, UPND has been in opposition for 15 years now and no one knows what it stands for other than just boasting, SORRY!!!
I cant wait for the campaigns to start.
What is STATE FARM? Is there a direct translation in my/ your local language? These are English words which tell us that state farms are there even in developed countries. The reason for their being is to control demand and supply patterns inclusive of pricing. Imagine what it would ave been without the Zambia National Service and the Prison service involvement in Farming. A living example of ruthlessness in pricing was when cement was costing 80 kwacha but now is costing as low as 52 kwacha. So control is not bad but how you control matters. No wonder the state brought in solar mills to try and control in a small way. Next we want control in the phone services so that we break the cartels and improve the service.
It’s necessary to regulate thus commodity. Temptation too high for greedy traders.
The govt is not introducing price controls on all commodities, No. They are simply controlling the price of a product which they have an interest and always subsidize thru FISP. The millers cartel have worked against govt for far too long since the Kaunda days. Its time to put this sarge to an stop by regulating the price of mealie meal. Mind your Govt is the buyer (Maize) of last resort at great cost to the nation, hence it must also ensure that regulation is promptly done. Just like they control the price of fuel and electricity! its that simple paw..
Comment:VIVA PF we will win dont worry people 2016 is with us.
An SI that will soon be revoked because it will only make mealie meal more scarce and expensive owing to the fact that businessmen will shun dealing in the commodity. Price controls never worked when Super Ken tried using them. The minions think they are wiser. LMAO
They think prayer meetings can change economic and climatic realities!