Thursday, March 28, 2024

Lusaka province minister Bowman Lusambo orders the arrest of youths buying mealie meal

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Other countries: Oh, we have a shortage of our staple food. We should empower more farmers, we should open up more farming areas so that we have surplus once we harvest.
Zambia: Oh, we have a shortage of our staple food. Go to the supermarket and arrest all those who can’t explain why they are buying it.

42 COMMENTS

  1. Under UNIP there was a dearth of educated, rational cadre. The times justified that. Today there is a dearth of reason and leadership and nothing justifies it, except that the population believes simplistic, rhetoric and clowns are the bastion of national service. If we have not learned from this you will know why Zimbabwe is where it is, regardless of sanctions, which we unfortunately do not have as a possible excuse for our circumstances.

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  2. Some of PF rats were boasting about lungu and his sucsse at winter maize……where is that winter maize and the enough maize meal lungu told us Zambia had ????

    You mean all that noise by lungu about enough maize was a lie ??

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  3. People didn’t die from gassing, but they will from that mealie meal sabotage.
    Is it Kabaso Spax Mulenga giving the youths money to buy ubunga?

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  4. Chipantepante Amano yaiminina kkk, it’s called free market economy you mappet, imagine this kind of behavior, and these are Lungu’s best ministers yaba. No wonder Sangwa must be applauded.

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  5. Just flood the market with mealie meal if you have it. It is simple economics but PF will not understand even simple things. Problem is that PF was probably telling lies that we have enough maize. Next it will be the oposotion is hoarding maize to make the PF government unpopular. PF dunderheads awe twatendwa, please 2021 come quick, we need the Third Force like yesterday

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  6. You are too late JJ, Mumbi Phiri already made a statement that HH was buying all the mealie meal to make people rise against PF.

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  7. what is going on? You mean parents should not send their young ones to buy mealiemeal for their families????

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  8. I do not agree with the approach that my learned brother took here. However, I understand why he took such an approach. My brother is passionate about ensuring the well being of his people such that sometimes emotions can over take our decision making process. A solution to this lies with the shops themselves. For example by restricting each seller to one item. I know it’s hard to monitor and regulate such activity. This should have however been left to the police to investigate these chaps and decide whether they had a case to answer. When a commodity is in short supply governments can come in to correct the problem. Even in Europe with corona virus there has been restrictions on the buying of tissue and hand sanitizers. Kz

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  9. To the man with a hammer all problems are nails.
    It is very unfortunate that anyone in our current govt gets to direct ZP, even when ZP is said to be free from political influence. For ZP instituting such illegal arrests will amount to human rights violation.
    For the minister or those close to him reading this, govt just 2 weeks ago announced that it had opened a new solar milling plant, were’s the mealie meal from this new plant or the old ones?

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  10. Famine became President Robert Mugabe’s weapon to cling to power . He deliberately and systematically used food shortages to cling to power. A slow death by starvation – orchestrated in large part of Matabeleland by Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF

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  11. Surely ba Kapokola you are trained, how can you follow the orders of a blind man? What offence will you charge those boys with? Buying and not stealing mealie meal contrary to Cap idiocy section dull Lusambo of the laws of Plain Fools?

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  12. The government seems set on adding famine to the list of oppressions visited on the nation.

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  13. IMAGINE THESE SAME GUNDWANE’S ARE DREAMING OF & FIGHTING FOR A THIRD TERM FOR THEIR THIEVING VISIONLESS ONE, WHILST THIS EQUALLY USELESS CHEESE LOVING BRUTE B0WM@N IS IN THE FOREFRONT OF THE THIRD TERM N0NSENSE!
    When Gimps, P!mps speculators & chancers are allowed near the instruments of power, the result is what you are seeing in Zed today, failed “Ch@gwanomics & Lus@mb0nomics”.
    Shameful, very shameful indeed!
    Lastly, PFKUYABEBELE!

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  14. Kz, well spoken, it is nice to see that you dont agree with everything without taking time to think. And also nice to read a comment about the state of affairs without resolting to discussing the opposition.

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  15. shocking and shameful. 56 years after independence and this is the caliber of leaders holding office. its really dunnuna reverse

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  16. I can’t blame him. He is an illiterate. Someone who can’t even construct a grade seven simple sentence

    At change of government next year we shall talk to him nicely. Don’t worry.

    Please don’t delete these vidios because he will be quick to deny being a danderhead

  17. THIS IS ABUSE OF OFFICE AND I WISH THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION SUES THIS CLUELESS MINISTER…… LEADERSHIP LIKE THIS IS THE REASON WE HAVEN’T FIGURED OUT HOW TO BUILD OUR OWN DRAINAGES. SHAME ON HIM

  18. Minister Godfridah Sumaili, surely if this nation has values that Bowman thug should have no business in government. Need I say more? Even suspected murderers and gassing thugs like jerabo Spax even have space at the high table next to the same fellow thug Bowman of course. What values madam Reverend?

  19. By the way, what are Bowman’s academic credentials? Would be nice to know if we have to understand his epistimologlcal view point

  20. Spiderly I am a government official and will criticize constructively where I feel things have not been done well, irrespective of my party affiliation. This is the only reason I manage to win elections..its because I don’t live in a bubble where I think we always get things right. We are all humans and can err. However, our friends in opposition will continue to lose because they are so hard headed to accept that their approach has been wrong all along. Even 2021 they will lose because they think insulting us and criticising everything we do is what will win them election

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  21. I pity this minister. He doesn’t know any better. He has very limited knowledge hence his options are the same. Poor fella he meant well. Unfortunately he lacks better options. Ignorance is a curse

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  22. Under what law are these kids being arrested? Or seriously being abused? This is totally abuse of authority and it is an imprisonable offense. Both that woman and guy are full blown *****ts. Already that woman is spreading hate. They should produce defensible reasons. Just because I bought yesterday should not mean I can’t buy today. I m off to Costco again to buy tissue and eggs. What’s wrong with that? As long as cadres are ministers, Zambia will never have normal legal solutions to issues and situations like this. Please Zambians, get educated thinkers in positions.

  23. Only the republican President should give directives. Since the absentee president appears oblivious to the welfare of the citizens, even lusambo has become big headed and is now issuing orders and direction.

  24. THE CLOSE-UP FOR PF NOW IS SEEN TO BE CONCLUDED. SO I CAN NOT SEND MY SON OR DAUGHTER TO BUY MEALIE-MILL BECAUSE SHE/HE IS A YOUTH? DONT THIS GOVERNMENT KNOW THAT THERE ARE CHILDREN WHO TAKE CARE OF OTHER CHILDREN BECAUSE OF DEATHS AND SICKNESSES?

  25. Only in Zambia – Where buying mealie meal is arrestable which law manje – my foot. I can see a case against police for unlawful detention of the youths. Thats what happens when you think through the anasi!
    Meantime its disaster leadership.
    Why should we have such kaponyas for a Minister sure. Leadership crisis has hit Zambia really badly. 2021 will bring sanity to this country – mark my word!
    Disaster!!!

  26. PF Zambia in a nutshell. Instead of empowering your people, you arrest and supress them. Instead of building infrastructure and supporting the economy, you give all the jobs to the Chinese. Instead of leading your country, you rob them.

  27. And the useless PF affiliated YALI will remain quiet on this infringement on the rights of those youths. For God’s sake that is shoprite a d shoprite can restrict people on how many bags each person can buy in their shop. That shoprite employee I saw in the video taking part in this illegality of arresting innocent youths must be fired. When did buying mealie meal become a crime in Zambia? And the absentee president will remain quiet and not fire this incompetent minister. Anyway Zambia deserves such calibre of people leading them because they take important things lightly and useless or meaningless matters thoughtfully and at heart. Zambians rather cling to trivial issues of a person buying a Bugatti than economic and leadership matters of their own country. Shame on us all indeed.

  28. Zambians are being led like they are in prison. In prison even the most dull and useless person that one can be outside it’s walls can be a leader inside it leading those that are intelligent, wise and thoughtful within the prison walls. The numbers don’t lie, even in schools when someone passes meaning they got good numbers in their tests. Compare the numbers now e.g the kwacha trading rate, inflation rate, interest rates at the banks, the GDP rate, prices of essential commodities, FDI into the country, our credit rating, unemployment rate etc as a country everything heading down.

  29. bowman lusambo the best you could have done is go to FRA and order them to offload maize to he millers … the worst is comming apologise to those kids and we need a report over the action you took…

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