MMD Youths on the Copperbelt have maintained that the shortage of mealie meal on the Copperbelt was being caused by smuggling of the commodity outside the country.
Copperbelt MMD provincial youth chairman Nicolas Nzunda says load shedding by ZESCO cannot affect the production of mealie meal in milling companies on the Copperbelt.
Mr Nzunda told ZANIS in Kitwe today that there was overwhelming evidence that unscrupulous businessmen were smuggling mealie meal to a neighbouring country hence the shortage.
Mr Nzunda was reacting to Millers Association of Zambia, MAZ, Vice President Peter Cottan who is reported to have attributed the shortage of mealie meal on the Copperbelt to Zesco power outages millers were experiencing.
The provincial MMD youth chairman also accused some millers in the province of hoarding the commodity in anticipation for an increase in the price of the staple food, a charge MAZ vice president Peter Cottan dismissed yesterday.
Nzunda cheap politics, how can millers produce meal mealie when there is no power. Rubish to defendun defendable.Where is brother KUKU and the rest powerful and intellectuals individuals who used to make Lsk Times wealth blogging on.
Watch out we shall send people to check the millers and other business men and we shall work with them. Bwana Chuchu what do you say about the shortage of mealimeal in CB?
The issue of smuggling is actually very real. The mealie meal is fetching very good price more especially in Congo. People are buying in bulk in order to smuggle. I dont know what security personnel manning these border areas are doing
Some of the security officers guarding border posts in those areas connive with the smugglers. There is so much chekele ko. Otherwise people would have stopped if the officers were strict. If you can’t beat them then join them.
Yes,it is a “if you can’t beat them, then join them” syndgrome that is obtaining in these borber posts. And am very sure, those officers if randomly searched, you ‘ll be puzzled the large sums of money you would find them with. Am also sure that, even for these officers to be deployed there, they also have to deposit some sum to they bosses. So, in a nutshell, all this has to do with the poor conditions in the public service. Today its police, 2morrow its DEC, the other day, its teachers and leakage,or a nurse has picked a syring,etc. Soon the entire public service will be arrested. Yet politicians award themselves heftly. May this Govt sort this root cause, please.
Awe chapipa posenico amano bane.Sorry to say ,i thought that’s what globalisation is all about the poor suffer more than the dealers at the expense of demand and supply (DOLLAR)
Y cant ZESCO take responsibility.Its load shedding is causing a negative impact on the economy.
That hired cadre Nzunda aint got brains,this is not the first time mealie meal is being smuggled to Congo,its common practice now.
Why worry about smuggling, just increase the bloody production and earn more money.
Simagola, simagola
Simagola wapwisha ubunga,
EEh mwana mayo mulandu,
Waba simagola x 2.
Who can remember this song in the late 80’s?
Sang by some Kalindula guys.
The act of survival is a package embedded in all human beings. Le Congole have to eat and live, you won’t stop them. Govt should take advantage and do a govt to govt maize deal a sought of Carlington but this time not umwela. By the way don’t you think the global hunger warning is becoming real?
some of the issues we read about in our Zambian papers are really a matter of concern. So batata ba Nzunda what do you do when you have overwhelming evidence that cornmeal is being smuggled into another country. Yes you have informed us on what is happening but where is the rest of this story – what is the conclusion as part of your reporting this issue to us? What measures are you putting in place to ensure that this is stopped immediately? Yaba! Bwafya sana.
In conclusion — what is the next step?
Why are you deleting my comments admn? I didn’t curse anyone here
Ka Nicolas Nzunda iwe ka satana how do u produce mealie meal when there is no electricity in Zambia? Are u defending loadshedding? Foolish!
You sex working imbecile with cyclic a reduntant brain! Kabiye fye kwi hule lyobe ilya ku Nkana East.
Bushe smuggling nilelo yaisa … why don’t we have a shortage of copper, na Nandashi yaisa! Food reserve agency (whatever you are now called), what way forward?
It’s very embarrassing to have the bread winning province of the nation to have no food because of your stupid neglect, and later on attribute it to smuggling! What contingence measures do you have in place? If it’s smuggling indeed, where through and what are you doing about it????? How you expect ifigayo to work under candle or koloboyi light? Where is our energy minister?
How do you expect farmers to grow maize without a good input from you? Mwaba tana fertilizer and other necessities … Marubbish you reap what you sow!
Who is responsible for law enforcement in Zed? If crooks and thugs are allowed to invest in key strategic areas such as milling, what do you expect? You cannot afford to have foreigners of dubious origin be owners of youe key foods such as milling maize. Only pint sized leaders would endorse such practices as put in place by the mmd. There was nothing wrong with milling companies being nationalized. We only needed to have better trained and experienced managers to run them. Chiluba does not know the difference between efficiency and ownership. They are NOT related.
Honestly speaking what can one do? Politicians have given themselves hefty perks and here comes that rare smuggling opportunity at your disposal, I can do it either! SURVIVAL IS THE GAME! To hell with politicians! Whichever form you come, you thee same ‘ money launderers’