Vice President Guy Scott says there is need to clean up the marketing system of maize which he says is marred with corruption.Dr Scott said most people who benefited from maize marketing are foreigners, smugglers and other dubious businessmen who were not genuine farmers.
The Vice President said this during a public meeting at Mwalala Basic School grounds in Chama district yesterday.He charged that there were thieves that stole maize from FRA and later sold it to the agency, saying the PF government would investigate such issues and clean up the system.
Dr Scott noted that it was difficult to increase the price of maize because the former ruling party, MMD, wanted to buy all the maize from all the farmers, a move which he said weakened the system of maize marketing.
The Vice President was responding to a member of Chama District Cooperative Union, Thulu Fesha, who bemoaned the non increment of the maize floor price in three years running.Dr Scott stated that huge losses were incurred adding that government would only increase the maize buying price once the system was cleaned.
Mr Thulu said government needed to consider the price of producing maize before setting the floor price, saying farming had become expensive.
MMD was simply buying the maize so that it does no rot in the hands of farmers and in the process was putting more money in the farmers pockets
Chimbwi can’t give a straight answer he has to bark out rehearsed nonsense about corruption. Guy, can you remind the nation about your record as agriculture minister. Hyenas without a plan!
Stillv blaming MMD nine months down the line. I find this a bit *****ic.
Fact. PF has no clue where MMD got cash to buy maize from and are too proud to ask.
Including protests against Mr Sata in London by Zimbambweans and Srilankans will be blamed on MMD. Where is the government to take responsibility? Police buttering innocent citizens is all the fault of MMD, failure to provide a new constitution, employment and development to Zambia within 90 days is MMD’s making. Come on PF give us a break and a cup of coffee, doing us heading.
So I guess MMD is also to blame for PF’s broken promise of paying all farmers who sold maize to FRA by the end of October? How many thousands of poor farmers have still not been paid?Â
One doesn’t need to look far to work out that there are a lot of systems that need amending, adjusting, complete overhauls or improvements while others worked well for the previous government and just need to be maintained. Any honeymoon period is over so the current government needs to get a firm grip and move on. Simple explanations will fall on deaf ears and complex ones will raise eyebrows. Do what needs to be done then talk. Tick tock.
You still blaming MMD! Â Are you not in power? Do something then, Â instead of just talking. Have you got a plan?Â
“Dr Scott stated that huge losses were incurred adding that government would only increase the maize buying price once the system was cleaned.” – and when will the system be cleaned up then? What are you talking about? Why are you wasting time talking, blaming and making excuses every day. Cry me a river. Â Do something!!!! Â
You fired!!!!!Â
1. For no plan
2. For excuses
3. For Blaming
4. For just talkingÂ
5. For no common sense
dr guy scot do something. people will do eat blame game. we voted for u to electrify those problems. any cheap excuse will not be heard. u are now in power. deliver beyond peoples expectations or else the same people have got powers to remove you from the power like what they did to mmd. the proffessional of blame game is an amateur in the life of sucess. a hero is the person who succed inspite of challenge. please stand above these challenges.
If the easterners will buy this kind of excuse, then I regret coming from Chama District. Thousands of farmers who sold their maize to FRA last season remain unpaid to date. This season farm inputs which usually delivered in time (usually around August, September in the past farming seasons) were delayed upon ascendance to power by the PF govt. What plans do you have as PF to improve the agricultural system, give us your plan if you have any or are you CNP?. When are buying the crops and when are you paying them for their sweat, stop blame game you are no longer in opposition. If anything you are partly to blame for the failed agricultural system as the first agriculture minister in the MMD govt.
We cannot always be blaming the MMD though they somehow contributed to the mess. What I would like to hear is thatthe mistakes the previous governmet made in the maize marketing field were ABC and what we will do to rectify that is ABC…On a lighter note, I want to engage myself in piggery, any advice Guy Scott??
Forget pigs, go for goats.
STILL BLAMING THE GREAT MMD !!!
SIR, U MUST BE SLEEPING ! WAKE UP !!!!!!! AND DO SOMETHING !
2016 IS AROUND THE CORNER ! THIS TIME IT’S 50% + 1 VOTE !
UKWA WAKE UP ! CHOLA BOY WAKE UP !
ubulimi bwakale, tabutalalika mwana! just do the job PF.
Please Mr. VP, stop blaming MMD and put up proper strategic plans on how you will resolve these issues. We supported you so don’t disappoint us with such. Time to work and no more talk.
Scot, iam sorry i don’t possess a short memory like you , so are majority of Zambians. You were the first Minister of Agriculture just after UNIP was humiliated from power, what reform did you initiate. Iam sorry to say, you left that ministry worse than you found it, any reforms we might see now were initiated by Mundia Sikatana in Mwanawasa time.Talk about reform by PF,I doubt if you have any despite so many deputy ministers.Scot don’t lie to those poor villagers for their vote. Point a finger at MMD three are accusing you and Ukwa the product of MMD.
It is very quiet on this thread. Where are the Ukwanites? Have you all left Khartoum for your terrorism training. Hope Obama will blast you with a drone!
Dr Scott noted that it was difficult to increase the price of maize because the former ruling party, MMD, wanted to buy all the maize from all the farmers, a move which he said weakened the system of maize marketing.
WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS MEAN?
Ha ha Iam enjoying this congratulation to who ever told HH that politics of being soft can never work in Zambia,now he is no longer an under 5 , I love the hammer the baga attitude . Please HH u are in order to use the cimbwi word, have u forgotten Sata called Chanda cimbwi the Third. HH do u know Zambia is now ruled by LESS generation . Ooh what I meant was the guy in state house uses wireless gadgets, he is clueless on how to run a country,youths are jobless,kwacha is worthless,ministers are useless, Zambians are hopeless ,Zesco is powerless pls join and add an word u think ends with less that describe PFÂ
What a big yawn!! So the country must keep suffering becoz of MMD! They left a rundown power grid& there’s nothing you can do about it; they left a fuel pipe that was leaking, so you are just going to talk about it? The only thing these chimbis are doing better than MMD is corruption and nepotisim! There I give them 15 out of 10!!!
Blaming the MMD is the easy part, finding lasting and beneficial solutions is the hard part. Truth be told, to find these solutions require intellect and indepth understanding of development issues, unfortunately the PF characters lead by UKWA are devoid of core attributes.Â
Bantustans.. Kekekeke whatever you believe in..
chola boy you are part of the problem. you blame the former government, but you were the minister in charge. so the buck stopped with you. it will be 1 year in a few months and you have done f##k all. stop blaming and start fulfilling your election promises. after all your boss served in several previous governments. so he must know the drill by now. he will be known as the mylo president as he wants to do everything tomorrow.