Government has unearthed a scam in which some milling companies are allegedly hoarding maize for speculative and profiteering motives.
It has also been established that the country has enough maize stocks to last until March next year.
This is according to a statement jointly issued by the Minister of Commerce and Agriculture on Tuesday.
The Ministers are concerned that the motive for hoarding the maize stocks also seems to be centred on embarassing the government in the eyes of the public.
Government has directed milling companies to ensure that traders do not inflate mealie-meal prices.
It has been proposed that roller meal should be sold between K40,000 and K43,000 while break fast should be pegged at about K50,000 and K52,000 per 25 Kilogram bag.
The statement indicates that the millers are agreeable to the proposed price levels for mealie-meal.
The ministers said the situation will continue to be monitored with a view to take necessary corrective measures.
Traders across the country have continued to hike prices of Mealie Meal in the last few weeks.
[ZNBC]
Look for someone to blame right, so what are you doing about it?!
aka bunga very inportant to our diet noti ifya ku lunda ba ngwele
If that is true arrest all the millers let them be charged for this crime they have committed against the people of Zambia, Teta is one of them, kabili he is a miller!
It is still expensive,especially that our millers produces poor quality mealie meal.
We back to UNIP days mwakulamona ama riot over meali meal prices and coupons
number 1!!!!!!!!!
Name the millers -dont just blaaaab
Which Millers you Nyandules!
Inept “leaders”
You have lamentably failed thats why Nyama Soya z having difficulties appointing his Vice.
# 7 Dee
the millers are bene Tetamashimba
Does it mean even the gov supporter National Milling is trying to embarass the gov? mmmh comeon guys the hour has just come for you.
Yes #9 infact Teta has a milling plant in Mansa why can’t he reduce to 1 pin mwebantu?
They are simply looking for a way to increase the price further. Next the headline will read’ Mealie meal prices hits K150,000. Wait and see
pLS JUST IMPORT MAIZE STOP BICKERING SLEEPING GVT……… MILLERS HAVE GOT SHADES GO AND INSPECT THEM………… WE NEED MORE MAIZE TO FLOOD THE MKT…. U INCREASED MAIZE PRICE DURING COMPAGNS.. NOW U ARE SQUEEZED… U CAUSED ALL THIS TO HAPPEN… SO STOP MAKING NOISE JUST IMPORT… ALOW PIPO TO IMPORT MAIZE AS WELL SO WE COULD FLOOD THE MKT PERIOD… NO EASE SOLUTION THAN THIS… LEAVE IT OPEN TO ALL ZAMBIANS WITH CAPACITY TO DO THIS FOR A PERIOD OF 6 MONTHS……..
#12. Baby C,
How are you, that a good one…they always have to come and play some sort trick on the minds of the majority…the minister himself knows that what he is saying is far from being true…we just have to tighten our belts…
PLS THAT IS THE CURRENT PRICES WE ARE CHARGING AS WHOLESALLERS… WAHT DO U EXPECT TO HAPPEN OUT OF LUSAKA?? SAME PRICE? U ARE JOKING…. WE HAVE OTHER EXPENSES BEFORE THE MARK UP…UNFORTUNATELY.. PLEASE SUGGEST RRP AND STOP CIRCUMLOCATING THE POINT…. MAKE IT CLEAR THAT U WANT TO CHARGE.
WHAT ABOUT CEMENT….. A PERSON IN FREEDOM TOWNSHIP 10M AWAY FROM CHILANGA PLANT SALES CEMENT AT ZMK70,000 FROM ZMK45000 WHOLESALE…. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT THE PRICE WOULD BE 1000KM AWAY??? PLEASE COME UP WITH RECCOMMENDED RETAIL PRICES FOR THE TWO PRODUCTS, SUGAR AND OTHERLIKE THE mOSI COMPANY?? SHAME ON YOU THIEVES……
INVESTIGATE TENTA’S MILL PLANT HE GOT AT A GIVE AWAY PRICE …AND OTHER GVT CHAPS IN THE SAME GAME….. THEY ARE THE SAME GUYS WITH SHARES AND PLANTS ALL OVER THE NATION SO WHAT ARE U TALKING ABOUT……EXPLOITERS PLS SPARE US FROM SHAMING U…..WE KNOW YOUR TRICKS… U DID IT WITH CELTEL… AND KILLED ZAMTEL….
fuel next.
Hold it! Viva millers! Someone tell me why?
WE CANT BELIEVE YOUR LIES……U HAVE DONE IT B4 WITH FUEL… LIES IN THE MORNING,LIES IN THE AFTERNOON AND LIES IN THE EVENING… THAT IS WHAT POLITICAL ENGINEERS DO…………. there is enough stock of fuel…..two day later a crisis eminates.. come on guys stop this and work deligently,honestly and truthfully……we are tired of you… dont waste our time talking,investigating,,,,, face the realities of economic environment etc.
WE HAVE NOT ENOUGH STOCKS OF MAIZE …PERIOD….. JUST REPLENISH YR NATION INVENTORY or allow other to outsource immediately.. that the ans.
#18 why…. ??? tell us…yr secrete
14 spectator- am great and you? Its always nice to have you here. You talk sense
Always great to have around too Baby C, I am good just that I don’t know how long these politicians are going to take us for F00LS!!!anywho worry not we are going to know who is the real F00L soon!
These chaps’s lies will catch up with them very soon. They can’t even talk about their “bumper harvest”. They are now shifting the goal posts.
ok! so im assuming by next week e shall be quing up for apples and TARINO!!!we have gone back 10 years,,, lord help us!!!
Maureen is one of those hoarding maize. check at Teka farm!!
I think I will buy icigayo and set up ka business ku mushi.
Here we go again, blaming it all on “hoarding” just like in UNIP times
imwe this inapt government is just trying to buy time they know about the problem and they are prentding a calling the soaring mealie meal prices and are trying to hide in the name of unearthing a scam come on guys don’t play with people’s lives do something bring to book the peptrators of the so called scam ala!
#27 we are in a UNIP era my dear.40 years 45 years backwards. Chweechweechweechwee!
we used to queue for mealiemeal,sugar,cooking oil and the rest,so let us pray we dont find ourselves back in the Unip days.Mr president has taken too long to announce the new vice president.what is he up to? He worries me hope dose not drop a bombshell
By the way which minister of agri issued the statement coz there r 2,i wonder wat statements they would issue if asked the same question which they had never discussed at diffirent plces.
#29 LOL. Pabwato!
Ooooooooo, the president is too quiet. Maybe he is in a stable condition ka!!!!!!
TUTAONA…….KESHO WATESEME VINGINE…. TUMECHOKA KUSIKIA UGONJO
RB is “sleeping” such that he is not aware of the current situation. Sleeping kuseni, sleeping muzuba and sleeping na usiku. What have my village relatives brought upon us kanshi?
Ati hoarding… ma excuses yamu UNIP. These guys are just buying time. Very soon we shall be buying ka unga at K100,000. Wacth this space.
Spectator wayamba ku vaiba Baby C. Uzapeza nigong’a. As for the Mealie Meal issue, i tell that before the son of man comes, we shall be queuing for Mealie Meal and other things like in Unip days. Vigilantes will resurface, ba by-air will resurface. They say history has a way of repeating itself and it shall in this case. And when that time comes, i will join the UNIPIST so that they can favour me. As for the villagers who voted for RB lwenu. Next to go up is the price of condoms pakweba ati mufwe bamambala.
Hospital fees should also go up so that we all die. Batupwishe fye ba MMD after all we are all finished.
They are just doing what is right for them,since the govt cannot do anything about the whole situation!!!
Too much dependance on mealie meal ala cant u eat something else.
Here we go again. remember sata was saying that RB promised 15 people to be veeps. lets wait and see. I foresee 4 veeps from RB and he is hesitating to tell us. Chweeee Ngondo, Nawakwi, Teta, Mulongoti, Kaunda, Chiluba, Maureen, HH, Saki etc all Job seekers no people at heart Shame!!!!!!
I wonder if my position of UNIP Branch 24 Secretary is still valid because I never resigned from UNIP, VIVA UNIP, RB wamuyayaya, I can see us controlling VG 8 around town Centre, these will be the days, we have waited too long! VIVA Willaim Banda!!!
Diversify your eating habits. Try eating tute ne mbalala
#26 – can i be your G.M.? I have a rich C.V and know all the tricks in milling ka!
No comment cause HH is rich and us in UPND can manage whatever price. Pf & mmd muzafa cause you dont have money. Pliz millers continue increasing the price im behind you
Yashani iyakulunda aka zee. Where is FRA?
Namumfwa. Diversify your eating habits
#40, bwalya chiti is highly tipped to be veep but let us wait and see.
#47 Guys, within OP Circles and the MMD inner circle which is Incensed with RB; Tilyenji Kaunda is RB’s choice….God forbid!! Why do you think Super Ken was all in smiles at RB’s Inauguration? Watch the Space
Where is cottan and his Mealie Meal reduction???
THERE ARE SO MANY WAYS OF KILLING A RAT IF YOU WANT TO WIN IN THESE WORLD. ONE CAN START FREE SUGAR/MEALIE MEAL/ETC, HANDOUTS, BRIBE CHIEFS WITH CARS (EVEN IF THERE ARE NO ROADS IN VILLAGES) DURING ELECTION CAMPAIGNS, ETC. BETTER STILL ONE CAN HOARD SOME ESSENTIALS AND SELL THEM AT A STRATEGIC TIME TO WIN A FEW MORE EXTRA COINS FROM PEOPLE WHO WERE CHEATED BY THE PRESIDENT DURING CAMPAIGNS. THOSE ARE BUSINESS DECISION PRACTISED THE WORLD OVER. SUPPOSING U OWN A BOUTIQUE OF DESGNER FASHIONS. BUT 1 MORNING U FOUND SOME1 GIVING THE SAME DESIGNERS TO STREETERS? CMON, U WITHDRAW YOUR MERCHANDISE UNTIL TO SELL AT A LATER DATE WHEN THERE ISN’T A STUUPI GUY WHO’S GIVING THEM FREE OF CHARGE.
I MEANT STUUPID GUY
simple just import cheap mazie then we shall see who is telling the truth