Lusaka Provincial Epidemic , Preparedness, Prevention, and Control and Management Committee has called for the urgent further examination of ‘Tujilijili’ beer before it can be declared wholesomely safe.
Deputy Permanent Secretary who is also the Chairperson of the committee, Chinjili Zulu says his Committee is not satisfied with the outcome of the investigations in which the Lusaka City Council, through its spokesperson Henry Kapata declared that the Tujilijili beer was safe for public consumption.
Mr. Zulu said the committee which comprises among other members Lusaka Province Health Director Tackson Labart, Health Directors an d other health experts will carry out its own investigations in complementing the efforts made by Lusaka City Council and other stakeholders
This is contained in a statement released to ZANIS in Lusaka today.
He said certifying Tujilijil safe is not enough but that firm and additional measures are critical in ensuring the safety of the public.
He added that the packaging of Tujilijili should be changed from plastic sachets to bottles like other conventional beers saying this will eliminate the discreet and indiscriminate intake of alcohol by school going children, workers, and bus and taxi drivers.
He said the plastic sachets which can be carried in the pockets and drank as people go about their chores poses great danger to the public and general public.
ZANIS
This guy is now misleading us. Is it that tujilijili are unsafe or that the packaging is wrong? Those things have an alcohol content of 40%. This is the same percentage as JD, Smirnoff et al. If those are consumed as carelessly as people consume tujilijili, there will be deadly consequences. People should learn to drink responsibly. Even simple Mosi can kill when drunk excessively.
There are so many costructive and productive things that need the attention y focus on tujili , let pipo drink and die who cares let focus on rehabilitating other issues.
alchol abuse is a serious deterrent to community development. Even colonialist(white people) used( and still being used in minority communities today indeveloped nations eg USA) it as tool to control the unsuspecting communities of minoities by flooding residential areas with pubs, tarvens, clubs that are dedicated to beer servicing unlike community centers for comminity developments.
A case example is when I visited my home community where I grew up in Natwange West Kitwe. It was a small community that was family boriented, main features of the community was a development center that provied boys and girls scout club, a women center where women went to learn domestic science, a sports center for teenagers that offered basketball, footbal, karate, netball. This produced players ctd…
ctd from #3…like Agrey Chiyangi, former midfielder for Zambia national team, George Lwandamina nick named ‘Tshikala mwanza’ whose power for right foot shot was called ‘umwalo’. I ca go on and on.But the pont is the place has more bars, tarvens and night club for such a small community. This is what the town planners should address as it producess teenagers in communities who are just focused on beer as a way of socialising and in the end robbing the society of its entreprenuer minds.This needs more attention than woorrying about pakaging of Tujilijili since a similar product is already on the market, the Number 1 from Malawi is packed the same way! Therefore, it will be unfair for the Zambian product to be subjected to such scrutine.Please refocuss to the essentila community…
Ba LT, we all know this article is originally form ZANIS but, I also don’t know on what conditions you and other media institutions operate but this stuff is not beer. It does not fall in that category. Tujiliji beer? Gve me a break!
I conquer with most of the bloggers that have contributed so far that the problem is with the carelessness of those who consume the tujilijili and not the beer itself. As one blogger observed, no 1 from Malawi, JD and Smirnoff  all have very high alcohol content. As one consumes these they have to be aware of this which unfortunately is not the case in our country. Furthermore the reading culture and shopping culture is so bad such that people have gone in shops and bought expired products or food whose nutrition content is not suitable for them simply because they do not read the labels on the products. So as we endeavor to find lasting solutions to the problem, let us cast our net wide and try to explore all the possible angles, then, we may succeed.
There is no need to carry out other tests as suggested by Chinjili Zulu. The best way to control consuption of Tujilijili is to change the type and size of packaging. It should be packaged in bottles say 350mls and this will make it expensive and difficult to hide in pockets. This rule should be enforced as soon as possible without injuring business of those involved. The packaging should also apply to DGM. The council in addition should not give up on clearing LCC of street vendors including those boys at Great East Flyover bridge near Zesco. LCC should also fine those who abet street vending by buying on the streets. Now I can at least walk freely on corridors within city. May LCC look into traffic congestion on Great East Rd in the morning and evennings swapping lanes say 7-8hrs, 17-18
Some people are arguing that this so called tujilijili is just the same as JD or Smirnoff, fine the alcohol percentage in volume here is what is scaring. Those sachets are less than 50mls in volume and have 40%. wait a minute, this is slow sucide. The people who go for this drink are those whose aim is to get drunk as they cannot afford posh drinks which take slow action. This is a useless drink, which is going to wipe out the young livers and old alike. ni FI KACHASU modernised using the distilation methods in the factory. My brothers once amabu yapya nishi chapwa kuya. Mr Lambart tilamponi ndemanga ya nzeru apa.
What is LCC doing about the drainage system of Lusaka City. The rains are just by the corner. Yes its guud action street vendors have been cleared off the streets and this has put my budget under strain as some of my relatives who used to trade on the streets are back for financial assistance from but national interest first before self. Life has to continue. Its most likely there will be more rains the coming season. Those charged with responsibilities please put enough measures in place. What is happening near staff college s trench was dug and nothing has been done up to now. Can LCC and other stakeholders sort out the mess they created. They make frontage look like there was once a river. Those men need a decent parking area. What can foreign students talk about Zambia. Move LCC.
Chinjili can not go against his near name sake tujilijili, no point in truing to trying to chemically test the stuff, it will come out clean as pure 40% alcohol with no ‘impurities’. The solution lies in possibly increasing taxes on alcohol say with strength above 10%. If tujilijili was taxed at 400% then chaps who are more likelt to abuse it will not be able to afford it.
The issue here iz not about the alcohol percentage, but probably the packaging and distibution outlets. DGM had totapacks at one time but you didn’t find them at KMB, Inter- City bus terminus or “tuntembaz” dotted all over townships. Then there iz the element of moral uprightness in our youths. You can’t start consuming alcohol at 07:00hrs and while working!
Its Ok to pack alcohol in satchets, its done all over including europe boss. ‘totapaks were not found at KMB’, can you be more deluded? I have bought a totapak at KMB myself.
pipo,lets be serious.its not the beer itself thats a problem.its just that it is affordable and be have found it easier to buy that.it wont help to kill the company thats making tujilijili just because pipo are careless with their drinkingnhabits.if anything MOSI,CASTLE have done more harm than these sachets.lets get back to work pipo