ENERGY and Water Development Minister Christopher Yaluma has described the fuel crisis in Malawi as serious.
In an interview in Chipata on Saturday shortly after he returned from that country by road, Mr Yaluma said the fuel shortage in neighbouring Malawi was bad and needed urgent attention before it crippled that country’s economy.
The minister had gone to Malawi to pay condolences to President Joyce Banda over the death of the Malawian leader Bingu wa Mutharika and to finalise modalities for the shipment of the fuel consignment to that country.
He told journalists that he was greeted with long queues of vehicles at filling stations waiting for the scarce commodity which was being rationed.
The minister clarified that the Zambian Government had not donated commodity but sold it at flexible terms to ease the mourning period in that country.
The minister said Zambia was supplying one million litres of petrol and two million litres of diesel to ease persistent fuel shortages which date back to late 2008.??” The fuel crisis in Malawi is bad. We found long queues in almost all filling stations.
The scenario was the same in all the big towns,” he said.
He said the quantity of fuel the Zambian Government had released to Malawi might not completely solve the fuel crisis but would ease the problem, especially during the mourning period.
[Times of Zambia]
So whose problem tell us the truth,have you donated or you have just sold it.
How is this our problem that we shud be very concerned with the fuel shortage in malawi than addresing our own domestic problems. I thot malawi was a country like zambia and can handle it own affairs. I wonder why we make national budgets each year when we know we wont follow them..if sata and his ministers want to be nice to malawi, then let them make these contributions from their own pockets.Taxpayers money shud be wel accounted for..period
Oh my Victoria, you have given me so much to think about. We do take things for grntead don’t we. It makes me sad sometimes that we are so busy working for the bigger better toys, that we don’t stop and enjoy the small things in life. I to am going to work at trying to figure out how to simplify my life also. Maybe I will start by going thru some of Merle’s crap and getting rid of it! LOL
How can Zambia DONATE fuel? Does Zambia has oil fields? Zambia can donate journalists, they have more than necessary.
Nostradamus bamayendako nakusukulu ka. Chizungu chili na ma rules which are learnt at school. Does Zambia have not has
You are wrong chitomfwa. Zambia here is second person singular. It takes one of the prepositions “She”, “He” or “It”. All these are take has and not have. And most likely the preposition she is used for countries.
OMG nostradamus you made me laugh with the grammar.I think the message was autocorrected by the fone.
Nostradamus, are you greek?. chizungu chachita over boss
http://www.nyasatimes.com/malawi/2012/04/13/south-africa-offers-malawi-fuel-deal-mist-on-zambia-donation/
It was something of great cnnteotment getting to your site this morning. I came here today hoping to uncover new things. And I was not upset. Your ideas for new approaches on this area were useful and a good help to me. Thank you for making time to write down these things and then for sharing your ideas.
Who gives a damn anyway. This fuel will have to be paid for, Zambians are poor and would not like to see their country turmed into the Santa Klaus of cinderela nations like Malawi that cannot run their own affairs. Only the other year we had to donate to Zimbabwe, just for how long are we going to be taking care of supposedly independent nations that should be standing on their own? Sata, bu makapweka uleke!
Honorable Zambians, I agree with you’ll. Everyday government officials in Malawi(my country) claim that Malawi is 100% independent. Last year, they changed the national flag claiming that the new flag, which is ugly than the previous one, symbolizes Malawi’s enormous prosperity. Thus, if Malawi is a prosperous and independent country, let it cater for it’s own problems. What I am trying to say is that Malawi should pay for that fuel. Zambian taxpayers shouldn’t be taking care of the Malawian population.