Kasama Milling Company management says it is closed operating due to lack of maize stock.
ZANIS reports that Kasama milling company Director Lupando Munkonge confirmed the development in an interview in Kasama, today.
He added that his company has no feed stock to produce mealie meal. He explained that his management had placed an order of 19,0000×50 kilogrammes bags of maize from Food Reserve Agency FRA two months ago but the agency has not supplied yet.
He explained that without maize stock his company has been forced to close down.
Meanwhile, all Kasama Mealie meal outlets have run short of the commodity forcing people to start buying Cassava Meal and some rice.
And a mealie meal dealers, Luka Kampamba has appealed to Kasama milling company to start operations so that the shortage of mealie meal in the area could be sorted out.
Mr. Kampamba said he has not been selling maize meal for almost three weeks and his business has been affected.
He added that currently he was only selling bread flour.
Mean while , ZANIS survey carried out today, revealed that the commodity had run out in all the major outlets.
At GMB outlet mealie meal has also run out and National milling Company is expecting 1,400,000 X 50 kgs Bags on Friday.
It was the same at Shoprite as well has run out of mealie meal too.
Problem of mealie meal shortage has persisted in Kasama. Kaputa and Mbala as the millers are reported to have run out of maize Grain.
ZANIS
Opposition at play and Sata is quiet while they are planning to hound out of the office soon. Its high time he came out of the cacoon and start ruling like a President instead of hiding in George Chellah.
Lupando nankwe wakantu.I wonder when he left relocated to Kasama.Anyway ni business yalupwa.Eish now this is sad.Even the milling company owned by a senior government official lacking stocks ? Bwana GBM poseniko amano.
pf has failed to govern.please resighn and let compitent people govern
Ukwanomics!
Now just wait for the blame game to start….. of course everyone is at fault except government (unless maybe the last one).Â
GBM is bitter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I gather all the Maize Stock has congregated at Kaunda’s house to declared support for Sata and his clueless crew. Sata’s massive experience and friendship is starting to show, unfortunately in a negative way! Forza ba PF mambalas.!
Time for the monkeys to pay their fair share for their shameful tribal voting.
Supply chain management has gone through the window henceforth agreeing with the theory of market failure! We have loads of maize stock in Zambia today…there are just certain things that shouldn’t be happening! Think of the opportunity costs that have been created purely because machines are turned off, or what with the suffering that all stakeholders are going through in Kasama? We should put our house in order and see to it that supply is restored.
One word: LEADERSHIP.
All materials, labor and finances are available and yet there is no progress.
Chibwii no plan
Millers have Paid FRA what a JOKE. Does FRA even have any stocks? The last rumor in Lusaka was that a lot of Maize has been exported and with FRA having offloaded their maize last year at $140 MT no miller bought from the open market. What maize was purchased has been exported to Zimbabwe and Botswana. So time for PF to import Yellow Maize again.Â
And they have a one Guy Scot expert at importing yellow maize on his CV to do it for them
Is nshima the only meal in Zambia…some of us have lived without this stuff for 4 years straight. There are potatoes, pasta, rice, naan bread wake up people and diversify. You can not be dependent on maize meal in this day and age.
I think if folk in Kasama had plenty of pasta and naan bread they would eat it, it doesn’t sound like they do though.
Besides you may be surprised to find that Nshima is actually the staple in Zambia
Is pasta and rice sustainable in terms of price for a comon man
Thank you @Jay Jay. This talk of maize and mealie meal is so irritating to me. Ifyakulya ubwingi. Change people?
People are at liberty to eat what they like. Just like today you cant tell the Chinese to start eating Nshima. So its not a question of altanatives but Management. Even if it was Pastor what ever you call it it was going to be in short supply. There is a lot of Maize in Zambia now to feed the country for the next two years but somewhere up the line the distribution mechanics have failed.
‘Mealie meal’ is bitter, Great Bag of Maize (GBM) is bitter, Millers are bitter and these online papers are also bitter!!! LOOOOOLest!!! Reap the fruits of your stupid tribal voting. You voted for a cluesless leader when alternatives were there for all sensible people to see. The current levels of incompetency in Pa Fwaka are making RB a Super president and Levy an angel. What annoys me most is that the same tribal grouping is still hopeful in their Ukwa and are quiet about the happenings in the nation. Had it been RB, Levy or any other non-kolwestan President at the helm, this country would have been on unquencheable fire. Kolwestan wake up and think with your heads and not your tribe, your kinsmen are starving in Kasama.
Well well well,kasama people you voted for this party and thought manna would fall from Heaven,deal with it your MP GBM has a milling company why not tell him to solve your problems next time vote wisely.
Iwe BIG CNP,ulelanda bwino chikala. It is just the circumstance!!!:
Diverting tactics, while Zambians are suffering from hunger due to shortage of mealie meal, this minion of Sata, is trying to create his power hungry antics of shouting on the political hill.
Kabimba shut off your political arse!
Iwe CNP ulelanda bwino chikala. Don’t you know it is just the circumstance?
Playing politics with people’s livelihoods. Is this what you ascended to power for? Disgusting… and in this day and age you have centralized national storage of strategic grain??? Get outa here – you must be kidding, right?
PF AT WORK
Watch out!
It is about to be Zambia according to Monsanto
Please watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK7gAZS0lbY&noredirect=1
It is a shame that government is fully behind this company now on Mongu rd (Monsanto Rd, Zambia)