The Zambia Prisons Service has disclosed that it will this Friday commission its K 2.5 million Kalonga milling plant in Kabwe.
And Commissioner of Prisons Percy Chato has clarified that the milling company will only be producing 80 metric tonnes of mealie-meal per day for consumption by prisoners in various prisons.
Mr. Chato said the commission will in future carry out an expansion project that will see more milling plants established in other provinces for both consumption and commercial purposes.
Mr. Chato said the plant will be ready for commissioning by June this year for full operations to begin.
He explained that the major consumers of the mealie meal from the plant will be prisons and excess supply will then be sold to the public.
Mr. Chato said the prisons want to do away with the issue of buying mealie meal for inmates but resort to producing its own using the maize grown by the prisoners throughout the country.
The Kalonga Milling plant is one project aimed at increasing sustainability in the provision of food to the prisoners.
The construction of the Milling plant is in line with the Zambia Prisons Service commitment to improving its services, value addition and self-sustainability.
ba LT please twapapata heading “ZNS” story Zambia prison services………………. what is the relationship
“Mr. Chato said the commission will in future carry out an expansion project that will see more milling plants established in other provinces for both consumption and commercial purposes” ……. sounds like a typical PF cadre
These are also deep rooted fuuls. In every article there’s a grammar or spelling error. What a bunch of idioootes!
Peter, you are condemning LT for poor spellings when your own spelling and grammar are pathetic, to say the least. The words ‘fuuls’ and ‘idiootes’ are mainly written by semi-illiterate people like you and Chikwelete.
Good job Zambia Prisons Service. Now ba LT be serious with your writing and remove ZNS in the title of the story!
Yes so that some of these government officials selling mealie to Govt institutions like Prisons Services can stop. Too much corruption.
Mr. Chato said the plant will be ready for commissioning by June this year for full operations to begin…which this year????
Baba this article is infuriating!
Necessity is the mother of all inventions. To those that have relied on mealie meal subsidies am sure you will find a farm or plot this coming rain season. If you cannot buy mealie meal, you will be forced into peasant farming. If you dont have land, you will be forced to go back your village to grow something. If not, njala will beset your homestead.
Hehehehehehehe……….ZNS? This is stolen information bakabwalala imwe!
I hope soon we won’t be reading story about corrupt practices such as diversion of the mealie meal to shops owned by senior prisons officers.
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ZNS is a denotation for ZAMBIA NATIONAL SERVICE & ZPS is a denotation for ZAMBIA PRISONS SERVICE. Make correction ba Lusaka Times.
so commissioning is this friday at the same time by june this year.get serious,where is the editor getting paid for nothing.why put this rubbish on the internet.
Is there going in the deffence sector ,hw re we going 2 savive no employment wen fuel is expencive 2 put up abussness