Lusaka mealie meal traders have complied with President Michael Sata’s directive for them to sell the commodity at not more than K50 rebased.

A random check by ZANIS in Lusaka today revealed that traders are selling a 25 kilogramme bag of breakfast mealie meal at KR50 and the same quantity of roller at KR38.

And Lusaka District Commissioner has he would next week dispatch a team of inspectors to go round the city and ensure that all retailers adhere to President Sata’s directive to reduce mealie meal prices.

Ashel Kampengele said all of mealie meal traders in Lusaka should follow President Sata’s directive.

Mr. Kampengele said the Patriotic Front (PF) government was committed to ensuring that both traders and consumers in the country had a fair deal in all sectors of the economy.

He said all retailers who will be found selling mealie meal at over KR50 risk being asked to leave Lusaka to go and do their business somewhere else

And Mealie Meal prices in Kasama district has been reduced following the directive from Northern province Minister Gerry Chanda.

A survey conducted by ZANIS in Kasama today found that most mealie meal dealers have reduced the prices up to KR12 in some cases.

Kasama Milling Operations Manager Ronald Sunga said the company has reduced the prices of the commodity in all the depots of the company.

Mr Sunga revealed that a 25Kg bag of breakfast meal has been reduced from KR58 wholesale to KR48 while retail prices have been reduced from KR62 to K50 respectively.

Mr Sunga said the prices apply to all the 12 depots that the company has in Muchinga, Northern and Luapula provinces.

And Kasama residents have praised government for responding quickly to the cries of people in the province.

The residents talked to said mealie meal is an important commodity and people should not suffer for it.

On Tuesday last week, Northern Province Minister Col. Gerry Chanda gave millers and mealie meal dealers an ultimatum of up to Saturday January 19, to reduce the prices of mealie meal or risk having their licenses revoked.

ZANIS

14 COMMENTS

Meek Mill January 23, 2013 At 7:05 pm

Only in LSK, on the CB its still 60 or 65 in some shops
Goncalves January 23, 2013 At 7:13 pm

We will see how far the communist policies will take you.
Umwina Zed January 23, 2013 At 8:23 pm

When we subsidised Mealis IMF told Kaunda to follow SAP or else no nkongole. Sebenzesani chaje malamulo a demand and supply
. January 23, 2013 At 8:50 pm

twalya again
sana January 23, 2013 At 9:11 pm

Nicely done, very very good, chawama ichinacho, now extend to other commodities.
Lon January 23, 2013 At 9:42 pm

How long will they pretend for?
Peter January 23, 2013 At 11:03 pm

PLEASE, ZAMBIANS BUY ROLLER MEAL. IT’S THE BEST. IT’S NOT OVER-PROCESSED LIKE BREAKFAST MEAL. BUT I KNOW ZAMBIANS WILL BUY GO FOR BREAKFAST MEAL BECAUSE OF THEIR LOW IQ TO REASON NUTRITIOUSLY AS FIELD RUWE HAS WRITTEN. ANOTHER THING ZAMBIANS NEED TO DI VERSIFY THEIR DISHES. THERE’S A LOT OF CARBOHYDRATE SOURCES IN ZAMBIA FROM SWEET POTATOES, FINGER MILLET, SORGHUM, CASSAVA, YAM, IRISH POTATOES, UMUMBU, RICE, ETC. ZAMBIANS DON’T SEEM TO KNOW THIS BECAUSE OF VERY LOW IQ AS FIELD RUWE HAS POINTED OUT.
- HAKAIVOTELA HUMWINE January 24, 2013 At 11:50 am
  
  Each in Your….u the one with low IQ
- kanyankula January 24, 2013 At 1:20 pm
  
  very true my brother
Momboshi January 24, 2013 At 12:35 am

n°. 6 You are right my brother we need to learn how to prepare different types of food not only ka nshima. Now what is the difference between YAM and UMUMBU?
What is Yam?
Whats Umumbu?
Truth hates January 24, 2013 At 9:01 am

Just offload the raw maize onto the consumers so that they can take it to figayos. Also, found many small millers around the country so as to increase competition. These measure will reduce the price of mealie meal.

Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia.
chinyama January 24, 2013 At 12:10 pm

demand and supply caused the rise in prices, Zambia is the only country in the region with Zea Maze (MAIZE).stopping maize exports will increase the amount of maize waiste due to poor storage facilies, some depots in rural areas still keep 2010 maize due to impassable roads and poor planning by FRA, the agency still pays fumigaters AND SECURITY every month,no economical sence…
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