HAKAINDE CAN GRADUATE FROM UNDER-5 TO UNDER-10 IF HE CHANGES OPERATIONS – NAWAKWI
FDD leader Edith Nawakwi says it’s unbridled greed and corruption for President Hakainde Hichilema’s companies to be bidding for public contracts, saying she questioned the President’s actions and hoped that he would one day graduate from being “an under-five to under-10” in the manner he operates.
And Nawakwi said the cost of producing a 25kg bag of mealie meal from a 50 kg bag of maize is too expensive, saying fuel and electricity prices must be reduced significantly in order to achieve the K50 price the President promised Zambians.
Calling in to Daily Revelation, Nawakwi said there was nothing to celebrate from the promised reduction in the prices of mealie meal promised to fetch between K160 and K170, following the decision by the FRA to offload 152,000 metric tonnes of maize to some millers countrywide.
She charged that President Hichilema had little interest in the man in “kwa George” who is struggling to raise the K170 to buy mealie meal.
Nawakwi said it is not offloading of maize that will reduce the price of mealie meal in the long run as farmers were not so much into planting maize, plus the poor input season, and therefore the need to incentivize farmers by urging them to plant winter maize in return for reduced taxes on fuel, energy and agricultural equipment.
She said while the poor were struggling to raise money to buy a bag of expensive mealie meal, “President Hichilema and his cohorts were siphoning money through the awarding of contracts to his companies”, saying Aflife has been awarded the contract to be “environmental… http://dailyrevelationzambia.com/hakainde-can-graduate-from-under-5-to-under-10-if-he-changes-operations-nawakwi/