PEOPLE WILL BE FIGHTING FOR KANDOLO NEXT YEAR….BREAD, MEALIE MEAL PRICES WILL GO UP – MUKUPA
By Julia Malunga,
Former PF national chairman Samuel Mukupa at Southern Sun Hotel in Lusaka on November 20, 2017 – Picture by Tenson Mkhala
FORMER PF national chairperson Samuel Mukupa says people will be fighting for Kandolo (sweet potatoes) next year once commodity prices increase in view of the upward adjustment of fuel pump prices as well as dry spells.
And Mukupa says removing all members of the Central Committee will cause confusion in PF.
In an interview, Mukupa said people would remember Kandolo because the price of bread would most likely skyrocket next year.
“Next year, people should value traditional foods particularly, if there is not enough maize, and enough nshima to go round. If there won’t be enough maize, the price of bread will skyrocket which is most likely. If fuel becomes expensive, and electricity becomes expensive, you expect that the price of mealie meal will also go up.
The price of wheat or bread flour will also go up. That is what I am saying that next year people will remember Kandolo,” Mukupa said.
“That was even my argument this year, I said ‘why do we want to develop exotic lifestyles?’ We have traditional food, with a bit of peanut butter to get nourished, but everybody thought I had gone mad, people were questioning my sanity. Today, people are being asked to grow cassava and sorghum, those are crops that are resilient to drought.
Next year that is coming, we will be fighting for kandolo. We can only pretend, but we can’t pretend for long. We will find that we can only buy bread three times a week, what do we do with the four days? When you have Kandolo you only need peanut butter or only water, it’s a full meal.
How do you eat bread? You will need eggs, polony, find tomatoes and onions in order for you to make a sandwich.”
Mukupa claimed that there were people who were on payroll to cause havoc in the party.
“We have a Central Committee which adjudicates, removing all members of the Central Committee and simply saying it must be dissolved is anarchy, it is confusion. They should hand over to the next group.
That is what the constitution says because doing that at this moment will obviously be doing away with the constitution. If you remove the constitution what do you remain with?” questioned Mukupa.
“I have no interest in people who are on payroll to create havoc in the party. If they are members of the party, they will wait for the position of the party. If they have an agenda which doesn’t run in the party, they will be soon known for what they are.
What government programme is there that necessitates us as a matter of emergency to have a meeting? The party programme is not campaigning, it is rebranding. Some people want to start campaigning for what? We don’t know.”
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