QUEUING UP OF CITIZENS TO BUY ZNS BRANDED MEALIE MEAL CRITICIZED
By Prudence Siabana
The Opposition Zambia Must Prosper Party-ZMP- has described as unacceptable the queuing up of citizens to buy a bag of mealie meal produced by the Zambia National Service-ZNS- saying the practice ended with the return of multi-party politics more than 30 years ago.
Party spokesperson Trymore Mwenda states that the UPND Government must know that even the ZNS produced mealie Meal is still very expensive despite Zambians queuing up for it.
Mr Mwenda is of the view that offloading 1600 bags of the ZNS mealie meal per day on the market pegged at K150 and K120 for breakfast and roller meal respectively will not do much because this is not what the UPND promised Zambians.
He notes that the scenes in Lusaka’s Kaunda square on Friday last week where residents queued up for zns Mealie meal, is unsustainable and a drop in the ocean and has since called on the UPND government to address the factors which have triggered the steep rise in the prices of mealie meal if a long term solution is to be found.
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