THE ‘EAT KANDOLO’ SENTIMENT CAME FROM A PARTY MEMBER, NOT A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL
….ba Mukupa was never a Republican Vice President, never in the Ministerial Committee, he was NOT in government – Lusambo
Lusaka, Wednesday, February 1, 2023 ( Smart Eagles )
Former Lusaka Province Minister Hon. Bowman Chilosha Lusambo has castigated the Vice President, Madam Mutale Nalumango for telling Zambians to be buying roller meal if they can’t afford breakfast mealie meal.
Instead of lowering the prices of mealie to K50 as per campaign promise, the Vice President told Zambians to run to roller, whose price has equally escalated beyond the majority Zambian’s reach.
And Hon Lusambo scorned the Vice President as he said she is being arrogant.
He blasted the government when he featured on 5FM’s “Burning Issues” yesterday for exporting maize while citizens are wallowing in poverty.
“These are just exporting maize. If you export maize, you are exporting Zambian jobs. This government has failed to control the mealie meal prices. There is no sabotage. They have just failed because there is no maize. They are telling us to be buying roller meal. What the Vice President is using is arrogance. She is not supposed to talk carelessly like that. You are now showing the dictatorship way of doing things,” he said.
“You are telling Zambians to just be buying roller meal because it is cheap, who told you that it is cheap? Roller meal is on K160. In the next few months it will be K200 plus. Let Zambians make their own choices. It is up to an individual to either buy roller meal or breakfast not because government says so.”
On arguments that even the PF told Zambians to eat “kandolo,” the former Minister explained that the “kandolo” sentiments came from a party member and not a government official.
“The responsibility government has is to control the country’s affairs so that we the Zambians should feel nice. We should be able to buy cheap mealie meal, cheap cooking oil, cheap relish…not them telling us what to do,” he said.
“I heard them say that no PF told us to eat Kandolo. The person who told you to eat kandolo is a member of a political party not a government official. Ba Mukupa was never in the ministerial committee, he was not in government, he was never a minister. Whatever he can say fyakusekeshafye. He talks, we laugh as Zambians. The one who said eat Roller meal however is the Republican Vice President,” he said.
“In short, she is the President. What she says is policy. She is the leader of business in the house, she sits in cabinet, she chairs ministerial committees, she is a President, she is acting right now. So what she said she must have discussed with the President. They have just failed to control the mealie meal prices that is why they have told Zambians to start buying roller meal.”
And Hon Lusambo said when people are complaining while you are in power it means you have failed.