By Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba
ZAMBIA BUYS BACK ITS OWN MAIZE FROM TANZANIA
Lusaka-24th March 2024
Zambia’s private sector has been buying back maize sold to Tanzania last year.
It emerged that over two hundred truck are off-loading maize at various milling plants in Lusaka.
A check at various milling plants in Lusaka found dozens of trucks parked queuing up to offload the maize.
Im 2021- 2023, Zambia exported huge quantities of maize to Tanzania and Kenya.
Apparently Kenya’s market later expressed concern that Zambian maize may have GMO quantities imported from South Africa.
And truckers complained about the Nakonde District Commissioner Marvelous Sikapizye, who they accused of levying them K750 per truck in collaboration with an agro company as an alleged fumigation fee.
They expressed surprise that instead of paying the fee to a government agency, they are being forced to pay to a private entity.
They say other trucks carrying maize from Tanzania are marooned at Nakonde for similar reasons.
Ubu ebuwelewele. You grow your own maize. For the love of money you sell it. After you realize you are about to starve, you again go for the same maize. Only to buy it at a higher price. Foolishness that stinks all the way to hell.
Mr Mulenga,you can do better by thinking beyond your nose and your name.When Tanzania bought maize from Zambia last time,it doesn’t mean they bought and then kept it for resale.They had no maize that time and bought to consume not the way you’re putting it.Use your brain and stop blind support for propaganda.
If the Tanzanians imported maize from Zambia in order to stock up, then Emmanuel Mwamba could be remotely right. The Tanzanians imported grain from Zambia in order to eat it. They’re not as irrational Mwamba is.
I don’t know who has bewitched Zambians such that most can’t reason objectively beyond partisan politics.Zambia is for all Zambians and it’s not divided on political lines.Leaders must have foresight.I don’t think anyone can argue with that.Did our leaders have this foresight by selling our reserve maize stocks and declare a national disaster a few months later and start buying maize to mitigate the disaster just a few months down the line? Like Mr Mwamba,the doctor and many more Zambians in their right minds,I have a challenge accepting this way of running national affairs.
Even Satan in hell must be spooked.
I wonder whether you’re really a doctor. The maize government sold to a named country was not government maize. Pf government got the maize but failed to pay their own farmers but u kept quiet. Upnd government sold it to help the farmers because their was no money. It wasn’t government maize in short . So as a doctor tho I doubt research before rushing to post immaterial things
PF kept the maize in reserves but never paid the farmers from whom they collected the maize. I don’t see this to be more moral than UPND selling the maize to pay the farmers who supplied the maize.
Exactly
Let’s not let these defunct TuPF cadres and criminals get away with this
They created a problem and now they want to push it on the toes of ND government
Exactly what peasant/small scale farmers do every season.
Iwe nyimbwa Mwamba don’t mislead people. Why do you like cheap propaganda stupid
Mulenga Kaoma, you are not a Dr but a Pf Cadre who stopped thinking the time Pf lost elections. The Pf never paid the farmers, so government had to sell their ( farmers) maize and pay them . The problem is that Pf likes money for “njombolo” and drinking jameson. You killed the economy in every sector for your personal benefits. You were good at borrowing but no payment ba “mamambala imwe”. You left “nkongoles” everywhere including with your concubines! Energy sector , agriculture, construction and borrowed $33 billion which you spent only in Lusaka…useless! What will your own children remember you for ? And this hunger you are celebrating about , UPND will address it squarely. Your bitterness will not take you anywhere.
Govt funds LFRPa from the treasury and pays faprmers thru that channel and not after delling the maize. UPND Llied about that and Govt does not run like a business. That’s cheap propaganda
Tiza before we misunderstand the point you are making. Read the statement and repharse. Its incoherent. Si ti na vele vamene ukamba mwana. Lemba funti so tivesese.
It s called trade. I sell to a neighbour later on I buy back. What s the problem? Find something relevant to talk about. Petty issues. As Zambians we will not starve the New Dawn will make sure we eat.
Mwmba you have a problem with reasoning. Zambia sold maize to Tanzania who at that time had a short fall. The maize they bought was consumed and not stored. Now Zambia has a short fall and Tanzania has excess maize so we go and buy from them. That is called good neighbourliness. For a shallow mind like you can’t see the goodness in this. Shame on You.will always remain a small minded person the rest of your life. Idiot!!!!
@M. Kalengo
You mean you have no sense of shame defending what is going on? It is clear the calibre of praise-singers is not one writing home about. Anyway, a time is coming when you will be shamed and will go mute. It is good to have a sound education and to be exposed globally.
Ba Mulenga Kaoma, is it factual or as usual PF and Mwamba is throwing pictures and a story to suggest what is not.
Mwamba suggests a levy was paid to a private person, who was the ZMK 750 paid to? It is a private person fumigating the maize to ensure that maize coming into the country does not have any form of contamination, what is the problem as long as that person is certified by the Min of Agriculture has sanctioned that the person is competent.
Further, Millers could have imported the maize knowing that there is a shortage or WFP or some multinational working with DMM unit to deal with the draught issue.
The article suggests alot without making sure that the information is credible.
Mwamba is prejudice in any thing he writes and he intent isnt to provide facts but discredit. And that like your comment above is malicious in itself.
Government is doing a commendable job so
Zambia has no hunger and enough to feed
It’s people.
@ Dr Kaoma, look at all the comments here. It’s only you who is at odds! The problem with you PF is lack of reasoning. No wonder your leader said he had no vision. That’s your quality aswell. I don’t expect a doctor to argue like you but because you are a cadre at the same time, its understandable. Everything for you is politics. You know very well that Mwamba is playing politics of propaganda but still support his nonsense. No one will die of hunger under UPND; if that’s what you are praying for. Just keep quite until 2041
Ba Dr mulenga kaoma we know you guys you are too lazy in terms of working but good in terms of taking and stealing/short cuts boss.How many people died of hunger if I’m to asking for you?????mwamba Emmanuel killed chiluba that is the reason why he talks uncoordinated issues needs to be cleansed so that, the ghost which is on his body can be flushed out.
How does a lazy person get a first degree from UNZA, a masters and PhD abroad? Show me what you have yourself.
Matero Dr, stop lying ati UNZA na abroad, you’re from Matero Cesspool University, we know you.
@stinking coackroach
Kebe wiso uwa ma degree ya ku Matero!
@Kalengo
There are so many people who are extremely disappointed with the bad governance of the UPND. The fact that they do not post their disappointment here does not mean they are not there. They just do not want to be verbally abused by foul-mouthed UPND praise-singers. And get it into your heads that the fact that somebody criticizes UPND does not mean one is PF. There are so many independent-minded persons like this author here who just desire the best for Zambia. I have been around from the time of KK. And what UPND is offering is far from being the best for Zambia. Zambia deserves better than the nonsense we have today.
Sadly, you want to speak for everyone instead of dealing the fundamental issues plaguing PF ba Mulenga Kaoma.
What give you the right to speak about governance when you and PF left a dissmal record. Where in the world can anyone have any respect for ECL? Tell us? As a government you have failed to explain what you did with the Euro bond or the myriad of loans you got from China. Incomplete mass of projects saddled on givernement to the point your ECL has stated he has NO PLAN on how to solve the debt problem that he created. Stop embarassing yourself. If your PhD is from some country where academic rigor is the usual propagander statements they throw around. You arguement in this debate reflect it. The same way unza lecturer Lubinda makes empty statement statements devoid of sound economic reason.
Getting personal shows a lack to intellectual substance in your arguement. And we are suppose to shiver because you have a PhD from abroad. Bane ama PhD are a dime a dozen today. Show yourself as an academic with sound logical thought not some half baked person.
This is of course nonsense by Emmanuel Mwamba. Did the Tanzanians buy maize from Zambia in order to stock up or to eat it? In any case no maize has been imported yet from Tanzania. It’s just Mwamba being himself, an unhinged political attack dog.
Well said…and someone needs to fact check this man and sue him for liable on behalf of the state. Enough of this foolness for poitical milegage in the name of “freedom of speech”
Ba mwamba ukusabaila yama , muletusebanya kanshi ninshi? The politics of bitterness will not take you anywhere please, give chance to our president to do what is right for our country please. You will never rule this Country again capwa fye. Your bitterness will never change the minds of Zambians .
Mwamba and the rest of pfidiots like Matero Dr are saying maize from 2021 reserves sold by UPND is now in 2024 still ok and being bought back. Tekupena nomba uku?