UPND Accused Of Bulk-Buying Mealie-Meal
SUSPECTED United Party for National Development (UPND) members are buying mealie-meal in bulk in Lusaka to ostensibly cause a shortage.
Some residents of Lusaka’s Chawama Township have told the Sunday Mail that on Thursday the mealie meal was being bought from various outlets and loaded in trucks and driven away.
Some concerned residents are said to have reported the suspicious bulk-buying of the mealie-meal to Chawama Police while others got into a verbal confrontation with the buyers, whom they accused of causing an artificial shortage.
“There was a woman who belongs to the UPND. She came to one of the shops and told the owner that she wanted to buy all the mealie-meal. She was challenged about where she was taking the mealie-meal but she said what was wrong with buying everything.
“These people just want to cause a shortage and make Government unpopular, so the matter was reported to Chawama Police. Two trucks were impounded,” she said.
Another resident said there were similar bulk purchases of mealie-meal in neighbouring townships of Misisi and Kuku.
“As we speak, there is no mealie-meal in Misisi and Kuku,” she said.
When contacted for a comment, Police spokesperson Charity Munganga Chanda said the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) was handling the case and that the police were not involved in the operation.
But DEC public relations officer Theresa Katongo said the commission is not aware of any operation that was carried out in Chawama or any arrests made to that effect.
Ms Katongo said the commission’s team from the inspectorate department was in fact nowhere in or near Chawama or the surrounding areas.
“That should be the issue of the police. We do not even detain people; if we do detain, suspects are handed over to the police. Anyway, I will continue asking my colleagues to find out what is really going on,” she said.
However, sources confirmed that there was a truck laden with mealie-meal bags parked at Chawama Police Station after the operation.
The source could not confirm whether or not people were arrested.
UPND spokesperson Charles Kakoma said his members should not be implicated in the shortage of mealie-meal in Chawama township.
“None of our members is buying mealie-meal in bulk to create an artificial shortage of the commodity. The people buying in bulk are just Zambian citizens with plans of reselling at a higher price.
“There is a shortage of mealie-meal in Chawama and that is the bigger picture which should be tackled by Government,” he said.
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George
March 14, 2016 at 6:39 am
the upnd manifesto is economic hardship. any economic hardship is a point for them to campaign.
Hello Haters
March 14, 2016 at 6:48 am
Is 1st April pfools day?
mj banda
March 14, 2016 at 7:02 am
That’s the problem if a party is headed by a freemason. These guys have not heart for the common man. Come Aug 11 vote pf to continue enjoying the country
GWENNY
March 14, 2016 at 12:22 pm
You are the most foolish person I have met on this fora. Who can give mandate once again to a blood thirst thug leadership. Can that cause a shortage honestly PF! When we say PF thinks less than 1 year old child you call us names. Look no matter how you will try this one nothing is favoring you. Come august your small contract is gone and you have to be prepared for court cases.
banda lupiya
March 14, 2016 at 7:26 am
uwawa tabula kabepesho.pfools have failed and now blaming upnd-shame
Hello Haters
March 14, 2016 at 7:32 am
Pfool’s accusations are all oral, no tangible evidence, we have seen videos and pictures of pf thugs maiming people, stripping women, wielding pangas etc it’s all documented, but your accusations are always hitler’s Gestapo style all oral. Always snitching on your neighbors to get favors from government officials.
whiteguy
March 14, 2016 at 7:41 am
Ba upnd mwaba mask kwat ningombe. Very selfish
Lucy
March 14, 2016 at 8:06 am
Failed leadership of ECL. In your desperation you think voters will accept this your nonsense. Prepare to vacate statehouse on 8/11.
Huck Finn
March 14, 2016 at 8:38 am
The upnd has formed a cartel and are buying mealie meal in bulk for export to create artificial shortages and spike the price. Thus they hope to create discontent and anarchy in the country. HH thinks he can ascend to power through such petty trickery but alas that wont win him any votes!Police should seriously investigate such schemes because its tantamount to blackmailing the country.
New Educated Zambia©√
March 14, 2016 at 8:44 am
Kiki kikikikiki 😂 a sign of failure is blaming everyone else but yourself for failures affecting the country. Upnd must be very powerful to have so much control over things in zambia or it means that the pf are so weak they have no control of the country . Anywya we will give them a much needed break in august
Hello Haters
March 14, 2016 at 9:06 am
@Whiteguy mask or musk, anyway if you meant the later this means your pfool diversification talk is nothing, where do you think i extract that musk, the base for the perfume you putting on right now? Later on i will supply to you mabisi, cheese, milk and beef and the hides i turn them into shoes for you to put on, there go keeping making fun of that ngombe.
Alinuwila
March 14, 2016 at 9:08 am
Is Africa mature enough to cope with challenges of Democracy? Could it be that we are just overzealous and do not even understand what democracy really costs? There is a reason why we have violence to day. The Nation was not adequately sensitised about the attributes of democracy before the change to democracy in 1991. And where there is a problem there is an opportunity. While we fight to quench violence, others have found opportunity for gain.
Hello Haters
March 14, 2016 at 9:09 am
Right now am thinking of extract goat musk, look out for this one in a perfumery or grocer next to you mr whiteguy.
ASSAGE
March 14, 2016 at 9:11 am
Every nomal person should wonder why the country can have shortage and high meal meal price when FRA has enough maize. HH has brought more misery to this country. He sold our companies and now wants to buy our country. Zambians lets get united and punish these criminals in any way possible.
Hello Haters
March 14, 2016 at 9:55 am
@assange this HH is powerful, does it mean FRA has to get instructions from him to off load maize on the market.
sir George
March 14, 2016 at 10:39 am
@asage,why are you so foolish? you mean HH is soo strong and powerful than the entire government? Shallow mind.
ASSAGE
March 14, 2016 at 10:49 am
I usually find it difficult to respond to pipo who are not ready to learn simply becoz they are Tongas who cant support other tribes. Anyway that’s your nature and I cant blame you for that. Read the article again and see if it is not possible for your part to do it.
ASSAGE
March 14, 2016 at 10:53 am
How would you describe pipo who sold our companies and pocketed money? what of those who have been given money to buy meal meal and sell to other countries leaving their country without or fighting for meal meal. PUT POLITICS ASIDE AND SUPORT WHAT IS RIGHT
qeqe
March 14, 2016 at 8:36 pm
Very shallow thinking from this ASSAGE blogger. You need to go back to basics, you do not belong here.
Get down to your own level my friend
IF NOT
March 14, 2016 at 11:04 am
For how long are they going to buy in bulk? Mealie meal is still available and millers are doing their job. Those are desperate measures by UPND. VIVA PF
sir George
March 14, 2016 at 11:07 am
@alinuila, thanks for your wisdom my man but let me add by saying,”its soo easy to curb violence in a country like zambia,zambians are too poor to go for war because the very next day they will need money for food,fees,rentals etc”. The violence you see in zambia is furned and tollerated by government in power because it favours them. If Lungu firmly says there should be no violence,who can go against that,alinamachende yakulu bwanji? Its just a deliberate gymic by party in power because they believe in politics of intimidation. Mwanawasa my best presido ever,termmed the thugs created by Sata and Chiluba in mmd. If he had his own cadres face the law,how could the opposition be violent? Is Miles Sampa’s followers violent for his offices to get burnt in Mpika 2 days ago? A violent weak government always intimidates a stronger opponent,only fools and small minds believe its possible for opposition to be violent.
Jo Breaker
March 14, 2016 at 11:33 am
and so to your understanding the government in power is the one buying the same maiden so that their should b a shortage and hence create a violent environment ….does that make sense to you..look up it says a known upnd official was spotted arguing with a ship owner why she wanted to buy all the meali meal..her answer was straight forward she said is it a crime…that my friend is where the argument is based ..crying over what the government isn’t doing is by far not the topic ..talking of our government being a government of thugs,where we there when gbm was training cadres who were found with machetes and bullets..save that drama for tomorrow topics
corinthians mkandawire
March 14, 2016 at 11:53 am
kkk. thats what we allways say these upnd people are not for the good of zambians.look now they want to creat meal mill short.zambians lets all vote pf 11 august.
humphrey
March 14, 2016 at 12:20 pm
According to the market forces, millers are expected to offload more of the product on the market since they are able to sell more in a blink of an eye…But why? Government has also opened milling companies, why are they unable to offload more on the market? When demand increases,supliers respond positively by supplying more unless there is nothing in stock as well as no raw materials… The PF is always looking for someone to blame… next it will be fuel,ati GBM nashita yonse to cause an artificial shortage.
sir George
March 14, 2016 at 12:22 pm
@jobreaker,listen to your foolishnes,isnt police in the same article above refusing such acusation? besides if the acused person found market for a comodity somewhere,is it a crime to buy the comodity from point A and deliver to point B? what does liberalised economy mean to you?or as usual since you are pf(not educated) it means nothing?
mj banda
March 14, 2016 at 12:25 pm
Gwenny, you will always be a loser in life. I suppose u are either being used or just a useless chap
sir George
March 14, 2016 at 12:39 pm
@humphery,you couldnt have put it any better comrade,your brain tells it all that you have been to school. This chainama case called jobreaker finf 2 pangas and a slasher at GBM’s premises and its a genocide case in his head,but the pf youth accessed pangas within a twinkle of an eye,they huck and slain defensless helpless fellow youths at youth day in full view of Innonge,Davis Chama,top police and inteligence but he agues pf is not violent. Fipuba fimo!
melody
March 14, 2016 at 1:00 pm
children of satan a o like satan desist the devil and he will run away fr u
NONPARTIZAN
March 14, 2016 at 1:00 pm
SOMETIME WE NEED TO BE ASHAMED WE NOTHERNERS AND EASTENERS LOOK AT OUR SYMBOY OF RECOGNITION, ITS A MONKEY AND A RAT SHAME! A COW IS MUCH BETTER.LET UNITE WITH OUR FRIENDS FROM THE SOUTH BY VOTING THE RIGHT CANDIDANT
IF NOT
March 14, 2016 at 1:11 pm
I am proud to be a Northerner my friend and i appreciate the relationship with the Easterners. Instead its you to be ashamed of writing that trash, stupid idiot tonga bull.
Mwe bantu
March 14, 2016 at 1:39 pm
KIKIKIKI not worth commenting on. Only a cadre would come up with such a story.
sir George
March 14, 2016 at 1:48 pm
all tribalist are dogs to me,tonga or bemba.However the truth is that some tongas have issues with bemba because of bemba superiority complex,otherwise tongas accept and respect all other tribes,thats why you find on average a tonger speaks more than 5 local langues including bemba,on the other hand a bemba speaks only bemba. Bembas only stand easters and its obvious because bembas have easterners in their pants,let the truth be told. Us bembas must learn to respect other tribes.
Chovix
March 14, 2016 at 2:21 pm
Ba sir george you are not bemba thats why we tell you that you have an inferiority complex. Just say us tongas! why hide your tribe? Even insulting you insult in bembe creating an impression that bembas are full of insults when infact not.
Space
March 14, 2016 at 2:15 pm
Now everything has to be blamed on UPND? These signs of desperation are just getting out of hand.
sir George
March 14, 2016 at 2:30 pm
@assage,my friend,not all of us upnd suporters are tongas,we suport because we believe hh is better than edgar.Mina iam Bemba/Lunda.Had i not been in Casablanca for work i could have flown from KZN province in Durban to lusaka for my distant causin’s wedding (uncle sos’s son current chitimukulu) over the weekend who married a Lozi girl. Thats how much us from BRE respect other tribes.Upnd is accepted by 5 tribes not pf which is just bemba. Open your eyes.
Jo Breaker
March 14, 2016 at 2:55 pm
Goerge or is it sir goerge your highness..so to way of thinking a pf cader saw a fellow pf cader and didnt like the shirt so he said mwana how can u wear sucha pf shirt lets fight..does that make sense to u..is that what you read in post news paper…..the only way pf could have reacted is seeing upnd misbehaving…and they always do…now u know…now r u honestly telling me gbm was arrested for being in position of a slasher…its simple proof that sir goerge u a tonga…and its a must for u to have HH in power even though he sold all we had…non the less edgar is fixing and will continue fixing zambia..humble guy..down to earth..hard working..visionable..respects and recognises women and elders and is totaly loved by majority of zambians….if edgar could campaign and win in less than 3weeks i mean WHAT ELSE?
mwansa
March 14, 2016 at 2:55 pm
This lie is laughable! Who can believe such nonsense? Not even someone who is mentally retarded.
pupu pufi katufi
March 14, 2016 at 3:03 pm
Pre mafacie evidence look at the man carrying tons of mealie meal. He is surely not from our party UPND. I know him he is staunch PF. So my question who is stealing from who. PF has failed and as such the very PF are bulk buying to go and repackage and sell tu ma pamela for the sake of survival. Do not involve FORWARD thinkers in issues of pragmatic failures. The economy has failed simple solution is August 11 2016. Bring in the right team and all will be well.
Chovix
March 14, 2016 at 4:07 pm
Right team from one region! How are you going to balance cabinet with 30 MPs because that is what you are going to have! How is HH going to improve the economy as you say because he has not told us himself how he is going to do it, all we is we are economic managers how? He will continually be blaming PF till Jesus comes.We would rather continue with PF than your under 5 politician who doesnt even know how govt functions.
NONPARTZAN
March 14, 2016 at 3:42 pm
IF NOT, ICISUSHI COLOUR YASHANI?IF I REMEMBER VERY WEL, WHEN I SAW U LAST TIME,MWELETALIKANA NABA SOKULU ATI MUCHISUSHI MWALIBE FUPA,WHAT WAS THE CONCLUSION?
life experience
March 14, 2016 at 7:09 pm
It does not make sense upnd buying so much maize meal and do what with it, these are just individuals buying for their businesses, sensing the the scarcity of the commodity. Some one just trying to gunner for political point making upnd the scapegoat of pf failures. Let the millers supply more stock, we were assured of sufficient stock after all, who is able to buy maize meal aimed at feeding 13 million people?
Pears
March 14, 2016 at 7:16 pm
Pfoool booms onwhere to go,UPND atishani
GivenLubinda
March 16, 2016 at 9:31 am
UPND has bulk bpught electricity too!!!!!