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15 Thousand Lose Jobs In Tujilijili Ban
Fifteen manufactures of the banned Liquor sachets popularly known as tujilijili have dragged government to court challenging the revocation of their licenses.
SR distillers and 14 others have sought leave to seek judicial review of government’s decision describing it as an impediment to the rules of natural justice.
The companies are asking the Lusaka high court to quash and declare improper, illegal and unreasonable the decision by Local government minister Professor Nkandu Luo to revoke their licenses.
They have further asked the court to prohibit the minister of local government from seizing their liquor, interfering with the manufacture, importation, exportation, supply and consumption of the said liquor.
The 15 companies contend that only the Licensing committee has the mandate to cancel a liquor license.
They have further lamented that as a result of the ban their factories have closed and ten thousand Zambian workers have lost their jobs and that most of their creditors may not recover their money in full.
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on May 1, 2012. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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calton
May 2, 2012 at 7:15 am
Let’s not just talk about jilison alone but also the drinking habits pa zed yaliba bad pipo sleep and wake up in bars.govt shoud do something about these bars in namibia they lock fridges were they keep beers from 22hrs to somewere 10hrs.if u are found drunk during working hours u are jailed.
dmx
May 2, 2012 at 7:58 am
@wanyafye,uli guy sana…i like your observations..
Elyolwanya
May 2, 2012 at 8:04 am
Surely whats better ‘murdering’ over a thousand people indirectly through tujiliji or loosing 10,000 jobs? Remember the people purpoted to have lost jobs will definately find something else. Tujilijili was just another wave of wickedness which needed to be dealt with using an IRON FEAST. Bravo PF government. It indeed requires a government which is not corrupt to deal with issues which affect citizens like this particular one. Any normal Zambian can not support tujilijili which could have wiped out not less than 1/4 of the youth population in our country. God is great. He will preserve our Nation from evils such as tujilijili. God LOVES ZAMBIA and no one will bring confusion in our country through commerce or politics and remain untouched in one way or another. ZAMBIA IS FOR JESUS.
Princess
May 2, 2012 at 8:45 am
Its actually a gud move, let those that re out of employment find something to do even a simple business as
long as they able to make ends meet. For manufacturers reconsider ur packagn, help poor zedians wo use their last ngwe 2 buy jilis instead of pamel
Chanda Chimba
May 2, 2012 at 9:16 am
U pipo! 15000 is not the actual number, u need to rebase it to get a figure which will be statistically reasonable.
CMT
May 2, 2012 at 11:39 am
its the drinking habbits that are a problem. If any alcohol or drug is abused, its obvious that it will have harmfull effects. Will the government also ban liquir with high alcohol contents?
Rio
May 2, 2012 at 11:56 am
Exaggeration of numbers will not help the situation and there is no justification for such a destructive vice! Find other ways to produce alcohol.
LIP SERVICE
May 2, 2012 at 12:08 pm
Just change your packeging to acceptable standards you distroyers
Pulamasaka
May 2, 2012 at 12:10 pm
you chaps..how many people did you kill with your tujilijili..?go and hang!
flypac
May 2, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Think before u act,are u going be feeding as ba goveriment coz will have lost jobs.
X pro fire water gazzler
May 2, 2012 at 12:57 pm
Pipo….in zambia prices hike, companies that mek more sence shut down, shit happens in zed, but we just complain for one week then find an alternatve. Lets not make an issue on low quality liqiour. If u’ve doped b4 u know that jiliz is bad….just lyke any other liqiour ting…but the conditions in which they r made and the syntax is all wrong. Thats the price to pay fo the jiliz manufactres for not being vigillant to pipo who imitate their products. Wat kind of liqiour cost 500 zmk? Machinery maintanance, plastic, employees and transportation, wat bull krap is that..? I hate luo but jilliz, sai onara….
Octopus
May 2, 2012 at 3:32 pm
To hell with tujilijili and its embibers!
mastive
May 2, 2012 at 4:10 pm
the manufacturers of jilison should just diversify into other busineses,i suggest they go to CHISAMBA and start farming
igwala gwala
May 2, 2012 at 4:46 pm
just provide imployment to those poeple if you can’t then you should give them some terminal benefits coz it’s you move and your fault.blieve me you impupu shalafula mu munshi nomba.
Umupandapwiti
May 2, 2012 at 5:07 pm
Ban Jiliz, promote Kacasu(Ghetto Castle).
Humphrey Mlambia
May 2, 2012 at 8:18 pm
God has just rescued these guys from slavery and he will find them something better. The banning of Utujilijili is a gud move. 100% and it was long overdue. Positive thinking PF.
Mpanga ya sapa umwenda abakalabene
May 3, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Tumfweko, you risk visitation from ZICTA with your unprofessional and speculative reporting! How dare you suggest that the PF government has caused loss of 15,000 jobs through the banning of Tujilili! The afore mentioned liquor was destructive to the lives of the impoverished Zambians. How can anyone justify a grade 4 girl imbibing Tujilijili to be totally sloshed at break time? The alcoholic sachets were too cheap and easy to conceal, such that they could be smuggled into courts, schools, churches, etc! If such a product cannot be classified as dangerous to society, then I totally give up! Some knuckle-heads like Tonga Bull will justify anything as long as it concerns PF. Wake up! This is about the lives of Zambians in general and not PF or Luo or HEMCS! For the “angels-of-death” also known as Tujilijili manufacturers, you are backing the wrong horse! Try reading blogs from Wanyafye FC. He is a great thinker with a wild sense of humour! LOLest! On a serious note, try repackaging cooking oil in sachets as he has suggested! Whichever court will handle this should look at the good of the society and not of the manufacturers. The lawyers for the Tujilijili manufacturers will still have to be paid even after they lose this shameful suit against the people of Zambia.