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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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Akaz
May 1, 2012 at 11:56 am
2 every commentor plz lets contribute positively abt this.Lets debate
umu zedian
May 1, 2012 at 11:57 am
what ever the case it a good move. let the tujilijili get ot of the systeam
Sad Man
May 1, 2012 at 12:00 pm
And we cal this Change…Wen youths are cryin..
Jay
May 1, 2012 at 12:16 pm
Th ban of jiliz z a vry gud move.thoz of u lost jobs God wil find u smthng to do as it says whn one door closes th othr opens. Many of us r unemployd but we stil hop 4 th best
Mpangula Mputyu
May 1, 2012 at 12:25 pm
The Listening Govt should have been engaged than quickly taking the case to the very Govt., institution – the courts.
Oda
May 1, 2012 at 12:28 pm
Madam minister where u going to take all these pipo who have lost they jobs just because of someone careless drinking
umu zedian
May 1, 2012 at 12:29 pm
the comodity had anegative effect on the society.The minister never closed the companies for tujilijili,she just baned the manufacturing of the comodity. in other words, he ban the actaul packaging.Let the just change the packaging.Big bottle like the Grants,VAT 69,jamson brandy etc.
I CARE
May 1, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Yaa,its true.
Mwape
May 1, 2012 at 12:39 pm
I think we need to get to the roots of this problem. To me it’s not just about tujilijili, but the drinking situation in our country. On tujilijili the companies just need to package beer in say 1 liter bottles. But also we need to regulate where beer should be sold and which time. Councils should be enhanced to enforce this.
Mr Frank Twatasha
May 1, 2012 at 12:42 pm
honestly for me this is very dissapointing, i invested all my pension in importing machinery for the manufacture of sachet alcohol and then the govt just decides to ban these things without warning. first of all people buy these things freely no one forces them. secondly everything that people consume can kill. cooking oil has killed more people through heart attacks that this beer. ground nuts have chocked and killed more people than this beer. there have only been 3 cases of tujilijili deaths recorded.
mish Collins
May 1, 2012 at 1:16 pm
the manufacturers of tujilijili and their children never drink the shit but want our children and nation to die all for love of money go and invest in tujilijili in iran or lebanon grz put your foot down viva professors luo
Wanyafye FC
May 1, 2012 at 1:18 pm
The makers of tujilijili have equipment that they can turn around and use, say, to pack menthylated spirit, paraffin or cooking oil in sachets and sell to clinics or GRZ or the same communities they made drunk. That will make these commodities so cheap that everyone can afford. Think outside the box. There is more you can do with that machinery. Around the world, a lot of companies have changed businesses while maintaining the same work force and have been very successful. EG Nokia.
chela
May 1, 2012 at 1:21 pm
you people you should stop playing.jilijilies are very bad.
Umusana
May 1, 2012 at 1:23 pm
Let’s thm legalized prostitution twafwa kucilaka without tujilijili.
Wanyafye FC
May 1, 2012 at 1:24 pm
On another note, Prophet TB JOSHUA sells branded anointed or anointing water (choose!). Why can’t you get a franchise from the prophet and repack the water in sachets that poor believers can afford? EG, all the prophet has to do is bless/anoint one Puma Energy sized tanker (35,000 liters!) and then you refill in sachets and BOOM! you have the prophets or profit and still maintain the same poor quality 15,000 jobs.
lindy
May 1, 2012 at 1:43 pm
@ wanyafye fc you’ve cracked me up,,but I like your thinking
lisholi barotse heaven
May 1, 2012 at 2:13 pm
The stuff has bin banned, but the type of packaging. Kenya banned this type of packaging and there no acrimony and economy has moved on. It is govement responsibility to protect its society from harmful products such as tujilijili. Do you see powers no. One now days? It has banned in malawi as well. These bargars have made the money and let imvest on bottling lines and package as demanded by law bafikala. The mmd was taking time to banned them but they were corrupted. The 15000 lost jobs are an exageration meant to hoodwink the authorities into rwversing
lisholi barotse heaven
May 1, 2012 at 2:14 pm
The stuff has bin banned, but the type of packaging. Kenya banned this type of packaging and there no acrimony and economy has moved on. It is govement responsibility to protect its society from harmful products such as tujilijili. Do you see powers no. One now days? It has banned in malawi as well. These bargars have made the money and let imvest on bottling lines and package as demanded by law bafikala. The mmd was taking time to banned them. but they were corrupted. The 15000 lost jobs are an exageration meant to hoodwink the authorities into reversing the ban.
Mwenya mwaume
May 1, 2012 at 2:18 pm
Better to have 15000 pipo who have lost their jobs than to loose 15000 lives.PF we are now benefiting from your victory. MWABOMBENI.
NaganjaNawada
May 1, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Hearsay Tumfweko.too much assumptions.
Matata
May 1, 2012 at 2:31 pm
No compromise on manufacturing of jilies. I thank the PF govt to put a STOP on this issue. This will help people who used waste money on jilies to have more money in there pockets
Money Bugs
May 1, 2012 at 2:55 pm
Tunfweko, thats too much a number, not even Zambian Breweries & Lusaka Beer can account for 15000 jobs…i think lets get correct statistics wen we are reporting these issues.
Wanyafye FC
May 1, 2012 at 3:07 pm
15,000 jobs making illicit beer or 15,000 kampengas or ushers at the next Watchtower convention – what’s better? Just repent you brewers.
sniper
May 1, 2012 at 3:20 pm
Y did jiliz get long 2 b banned? Gud move luo or whoeva!
TRUTHATES
May 1, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Please Tumfweko, can the tujilijili factories employ 15000 people?
Very wrong reporting, unprofessional,bootlicking. so that promotions come to tumfweko reporters?
wind buffallo
May 1, 2012 at 3:23 pm
let me understand this thing properly.is it the packaging or its the beer itself as in it potency?.
Sata
May 1, 2012 at 3:26 pm
’15000 job loses’ is a blue lie & any rational thinking person will agree with me. Anyway, the ban of satchets is a +ve move. The manufacturers of such beer such beer shud start packing in bigger quantities like 1 liter as this will prevent people from carrying jilis to school, work, etc.
jiliz
May 1, 2012 at 3:29 pm
is it 15 thousand or ten thousand people ba editor.or ten thousand plus 15 companies equals 15 thousand …lol
chibuku
May 1, 2012 at 3:38 pm
Put it clear on record, 15000 jobs lost how much were they getting paid? Peanuts if u ask me & on top of that wit serious poor working conditions!!!!!!!!!
cccj
May 1, 2012 at 3:53 pm
n15000 workers is all total lie.because at each company,there are not more than 50 stuff members.unless if they say all those who sale and distribute them are included in the 15000
umu zedian
May 1, 2012 at 4:02 pm
15,000 jobe. that a black lie not even a blue one. what is the avarge of fomal employment in our country. 15.000 for few companies is just too much. Are they even concidering those pipo who drinks? Were I work, on the copperbelt, the company is big with diffrent shifts, but we are just 109.15,000 is not true. ok, its better the 15,000 pipo are out of employment than loosing two pipo or even one. blavo luo blavo pf.Pf never promised pipo these kind of job wich contribute to the walnout of our society. SOOOOORRRRRY.
Afcon 2011 PHIRI
May 1, 2012 at 4:34 pm
The banning of jilis wl make cakolwas 2 stop wasting money on jilis & this means more money in cakolwas pockets there by fulfilling the Pf slogan of more money in pipos pockets including cakolwas pockets!
CHIBZ PEACE II
May 1, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Imwe fi government how are we goin to recover the jobz of thoz pipo,
infact naine ndefwaya inchitooo! NINSHI?
thomas
May 1, 2012 at 5:00 pm
I wud rather losing my job thn I die wth jilies. Pipo let’s not condemn the Government. Its the Goovernment it will know w@ to do wth the youth. For example at home always stike eyes on the parent to see the everything is provided, so youths let’s be patient enough. Tafisa kwati mana abwe.
real buffolos
May 1, 2012 at 5:27 pm
thumbs up Prof Minister.next is fwaka-mbalani to be banned.
shakira wapa zed
May 1, 2012 at 5:31 pm
Was damn about time,that poison was banned.How many lives have we lost due to the consumption of that drug.Thumbs up Mama Luo!
kakolwe
May 1, 2012 at 6:21 pm
Bye bye jilison. Never should you show your drunken face. Imagine people, a grade 4 girl expelled from school for being drunk by break time. She was sobber when going to school. Only to find empty jiliz sachets.
honest m
May 1, 2012 at 6:23 pm
stop jilies making period
Musiyebo
May 1, 2012 at 6:43 pm
Tujilijili or kachasu? Ban is long overdue.
Arrest the chaps if they make noise. Some people lost their lives.
Random peggar
May 1, 2012 at 6:43 pm
Beware jili can kill , you cant leave without jili in your blood stream?
chanda mwamba
May 1, 2012 at 7:18 pm
yanyafye fc u r the hero.
nifwebo
May 1, 2012 at 7:51 pm
we thank those people for being innovative and creating employment but the abuse coming from soceity is too much. let them bann it coz its not helping at all. let them manufacture something more useful.
doc b
May 1, 2012 at 7:54 pm
Imwe tujilijilj tupaya ka,good show ba pf the case is going no where.
Shamutonko
May 1, 2012 at 8:27 pm
@ wanyafye,u’ve cracked my ribs! I also like yo thinking.u must be a very innovative individual.
CRAZY DUDE kasujo
May 1, 2012 at 8:59 pm
sorry to those who lost jobs but jilijili was the cause of a lot of unwanted behavours amongest youths and some distingiushed parents and grandparent in genral.lets just graduate to making good alcohol not poison,its the only solution to get back that trading licence.
Mumbi
May 1, 2012 at 9:29 pm
Thanks mama luo.every human is productive to our economy in one way or another,hence we cann’t continue loosing people’s lives because of selfish individous .let the persionere hows got the machinary of this deadly product to parking pure water ,
Phiri
May 1, 2012 at 10:17 pm
Their never was tujilijili, kachasu was their before the Minister Luo was born. Job creation to the women in the compound Viva kachasu welcome back my mother has her job back now amai tilikuseli.
tongabull
May 2, 2012 at 1:03 am
@Phiri:instead of u findin a beta solution u r addin more nonsense! Grow up Chende @Mwenya no 1 forces ny1 2 buy nd drink them selves 2 death! Everything kills if u abuse it! Nd it was wrong 4 d government jst 2 put the ban from nowhere witout a deadline dat jst shows how corrupt ur PF government is!!! U have 2 give the companies a grace period! Instead if ur government concentratin on creating jobs they r takin away jobs that’s very dull,dats why Zambia will never improve!!!
Uko
May 2, 2012 at 5:21 am
Instead of banning utujilijili because they kill, why not bann HIV too?
Teach people to be responsible and allow utujiljili
atm
May 2, 2012 at 6:08 am
15000workers ÷ 15company = 1000workers/company. Major employer more than some GRZ departments.