UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema yesterday donated 50 by 25 kilogram bags of mealie meal to residents of Lusaka’s Bauleni Compound.

The aged, the differently abled, widows, and orphans were some of the beneficiaries of the afternoon donation.

Overjoyed receipients of the donation spoken to said “God had answered their prayers.”

Twenty-five bags of mealie meal were initially
meant to be donated but they finished within minutes forcing the wealthy opposition leader to add another consignment of 25 bag – they too did not last.

“The price of our staple food, mealie meal is way beyond the reach of our citizens,” Hichilema later wrote on his Facebook page.

Mealie meal prices like those of other essential commodities have been rising and climbing beyond the reach of many ordinary Zambians in the past weeks.