SMALL and Medium Enterprise Development Minister Elias Mubanga has disclosed that a total of 74,392 marketeers have so far benefited from the Marketeer Booster Loan. Mubanga told the National Assembly, Tuesday, that government, through the Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission (CEEC), had so far given out K158 million to beneficiaries. The SME minister was responding to Kalabo Central UPND MP Chinga Miyutu who wanted to know how many marketeers, countrywide, benefited from the marketeer booster loans as of December, 2023. “Madam Speaker, from the time the product was launched in November 2022 up to December 2023, a total of 74,392 marketeers benefited from the marketeer booster loan product as shown and I will read through. Central Province, 7,940 benefited, Copperbelt, 9,746,...