COPPERBELT Minister Elisha Matambo says the staple food shortage is likely to improve once government offloads some impounded mealie meal on the market. In an interview, Wednesday, Matambo said the government was impounding trucks every day. “We are trying to bring it under control, we have appealed to our people not to panic. I’m sure you saw me trying to give statistics of the mealie meal first of all which has been impounded, and this response intervention from the government. First of all, I went around the millers to check the challenges which they had, and then to try and agree on how we are going to fight smuggling together with the millers. We agreed that they submit to us...

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