A ZNS officer yesterday harassed this News Diggers reporter and forced him to delete pictures which he took of people queueing up for mealie meal at the Silverest Plant in Chongwe. Zambia has recently been hit hard with the shortage of mealie meal, forcing the price of the staple food to sharply increase, reaching an unprecedented K330 per 25kg bag in some retail shops, a situation government admits is regrettable. Yesterday, scores of Lusaka residents trooped to the ZNS milling plant in Silverest to chance the commodity, queuing up as early as 06:00 hours in the morning where Eagle Milling mealie meal is being sold at K150 for a 25kg breakfast bag, whilst roller meal is fetching K128. The officers...
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