CHIEF Government Spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa says the Zambia National Service (ZNS) has been engaged in the exportation of GMO mealie meal to DRC because it is already in the mealie meal business. He was reacting to News Diggers’ editorial of February 27, 2024 titled “When did Zambia become a mealie meal dealer, middleman for Congo?” Mweetwa clarified that the deal was not a government to government transaction and that Zambia buys the commodity from private millers. When asked in an interview, Tuesday, if ZNS was constitutionally mandated to engage in private dealing of perishable goods for sale to foreign countries, Mweetwa said no new mandate had been created for ZNS, arguing that the security wing was already in the mealie...

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