SHIWANG’ANDU PF member of parliament Stephen Kampyongo says it’s illogical for the Zambia National Service (ZNS) to be distributing mealie-meal across the country. On Thursday, Minister of Information and Media Cornelius Mweetwa said ZNS’ mealie-meal would this week begin to be sold in Shoprite outlets countrywide at K230 for a 25kg bag of breakfast mealie-meal and K190 for roller. But commenting on the development in an interview, Friday, Kampyongo charged that government had simply failed to come up with a sustainable plan, arguing that very few people would afford the commodity. ā€œThere are serious issues that we want to clarify first of all with government. We left those milling plants for a special purpose, the ZNS milling plants were established...

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