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. “There 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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