VICE-PRESIDENT Mutale Nalumango says the escalation of mealie meal prices is a consequence of the maize floor price which government pegged at K280 per bag. Her Honour the Vice-President says this high floor price has ended up pushing up the price of the staple food because millers are also trying to put a markup on the purchase price. VEEP NALUMANGO: “I will attribute this (escalation of mealie meal prices) to maybe one or two factors. One, is that the government recently set the price of maize for the farmers to K280. So that automatically means that the one who buys will also do a markup and the situation goes on like that. So, the government would expect that indeed no...