The government of Zambia has vowed to deal with traders who sell maize flour to Malawians, a move that will spell bad news for Malawi.
Malawi is facing acute shortage of maize and Malawians have for the past months been relying on maize flour which is imported from Zambia.
But Zambia has warned that millers who will be found selling maize to Malawi risk losing their licenses.
Authorities in Zambia say apart from confiscating the commodity, they will also seize the vehicles being used in the smuggling.
The Zambian government has justified the move saying it subsidised the maize to Zambians not Malawians.
“Those maize which are now being milled were bought by FRA (the Food Reserve Agency) as a means to be consumed by Zambians as it is a subsidised one and these chaps are smuggling into Malawi in order to make double profit,” said Eastern Province Permanent Secretary Chanda Kasolo.
He said a combined team of security and defence officers are currently patrolling the border areas in order to stop the rampant smuggling.
Recently, Zambia intercepted 28 trucks which were transporting maize to Malawi after the drivers failed to produce export permits.
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Irresponsible reporting
Boma lizitero kumaganizira anthu ake. Idont blem the Goverment of zambia chifukwa siboma la zambia lomwe limabweletsa chakudyacho ayi koma mavenda amazembetsa titati tiwonetsetse m’malawi muno mavenda ochepa nzelu ngati awa alimonso muno muli njala kutenga chakudya kupitsa kunja muno muli njala pali nzelu pamenepa boma la malawi litapanga chimodzimodzi njala itha kuchepa
Too late. Agenda katauluka. Unalowa kale basi. Njalaso yatha. Maungu tayamba kudya. Thanks fellow Humans.
Malawiyo kuina kusauka kwambiri kapena bwanji?mxiiiiiii
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#Joe b ready to be my bodyguard though I dnt trust u kkkkkk
PEMBE IS BEST EVEN TO MALAWIANS.LEAVE THEM. THEY GO BUYING E NOT BEGING.MALAWIANS LIKE PEMBE VERY MUCH THAN THE INHABITANTS.
Allah bless you
does your president allow smuggling maize into other countries stop the hate do u want us 2 suffer soldier are in all the borderz not only malawi, read the news carefully ba malawi zambia has got more than 80 districts and 72 tribes malawi is small with 28 districts and 3 provinces
So go back and be president Hardy we tired of u here
The more they will punish Malawi is the more Zambia will punish its own people dwelling in Malawi.
Malawi Government is lucky to know Our neighbour’s plan to protect its people, sothat governmet should make plan b before.
Wow