Blame HH for expensive mealie meal – Kabimba

By NATION REPORTER

WYNTER Kabimba has blamed President Hakainde Hichilema for the high prices of mealie meal because he  allowed the free and unrestricted export of mealie-meal thereby creating a deficit in the country.

Mr Kabimba, the Economic Front president is claiming that when the UPND came into power, President Hichilema had a meeting with millers at which he advised them to work as businesses and scrapped all the restrictions that the PF government had put in place that were maintaining the prices of mealie-meal.

He said the UPND gave the liberty to millers to export whatever mealie meal they had because they were in business.

“President Hichilema allowed millers to be exporting mealie meal at the detriment of our own people who are now suffering the effects. The mealie meal has become unaffordable because of President Hichilema who allowed millers to export whatever they had because millers were in business. Now we have a crisis…apart from mealie meal being expensive, it has at times become scarce,” Mr Kabimba said.

Mr Kabimba said this when he featured on a live radio program on Hot FM.

He said it was unacceptable that a country that has an abundance of maize to be buying mealie-meal at such a high price.

Meanwhile, Mr Kabimba said the UPND government did not make the decision to start importing power from Mozambique out of love for the people but because of the pressure they had started receiving.

He said majority of stakeholders told the people in government that the decision to start exporting power at the expense of the local people was reckless but they paid a deaf ear not until things started backfiring.

Mr Kabimba said the energy sector drives the economy and if the prices of energy start to go up it automatically means that the prices of commodities would also start to increase.

He said Zambians have power to change this that was why when they voiced out on load shedding Government started importing power and they should continue to speak out until the UPND administration learns to do the right things.