Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:29:09 +0000 By OSCAR MALIPENGA GOVERNMENT is still investigating a scandal in which 30 litres of the chemicals procured to eradicate the Army Worms and stalk borers were stolen on the Copperbelt, Agriculture Minister Dora Siliya has told Parliament. Ms Siliya said investigations were currently active and that those found wanting would be held accountable because Government spent colossal sums of money to procure the chemicals. She has warned that once investigations were concluded, those found wanting would be dealt accordingly. Ms Siliya was responding to Roan Patriotic Front (PF) Member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili who wanted to find what had happened to the stolen armyworm chemicals on the Copperbelt in Ndola. Earlier, Ms Siliya informed Parliament that the Army worm pest which recently attacked the maize crop in some parts of Zambia had been contained although not fully eradicated. Ms Siliya said in a ministerial that a total […]
Govt probing theft of army worms, stalk borer chemicals-Siliya
