Sat, 14 Jan 2017 12:39:22 +0000 WHILE the Government and millers were this week engaged in tough negotiations on how to find a solution to the escalating mealie meal prices, it would appear someone is cashing in on the fluid situation and laughing all the way to the bank. The reports from North Western Province that authorities there have intercepted a total of 11 trucks in two days laden with mealie meal heading into a neighbouring country, is evidence-based proof that while the Government’s eye is turned the other way, the crooks and risk takers are taking advantage. Officials of the Mushindano district administration, on the border with DR Congo, seized six trucks at Kipushi border during a joint operation by council and Government officers on suspicion that the mealie meal was being taken outside the country. Three more trucks were seized at Kilumba check point as they headed north-west into foreign territory about 40 […]
