Police in Kasama had a tough time to control a crowd of ravenous residents who scrambled to purchase mealie-meal at Kasama milling TAZARA outlet today in the commodity shortage crisis.
According to ZANIS, long queues of people have been formed at the depot where they are struggling to buy the commodity.
The millers have been accused of creating an artificial mealie-meal shortage by packaging the commodity in 10kg bags instead of the larger 25kg bags.
When contacted for a comment, Northern Province Minister Col. Garry Chanda said the shortage was created by greedy millers who have taken advantage of the situation by creating an artificial shortage of 25 kg bags of mealie-meal.
He said the Food Reserve Agency had enough stocks of white maize in storage.
At PTJ Supermarket only 10 kg bags of mealie-meal were found while at National Milling Company, management had put up a notice that there was no mealie-meal in the shop.
Kasama district has in the recent past recorded shortage meal mealie causing panic to consumers.
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