More than 300 bags of maize have gone to waste at Kazungula’s Manyemu-nyemu satellite depot in Southern Province after being soaked with rains.
The development has incensed District Commissioner Albert Chifita who wandered why maize was rotting when Government had given FRA tents for proper storage.
The District Commissioner also took to task a maize buyer Anderson Mfuzi who failed to give a logical answer on why the maize was soaked.
Mr Chifita told Manyemu-nyemu residents that Government could not afford to waste resources by buying maize in bulk which would only go to waste saying such scenarios should be avoided.
But Kazungula District Cooperative Union Marketing Manager Mwachila Mwiinga expressed ignorance about the rotten maize.
Mr Mwiinga said all the Depots were given tents and Manyemu-nyemu was given six tents to protect the maize bought.
He also revealed that at Ngwenzi Satellite Deport there was still maize awaiting collection because all transporters suspended the exercise due to the bad state of the road.
“For Ngwezi, we are in the process to talk to Mulobezi Railways to bring here at the Holding Depot”, he said.
Mr. Mwiinga further assured the nation that the maize would not be soaked at the Holding Depot.
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