The Zambia Consumer Association (ZACA) has pledged to work with the millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) to ensure that Millie Meal Prices are reduced to between k75 and k85.
ZACA Executive Secretary Juba Sakala has warned that millers that have not heeded to the directive from MAZ to reduce the commodity prices risk being banned from getting maize from the Food Reserve Agency.
Mr. Sakala says the Association will not sit idle as some millers and Millie Meal Traders exploit consumers with high prices of the staple food against a directive from the Millers Association of Zambia for them to reduce the prices.
He says the association will visit the millers who have refused to revise the price despite getting maize at a subsidized price from the FRA in an effort to find out what the problem is and discuss a way forward.
Meanwhile ZACA has called on the government to review the export of wheat to in the wake of the reported shortage of wheat the country is facing.
Mr. Sakala tells Money FM News that “we fear that Zambian consumers will be subjected to paying high prices for flour products when the export market is enjoying favorable prices for wheat produced in Zambia”.