’Maize being smuggled to DRC’

LOCAL small-scale millers yesterday sensationally accused large milling companies of collecting subsidised maize from the Grain Marketing Board and smuggling it to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at a time the country was facing an acute shortage of mealie-meal.

Parliament also heard that the big millers were also allegedly processing some the maize into other fast-moving products other than mealie-meal.

The alleged scam was disclosed in Parliament when millers appeared before the Justice Wadyajena led Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands and Agriculture to give oral evidence on the challenges that they were facing.

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