By Beatrice Chabaya
If you haven’t delivered farming inputs this time, is going to be a miracle if again we do not have enough stocks of food, asks Lundazi Member of Parliament Brenda Nyirenda.
Speaking when she and other PF parliamentarians addressed the media yesterday, the lawmaker said bemoaned the late delivery of farming inputs in her constituency.
She implored President Hakainde Hichilema to address the issue in question as he comes to to deliver his national address in parliament tomorrow.
“The issue of agriculture input. I have just come from Lundazi today. If you haven’t delivered farming inputs this time, is going to be a miracle if again we do not have enough stocks of food? How are they going to take the fertilizer if this time as we are talking they haven’t delivered? There is this FISP and CASP. Even the beneficiaries, they do not even know, people haven’t started depositing K400 distribution, the contribution which they make for them to obtain fertilizer. So, the farmer right now is confused,” she said.
The Parliamentarian charged that a delay in delivering the inputs would bring about corruption.
“In any case, the delay of delivering inputs just brings up the issue of corruption because at the end of the day, cadres are going to be the ones who are going to be lining up for our people. if the President comes to address (us)… let him not come with a script that is written for him. Let him come and address the issues which are really affecting the nation today,” she said.
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