Hunger threatens Magoye

Hunger threatens Magoye
January 4, 2009

Villagers in Magoye area of Mazabuka have called on the Office of the Vice President to send relief food to the area before people start dying of starvation.

Area Development Committee Secretary, Kayombo Chiinda told ZANIS in an interview in Mazabuka that the villagers have now resorted to eating suspected poisonous wild-roots locally called ” Mabwabwa” which is cooked and later soaked in running water for 48 hours before consumption.

Mr Chiinda complained that villagers cannot afford the sky rocketing price of a 50 Kilogramme bag of maize currently selling at K 100,000.

He said government should also consider extending the sale of maize in villages being conducted by the Food Reserve Agency (FRA).

Mr Chiinda warned that school going children may not be able to report for school if nothing is done by government to address the hunger situation.

He named the affected areas as Ngwezi, Hanzala, Itebe and Magoye.

Most parts of the Mazabuka have been hit by severe hunger because of the floods that wrecked havoc on maize crops in the 2007/2008 farming season.

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