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850 Bags Of Mealie Meal Impounded By Mpulungu Police

850 25 kilogram bags of mealie-meal that were intended to be smuggled into a neighboring nation were seized by police in Mpulungu, in the Northern Province.

GLORIA MULELE, the commanding officer of the Northern Provincial Police, revealed to ZANIS that police had received information that mealie-meal was being put onto a ship in Lake Tanganyika.

Police reportedly sped to Mpulungu Harbour where they searched and seized the mealie-meal, according to Ms. Mulele.

The accused are being held by the police while they await their upcoming court appearance.

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