19/10/2018
RE: MR. GERALD MULOWA
MR. MULOWA IS FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF LUSANJO BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SERVICES LTD, TRADING AS LUSANJO PEANUT PROCESSING OF PETAUKE. LUSANJO PEANUT PROCESSORS ARE ONE OF THE LARGEST VALUE CHAIN ACTORS IN THE GROUNDNUT VALUE ADDITION PROCESSING IN EASTERN PROVINCE. AS SUCH, LUSANJO WORKS WITH SMALL HOLDER FARMERS MOSTLY IN PETAUKE AND NYIMBA DISTRICTS. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE SMALL HOLDER FARMING COMMUNITY IN THESE TWO DISTRICTS VALUE OUR HUMBLE CONTRIBUTION OF PROCURINGTHEIR GROUNDNUTS WHICH GUARANTEES THEM A SEASONAL INCOME AND THEREBY REDUCING POVERTY LEVELS IN EACH VILLAGE HOUSEHOLD. SUCH INCOMES, SMALL AS IT MAYBE, ENABLES THEM PURCHASE DAILY FAMILY NEEDS SUCH AS SUGAR, SALT, SOAP, ETC.
BESIDES BEING DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER OF LUSANJO, MR. MULOWA IS ALSO A MEMBER OF BOTH THE MWAPE AND LUEMBE CHIEFTAINSHIPS ROYAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN NYIMBA DISTRICT. AS SUCH, MR. MULOWA HAS WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH THE SMALL HOLDER FARMERS IN THESE TWO CHIEFDOMS AND THE COMMUNITIES HAVE COME TO APPRECIATE THE SERVICES THAT LUSANJO PROVIDES. SURFICE TO SAY THAT IT WOULD BE SUB-JUDICE TO COMMENT ON A CASE THAT IS IN COURT, LEST WE ARE CITED FOR CONTEMPT, IT IS IMPORTANT TO MENTION THAT LUSANJO'S GROUNDNUTS PROCUREMENT PROGRAMMES IN THESE TWO COMMUNITIES HAS BROUGHT MR. MULOWA'S NAME IN THE LIMELIGHT OF THESE TWO CHIEFTAINSHIPS. IT IS HOWEVER EXTREMELY MISPLACED TO SUGGEST THAT MR. MULOWA HAS CHIEFTAINSHIP AMBITIONS IN EITHER OF THESE TWO CHIEFTAINSHIPS, EVEN THOUGH HE IS ELLIGIBLE TO BECOME ONE IN BOTH CHIEFTAINSHIPS BY VIRTUE OF BEING YOUNG AND ELDER BROTHER TO BOTH CHIEFTAINESS MWAPE AND SENIOR CHIEF LUEMBE, RESPECTIVELY.
LUSANJO WILL CONTINUE TO GROW ITS INVOLVEMENT IN BOTH THESE TWO DISTRICTS AND, IN PARTICULAR THE TWO MENTIONED CHIEFDOMS WHERE THE DIRECTOR ORIGINATES FROM, NOT ONLY AS A SOCIAL RESPONSBILITY BUT ALSO TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY HE GREW UP IN. IN THIS WAY, LUSANJO WILL ALSO BE CONTRIBUTING TO THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICIES OF RURAL INDUSTRIALISATION, POVERTY REDUCTION IN RURAL AREAS AS WELL AS VALUE CHAIN PROCESSING AND ADDING VALUE TO THE VILLAGERS' PRODUCE.
AS A CONSEQUENCE, LUSANJO WILL CONTINUE DISTRIBUTING HIGH QUALITY AND LOCALLY PROCESSED PRODUCT ON THE SHELVES OF VARIOUS SUPERMARKET CHAINS WHERE IT'S END PRODUCT, THE LUSANJO PEANUT BUTTER, HAS WHOLLY BEEN ACCEPTED BY THE WIDER CONSUMER FRATERNITY AS A QUALITY OPTION TO OTHER SUCH SIMILAR PRODUCTS.
ISSUED BY THE BOARD, LUSANJO LTD.; P.O. BOX 560026, PETAUKE. TEL: 0975571687/0950673354