By James Gwati-The bankrupt Grain Marketing Board has deployed its security officers at all police roadblocks throughout the country where they are looking for trucks carrying maize bought from farmers.

GMB, through statutory instrument 145/2019 is the sole buyer of maize grain from farmers.

The repressive regulations make it an offence for anyone to be found with more than five 50kg bags of maize grain.

GMB pays farmers in local currency which never comes fears that farmers could bypass them and sell their produce to millers who pay in instant foreign currency.

GMB claims that it has so far bought than 6 000 tonnes of maize from farmers this year.