Hundreds of Ndola-based Census of Population and Housing enumerators yesterday staged a protest outside the regional offices of the Central Statistical Office (CSO) demanding that their training allowances be increased after hearing that their counterparts in Lusaka were being paid K900,000 while they were paid K500,000 as training allowances.
Ndola District Commissioner (DC), Joshua Mutisa and District police chief, Bonnie Kapeso held a meeting with the representatives of the enumerators after police convinced the protesters to disperse and give an opportunity to their representatives, CSO and the office of the DC to resolve the impasse.
[pullquote]“The truth of the matter is that the Ndola enumerators will be paid the K2 million like their Lusaka counterparts who have also started receiving their down payments while the rest of the payments would be honoured after the completion of the 21-day long exercise,” Mr Mutisa said.[/pullquote]
Mr Mutisa said it was discovered that allegations that the Ndola enumerators were being underpaid were not true because the people they were comparing with in Lusaka were paid K500,000 training allowances and an additional K400,000 as down payment for their redeployment allowance.
He said the Ndola enumerators had not been given their redeployment allowances down payment because the local 2010 Census authorities planned to issue the payments after those engaged took oath and signed their contract forms.
“The truth of the matter is that the Ndola enumerators will be paid the K2 million like their Lusaka counterparts who have also started receiving their down payments while the rest of the payments would be honoured after the completion of the 21-day long exercise,” Mr Mutisa said.
The countrywide 2011 Census of Population and Housing is expected to officially kick off on October 16.
these spoil tlittle brats if they dont want to do the simple job of counting let them step aside. thousands are willing to do the job. why do they want to earn more than what their parents earn or indeed unza students who get far much less than what these pupils are getting
This is a total management failure. when recruiting these chaps, why didn’t the management disclose how much each one will get at the end of the exercise. This is the problem of lack of transparency. If these chaps where told how much they were to be paid during recruitment, those unhappy with the package could have turned away the offer. Can you now cancel all the contracts and start again recruiting, in the knew contracts state clearly the terms of condition period. We cannot be hearing of people protesting over and over over the same issue. Do we have managers in this country??
# real madrid yes we have managersand these spoilt little brats were told exactly how much they would be paid. what they are doing is hold govt to ransom since they have already been recruited and are now using mob justice call it arm twisting
i am one of the enumerators, so #1 don’t be foolish, do u know how much work is involved for u to be callin us spoiled little brats?? u are ignorant and know nothing, so shut your mouth ala!! u think if they told us we were gettin such little for soo much work we would be doing this shit?? respect us en we will do the same,