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Chief Government Spokesperson, Kennedy Sakeni
Chief Government Spokesperson, Kennedy Sakeni

Government has said that it is not intimidating civil servants but demanding efficient service delivery which will benefit the Zambian people.

Chief Government Spokesperson, Kennedy Sakeni has said that it was wrong for people like Zambia Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) president, Leonard Hikaumba to insinuate that some civil servants were failing to deliver due to intimidation from senior Government officials.

Mr Sakeni, who is Information and Broadcasting Services Minister, has said that all that Government was interested in seeing was efficient service delivery by civil servants for the benefit of the nation.

He said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that government could not deliver sufficiently to the people unless it had a crop of hard working and well disciplined civil servants in place.

Mr Sakeni said the PF Government would work to ensure that all civil servants to delivered in accordance with its targets.

Mr Sakeni said Government was concerned and was in a hurry to see that civil servants improved their performance in service delivery adding that demanding for this was not intimidation.

He said Government had no quarrel with civil servants that met their targets and worked in tandem with the new Government’s goals and objectives.

He said there was no intimidation but Government wanted civil servants not to be partisan but work as real technocrats.

He urged civil servants to ignore Mr Hikaumba’s statement and instead work in line with the guidelines and policies of the civil service.

“We have nothing against a civil servant who is working to the PF Government’s expectations of good service delivery and all we want is for the civil servants to put in their best and perform above board. They should not be scared to perform their duties because they are protected by the law and nobody can intimidate them as long as they are disciplined, hard working and are delivering” Mr Sakeni said.

He said politicians and people of Zambia at large could only appreciate service delivery from civil servants through their hard work.

Mr Hikaumba was recently quoted as saying that civil servants in Zambia were failing to deliver because of intimidation from the government.

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75 COMMENTS

  1. I have had a horrible cold, despite having a c flu jab
    What is going on?
    I tried lempsip nothing, Nick suggested ginger in hot water
    nope, my noise is sore, throwing flushing the ‘donna pa window’. It has hindered 
    my PhD research , nut I have found out that I could try the geranium plant, I hear its effectibve at cutting phlegm.
    Could someone suggest, the best medication they have encountered in dealing with coughs and sneezes?
    I am suffering real bad. Please pray for me

    Thanks

    • Take water and warm bit then add some salt drop a bit in ur noisy but ur noisy will be white after some you will be okey, and on coughs ginger a lot you will be fine

    • Just sit and relax with time it will go nothing works in  these negative temperatures. I don’t even take the fake flu jabs.

    • your education hasn’t done you enough good my sister, these no medicine for a cold while there are many cold medicines and treatments that soothe miserable cold symptoms, there is nothing that cures a cold. Still, some cold treatments can give you much-needed relief to help you wait it out until the cold is gone.keep warm. ignorance is expensive and it kills.

    • Those are just “normal” effects of your HIV infection. Tell your doctor to increase your ARV dosage! You’ll be fine! And oh, don’t suck on anything…you know…the thing you like the most, the D.I.C.K.

  2. This man always looks like a very hot sweet potato is stuck on this throat. But I can see he must have been a weight lifting boy.
    Mushot, go and get virus immunisation: that is it!

  3. Come on Sakeni just fire all none Bembas and replace them with your tribesmen. After all that’s your grand scheme. You’ve failed to deliver and all you can do is blame faceless people. You’re a useless gov’t and a waste of time. You’ve given yourselves 100% salary and allowance increments and the so called President is even building himself a retirement home already. Pathetic government!

    • @3.1 Andre, I would like to agree with you, there is no party, past, present or future that will selflessly deliver for the benefit of all Zambians.
      The only solution is to have independent federal states, let each province run it’s own affairs. Just yesterday the president who is supposed to be president for all threatened to deny the NW Province financial allocation if they don’t vote PF, one wonders, is the money from his pocket?

    • I don’t think that would be a wise solution. In fact 75% plus of the Zambian’s would strongly disagree with you and you know that. Your idea would only spark problems in this country! 

  4. unfit for a ministerial  position. I was disappointed with his appointment! The president made a critical error! Any way thumbs up for appointing some young blood in other ministerial offices! 

  5. Those cars in the background of that picture are old and I hope they are not on the road
    Do Zambians even know BMW X5,X6, Range Rover, Audi Q7,  Hammers etc even exist?
    These are cars not found in Zambia, and yet the country is happy of acquiring Debt in the excess of $100m do you know how laughable you lot make us feel from the outskirts?

    There is NO WAY anyone with a Zambian salary can afford any of these cars above, unless they are successful businesspersons or they have stolen monies. The later if more often the case unless you are an Indian in Zambia
    Thank God I am in Scotland!

    • What are you talking about???its either you think we are cheap for such cars or its because you haven’t been to Zambia for a while, well I have a BMW 2011 X6! I worked ass to buy it, and I know many people who have the cars above.

    • The problem is that when poverty is all you have known in your upbringing you tend to think that owning an expensive car is all there is to life.

    • whats Scotland ( they have very poor accent) i thought you were in England. any jack can go to Scotland my niece is going their for studies. i guess you went there for studies and deliberately enticed a sick old man to marry you so you could stay in that country i feel sorry for you.

    • Ba Mushota it is true you are shot of brains, these “BMW X5,X6, Range Rover, Audi Q7, Hammers” vehicles you have mentioned are all over Zambia, can you mention some more so that we see shallow minded you are. Zambians here have got aeroplanes, choppers, How can they fail to buy BMW X5

  7. Whats Intembusha? I have one nose blocked, and breathing through another and have a running nose, also watery eyes. I have tried Ginger in the staff canteen this morning  it wont work.

    Thanks

    • Go home and rest before you pass it on to your workmates. This is what they were talking about on the news (BBC in England) that some employees do not stay away from work when they have a bad case of flu. A lot of rest and fluids should put you back into shape.

    • Running nose? And do your feet smell also? You must be upside down. try to stand upright with your head at the top.

  10. For sure our president Sata is just a joker..zambian people are in for it ,,the man has regard for national development.

  11. For sure our president Sata is just a joker..zambian people are in for it ,,the man has NO regard for national development.

  12. For sure our president Sata is just a joker..zambian people are in for it ,,the man has NO regard for national development.Sakeni is poorly dressing with bad voice and libs

  14. Well, most civil servants are lazy. Let us face it, people are no longer working to enjoy what they do. All they care is how much have I made. Take for instance a patient who does on the que at the hospitals with nurses watching and unconcerned……it is true, we need a changed mindset of our people. I support UPND & HH, but if today he was given to run government, he will find the same characteristics of the Zambian worker and civil servant. They are Parthetic Fellows.

  16. Mushota go to Zambia and see a witch doctor. He will cure your ‘cold’ and help eliminate your deep inferiority complex, then we wont have to hear you mention Scotland when it doesn’t relate to the topic.

  17. Mushota, you’re without doubt an ill-bred brat with amazing ignorance and terrible English. I wonder what your so-called bf thinks of you!

  18. @Mushota#1#5#7
    Hey, you are back again and that is nice to read more from you before I castigate you, please recover soon from your sickness.
    What do you think South Africa is? Another failing country like Ireland or Greece or Spain or Italy, hey? South Africa has a motor industry along its lengthy coast line and in its interior. This country produces all those types of cars you mentioned above and Zambia is a very strategic market for South African products ranging from basics such as groceries to heaviest expensive mining equipment worth hundreds of millions of US dollars. A lot of Zambians are driving Bugattis, the fastest production car worth about US3 million dollars. And I seen have four Bugatti Veyrons being off loaded in Durban meant for wealth Zambians. Stop insulting yourself

    • I have just checked , those cars are not in South Africa
      Some cars are taken to South Africa for testing
      Does not mean they are driven by South Africans
      Wake up

      Thanks

    • Ba Mushota is really funny. Anyway, most Zambians who used to live in the compounds and are now abroad behave exactly like you. They don’t even visit Zambia or even dream of comin back. DON’T THINK EVERYBODY IS LIKE YOU

  19. @BOOM & WHATEVER#18
    Second last sentence, oops I meant to say that ‘I have seen four Bugatti Veyrons being off-loaded in Durban meant for wealthy Zambians.’ I have been to the UK recently and those cars are meant for the super rich British nationals or wealthy Arabs. The last time I was there I saw about ten different Bugatti Veyrons with different number plates bearing personalised number plates written “Arab owned 2” and so on, in the UK. Respect Zambians because they spend when the ocassion arises. We export Hammers, all types of Audis including the RX 8 latest sport version to Europe, US, the far East, Middle East, Brazil, Australia and including Africa especially Zambia.

  22. Look who is here, the sewer rat BOOM

    What a complete moron of the highest order this man is
    You are walking, talking proof that you don’t have to be sentient to survive, and that Barnum was thinking of you when he uttered his immortal phrase regarding the birth of a sucker.If you had an original thought it would die of loneliness before the hour was out.Your personality is that of a rabid Chihuahua intent on destroying its own tail.
    Your powers of observation are like that of the bird who keeps slamming into the picture window trying to get that other bird it keeps seeing.Just give up, you are You’re so stupid it’s a wonder you can remember to breathe.
    I am finished with you, not that I got started to start with

    Thanks

  24. BOOM 
    Give up, you keep being aroused by the touch of my class, good for you
    For me? Well you are just You’re a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, and a weasel. I take that back; you are a festering pustule on a weasel’s rump. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.
    You are the sewer rat I ever knew
    Thanks

  26. @Mushota#23
    Not bad for a victim of opportunistic illnesses such as poor man’s diseases i.e. flues, a running nose, irritating infectious coughs, TB and a running stomach, and watery eyes synonymous with a poorly fed homeless lady. You are right I am not in your realm and, what I will be doing in a classy society such as that racist society whereby African sleepy women are confined to kitchens and scrabing ugly half-educated lying bitches such as Nick? I am a agentleman and everything about you and Nick sets me apart from you jerks.

  27. @Mushota#23
    What a nasty personal attack from lady Mushota. Is it worth it? Please it is uncalled for and withdraw your negative comments. I am trying to show you the other side of Africans but instead you wittingly and willingly subject me to robust insults and liken me to scum bags of this earth. Hoohoohoo, this is absolutely annoying and it is definitely worth a strong robust reaction befitting your personality. Enjoy your opportunistic poor man’s illnesses.

  28. @Mushota#23
    What kind of a person would lower herself continously without any guilty feelings which arguably in part but not solely, would reverse her lifeless empty shell that needs someone to pump pride and permanent recognition of the importance of others be they significant others or otherselves? You have finally redefined yourself as unfortunate and less of a mature being but an unfearing, unthoughtful and overly excited little worm from some rural village in Africa. Enjoy yourself you little insignificant shrimp and a shimacky.

  29. Govt please stop complaining of any limitations and just act we are late on developmental projects weather tonga, bemba, lozi or what ever if they are not performing kick them out, especially that Zambia has a lot of stranded personnel to replace failures at any level.Avoid lip service and work, we know you can do it.

  30. BOOM
    I am not insulting you, I am just telling you what I think of you considering how negative you have been to me. You have shown me nothing but mendacity, contempt and indignation, I since feel like throwing up every time you write anything on me
    I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. You are a technicolor yawn. And did I mention that you smell?

    Thanks

  33. @Mushota#28 Well just to answer your question, the answer is no because you did not mention that I smell and, just out of curiosity, how do you know that I smell considering that you are somewhere in the UK and I am somewhere at the tip of Africa. I am enjoying my oyesters and French prepared sea food with white wines. Would mind joining me for a change? I am sure you have an idea about what sea food does to someome’s lubido. Good, at least we can begin to understand each other with our clear consciousnesses. I like you. Please, lady Mushota provide me your email address because I would like to show you why this place is beautiful. I will take care of all the expenses, please I will keep you posted with future developments, I like your analysis not the insults though . Be good dear.

  34. BOOM
    Regrettably I decline your offer
    Note I have been at International School Of South Africa (ISSA) Mafikeng, and was there for 4 years. I am sure that was way before your time there 10 years ago, till I was 18.
    I know South Africa very well and My father still have a place in Bryanston where I used to be during my Holidays
    I am sure you meant ‘Oyster’ and I do not drink any liquor. South Africa is great but, Europe is where I belong, and getting married to Nick, will seal my steal here. That I know.

    You sound a bit raw if you ask me, you need to go out a lot more , sitting with an Oxford dictionary on your laps wont help. There is a difference between views on the blog , emails and letters this is informal and you seem to care?

    Thanks

  37. currently visiting Zimbabwe most companies still have buses dropping off personnel, today i saw a Barclays bank bus off dropping employees,it increase the sense of belonging and the middle class may not have tpt cash… just control the abuse, its an incentive which govt should encourage .

  38. mushota and BOOM & WHATEVER you are so foolish in whatever you accuse each other. pomposity will not take you anywhere. i have a feeling that you so poor and impoverished that is why you want to wash your dirty linen in public to rich young zambian men like me. more than your stupid Nick mushota

  41. Will this thuggish govt ever admit to intimidation after all the witchhunt about “corruption” on anyone appointed byMMD?Will they ever allow opposition to assemble without the intimidating misuse of the public order act as a political tool? Even baboons would run a better govt than these rabid nchebes.

  43. @Mushota#34
    You mean your father owns a property in Brayanston? Did you not indicate that your father passed on? What am I reading from my dream woman? I am loving Mushota more than before. There is no problem in this seemingly confusing puzzle, okay, let me just say that being as difficult as you are and, this is not to blame you but I completely understand that there is very little we can accomplish because everything is in the public domain here. By the way, I am slightly older than you and I too, have a duplex flat at Morningside near Sandton Shopping Mall and it is about minutes drive from Benmore Pick & Pay. I am really loving you and I am a very pertient man indeed.

  44. @Mushota#34
    I have read your post or email and this is great indeed. I am liking this and really, you have a tender heart which made me to interrogate everything about you. I always thought that behind that particular character you projected on this site, there is a loving person who can also fundamentally shower a man with love. Mention a place where we can at least talk about this issue at a professional level somewhere there in the UK. Travelling to the UK is not an issue besides this is the beginning of the festive season. I will be there because what I need is happiness and these women here are very beautiful and, even nice below the belt but they are completely mad and provocative. There are adventurous and always searching for trouble even though you satisfy them with everything.

  45. @Mushota#34 Oh gosh, one more important item I almost left out is that I also have a duplex flat in Mornngside along 5 Loudoun Road, Benmore near Sandton Shopping Center but I live down in the Western Cape because it is much clearner than Johannesburg. We can also make some arrangements in the future to meet there and I do not go out regulary to night clubs because I am also pursuing my post doctoral degrees. I enjoy my research theses as meaning that they are many.

  46. This man is having an affair with a married woman, latest news from somebody who works at the named lodge. It started before he became minister, so sad to an innocent man who is married to that foolish lady.

  48. Since the PF Government’s policy is to reduce the cost of running Government, the other unnecessary expenditure it has not considered is purchase of newspapers in Ministires. I know one Office Orderly who has built three houses from leaving some newspapers with his friends who sell on the roads. He started systematically by eliminating officers to give in offices, while he was increasing the list on the cheques to Times, The Post and Daily Mail. This move will save money. The Government spends about K600 million on newspapers on each Ministry per year.

  49. I delight in, cause I discovered exactly what I was having a look for. You’ve ended my 4 day long hunt! God Bless you man. Have a great day. Bye

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