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Forgo your mid-term gratuity pay, ZCTU challenges MPs

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Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) Secretary General Roy Mwaba addresses journalists as ZCTU Trustee Sifeniso Nyumbu (left) looks on at Courtyard hotel in Lusaka
Zambia Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) Secretary General Roy Mwaba addresses journalists as ZCTU Trustee Sifeniso Nyumbu (left) looks on at Courtyard hotel in Lusaka

The Zambia Congress of Trade Unions has challenge Members of Parliament to forgo their September mid-term gratuities in national interest.

The National Assembly is due to pay all MPs about K 500,000 in mid-term gratuities by September this year.

The other 500,000 will be paid at the end of their full term in 2016 before Parliament is dissolved.

But ZCTU General Secretary Roy Mwaba told journalists that the MPs should waive their mid-term gratuities as a way of sacrificing for the nation.

Mr Mwaba said many Zambians including workers are enduring an imposed wage freeze for two years saying MPs should share part of the sacrifice by relinguishing their gratuities.

“What we know is that MPs already receive a lot of money in various allowances. This mid-term gratuities policy should be scrapped off especially for a country like Zambia which is poor,” Mr Mwaba said.

He said MPs should put national interest first and forgo their gratuities.

10 COMMENTS

  1. MPs should forgo the mid term gratuity or wait until all retirees get their pension which they are entitled to after working for over twenty years. This is too much money considering that they doze or behave childishly by boycotting and only for two years.

  2. It is ridiculous that MPs get that amount after only 3 years in office, most Zambians will not see that amount in a lifetime. it is a disgrace and insult to the Zambian public. how many MPs can truthfully say they have served their constituencies so well they deserve a gratuity of almost $100,000. is this for real, I cannot believe we allow this to happen when poverty is rife and the economy is in shambles.

  3. look who is telling who to forgo their gratuity!!!! ZCTU leadership has no moral authority to mention anything to do with funds. these are guys who have stayed and manipulated to overstay at the helm of this union and i for one will not be swayed by their last ditch efforts to hoodwink us as if they are a good mouthpiece of the poor zambians. forgo also your allowances. i also want us to demand that all the PS, deputy ministers and ministers cut their DSA from 1700 to at least 900 for the country’s sake.

  4. Hahahahahahahaaaa!!!!! Do you really think these panks can agree to that suggestion? The Kaponyas always say ” Waikata ku ndalama waikata ku matole”

  5. What formular do they use to come up with such huge figures of gratuity, if indeed that is true? I thought I I knew their salaries; that they were not more than K30 000 pm, so where do they get gratuity of K1m pa even if they get 30% gratuity tax free – which, by the way would be another crime against humanity? Can someone enlighten me on how that figure is arrived at. As regards getting mid-term or not now, I suppose if they will eventually get it anyway, then, it does not matter to pay them now – unless it is not an advance.

  6. Now you understand why political violence will never end; becoming an MP is the quickest way of getting rich! Which other career will pay you so much money after two years service?! If it means killing somebody on the road to Manda Hill just do it, there is money coming your way in two years time and more two years later!

    When this payday comes the voice of disappears. There is agreement in the House. Even HH will not dare talk about this INJUSTICE. That is why I have NO respect for him.

  7. forfeiting..?? ..its like praying for a pig to fly. Most if not all are in parliament for nothing else but gratuity…..

  8. I hope you now understand why I say they shouldn’t be paid every time they decide to walk out or boycott parliamentary sessions. Worse still some of these chaps have never advanced their electorates causes. All they do is doze off in Parliament and booze at National Assemble Motel.

  9. This gratuity should be performance oriented. Why dish out $100000 per MP when they have nothing to show for it in their constituencies. What is Zambia being grateful for. In fact even the salaries should be commission based.

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