The Civil Servants and Allied Workers Union of Zambia, CSAWUZ, in Mazabuka has called on the government to institute a taskforce to probe the abuse of funds released for payment of housing allowance by the district health office in the district.
CSAWUZ Mazabuka district vice chairperson Violet Phiri made the call in a statement to ZANIS in Mazabuka today.
Ms Phiri said unless a taskforce is appointed to clear suspicions of alleged financial abuse, the current strike by health personnel in the district will continue.
Ms Phiri said most health workers eligible for house allowance were being forced to sign for the money which they were not given.
She claimed that the district health office was instead paying landlords in a suspicious manner.
Ms Phiri said the current abnormal deductions were meant to confuse the workers because none of them is aware of the amount owed to the government.
And Ms Phiri has called on the government to explain why todate clinical officers, nurses and other para-medical officers were still staying in a compound declared unfit for human habitation by the ministry of works.
Acting district director of health, Mr Ellias Hamatanga refused to comment on the allegations by union leaders.
