Government has released K4 billion for payment of salary arrears to Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia (NCZ) workers.
Agriculture Minister, Sara Sayifwanda also says government is Friday expected to release additional funds to pay the retirees.
Ms. Sayifwanda confirmed the release of the money by the Ministry of Finance in a telephone interview with ZNBC News Thursday evening.
She said her office is determined to clear all outstanding salary arrears owed to the workers.
The Minister said government is also working towards rehabilitating the existing infrastructure at NCZ.
thats a good move by the govt though the amount is too little… people will drink from kafue this weekend
Who owns NCZ ? I thought NCZ is supposed to manage that ?
its partly a govt institution under the agriculture ministry
Finally, this incompetent bunch of buffoons is trying to give itself salary increments when people who have already worked are languishing.
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Cabinet offers itself salary increments
By Chansa Kabwela
Thursday July 31, 2008 Print Article Email Article
CABINET has approved salary and allowance increments for constitutional office holders and senior government officials.
According to an official document obtained by The Post, Cabinet on July 24 this year approved a 15 per cent salary increment for constitutional office holders.
Cabinet also approved the introduction of a Responsibility Allowance, which shall be paid to the President, Vice-President, ministers and deputy ministers.
They also approved increments in the rates of allowances currently being paid to ministers
deputy ministers and senior government
officials by 50 per cent of basic salary for housing allowance and 100 per cent for telephone, cellphone, water and electricity allowances.
The proposed increase of salaries and allowances would help to bridge the gap between political leaders and senior government officials and those of private members of parliament and chief executives in grant-aided institutions.
The increase, according to Cabinet, would enable the beneficiaries to concentrate on their work and deliver quality services to the public.
According to the adjustments, which are to be presented to Parliament for approval after necessary changes are made to the various Acts,
wa lasa #4… the chaps are paying themselves hefty salaries on top of the luxurious they have, our tax payers money. let them give NCZ enough money.
the President would be entitled to a monthly salary of K39,277,544.92 while the Vice-President would be entitled to a monthly salary of K29,152,284.50.
The Speaker of the National Assembly would be entitled to K25,989,998 per month while the deputy Speaker, Cabinet ministers, the chief whip and leader of the opposition would earn K22,994,108.85. Currently, government ministers earn a basic salary of K5,445,269.84. The deputy ministers would get a monthly salary of K20,733,440.78 while private members would be entitled to K16,880,103.25 per month.
The Secretary to the Cabinet, who currently gets a basic salary of K11,546,446.25, would be entitled to a monthly salary of K32,611,747,
would be entitled to a monthly salary of K32,611,747, the Attorney General K30,623,829, the Solicitor General, the Auditor General and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) K29,052,854, while the deputy Secretary to the Cabinet, Special assistants to the President and the Secretary to the Treasury would get K28,499,242. The permanent secretaries’ salaries would be pegged at K24,545,455 from the current basic salary of K8,445,455.25.
Cabinet also approved the increase in constituency allowances. The Vice-President, Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Cabinet ministers, deputy ministers and private members with parliamentary seats in rural areas would be entitled to K26,100,000 while those in
while those in urban areas would get K20,880,000 and the nominated parliamentarians would get K17,400,000.
Cabinet observed that while salaries and conditions of service for civil servants remained unattractive, grant-aided institutions, which depend on government subvention for their operations, had competitive salaries and attractive conditions of service.
“The disparities in conditions of service are so big that some chief executives of some statutory bodies like the Bank of Zambia basic salaries could pay two to three ministers’ salaries per month. Although it is difficult to increase ministers’ basic salaries and equate them to those obtaining in some grant aided institutions and
parastatals due to the public scrutiny of ministers’ remuneration, they can only be cushioned by increasing the allowances, some of which are paid outside the payroll. In this connection, it is being proposed that fuel be increased by 500 litres…,” they stated.
The document cited highly paid chief executives such as the Bank of Zambia Governor who gets a basic salary of K108,500,000, the National Pension Scheme Authority chief executive officer who gets K50,000,000, Road Development Agency and Road Transport and Safety Agency chief executive officers who gets K20,000,000, the National Road Fund Agency and Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission chief executives who get K25,000,000, as
well as the Rural Electrification Authority chief executive officer who gets K18,100,000. This, they said, was a huge disparity compared to the current basic salary of ministers, the Secretary to the Cabinet and permanent secretaries.
“The disparities in the salaries reflected…are so big such that there is need to adjust upwards the salaries and allowances for ministers and senior government officials to comparable levels. A proposal to introduce a Responsibility Allowance has been made to be payable to the political leadership and in the same line have similarly proposed to increase the rates currently payable to senior civil servants. It should be noted that …introduction of Respons
Responsibility Allowance payable to political leaders holding positions in government has created a disparity between them and the private members of parliament.
In order to reduce this disparity, a proposal has been made to slightly increase the Special Allowance for private members of parliament,” the document stated. “While gratuity for the political leadership and retirement benefits for judges are tax free and computations based on total emoluments, gratuity for contractual senior government officials are taxed and based on basic salary plus Responsibility Allowance to the exclusion of all other allowances.
The current computation of gratuity when paying contractual senior government officials is also contrary to recent court judgments where in courts have directed that retrenchment and gratuity payments should be based on total emoluments and not just the basic salary. It is therefore important that conditions of service applicable to the political leadership, judges, and senior civil servants are hamornised.”
According to the document, if the recommendation on extending the conditions of service applicable to judges, to the Attorney General, Solicitor General, Investigator General and Director for Public Prosecutions (DPP) were accepted, only the Secretary to the Cabinet and the Auditor
Yangu, we all ready todays newspapers so talk of serious issues and not quotes from the post newspaper….
Government pays NCZ retirees
The Government has released K28-billion to pay off benefits for retirees at Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia (NCZ) in Kafue.
On Thursday, the Minister for Agriculture announced that K4.7 billion had been released to pay salary arrears for workers at NCZ.
Sarah Sayifwanda told ZNBC news that government has placed priority on paying the workers and retirees their dues and recapitalize the company.
She explained that government wants to see NCZ attain full production and start supplying fertilizer within the country and the southern african region.
This is why K6 billion has been set aside to rehabilitate the firm.
Heavenly Father! give us understanding and guidance, whilst I remain doing the civil service getting K50, 000.00 as my housing allowance, which also delays in coming. Hearing such increments sometimes it gets too hard 4 my understanding. Please help me Dear God, I love my Zambia so greatly.
$32,000 per month for the BOZ governor is over the top for a country like Zambia; and what do they mean that “this should make ministers and others concentrate on their duties”? What were they concentrating on before, robbing the treasury?
Vice President Rupiah Banda is the next president of Zambia..yes
The only way to empower people is to enable them have money in their pockets.the more money exchanges hands,the better because its an indication that the atleast almost everybody is doing something that helps them earn a living.by giving people their money its another way of creating enough employment to a good number of citizens because tomato will sale,salaula,marketeers will smile and all other inter dependent industries as this means each one of those will have demand for their goods increased.i salute the idea and bless the initiator though i advise that their salaries should now continue coming as normally henceforth.
in government it is the professionals that do most of the work who are not senior govt officers. such increaments create a very big disincentive for such proffesionals recieving a salary of 2milion and housing allowance of k350,000. i just appeal to the relevant authorities to look into this discrepancy cause we shall start losing these professionals to the private sector or other countries. it dosent make sense to even have deputy ministers who just warm the seats in their offices…it really pains me to see how the civil servants are neglected. ba sata maybe you can do something. lisa twafwe ala twachula.
Now politics are more lucrative. It is do or die during the campagin as these ‘job’ seekers called politicians will fight tooth and nail to cash in.
I agree with #21, GRZ technocrats are the ones whose salaries must be improved. They’re the one who impact on services delivery. We all need to benefit from better copper prices and economic gains. Let’s share.
I wonder if someone is taking advantege of LPM’s absence to enrich themselves?!!
imfwiiti shaumfwa bwiino. Pono!
At least we all agree that Bembaland is the Headquarters of theft.
bemba’s are fags
no. 20 dont cheat yourself, the helft salaries will only enrich the developed countries where these ministers shop from. They dont spend their monies in Zambia.
the next ncz workers will get paid is in novemmber wen ministers have had thier salaries increased
people wake up they just doing this coz they the ministers” have incresed there own pay…BAKABOLALA..stealing in daylight ahhh muli baddd!!!!!!!!
How do these government officials increase their own salaries when LPM is not there?
this is not normal? they are all crooks and they do nothing to deserve such increments. How much are low income earners earning in ZAMBIA? it’s nothing compared to these thieving dogs.
I wonder if this cabinet really represents the interests of the ZAMBIAN people or their own interests. fattening their own pockets and yet people at the bottom don’t even earn a decent wage to survive.
My cry goes out to the innocent people of ZAMBIA, they deserve better representation than these thugs called (MMD). Its time we are done with this Party its a lunacy.
#24,25 go tell yo moms to eat a DICK!!!!
#26(YAZAZA SICK CHILD)
I alway wonder why people alway choose to go off topic even on a very straight forward matter like this one.the topic at hand refers to payment of salary arrears to NCZ WORKRS who have not been getting their salaries there at NCZ and NOT SALARY INREMENT TO MINISTERS PLS!!!! If so why shouldnt i support the move to pay these suffering innocent citizens their money? I doubt the calibre of certain people on this platform.For me what govt has done is commendable as this will help these people send their children to school.stop expressing ignorance even on clean matters pls.
Hapoongo I used to read the Post before they slapped a fee on their paper. I dont any more. People like Yangu who should be commended. Now shut up and go back to your cave your dim wit.
The Post charge something like $11 if not more which I wont pay considering some of the news is cut and paste from the BBC and CNN. I look after the pennies you know.
30. dont f*&% with me ,how do you think you came to being?by yo moms to eating yours dad’s DICK!!!!
30. dont f*&% with me ,how do you think you came to being?by your mom eating yours dad’s DICK!!!!
um #33 and 30 were u born or u just fell from lucifer knows where,y kukamba so atase mutinyansa maimbwa imwe…
IN TODAY’S POST 5/08/08 I quote MULONGOTI “people criticising the salary increaments were simply engaging in politics of poverty because the world had changed.”To the politicians the world had changed BUT TO THE WORKERS IT IS FUELING INFLATION. KCM plc,MOPANI plc,KANSANSHI and other companies its 15% at the expense of highly taxed worker.You say its COLLECTIVE BARGAIN while you heartless leaders have given benchmarks.Go ahead and get your hefty pay but one day mukalila akalanda pantu naifwe the world changes it affects us more than you because we pay for everything even poor medical facilities…………….