The Civil Servants and Allied Workers Union of Zambia in Choma has demanded for an explanation from government as to why some of its members receiving salaries through the local Zambia National Commercial Bank (ZANACO) have not received their July salaries.
Union branch secretary Joshua Phiri said in Choma today that the union is disappointed with the failure by both government and ZANACO to explain why the affected workers cannot get their July dues.
Mr. Phiri said the union is further saddened that delay in paying salaries is happening at a time when government has made assurances of ensuring workers got their dues on time.
All government workers under different ministries whose salaries are processed through permanent secretary southern province and paid through the ZANACO’s Choma branch have not been paid their July salaries.
Mr Phiri said it is unfair to keep workers in the dark especially that their colleagues in the same affected ministries, receiving salaries through other commercial banks were long paid their July salaries.
He said whatever problems existing between the ZANACO Choma branch and government should be urgently ironed out as workers should not continue being subjected to unnecessary suffering.
Mr Phiri said that the union should not be blamed for whatever action it will institute should the problem affecting its members persist.
But a senior officer at the district administration in Choma has attributed the delay to the bank’s failure to expedite inter branch transactions between Livingstone and Choma branches.
Efforts to get a comment from the bank in the area failed by press time.
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Pay the workers. Don’t forget the adage “A hungry man is an agnry man.”
Dont pay them? Most of the civil servants are easily bribable i remember prior to having my zambian pasport i thought it would be hard considering being british and i had been in zambia for 11 months
My friend from paskistani asked for K500 000 and i had the pasport on Tuesday after giving him on the previous weekend. Even though i am proud to be zambian, it was a digraceful way of becoming a citizen. I also had the reg in a cimilar circumstance.
How Corrupt! although i have used the passport once i know i should have it
anyone been to redTUBE.com? before
#2 I couldn’t understand your chilapalapa or was it Zamglish?
@2 you were just conned. I was a sole Belgian citizen before marrying a Zambian…a work permit was granted within three days of application without bribing anyone…I also submitted an application for a Zambian passport, on a Friday and was given on the Wednesday that followed. My hubby’s sister also got hers in just 4 days of applying last December…didn’t bribe any one.
#3 With the ammount of sexy, willing girls all over the world, only poor wankers would rather visit such sites than go out and sample real flesh.
#2
I can triple assure you that you cannot live forever with such nonsense. Mind your blogging.
#2 this story has got nothing to do with the way you obtained Zambian citizenship.
It has everything to do with doing the right thing…and that thing is paying the workers what is due to them.
No 2 is Right Corruption is rife in Zambia
Fair is fair and must be fair. When people sit down to discuss an issue and come up with an agreed solution, all concerned must see to it that the desired outcome is delivered. In this case if ZANACO was represented at the indaba, they should honour the decision reached and see to it that the workers are paid timely. The other way around this is to suspend future payments through ZANACO. Unions should not do business with banks that are not able to deliver to the expected level.
#2 Polo yako!!!
imbeciles
#2 kafele ku tali mwana wa sanya. The country does not need useless wankers like you
#2 you British Bustard white trailer park trash , You fail to make it in your own country and come to Zambia and and contribute to coruption….;XYZ.
No wonder why Mugabe kicked you f@#K faces out of Zimbabwe like the Dogs you are.. stupidi *****i.
You and that paki friend of yours need to put on line up shot . next time i see i white Britsh begging for money in the undeground i will piss in his cup .
#2 Don’t get so carried away to the point of insulting us with such impunity. There’s no statute of limitation on fraud. You are not untracable behind the screen. You imbecile!
OKAY, FELLOW BLOGGERS, THIS IS OFF THE TOPIC AT HAND BUT MY QUESTION IS; IS TRACHEOTOMY A REVERSIBLE OPERATION OR NOT? COZ I HEAR THEY PUT A SMALL TUBE ON THE MKOLOMINO OF LPM TO AID HIM BREATHE. NOMBA CAN THIS THING BE REMOVED WITHOUT CAUSING LOSS OF THE VOICE? NGA FWENIKO BA SHING’ANGA BA BANTU.
#2
Ba nyoko kupusa, nzelu zaku matako na imvwi ku ma chende. Uza mwa Sprite yo panga na chibe cha pa matako paba mbuye bako. Imbwa iwe, chi mutu monga shadow ya polo ya silu.
people people lets comment on the issue at hand here people are broke they need advice #17 THAT IS LETHAL!
#17 you are a lunatics
#17 you are a lunatic
You guys sound like kaponyas and call boys at City market and other bus stations.Is it difficult to be normal, how would it appear if all of us here were busy insulting. #17 I’m sure you also insult your mama and papa very easily. And hey! stop smoking ‘weed’
#17 icimona ukulepa nga mb%l% ya sikulu wako!!!
#2 is partly right..corruption is still there in Zambia.You can only agree if its happening to you. The only mistake on his explanation is “Dont Pay them” end of quote.
There is isn’t too much to provoke some of you that are busy insulting and wasting your time. Just raise points according to the topic, dont go off it!!!!!!!!
Joshua Go and meet the CSM/BM @ the Bank.Yr issue seems 2 b Magande’s A/C boys Redtape or lack of DDAC system with the Bank.Yr Boss Hikaumba should ensure it’s implemented.Or else it’s still Gonna be N’GOMBE ILLEDE.
The salaries of our civil servants are low. The situation is made worse when the low salary is delayed unnecessarily. There is some degree of honour in paying someone’s wages on time no matter how small the amount is. Respect the person who has taken time to labour for that wage.
The govt is not at fault for the delay. The article clearly states that the bank have not initiated the inter bank transfer. ZANACO should be held accountable. The choice of bank is done by the individual employee. Therefore if they wish for better service, why not opt for other banks like Barclays or Stanchart which operate in Choma as well?
#2 Your comment is not only folish but it works against the labour principle of Equal pay for equal work. Every labourer is worthy of his wages. There is no morality in your claim that civil servants are corrupt because you are the one who initiated the act. Many of your kind are at fault for the high prevalence of corruption.
please why should we punish lowerly paid govt staff some must be done while waiting for LPM
#26 chief, I agree with you that the govnt apparently is not to blame in the salary delay of our humble hard working Zambians in Choma. The point is that the whole system of money transactions from govnt to the bank should be efficient enough that the workers are not inconvinienced. We must not accept inefficiency at whatever level, that is why we continue lagging behind as a nation.
Sometimes things will start working in this country, especially when we start being considerate of the dead, imagine a civil servant who is very much alive is neglected.
Then atleast you and I be rest asured that we will never see minimum emprovements at various grave yards, no roads luck of toilet facilities etc
sorry for going off topic guys, some things are just had to understand.
number 17 google the word TRACHEOTOMY,you will find an intresting explanation on wikipedia
sorry i meant number 16
When the situation of the counrty seems to be in the control of selfish politicians, then we stand on a creg of powder ready to explode…
If you trace all the countries were politicians have exhibited similar behaviour, the army has always come to the rescue and pliz this should not happen here as results may not be palatable
Lets just help our friends get the money….every one works for money.Too bad civil servants…..come join us in the private sector…oh..no..no! govt can collapse….see how important you are?,you hold the nation together and yet no pay or too late pay…so sorry.
#21 Mulozi, i really beg of u to abscound from giving examples of us kaponyas and transport managers whenever u bloggers fails to articulate. u think we are both fools and uneducated but we dont still frm anyone and we are the least corrupt creatures who earn our livlng through our own lobour. so dont put us mwilyashi lyabupuba coz u din’t bring us in the city market
Honestly,
All of us must condemn #2,BlueMutwe! However, We the people are to blame for being sheepish.How do we allow Mulongoti and a few stupid monisters to be trotting from Church to Church with such stupid lies.OKEY.
This chi Lameck Chibombamilimo also thinks he has become popular by issuing common place stupidity utterances in support of the Late LPM…………
#2, we have traced your machine and know the location you are blogging from. We are comming for you. Foolish chap.
No.37 DO NOT THREATEN OTHERS.THIS IS FREEDOM OF ……..
#2 should be arrested by DEC, we cant tell the civil servants that they are corrupt yet you are the corruptor. why didnt you just say no? i will do it the right way.
its disappointing but i think you need to surrender that passport, dont blame them blame yourself.
civil servants or zambians in particular, its time we stopped waiting on monthly earnings for our daily living, we will fail to progress, its time venture in business apart from your daily work. you wont cry over delayed salaries
what kind of freedom of expression is this, Lunatics thrive in such an atmosphere while the wise are rediculed.
Go after the lunee. uwo, uwo
#35, thanks for your comment. I wasn’t allocated a school after finishing my course at Nkruma, and become a ‘street-smart businessman’ (a kaponya), I rose to owning 4 ntembas at Chisokone in Kitwe and buying two mini buses. My mini buses are now gone, but the 4 ntembas are still there. Me and my business associates (fellow kaponyas) are now branched into the supplier business with the mines…that’s why I have my own internet connectivity at my office – home (as required by the mines). The kaponya world is not equal to bad things. Good bye!
If there was something like an insult-chart at LT, #17 Scott Mills would definately be on top of the chart. I didn’t even know whether to laugh or feel sorry for #2 when I read those words.