Zambia Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU ) President Mr. Hikaumba, has said government has increased its expenditure through commissions like the Task Force and the NCC . He said that these commissions can easily be done away with to enable the country have a good cash flow to benefit more Zambians.
Mr Mr. Hikaumba has urged government to reduce expenditure and increase production to enable workers to be less affected by the world economic clampdown.
Mr Hikaumba has also challenged Union leaders to dialogue with government to look at the global economic slown down critically.
Mr. Hikaumba said during 2009 commodity prices will increase there by disadvantaging majority of civil servants and ordinary Zambians.
He said only good salaries for public workers will help cushion the effects of the clumpdown.
He suggested that government should consider salary increment regardless of the economic crisis which has affected the country.
The ZCTU President said government would want to give all sorts of excuses because of global financial crisis but however said this development calls for critical thinking.
Meanwhile, the Civil Servants and Allied Workers Union of Zambia (CSAWUZ) has called on government to narrow the gap between the highly and lowly paid workers by coming up with a deliberate policy on the poverty datum – line.
This is according to the resolutions of the just ended biannual conference of CSAWUZ held in Livingstone.
The civil servants have also called on government to immediately open negotiations with the union for the 2009 improved salaries and conditions of service.
The government has further been urged to conclude the negotiations before the expiry of the existing agreement.
They public workers were of the view that government should also clear all outstanding arrears for the existing housing allowances and other personal emoluments such as leave travel and settling-in allowances.
The civil servants in their resolutions also urged government to expeditiously resolve the outstanding 2003 housing allowance issue as per provision of the memorandum of understanding signed with the union.
This year’s annual conference was officially opened by Secretary to Cabinet Dr Joshua Kanganja.
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Honestly, some financial analysist should tell us how much money has been spend on the task force since formation. What are the economic and social benefits of TF? it might be wrong to just call for its termination. We need facts and figures to support this idea of doing away with TF and NCC
I suppose Hikaumba will put his money where his mouth is and out of principle resign from the NCC.
Cutey how are you?lets chat please.Before i forget,nati nambala 4!
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#5,Lisa are you a girl?
#3,i couldn’t agree any less with u……i shudder to think that this is the same man sitting on the NCC, now is when he has realised that the whole prcess is just a waste of resources, has he made enough money???Hikaumba has just become a very big liability to the trade unions in Zambia…some1 please challenge him for the position of ZCTU president
3. THE BRAIN, good point there. I hope this will be as early as tomorrow.
I strongly feel that we can do away with the Task Force on Corruption and introduce and Truth and Reconcilliation Commission where people like the Undereducate, Micheal Chilufya Sata, must tell the Nation what he did when he was Minister Without Portifolio or other Ministerial positions as regards the money for the soldiers who served under UN with other contentious issues.
On NCC, feel we cant afford to scrap it now looking at the progress we have made on it. We just need to conclude upon its findings soonest and make sure we do not have undereducates and those over 65 years to stand for Zambian president.
6. Chewe, my fellow Zambian man and bachelor as you claimed earlier somewhere on LT, greetings to you. please, I am begging you to leave this girl/lady thing on this LT. I think, it is getting out of hand. You can also ask for help from your parents and other relatives or friends, if it becomes difficult for you to find.
There are many ladies near you of all sorts including white ones who wont suck your money if you are to marry them. Find one – black or white or whatever colour, shape and form – for yourself as a girlfriend and probably marry her.
Kindly conider my words to you, Chewe, seriously. This blog must be reserved for serious contributions to help build our ailing country.
7. Marine 1, I second your ‘Hikaumba has just become a very big liability to the trade unions in Zambia…some1 please challenge him for the position of ZCTU president’ at the coming elections meetings.
Another hipocrite
Chewe our friend, stop wanting to chat up every gal on this blog. Same with this martworld nice guy who pretends to be born-again. Choosing gals for themselves on here. Even proposing those who have said they are married. Respect yourselves young men. Our sisters/aunties are now mutants.
Hikaumba has a point. The Nchito brothers will prolong the prosecutions as long as possible as they are getting paid. With Zambian Airways in trouble these cases will go on .
It is a waste of resources apart from Richard Sakalawho was locked up all thieves are still free!! What a Zoo!!
what happened to Bulaya if anyone knows? `
I just have some questions, whose iniative was it to come up with the NCC, was it the Zambian citizens or the politicians. If it was the politicians before they disband it, please refund all the money wasted on this white elephant, because i am sure there are a lot of cost effective ways to amend a country’s constitution. Zambian citizens can just vote on what they want or don’t want during elections, that is democracy. Secondly, please spare me UNPD members i am an independent and i just trying to be objective, i am not sure if i have my facts correct, is HH part of the NCC, if he is, is he receiving the allowances or not.
if he is not well done HH then we can trust you on your
For once I agree with Hikaumba.
The national cake should be shared equally. The Zambia government is killing it’s own people by starving them they should be charged for genocide.
promise to the Zambian people that when you become President you will not receive a salary or allowances, if he is receiving the NCC allowances then we need to seriously vet him. What is HH’s evaluation on the NCC so far, has it been productive in comparison to the financial resources poured in so far,we would like to hear from him. As for the PF MP’s who went against their party rules, we would also want to hear their assessments and why are they receiving those exhorbitant allowances at the expense of the suffering Zambians if they are. Is that morally acceptable why didn’t they just volunteer if they really had a heart for the constitution. We would also like to hear from the
the other opposition parties who are part of the NCC if there are any what are your assessments so far, has the NCC been productive so far in comparison to the financial resources spent so far and why are you receiving allowances if you are, aren’t you supposed to be serving the Zambian citizens. We would also like to hear from the Churches who are part of the NCC if there are any, because you are the moral backbone of the country, what is your assessment of the NCC so far in comparison to the financial resources spent so far, are you receiving any allowances and have you thought about the suffering zambians out there. My suggestion to all Zambians is let us hold accountable everyone
whether it is the Ruling party or the opposition etc. In fact it would even be wiser if the majority of Zambians become independents so that we hold the ruling and opposition parties accountable. Let us leave those who want to be party members to insult each other with the other parties. But for the rest of the Zambians let us be objective, hold them accountable,seriously vet them so that we are never ever be taken for granted. God bless Zambia.
#14. your flag New Zambia, president HH and the UPND are fully part of the NCC deliberations. To this end, president HH must be receiving that NCC allowance if he has not committed it to the Underprivileged though I do not remember him publicly suggesting such a move.
On his NCC evaluation, my guess is that it has been going on well considering that he proposed that the NCC will be concluded by June 2009 if he was going to be elected President of Zambia which he hasnt been as you know.
I am hot are UPND member though I attempted to give this view based on my independent research.
The Task Force on Corruption and the NCC should not be scrapped looking at how much money the Govt has already wasted on them. The best is to limit their time in which they will exhaust their work. Although this may be difficult on the Task Force because they are not the only players in the quick dispoasal of the cases. The Judiciary is one and part of it and cannot be pushed because of its being independent.In this case the Judiciary and Task Force including defence lawyers should sit down together and see how they can iron out this, although lawyers cannot support it for obvious reasons. The more the delay of cases the more they make money thru adjournments.
Also, late Mwanawasa proposed the NCC over a referendum if my memory serves me right. He did this to allow people deliberate on contentious issues for I referendum would have required educating all Zambians from all walks of life including cattle heading in the villages as to what is a Constitution and also what changes are needed to be done before they could vote on its change.
This is as far as I can go, for now. Further points would need more research on my part.
Thanks 19 and 21 for your contributions and we will be waiting for your research. Others out there who have facts on the questions i have raised on the various stakeholders kindly provide your input. On the task force we need a serious and honest evaluation on how much time and finances were needed for this task and why it is taking so long to conclude. If there is missapropriation please refund the money. Zambians let us rise up and hold all stakeholders to our development accountable. God bless Zambia.
Hikaumba is not zambia a service and he dosnt ddesrve to be Zctu cahirman. He is a f**l we inpeachhed together with Micheal the person HH thinks could be his lawyer.
Viova LPM, May hi ssoul rest in [peace.
The normal way to change constitution is for the government to come up with a draft and then call for a referendum. This NNC is a waste of time and money, and it is a means for MMD to compromise the opposition and civil society by putting them on its payroll. Task Force has been Mwanawasa instrumemt of corruption. Whether Task Force is disbanded today or tomorrow, they will be put in the dock to answer why the did not follow up Mwanawasa mega corruption in Copper mines sale and how he put the oil sector in his pocket.
:-?:-?:-? The initial objective of NCC and TF were well mean’t by levy. See, the Task force did such tremendous work in fighting and made sure the public was well informed on Corruption. Lets just strengthen TF or probably legalise it through the anti Corruption commision. This is only way we can deal with it.
On NCC, it’s still difficult to understand why the whole process has taken this long. I think there people dragging this whole thing to make a living out of it.
#25, on your “On NCC, it’s still difficult to understand why the whole process has taken this long. I think there people dragging this whole thing to make a living out of it.” It is possible that the MMD Government do not want to give us a Constitution that will that they are removed from power in 2011.Late President LP Mwanawasa was going to do it i time before the 2011 elections because he had nothing to worry about winning the next term of office.Now,Grandpa President RB Banda seems to be ierested in a second term of office as Zambian President,so let us just prepare to finnish the NCC process under someone else from the opposition and that person is not Sata because of his opposing it.
i’ve lost trust in this Hikaumba, he thinks he the next FTJ.
Tebile fye uyu 8-| !!! Lets wait and see.
#22 Iwe New Zambia.To many postings and long. Keep them short and up to the point. this is not about who is right or more inteligent No one wants to read all that junk!
GK told us 44 billion kwacha has been spent on the NCC so far.To abandon it after spending that much would not be a wise thing to do.The task force seems to be biased in my opinion.They should have called it “ANTI-SAKALA TASK FORCE ON CORRUPTION”.Hikaumba should have thought about the expense before joining NCC.I agree with one observation over the mines:the sale of the mines was a big scandal!MMD are jokers.IT WILL BE SUICIDE TO LET THEM WIN IN 2011.ZAMBIA WAKE UP!
Sorry # 29 if you do not find it rational just skip it and others who may find value in it can debate with me.
#31.Okay. You are right just my opinion . I wll skip your postings. !Merry Christmas.
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#12.Anonymous
Do you know the reason why I dont want to fight with you?I have a feeling that one day we will meet.I dont know where,when,and how but I know we will meet.so lets just stay cool. :-j:-j:-j:-j:-j:-j:-j.You know sometimes you just have to accept the way pipo behave,otherwise you will end up sinnig.Have you ever heard pipo saying I hate him/her naturally? Hope you are not one of them.Anyway you sound to be a nice guy like matworld.Iam not pretending my friend,why should I do that when its God who sees me not my fellom human being,He is the one who will judge me.You are a nice guy my Friend.One Zambia One Nation,we are all zambians regardless where we are.
Do away with it,in this economic recession,it ‘s not wise to spend so much on the expense of the zambian people.50 billion can be a bailout for many zambians
Hello fellow Zambians
I hope the contributions from this forum reach the decision makers. I would like to introduce myself to Lusaka Times and readers as a peace loving Zambian with a passion. I plan to be Zambian President in 2020 for 10 years only. Expect more of my contributions in the future. For now call me Zambian Dreamer (ZD). I do not belong to any party right now. So I am very neutral. I am just for the best interest of our country. I believe the Task Force and NCC for now should move on, but should not be a White Elephant. I will reveal my identity in five years time. I like what I am reading. Keep on brainstorming. ZD, Future republican President of Zambia.
we want to see results not to just keep spending.ncc my foot what have they achieved so far apart from just making themselves rich.change for beeter.elo your cases are never concluded so why exist.we are better off burying ncc and forget,move on and attend to better things.
This needs to be challenged by all Zambians the change of the constitution should be done by all the Zambian through the referendum, In the next upcoming elections the nation should vote with these ballot amendments, Not a small group of people deciding for the majority. :-w
Hikaumba you have no point! One of the reasons why other countries r developed its bcoz they respect securit force, more policemen e.t.c and pay them handsomely.
Hikaumba maybe you don’t like some pipo in the task force so what you do is, tell your bosses to drop some ministers ok!
who’s this Hikaumba thing.This chap is on same NCC and wants us to think he can make a pont.! His thinking has been impaired,he must go to the village for farming. LOOK AT HIM ..!
Totally agree with tha Bro saying this site shouldn´t be used as a dating site 100%.Pretending to be Mr cool while in real life you vcan´t even approach a girl.
The Task Force should be done away with as it was formed way back and nothing more or less has ever come out from it as many of those accused still walk freely.
Ras Rated…….Hels
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Every President writes his own constitution,at the expense of the Zambian taxpayer.No shame,Anyway this is Africa,WHO cares a damn???
eeh, leonard has spoken sense for the first time!
Institutions that are used for spending money such as Minister without portiforio which Sata occupied and today the Task force and NCC.
Can Sata reimburse the money he was paid as Minister without portfolio? If he cant then let him shut up and let us who have never benefited talk!
HIKAUMBA IS A BOOTLICKER JUST JOIN MMD.YOU ARE A PLUNDERER OF NCC, WHY THIS TIME CHANGING.MIND YOU ZCTU ,ELECTIONS IN THE CORNER JUST PACK AND PREPARE TO GO.
ba hikaumba :(:(:(:(