Government has released an additional K143 Million to Mazabuka district towards the payment of various outstanding allowances owed to teachers.
Mazabuka District Education Board Secretary, Darius Kaluba, who disclosed this in Mazabuka today,said the release of K143 Million brings the total funds released given to the district since January to K286 Million.
Mr Kaluba said the funds released are part of the K3.4 Billion owed to teachers in unpaid repatriation, settling in, leave terminal benefits and long service bonus allowances.
He said government deserves to be commended for the steady release of funds meant to dismantle the backlog of arrears.[quote]
Mr Kaluba said the debt owed to teachers is likely to swell because two months ago, 24 teachers retired from the public service in the district alone.
And Mr Kaluba has disclosed that funds for the payment of outstanding fixed band housing allowances have finally been released.
He said the funds would be disbursed to the district by the Office of the Provincial Education Office on Monday.
Mr Kaluba has since commended teachers in the district for giving government and the union ample time to complete the salary negotiations.
ZANIS
One active positive response torwards teachers wooos in Zambia… at least one … Weldone!
I guess even the teachers are in total shock after this news. Welcome news.
I don’t thing the money is enough and what about other teachers? Any way job well done.
same shhhhhhhhht different year!!
Such handling of money makes it an easy target for diversion to either other people’s pockets or to paying fictitious invincible projects. Can’t government consider just adding these allowances to teachers salaries from source to eliminate all possibilities of misappropriation?
Or has this payment method been deliberately designed by so-called technocrats to allow for easy scooping? No wonder they can not notice any shortfall when K10bn misses from their books.