THE Zambia National Union of Teachers [ZNUT]in Northern Province says the K1.7 billion released to the province for teachers fixed band housing allowances is not enough.
Zambia National Union of Teachers [ZNUT] Provincial chairperson Nondo Kasanda said this in an interview in Nakonde today.
Mr. Kasanda said the K1.7 billion released for teachers fixed band housing allowances in Northern Province is a drop in the ocean and a mockery to the teaching fraternity.
“The K1.7 Billion given to Northern Province as fixed band housing allowances for teachers in Northern Province is a drop in the ocean and a mockery to the teaching fraternity,” Said Mr. Kasanda.
Mr. Kasanda disclosed that the government owes teachers in Northern Province a total of K6.7 Billion in unpaid housing allowances.
He said an individual teacher is owed about K2 million each by the government in unpaid housing allowances in all the 12 districts of Northern Province.
Mr. Kasanda who is also Zambia Congress of Trade Unions [ZCTU] Nakonde branch chairperson said each teacher will now receive K450, 000 cash from the K1.7 Billion which the government has sent to the Province.
He appealed to the government to urgently send the remaining amount of money for the teachers housing allowances in Northern Province.
The union leader has further appealed to the government to quickly pay teachers in the five districts of Northern Province their outstanding rural hardship allowances.
Mr. Kasanda said teachers in the five districts namely Chilubi, Kaputa, Mungwi, Luwingu and Mporokoso have not yet received their outstanding rural hardship allowances.
He appealed to the teachers in the affected districts to remain calm.
And Mr. Kasanda has appealed to the law enforcement agencies to ensure all the culprits involved in the K10 Billion corruption scam are brought to book.
Mr. Kasanda who also commended the Anti-Corruption Commission [ACC] for its commitment to fight corruption, appealed to all well meaning Zambians to join the fight against corruption and ensure that people involved in the graft face the wrath of the law.
The ACC recently unearthed a K10 Billion corruption scam involving a former senior officer in the ministry of health.
ACC is this week expected to hand over a list of government officers involved in the scam to the secretary to the cabinet for further action.
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Bad news for teachers indeed. The Govnt owe them K2 million each for several years. How much is the housing allowance first? The K2 million after many years is too small. This is just pocket money for ministers’ school children. Please Govnt take good care of our Teachers. They need a lot of motivation without teachers gonvt would not be there.
Thanks to King Fred for selling off houses. This is what he wnated to be seeing. The only sustainable way is to build institutional houses for teachers such that if they retire they leave room for new entrants to occupy the houses.
My advise is to sell those 100 hearses &raise money to help aleviate the current teacher-crisis whilst we finding a long time solution
The 450,000 ZMK cash these teachers will ‘each’ receive is absolutely peanuts though better than nothing..
450,000 ZMK is less than 100 US Dollars.. :(((((
At least, they are getting something after so many years.Lets us appreciate baby steps!