A Luanshya District Councilor has petitioned the National Constitution Conference (NCC) to adopt a gratuity policy at the end of tenure of office for councilors.
Ndeke ward councilor Biston Ndhlovu told ZANIS today that the NCC should include a clause in the constitution to include other allowances and gratuity at the end of the five years.
Councillor Ndhlovu said that councilors were elected representatives of the people just like Members of Parliament and should be given allowances to visit their wards as is the case with the MPs.
He said the current local government act which states that councilors were volunteers or part-time civic leaders was far from the truth because councilors work throughout in their respective wards.
He said some councilors were failing to meet the aspirations of their electorates because certain wards were vast and councilors can not use their personal resources to visit or hold meetings.
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Even us voters we need gratuity
Even I need to be paid gratuity for being a Zambian.
Instead of this i d i o t calling for the MPs gratuity to be cut he is saying he wants gratuity. How pathetic can Zambians be!
Kuzikonda chabe! then let everyone be entitled to it like #1 post is suggesting. It’s a pain in the butt to go out there and vote more especially if you aint getting any dough!
when i become President in Zambia, i will get reed of such gratuities as some of these positions requires no qualification and anyone who wants to be in such offices has to go there for delivering to people and not Government delivering in their pockets. Its pointless and innocuous for Councillors to be demanding such incentives when people are fight for cutting MPs gratuities. Â
That the problem with our brother,they want to make money out of every thing.It’s a shame
I have never understood the logic of paying MPs such hefty perks on one hand and giving peanuts to highly qualified people like UNZA professors.
Tyipical Zambian thinking these are the fools we should discard in the political dustbin
Gee this is worrisome. It looks like everybody is out to rob and plunder the national treasury. What a generation of leaders we have in Zambia.