Chief Chisunka of the Ushi people in mansa district of Luapula Province has bemoaned the work cuture in the public service which he says is responsible for underdevelopment in the country.
Chief Chisunka said it was saddening that the work culture in the public service has made it made it difficult to carryout various development programmes in his chiefdom because everyone’s attention is to go out and look for money instead of carrying out duties government has engaged them for.
He said certain works like clearing the blocked roads or fixing a blown off roof from some public property was being done at no compelling costs from community members but the culture has now changed where everyone was demanding payments for anything done to benefit the community which has made it difficult for even small projects to be done.
The traditional ruler was saying this when Luapula Province Minister Rodgers Mwewa visited his palace recently.
And Luapula Province minister Rodgers Mwewa assured the chief that the PF government was determined to improve the welfare of the people.
“People need to drink clean water and boreholes can be sunk using the Constituency Development Fund,” he said.
He added that the shortage of nurses and medical staff was a countrywide problem but the medical staff at health centers should not all go for workshops and seminars leaving the people unattended to because they were employed to serve the people and not to attend workshops and seminars.
“We want to train more health personnel so that we could retain majority of them in Luapula province to attend to our people,” he said.
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Well said chief! I think we are fond of getting all those professional and educational qualifications and forgetting that we need to perform. People need to realise that once in the public service you need to serve tax payers and not worry about accumulating wealth while in employment. The people in the private sector cannot afford to be lazy or else shareholders will refuse to part away with their money for employees’ salaries.
The statement is true, but not the whole truth. It is Zambian workers in general whose poor attitude has led to the underdevelopment of the country. If you have supervised Zambians, you will agree how lazy they are, whether in private or public company, and how they unneccessariry feel entitled to things they havent even worked for. Try to over exert yourself, you will hear remarks like NABEVE BAJA, BALWISHA CHANI! This happens everywhere in zambia. The sooner that changes the better. Its no wonder entities that have generally thrived in Zambia are those that deal ruthlessly with their workers, eg, Shoprite, Flush bus services, or recently Zamtel.
The chief has hit the nail on the head.
bullshit chief
That needs to be addressed. ban cell phones at work. It seems some think they can do GRZ work and run a kantemba from a cell at the same time. Once at PACRA, i was left waiting for 20 min while the person who was supposed to be dealing with me was on her cell negociating rental prices for her rooms with no regard for customers. like it is a right to use a cell while on duty. Astounding.
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this is the truth, our civil service is pathetic!
For a long time Zambian professionals (sic) have got their paper qualifications to get jobs and not to practice their professions. I was shocked, having been away from Zambia for a while, to come back to Lusaka and find drainage filled up and gardens put up in areas such as Long Acres and such. When it rains the same people complain of excessive water flowing into their yards. This, a country with a 40+ year old university that has produced Civil Engineers and boasts of mega malls! It is a lack of professionalism in almost every area that is causing this nonsense, not a lack of training per se.
Heard it all before.
You were calling Sata an action man, where are his actions now. All he is planting in the minds of Zambians is tribalism and hate.There is surely no work going on in government offices, yet Sata is just busy pursuing the Tongas whom he has made his enemies. I tell you Sata will not last. God is seeing his evil heart. God will fix him.
rubbish.stop mentioning God i yo evil scheme.its u God wll fix for wishing the president evil
#5 YOU ARE SPOT ON. IN ADDITION TO THAT, USING OF WORK PHONES AND PERSONAL-TO-ORDER CARS MUST BE BANNED AND just utility drivers be entitled to driving company/GRZ vehicles. And one going to the bank during working hours for personal business must be banned. Most manhours are lost through these personal errands- visiting banks, making personal business calls, using company vehicles for personal businesses, etc. Every worker must go for break when its break time for you to avoid workers saying he/she worked continuously so she deserves more break (at a wrong time). Here not even top managers have personal to order cars
WE A COMMISSIONER OF INQUIRY TO INVESTIGATE WHY PUBLIC SERVANTS HAVE A POOR WORK CULTURE.
…From #11. If one can’t afford a personal car there’s public transport for everyone to use. Or at least most people can afford a bicycle.
Its just.laziness
poor condition of service that why civil servant out to look for money to pay for their rents and other things. but in private sectors people are getting alot of money like RDA where someone is getting 6 million kwacha as housing allowance but they have gone on strike what more for a civil servant who gets 320 thousand kwacha as housing allowance. poor condition of service
“Man of Actions” is a big disappointment.Preoccupied with fighting SP.Towns including so called Capital City very dirty
Let me tell you the real coz of under-development: that aside the real coz is failure to manufacture thing. This is goods which can be exported. China is the greatest example for its booming economy. Remember that our economy is driven by copper production. Copper is simply making things. The more things we make – be it agric products, or manufactured goods – the more the forex and the better the economy. Modern economy should be driven by making things, not making things up.
Most of the bloggers on this site are being very unfair to civil servants. Civil servants work under very difficuilt circumstances. The cause of underdevelopment, whether you like it or not, is poor political leasdership. These politicans are properly advised on appropriate policy options e.g. appointment of qualified people to the office of district administrator, use of labour intensive projects and programs as an employment creation strategy etc but they dont listern. When things go wrong, people quickly blame civil servants…
Poor conditions of service is equal to bad working altitude and under development. Swine.
China has the platform to make things. Everyday they are making and which is the greatest economy today? Yes you say USA but its China coz its growing not shrinking.
An example of a nation is a simple family. Which family do you think will eat? one just sitted crying and planing hw to do things but not doing or one making vitumbuwa to sell?
You can put a million policies in place but if thez no platform to make things the policies are simply a white elephant policies wasting money on planing…
I see no PLATFORM for manufacturing. PERIOD
Tanzania, South Africa, China drunk $2million making replica chipolopolo jerseys for AFCON 2012. Merely jerseys. That’s something… and I am sure they are doing more besides that
the reason is simple. most of these politicians are home dwellers (ba kamushi) who never new how to switch on bulbs in their rooms at the university. now that they are in power, or whenever they come into power, its like letting a monkey loose in a maize field. you chaps whose school background is tainted with bukamushi tend to be vocal once you attain a certain degree of respect in society. actually you overdo it and are easily noticed. this why you end up stealing. its not civil servants alone, its in all walks of life. bakamushi imwe. I WILL BE BACK!!
nO WONDER THE HIGHEST ILITERACY LEVELS IN zAMBIA ARE RECORDED IN lUAPULA. tHIS cHISUNKA CHIEF IS ONE OF THE MOST ILITERATE PEOPLE IN zAMBIA. yOU WERE RECENTLY GIVEN A SALAHE ECPENSE OF CIVIL SERVANTSRY HIKE BY A GOVERMENT OF HOOLIGANS AT THE EXPENSE OF CIVIL SERVANTS AND STILL BLAME THEM FOR NOT WORKING WORKING WELL. atase
Poor work culture is due to lack of vision or goals to archive ,every worker must work to accomplish set goals.
You don’t join the company ,you the vision
#23 samason mwintombela kwipaya . The Chief spoke well . And please go back to school as your writing above is PATHETIC.
Yaba, this chief is dull, no wonder he is Ushi, (whichever one causes the other), How do you blame the civil servants for the underdevelopment in his area? So does he want people to be working free of charge to fix blown roofs in his area? Madala the cost of living is very high in Zambia and people will not work for LWISHA if they have kids to feed.PF should start working instead of just talking. PAY THE CIVIL SERVANTS WELL AND THEY WILL PERFORM…NOT THIS STU>>PID WORK CULTURE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. And you DIASPORANS are just supporting. CAN YOU WORK FOR $150 a month? STU..PID DIASPORANS
Its obiously the lack of political leadership killing zed. Mwanawasa briefly changed the work culture.corruption and tribalism will bring the country down. 10 years in UK has shown me a complete different picture and it’s a shame each time I visit home things are diving down at a very fast speed. The answer is with the brainless,corrupt ,tribal and useless politicians we put in power.
@Bemba man stuuupid you too mate.
If you are saying its the lack of political leadership that is killing Zed, then why do you support someone who is blaming it on the poor civil servants? You brainless chicken diasporan!!!!
foolish chief
Its not the attitude of the public workers but the type of leaders we choose. They are mostly useless, full of inability to perform but good at talking.They just come to frustrate the civil servants and go to hell. How can one expect them to be hard working, when someone not fully educated is crampling on their rights by threatening them about an impossiblity. Poor leaders who do not stand by their people, bought with cheap political language.