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Sata appoints new ZSIC boss

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President Michael Sata

PRESIDENT Sata has appointed managing director of Professional Insurance Corporation George Silutongwe as a new chief executive officer of the Zambia State Insurance Corporation (ZISC).

Mr Sata announced Mr Silutongwe’s appointment in a letter dated April 19, 2012 to the Minister of Finance and National Planning Alexander Chikwanda.

“I congratulate you on your well-deserved appointment and I am confident that you will perform to my expectations and that of the Zambian people in general,” Mr Sata said in a statement issued by Ministry of Finance and Planning spokesperson Chileshe Kandeta yesterday in Lusaka.

Between 1980 and 2011, Mr Silutongwe served in other capacities in the insurance industry.

He was managing director of Professional life Assurance Limited, deputy director of Zambia Insurance Business College Trust and assistant general claims manager at ZSIC.

Mr Silutongwe is a chartered insurer who also holds a Master of Business Administration Degree from Lincoln University, United Kingdom (UK).
Mr Silutongwe is also an associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, a member of the Institute of Risk Management, UK, and fellow of the Insurance Institute of Zambia.

In another development, the Zambia Union of Financial Institutions and Allied Workers (ZUFIAW) has implored Government to quickly appoint boards for National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA) and Workers Compensation Fund Board (WCFB) to rekindle the process of salary negotiations.

ZUFIAW General Secretary Joyce Nonde Simukoko commended Government for appointing a new director general for NAPSA and commissioner for WCFB.
Mrs Simukoko also said in an interview that several parastatal organisations have been operating without boards, which has negatively affected the decision-making process.

She said the whole process should be completed by putting in place boards so that the decision making process is not affected.
“Right now salary negotiations have stalled. There are decisions that management cannot make. That is why it is important to have boards in place,” Mrs Simukoko said.
She called on Government to quickly put in place all boards in the affected parastatals to ensure that management issues that remain unattended could be addressed.
“It is so frustrating, that is why workers get angry and act that way,” Mrs Simukoko said.
On Monday, Information, Broadcasting and Labour permanent secretary Amos Malupenga appointed Mr Charles Mpundu as director general for NAPSA and Elizabeth Nkumbula as commissioner for WCFB.

[Daily Mail]

28 COMMENTS

  1. I am not Bemba but I am from Northern Province. My point is not everyone from Northern Province is Bemba and neither is Mr. Silutongwe who originates from there. But my question is why is this president only appointing people from my province? Do other provinces not have qualified people? Is Northern Province the most educated province in the country now? If Northern Province has the most educated pipo why is my province just as backward as any other province in Zed?

    • No my brother. We were told the lozis are the most qualified. But Sadly even Akashambatwa Mbikusita Lewanika and others from the BRE are not willing to propose names of people to be considered because the litunga decides who does what. I worked for then ZCCM and the only lawyers we had were mostly lozis including their secretaries. Super Ken appointed so many bulozi Ministers. Micheal Sata is from Chinsali and unless Kennedy Sakeni who is from Luapula and Inonge Wina who is from western are a recipe for traibal appointments, then I will agree with you. I think he’s trying his best in a very difficult environment where tribalism has now become an issue, something we never even worried or thought about after independence.

    • Just how do lozis come into this. You are a bigot. A lozi hater. Stop theorising and spreading lies about lozis you stinking babo/on.

    • Come on Skanka, other provinces have educated and experienced pipo too. Just advertise the job and let the right person get it. What we seeing now is right tribe/province getting jobs. This is very dangerous my friend.

  2. #1 He has just been working for 32 years, and he might have started working at age of 20, so he could be 52 yrs old.
    Sata is 78yrs – 52 = 26 yrs difference, meaning your new boss for ZSIC can work for another 26 years with no problem at all.

  3. Mr Silutongwe is a very hard working and professional man. This is definitely a very good and merit based appointment. Do not just criticise for the sake of it without facts.

  4. These appointments have now started losing meaning! But when is HE appointing me as DC Chadiza mwe bantu?Am Chanda now from Luwingu!

  5. Utter Rubbish.. when was the position advertised?? We are not a socialist state… this ukwa chap is taking us 50years backwards.

  6. To asset that Mr Sata is a TRIBALIST, others object and to state that Mr Sata is ambitious to prove he is a BEMBA tribalist, some doubt. However, Mr Sata is ambiguous, chaotic, disintegrative, bullious, yet allurs some that he is non TRIBAL a skill he has used to be where he is A MOST TRIBAL PRESIDENT ZAMBIA has ever had.

  7. The Party and its government mentality. The president appointing an MD for a public company? Where are the boards of directors for organizations that ministers and the head of state have appointed CEOs?

  8. Its a good appointment. Ihave known George for a long time when I worked at Premium house. He is not an old man , like some bloggers think. This one is just ZSIC brains going back to ZSIC. Sata should consider placing Alisand Singogo somewhere, He is a bigger brain that our ailing economy needs.

  9. The lady who was fired built up ZSIC from a nearly collapsing institution to a thriving business. Now, for no apparent reason she is fired. Maybe its because she is not from northern province. This tribalism should stop mr president. its hurting us deeper than you know. Anyway God for us all.

  10. The CEO is supposed to be appointed by the Board of Directors after a advertsing, shortlising, interviews bra bra bra . . . .not at the whim of the Kobra . . . .

  11. # 3 Nostradamus,thats so funny,but seriously this unabated tribalism will backfire someday.Muyenga turned ZSIC around while those Silu….whatever he is called run fro greener pastures.

  12. why can’t people be appointed on merit not tribe..this man failed us in many cases..eish..another kolwestan!

  13. silutongwe can you ensure that you pay all former ZAMTEL employees their pension money. You can’t be hold on to somebody’s money for more than a year after retrenching him.

  14. This President without shame is the worst tribalist this country has ever seen. Enjoy while it lasts, your day is surely coming.

  15. Thats Zambia for Zambians hence, all business in Zambia is fake plus how can a head of State become the board of director? I will sit on the sidelines n watch the boat.

  16. Number 12, OBSERVER, the person who saved ZSIC from collapse is ALISAND SINGOGO and not Irene. His deputy was Mike Mweemba, from whom she took over.

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