Friday, March 29, 2024

Board members paying themselves colossal amounts of money at the expense of pensioners

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Kindly allow me to bring this matter to your attention. Kindly investigate the rampant abuse of fund at the Public Service Pension Fund (PSPF) by the board members drawn from different government ministries and other parastatals.

These people have board meetings at PSPF almost six to seven times in a month for only one hour per meeting, only God knows what they discuss in one hour because the first 30 minutes they just drink tea and eat snacks.

It might interest you to know sir that these board members get K2.5 million per sitting and they are about 12 members in each board meeting.

For an institution which is struggling to pay its retired and deceased members, it is very criminal that a few people can be getting such colossal amounts of money just for sitting for one hour as compared to someone who has worked for the Government his entire life.

If this mail has been directed to the wrong person, kindly assit me by redirecting it to the authorities that might intervene in this matter.

Regards

Civil Servant

18 COMMENTS

  1. This is very sad. The board members are mostly drawn from government ministries and they are paid salaries. What disturbs me most is the fact that the educated fellows are the ones doing all these nonsense

    • Really? And we we said that “education” is a wrong measure for patriotism we were rediculed all the way through. Yet when you notice, as you have observed well, the educated have a strong feeling that everything belongs to them because they went to school. Those who are not educated need not get anything; hence the situation where we have the majority of Zambians living in extreme poverty. Just check how the educated behave when the lose an election!! To them, its God given, they should rule, as they please!!

  2. Who said life is fair. As a retired engineer I get K150,000 per month from LASF. I have opted to get this amount as an annual lump sum amounting to some K1.7m at the beginning of each year which is rarely paid on time and on top of that I have to sign some affidavit to prove that I am still alive. I voted for PF because its manifesto said that pension will be adjusted to cater for inflation. But now there is a deafening silence from govt. Where are our morals if it is true a pension board member gets K2.5m per one-hour sitting. Worse than animal farm.

  3. @ 1. haven’t you heard of inferiority complex? thats what is at play here. most, if not all of them are “bakamushi” who want to live town life fullest. enjoying at the expence of pensioners. how sad indeed.

  4. The rich will get richer the poor ,poorer .Sad to hear this but i know it happens every board sitting working in accounts i prepared payments for these elite people entrusted to enjoy tea and whisky in some boards after the meeting yaba fwaba Lesa fwe if only we can be human enough or christian enough to love our neighbours which does not apply in most cases .God help us boma pliz move in and follow this up we know Pensions has no money to afford tea

  5. That’s why I never look at some educated people sometimes as a remedy to solve economic problems or issues related to poverty. Greed at the end of the day comes in and those that are educated use their unapplied theories and practice to trump on the feet of those that are uneducated. If you look at some of the most developing places economically in Africa or Zambia, most of these places are in rural settings. A good example is the sugar plantations or mines. But if you look at the infrastructure of these places, on gosh! I respect a person not by how educated they are, but what they can do!!

    • wooooow! magari ti cpormi una xbox, magari giochi solo a giochi in cui devi uccidere e profanare il nemico, magari ti disiscrivi da wiitalia, e magari ti iscrivi ad un forum di xbox! vacacare. MENO MALE che esistono ancora giochi come “A Boy and His Blob”

  6. I challenge you go to school get those qualifications and be a board member. I can even volunteer to download an application form for you for enrolment at UNZA, or any competent university of your choice in the world and see if you will be selected. K2.5M is too little per hour for a board member, don’t compare lizards to crocodiles just because they are all reptiles a croc is a croc and a lizard will remain a lizard.

    • Mr. Malinso, this is too much. The author of this article is too polite in his writing to have such a reaction from you sir. It is not possible in our country for everyone to get a University dgree. I am sure you know that. K2.5m per hour for a poor country like ours is surely too much especially from PSPF. Otherwise thanks for your comments sir.

  7. The concern might sound legitimate, but can the write or complainant put more insights on this matter, i mean supporting envidence that shows that this board gets K 2.5 million per sitting, other than that the concern or complaint sounds like a mare allegation. Help ACC with more information on this one.

  8. agree with #9 Mwimpota Mukabwela…the problem with whistle blowers you give NO concrete evidence to support your claims. Next time sneak a video or tape recorder into the meeting we see or hear the clattering tea cups and munching for 30mins and then hear “God knows what they talk about” for the other 30mins!

    • Th government has set up elaborate institutions to deal with such issues. To expect an honest informer to provide ready-to-use prosecution evidence to the government, police, ACC, etc, is too much.

  9. Mukuba Pensions for the miners has the same story about Board Members. They do very little for what they get. Get these thieves please.

  10. Find out the names of Board members and where they come from.Probability is they are from Northern and Eastern provinces chosen by their relatives in the Cabinet, no merit was used to choose them.Even if you go stand on top of state house and shout nobody would listen to you,afterall Kabimba Winter is doing the same in………………………………………

  11. LT, I am not telling you how to run your site but issues like this please do not bury them by ‘ukusalula’, meaning once and that is all, Make follow up and especially that someone affected pleads for your help. Maybe someone in authority, if the have any sense of remorse, maybe human enough to attend to the plight of these people.

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