VICE-President Guy Scott says the PF government is trying to rectify the problems in the payroll system for civil servants so that people are paid for what they do.
“We are trying to work things out so that people are paid for what they do and not for the institutions they work for,” Dr Scott said in Chipata over the weekend when he visited Mwami border to check on the operations of the Immigrations Department and the Zambia Revenue Authority.
The vice president was responding to concerns raised by Mwami border immigrations officer-in-charge James Chikoma who complained that immigrations officers are not well looked after as compared to their Zambia Revenue Authority counterparts.
Mr Chikoma said the officers are faced with challenges in water and sanitation, and accommodation.
He said a lot of Malawians trafficked to South Africa are passing through Zambia after running away from economic hardships in their country.
He said the Immigration Department on the Zambian side is more proactive in arresting illegal immigrants than the Malawian immigration authorities.
Meanwhile, Dr Scott has urged civil servants to be politically neutral although they support different political parties in their individual capacities.
He said this when he met civil servants at Chipata College of Education.
Dr Scott also said civil servants are the major beneficiaries of by-elections because of the allowances paid to them when conducting the polls.
He said the bigger chunk of money spent on by-elections goes towards payment of allowances for electoral officers while the remainder is spent on election materials.
And Dr Scott said the MMD will never bounce back to power.
“Rupiah Banda was unlucky because when he became President in 2008, the MMD was already ‘sick’…life is about change and we have to go forward. We don’t have to remain frozen like a chicken in the fridge,” Dr Scott said.
He said this on Sunday during a campaign rally at Nadalitsika Basic School grounds to drum up support for PF candidate in the July 25 Chipata Central by-election, Lameck Mangani.
And Mr Mangani called on the people to vote for him so that he can easily lobby Government for development of Chipata.
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WHAT CLEANING OF PAY ROLL? THEY SHOULDN’T HIDE IN THIS. THEY DON’T JUST VE POLITICAL WILL TO THE CIVIL SERVANTS. WE VE BRAINS AND SOUND MINDS. EYES AND EARS ARE ALSO PERFECTLY WORKING.