President Michael Sata has dismissed assertions that he decided to award himself a 10 per cent salary increment. This is s according to a statement released by special assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations George Chellah.
The Head of State explained that salaries and allowances for the President, Vice- President, Chief Whip, Leader of Opposition, Cabinet Ministers, Deputy Ministers, and Members of Parliament are determined by the Standing Orders Committee of Parliament.
“…the procedure is once the Standing Orders Committee has determined what increment to award, the Minister of Finance issues a Statutory Instrument. In fact, this year, the Committee, which includes opposition Members of Parliament met and came up with an increment of 10 per cent taking into account the national resource and notwithstanding the fact that the civil service was awarded increments ranging from 0 per cent to more than 150 per cent,” President Sata said.
President Sata emphasised that this decision was made at Parliament by both ruling party and opposition Members of Parliament, whose salaries have equally been revised upwards.
“I urge all opposition Members of Parliament to take time and explain this slight adjustment to their party leaders to avoid shooting themselves in the foot,” he said.
nomba why didn’t you reject the increment ata
Sata is a Hypocrite and Parasite. He is a disgrace to the Zambian people everywhere.
`I didnot award myself salary increment, its parliament` in a deep bisa voice..
(such answers or explanations used to come from Group 3 when i was in primary school)
well why didnt you refuse the increment like the way you refused chikwelete? or why cant you donate your increment to lowly paid nurses or shoprite workers??
This man should hire proper spin doctors not those illiterate post reporters he surrounds himself with.Every press statement released by Chellah is more nauseating than the previous one.Mwanawasa rejected salary increment so did RB.
What a stupi.d response from this returd
@Guy Scott I totally agree with you. Where is the leadership here? What is the justification at a time when the rate of inflation is 7%? Criminals robbing their citizens in broad daylight.
We told you when you elected this villager who has lived on tax payers money whole his life….
He has no shame and can sink so low… thats the caliber of your so called president
I agree with the president it was forced on him
Thanks
Mr President do the right thing please ;reject the pay increment straight away. Otherwise it will cost you a lot of political mileage . Amid all these squabbles within PF , nurse strikes, and high cost of living on the back of subsidy removal, now is not the time to increase your pay. Surely that can wait until you have built roads and modernised shanty towns to improve the standard of living for your poor voters.
To the poor majority in shanties it seems you removed the subsidies in order to save more money and pay selves huge salaries. Like it or not this is the message you are sending to them ,not the reasons you gave for subsidy removal.
If Mwanawasa and RB rejected a pay rise after your criticism why can’t you? Its not too late for that. Show us you are the man of the…
I did not slap you, it was my hand!
People are confused. They think parliament was given a chance to debate the pay increase. Not at all. What happened is Chikwanda being the finance minister just decided to increase the president’s pay according to powers given to him by a legislation and just informed the parliamentary standing committee instead of consulting them. I am pretty sure members of the opposition were not invited to that meeting.He did a typical “donchi Kubeba” on them.
@Wanzelu, they are all criminals. You will see when they start debating the estimates of expenditure that none of the MPs will question their salary increments. If they had their way they would even take more. It happens every time. You can go through parliamentary record to see if any MP has ever challenged a proposal to increase their salaries. Sata should have been the one pushing back but alas. He says, “who am I to recline an increment.” See what Uhuru did in Kenya when his greedy parliament proposed salary increments. That is what a good leader should.
a dog reasons better than you
Ati ntolelefye or natolafye, whatever it is they say when caught. He wont accept responsility for the reckless increase.
But ba guy aba ni ba Chameleon ka ba chinja pamene apa ayi. It was not long ago when he wud be seen on MUVI TV saying RB RB RB has increased his salary but today ati ni parliament. Well u have the power to reject it jst as Kenyata did. U cant compare civil servants’s increment to yos becos they were already getting masese and even after increment it is still masese with your expensive fuel. U are a let down.
I can bet the dog ate his homework too.
this man is surely a standard 4….ati its not me, hehehehe nameno ayabola mukanwa!!!
Power of veto
I didn’t award myself salary increament….. bukal@ bobe bushe teti ukani ant let mt 10% go towards medical services?
“I urge all opposition Members of Parliament to take time and explain this slight adjustment”
You call this a SLIGHT ADJUSTMENT……………………..I…D….I….O….T….S, THIEVES, PLUNDERS OF NATIONAL RESOURCES.
I agree with cage the crooks, how come the opposition members of parliament accepted the increment, without debating the matter how can we trust them, when they are benefiting from something the government is doing they go mute, we want to see opposition mps rejecting the increment if at all they are to be trusted, otherwise…….?
yes, he could have refused the increment if he had any morals
So the UTH nurse and government teacher should have their salaries increased to match those of South Africans, Mutswana and Namibians?! Please ba Sata, reverse this traversity of greed. Remember your condemnation of meagre RB’s salary???
ukwa is a joker. trying to look innocent
and he thinks we can buy that statement
That how reptiles look like, so innocent, but when you offer it a flog.. mamamama!
But you are final authority sir. Only shows that you are ineffective to control the legislature.
The Executive initiates the process.
This man is insane and has no shame
You are digging your own graves by insulting our God given leader what is 10% the Salary is just peanuts.Let the Opposion now fire MPs who will accept the increment or let us see the opposition refusing the money then we can attack PF Govt
But you are the final authority sir. Only shows that you are ineffective to control the legislature. Cant you take a leave from past Presidents?
Pay retirees as well imwe mizyindo yenu!
but you could have rejected it like your predecessor did
He needs some coaching by Uhuru Kenyatta on how to reject inappropriate pay increases.
Not only that, but the President instructs his spokesman to come up with this piece of c’ap statement to justify his pay rise.
Sata is too opportunistic and greedy to reject such an increase.He has never had any principles in his life.
But you are the final authority sir. Only shows that you are ineffective to control the legislature. Cant you take a leaf from past Presidents?
You should have simply said no end of story! It’s not too late, reject the offer and move on to another uplifting story, otherwise, the blame will fall entirely on you.
@cindy
This is a shocker!!!.. africa remains holed in poverty because of greedy leadership.
parliament( including opposition MP,, Very stu.pid, they should opposed this move!!!!) , cabinet and Sata himself are a big let down to Zambians
@ ndobo,
Today has been my most shocking days on LT, i never expected the president would make such a sickenning descion at the expense of the Zambian people. Indeed Wisdom doesnt come with age, you either are born with it or not!
It was parliament that awarded RB the 10% increment but there you were. You made political capital over it. Just instruct parliament to cancel the increments. You are wasting our money.
The Post – August 3, 2009
“Levy did not want to implement that and I challenge anyone of them to challenge me. He didn’t approve it. They should have got it on the 1st of April but he did not approve, that’s why they did not get it.” Sata said it was immoral for Cabinet
to approve such hefty allowances while President Mwanawasa was ill in hospital. “It is very immoral, very, very immoral for Rupiah Banda Vice-President and his colleagues to be so greedy that they don’t care about their colleague who is in hospital. They are just using him because they want to empower their handbags, they want to empower their purses and their pockets,” he said. Sata described the hefty allowances as the worst plunder.
He said Cabinet ministers wanted to amass as much wealth as they could in the absence…
of President Mwanawasa. “By the time Levy comes, there will be nothing left with this reckless government. They even have the guts. Even when they take to Parliament, who is going to sign for that appropriation bill? You mean they have already given Rupiah the power to sign?” Sata asked. He noted that salary increments should be commensurate to performance but that there was nothing Cabinet ministers had done to deserve an upward adjustment to their remuneration. Sata said Zambian taxpayers should not be made to pay for an inefficient government.
He said most Zambian leaders lacked the spirit of sacrifice and loyalty to the people. Sata said it was difficult to understand how Cabinet could allocate itself hefty allowances when strategic institutions like the University of Zambia (UNZA)…
and hospitals were inperpetual problems. “And what type of a Cabinet is this? Yesterday, we were told by the Central Statistical Office (CSO) that inflation has gone to 12.6 per cent.
They are adding more inflation because the money they are releasing is for consumption,” Sata said. “And when it suits them, they lie, ‘we can’t do anything because the
President is not here’… like Professor Lungwangwa Geoffrey, education minister has been lying at university. They can’t pay the money because the President is not here. Now the President is not here, how are they giving themselves that hefty amount of money?”
Sata said Cabinet officials could not demand salary and allowance increments because they were entitled to many other benefits such as free accommodation, airtime, security and vehicles
“And they themselves they want to be more fat. They want to be waxing more in fat. By the time Levy comes back, they will be too fat that they won’t even be able to walk to the Airport to go and meet him,” Sata said.
Sata also said it would be difficult for parliamentarians to oppose the hefty allowances because they had been included in the upward adjustment. He said he would personally confront President Mwanawasa over the allowances when he returns from France. Sata further said agencies such as the Energy Regulation Board (ERB), Communications Authority of Zambia and the Rural Electrification…
immoral..atase..why not reject it..!
Oh please, why rushing to respond to trivial with even more trivial answers. The constitution gives you the power to reject the increment and even freeze it for that matter.
If Levy Mwanawasa did it , and you supported him for that , why can’t you do the same? There is already a precedent set for you. Don’t you feel embrassed to even let chellah craft such a hollow response for you
By the way am still waiting for your response to Prof Henry Sosala’s thesis. Are you people still reading it up to now?
Am told it`s been translated for the big in bemba, kaili tapaba sana akalisukulu. And why was he blaming RB for the same. This man is a shameless lair and worst hypocrite.
itali anso ikali ya prof henry sosala….do you think our presido can read that.
@MMD Chief Bootlicker
Am upset with Sata , parliament and cabinet!!! And very upset with your opposition MPs,,, this move was supposed to BE opposed to down to hell!!
The composition parliament is PF 69MPs, Oppsition; MMD 41MPs, UPND 30MPs, Independent 2, FDD 1, ADD1.. Vacant 6..
Now if you do simple mathematics, you have 75 oppostion MPs against 69MPs.. this increment motion should have been shot down!!! oppostion is very stu.pid to me, they dont know their job!!!
Go and tell your MMD to wake up!!!
Please @Ndobo be serious. Are you the only one who doesn’t know that PF has poached some opposition MPs to the front bench, and they cannot vote against a motion by the Executive due to collective responsibility? PF had more than 75 in reality.
@ndobo going by your reasoning RB’s immunity shouldn’t have been stripped since PF does not have numbers , right? Think about that deeply and consider the reality before you attack the opposition
@MMD Chief Bootlicker
No, No, No!!! in RB`s immunity..UPND were non commital, so thats not a good example to bring in!!
Now listen to this Lucky mulusa was warning and expresing concern of the alarming rate of borrowing by these PF headles thugs a few days ago,,, and UPND also sounded the same warning finacial mismanagement by the same thugs,, generally all the MPs know that money is tight in country at the moment!!! I expected well educated and clued up opposition MPs to shoot down this move without mercy,, this a BIG letdown!! and am pissed off !!!
@ndobo….your breakdown misses one very critical group, rebel MPs from the opposition. kindly include them and resubmit, or else your argument is incomplete and discreditable. Thank you. NB: do you now see the problem with induced by elections?
@bee
I get your point!! But PF also has some sound and grounded MPs who by principle would have quitely voted with opposition!! this would have gone down to a standoff!! but the opposition were happy with the increament thats why the didnt make noise or even try by the slightest effort to fight the move.
@ndobo
Come on my friend, there is no secret ballot in parliament, which PF MP would risk voting against his party? I don’t know about sound and grounded MPs in PF, I leave it to the rest to find even just one..I guess you are in the mood to just argue today , huh?
@ ndobo and others: the article it says the procedure was for the Standing Orders Committee to determine the increment before the Finance Minister signed it into law by way an SI. Maybe I am mistaken (….please inform me if I am) but to me this does not sound like it was a full Act of Parliament voted on, or even involving, all Parliamentarians. If they voted on an Act there would be no SI. Right?
In this case, the question should be is who is on the Standing Orders Committee. My bet is that it is chaired and populated heavily by PF.
Regardless, is a foo’s game to pretend that Mr. Sata (let alone the entire Executive branch and Party he runs!) was unaware of what the Standing Orders Committee was discussing or that the President had no influence on the proceedings
@ndobo
Parliament does not deliberate on Presidential emoluments . Its Chikwanda who decides and consults the parliamentary standing committee. But in this case it seems he did a “donchi Kubeba” and just informed PF members of the standing parliamentary committee neglecting the opposition members because they were going to shoot it down.
@chief editor
Ba editor (I dont know if you are stil the same MMD chief bootlicker).. am pissed especially with opposition MPs… they opposed the chief justice issue with sucess and was great,, the was also action in RB`s immunity but sadly they lost at least there was action,, the walk out at some point….,, in this case i did not hear any slightest noise or opposing action against increament.. the question is why? answer is simple,, they are also in it for money same like these PF thugs
@spud and wanzelu
Then why is Sata pointing an accusing finger to parliament???
whatever or whoever is/was behind this increment has sentence poor zambia souls to death!! because of this increment some poor people may die as result of lacking food, lacking clean water.. and/ or other basic needs
@ ndobo, one good reason would be to deflect blame and cause confusion among the masses. I still stand to be corrected, but see no evidence this involved all (….or even some?) members of opposition as you are concluding and as George Chellah would love us to believe.
Beyond that, rest assured I share your outrage. This is sickening! I just don’t think it makes sense to blame the opposition rather than the government and party that enacted the policy. Especially under this constitution, the buck stops firmly with the President.
@ndobo
Is there a time when Sata told the truth and admitted doing wrong in his political life? For all the time I have known Sata since UNIP days he is good at passing on the blame onto others when cornered to avoid having to exculpate himself. The truth is he instructed Chikwanda to increase their salaries since all civil servants got their pay rise. By now you should know that nothing happens without Sata initiating and giving specific instructions.
@Ndobo
The motion to increase personal emoluments for constitutional offices is never debated in the National Assembly for opposition or any Mps to oppose. It is an Executive motion which is tabled in Parliament for information only. MPs do not debate their salary. It is fixed by the Executive and only tabled in Standing Orders Committee. It is not quantum mathematics to see who made the decision to increase the President’s salary.
as usual caught pants down and puts up a shameless defence. what a presido
zambian please those people have failed why we are been cheated right and left,the ministers are more 60 with salary increase,by elections,hey hey we are in trouble.
Should parliament agree that u be killed would u say yes becouse its parliament.U WOULD HAVE SAID WHAT U SAID WHEN U CAME HERE I WIL DIE with U PIPO
Yaba as funny as this may sound this is pure evil please those that can do something to remove pf now please have a heart for the poor you can’t let sata and his minions abuse the country and its citizens to the level
On Salary alone, increment comes to 26.72%, nomba iyi 10% yafuma kwisa ninshi bakateka tabaishiba nensamushi?
I suggest they increase it more because 43,611 thus 8,076 US dollars in too low for the President of our Republic.
What does your president do to justify even the $8000? Look at the country’s GDP and the look at the number of ministers multiply that by 12 months then you will begin to appreciate what kind of infrastructure the country can put up considering there high infant mortality rate and primary school children attending classes in thatched class rooms or under trees. That is what you should look at sir!
$8K is inappropriate since Zed Inc is a poor loss makin business.Its even worse compared to Obama’s pay against USA’s huge GDP.
…to take time and explain this slight adjustment … kikiki
The man sounds more stupid with his answer…..answer kwati teba president sure. What a wasted election we had of putting this man in power. We shot ourselves in the foot
Mr President, are you sure you can not reject the increment?
Bwana presido, a short while ago you asked the people of Zambia to “sacrifice” what did you mean by that? You are the leader,lead by example.This is no time for such incentives,there are strikes looming everywhere in the country and you,your MPs and the called opposition are busy increasing you pay.TU opposition nato tuli queit because they benefited.What a let down,next time lets try the military in power because politicians have failed us.
Have they started repaying the Euro bond? Ifnot they will later come to Zambians and tell them to sacrifice once morethr ASAP,HIPIC etc Ha Ha Ha Ki,ki,ki,ki,ki it’ back to belt tighten pa Zed watchout by 2017.
Don’t be silly Mr President. What did you say when R.B increased his salary? You jumped and screamed blue murder. R.B didn’t authorise that increment. Levy is on record to have done the same. So who are you fooling? You are as dull as they come and heartless too. You are loafing in state house yet you have over doubled R.Bs. Salary. You are the biggest joker to have ever lived in state house. All you know is handling district party matters involving juniours like Chikwele, Chuumbwe, Goodson, Situla and yet we have pressing national issues that need your attention. You are surely fit for market politics. I wish God could listen to the cries of the majority Zambians.
Its funny how no one sees what he is saying, in plain English. His salary is determined by the legislative wing of Govt. (Which is Opposition Controlled).
For some odd reason people have not seen the line that the Opposition Leader’s salary has also been increased.
Politicians are smooth talkers, they fight in public but eat together in secret and leave carders hating on one another.
I know you are a die hard pf cadre, but please time to open your eyes is now. I won’t try and explain anything to you, as you an adult that can discern right from wrong, so all I will suggest to you is please read all the comments on this page and apply the rule ‘the majority wins.’
no opposition involved here. this sata/chikwanda business. SI are ministers prerogatives.
ba president, just do the honourable task, instead of ukutushinga butter, just reject the increase, just like mwanawasa did. besides, do not think zambians are so dull not to know that even before any proposals are put on paper, you are consulted. please no more donchi kubeba slogan, it is moribund
That’s very selfish!!! As a hungry student in Russia who you haven’t paid in the last 5 months of the top-up allowances you have not revised in a long time and was supposed to be paid last month, I condemn this action. I used to have faith in the president before he got into power but I’m loosing it.. We also need to get paid on time and an increment.. Look into our issue Mr President sir or we will not vote for you in 2016 and before we do something stupid the out of frustration!!
Next president should be born after 1970.We are tired of the freedom fighter mentality. How can a leader allow a 27% salary increment at the expense of the people who voted for him.This man is not a leader.The earlier he goes the better Zambia will be.
Stiopet, you crucified RB over salary increment. You are such a hypocrite.
yaba mwebantu please mulekeni……muleumfwa chifundo.
then Mr President,if you say that parliament is the one that awarded you the salary increment,why dont you do the noble thing and reject the increment?please dont behave as if you are being forced to accept the increment….surprise us for once and do the right thing especially for us who voted for you.
Reject it Bwana Presido, to save shame on your face.You said RB was been selfish, while he was getting little than you’re getting, then who is selfish between the two of u , anyway the Zambian pipo will judge in 2016.
When i said this man was a F.O.O.L you insulted me
BA SATA NAIMWE U ARE EMBARASSING US THE KAPONYAS WHO VOTED FOR YOU.WHY CANT YOU JUST REJECT THIS INCREMENT JUST LIKE WHAT LEVI DID.JUST REJECT IT,WHY ARE U MAKING YOURSELF UNPOPULAR WITH THIS THING KANSHI.
Nkana Kalampa has just beaten Kalulushi FC 1-4. now this is good not ama salary fro your president. aleisa, aleya kalampa…big up aba red
@soulosi, why are you hiding??
Michael Sata, Micahel Sata, what did you and Fred M’membe say when RB attempted to increase salaries? You have forgotten, right? Hypocrites
Really….. What a load of rubbish, coming from this Carbon-Copy of a president.!!!
Lol!! drama at its best. Its like a pupil at Roads Park School blaming his/her teachers for failing grade 7 exam.
This simply shows that these guys are insenstive to the concerns of the ordinary citizen. In the midst of all the strikes going on, they decide to increase their salaries. They should honestly be ashamed of themselves especially their chief MCS. It is about time he stopped hibernating in State House and started interacting with the people that voted him into office. That is where leadership is required and not in the annoying and never-ending swearing-in-ceremonies.
The guy is smart. This response makes the opposition MPs look foolish. They were in the house and they voted for the increment! Can the horrible, oh sorry for misspelling, I meant honourable opposition MPs explain why they allowed this to happen.
No need for explanation we know that you allowed it because he is going to authorise your salary increment in return. Shameless MPs
why are u even calling presdo. This crook and kaponya. Hes not ashamed of himself. We wish you more life so that you spend it in prison.
What prison Sata is more honoured than most of you.He will finish well.He is not a crook like your presidents with no good heart but reaped the people of Luanshya
You are digging your own graves by insulting our God given leader what is 10% the Salary is just peanuts.Let the Opposion now fire MPs who will accept the increment or let us see the opposition refusing the money then we can attack PF Govt.
You are just a tribalist. Thats why you will support every rubbish.
@ Cage the crooks, you are very useless and FOOlish…how can you justify what your SATANA has done? ndiwe chabe mbuzi wamunthu iwe.
PRESIDENT SATA, AS AT THIS MONTH’S SALARY REVIEW, GETS ABOUT R80,000.00/M
PRESIDENT ZUMA OF SOUTH SAFRICA GETS R205, 000.00/M
PRESIDENT KENYATTA OF KENYA GETS R150,000.00/M
PRESIDENT POHAMBA OF NAMIBIA GETS R140,000.00/M
NO WONDER RB TURNED TO ‘KALUNDALUNDA’ FROM NIGERIAN MAFIAS TO SUPPLEMENT HIS SALARY!
@LUAPULA PREMIER
You can’t compare their economies to Zambia’s economy.
In other words you are endorsing what the late Mobutu Seseseko was doing to his people in Zaire now DRC. The man was earning more than European leaders and yet his country was in a mess economically. The man even built one of the few airstrips to have landed the concord in Africa at his residence godolito, what ever it is called, when the majority of his country was inaccessible by any form of communication
Its a case of the leader has all the money in the land of the poor.
I did not appoint chikwelete. I did award myself pay increament. I didn promiss barotelse aggreement. Iam not sick········list is endless
I did not kill that thief, it’s my gun, lol
There are two observations worth making on this. First, we are all to blame for not paying careful attention to the laws of the land. A piece of legislation was passed in 2009 that everyone interested in Ministerial pay should have read and be aware of. The Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Emoluments) (Amendment) Act, 2009.
Section two of the principal act was amended with the following key clause inserted: “There shall be paid to the holder of an office specified in the Schedule such salary and allowances as the Minister responsible for finance may prescribe, by statutory instrument, in consultation with the Standing Orders Committee of the National Assembly”. A similar clause was added in relation to constituency allowances.
What this meant was that Cabinet sets the pay…
MY CURRENT EXPAT SALARY IS AT
R60,000.00
PRESIDENT SATA, AS AT THIS MONTH’S SALARY REVIEW GETS ABOUT
R80,000.00/M
PRESIDENT ZUMA OF SOUTH AFRICA GETS
R205, 000.00/M
PRESIDENT KENYATTA OF KENYA GETS
R150,000.00/M
PRESIDENT POHAMBA OF NAMIBIA GETS
R140,000.00/M
NO WONDER RB TURNED TO ‘LUNDALUNDA’ FROM NIGERIAN MAFIAS TO SUPPLEMENT HIS SALARY!
stu.pid comparision!!! look at the economies which suport those salaries!!
All I can say is well done ZWD. had it not been you, this would have been swept under the carpet,
And worse more, they go ahead and freeze the meagre salaries for civil servants and for the next 10 years all retirees who wish to retire at 65, will not get their package as it will go pay these thieves. You guy, you die without your money while you service these thieves. HH stated that Article 124 of the constitution stops anyone tempering with your pension. time to act and say NO is now.
Man of action!!Mwabika ba Kapoli who are so selfish to rule now look at the rubbish.Challah uli chisushi you should have advised the one who sent you to reject the increment period.Don’t even mention the opposition you are embarrassing us.
Opposition and ruling party MPs supported the increments. If any of you look closely, you shall see that our MPs are at fault.
My friend, these are not debated in parmarliament. Apparently, they do not discuss their conditions of service. These are done at ministry of Finance,signed and circulated to parliament
Come on Mwanawakwithu: the standing committee is consulted by Minister of Finance, in other words, he can choose to listen to them or do what he wants. Secondly, there are 5 PF people (4 cabinet level) on the committee against 3 opposition, what do you think went down or who really sets the presidential salary? How I thought, you are one of the reasonable ones, alas, you are cannot condemn your party when they are wrong
Mr Sata, Who controls Parliament?
$100k is not indecent compared to the ZCCM-IH executive chairman Wila Mung’Omba’s annual salary
this incompetent guy is paid $250,000(!!) while ZCCM-IH is so-called insolvent ! In the same time the management failure at ZCCM-IH has lead to a loss of $1 billion income and the Minority Shareholders called for probe into misconducts…
I do not think the Statehouse is a gilded old people’s home contrary to ZCCM-IH, being President is not an easy and lazy job…
Mr President, you are only being a hypocrite. You hardly made any movements out of the country at the genesis of your tenure and you said you did that to avoid unnecessary usage of the country’s money. What happened to that spirit you had?
Zambian Watchdog has again done it!! Blocked in Zambia but still giving Sata sleepless nights. Chellah now spends all day reading ZWD on proxy sites and updating Sata.
Its not blocked we are able to log on ZWD
Logically it is spot on. Mathematically however 150% of nothing is NOTHING!!!!
It appears President Sata is re-directing more money to HIS OWN POCKETS and some pockets of his family members.
When will President Sata ever going to fulfil his promise of “MORE MONEY IN YOUR POCKETS” to the starving Nurses and the rest of the Civil Servants?
The truth is now emerging of the exploitative mafias in the PF Govt., and the people will respond appropriately during the oncoming by-elections.
To be frank this is one of the least paid presidents. If you think He works for Mahala then you are either confused or smoking something. Any low salary in relation to the level of the job will incite corruption. The problem is you are thinking if I was president I wouldnt need that, I would work for peanuts because am ‘serving’ the people. Thats the same childish mentality you had when growing up. Thinking dady gets paid a lot of money but he feeds us beans everyday. Have seen some characters who are in the ‘diaspora’ trying to compete with the president.. Those are jokes. People here get paid, I run the payrol , you would be suprised. So guys be frank with your hearts and you will realise that its the envy in your heart thats crying and not really your concern for the country. If…
@Haleisa Halelanda
I agree with you ,people get paid more than Sata ‘s pay. But you are missing point terribly. The people who get more money are working for the private or NGO sectors not government. There is a huge difference between drawing a salary from tax payers’s income and getting paid for productivity related income in the private sector.
I believe the legislator’s pay should be within what the economy can afford. In case of my poor Zambia, the economy is in intensive care, the debt is mounting to kaunda era level and the cost of living for the poor majority is getting higher each day,surely this is the right time to hike politicians’pay.
Here in the UK politicians refused to accept a pay rise because the majority poor ‘s pay has not gone up significantly…
Sata, Sata, Sata!!!!!! Not even a kindergarten kid give such a response. What a shame to Zambia!
Every inch of Sata`s livelihood is funded by Zambian tax payers . Even after retirement, Sata will still be looked after by tax payers. What does this old-greedy- man need the money for, at his age?
I totally agree. I am at a loss to understand what is going on in the of the head of that guy at state house. Its always blaming others for their failures. How can you blame the opposition for the negative stories on winter by the public media????
Sata, Sata, Sata!!!!!! Not even a kindergarten kid can give such a response. What a shame to Zambia!
Every inch of Sata`s livelihood is funded by Zambian tax payers . Even after retirement, Sata will still be looked after by tax payers. What does this old-greedy- man need the money for, at his age?
This can only happen in Zambia our friends in Kenya protested over this greed when are we going to wake up from this docility. This is the selfsame govt that is broke.
Was the salary increment at gun point???????????? Don’t speak like you had no choice,on moral grounds, to reverse the decision considering the disposition in the Country.
Ati kaya. Noushalimo akabamo
If you feel you can make a diffrence to mother Zambia, be practical and step on the stage. You cant blog your way to success. The saw called kaponyas who make noise in the media everyday will always rule. And dont think they will invite you to the party. Ukafwapopofye na PHD mukuboko nama buns na zigolo stil trying to blog your way to succes.
You fool why didn’t you reject it then? You think we are foolish? I will never vote for you again.
Ifiii ifiii yuo want to increase my salary with this poverty around it can hung. Afuna kunilundila ndlama yayi neyo sinifuna. You! iwe! they have increased my salary how much. Not bad when are they paying.
How many Salary increases did your predecessors have within two years.? Please Mr President respond because we know you read the watchdog because all this information was on their site long before it appeared anywhere else. Sir it does appear that you still read the ZWD after all. Why then have you blocked to the rest of the citizenry who are over 18 years old?
@Kelvin D Mulanga
You are right ,Sata has instructed Chella to read the ZWD first before reading any paper and then brief him on what ZWD is saying every day. Where ever Sata is with Chella they peruse ZWD first thing in the morning.
Chella would greet the old man; “good morning your execellence ?” Sata would respond “fiinshi balelanda pali ine ba watch dog mwaice?”
Good evening
There is a plausible reason to get agitated at salary increments for the president when the majority of workers around the country are surviving on low wages and some are even on strike for more pay.
However, I also ask myself why the opposition did not dissaprove or even try to block the increments? Is it because their MPs are also beneficiaries? Anyhow, politicians have always been good at serving themselves huge chunks and giving the people peanuts. If you can’t beat them, join them.
correction: to get “agitated about..” not “agitated at..”
This matter was not discussed in parliament. It was ABC instructed by MCS to do that through an SI which is a prerogative of the Minister. If anything they are misusing these powers. So opposition MPs had no hand in it.
Of course this Nine Chale foo.l had to come up with something to defend his thieving Bemba brethren without fully understanding the process he is talking about.
That’s the best you can expect from this man’s depleted reasoning. Worse than a retard.
So, why does this money not refuse the increase?
@45 Zambia Voice has pointed out the important section of an Act.
Read his submission and you will all agree (except a few diehard PF who will never accept that they or their master can ever do anything wrong)
It is the Minister of Finance, in consultation with the Standing Orders Committee of the National Assembly who fixes salary of the President.
Where is National Assembly in this all process? Nowhere
Who did Mr. Chikwanda consult before issuing Statutory Instrument? Committee, and when?
Does he has the guts to issue the instrument and even consult the Standing Committee without first sounding the President?
Sata is spewing nonsense. I have no respect left for him. He shall just go and rest. He is a shame for that glorious office of Zambia and values our forefathers…
Sata is spewing nonsense. I have no respect left for him. He shall just go and rest. He is a shame for that glorious office of Zambia and values our forefathers cherished and passed on to us for generations.
IN ANY ECONOMY, MINISTERS’ SALARIES
MUST BE CLOSER TO CEOs’ SALARIES
AS MUCH AS THEY CAN BE IN THAT COUNTRY
TO AVOID BEING BOUGHT WHEN SIGNING
CONTRACTS.
Foolish like your leader!
does that justify sata’s actions during campaigns when he gained mileage on same salary increment issue in mmd’s err? I was in the 2011 campaign in the pf’s camp to be specific and I can assure you there has been a turn to the picture these guys portrayed. PF today is much more corrupt, tribal, heartless, selfish and possess no etiquette for governance or sobriety. I feel ashamed having been part of this fiasco.
how passionate I was about PF ! each and every moment that passes,i lose trust in all this politics.
am a nurse who is hurt with this pf ! pf claim that 4% is what has been given to us,but then MR SATA gives himself 10% which is equivalent to 100% it the two years in office !
surely my vote is not for Pf neither is it for the opposition !
i’ve with immediate effect started saving the little so that by mid next year,Namibia njikata.
you’re not alone.
now is the time.
wendeshe mune! We dont need you. We have dedicated nurses who dont put personal gain ahead of service..
The word Sata is now officially defined as Snake.
A bad person who tells lies and betrays other people .
Snake At The Apex
Can anyone tell me what is wrong with adjusting salary limit for a president? If infact this is done for all govt workers including parliament where there are opposition members? Is this not done across the board? Am shocked that people who should know, seem not to have any clue or even at least the logic!
There is nothing shocking about peoples comments, when you are a leader first of all you are supposed to lead by example it has nothing to do with logic, you cannot ask people to tighten there belts or sacrifice for the sake of national development if you are doing exactly the opposite…when sata was in the opposition he made a mew out the this claiming MMD had lost touch with reality how can he now justify his actions…he’s a straight up traitor
`ladies and gentlemen, chella and sata are lies. salaries increments for constitutional office holders are issued under an SI signed by the Minister of Finance. That SI is not subject to discussion among key stakeholders. Even if the select committee rejected this increment, the minister of finance would have signed the SI. lets not blame the opposition for this day- light robbery and thieving by the PF pack. The PF should provide leadership by rejecting the salary increments.
SATA is a pimp a hustler…”like the saying goes politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often and for the same reason”
This is poor showing Mr. President. Rather than the Opposition MPs shooting themselves in the foot, you are all shooting yourselves in the foot.
You must judge soberly the mood of the nation and rescind your decision.
The Parliamentary whatever you say is responsible for awarding this percentage misguided themselves and all of you holding elected offices. Learn from His Excellence the Late Levy P Mwanawasa who refused to award pay rise to elected office holders and made sure this was not done under his watch.
it is time our leaders stop these childish behaviour! !!! Hasn’t history not tought us anything.
Ka TUBE kale mufulunganya!
We are in a lot of trouble people! Donchi???? hahaha
A house has been going without meat for sometime because of stringent measures. A child finds the father eating meat and asks him why he is eating meat and alone. The father says its not him eating the meat and refers the child to the mother. What would you think of such a father? Ba Sata ati father of the nation?
Irresponsible father who has no heart for his children but himself .furthermore an example is Michael sata
But you did not have to accept it. No one twisted your arm. You must think people are s-t-u-p-i-d. Nurses and doctors do more important work and yet you gave them peanuts. Roll on election time. Someone will cry like RB.
RB was not crying for himself but for what Zambians had let themselves in for.
Demons are boastfull,slanderous,authors of all lies,have no regards for any human beings,they are fo ols but claim to be wise,sadist,haters,jearous and st upid beings. This is party of their description. They live in these critics of Sata.
Kwena sure even the most ardent supporters of PF who never see anything wrong that this govt does on this one they cannot defend this selfish act of our so called leaders awarding themselves hefty salaries amidst strikes over pay. There is totally no justification for such an action when all these politicians have free maids, houseboys, fleet of cars, petrol and food. There is just an insatiable appetite for money which can only be called lust. PF you are so good at de-campaigning yourselves and blame no one but yourselves. Irony is that this news was first reported by ZWD but the powers that be want to pretend that they do not visit this site and want to even prevent adults like me from accessing this it. Talk of censorship and how hypocritical is that!
Correction: adults like me from accessing it.
what i dont understand is post newspaper reports totally different news compared to other papers. nothing against the government. the only news post has is developmental. on post everything is just too good.
My brother, Membe is on Sata’s payroll. He has a reason to report like that. Membe’s greediness has reduced him to a shameless bootlicker. He reports like that to get favours from plot 1. It is only sata who can help him pay or clear those huge debts he is owing lending institutions. In addition, Membe needs access to government contracts. As one of the rewards for campaigning for the PF in 2011, several POST employees were offered diplomatic jobs. I was shocked to read the main story and the editorial in today’s POST. I compared it with what the same Membe wrote way back in August 2008 when MMD increased leaders’ salaries. My conclusion is that Membe has no morals. Not even bad ones.
Loads of rubbish from this sick flop of a president. Just say you are greedy and you don’t mean well and never meant well for the common good of the nation and the masses. You have a one track agenda – enrich yourself, your relatives and friends. Your hour of reckoning is fast approaching. Shame on you Sata and PF!
The buck stops with you Mr President, make a name for yourself and reject this increment. You don’t need this money. You used to be caring and a ‘people’s man’ but what has happened to you, has power gone to your heard so fast? You are doing all sorts of wrong things now and hoping that 2016 is too long for us to remember, you will be shocked that now we have started remembering.
this is the same man who campaigned for money in your pockets. now we know he was campaigning for more money in his pockets. plus he goes out of country without telling us where he is using tax payers money. thats what happens when you pick a street cleaner to be president.
I have said before that there is something very serious about Sata’s seemingly apparent inability to reason intellectually! He never was able to in a consistent manner anyway but since ascending to power, he seems to be permanently in an erratic and stupendous gear all the time. I would love to see him interviewed on TV or radio, live and unedited, for an hour. I tell you things will fall apart, the man we have for a president is a stupid ***** incapable of any length of intellectual reasoning. No wonder he cannot fire Wynter or GBM, because he knows they know he is a moronic imbacile.
Sad dvlpmt indeed luking @ peanuts given to professionals in health sector! But now opposition paarties wen asked about their source of funding they claim comes from MPs and well wishers. How did they agree to that if they are not hapi for their Presidents to blem Sata? I hope they will refuse to get the increament! Selfish quacks!
This matter was not discussed in parliament. It was ABC instructed by MCS to do that through an SI which is a prerogative of the Minister. If anything they are misusing these powers. So opposition MPs had no hand in it.
Why splitting hairs about a paltry 10 percent increment when some executive officers in govt only spend 10 percent of their time in offices and spend the 90 percent shuttling between their residential plots, attending ‘meetings’ outside the office or at ‘allowanced’ workshops out of town.
FLASHBACK: WHAT GREEDY HYPOCRITE SATA SAID ABOUT PRESIDENTIAL AND MPS INCREMENTS IN 2008
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Levy opposed Cabinet pay increment – Sata
By Patson Chilemba (Post newspaper)
Saturday August 02, 2008 [04:00]
PATRIOTIC Front (PF) president Michael Sata yesterday said President Levy Mwanawasa opposed salary and allowance
increments for constitutional office holders and
senior government officials last April.
Commenting on Cabinet’s approval of the salary and allowance
increments, Sata said President Mwanawasa did not
want the increments to be implemented “That
budget, those salary increments, were approved in
March. But Levy did not want them to be
implemented because they were too high. He
realised the difficulties which we were going to
have about…
Saturday August 02, 2008 [04:00]
PATRIOTIC Front (PF) president Michael Sata yesterday said President Levy Mwanawasa opposed salary and allowance
increments for constitutional office holders and
senior government officials last April.
Commenting on Cabinet’s approval of the salary and allowance
increments, Sata said President Mwanawasa did not
want the increments to be implemented “That
budget, those salary increments, were approved in
March. But Levy did not want them to be
implemented because they were too high. He
realised the difficulties which we were going to
have about fuel, difficulties ab
HYPOCRISY BY ITS BEST EXPONENT
money money money it’s a rich mans world
Pay retirees their dues very selfish hypocrites
Sata likuluku,he said people must sacrifice and he scrapped Fuel and Maize Subsidies but himself wants more money#Selfish leader indeed
Interesting to note how bad Zambian politicians are bad at their own political game. This was an opportunity for the president to play the populist tune and decline the salary increament, and people would have supported PF. The opposition too is docile this is the time to hit hard where it pains most, but bali ziii. My earlier comment was erased but I will say it again…”balya again ba mwankole”. Banyandule bali mu soup. If I were HH I would even be saying that ‘this is why I even left the pact becuase these fellas are not serious’, but ngwele naena ali ziii. Politics is about hitting your opponent when he is down, wamutundila naku mutundila so that he fears you. RB has phobia for monkeys becuase ka na mutundila. He knows the snell of monkey pee.
He sounds like he is talking from the wrong end when he makes such silly denials.
retard indeed
Mr President you are late down; this is not what you stood for in your campaigns. That is not fair to ride on the ignorance of people who trusted you; you are also building your retirement house way before you retire and ahead of former presidents whose houses have not been built. We reject this and we will wait for you in 2016. The next president must also remove your immunity and arrest you for stealing from Zambians.
A total disgrace of a President. I know Sata is dull, but I did not know he is this morally bankrupt. And it seems there is more where this dullness came from. The question is:- what lessons have we learnt and what is the solution to this damage to our Country?
Ati wako ni wako….so all the development is going to Sata’s home village? Development is good, but when it is so blatant that a certain part of the country is being favoured over others for obvious reasons, it becomes disgusting! This man Sata is morals or self respect! First he had the audacity to say he did not increase his own salary, but parliament did! We all know parliament is toothless….they are just there to collect checks. Sata runs parliament, as well as every other governement wing. Everyone waits for orders from “above” whatever the funck that means!!
Disgusted former Citizen of the Great Country of Zambia