Newly recruited government workers in the newly created Luampa district in Western province have not yet been put on government payroll.
Addressing civil servants in Luampa at a meeting held in the Evangelical church in Zambia chapel yesterday, Provincial minister Josephine Limata urged the workers to carry on with their duties and assured them that her office will facilitate their salaries to be out without any further delays.
Ms Limata urged over 70 civil servants to show love, unity, respect and support the government of the day in order to foster development in Luampa district.
She said government workers should not despair as the Patriotic Front government was in a hurry to work and bring the much needed development to Luampa and the entire Western province.
Ms Limata said President Michael Sata has shown great love for the poor people of Western province by creating nine more districts that has seen many people employed resulting in more money in people’s pockets.
And Luampa Acting District Commissioner, Mwanangombe Musokotwane complained that his office was facing challenges of feeding the over 23 civil servants who are not yet on government payroll among them drivers and office orderlies from various departments in the district.
Mr Musokotwane said the majority of the affected government workers were coming from different places where they could not go and get food adding that they don’t have relatives in Luampa in order to be assisted.
He said agent measures should be sought by the provincial administration in Mongu so that those civil servants who are not yet on government payroll will not face starvation.
Meanwhile, Ms Limata has allocated K100, 000 from the 2013 Constituency Development Fund (CDF) to rehabilitate Kahumbu local court and Lui primary school in Luampa district whose roofs were ripped off by strong winds last year.
She has since requested the council management to ensure that the CDF monies will be given to committed contractors as the funds belonged to the community of Luampa.
Ms Limata complained that all the schools that were built recently by local contractors in Western province have not seen the test of time as all the structures are either blown off or collapsed leaving those schools that were constructed in the first republic.
She said the poor supervision by the ministry of education management in the province has deprived many children from accessing quality education while some school projects have stalled.
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since when did the minister start allocating CDF to projects? i thought that was the job of the PDCC or the DDCC
I don’t see the need for civil servants to complain. They ganged up enmass to press for change. Let them endure quietly with lessons learnt until 2016!
@Chindakwanda-Galileo Galilei
Iwe the excuse you are giving is totally baseless, because they were paid only halve of their salary ,why? How can that be true when all the councils created by Sata except those in Muchinga are in the same dilemma. Forgetting we can accept if it happens only for only one council.
Its just typical CNP behaviour of Sata and PF. When he was told MMD left $2billion in reserve he thought he could just go on a spending spree without a revenue raising plan.
Uko and this the government that want recreate INDECO when they can’t afford to pay workers in newly created districts. Luampa is not the only one facing pay problems. Its all the created districts apart from those in Muchinga.
PF has no clue about what they are doing.
School projects have stalled because Sata has syphoned all the money into his family pocket. Get back the K2.5billion he gave to his wife and all projects will back on track.
Imwe naimwe, this is the job of civil servants. Someone did not do the inputs at PMEC. There are officers whose job is to enter details of newly recruited staff as long as they reported in good time before the inputting window closed for the particular month.
If indeed those Officers received their letters of appointment and reported for work, then government at a higher level did its part, save for some “incompetent Officer” who may not have included their names. It could also have been banking details as some places may not have banking services and so the new appointees may have not have opened their accounts in good time. Get to understand government operations guys
This is a circus government which does things without planning. How did they create districts when they knew there was no budget for such an activity? How can Limata appeal to the starving people to show love when they have no money to feed themselves and their families? Meanwhile Limata has a free vehicle, free fuel, allowances and so on. How can she say the PF will put more money in people’s pockets when they have shown that there is no money? This is a government of hyenas.
Central province too, new government workers have not been paid.Rit now am with some who are applying for advance salaries.
Why employing people from other areas other than local qualified people?
Districts are not created, they come into being by the commercial activities that are happening in that place.Because of the same, people are enticed to visit,conduct business,invest etc. You do not create districts by finger pointing or just dreaming, there should be something that attracts people and finance for the place to blossom into a district, not pronouncements.
Patrick, direct LT to put your comment as an article so that PF government can see the sense how towns, districts come in existence.
in 90 days bla bla bla. its the akandabra governance. since we shall rule by the ten comandaments miracles shall also follow. Like let there be a road and for sure a road is paved. Let there be districts for sure more are created.
Tell PF government that there times of miracles when it is necessary in special cases only. Tell PF to stop the akandabra governance, God expect us to work. Put that in LT for PF government to see because it rarely reads no comments in the press. Thanks
Very irresponsible government. Workers are employed and at the end of the month are not paid. What a joke! Where is Willie Sanda, Peter Mwansa, E.Chela and Chikwelete to protect the citizens and workers of Luampa District. Where are they to fight for the priorities of unpaid workers? Where is the Patriotic Front in Western Province to demand for immediate expulsion of Luampa member of parliament & minister of the province for the failure to fight for the unpaid government workers? This is the right cause & justified where PF is suppose to demand expulsion of unproductive members not in a case of GBM. See, they are there to fight for their bellies for unjustified cases, pretending they like president Sata, They are snakes in the grass that brought down RB, they can do the same to Sata