ROAN member of Parliament Chishimba Kambwili says some technocrats in the civil service are making Government unpopular by failing to perform to people’s expectations.
Mr Kambwili also warned civil servants in Luanshya to change their attitude towards work.
Mr Kambwili, who is Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services, said some technocrats are making Government unpopular because they were failing to perform.
“Why should it take a minister or a Member of Parliament to come and tell you what to do? You are letting us down. As a council, can you do what you are supposed to do, people are insulting the President because of you technocrats,” Mr Kambwili said.
The minister was speaking shortly after touring health institutions and roads in Luanshya.
Why should it take a minister or a Member of Parliament to come and tell you what to do? You are letting us down.
Mr Kambwili directed Luanshya district community medical officer Peter Mulenga and Luanshya Municipal Council director of engineering Freddie Mukuka to improve service delivery to the people.
Mr Kambwili, who is also Chief Government spokesperson, made the warning after learning that the ambulances he donated to two clinics in Roan Constituency two years ago are not being utilised.
“I buy ambulances for two clinics from my own resources. The ambulances have been parked for two years without being registered. I want to warn the medical officer for Luanshya district, otherwise, heads will roll,” Mr Kambwili warned.
He said it is sad that the ambulances have been parked for slightly over two years while people in his constituency are forced to hire taxis to ferry patients to the hospital.
Mr Kambwili also said he is disappointed that the generators he bought in 2012 for the section nine and section 26 clinics in Mpatamatu have not been connected and the health centres are now affected by load shedding.
“I donated generator sets from my own resources for sections nine clinic and 26 clinic but those gensets are gathering dust,” he said.
Mr Kambwili directed Luanshya district commissioner Harold Mbaulu to ensure that the generator sets are put to use within four days.
kambwili kambwili ifintu nafilungula,,,, admit it!!!!!, dont start blaming and pointing in all directions,
Kambwili, the kwacha is not performing because of load-shedding and lies you have been cooking for the past four years. Stop blame game and start accepting your own incompetence. For example you have invested heavy in roads, year you have not invested on the production said so things can be moved on these road. For instance, you have not invested in agriculture in the rural areas, hence nothing will come out of these areas and the roads will not pay back the loans. By the way your sink fund, is a bad financial instrument which just holds cash which should be used actively in the economy. This just like holding cash in your house and not investing it so it can generate more.
@Ndobo, you see how people dislike Kambwili??? Imagine I buy you a beer you don’t even open it, then friendship is over.
Kambwili buys them ambulance, and he wants to force them to use them. They don’t want. He goes and buys generators because of Zesco problems, but again other clinics fear to use them, maybe people of Luanshya think all those donations are from Jerabos.
Kambwili, stop offering “gifts”, people don’t want them.
How dull can Hon Kambwili be?
Comment:Dalloo, no point.
Kambwili, you are equally to blame if you have not been following up two years down the line. If you are so careless from the top what do you expect from your juniors?
With stolen money its so easy to buy, but implementing and supervision is so hard. Did you also provide funds for registration and all the adhoc works for connecting generators. Budgeting Kambwili. You can not just deviate public funds like that. Like your boss you have been sleeping for 2 years & you just waking up. Its too late mate & stop threatening people who are under a different ministry.
What does Kambwili mean by “heads will roll”? He uses this phrase each time he is issuing warnings and ultimatum, but even after those warnings you don’t actually see “heads roll”
HIS head is THE one that needs to “roll”.
This buffoon is very loud in talking but action is beyond his competence.
He has not even learned a lesson from his ambulance debacle. Here are assets that cost money SITTING UNUSED!
Just like all the assets that have been bought with the US$ 8.7 BILLION that Chikwanda has borrowed. How is Zambia ever going to pay back the money when these things end up like all the failed projects that were bought by the UNIP Government? The list is long!
Livingstone Motor Assemblers
Nitrogen Chemicals
Mulungushi Textiles
Mansa Batteries
Kapiri Glass
These COST MILLIONS! And what has Zambia got to show for all this money spent? Derelict looted buildings falling down!
UPND haters come on insult show your true colours.
UPND haters come on insult, show your true colours
Kambwili is failing yo perform as the minister of information a Government spokesman. What he knows is just building his corruptly obtained.
in any case, it is his head that can roll since it is bigger than a block.
Dora is waiting for RB to clear the way for her to be the PF spokesperson.
This fat Albert is likely not to be adopted. RB will not allow it
Ba Kambwili, threats don’t change situations, you think each time you issue a threat things change? No people are now very familiar with your threats, that’s how you talk. If Hon Kasonde issued that threat, people would take it seriously because he doesn’t issue threats.
These idi0ts in government are now accepting that they have failed and things are not ok. This is the same buffoon talking now who has always maintained that things are fine and development is there.
The mere fact that it took you 2 years to realise the inefficiencies show how pathetic you & your party are in running the country as a whole. PF, be it under the Late Sata or currently under Lungu, has failed lamentably in all sectors besides corruption & stealing. You guys have messed up the country so badly that I fear for generations to come. Don’t blame others for the immaturity you have displayed in running the country, from outside it looked to you as if Zambia was a nthemba, when you got in you found it to be a big company. May the Almighty answer the prayers of many & show you the exit in 2016.
How do they perform when you are in the fore front asking government agencies to employ cadres? At ratsa, we have your cadres who actually know very little about work and refuse discipline saying they report to you!!!
What do you expect sir?
Indeed what does this buffoon expect, when most of the technocrats are relatives, girl friends, sebeles and the lot who are given jobs for which they have no clue. There used to be a Civil Service Commission which supervised and assessed young civil servants to rise through the ranks to Director level, Under Secretary, Permanent Secretary etc; jobs in the diplomatic service was not for cadres, they were for carrier diplomats. These days what do you get get? Any one just because he/she knows some also not so knowledgeable minister, like Kambwili to supervise Traffic matters at RATSA what do you expect indeed??
I agree with Kambwili. There are many directors and provincial/district senior staff who are UPND members frustrating government services. They should be flushed out.
@ economic jackass
Fish starts rotting from head and not tail.
Ministers and not toilet cleaners are answerable for the performance of theirs Ministries.
President and not electorate is responsible for the performance of his government.
Did it helps to clarify issue at hand?
CK, two years is too loooooong for a follow up. I blame you and I think before ECL is insulted, people should start with you first…..maybe Martin myself was right…
The PF appoints cadres instead of professionals to do government jobs and then he Kambwili is surprised they are not performing. God help us. What did we do to deserve such mediocrity.
This thief! He steals our money & he comes back to tell us he bought us those koloboyis with his personal resources.
Why not tell him to take them away, who needs them. People elected a govt to work for them not buffoons who come to mock them.
Whose head rolled at CBU? Isn’t it yours that’s still rolling in shame?
Baseless comments coming from dull bloggers who are negative to development. Don’t think that upnd mms fdd will overhaul the civil service and employ all brand new staff never it’s the same lazy fulls who will continue till in 2099 when hh becomes president.
Those that are not qualified will fire themselves. UPND or who ever wins should not keep these guys appointed by these faggots.
The only protection you have in a job is performance and not entertaining Ministers whose wives are in the diaspora.
Sometimes I like him sometimes I dislike him. I dislike him for stealing part of the Golf club land and for some other things. But I like him that when he wants to act on something, he acts. But how come he never followed up on the generators and ambulances earlier? Still it’s time to Go Forward
People don’t like you and your gvt kambwili
You’re a bunch of failures
You’re all rude and insolent in PF
Point mr kambwili. We need people like u for presidency…! Too much laziness and I don’t care type of attitude in the civil service…! Fellow Zambians, plz lets change our attitude towards work…!
Good observation Hon Kabwili, frankly speaking Zambian working culture is very horrible and pathic and you wonder why we not developing fast, the world has now known Zambians as lazy people and don’t wanna work hard. Government can only do a little the rest should be us the people to work hard and help government fulfil its programs. Unfortunately we focus on trivial things in Zambia and blaming government everyday. Few months ago I was in Zambia and what I saw in terms of service delivery among the places I visited was really troubling and much has to be desired.
Yes the Zambian working culture might be very horrible and pathetic however the big question is; who made the Zambian working culture to be the way it is? Is it the people or is it all the Governments we have had. When you have parents who bring you up with the help of donations, what do you expect? Every time ni kaloba
Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe (for those of you that read his book, only published in Bemba), had predicted all this long time ago, but no one bothered
Don’t blame the ordinary people, as they just behave like their servants Politicians) do, and that is that
That’s it, blame everyone else but yourself, typical of losers.
For real
Surely how can they perform when the lazy bum in State House appoints arrogant cadres and empty tins to head them!!
Imagine and this Kambwili is really a disgrace
Did you sit down with them in the first place to find out why those things are still not utilized Mr. Kambwili? Sometimes it is good to go to the root cause other than just blaming people. Like someone, said did u provide them logistics to have the generators installed and ambulances registered considering that govt funding is erratic?
Whether people like Kambwili or not (I loathe him) they should seriously consider the message he is conveying to the nation. There is nothing happening in Zambia right now in terms of service delivery. Filthy and uncollected garbage have become Zambia’s national flowers. Meanwhile, health inspectors are happy being paid for doing nothing. Let us hope President Lungu learnt something about how to keep towns clean when he was in Namibia recently. The President is better advised to keep every minister on his/her toes. The ministers will in turn put pressure on the technocrats. Otherwise the Presidents humbleness (over humbleness) is not taking the country anywhere. Or is he clueless, as some people in the opposition claim?
Technocrats have all the brains but lack resources to implement. Check how much the 2015 budget is and what has been released so far. Surely can you blame technocrats? We have medical doctors in this country who can do wonders but lack necessary equipment to do so. You can only use the brains to a certain limit
Kambwili has a point. This mentality prevalent in Zambia of only working when a supervisor is around or when it is donations from outside the country (particularly from white quarters) is shameful to say the least. Why should the donor follow up on how you are utilizing his donations in terms of installation? I think it is reasonable to follow up in terms of operations and how the target is being served as in now – and it need not be immediately after donation or installation! What a country! Pathetic. We blame so-called leaders for things we are supposed to be doing ourselves. Pathetic!
In the meantime there is a full time District Commissioner to “oversee developments”! Can Kambwili roll this DC’s head within four days also?
Kambwili you say and I quote; “I buy ambulances for two clinics from my own resources. The ambulances have been parked for two years without being registered”. For sure how do you donate ma ambulances with out registration or providing money for that purpose? No wonder most Zambians are criticizing you and your Government
I have lost all what I had left, I just do not know who should be the next Presido, as most of the candidates are salaulas (recycled). It is a shame for our country to have a person like Kambwili as a minister, as this has proved to be a very big insult. God save us from all this please
To those pushing the line that Technocrats are not performing because they have cadres heading them, who apparently would report them to Kambwili if disciplined, I have news for you.
If you went to school and got a masters or PhD or whatever above that..prof fimo fimo, why DON’T YOU RESIGN if cadres get in your way. That is the professional way to deal with such situations particularly for somebody who calls themselves educated and a technocrat.
I think the biggest tragedy is for a technocrat to just hold onto a job for money or security reasons. I think that is more tragic than deploying a cadre onto ZESCO board. Technocrats holding onto their jobs for survival sake are the ones giving credibility to this sham of a Government. If you have brains as your credentials suggest and…
If you have brains as your credentials suggest and are being frustrated by cadres, just RESIGN!!! Get out of the rotten system and expose it. You are qualified and you can easily get another job some place else. Just just sit there and have cadres , who have never even seen the inside of a warfare (Holafeya we used to call it ) classroom disrespect you and insult you and even pee on you just because you need that PF Government job. Have some pride.
@ MMD Chief Bootlicker
Well said.
What happened? Did you finally see the truth?
Here is a good example of a very confused government. The official government spokesperson is busy blaming civil servants for lack of performance. His boss is busy appointing permanent secretaries. The people Kambwili is criticising are being appointed by his boss Edgar. Can’t they see why things are not functioning? Civil servants are not supposed to be political appointees. A permanent secretary should rise through the ranks and be able to have first hand knowledge of his ministry’s operations. An appointed PS knows nothing about how the Civil Service operates. He will spend his first year learning the ropes and while he is doing that time doesn’t wait for him, the institution below him is rotting. By the time he gets a grip he will be transferred and the Public Service Commission…
I think the President should really adopt a dog
Mr. Kambwili calls a spade a spade and most of you chaps who like condemning him are actually the ones who are failures. The problem that there is in Zambia is that a lot of people want things to be done for them as if they 2 year olds.
Mr. Kambwili, please don’t be distracted by these failures from UPND but instead continue with you leadership style, we who are successful know that is the only language a lazy and failed man can understand. They always find someone to blame and when you analyze them critically, they are either failures or they have squandered their lives somewhere somehow.
We need mor of you Mr. Kambwili in PF. The same people keep lazing around but when it comes to eating they are the first to get to the table. In Bemba, we say, UWAKANA UKWELA AKANA NOKOCHA meaning…
By the time he gets a grip he will be transferred and the Public Service Commission will be blamed for all the mess. The President’s appointments should be restricted to his cabinet and diplomatic heads of missions. He must never encroach onto the civil service and para-statals. These should be left out of political interference.
Okay you lazy chaps in UPND, honestly tell this media what you have done TODAY to make Zambia a better place. I bet most of you don’t even know when you last saw your back yard at your homes. All you know is imichopo and beer and you expect to have a luxury life, then go to US, UK, Germany or even apa pa South and come and tell us what you will experience there simple!
If you you don’t account for your time, you die in these countries. Here in Zambia, a thief like HH want to make you believe life is simple, its not! You got to sweat for your glory and anything short of it, bwana forget it. Ati Socialism, where on earth atase……..
It is PF promising manee in the pipos pockets and 1million jobs and again 500,000 jobs created by lungu just recently. Under PF life must be good.
Mr Ichishinka, what do you want us to do? Go with our buckets to pour water in the Kariba dam or force Chikwanda to pay the road contractors? We all have things to do and I don’t think any Zambian has asked you to buy them bread.
This Chishimba hero of yours is just an empty tin. I guess even that so called degree of his was given at gun point. A normal graduate has a way of getting things done. Has Kambwili succeeded in any of the ministry he has gone to? Word has it that he even failed to manage his home and the wife left for UK.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the season of campaigns is finally upon us! Civil servants and other professionals in government institutions are now endangered species. Every wrong that has happened since 2011 will now be their fault and will be fired left, right and centre. And with the current economic situation, beware!
Kambwili this is a result of the fact that GRZ workers including your self spend only 40 % of official time doing official work, the rest of the time you spend running your business empires. If you yourself spends 100% of work time doing official work, this would not have taken you 2yrs to follow the non use of equipments.
MMD CHIEF BOOTLICKER , YES YOU ARE , that is why MMD was booted out because of you idiocy .don’t you know, every job some one does helps to grow the economy of the country ? The driver of the economy is the president and his cabinet , now if the president is kawayawaya like lungu and the Ministers who are boot leaker like you, the country would be like Zambia where every one would be leaking the presidents boot . Do you knw Kambwili your self ? i do not knw if Lung monitors his ministers ,because kambwili does not sit the office . He is always in luanshya to run his companies mwamona etc .when the minister is always out of office doing his business how could the economy of the country pick ? Lungu monitor you Ministers .
journalists you are not telling us why the ambulances have been parked for that long.can you please tell us the full story.
Chishimba Kambwili,the despicable PF cadre,is always blaming others for his own failures; let us just have a new constitution so that we weed out these opportunists and thieves.
Chishimba Kambwili,the despicable PF cadre,is always blaming others for his own failures; let us just have a new constitution so that we weed out these opportunists and thieves who support and keep Kambwili in a ministerial position.
Those who have ears let then hear. Those with eyes let them see . Kanbwili or Chimbwili as one sister calls her is a disgrace in all aspects. Shame.