Vice-president Inonge Wina says Government has put in place measures and systems aimed at transforming and rebrand the Public Service.
Ms Wina said some of the measures include the rehabilitation of the Centre of Excellence for E-Government and ICT into a smart Zambia Institute to digitalise the Public Service.
In a speech read on her behalf by Secretary to Cabinet Roland Msiska during the Zambia Society for Public Administration (ZSPA) 2016 Annual Public Service Excellence Awards in Lusaka on Friday night, Ms Wina
said government will also introduce the performance contracts for senior Government officials.
“We recognise that in order to achieve all this, it will require a behaviour change among the public servants,” she said.
The Vice-President said the Annual recognition awards were a great motivating tool for individuals and organisations to help them transform the country’s public Service into an excellent organisation.
“Our Job as a Public Service is to make sure that the citizens of this nation are protected and receive exceptional public services, it is therefore my appeal that as we celebrate the recipient of the
Awards, we will reflect on how we should work to deserve recognition” she said.
Ms Wina said Government was proud of the achievements attained by ZSPA and the recognition given to local University professors and lecturers.
ZSPA president Kelvin Esiasa said the interest of his organisation was to see that Government policies were supported at all levels.
Mr Esiasa said he was glad that Government was taking full participation in the rehabilitation process through both technology and material rebranding.
“Government’s SI are also support at a level but we are seeing a situation were we Government would introduce a policy today and there’s is general outcry .we can’t please all,” he said.He appealed to government to do extensive consultation for citizen engagement in the policy formulation.
Meanwhile the office of the Vice-President won the ZSPA a recognition Award for the Best community initiative 2016.
And the ZSPA Justice Irene Chirwa Mambilima Distinguished Award that was this year scooped by Law Association of Zambia president Linda Kasonde.
Ignorance at its best.
You are talking about re branding GRZ yet you have a person to move a chair for you as though you are queen. All mere rhetoric. These African leaders act like kings and that is why Africans are still lagging behind when we are smart academically.
Hey Mama Inonge, how much is mealie meal, a litre of fuel & has load shedding tears finished?
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@House fly
You are ignorant of how politicians work. The speech is read ON BEHALF OF THE VICE PRESIDENT but it was actually written by the inviting organisation itself. So, the speech was written by the Secretary to the Cabinet. The Vice President looks at it and approves. It becomes her speech. Next government’s vice president will have the same speech because the civil service does not change. If you follow closely, this was said by Dr Msiska in 2012.
You don’t know what stone age is until you step on Zambian soil. Despite these thugs making foreign trips they don’t seem to learn anything from their travels.
What do you call those guys who put on blue uniforms, who always stand behind our ministers and other senior government officials? Ba messager.
These should be drafted into the police to serve the general public and not what they do currently, i was shocked to see a picture of one of them carry a handbag for some permanent secretary, i was like God have mercy! This lady can’t carry her own handbag.
….typically, these are ‘single’ servants starting from bo longer Wina herself.
Is there any honour reading a speech on behalf of some one that was written by a third party? Most probably the parties concerned don’t say what they mean.
Too many commemorations prompting people to say anything which they don’t mean in their hearts. Every day on ZNBC TV there is a Minister or Permanent Secretary commemorating all following days, World AIDS Day, United Nations’ International Day of Persons with Disabilities, International Volunteer Day, World Soil Day, International Civil Aviation Day, International Anti-Corruption Day, Human Rights Day, International Tea Day, Good Governance Day (when governance is poor), Women’s (husband killers), Teachers’ Day, Day, Nurses Day (ever striking teachers & nurses), etc. If you want to know what loafing is or looks like, come to Zambia you will see how govt officials take pride of celebrating all these days year round & feeling proud to block the roads at the expense of productivity.
People are really tired and frustarted. I hope they Can smell the coffee and get with the program