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Pay Teachers who Marked the 2018 Grade 9 and 12 Exams Immediately, Demands HH

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Hakainde Hichilema

United Party for National Development (UPND) President Hakainde Hichileam has urged the ruling patriotic Front (PF) Government to be humane for once and stop playing games with teachers who marked the 2018 Grade 9 and 12 examination papers by paying them their dues immediately.

In a statement released to the media, the UPND leader said that he was further saddened to learn that the 2019 July GCE exams remain unmarked because the PF has no money to feed teachers who are supposed to mark these papers.

Below is the full statement

PF MUST PAY TEACHERS THAT MARKED 2018 GRADE 9 AND 12 EXAMS.

We continue receiving reports of PF maladministration and incompetence in most government departments but nothing is more disturbing and scandalous than the information that our teachers who marked the 2018 Grade 9 and 12 final examinations have not been paid their dues, almost a year after they diligently carried out their duties.

We are further saddened to learn that the 2019 July GCE exams remain unmarked because the PF has no money to feed teachers who are supposed to mark these papers.

Any serious Government will treat the Education sector as a priority and critical area alongside Agriculture and Health, but because of corruption, incompetence, lack of proper planning and misplaced preferences, the PF hanker for globetrotting with large delegations in luxury jets, as more important than paying teachers, buying medical drugs for our people in hospitals and boosting agriculture in order to bring down prices of food especially mealie meal.

Civil servants in government ministries are working under very difficult circumstances because resources meant to help them run their departments smoothly are being diverted to reward PF politicians with huge traveling allowances for expensive and unnecessary foreign trips, and causing by-elections.

We urge the PF to be humane for once and stop playing games with our teachers who marked the 2018 Grade 9 and 12 examination papers by paying them their dues immediately. They will need them to mark the 2019 exams soon.

HH

27 COMMENTS

  1. Mr HH in the news this past week but none is making an impact.
    The point about paying teachers may be good, but as usual his presentation is misguided because he cannot keep his ambition in check. He has ended up spoiling a good case, as usual.

    • “but because of corruption, incompetence, lack of proper planning and misplaced preferences, the PF hanker for globetrotting with large delegations in luxury jets”

      The UPND is a subset of the dullest dunderheads in Zambian society, to have such a charlatan quack as leader for a decade and a half. 14 years of a failure under the naked Emperor Akainde.

      Hemperor Hakainde (HH) is naked and the goats in the village are laughing.

    • In a parliamentary democracy, both HH and ECL would be in parliament. Questions like these would be raised and answered there. The American constitution we adopted creates untraceable presidency, which doesn’t work for a small country.

    • In his dreams and hallucinations he is the defacto President of the Republic of Zambia but in reality he will never be the President of Zambia

  2. Thanks bwana Liquidator General Saturnia Cayman Islands Panama Papers Mwene Mutapa, please speak for former BP workers they need your voice and able leadership because they’re also suffering

  3. So the teachers have not been paid since 2018, i.e. one year ago. Now since 2006 or 13 years ago HH has owed us an apology or some kind of clarification about his (s)election to lead UPND on the basis that UPND can only be led by a tonga and that it is time for a tonga to rule. By the way which republican constitution were the UPND quoting? Or is it part of their submissions to NDF and parliamentary select committee on Consitutional Bill no. 10?

  4. This Under 5 quack is really dull. He’s just making noise.
    The International Criminal Court rejected the fake hiding in the Mongu bush for 8 hours. They said it’s cowardice.
    Supreme Emperor Akainde is walking naked and the children can see his uncircumsized oxtail between his legs. A dog walking in shame.

  5. Check these comments from the PF zealots. None of them are addressing or responding to the issue of teachers not being paid for almost a year – an indication of the wider PF incompetence and diversion of resources for their own aggrandizement. This is only a piece of the ‘iceberg’ in this regimes failure to account.

    Why respond in an irrelevant and personal manner to an issue that has national economic significance? Is it a wonder that we are where we are? PF dunderheads are continuously burying their heads in the sand and showing no compassion for the many that are at the brunt of their vision-less regime?

  6. Royalty are racist dogs only interested in a certain ethnicity.And eventually the starters of a tribal war.Peter Carlos Hinds.

  7. During slavery it was the same thing.Certain tribes given guns to put other blacks in slavery.Royalty are the same slavers to day as yesterday.With a hatred for certain blacks certain ethnic groups.Do not let racist whites determine black evolution.Peter Carlos Hinds.

  8. It’s clear that we are sick as nation. This man has spoken for some poor dedicated citizens of this nation then we have morons corrupted by greed attacking him. Are you people insane? So it’s okay not to pay allowances to teachers attending to such sensitive and important matters? Shame on you

  9. HE has nothing to talk about. Why bark at any cat you see pass by. He better deal with serious matters and let small issue be dealt by his cadres. Ala tondolo musuma don’t try to show a know it all attitude. Soon people will take you to a chilande lande without anything in it.

  10. And you wounder why teachers leak exam papers for financial gain to survive ????

    PF incompetence and corruption has far reaching consequences………whole systems of GRZ and up corrupt because of lungus GRZs corruption and incompetence…..

  11. I am a teacher myself, and was one of the 2018 markers. Upon completion of marking everybody at our marking centre were paid their marking allowance. Which part of the country or town is HH talking about? Can you be specific.

  12. if such was the case we would have by now heard such pending payments but again we can only come to an understanding that Hakaindez village people are playing with his head, his medulla oblangata is scratching the surface of his skull, the man is unstable, the one who has put him in this current status is a certain chief well known for sleeping in pitch black darkness, don’t be surprised when you hear ZAFFICO HAS BEEN SOLD hagain.

    I’m breaker and I approve this message

    • @ Manga.
      Please provide proof. Don’t you think if this was true (that he doesn’t pay his workers), this wud have been an election issue by the PF?

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