Thursday, March 28, 2024

Salary Cut for Top Civil Servants is not Mandatory-Kasolo

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Information and Broadcasting Permanent Secretary Chanda Kasolo speaking at the official opening of the Media Self Regulation Insaka
Information and Broadcasting Permanent Secretary Chanda Kasolo speaking at the official opening of the Media Self Regulation Insaka

The government has said that the decision by President Edgar Lungu to reduce his salary is final while that of top civil servants is voluntary.

Information and Broadcasting Services Permanent Secretary Chanda Kasolo has said that the President Lungu decided to cut his salary by 20%  and requested top civil servants and Heads of Parastatal willing to reduce their perks to do so voluntarily.

Mr. Kasolo said that the initiative is voluntary because civil servants are employed on contracts that cannot be altered.

The Permanent Secretary told ZNBC News that Secretary to the Cabinet, Dr. Simon Miti will soon issue a circular which will stipulate modalities of how the scheme will work.

Mr. Kasolo said that the modalities will be published widely so that those wishing to join the scheme can understand how the money will be utilized, adding that  President Lungu meant well and wants to support people in the society.

Mr. Kasolo also called on Zambians to stop speculating over the decision by the President to request other top civil servants and any Zambian that is willing to participate in the scheme because he means well.

50 COMMENTS

  1. Looks like your Lawyer drop out doesn’t understand the Zambian Employment Act!
    Cutting an employee’s salary unilaterally is illegal! In addition, salary cuts don’t work! What works is reducing the size of government by abolishing some ministries like Religious Affairs, and merging some like the two Education ministries! Next is restructuring the bloated inefficient civil service! Suspend all infrastructure projects and do a review of what can wait and what is near completion! PF is economically clueless about how to resolve this big mess they have created! They think the solution is increasing everything! ECL has failed and needs to be fired by his employers!

    • Ba President gave instructions, and as usual the subordinates refuse to obey the weak commands. Kasolo is saying that “it is up-to-you Zambians to take money from your pay and give away to corrupt government. As per Kasolo, his contract can’t be altered even by the so-called PF president!!
      Which Civil Servant cadre will VOLUNTARILY give 20% of his salary to Edgar???
      Please publish names those HUMBLE servants.

    • Lungu doesn’t care about all that. He seems to think that the more appointments he makes the more those appointees will back him and die for him when push comes to shove. That’s why he was warning his minions that they will suffer if he doesn’t win.
      Too bad for Lungu cos his minions will desert him and he will understand why RB cried during his concession speech cos even the army and police ran away from him. Lungu will also feel the same agony.

    • I said this already, by this action to cut his salary, ECL is just trying to build his image before 2021, nothing else. Don’t tell me he doesn’t understand the Zambian Employment Act!, otherwise why wait only to be embarrassed by ka Permanent Secretary to tell him what the Employment Act says.
      He could have added the word “voluntary” in yesterday`s statement.
      He thinks after letting Amos go and firing KZ, then with this bluff, he will be applauded? Fuseki..it won’t work that way.

  2. What a mess.
    I f he meant well he should have proposed selling the presidential jet which is a real cost to the country. Not his ka salary reduction.
    What a Joke

    • After me now and repeat a 100 times:

      PF out !! x 100
      Chagwa must fall x 100
      Zambia is bigger than PF x 100
      Zambia shall be free x 100
      One Zambia One Nation x 100
      2021 we want change x 100
      HH hear our cries x 100

  3. Unbelievable!! Unbelievable!! Voluntary-that is not what the President said. Honestly I am personally not only fed up but also tired of these flip flops of what is going on in PF. Just the other week, we were being treated by Mr Charles Banda and his PS Chomba over the death trap of a building. Today it is the President and his PS Kasolo. Just what is wrong? The President, being a lawyer, was expected to know that contracts of employment can not just be altered by a mere directive especially that if there is no such a clause to support that. I suggest we do not go ahead with legalization of marijuana otherwise it will be worse than this.

    • @Teaching Council – laughing out loud and rolling on the floor. Hahahahahahahaha – you are so funny. These guys have already started sampling the marijuana me thinks. Likali baka’amba, likaki. I will council my salary. Tututututu likali.

  4. But why announce the cut in the first place if it is voluntary? If my boss puts me in such a conundrum, I would simply tell him that he will have to let me get an extra job because I can’t afford to live on hand to mouth.

  5. I THINK WE NEED TO PRAY FOR THIS NATION. A LOT NEEDS TO BE DONE. I THINK PRESIDENT LUNGU MEANS WELL FOR THIS NATION. BUT HE LACKS A COMPETENT TEAM OF ADVISERS. LET US BE HONEST. REDUCE CABINET, STOP SOME INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS, REDUCE TRIPS AND ENTOURAGES. LIKE IT OR NOT SUBSIDIZE SOME ENTERPRISES SUCH AS FUEL. CONSTITUTE A TEAM OF EXPERTS OUTSIDE POLITICS FOR ADVISE ON HOW BEST TO RUN THE COUNTRY. DO SOME IMAGE BUILDING BY REDUCING ON CADRES, DO AWAY WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE TOXIC TO VOERS SUCH AS MR CHITOTELA, KAIZA ZULU. ALSO DROP OLD AND TIRED PERSONS SUCH AS NKANDU LUO, KAPATA, UNCLE FREEDOM SIKAZWE.

    • Lungu himself is incompetent and since he is incompetent he appointed advisors as incompetent as he is. He is a dull man with zero vision bane and there is no way he can mean well for the nation when he is busy stealing Mukula money and buying second hand fire tenders for a million bloody dollars each!!Stop trying to paint this imbecile as someone who knows what he is doing. He is a dull corrupt thief who has no business being withing a million miles of the instruments of power!

    • Chanda
      How do you blame his incompetent advisers,who chise them?Honestly which president can choose Sikazwe as presidential minister, Chitotela,Kampyongo, Kapata,Sumaili.The buck stops at him.The only positive thing now is that he appears to have smelt the coffee, this may help us to recover something in 2021,otherwise he just has to go,and since the country is now broke cant he and his ministers lend us some…lol

  6. There was nothing voluntary in what we read and what the president said and we heard. These dullards are really a heap of rubbi.sh. What do they take us for kanshi. We cannot be that dull so as to take us for foo.ls. We are just waiting – someone else will say some other rubbish just tomorrow morning these guys are heavily uncoordinated in the way they run government.
    By the way when are they destroying the bridge along alick nkhata road after all there is no wataaa there but just a bridge – they can destroy it like yesterday. That was another comedy of errors by Pamafi!!!
    Disaster!!!!

    • The fact that a person like Lungu can be president gives them the guts to assume we will swallow anything they say. In a normal country Lungu would just be a low party official.

  7. Uko, I thought he said that he has directed Simon Miti to effect the reductions? Is this guy really a lawyer that you can entrust with a serious case or he is a goolible misfit masquerading as one? Indeed when God wants to remove you from power, he first make you go berserk. This is the end of these mangwams, hipocrits, nincompoops, charlatans and outright thieves. You can go to hell for all we care and rot in jail come 2021.

  8. This may also be a constitutional breach,the right to your pay or income is a constitutional right and the so called directive is clearly a breach of that right.Lungu needs help out of the kutchen it is too hot for him,he cant just insist on being in power coz he is afraid of jail…

  9. kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk ba Lungu bena kuwayawayafwe bushe kanshi how did we come up with this kind of leadership in this Country? Even the times of Kaunda, Chiluba, Mwanawasa, Rupiah, Sata we never had such mediocrity kind of leadership. Leadership that even fails to coordinate well in terms of policy directives. Everyone in this Government is a Spokesperson they know it all. Mwelesa twanaka nabo aba tutuleni twapapata.

    • You need to understand that this is a guy who was taken from a compound to statehouse. This well too big for his thinking.

      The is no lawyer which can be used to cut ones salary by 20 % voluntarily. Which means he does not even understand his own employment contract yet he claims to be a lawyer.

  10. Iwe Chanda Kasolo, first tell us which one of the two statements is fake news, is it the Presidenr’s clear statement or is it your “clarification”?

    Before you receive my comments you start withdrawing your own statements?
    1. What is 20% salary reduction for the president?
    2. I suggest that he keeps his salary and even increase by 20%, but instead he should surrender ALL the wealth that he has acquired one way or another since he inherited the leadership from Sata.
    3. Assuming salary cuts were effected, is the money saved going to pay the poor in society so that they can afford to pay Zesco.
    4. How about the President donating all those monies they donate to churches, marketers, etc. Those donations seem to suggest that these guys are very rich, alternatively can they be…

    • He has been fired because he misrepresented what the president said. Obviously the president did not say it was voluntary.

  11. I had just prayed and then this, whaaaaa!!
    I hope that this is just the beginning of answers to our solemn prayer to our Lord for rapid change, not 2sitting for 2021. The second second part prayer was that whatever changes He makes Trible HH should not be among the options, this is also being answered.
    When God wants to remove somebody he first makes them whati?

  12. Lungu is catching at straws in the dark…..that $75 million he paid for that presidential jet could have gone a long way in investing in money generating projects , not this con about reducing 20% of his pay !!!

    Lungu you have failed. Just give up.

  13. This PF administration is not sure whether it is going left or right.

    It is unfair to Zambians to be put under strain then show them further evidence of lack of ability to present real solutions.

    Let us be serious. This a country you are running and lives are at stake when you entertain mediocrity.

  14. “The President has also directed the Secretary to Cabinet Dr. Simon Miti to cascade the directive to all Non Unionised Public Officers including parastatal executives”

    ECL rules by ‘directives’, and the latest is not the first. Most of you have read a lot of other previous ones that have not been questioned. Have these directives subsequently been backed by law? You would expect that a ‘lawyer’ leader, backed by ‘advisers’ would know better. Yet, he has hitherto dictatorially expected all and sundry to pander to his whims and caprices – thinking that his role is merely to ‘order’. How many more of these ‘flip-flop behaviours are we going to endure?

  15. “The President has also directed the Secretary to Cabinet Dr. Simon Miti to cascade the directive to all Non Unionised Public Officers including parastatal executives”

    ECL rules by ‘directives’, and the latest is not the first. Most of you have read a lot of other previous ones that have not been questioned. Have these directives subsequently been backed by law? You would expect that a ‘lawyer’ leader, backed by ‘advisers’ would know better. Yet, he has hitherto dictatorially expected all and sundry to pander to his whims and caprices – thinking that his role is merely to ‘order’. How many more of these ‘flip-flop behaviours are we going to endure?

  16. J0nathan Mukula Ch@gwa IS TRULY A FAILED LAWYER!
    This chap J0n@ stole from a widow & was barred from practicing, (wrongly) advised his officials to illegally draw salaries after desolution of Parliament, now makes an illegal declaration that does NOT stand up to scrutiny.
    J0n@ sold Cold Storage Zambia, & whilst his peers were investing their payment for services rendered selling companies during Ch!luba’s privatisation J0n@ spent all his cut in Taverns na ma HuL3, & as a result was the only attorney amongst his peers to be residing in a friend’s garage, then to a Komboni, whilst his contemporaries resided ku mayadi.
    What do D@ft Zedians then do??
    TAKE THIS FAILED DRUNKARD WITH SUCH A CHEQUERED HISTORY, LAND HIM IN STATE HOUSE, GIVE HIM THE KEYS TO THE STATE TREASURY, then sit…

    • cont;
      then sit & wonder, how on earth did we get to where we currently are, & end up in this mess, living in a ch0lera plagued fa!led Banana ub0mba mw!bala sh!th0le Republic where nothing functions anymore & everything apart from Jon@ & Tas!l@’z pockets keeps going south despite inheriting a functioning State with full coffers, & Zero crippling debt, which had been cancelled due to the previous administration’s good governance?
      ONLY IN ZED BANE’ ONLY IN ZED!!

  17. 1.Selling the Presidential Jet and Helicopter will generate about $90 million.
    2.Dropping 118 District Commissioners will save about $7million per year in salaries and allowances.
    3.Cutting unnecessary foreign trips will save almost $2 million per year.

    • I agree Independent! Remember that one USA trip for crap fire engines costed us US $3million. We are talking of saving over $36million of such unnecessary trips per year. Now thats something.

  18. WELL DONE MR. KASOLO! CIVIL SERVANTS ARE UNDER CONTRACTS AND PERMANENT AND PENSIONABLE CONDITIONS OF SERVICE! ONE CAN NOT JUST WAKE UP AND SAY I HAVE REDUCED OR INCREASED CIVIL SERVANT SALARIES! THERE ARE STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS TO BE SIGNED, CALLED WHITE PAPER, AND ON THE BASIS OF THAT CHANGES TO SALARIES AND SALARY STRUCTURES ARE EFFECTED! AM SURE NO CIVIL SERVANT WILL WILLINGLY GIVE UP PART OF THEIR SALARIES BECAUSE OF INCREASED COSTS OF FUEL AND ELECTRICITY, WHICH MOST OF THEM HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO COMFORTABLY AFFORD EVEN BEFORE THE LATEST INCREMENTS!

  19. Kasolo should tell his stupid headless boss to stop issuing embarrassing directives that are a nullity at law. For a lawyer, Lungu is such a dunderhead, how did you guys end up with such a maddening ***** for president? Even those hyenas that ran against Mr Kaunda could have done a better job.

  20. Brethren, brace for more displays of total ignorance by former A grade students. I was gonna say this piece of economic ignorance beats them all, but from what I have seen so far we are assured of more and even worse displays, unless our Lord intervenes earlier as my prayers. The sad thing is that there is no sign of embarrassment after such displays.
    Ni pwipwipwi chabe pa Zed.

  21. Maybe this is the first product of the new political advisor…..kikikiki. Manje azafika bwanji ku 2021 a bambo hamble?

  22. Chanda Kasolo has corrected and overruled the President, so who is more powerful between a PS and a PF President? I mean who is ruling us mwebantu?

  23. So 20% of his monthly salary, WOW. Let say he have 100 000 K per month, thats then 20 000 K per month, try and split that with 100 000 people, the will each get 0,2 Kwacha per month WOW, and we all know that its atleast 1 million who need help.

  24. State House needs very serious prayers. Where are the “Christians for Lungu” hiding? They should offer prayers at State House like yesterday. Thank u your Excellence Kasolo for ruling the PS Lungu offside.

  25. #25 Claus: 100,000 poor souls at K0.2 or 20ngwee per month, good analysis. Now for 1,000,000 its 2 ngwee per month. So PF rules us with such logic ka? No wonder our debt is now 90%of GDP, and what do they say to that? Ati there is no country which does not borrow!! Meaning that they dont even understand anything about the economy which they are supposed to run. Even Minister chiteme recently permitted that statement to impress his boss. Mwe bantu, you mean the whole PF no one can advise Hamble? Nga ba Dr Ng’andu? Not consulted and caught unawares obviously.
    Now guys dont argue, Zambia belongs to Hamble to do what he feels like doing, anything!

  26. I can not see any difference between PF and that comedy called Fawty Towers. They are busy acting when the country is bleeding. Has the $1.4m been paid to AFDB or the Min of Fin is still processing payment? When is our first installment for Euro bond falling due?

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    I’m sure this is advise from the newly appointed political advisor Zimba. Welcome Mr. Zimba.

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