By Anthony Bwalya – UPND 2021 Aspiring Candidate for Kabushi Constituency
Let me hasten to state, that we have some hardworking men and women serving our country diligently and dutifully, ensuring that our people get both the most and best out of what our civil service should and must offer.
It is also important to emphasize, that a UPND administration is keen on achieving the following:
1. Restoring meritorious professionalism to our civil service so that only the best and the brightest are appointed to serve within the civil service
2. Restoring the functional independence of the civil service so that it exists and works for ALL Zambians and not for the UPND administration
3. Divorce both patronage and nepotism from the civil service and return integrity and transparency to the manner civil service appointments are done
The current civil service is largely under political state capture, and increasingly under assault from agents of the party in power who want to impose the workings of the party onto our civil service.
You can afford to have to have an incompetent head of state, an incompetent cabinet, even a degenerate Parliament. But you cannot afford to have a failed civil service because this is what anchors the delivery of actual public services to the public. The civil service is the engine and heartbeat of our public institutions and it is the civil service that sets the tone around how public policy must be implemented to maximize social and economic benefits to the people of Zambia.
Since the Patriotic Front (PF) first assumed the mantle of power in 2011, there has been a deliberate, well calculated scheme to capture the civil service for the benefit of the PF and for the sole purpose of furthering the PF’s prolonged stay in power.
This is why today, the PF can send it’s political emissaries like Bowman Lusambo to intimidate and threaten frontline personnel like teachers and health workers in Kabushi Constituency by bullying them into carrying out the dirty and failed agenda of the party in power, by ludicrously suggesting to them that they exist to primarily execute the agenda of the PF, and that they must, therefore, acquaint themselves with the dictates of the PF manifesto.
It goes without saying, that the PF want to scandalize the civil service by distributing the party manifesto to teachers and nurses.
The current civil service is now anchored on unmasked political patronage and inexcusable nepotism, where several poorly qualified members of the PF, as well as some mildly trained relatives and casual sexual conquests of some high ranking members of government have been awarded and rewarded with big civil service roles both here at home and abroad.
We have several clearly identifiable PF cadres who sit on various parastatal boards masquerading as oversight personnel, when neither their qualifications or experience do not match the scale of the responsibilities these people have been assigned.
This is why almost all public utility companies are in a state of desperate disrepair because we have unwittingly allowed the PF to capture and hijack the civil service for their political circus.
Because of this systematic capture of the civil service by the PF, we have had professionals who failed to put their foot down and resign their positions at the Ministry of Finance in the face of reckless government borrowing, which has now crippled the ability for various arms of the civil service to function at all. With our national debt now at a staggering $19.3bn, the PF government has now abdicated its legislative responsibility to disburse Local Government Equalization Fund. This means that our local councils are now unable to pay salaries, invest in capital equipment for effective service delivery and run other operations necessary in the fulfillment of their mandate.
On 2 March 2020, The Zambia United Local Authorities Union (ZULAWU) issued a damning memo in which ALL unionised employees have been instructed to stay away from work if their salaries, now in arrears for over 3 months, are not discharged by the 12 March 2020.
The education sector is also in peril because the PF government is not able to honour the basic obligation to pay salaries to teachers and lecturers, with many not having been paid a single Ngwee in this year 2020.
Eventually, our health system will come under attack as the government will start failing to pay our doctors and nurses. Already, we are not able to put essential medicines or equipment in our hospitals.
This dangerous capture of our civil service will spark civil unrest as it will endanger the welfare of our families, as banks reign in on super expensive loans arrears, with families about to lose property, businesses to financial institutions and loan sharks.
The protection of our civil service must be enough reason for all patriotic Zambians, to eject the PF out of office in 2021.
We need our civil service back.
This Aspiring Bwalya talks more than any other member or MP in the UPND. Where are the level headed UPND MPs. This is why they lose general elections. As of now a good three UPND MPs should be looking like potential presidents of that party. Biggest problem we have in Zambia is that both the ruling party and opposition put up on small “god” and try to squash the other possible or better future presidents of the country. Look at the USA, candidates in the opposition are campaigning to lead the Democrats and the nation. That is democracy, the UPND and PF have sole candidates how? Zambia should ask for public debates in these parties and the nation too.
Bwalya have you worked in the civil service? Have you ever heard of a cartel that existed before PF came into power? This cartel was employing its own people and thats why where ever you go -Ministries , you will find two groupings in a majority. This cartel was promoting only its members. If you are intelligent you should know this sir. So I doubt whether UPND will employ any Zambian regardless of Tribe given what has been happening in the civil service. My understanding is that in the UPND administration Nepotism will even be worse than it is in the PF.
Truth hates – your understanding is based on..??? Are you sure it can get worse than it currently is? When in the history of our country have we had such openly institutionalised tribalism as we have now where so many people have been retired on the basis of tribe or assumed political leanings? When have we had cabinet and senior government so tribally skewed?
Trying by all means possible to stay relevant hoping that they will give him the Kabushi seat, Sucker
Wanya, you will never taste power with this kind of hate.
Bwalya is quite intelligent and expresses himself very well. Indeed Zambia is in trouble with this PF government, as the source of all economic ills we are experiencing can be directly traced to over borrowing and wasteful expenditure, thieving and absolute plunder of the funds. $19bn that is owed to both local and foreign suppliers over just 9 years and the government can hardly point at anything tangible that has improved the quality of life, in terms of good and affordable education, health, food security, creation of permanent and rewarding jobs, all the things they promised Zambians not forgetting more money in their pockets. Now, taxes are everywhere, salaries have been eroded and the Kwacha has lost value. Life for an ordinary Zambian, someone who is not PF, UPND or any other, and…
“PF must not be allowed to blow up the Civil Service for political ends”-LT
That’s why we should champion for province rights; “In American political discourse, states’ rights are political powers held for the state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution, reflecting especially the enumerated powers of Congress and the Tenth Amendment.”
PROVINCE:.”1 a principal administrative division of certain countries or empires. .2 BRITISH
the whole of a country outside the capital, especially when regarded as lacking in sophistication or culture.”
The writer is correct.The tribalism is so open because even its proponents including the ministers are no longer feeling any remorse in expressing it.The sad par is the dollar is k15.47 because they would rather advance the tribal agenda rather deal with the economy.
Just to stray a bit from this topic, are kenya and malawian judges african?
ON THE CONTRARY, THE QUESTION SHOULD BE ” ARE LAWYERS THAT REPRESENTED THE OPPOSITION IN KENYA AND MALAWI AFRICAN”
This write up is too complcated for PF cadres to understand and appreciate. Their intellectual capacity is so shallow. All they are able to do is denigrate
and insult.
From Pf cardres to PF gassers
@John Mwelwa: When you develop a superiority complex the way upnd and its supporters have, its sad when ordinary citizens vote for PF like in Chilubi and Western. You have convinced yourselves that only your lot is intelligent and the rest of the Zambians and PF are dull. 2021, wina azalila anso….
This Athony things rubbishy
Anthony you can blow yourself up for all we care.
Kindly can some one tell me the name of the woman who has been doing the rounds with chella tukuta the photographer on social media. We need her services for party marketing services. Can any kind person tell me her name and ask her to contact me asap.