Former government workers who went on voluntary separation in 1999 have today protested at Cabinet Office demanding payment of their retirement packages.
The 3, 523 retirees who separated with the government under an International Monetary Fund Programme to downside the Civil Service claimed that they have up to now not been paid their money.
Speaking to the Hot FM News crew during the protest, the affected retirees demanded that they be paid immediately to ease their sufferings.
They have lamented the continued failure by successive governments to honour their promise to pay the retirement packages with many of their colleagues having died leaving the money behind.
But Acting Secretary to Cabinet Patrick Kangwa has called for patience among the protesting retirees saying their matter is receiving adequate attention from government.
But Acting Secretary to Cabinet Patrick Kangwa has called for patience among the protesting retirees saying their matter is receiving adequate attention from government. I HOPE PATRICK CAN WAIT THAT LONG WITH PATIENCE.
Don’t protest, we know you want to be heard which is right. This will be sorted out. The mediocrity of the PF is gone.
@2 Yeka, was PF there in 1999 you quack?
UPND will sort it out despite not being there in 1999, so this quack calling himself wajiona needs to be told. These are people who think to find solutions you must have been there when something happened.
#3 Just imagine. Next will be what happened in 1964
These people have been paid. They come up at every change of Government. They will come up again after UPND leaves power. Records and officers who have worked on their benefits are available for consultation.
So unders the presidency of Chiluba, Mwanawasa, Banda,Sata & Lungu…5 Presidents & u never protested???????
They know there is a working government now, let them protest, it is provided for under the constitution, the days of the PF Police abuse are long gone
PF was there for last 10 years and they did nothing. UPND will resolve the ka small problem.
For Christs sake We must not mistreat or dehumanize our own people like this.
The kid at DMMU is out firing people because they just go to work to watch TikTok. So what, who works at State House, nobody.
That boy need to go and interview those protesters what kind of jobs they were doing in 1999. They were doing nothing except making tea to their bosses.
They always resurface every time there is change of government then fizzle out. If your claims are genuine why not take it to court like others.
Its like everyone have got hope in the current government to receive his or her share.
#10 Mr True… that was their commitment. I have just asked my unemployed nephew to leave my house and go to his father’s house. He told me he would a job as early as October 2021
It’s January 2022 and he’s still eating my food, using my utilities. So it’s time for him to let have my deserved retirement.
If you don’t know this story please keep quiet don’t show your idionce in this matter. These people are coming from different departments of the civil service some were teachers some nurses and Agriculturalist to mention but a few. The money the are fighting for was not Zambian but donnor funded but the Zambian government stole from then. No matter how long it takes if something is yours it’s yours.
Some of these peoples children are now prostitutes and some have died by the gun because they have failed to pay their school fees go to school. Who has been bleeding these monsters no one but the government.
There is a lot to this issue and should feel for these people and not to starting mocking them. The president and his team are wise men, They can not just walk up to start paying…
If you don’t know this story please keep quiet don’t show your idionce in this matter. These people are coming from different departments of the civil service some were teachers some nurses and Agriculturalist to mention but a few. The money the are fighting for was not Zambian but donnor funded but the Zambian government stole from then. No matter how long it takes if something is yours it’s yours.
Some of these peoples children are now prostitutes and some have died by the gun (criminals) because they have failed to pay their school fees go to school. Who has been bleeding these monsters no one but the government.
There is a lot to this issue and should feel for these people and not to starting mocking them. The president and his team are wise men, They can not just walk up to…