The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has released K420 million to Samfya district council for payment of outstanding night allowances to 762 polling assistants who worked during the last presidential elections.
Samfya district council secretary Patson Kapoba told ZANIS that the Electoral Commission of Zambia had released K420 million to the council.
Mr Kapoba said the amount was not earlier budgeted for because ECZ anticipated that polling assistants would be recruited and work within their locations .
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About 762 polling assistants in Samfya were recruited from the boma and deployed to polling stations in outlaying areas because people in those locations became ineligible to be appointed after failing the examination ECZ introduced as a mode of recruitment.
He said since polling assistants where recruited from the boma, it meant that they were made to spend extra nights at the polling stations than expected.
A check by ZANIS at the council today found hundreds of people who worked as polling assistants trying to check if their names were appearing on the list of those due to receive the allowances.
While at Finance Bank, there were hundreds former polling assistants standing in a queue as they trooped into the bank to receive their allowances.
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Thats good news!
Good money wasted on a sham of an election! sha!!
Thats really a good news for peple down there but with us its a shame. Damn this corrupt government like the RB for not using that huge money to clean some parts of the city which is the nations city. RB must think he act.
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