Choma mayor Geoffrey Makaya has conceded that there is need to undertake a restructuring exercise at the municipal council because some workers are not competent enough to do their work.
Mr. Makaya said the local authority has come under serious criticism from the community because some officers were not able to discharge their functions satisfactorily.
Speaking in Choma at the weekend, during the close of a UNICEF sponsored workshop on sanitation, Mr.Makaya said it has now become desirable to carry out a restructuring exercise to address the human resource concerns.
He said councillors were also in support of government proposals to constitute the local government service commission to help address placement of qualified staff in councils.
Mr. Makaya said some of the administrative difficulties faced by the council were beyond the understanding of councilors.
The mayor was responding to concerns raised by Chief Macha on why councilors had failed to take action on a named chief officer who had been tasked to put up road signs in the town centre to stop trucks from parking but failed to do so for the past two months despite repeated reminders.
Chief Macha also wondered how council management had allowed a situation in which the internal auditor was issuing health permits to trading premises contrary to the provision of the Public Health Act which demands that only a qualified health inspector should perform this task.
Chief Macha, who is chairperson of the district joint monitoring team on sanitation, observed that there were a lot of anomalies in the operations of the local authority and therefore, there was a need for serious administrative solutions.
Leadership comes from God. No wonder some of them can’t perform
I think that internal Auditor has no Job discription, he’s a know it all person. Becareful my dear otherwise you will get burned stick to the Job you know better.
Using the word “some”, is actually an understatement because the correct word should have been “most”. But then, if this has been a concern for a long time now, why haven’t those tasked with correcting the situation done anything about it? Simply blaming others also is not fair. You mean even the whole lot of the DC did not realise that it was wrong for an Auditor to issue Health permits? Can he honestly say he didnt know? Like i have said before, in this political dispensation, the only words floating around these leaders’ lips are, “I don’t Know!”.
And some are not. Just like if you’ve got one leg shorter than the other, the other will be longer. Go figure, Genius!
Press Clipping:
Reporter: Your Excellency, what are you expecting from todays North South corridor meeting?
Pres.Kibaki: We want to explore ways of building infrastructure to enhance trade between Us.
Reporter: And from Zambia’s perspective, your Excellency?
RB: You wont go far in your carear if you behave like that! The answer is simple, I don’t know because as you are aware, i have only been in office for four months. Not even a magician can have an answer to that question!
we vote for these councilors and I know it comes back to us as voters to see the caribar of the person we are voting for. Its easier to choose the better leader coz leadership is an inborn quality which can easily be noticed.
Same situation in all Councils, even in Central Govt its the same situation. Very sad state of affairs
The calibre of voters need to be questioned too. How did they vote for such people.
These voters will never give you alogical explanation as to why they voted in that manner!
There has to be formulated a deliberate policy to scrutinize them on the basis of their intellect before being subjected to our poor and crippled voting system … which comes in the name of democracy!