Kasempa Member of Parliament, Kabinga Pande, has directed councillors in the district to sensitise their people against aiding foreigners to acquire Zambian National Registration Cards.
Mr Pande, who is also Foreign Affairs Minister, observed that foreigners obtain Zambian National Registration Cards through help from Zambians themselves.
Mr Pande noted that without help from local people, it would be very difficult, if not impossible, for a foreigner to obtain a Zambian National Registration Card.
He pointed out that the trend should stop, saying it is dangerous because the character and background of some of the foreigners who are aided into obtaining the cards is not known.
Mr Pande sounded the warning in Kasempa yesterday at an ordinary council meeting held in the council chambers.
“This is serious. It is important that you councillors go flat out in your wards and sensitise your people against helping foreigners obtain Zambian NRCs. It is dangerous to help someone you do not even know to obtain a Zambian card. What if he is a thief?” he said.
Mr Pande’s warning came after the Council Secretary told the meeting that the mobile registration exercise was expected to commence yesterday (June 1) up to August 29, 2009.
Meanwhile, Mr Pande cautioned council management against increasing salaries for council employees, saying the increase should be done only if the council has the capacity to sustain the increment.
“If the council is able to increase the salary for its workers, well let it do so but there should be a resolution not to get into arrears. It should be sustainable and further correspond with the output from the employees,” advised Mr Pande.
He noted that some employees in the council just report for work and end up warming themselves in the sun and loitering at the expense of working and only to demand salary increments.
The Kasempa MP advised councillors to monitor work done by council employees, saying councillors should show interest in what is happening in the local authoruty.
Earlier, Council Chairman, Taipi Kyendamali, told the meeting that the council’s move to increase salaries for its employees is aimed at motivating the workers.
Mr Kyendamali said the council has the capacity to pay the proposed increments to the workers.
Mr Pande is in Kasempa to monitor development projects and to received submissions of development nature from various sectors in the district.
ZANIS
Good point. Too many kabokes have now become Lozis!
This is a joke ka, if some comes to you with ma half ati help me please , some pipo will jump to help. All i can say is What is the Govt doing to stop this illegal scum.?
Ba Moze, waht are you doing here you are supposed to be with Miss Daisy, Dady go back to the other thread, she is waitin.
Ba Honey!! Ok mama.
#1 Bottom line is all boarders have people akin to each other on either side of the boundaries. It will be very simple for a person on the Congo side but falls under say Chief Mwata Kazembe to get our NRC because there will always be an uncle, grand father etc on the Zambian side to sponsor him for one(NRC)
If you know what the locals in that area are doing to help those foreigners to obtain Zambian NRC’s, then ba Minister what security measures have you put in place to stop the vice. I think these people are being help by the officers from the same department because they know how the system works.
Atleast you guys from that department help them get ama /2 and not our /1
Ati what if he is a thief?..sounds timid
#3 Hmmmm..mwileka abakashana batemwa ba Moze pa Brrrrog banpate..ndiwakaele.lol
#8 Miss Daisy, also extremely un minister like!!
Kasai teti umucimfye
On Kasempa Member of Parliament, Kabinga Pande, has directed councillors in the district to sensitise their people against aiding foreigners to acquire Zambian National Registration Cards, well done boss. The are lots of risks associated with allowing foreigners acquire Zambian Citizenship through the reception of NRCs. This must be stopped in all partsof Zambia. A case in point is the Zimbabwean woman who was found with a Zambian Passport and she couldn’t get it if she did not present NRC details at the Passport Office.
MP and Minister Pande is doing a great job for Zambia and his Constituency. I hope other MPs and Ministers will take a leaf from him.
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Prevention is better than cure.
Akaleta mahafu,straight ku NRC office without hesitating.
Help your neighbours so that one day you will be helped
it was actually the ID cards that needed to be computerized first. not the passports.
Iwe Pande, ukwikala bwino kulyafwilisha wemwine