Government will endeavour to provide a safe and secure environment within which all investors will operate.
This is contained in a statement released to the media in Lusaka yesterday by Chief Government Spokesperson Kennedy Sakeni.
Mr. Sakeni assured the Chinese community at Collum coal mine and investors at large, that Zambia is safe for them and their investment.
He stated that government deeply regrets the death of a Chinese supervisor who died during a workers protest over wages in Sinazongwe, Southern province.
Mr. Sakeni said government is confident that police will carry out thorough investigations on the incident in order to bring the culprits to book.
He said the incident is unfortunate and uncalled for adding that it is abnormal of the peaceful and hospitable nature of the Zambian society.
He has since urged workers as well as employers in the country to embrace dialogue in resolving their differences.
Meanwhile, barely four days after workers at the Chinese run Collum Coal Mine in Sinazongwe protested demanding to be paid the new revised minimum wages, another group of workers employed by a Chinese firm to construct Zambia Air Force (ZAF) houses in Lusaka have downed tools for similar reasons.
A check at the construction site in Twin Palm area found that the workers had abandoned the area.
According to eye witnesses, the protests started in the early hours and by around 09:00 hours, the workers had left the scene.
“It’s like they are copying what happened at Collum Coal Mine because they were demanding for more money. They started protesting around 07.00 hours,” the source said.
Construction works of the modern infrastructure have reached an advanced stage.
Efforts to get a comment from the firm’s management team proved futile.
ZANIS
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Hon. Mr Sakeny, can you please clarify when the rule of law and Government International obligations are going to be restored?.
This Sakeni guys sucks.You don’t go licking any foreigner for investments if they’re a danger to the zambian people.Sakeni don’t “suck any” .
The incident of killing a chines national has been an issue ever since it happened,was it a serious issue when our own people where short at the same mine?Did that chines who shot the people arrested?I think its time we started putting all these things in order.We know its really bad…bt treat the cases equally.
The investors are safe… but the Zambians are NOT safe from some of these heartless and ruthless investors you are bending over for!
Some body is killed and you say Zambia is safe… what is this F.O.O.L talking about
Can any invstor take such a guy serious?
I thought as PF we are against Chinese infestors? What has changed now? O I Forgot!!! Sata’s chinese are different from RB’s chinese. I never stop laughing these days.
The PF govt should remember their promises which put them in power.
1. Chinese investors offering poor conditions of service
2. Investors bringing general workers or others when we have equally or more qualified Zambians dying on the streets
It’s high time these were addressed
You reap what what you sow
@ #9. You are more than right. the pf got to power because of those promises. i wonder what has changed now. the same chinese the promised to chase are the same they are promising to protect now. what a wonderful world!
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