The Opposition All People’s Congress party (APC) says the 2015 budget is far from being a pro-poor budget as it puts a lot of people in misery.
APC President Nason Msoni observes that with the prices of most of the goods and service expected to go up it is unreasonable for government to maintain the wage freeze for public service workers as people will be paying more from the same salary.
Mr. Msoni also noted that the continued wage freeze by the government is likely to promote lawlessness on the labour market as governments sets standards on the labour market hence the move by government to maintain the wage freeze may have a spill over effect on the other employers on the market.
“We think this is the worst budget that this country has ever had in a long time because 1; it has continued to maintain and impose the wage freeze on one sector or one group of workers in the country who are the civil servants which we find most unfortunate and also by this action or this token it is inducing lawlessness on the labour market.
“Government is a torch bearer, it sets standards so by setting that standard of imposing a wage freeze invariably other employers on the labour will follow suit with what government is doing and we think its unfortunate because we think there is no justification to maintain a wage freeze on one group of workers because everything is bound to spiral out of control in the next 2Months because the prices of all the things are bound to go up,” Mr. Msoni.
He added: ” transport is certainly going up after the doubling of presumptive tax so we think that this budget will cause more misery first and foremost to public service workers and secondly to Zambians in general as we expect all prices to go up.”
And Mr. Msoni has noted that the country’s external debt is likely to increase to over 7billion with government’s trend of borrowing continues at the same rate has been borrowing since take over office.
“We think that this government by the end of its expulsion whether in 2016 or so it would have contracted a debt stock of over 7 billion at this rate and the reckless borrowing. Also our view is that if the 2 percent is just for domestic borrowing we think that government is not being sincere and also we think that if the 2 percent extends to foreign then perhaps that makes a bit of sense but obviously that is not the case,” Mr. Msoni.
Mr Msoni also expressed concern with the continued absence of the President from the public eye.
“We fear for the worst with the Chief Executive Officer in a semi comatose state with lack of control over the running of the State we expect that the likely wood of an over run can not be ruled out like it has been the case with the previous budgets so our view as APC is that this budget is far from being a pro poor budget as it leaves a lot of people in misery,” Mr. Msoni said.
It is anti-poor!
PF has never been Pro-Poor. To think otherwise is delusion of the worst order. What PF has managed to do is trick the gullible majority that they will have “more money in their pockets”, when the opposite is the truth.
But the power of the ballot belongs to the poor. These PF dummies need to know that.
Musoni is an ldiot
Thanks
Since when did this Govt think about the poor , My Grand mother my mother and my children are suffering because every thing have gone up in shops . No jobs , no constitution . 90 days song has changed in to 90 years
Even Jesus acknowledged that there will always be poor people around. Mr. Msoni must tell us how many poor people he has helped establish an business.
Voila! A classic example of cognitive dissonance.
Is there value in knowing how many people Msoni has helped set up in business?
Deja Vu you’re a big fool to think like that.
Indeed there are many one-man parties in Zambia; specifically those of Msoni, Mlongoti, Rev Bwalya, the jail-bird Mpombo, to mention but a few.
Imwe naimwe those days of price controls are over; you need to get over the idea of expecting government to work on bounding out pricing. We need to look to micro practices to ensure food self-sufficiency. I noted even before the Zimbabwean economy imploded most families, even in urban areas were self-sufficient with the staple (maize meal). This idea of playing town mouse all the time must end.
Ba Msoni, wats rely your objective?
U seam to object everythng PF does. Just wait for yo turn 2016 is around the corner, if at all u will be voted into power.
What he is doing is exactly his objective, namely to expose government’s shoddy practices, not to become president.
Msoni is indeed an IDIOT !
Negative elements who have nothing to offer to the people. What a dunderhead this shhit head. All you ever do is oppose and antagonize. Remain forever in opposition son of Satan and let the PF build this nation. Chi Free Mason Msoni without shame.
insoni e buntu. i ‘m made to believe that msoni prepared this statement before kasonde even started estimating the national expendture.some of these guys are not polotians but prophets of doooom. prophet msoni of nashalaneka church of the lizard kikikiki
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