The Shoplifting Girls And The Presidential Emoluments
By Chilufya Tayali
I usually sleep late and wakeup early due to my own problems though I put up a smile as I take in all insults from social media. I don’t fight back those who insult or taunt me because I know they have their own problems and frustrations which cause them to vent their anger on me.
My friends, it is a fact that life is not easy and I feel very bad that I am not doing much to help the situation. I honestly feel compromised, but for nothing (I will elaborate that further later). I feel I am a let down to the Zambian public who want me to speak for them and yet many times I fell short of the grace to do so due to lack of resources or courage. Please pray for me, my spirit wants to but my flesh is weak.
I feel very bad to see my two sisters displayed all over social media for shoplifting of items worth no more than K500. They were treated in one of the worst inhuman manner especially for young ladies. Honestly why paint my sisters in that manner and expose them to the public like hardcore criminals.
The people that painted those girls must be punished by the law for such an inhuman act on the two girls.
I feel like crying to think of those two girls, knowing very well that, there are ministers who are cashing in Millions of Kwachas making Zambians suffer with no moral conscience for the poor and yet two girls are being painted yellow for shoplifting.
I am not justifying the criminality of the two girls but I am talking about the injustice that exists in our Country. I know of many illegal dealings and corruption going on but I want to give a chance to President Lungu to sort out this mess other than me holding Press conferences just to expose some of these Ministers and yet they keep their jobs.
Many people have been beckoning me to talk about the newly adjusted Presidential emoluments of K447,559 per year which is broken down to K 37,296.58 per month.
When I saw the messages, I tried to call my brother Amos Chanda to confirm the figure and to ask him a few questions but I could not get a response. However, Amos has been forthcoming sometimes, so I give him the benefit of doubt, just like I do in President Lungu for now but I hope my knells will not get bruised to much in prayers for them to answer.
In the meantime, my immediate reaction is that, considering the salary scale existing among public workers which starts about K3,100 for the lowest paid, the figure of K 37,296.58
for the President is not exorbitant.
I know that government Teachers now get an average of K7,500 per month. Directors in Government are getting in the range of K20,000 while PSes are getting just about K27,000 with Ministers getting slightly higher. Therefore, the President getting that figure is nothing to talk about unless you want be unfairly political.
It must also be noted that it is normal government practice to reveal emoluments for all public workers, including that of the President, annually and we all know that Government increased salaries for all civil servants this year 2016, therefore I want to believe this is how the salary for the President was also increased. So it is unfair to blame President Lungu personally for the increase because it was done across the board.
However, it might be good to look at the current economic situation of the majority Zambians and ask if Government should have increased the salaries for the public workers which includes the President. Unfortunately many civil servants (including the opposition) would call me names if I said, the increment should not have been done because Government has no money.
In my view, I think we need to be careful when we advocate for salary increments for public workers bearing it in mind that the President is also part of the public workers if we don’t want him to get a lot of money.
MPs, including those from the opposition vote for these increments because they also want a more money but they turn around in public to blame government of something they are part of.
It is wrong to say, Edgar Lungu increased his salary because it was done collectively with other public workers whom we feel are justified to get a rise.
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Ganja Man
March 24, 2016 at 12:16 am
I HOPE TUMFWEKO ADMIN WILL NOT ALLOW PWANYA ***** TO COMMENT. BLOCK THE DEVIL.
Pwanya Nini
March 24, 2016 at 7:20 am
@ Ganja Man ….Like all gods,devils and demons, an imaginary entity produced in the mind of primitive man.A person who is a hypocrite is certainly a jerk. No one likes a hypocrite, because hypocrites are smugly foolish. And Jesus seems to have a problem with hypocrisy. For example, one of Jesus’ most famous lines is, “Love your enemies,” as he says here in Matthew 5:43:
Therefore, what we find in Mark 16:15-16 is surprising. It shows us how Jesus treats his enemies:
He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned [to hell].
This is “good” news? Jesus doesn’t love his enemies at all.
Ganja Man
March 24, 2016 at 9:10 am
TUMFWEKO BLOCK THIS GUY PWANYA FIMO FIMO. HE’S IRRITATING EVERYONE ON THIS SITE….
Pwanya Nini
March 24, 2016 at 10:42 am
@ Ganja Man
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights #YouGodIsImaginary #LeaveMeAlone
Vernon
March 24, 2016 at 5:34 pm
Pwanya is a a real Rasta man he specks without favour or fear. Speck about it in the way it must be spoken that’s all.
jelly
March 24, 2016 at 11:08 am
Tumfweko has to do something about this pwanya fimo fimo really! The comments are disgusting!
KARODS
March 24, 2016 at 3:11 pm
HIS/HER NAME IS PWANYA NINI,SO IS BIZ PWANYALIZING YOU.
Wanu Ngwee
March 24, 2016 at 2:05 pm
We want citizens that are economically active and effective – not this Tayali who has too much time to himself to write so much and expect productive Zambians to shelve their work and read his long articles – did you run away from English summary classes?
Malambo
March 24, 2016 at 1:33 am
Civil servant salary increment good but what about. Amalofwa food shortage and more hunger in their stomach.
sir George
March 24, 2016 at 2:59 am
I have no time to comment when a fool like Tayali speaks.
sir George
March 24, 2016 at 3:04 am
The figure in question here is k565 000(k565million old curreny) plus,why the hell is Tayali reducing it to k400 000? This ka chup?
Truth
March 24, 2016 at 6:10 am
I hate it when it comes to so called human rights because to me it seem it’s humam rights for women.If it was a man who stole a wallet and painted in public, this was going to quiet,however the issue is making a lot of noise because of biological difference yet we are all people. This is why i hate to see a woman want to become a president,men will suffer.
Tongas
March 24, 2016 at 6:36 am
Kamanga and his upnd post a loss, what a shameful start? Resign.
ARNOLD
March 24, 2016 at 7:19 am
this is wat is going to happen to the pipo of zambia who rush for a change, c kamanga poor start.
ARNOLD
March 24, 2016 at 7:27 am
This is a least country with a head of state getting such small amount of money k 37,296.58. Imagine mwebantu and my salary is more than him , i can’t even wish to b a president of Zambia.
Mr. President please your salary is very small demand for more than wat i get. even a bank of zambia governor gets more than you too bad. Because of ignorance in zambia people busy criticizing such a small amount of money. tata beleleni tabeshibe efyo balechita by Ruff kid & chester.
MMD Cadre
March 24, 2016 at 10:10 am
Arnold, I only hope this is not a slip of your pen. Have taken into consideration that the President eats free meals, free fuel, accommodation, etc all paid for by the poor civil servant who only gets K3,100 per month. How many people in Zambia get that amount of money per month you are boasting about? Only a fraction. Please learn to feel for the poor majority wallowing in poverty and not mocking them. Mind you not every day is a Sunday, one day you will also be at the bottom of the food chain just like the majority of Zambians you are making jokes about their poverty.
Ken
March 24, 2016 at 11:27 am
My Friend its you to think about what you are crying about. All CEO in Zambia today get over K70m(old) per month and they enjoy other things just like the President. The President only gets this small amount you talk about the majority Zambians. Wake up my friend. The President work day and night while you are just seated. K37m(old) per month for President is absurd. Its too small. I get double that amount and am expecting a raise of not less than 10%
BK
March 24, 2016 at 8:58 pm
This is excellent
ARNOLD
March 24, 2016 at 7:30 am
this is k 37 thousand per month not k 37 billion per month mwaumfwa ba upnd. Nez & and satanist pwanya nini.
chimbifya Ucc
March 24, 2016 at 7:32 am
Why should we talk about the old currency.
kayula
March 24, 2016 at 7:59 am
Tayali, the increment is ok but timing is very wrong. in time like this the president should even think of making his movements cheaper. How would we think of increment when civil servants are not yet paid, shortage of meal meal and fuel?
musonda
March 24, 2016 at 8:07 am
the issue of painting the shoplifter is confusing me just because the are ladies. if it was a boy child, would people write so many comments on him? if it was a gentleman or a young male youth, will the media come out so hard on this matter? my fellow men lets also promote boy child. all nice newly built technical secondary schools are for girl child eg in or copperbelt all girls schools have been worked on and roads are very good but you go to Chiwala boys technical school its like a refuge camp or prison. men, gentlemen, fellow man, lets fight for the right of our boy child together he has suffered enough.
upendi
March 24, 2016 at 8:26 am
We need a president that can demonstrate austerity. Lungu should have acted like magufuli and said no to his pay rise. Hh should is the worst plunderer. He ransact RAMCOZ. LIMA BANK. Neverr place a monkey in a maize field
Chasco
March 24, 2016 at 8:27 am
Even K565,000 is nothing for a president do you know how much the top guys in mining, other companies and parastatals get? Landeniko fimbi ifiliko progressive
Ingombe Iledee
March 24, 2016 at 9:31 am
Well said Tayali, what is K37, 000. I make it in in two weeks with the business am doing. Mwebantu kwena President getting this little money, haash. Fi UPDN mulifikopo mulechema fye ngombe
kapps
March 24, 2016 at 10:14 am
It is this guy who ransacked RAMCOZ and Lima Bank who is talking toomuch. He wants to make cheap polical capital out of every small situation,surely even himself gets that much per month from the privatisation loot.
pupu pufi katufi
March 24, 2016 at 10:21 am
ECL must answer to the Hague, international criminak court of justice. Even when our own children commit small sins or mesdemeanors we paint our children and parade them in the neighbor hood. ICC must record this abomonation inthier book and let proceedings for ECL to travel to the HAGUE commence.
pupu pufi katufi
March 24, 2016 at 10:25 am
sori we do not paint or parade our chilmdren in nthe neighborhood.
Liyah
March 24, 2016 at 10:28 am
There’s no prob of paintin them n public, thy dservd it bcoz thy ar thieves. Am a lady too bt I dnt steal so wts the big deal here? A thif only comes to steal, kill nd 2dstroy. Careful!
New Educated Zambia©√
March 24, 2016 at 10:46 am
you are busy chewing tax payers money because maybe one of your foolish uncles is illegally benefitting from pf’s rule and then you want to compare people that are suffering to you? wake up
pupu pufi katufi
March 24, 2016 at 10:48 am
Lets get holy for a few seconds. In the bible people brought an adulterous woman to Jesus for him to punish her, what did Jesus do he said to the people around anyone who is son sinless pick up a stone and throw to this woman. Even if you read King James version. There isn no advocating for using paint on the woman, better still no one stoned her what happened nis Jesus told a parable which made his followers understand the nature of forgiveness.
New Educated Zambia©√
March 24, 2016 at 10:50 am
the people to blame are those thieving bastards the pf who have led to people suffering and stealing basic needs of life.
New Educated Zambia©√
March 24, 2016 at 10:45 am
he knows his time is up. Lungu has really lost the plot. Actually he never even had the plot because the chap said he had no vision. It will be very irresponsible for pf cadres to vote lungu again because they are suffeirng themselves. If znbc employees can be reduced to mere shoplifters what about the average zambian imwe bantu? i cry for my country. let us vote in that wise economist HH
James
March 24, 2016 at 10:50 am
Of all things to do, he chooses to buy all the tickets for the football match?
Ahemed
March 24, 2016 at 11:04 am
You ka tayali…it is not all civil servants who has received increments…ask the police.
CLUE-LESS
March 24, 2016 at 11:11 am
Kuba sibalesa ..koma kabedwe..!
IF NOT
March 24, 2016 at 11:23 am
poor beginning for kamanga indeed
EAS
March 24, 2016 at 12:04 pm
Civil Servants are lowest paid. Nothing wrong to increase President Salary, but this is not timely. The economy is bad, good leader will say not now , please Zambians we need to economically wake so as to judge correctly. The economy is extremely bad, as inflation is above 22%. Two Presidents maintained a single digit for a long time, but bearer 8 months, Edgar as President we are talking of over 22%, Inflation . No wonder they talk about the roads all the time, not about the economy – because it is a disgrace.
ASSAGE
March 24, 2016 at 12:52 pm
PAUL MOONGA(2016)
The President’s salary is a very tiny proportion of the huge amount of money the UPND leader collected after presiding over a highly suspicious privatisation process of the mining companies in Zambia in the 1990s
Paul
March 24, 2016 at 1:59 pm
Only the president of S.P. can speak against the increment of the income of the public service worker who is the president of the republic of Zambia. They want to take advantage and start politicking over the same. Zambians lets open up our mind………. Our president is the lowest paid in this continent called Africa.
King David II
March 24, 2016 at 2:13 pm
HH and GBM are rich people, but why they fighting nail and tooth just wanting to go to plot one? Its greediness at its best. Even those condemning Lungu today, will do exactly the same if not worse given the chance of becoming president. Now my comment on this man called Pwanya whatever is that this man seems to have his own way of interplating issues. He studied the Bible but just doesn’t want to follow what it says for reasons only known to himself. Mark 16: 15-16 is not saying Jesus hates his enemies, no. But his words here simply means that, some people will hear the word of God and get it but others will do just the opposite. So, those who will hear the word and decide not obey the teachings are the ones who shall be condemned, E.g. Pwanya Whatever.
Pwanya Nini
March 24, 2016 at 2:26 pm
The way to change the world is to change people’s minds. As more and more people openly discuss the fact that “God” and “Allah” are completely imaginary, the world becomes a better place. The people who believe in “religion” look sillier and sillier. Eventually, religion becomes a fringe activity that is meaningless.
Ganja Man
March 25, 2016 at 1:44 am
TUMFWEKO, YOU SEE WHY I INSIST THAT PWANYA FIMO FIMO BE BLOCKED FROM THIS SITE…. PWANYA AWE SURE!!!
kasongo Wabaluba
March 24, 2016 at 7:40 pm
You need People who will not go to state house for the money but to serve the poor majority. Look at the way our economy has been plundered in a very short time in the name of infrastructure development. I seat down and wonder weather there is a difference between starved monkeys that suddenly find themselves in a field of fresh maize and this Government.
When shall Zambians answer to the wake up call? Are we saying that we are so timid? Are we now agreeing with what the late FJT Chiluba said about Zambians? That We forget so easily?
Come on guys, lets wake up the giant in us and show the leadership that they are not our masters but our servants and that we have the power to hire and fire them because we know that they become so big headed right after the elections and come back with their tails in between their legs when its time to beg for votes. Apapena kuya bebele!!!!
Chovix
March 24, 2016 at 2:55 pm
UPND minnios and their under 5 president are busy comdemning the slight increament in the president’s salary because they want to make cheap political capital out of it. Surely can an increament of K3,000 create so much uproar when some company executives get four times the amount as intertainment allowance per week! Please ba UPND give us a break we want to concentrate on other sensible things.
Achimwene
March 24, 2016 at 3:20 pm
Its like men are nothing to women in Zambia because every thing is always in support with women! Is Zambia now run by idiots? Why is cut of points at grade seven & nine low for girls but we say Gender when it comes for employment? Why is GBV always favour women? Why is divorce compensation in court always paid to women even when a man is right? Why is it that men pay bride price & yet they keep more members from the in laws side? Why is there no any day for fathers or if its there why is it not celebrated ? Is it because women are in charge of men? Why are there so many organisations to speak for women? Why is Zambian govt calling for more women in leadership? Is it because all men are insane? Why do Zambians support women who shoplift( thieves) & speak on their behalf yet they work but condemn street kid boys who steal for survival?
sir George
March 24, 2016 at 3:21 pm
Bane,reading and knowing the bible is one thing,obeying is another. Pwanya intwenu studies the bible but it takes the hollyspirit to interpret it.I went to a school where other than learning religious knowlage(RK or RE),chappel everyday last period before break and capel again last 45minutes after prep,bible was taken as different subjet,we learnt the bible page by page from Genesis to Revelation,ask my former school mates like Hon Sampa,Sam Mujuda(small boy we called him),Hope zengeni(where are you now girl?),Musokotwane brothers Kebby junior and Maston,mr chiwele(WV),Sodala,Athur Yoyo junior,Lovemore Skale and brothers,Likando Akakanda,Habasonda brothers,young sisters to Maureen Nkhandu etc just a pew to mention in the limelight. Salvation is grace,this same Pwanya intwenu could be the first to enter heaven,he can meet Jesus at the point of death,thats grace.Pwanyanix needs our prayer and not insults.
koswe
March 24, 2016 at 4:01 pm
The pf govt is again stealing from poor teachers using the newly introduced teaching council registration. The registration and licence fees are so exhorbitant K1,400-00. Honestly this is day light robberry.
captain
March 24, 2016 at 4:14 pm
Just a humble question. Is this same Tayali guy married or not? If so, what do the in-laws think about him? Was he raised by biological parents or what?? Please advise!!!
Carlito
March 24, 2016 at 4:36 pm
Can someone pls comfirm if the exportation of maize bran has really been banned thank you.
sir George
March 24, 2016 at 5:45 pm
@captain,Tayali was raised in serminary but got chucked out because of his unbecoming behavior.His aunt took him in but this guy rapped the aunt and sired her with a daughter. @Calito,yes the pf banned exportation of maize,but if not supported by policy its rendered useless.
King David II
March 24, 2016 at 5:53 pm
God created a man first and a woman was formed out of a man as a helper. So, all women should be regarded as our own children. All of you know how difficult it is to raise up a child in the like manner women are very difficult creatures we just need to under them. No wonder the bible likes a woman to weaker vesel. Have taken all things into consideration, thats why we hear all sorts of this and that about women. Caution: we are not suppose to abuse them in any way instead, lets show them love.
Yali
March 24, 2016 at 7:02 pm
Which average teacher gets K7000?
Tayali is a liar and a devil.
His plans are always aimed at black mailing pf.
What an evil minded dirty chap.
white guy
March 24, 2016 at 8:52 pm
Tayali I give u a credit, if we people who can explain things like this this country can go very far. Not criticizing any how. Bonse abalelanda ati impiya yakwa president yakula bana bambwa. Ecl is ocupying the last office in the govt ngafuma palya takuli uko akaya mukwingila incito so lekeni ukulanda ifya maso ba upnd. What the president gets is nothing. Y r u rating this country to be poor when your small god hh can’t even receive that. Nafulwa sana imwe bakachema.
kasongo Wabaluba
March 26, 2016 at 8:11 am
Very lowly thinking capacity you display here mate! Are you really White?
DABWITSO MWAMBA
March 24, 2016 at 9:52 pm
11th August. Judgement day
ps
March 25, 2016 at 6:31 pm
but he is doing nothing y increasing. kuyabeebele chapwa. autu.
JJ
March 25, 2016 at 6:42 pm
There is too much misunderstanding in Zambia. Busy comparing oranges and onions…….comparing a President and a business executive’s salaries. There roles are totally worlds apart hence the difference in their salary scales. Besides the benefits a president draws other than salary out weighs that of a bank of Zambia governor. As for TAYALI is just a talker of anything.
Dabwisto
March 25, 2016 at 9:50 pm
Article not well articulated and biased
Edgar chipisheni lungulani
March 26, 2016 at 9:52 am
The question remains is the total liquidity at hand for ecl is obnoxious. Get over k565 per month for what?