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Technical Committee Pays K450, 000 To Each Guest For Appearing On Radio Programmes
Public anger is amounting against the work of the Technical Committee Drafting the Constitution after revelations that the committee is paying people appearing on its radio programme K450, 000 each per programme.
The amount is paid as transport refunds for featuring on hour radio programmes.The radio programmes are part of the sensitization efforts by the Technical Committee Drafting the Constitution.
The Committee recently paid K900, 000 to a member of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) for featuring on two radio programmes to discuss the draft constitution.
But YALI Executive Director Andrew Ntewewe condemned the decision by the Technical Committee to pay such huge allowances for transport.
“This is the worst case of abuse of national resources and we are now demanding that government tabulates how much the Technical Committee is paying for various services,” Ntewewe said.
“This could be a tip of the ice berg, how do they justify the payment of close to K500, 000 to each and every guest appearing on their programmes for a mere one hour?”
Ntewewe demanded that Finance Minister Alex Chikwanda addresses the nation on the funding of the work of the Technical Committee.
“This process lacks transparency and it is therefore likely to fail, it appears some people are now using this process as a cash machine,” he said.
When reached for a comment, Technical Committee Spokesman Simon Kabanda said he could not comment on the revelations but promised to call back when he is furnished with details.
During the NCC process, Mr. Kabanda then as Executive Secretary of the then vocal Citizens Forum had refused to accept a K250, 000 transport refund for appearing on a TV programme on ZNBC.
Mr. Kabanda who was a strong critic of the NCC process had said the payment was abuse of national resources because he did not understand how they could pay him K250, 000 when his house was not far from Mass Media, the building that houses ZNBC studios.
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on August 31, 2012. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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kalulete
August 31, 2012 at 12:03 pm
THEY SAID IT MORE MONEY IN THEIR POCKETS THESE IS IT
sally
August 31, 2012 at 12:10 pm
KA kakapokola (Policeman) kaleloleshafye.
MUNYELO PWETE!
August 31, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Gentlemen, understand the fact that making a national constitution is an expensive undertaking! Honestly 450 pin is even little! What is 450 pin? Lets do this: Fuel 160 pin ka 20litres, communication 50 pin and facilitation allowance ka 240 pin! Some of us have participated in national and international workshops where facilitation fee just for an hour is $1000! Honestly what is 450 pin? Lets get serious!
spinx
August 31, 2012 at 12:45 pm
from my understanding 450 pin is paid jst to be on air,when everything like fuel,food,toktym has been paid for.
Tonga Bull
August 31, 2012 at 1:01 pm
this is day light robbery, these guys want to become rich at the expense of zambians. abash wasteful expenditure abash
tubombeko ati iyo,kanonga ebo
August 31, 2012 at 1:03 pm
mh, imwe 450pin is reasonable,nanga nichani mukonda fault finding,chi wamila galu kuluma mbuzi osati mbuzi kuluma galu?
HAMBILWI-ABANA
August 31, 2012 at 1:21 pm
SIMON KABANDA EXPLAIN?OR IS IT A QUESTION OF BEING BEMBA MBUYE?WAYAMBA KUSENDA FYE?
man chiko
August 31, 2012 at 1:29 pm
charles milupi lifolo, ati registering our sim cards is political! DUH!
Pv
August 31, 2012 at 3:07 pm
450pin is nothing to complain about pipo!!
MundiaM
August 31, 2012 at 4:18 pm
When poverty starts thinking for people, they raise very petty issues. K450,000 is just sufficient for fuel, talktime and facilitation. This kind of backbiting people like Kabanda who are doing good for this country will just inhibit well meaning citizens from contributing to the development and capacity building of our national institutions.
Let’s all be realistic. The people appearing on the constitution sensitisation programmes are from different sectors of the economy and they need to be encouraged rather than bothered with none issues.
Dende
September 1, 2012 at 9:43 am
@ MundiaM Good thinking. Lets encourage pipo doing this country good and compel them to remain sharply focused on their primary objectives to avoid being derailed from thier noble national cause. Keep well