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‘PF Cleaning Up Mess In Payroll System’
By CHARLES MUSONDA
VICE-President Guy Scott says the PF government is trying to rectify the problems in the payroll system for civil servants so that people are paid for what they do.
“We are trying to work things out so that people are paid for what they do and not for the institutions they work for,” Dr Scott said in Chipata over the weekend when he visited Mwami border to check on the operations of the Immigrations Department and the Zambia Revenue Authority.
The vice president was responding to concerns raised by Mwami border immigrations officer-in-charge James Chikoma who complained that immigrations officers are not well looked after as compared to their Zambia Revenue Authority counterparts.
Mr Chikoma said the officers are faced with challenges in water and sanitation, and accommodation.
He said a lot of Malawians trafficked to South Africa are passing through Zambia after running away from economic hardships in their country.
He said the Immigration Department on the Zambian side is more proactive in arresting illegal immigrants than the Malawian immigration authorities.
Meanwhile, Dr Scott has urged civil servants to be politically neutral although they support different political parties in their individual capacities.
He said this when he met civil servants at Chipata College of Education.
Dr Scott also said civil servants are the major beneficiaries of by-elections because of the allowances paid to them when conducting the polls.
He said the bigger chunk of money spent on by-elections goes towards payment of allowances for electoral officers while the remainder is spent on election materials.
And Dr Scott said the MMD will never bounce back to power.
“Rupiah Banda was unlucky because when he became President in 2008, the MMD was already ‘sick’…life is about change and we have to go forward. We don’t have to remain frozen like a chicken in the fridge,” Dr Scott said.
He said this on Sunday during a campaign rally at Nadalitsika Basic School grounds to drum up support for PF candidate in the July 25 Chipata Central by-election, Lameck Mangani.
And Mr Mangani called on the people to vote for him so that he can easily lobby Government for development of Chipata.
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on July 9, 2013. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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isaac
July 9, 2013 at 11:59 am
PF have alot of tasks. Before there used to be alot of the so called ghost workers especially in the teaching frantanity you find that he died a long time ago but he/she is still on the payroll. A good example is Thandiwe Banda former first Lady, it took almost three years for her to be removed from the patroll as teacher in Chipata and pipo had to promulgate for this to happen. So PF is in coarse we support it.
swine
July 9, 2013 at 12:24 pm
You cant put it any better!…well said! Thandiwe is a classic example!
CALLED WISE
July 9, 2013 at 12:44 pm
IT’S WORSE HAPPENING IN PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS WHERE COMMITTED, HARDWORKING, HONEST AND PILLAR EMPLOYEES ARE GETTING THIN WAGES.
I MEAN OUR GOVERNMENT THROUGH LABOUR MINISTRY HAS NOT VISITED AND CHECKED IF PRIVATE SECTORS ARE ON UPDATE IMPLIMENTATION OF MINIMUM WAGES.
Kennedy
July 9, 2013 at 1:49 pm
There also Teachers who have gone to work in Botswana but have conived and are getting salaries and sharing with School heads. Meanwhile even the pension is counting. Large sums of pension.
naumfwa amafi
July 9, 2013 at 2:01 pm
my grandfather died 20 years ago but we still get paid. pf should do something.
Wanyafye Tigers 2 Embalmbeef 3
July 9, 2013 at 2:53 pm
Why has it taken 50 years of independence to sort a basic audit task?
All you need to do is put all the “chaps” from GRZ institutions into Woodlands stadium and and do a roll call. Some have retired, others embalmed,….
I know of nurses/teachers that were posted to other towns from Lsk but just go there to draw a salary and the bosses know and encourage the mischief.
Guy chinyo
July 9, 2013 at 3:27 pm
iwe chule why cant you just leave the zambian people alone Go back to your country and say such kwanu..mufuna kudya mweka bantu basebenza ku chipata imwe kulibe na vemuchita chimbwi mulibe nzelu uchoke uchoke
Niceday
July 9, 2013 at 4:10 pm
Did Thandiwe ever pay back the salary she was receiving as a ‘ghost worker’?
kalubale
July 10, 2013 at 8:24 am
Can somebody reminds me what HH said to guy scot plz?
Bind
July 10, 2013 at 12:08 pm
Time will tell the whole story