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Dangote Official Attempted To Bribe Me, Says Shamenda
By MONICA KAYOMBO
MINISTER of Labour and Social Security Fackson Shamenda has revealed that a former human resources manager at Dangote Industries Zambia Limited in Ndola allegedly attempted to bribe him at a hotel a week ago.
Speaking when he met Dangote management in Ndola on Saturday, Mr Shamenda said he is disappointed with the behaviour of the company’s former human resource manager, Bala Zango, for allegedly attempting to bribe him.
“One of your employees tried to bribe me six days ago. Corruption in Zambia is illegal. He told me that it was a tradition in their culture to give someone a token of appreciation,’’ Mr Shamenda said.
The minister said he “sensed a rat” because he had critical labour issues to sort out with Dangote, which Mr Zango was representing at the time.
“Tell this person that the minister is not interested. I should call a spade, a spade,’’ Mr Shamenda said.
He said the Patriotic Front (PF) administration abhors corruption and any investor found wanting will be held accountable.
At this point, Dangote operations manager Anand Kameshwar informed Mr Shamenda that Mr Zango’s contract had expired.
But Mr Shamenda told Dangote management to warn Mr Zango of possible arrest for alleged corruption in an event that he returned to Zambia. He has returned to Nigeria, a country of his origin.
“Maybe his idea was that I turn a blind eye to what is happening at Dangote,’’ Mr Shamenda said.
The minister, who was visibly upset, said this was his third visit to Dangote and it seems management is not willing to allow workers to join a trade union of their choice.
“Even if you have five employees or six, let them join the union,’’ he said.
Mr Shamenda also directed management to submit to him a list of all Zambian employees and expatriates, including their conditions of service.
Mr Shamenda said he was accompanied by Labour Commissioner Cecilia Mulindeti-Kamanga, Mineworkers Union of Zambia (MUZ) president Nkole Chishimba, MUZ general-secretary Joseph Chewe and Workers’ Compensation Fund Control Board (WCFCB) public relations manager Maybin Nkholomba to ensure that there was transparency in what he was doing.
He said Dangote should not exploit workers and that Government will not condone casualisation.
The minister also directed the company to employ a qualified human resources manager who is a Zambian and a member of the Zambia Institute of Human Resources Management.
He said having a qualified human resource practitioner will help address a number of labour issues, including the alleged mistreatment of some highly-qualified Zambians at Dangote.
“Next time I come here, I must find everything that I have asked you to do,” Mr Shamenda said.
He, however, commended the company for investing in Zambia but warned it not to unnecessarily outsource labour.
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MIstaken Identity!
September 15, 2014 at 7:50 am
lEAVE DANGOTE ALONE IWE KASHAMENDA!!! YOUR FRIEND VINCENT PALAN IS BUSY ABUSING WORKERS AND YOU ARE ZEEEE BUT YOU WANT TO START HARASING DANGOTE? NISHI IWE KAMUDALA?
DANGOTE CAN LEAVE ZAMBIA ANYTIME!!! HE NOTHING TO LOOSE SO HANDLE HIM WITH CARE!!! WIKALANDA ATI TABANSOKELE BA MISTAKEN IDENTITY
test@e
September 15, 2014 at 7:51 am
OK. Shamenda u seem to serving the interest of the people.
chanbe
September 15, 2014 at 10:34 pm
shamenda when are you going to pass through gil industries even though we have evidence that they have two payrolls in here kr5000 for share holders or visitors and kr1500 for workers and bob shichings they lied to you when they told you on znbc that they have enployed permanent workers they are none you dander head they have corrupt everyone from the labour commisioner to the foolish district who represent us
Chief of Grief
September 15, 2014 at 9:32 am
Okayba mudala ba shamenda,u seem to have the peoples welfare @ heart nomba mudala…..aikona ka envlope takatikemefye echo mwa takatile kikikikiki am just sayin mudala pantu apali umuchanga uwutuntulu banono bafwita so kuli me i think it ample enough to satisfy a man of yo calibre coming from a giant like dangote,its just me mudala,no offence mwebafyashi!
Tell it as it is
September 15, 2014 at 9:40 am
Why did you not collect and call the Anti Corruption with evidence? What you are saying now in the permanent absence of the man you are accusing seems to filter comfortably in the doubting zone.
True Zedian
September 15, 2014 at 6:55 pm
@ tell it as it is you are right, these politician think Zambians are daft, they would just come and just say anything and Zambians will buy it.
If you are not corrupt, you do not need to go pa Chulu to announce it. Filamoneka ifine.
If bribing is illegal the matter should have been reported to the police, but what we have seen is a minister reporting the matter after 6 days and he reports it in the media. What sort of ministers do we have in our country ?
T.K
September 15, 2014 at 10:02 am
Lyashi lyamutata kuya.A person left a Country long time ago that is when you are saying this.The time it was happening you would have alerted the wing responsible for corruption.Kuti waseka…….nembafu shakalipa.Twaikatwa mumenso lelo LESA TABEPWA.
chitulika
September 15, 2014 at 10:33 am
Pantu ka gratuity kapalamina bakana ukupoka kuti waseka.
kim
September 16, 2014 at 3:50 pm
chitulika kkekekekeke
Tumfweko na Lelo
September 15, 2014 at 11:12 am
Why might some people try to excuse themselves from showing the sort of respect that the Bible encourages? Local culture may dictate who is eligible for honor according to caste, color, gender, health, age, wealth, or social status. Widespread corruption among public officials has eroded respect for authority
Isaac
September 15, 2014 at 11:44 am
At least there is degree of sense of humor in Shamenda’s brain. The Liatos of this world wouldn’t have revealed.
melanin man
September 15, 2014 at 3:16 pm
Boza shamenda we know u guys u a jst pretending maybe his offer was small.Thats how you and your fellow politicians survive.
popcorn k
September 15, 2014 at 10:54 pm
You morons learn to appreciate what is good, by denying that bribe Shamenda saved a lot of people. Pantu mubikamo nobupuba.
C J Katuba
September 16, 2014 at 4:36 pm
In the first place, honorable Shamenda should not allow foreigners to be HR here in Zambia. HR positions should be positions for indigenous Zambia who will understand Zambian labour laws not foreigners ba Shamenda. Lets stop this in Zambia, we have a lot of HR practitioners here in Zambia.