The Fish Ban effected in December every year has crippled the financial base of some local authorities whose main source of revenue is fish trading leading to their failure to meet the wage.
Among them, Kaputa District Council in Northern Province has for the past three
months failed to pay its workers.
Kaputa District Council Secretary (KDCS) Frazer Chipili attributed the delay in
paying workers their dues to the Fish Ban which have robbed the council of its main
source of revenue.
Mr. Chipili confirmed to ZANIS in a telephone interview from Kaputa that council
workers have not been paid their December 2006 salaries, and their January and
February 2007 salaries.
He said fishing is the main source of revenue for the local authority.
Meanwhile, Kaputa District Council has submitted a K300 million budget to
government through the Ministry of Local Government and Housing for paying
retrenched and retired council workers.
Kaputa District Council Secretary Frazer Chipili disclosed this in an interview with
ZANIS in Lusaka today.
ZANIS
