President Michael Sata has called on both public and private workers in the country to be dedicated to duty in order to develop Zambia economically.
President Sata said the Patriotic Front (PF) government will not tolerate lazy and malingering workers because government was in a hurry to develop the country.
Mr. Sata said this today when he officiated at the Labour Day celebrations at Freedom Statue in Lusaka.
He said this year’s labour day theme of “transforming the economy through job creation, labour law reforms, better conditions of service and improved work culture ‘’ was in line with the PF government’s manifesto.
He stressed that full and total commitment to work from both public and private employees would help develop Zambia to acceptable levels.
Mr. Sata stated that transforming the economy requires hard working and dedicated citizens and not lazy employees.
The Head of State emphasised that government was geared to achieve sustainable development, increased production, and job creation for the benefit of the Zambian people.
President Sata said for the past one and half years the PF government has been in power, it has made a lot of policy changes aimed at improving the economy which the MMD government failed to do despite having ruled the nation for 20 solid years.
Mr. Sata expressed that this year, government has raised the minimum wage for the lowest paid civil servant from K1.4 million to almost K3 million.
He said the increased wages for the lowest paid public workers was also in tandem with the food basket standards as calculated by the Central Statistical Office.
And Mr. Sata has said many developmental projects such as road expansion, infrastructure development in the health, education sectors were currently under way across the country.
On corruption, President Sata has reiterated that government will not relent in the fight against this scourge which he said was a cancer to the nation.
President Sata said those involved in diverting public resources for selfish gains will not be spared but dealt with severely.
Mr. Sata said former President Dr. Kenneth Kaunda never entertained corruption adding that people should emulate him for tirelessly working for the development of the country.
“Emulate people like the former head of state Dr. Kenneth Kaunda who worked tirelessly to develop Zambia at a time when things were difficult,” Mr. Sata said.
He also congratulated hard working workers in the country saying they were part of the team which is eager to develop their nation.
He added that hard working employees deserved to be rewarded for their dictation to duty.
Well said sir.Umuntu ni dedication thats one of the principles of ubuntu culture.
PLEASE PUT THE VERBATIM AS IT WAS! NOTHING SHORT OF COMEDY TODAY AT THE FREEDOM STATUE.
I FEEL VERY ASHAMED
“Sometimes I wonder if we Kenyans are stupid truly to believe any new parliament will be different from the last one,” says Beatrice Mathenge, an office cleaner in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. “Each time they reach office, the very first thing they do is award themselves more salary. Meanwhile we are all struggling even to make ends to meet.”
KENYAN MP AWARD THEMSELVES $60,000 EACH FOR CARS….AFRICAN POLITICS….LORD HAVE MERCY
That’s in Kenya, they are *****s. That can’t happen in Zambia or Botswana. Don’t call Kenyans or Somalians as Africans.
Really? Is that what you took away from his “speech”?
Thanks for explaining…. someone had to!
You guys are good Image builder, what you reporting is the snippet of the real rubbish presented by the president.