Luapula Province Permanent Secretary Chanda Kasolo has issued an instruction on a dress code for civil servants in the province.
Mr Kasolo in a circular addressed to all District Commissioners and heads of government departments in the province stated that he had observed with displeasure that some of government employees in the province had a tendency of wearing inappropriate attires for the kind of work they do.
He said to some extent some government employees come to offices dressed in tights and sports attire which were inappropriate.He declared that with immediate effect all government employees should dress appropriately in accordance with the work they do.
Mr Chanda explained that from Monday to Thursday, he expected officers to be dressed accordingly with men clad in suits with ties, and ladies in suits or smart Chitenge outfits.
The Permanent Secretary added that on Fridays, officers should wear smart casual or any other attire that will help them perform in their important government duties.
He instructed the District Commissioners and heads of government departments to ensure that they brought the contents of his instruction to the attention of all the staff under their charge.
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from the time of Chiluba, Mwanawasa and RB civil servants have been lazy llke crazy hell . make them dance to donchi kubeba rythm as we sail through
Mr Update, iwe mwaiche listen and learn from old skool who have been through Kaunda, FTJ, Mwanawasa, RB, now MCS. LPM had brought back accountability, sanity and almost managed to eradicate corruption mu Boma. The corrupt individuals mu boma, eg Ministry of Lands (Sopani), corrupt cops Lusaka (mwewa) and Lstone (Mweene) were sacked. Some fake govt suppliers, whose names I shall not disclose had disappeared and only reappeared after LPM passed on. Enjoy the (titanic) PF as you sail through with your blind loyalty. Do worry, we shall ensure everybody is rescued from the titanic (PF) as the wrath of the law awaits on dry land. Enjoy the titanic while it lasts……2 down and 3 to go. UNIP ruled with an iron hand for 27 years,where is it now? What ever goes up, comes up. God hears our cries.
We are Dog doctors.
Nanga inse ba doctor bangalu or imbwa. Tivale masutis.
inya. Doctolo ba dog no
Ha Ha Ha Ha…@mp
Which Sopani? The friend to Alfred Malukula who likes drinking under Chimutengo at Musana in Kabwata?? LOL!
Solola Bye!
Will they be paid suit allowance!
But who’s going to marry them if YOU don’t see their succulent thighs?
Wafwa kamwala nomba baisa. Ama suit yaba pastor with all the funny colors are coming
Will wearing suits improve their work culture and ethics????
Atleast the many pockets in their jackets will be an easier way to carry their corrupt earnings
@mpembi
will it ? kekekekekekekekek
What about a psychological motivation through proper dressing?
AND, of course the Government must pay the Civil Servants on time. This is called mutual respect.
@theorist
loooooool
yes those free suits the get on labour day aiii!!!!!! its government property banee. hope you havent sold them.
This is a very f.oolish order,Kasolo if you want them to look smart buy them those suits and ties.Those people are too poor to afford decent cloths.Stop abusing poor people you Satana’s clan please,enough is enough.
but they get free suits every year on labour day, youth day, womens day, independence day, africa freedom day etc. that five suits already. let them wear those
but they get free suits every year on labour day, youth day, womens day, independence day, africa freedom day etc. thats five suits already. let them wear those
Very dull, do you all servant servant participant in those events, those that participate represent less than 1 % of civil service…
i agree with the principal that civil servants should be in formal dress, a tie all the time except certain category of civil servant such as factory inspectors etc but asking workers to be in suits is too much given the prices of suits, unless he is saying the govt will buy them suits at least 5 suits biannually. Mind you suits require laundry, not hand wash
i will open a suits shop at government complex LOL!!!!!! and chitechi dry cleaning company
Is he going to provide the suits? Come to Europe ewe fontini,clothing does not really matter unless for bankers but its not a requirement.What matters is output! Unless you mean to say the come in beach clothing.Thats a village & suits are a waste of resources.
It does matter if you work in the UK public sector!!
Am not PF but i support the move
Does the PS Know that suits are expensive?
Give civil servants a clothing allowance so that they can afford to buy the suits.
No Chinese one are very cheap. Start from K100 only. And some look nice too.
Next will be a uniform for civil servants.
Spot on! Although not necessarily suits. Some of them dress as if they are going to a cassava field. Once i saw a teacher going to work dressed in a t-shirt on it a big image of Rambo, a pair of faded jeans and sandals.
rambo
Don’t just issue orders ati wear suits from Monday to Thursday! How much do you pay these guys to afford your suits? Or are you going to provide the suits? And those talking about suits given during marching, does the entire civil service go for marching? Munzikalako na nzelu bamambala imwe. You PSs and ministers dont pay for anything so dont take people for granted
A hard working person has little time to look smart in a suit. What is required is decent dress as per the prevailing dress code. You don’t change policies arbitrary through dictation. Zambia is a democratic country and learn to follow procedures as leaders.
Salaula suits are nice Designers some were worn by Prince Philip and George Bush , dont Cry we voted for Problems… Cant wait for 2016 mwandi and i hope we wont vote like Zim ?????? Twachula pafula its ba mwisa who are enjoying in our country…
A Kaonde expressing himself in Bemba?Wanza weyi.
And you thought the salary increment had no strings attached. Its donchi kubeba remember?
This is really funny guys hehehe!
Are those guys going to afford the price of a suit? That is stupid what dress code.
maybe.. salaula suits
Serios Suits here we come!
We need a medical board
How do you wear a suit with no money in the pocket. Eating a cob of maize fo lunch.
At least this government is finally getting down to serious business.
….I can’t wait to see the veterinary officer in a suit.
W should dress according to the profession we have chosen. It’s. high time this was addressed across the country not just Lusaka Province.
Teachers cannot afford to wear suits only, what about their casual clothes? These people are already educated let them enjoy their career do not trouble them. Please i beg you in the name of GOD stop troubling them teine Teache cankalipa fye
I THINK THE PS SHOULD ENCOURAGE SMART AND DECENT DRESSING. NOT NECESSARILY SUITS. SOME OLD SUITS ALSO LOOK VERY UNTIDY, FADED AND WRINKLED AS IF THE WEARER IS CARRYING CASSAVA AND VITUMBUWA IS THE POCKETS.
Read the story properly. It refers suitable clothing.
i support the move, we’re tired seeing breast out and tint skirts,hip stars.
next we need laws for dressing people are walking naked in streets in the name of fashion
Good move, but give them some suit allowances. Remember that the suits GRZ gives to workers on labour day or any other holiday are just shared by the same people every year. So, those who do not receive, they should given suit allowance.
Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia.
September is approaching we need to pay school fees, we need to feed, we have acquire several loans. I don’t thing it good to force people to wear suits but let them dress properly and not sports attire
Suits for sale. Napankongole tulapela. On a serious note,it is important to improve the standard of dressing in public service. It is not just the question of money but self respect. At times one wonders if a man or lady dressed in certain inappropriate attire not pleasing to the eyes of the public has come from a decent family home. What are we teaching our children? To come to work in leggings,tights,saging trousers exposing our wornout boxers,chest exposing T-shirts, wornout jeans? Where are the morals?
Ala ba Chanda Kasolo naimwe – I thought you were more down to earth than that…
Ilifye
The more pockets, the more money in your pockets (Bikiloni). Really, really….has our country gone to the dogs or the dogs have gone to our country? PS on duty.
Its a smart move, infact these days we have cost affordable suits from further east. Dress conveys a lot about someone. It sends signals on first impression and plays a part on someone’s attitude.
A cheap suit will do none of the things you say but make somebody look, well ….cheap!
Lets face facts here. The major culprits of indecent exposure are some women, boys and girls whose influential relatives organised jobs for them in those offices. If they went through proper training they should know the proper dress code for their respective positions. What is important is appropriate dress not necessarily suits. Suits are for formal functions like weddings, church service(preaching), conferences, high level consultative meetings etc and also for the cold season. A suit in a busy office or classroom is misplaced and could promote laziness.
You could be right
Check on ministers too, Frackson Shamende is the most untidy one with his ugly grey beard he looks like a tramp.
North Korean style decrees,dictates and state control of its people….here we come with our dear leader Kim Jong Sata and his sidekick Chanda Kasolo.
Most of you disgruntled lot need serious introspection. The article is very clear people need to dress properly in offices. I work for an OMC and remember our MD at one time declaring that we will all dress smart from Monday to Thursday and then smart casual on Friday.
This is a very reasonable directive and all better comply.
Opposing everything just for the hake of it! FYOLA!
boring comments , its Friday get a life.
The headline is misleading”Civil Servants ordered to wear suits to work ” the quality of work by civil servants is quite pathetic for them to be forced on such attires otherwise imibinde can suit their lives or more just let them work in nudeness suits ie nakedly.
I wouldn’t have contributed over this directive. It’s not just a question of directive but moral issue. The problem is ladies over do it copying from the western culture where showing off the lower body is ok and showing breasts is a crime. In today’s advance in technology one may associate with the global change in every culture but this does not mean those working in offices with men dressing to expose underwears or nipples are aware of the destruction they cause. Recently we had a medical student who was dressing as if she on a night out in Baker Street London. I colleague of mine stated the jobs that we do define how we might present ourselves in the eyes of the public and refused to take this student during ward rounds and contacted the link tutor and she made to dress properly
Sounds like you would like women to dress in burkhas like in Afghanistan – jeez some guys seem not to be able to think just because they see a bit of leg or a nipple! How sad and pathetic!
and new underwear, noti suite na chi-jean boxer/bum short….
PS shud have considered weathr patterns in his province.hot,sunny,floody,windy and dusty for most of the year.until they all start driving,gumboots,overolls or dusty coats would probably be the ideal as long as one performs.
i fully second it. infact it should be yellow suits for luapula, green for southern, white for lsk, meroon for CB, blaweni for eastern, orange for western and black for NWP. on a serious note senior C/Servants just have to look presentable . i found one whom i mistook for a malnourished destitute.
They will be a sight!Imagine those guys who can’t afford lunch and only play nsolo at kabwata welofare in a suit!
Business yama suit yamoneka zoona! I wish these people ordered to work extra hard and wearing suits they cannot even afford. It is a pity Chanda wants to judge people according to their dressing. Dressing in suits does not affect the work of the person and it should be of the least worries. Indeed the PS has lost it and he should be condemned for his arrogance utterances. Such attitudes discourage many young people in the diaspora to go back and work for the govt at home because they will dictate how your hair should be and what you should wear. Soon these thugs will introduce uniforms for every ministry for easy identification!
This is repugnant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! iwe Kasolo, is that what you are able to do to please the appointing authorities??? you must be very dull and you dont deserve to be in that position. what has dress code got to do with productivity??? you should as well, pay civil servants outfit allowance…..
Civil servant alichula, poked day and night. Sivintu.
Imibinde colour coded for each province-C/BELT-Colourless,LUAPULA-Colour yatubombola ,SOUTHERN–umukupo wa kwa Hakainde H ,Other provinces chendabwamba.
Imibinde colour coded for each province-C/BELT-Colourless,LUAPULA-Colour yatubombola ,SOUTHERN–umukupo wa kwa Hakainde H ,Other provinces chendabwamba.
Only in zambia can certain stupidity prevail.
The Nanny state will bring back Safari suits.
Very surprised indeed to have such decrees in this age. if Obama, Cameron, Putin name them choose what they want to wear.
@Jeff Mwanza no need to get hysterical…read man!
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He declared that with immediate effect all government employees should dress appropriately in accordance with the work they do.
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Honestly what is wrong with this calling? I know one clinical officer in Kalabo who wears gumboots (everytime I travel there!)..and I mean like always! Does a clinical officer need to wear gumboots or are you saying that’s appropriate? C’mon now a clinic is not an abbatoir!
@ xfactor you must be dull, it makes sense wearing Wellington boots in sandy place. Most these civil servants can not afford decent meals let alone lunch because the money they get is not enough. If they can not afford decent meals put it simply a thing like suit will be a luxury.
Problems Found (PF). Uku ama alowanc yalefumapo elyo naka cost of living kaleya pamulu awe bwafya. Electricity tarifs yalenina, tuition fees atishani, akamwana ku nussery, ubunga umutengo pamulu, transport nayo bwafya, nati ndabeko umunani, elo nga sugar na salt then bambi ma rented house elo na umwana apela imfumo alifye mu grade nine, nakwisa naba ku holiday iye list tayapwe. Anyway kuipompafye nabalanda kale ati ama suit. Som1 has mentioned tuma cheap 100pin chinese suits.
True.
I will never wear a tie and jacket cos for me they symbolise the colonialist. We got political independence from him but his ideas hang on to colonise our minds. By enforcing such stoopid dress codes the gvt just wants to continue with imperialist brainwashing. I always wear the Mandela shirt, the Kaunda suits, the bu bus and anything that will demonstrate my mental emancipation.
This is what happen when you start making public policies in the bedroom.His ideas does not make sense.
Number 2 has nice legs. Any contacts for her will be appreciated
Good idea!
In fact black is best for Evil servants, or sorry, Civil servants!
A SUIT NEEDS TO BE DRY CLEANED AFTER BEING WORN…… ARE THERE ANY DRY CLEANING FACILITIES IN LUAPULA PROVINCE THAT CAN HANDLE THE JOB????