President Edgar Lungu has announced a reduction of his salary and that of his cabinet between a range of 15 and 20 percent; a move that comes barely 24 hours after the Energy Regulation Board announced a hike in both electrify tariffs and fuel prices.
The President has also directed the Secretary to Cabinet Dr. Simon Miti to cascade the directive to all Non Unionised Public Officers including parastatal executives.
The slashing of salaries of highly paid officers in both the government and the parastatal sector is aimed at cushioning the impact on citizens arising from the increase of fuel prices and electricity tariffs announced yesterday by the ERB.
The President said he fully understood the challenges that Zambians are facing but he is optimistic that the economy will rebound in 2020 due to the measures that government is putting in place, including the implementation of cost-cutting measures relating to travel of senior officials and protecting the vulnerable through ring-fencing the resources to social sectors.
On today’s directive, the President said public officers in the highest salary brackets will have their salaries cut by 20 percent whereas those in the middle will have their salaries reduced by 15 percent and those in the lower rung will be down by 10 percent.
The President said much as the increase in the pricing in the two essential commodities was inevitable, Zambians needed a cushion and hence the directive.
President Lungu said he has shown the way and those willing to work with him should be ready to sacrifice.
This is contained in a statement issued to the media by President Edgar Lungu’s Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations Isaac Chipampe.
Now the kleptocrat Lungu says he has cut his salary, those of ministers, senior civil servants and parastatal officials after stealing billions of dollars!
ECL is f00ling people and just joking around …..after he already told us austerity measures don’t affect him ? Total Bu11cr@p
He is supposed to raise salaries, than now force ministers to engage in cultivating dagger to make their 20% cut.
Next time someone says he has no vision please let’s believe him..DISASTER!!!
Desperate stunt by a man that knows he has no credibility in the eyes of anyone.
Even if you “cut” those salaries, you have piled up stolen wealth in foreign bank accounts and also bought properties. You are not fooling anyone.
If you are really interested in the wellbeing of the nation, you would lock up people like kampyongo, chitotela, kaizer, amos, dora and many other corrupt thieves. Until then, all your talk is empty.
Desperate stunt by a man that knows he has no credibility in the eyes of anyone.
Even if you “cut” those salaries, you have piled up stolen wealth in foreign bank accounts and also bought properties. You are not fuuling anyone.
If you are really interested in the wellbeing of the nation, you would lock up people like kampyongo, chitotela, kaizer, amos, dora and many other corrupt thieves. Until then, all your talk is empty.
We always said and say it; Lungu runs a chipantepante kind of governance. How they couldn’t see this is beyond me.
Last time he told us he had cut his salary by half that’s three years ago without giving further details today he has cut his same salary by 20% so he will only be getting 30% of his salary. Meanwhile his net-worth is increasing by 500% every two years. Even if they cut 100% he will still get his salary from allowances back from his pointless working visits on every weekends around the country.
Where are those small boys Thorn in the A$$ and his dumb brother Kudos? Busy getting their heavily soiled nappies changed.
Amos Chanda, forced to resign. Kaizer fired. Now, ECL salary and that of his ministers slashed.
Is this really a coincidence?
ECL is bluffing Zambians, creating an image of corruption fighter and being only one who can solve problems., which he created.
Do you believe him?
Ba ECL, you are wasting time, just declare a national disaster. Zambians know that you now in panic mode, doing what you can to prepare the ground for 2021
No words can explain what is happening now.
Zedpeople – Only people who are gullible and thought Edgar would deliver them to the promised land and his party was pro-poor are the ones who have no words and are shocked. And this is just the beginning 2020 will be worse than 2019, just pray that you dont turn into Zimbabwe.
We told you people that its you who will suffer, 2020 is on the way tighten your belts again!
closing the stable after the horse has bolted?
The same ministers who have not yet honoured a court order to repay our money are now expected to voluntary cut their salaries? A listening government my Foote
Why uka pati kisha ukuba bu President when one knows he is not capable, sure tekulekafye
Okay so does this mean that the minions’ money will go towards paying for my fuel and electricity? Or maybe you plan on hand-picking which sorry souls burden you will be lessening?
Journeyman: But are Zambians learning any lessons? I don’t see the evidence myself. There are people in real hardship in Zambia and they number in millions. Wht Lungu has done has no capacity to alleviate their problems. And this business of following Lungu wherever he goes to pray had better end. It serves no purpose. Is it really news seeing Lungu at prayer? Was he elected to show Zambians hw to pray?
November 18, 2016
Mrs Wina told Parliament that President Lungu has reduced his monthly pay by as much as 50 percent in order to demonstrate his government’s commitment to austerity measures. According to the Statutory Instrument 19 of 2016, President Lungu’s monthly salary is pegged at K 36 000 per month. This means ECL’s Salary is K18,000 assuming no secret increments. Fast forward to 2019, 20% reduction is K3,600. That’s a drop in the ocean! To force others to reduce salaries is illegal! A Lawyer should understand the Employment Act better! He has failed and run out of ideas!
Should have announced his resignation instead. It’s not like he hasn’t been warned several times about his bloated government and his envisaged introduction of deputy ministers. Failure is failure. What’s the point of this reduction when the costs for energy have been drastically increased?
Thankyou for reminding me that he actually has plans to appoint deputy ministers,not to forget,to open an airline.meanwhile just recently he said austerity measures now dont affect him.On the other hand US sanctions are on the way.I hope his cadres are not HIV positive because this man who has reduced the nation to failing to pay $1.5mn to AFDB(the cost of one ambulance according to him),cant afford to buy ARV’S for the nation
When they were being advised to curb corruption he didnt want to listen and took no steps to stop the rot.Now the nation is broke everyone has to have salaries reduced.
And lawyer Dr Lungu should know that you cant unilaterally reduce the salaries, this can only work for the thieving lot he calls cabinet. He couldnt even consult, or if he did it maybe another case of ignoring advice like the case of ministers remaining in office after dissolution of parliament where he has gone ahead to ignore even the court judgment
My thoughts as well. Lungu resign mune, twanaka naiwe
Also please payback the money that your Ministers owe us if you really mean this ….you dimwit !! I am fed up of this w@nker
Kuwayawaya fye ubu ubuteko bwaba Lungu.
MAWEEE,IYEEEEE, AAAAAHHH, OWEEEE, IIIIIII, THIS IS A MOCKERY. WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS CHEATED BY 20% CUTS? BWANA YOU HAVE NEVER FELT THE PINCH OF HUNGER IN STATE HOUSE AND WALKED OUT ON AN EMPTY POCKET TO GO AND LOOK FOR CHEAP FOOD FOR YOUR FAMILY. CITIZENS ARE SUFFERING.
GIVE BACK THE MUKULA FUNDS AND STOP THOSE MINISTERS INVOLVED IN SMUGGLING OUR MUKULA BY CLOSING IT COMPLETLY. REMOVE ZNS FROM BOADERS TO ALLOW OUR KWACHA COME BACK TO ZAMBIA FROM DRC.
It’s just recently when he was advised against raising salaries for him and his ministers because people were afraid of these same results!!!!
How is this going to cushion on the amount that we will pay as consumers? This is the worst form of maladministration to have befallen this country. He has realized that the masses will soon rise up against his misrule. How do you condemn the pupulation to mass poverty through the introduction of wanton taxes, abnormal increases in goods and services yet failing to provide an enabling environment for business to flourish? Just resign in national interest and spare as this comedy of errors.
Right my man no further comments, you have said it all
He approved these energy increments but he is there telling people that he is cutting his salary to cushion the the burden on citizens. How can he approve energy increments when ZESCO hardly supplies the commodity…he is simply covering ZESCO’s inefficiencies and incompetencies.
We told you people that this donkey is not fit for purpose now you are seeing the results of his recklessness being passed on to you. Did we not tell you and they want to launch an airline?LOL
@Bamwine on spot! It’s all comedy indeed. How much is this insignificant 20% saving, and where will it be allocated? Will it subsidize the major commodities on the market?
The solution to our economy is stop stealing.
Good start, now ministers only need one car a piece. Also now subsidized fuel for them. They are taking Zambians for granted, while selling Mukula and gazetted protective forests.
( no subsidized fuel for them. )Ministers and MPS. Forgot these crooks too. kikikiki
Salary is nothing to him, he is looked after by the taxpayer plus more than two thirds of that 180 million dollars of Mukula sold to the Chinks ended up in his pocket.
This is adding an insult to our economic wounds!
It’s very clear this minibus driver is lost! You wonder where the passengers will end!
Instead of reducing the size of the bloated government, you are talking of reducing change? You even have some people championing the increase of the number of MPs by 70? Guys you are playing with fire! Don’t take people of God for granted! Ask KK and RB! Even passport fees you have increased. What does that mean for cross border traders and truck drivers? You have really made Zambia a living Gehenna for its inhabitants!
The same man wants to introduce Deputy Ministers and let Ministers cling on to power till election day abusing govt resources.
He told us that he has no vision for Zambia, I don’t blame him but blame those who voted in 2016.
Ba Lungu we have lost hope in you and your PF. Who are u fooling? Who did u show your payslip when u raised your salary by 100%? Who will see weather there is reduction by 20%? To cution on these increases by ERB, ba ecl increase salaries across the board by 50%. Further as a matter of urgency, with due respect PAY ALL RETIREES at PENSIONS BOARD, NAPSA, in short all pensioners. What u have done here ecl does not talalika mwana prices will go up for all items including transport. Sure ba ediga u tell me u dont hear the cries of retirees? Voti muzaiona imwe mu 2021 with this comedy ur displaying? KAYA. Were is the money in the pocket?
This is information is readily available its just we have lazy journalists who work on facebook.
Lusaka Times 24th September 2018
The Salaries of President Edgar Lungu and other selected government officials has been raised, with the changes being effective from January 2018.
According to a Statutory Instrument signed by Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe, President Lungu will now receive K487, 839.00 as annual salary plus a special annual allowance of K129, 413.00.
This latest salary adjustment means President Lungu’s monthly pay is now K40, 653.25 plus an allowance of K10, 784.41
Did we not tell you about this recklessness they increased salaries on 20th January 2018 and 12 months later everything is bone dry. We told you. you laughed at us this is simple book keeping you can not spend that you dont have!
First you raise your salaries, then act pro poor by cutting a 20% from it, its like you have a half glass of beer, you fill it up to its brim then you pour 20% out, your glass will still look full, this magic trick can only work on kindergarten lads.
i hope this is not work of the highly praised political adviser. there are many ways of gaining political mileage but not this….. its got no direct impact on the masses. lets says he slashes those funds but no instruments to remove them from emuloments to other sectors… We expected something like no new vehicles for any ministry… all those austriety measures taken seriously
Political Adviser is not an economist, its too late now Lungu should never have approved the salry increments last year if he cared for the people and that’s just the tip of the iceberg
First raise your salary by 100% then cut by mere 20% to fool people you are taking a salary cut. Whatever you have cut you will make 5 times as much through allowances. What difference is this going to make when ministers are refusing to pay back the money they chewed when they were in office illegally, make them pay back. And what about the issue of creating more constituencies to bring in more MPs who will need 50 times more allowances than these salary cuts. What about the introduction of the deputy ministers who again will need 20 times more money than what you are going to save through these salary cuts. What a joke!!
Who ever believe this bull is a foul…if you accept this false truth you a coward….and y’all out there in the diaspora who are not feeling the full effect,I’d urge you sit back and get entertained by headlines for we are the ones on ground and feeling the full extent of this economic limbo.
You have called people in diaspora jealous, bitter, toilet cleaners but we have remained steadfast to criticize where these morons have gone wrong even though we have greenback and pound sterling in our pockets but we care for our brothers and sisters. We can never take joy from this recklessness by these lazy bones.
Tony
Next time don’t just look at dancing when voting, look at a candidates cv …..
It’s too late to take up this measure because the price of fuel & electricity tariffs have already gone up & will not go down. These deducted salaries will never be used to subsidise both the price of fuel & electricity tariffs. The same reduced salaries will be recouped as trip allowances with increased trips. Why not cut down on trip expenses instead of salaries because there are a lot of civil servants who are not entitled to trips & these will suffer untold misery. The small salary they receive is all they have for their families. The major cause of the economic meltdown is the ever free falling exchange rate of the Zambian Kwacha to USD & other major currencies. From 2015 to date 3 ministers of Finance have been removed (Chikwanda, Mutati & Mwanakatwe). The solution is to shake up…
From 2015 to date 3 ministers of Finance have been removed (Chikwanda, Mutati & Mwankatwe). The solution is to shake up the comfortable top Bank of Zambia management because it has no solution for the Zambians. The current Bank of Zambia Governor when he joined BOZ, the exchange rate of the Zambian Kwacha to USD was 6.50 & today its 14.00.
This is after awarding themselves inflation cushioned salaries several times over the years! Could he also explain how these so-called reductions will help everyone that will be affected by the increases in fuel, electricity and other impending increases as a result?
By the way, this continued business of merely issuing statements through the assistant for press, is treacherous! He needs to ‘man-up’ and address the nation – stating the direction its taking, if any, and answering the hard questions!
The sh.1t is hitting the fan now, the “honeymoon” is over. Tym to endure the full brunt of this economic mess of a furnace we have created for ourselves….
The coffers are now empty, now he starts thinking of austerity measures. These are the things he should have doing when Aunty Maggie was appointed. LOL
*Maggie Dizzy
When are you paying back. We need that money like yesterday.
A POOR CIVIL SERVANT GETTING K3500 THEN YOU TAKE AWAY 10% WHAT A HEARTLESS MAN
Read the president’s statement again.Its not about those who get tuma K3500 or K7 500 but top senior Govnt officials such as BOZ Governor,Chief Justice,Ministers,PSs,etc who get not less than K100,000 a month!!!
They are just fooling us, why cutting the salaries now ??? as if the Zambian will benefit from it. We know you want our vote 2021, Please Zambian its time to be wise and let us save our beautiful nation 2021 as too much damage has been done to our nation in the name of our President is humbleness . Please let us think about our children’s future and the future of our nation . God bless zambia.
This is a missed call to say the least because this move has almost zero impact on us poor Zambians.President Edgar Lungu must do the right things by removing middlemen from the fuel supply chain.Let PF Govnt start importing fuel direct from Saudi-Arabian Govnt.Govnt-to-Govnt is the only solution to Zambia’s fuel crisis.
about Zesco’s electricity tariffs hike,the president knows that the wage bill at Zesco is huge.Thus let Zesco management retains only critical employees and prune irrelevant workers.Besides,Zesco employees should start buying electricity like all other Zambians for this company to reduce operations costs and become viable.President Lungu must extend his energy on solving real issues affecting us than on making statements which have no impact on our economy!!Salary…
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Salary reduction for less than 200 top Govnt officials has zero impact on our current weak economy!!!By making this statement,am not in anyway supporting Kainde’s UPND but simply calling a spade,as a spade!!!This PF Govnt can still improve this economy in 2020 by doing the right things!!
Why not cut the size of cabinet as well. We dont need Religious Affairs Ministry to start with.
Slashing salaries will result in more stealing by the ministers. How about investigating the thieves including you Mr President. The promises you made were not fulfilled.
Who is going to investigate him and his ministers? That timid lady commissioner Alita mbahwe at DEC who couldn’t disclose the 48 houses owner. Only an independent investigator can investigate Lungu like Scotland Yard.
Comment:I can see all the comments and only one person appreciate the move,my fellow meaningful Zambian let’s learn to appreciate whatever the president make an effort to us, anyway well done my president and may God richly bless you and your family let them talk ema politics yapa Zambia kuwayawafye
Who approved Energy increments? You are the same people who thank your beautiful wife’s boss for giving her allowances for accompanying him to Siavonga every weekend for seminars.
19 @ Chama the Retard.
Enjoy your special needs day out as you celebrate the reduction of Lungu’s salary and I hope it contributes to funding you special needs care.
God Bless!
You and your president need to fcuk off.
No No No bwana President! Keep your salary. What you need to cut are your trips, loadshedding, mealie meal prices, fuel prices, zesco tarriffs, kickbacks and careless borrowing
But ukushikwata amano bwafya. How can you cut ZESCO tariffs when it sells power below cost??? Then you are the same ones who say ZESCO is mismanaged and packed with cadres when it fails to perform?? Do you opposition fanatics know what you want for this country???
Talk of Sugar coating. Thats not where money is its in your senior government officials corruption and your own corruption – too much stealing. WE may not show evidence but we can see the results of corruption and anyone can see that too.
Cut down on corrupt ministers and these are all over and well known too. Those tumafake stage planned cases will come back to haunt you and the end will be disastrous.
What a disaster!!!!
Show us the results of corruption…
sell the president’s jet
cut minister of religion
bowman and sampa, one of them needs to go
stop paying cadres
lungu should not undertake any foreign trip in the next six months, no matter what, let the Zambian staff in whatever country has any gathering represent zambia
Not just foreign trips even local trips. This style of leadership where he just goes to gaze at people working and calls it supervising projects is a joke.Go sit in State House, go through reports,tackle corruption, close useless Religious Affairs ministry,inquire where your ministers are getting money to be throwing around as donations, man up baba…anyway it is still too little too late…20 months remaining,you have wasted more than 70 months baba…
This move has no impact at all on the people all they are doing is shamefully reducing those undeserving salary hikes they gave to themselves. You reduce your salaries so that you use it as an excuse not to increase employee salaries when government employees start crying for increment next year. This is mockery to the people of Zambia who have to endure hardships on a stagnant salary. Order your ministers as well as yourself for those 14 days you didn’t handover power to the speaker but got paid for that to pay back all monies obtained illegally.
What hypocrisy on other you want to appoint deputy minister through bill 10? Where is the money going to come from? By the way how many Zambia are in formal employment?
Well done, mr. President. This is a right move at the right time. A leader needs to feel what his or her people are feeling. We who appreciate civility in politics will recognise you timely move.
You at the counter you glass is beer half, after I join you ask me to get an empty glass, you order another beer and fill your cup to its brim,then from your full cup your pour a 20% of beer in my cup, you remain with your almost full cup, how are we going to experience the same feeling, what king magic trickery is this, is this not full throttle selfness?
Look at it this way, you simply hate Edgar Lungu and there’s nothing he’ll do that will impress you. For you, only hh is the answer to every problem Zambia has. Democracy: “system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.” LET THE PEOPLE SPEAK AND RESPECT IT!!!!
My goodness. This is the level of dullness you can achieve?? Well done for what? Go to this tw!t’s page, over 3000 comments telling him to shove that 20% up his withered a$$ because people are now enlightened and understand ukuti that nonsense is directed to gullible dullards like you who would even fail to explain how this move is meant to reduce the high cost of living. Kwena a PF brain needs to be dissected and studied coz the kama gland that excretes the ka hormone for stud!d!ty must be the most pronounced gland in there.
Chagwa Lungu has clearly won the Zambian jerk of the year award! Kudos too to Nkandu Lunyo for being the receipient of the female jackass of the year for even trying to apply for a US visa, that was rightfully denied! Let the ugly cow spend Xmas and new year kwanaBwalya!
That jerk is still republican president while a bitter tonga tribalist is just a normal citizen….
it’s like giving your son K20 and taking K200 away from him
Since when should we expect handouts from GRZ????
This is laughable Mr. Lungu, who ever advised you that reducing salaries will make the economy growth or contribute to economic growth is a big joker! The economy can only grow by reducing the cost production! Reducing salaries you tackling the consumption side not the production side which is the main determinant of economic growth! The outcomes of reducing salaries are all negative and are as follows:
1. Reduced expenditure base negatively impacting on the retail market
2. Reduced savings negatively impacting on commercial banks
3. Reduced Pay As You Earn negatively impacting on collected taxes.
4. Increased stealing by those in positions where they have access to public funds, negatively impacting on government delivery of social services.
This approach is all wrong. The best way…
AM APPEALING TO PANJI KAUNDA TO FORM A PARTY, HES THE ONLY WHO SEEMS TO BE STRAIGHT FORWARD AMONG THIS CROP OF POLITICIANS! HE SHOWS HE CAN FIGHT FOR THE PEOPLE’S WELFARE NOT THESE CROOKS WE HAVE AROUND!
@Zambian citizen – always personally bitter and off tangent in responding to the issues at hand. Grow up or shut it if you can’t even defend this regime with any aorta of sensibility.
It’s not about defending this “regime”. It’s about being patriotic and realistic. I will never fall for the social media rubbish being spewed all over about corruption that is only seen by one side which can’t show us hard evidence to prove it. Like UNIP or MMD, who are Zambians voted by the people, PF was chosen by Zambians to lead their country. Upnd is no more special than other politicians; to think only they have the answers to all our problems is dangerous!!!
Ooh wretched man. His salary is only K51 437.67 Let him cut his allowances and his acquired luxuries. I think this is as a result of intoxication.
If Dennise Liwewe (MHSRP)was alive he would have exclaim by shoulting … , “YAYAYAYAYA WE ARE IN TROUBLE, ZAMBIA IN TROUBLE, NEEDS MASTER DRIBBLER TO GET THE BALL FROM …!!!!!!”.
Lungu is a black magic voodoo man ,his one hand takes ten from taxpayers while the other hand gives back just two.His gimmick is very shortsighted.
This is voodoo straight out of Haiti.
These are crooks
ARE YOU SERIOUS —- THESE ARE THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF OUR COUNTRY AND THAT IS WHY WE ARE IN THE MESS WE ARE IN. WHAT IS HE GOING TO DO WITH THE 20% CUT SUBSIDISE FUEL / ELECTRICITY ?? WHY DON’T YOU CUT YOUR BLOATED CABINET BY 50% THAT WOULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE. YOUR 20% CUT IS GOING TO MAKE NO DIFFERENCE TO THE POOR MAN ON THE STREET. 20% CUT WILL MAKE NO DIFFERENCE TO PF POCKETS AS THEY ALREADY HAVE BLOATED BANK ACCOUNTS FROM USING TAX PAYERS MONEY AS THEIR PERSONAL BANK !
First you raise your salaries, then act pro poor by cutting a 20% from it, its like you have a half glass of beer, you fill it up to its brim then you pour 20% out, your glass will still look full, this magic trick can only work on kindergarten lads.
Bwana new political adviser, what manner of advise is this?
This is total ru.bbish especially when the damage has already been done. When people cried that these i.diots have increased their salaries just too high and that of the ordinary civil servant remained very very low he did not listen. People were annoyed that how can the cabinet and ministers have their salaries increased threefold and civil servants’ salaries increased by an insul.t of only 2%. This is there in the archives for all to read.
This is total disaster now. By the way we have not seen the worst yet. 2020 is full of drama and lets get ready bane….!!!!! Looking forward to more disasters and this is just a footnote!!!
Disaster!!!!
yaba! from bad to worse,try to research the works of the previous regimes.
People were being entertained by dancing while voting ???
Dancing decided their vote ??
Now is time to sober up and remember your dancing dunnuna reverse…..
zambian citizen your time is up.
edgar is the one with power and running a government that has excluded tongas and their cousins from positions.
He is the onevpractiding tribalism.
zambians are now seeing and know whoz the real culprit.
I am.bemba and can tell u that time is up.
Bwana no vision, what your friends do in order to meaningfully communicate, you should quantify, I know you may not understand what I am saying but to give an example we communicate like this.
“I have decided to cut 20% of my salary which calculates to K5million per annum, with this money, I intend to channel it to buy etc for the hospital and etc will go towards this project”.
Now from what you communicated, I can only conclude that probably there could have been a bottle of Junta nearby, in any case, who wants your money when we are in the dying minutes of extra time?, 2020 has arrived and it will zoom through like one month. WE ARE GEARED.
This clown is so annoying by his insulting the intelligence of Zambians. He has driven our economy into the ground by his visionless chagwanomics. He were one of the fastest growing countries on the continent along with Ghana and Ivory Coast when he took over eight years ago. Today we are one of the most indebited and growing at less 2% GDP. He does not deserve flying in that gulfstream jet when he has impoverished so many Zambians. He must sale it before he leaves office. He will certainly not get my vote in 2021.
I’m not an economics and don’t understand the logic of one Mr. Lungu on this one. Government has increased the cost of Electricity and fuel by a very big margin. On the other hand, they have reduced the salaries of Civil Servants. To me, this is like flogging a dead horse. The opposite should have happened. Salaries of Civil Servants should have been increased to cushion the impact of the impending increase in prices of essential commodities. Very soon Zambia will be like Zimbabwe. Anyway, colleagues lets go and vote in masses in 2021 and vote with our brains.
JOHN PHIRI ur right VOTE in masses for HH ecl has failed us true or false? in bill 10 he wants deputy mins now he says 20% reduction for his sarary. it doesnt make sense at all. ECL increase salaries by 50% and pay retirees.
Due to lack of understanding… This can be result
LIARS, your own constitutional court ruled that ministers who continued receiving salaries when parliament was dissolved was illegal and need to pay back money to Zambian people.
PF government has failed to honour its own court ruling, WHO CAN BELIEVE PF AND LUNGU HAVE CUT THEIR SALARIES BY 20%. see how Zambians are suffering when Lungu and his PF live a luxury lifestyle.
It’s possible not to even get a salary at all after looting the country. They are now millionaires they don’t even care about a salary
@zambian citizen your president is a jerk. He has been a curse to Zambia. There is no HH in the picture. We trusted him with greater responsibility but his responsibility was to Kaiser and the bunch of crooks that sorrounded. Wisely and justifiably so he has booted himself out.
@Charles wish we had more Zambians with your great bongo bongo. You is a man not these puppets. Tell them mwana. Lungu is a complete idiooooot. The man can not think, his concubines can’t think either. Esther Lungu Police Post. He is really a jerk.
Imagine not even a dog can vote for him
Please Panji Kaunda come and help us remove these crooks. Hichilema is another crook he should not be given chance. You Panji come from a well known and respected family background cannot take time to build on your father’s reputation. Please Panji form your own party, like your collegue Uhuru Kenyata!
THE PRESIDENT IS FOND OF MAKING SERIOUS DECISIONS WITHOUT CONSULTING STAKEHOLDERS! HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF YOUR SALARY IS DECREASED WITHOUT PRIOR CONSULTATION? IS THIS MEANT TO PLEASE THE GENERAL CITIZENRY? SUPPOSE HE IS TAKEN TO COURT BY THOSE AFFECTED, IS IT THE GOVT THAT IS GOING TO PAY THE LOST SALARIES IF HE LOSES THE SUCH A CASE? HE MADE A UNILATERAL DECISION OF THE SAME KIND WHEN HE DECLARED THAT MINSTERS REMAIN IN OFFICE DURING CAMPAIGN PERIOD AND THE COURTS RULED THAT THEY PAY BACK THE MONEY; WON’T THIS ONE GO THE SAME WAY?
IT IS NOT HH THAT IS KILLING PF!!! PF IS BEING KILLED BY ITS CADRES AND BY ITS PRESIDENT. THE MOSES TO SAVE THE PF MUST ARISE NOW!!!
We can’t become anaesthetised & think, ‘Oh, Lungu is President, there’s nothing we can do before 2021, after all, we all know he rigged the last polls. At the rate this dickhead is ravaging us, there will be no country left by 2021 when Northern Zambia will be Saharanized by his Tasila Mukulanizarion & the economy will be dead… We can’t just passively accept this kind of kleptocracy Lungu is trying to impose, the fight back starts now.
Now it is being reported that salary reduction for others is voluntary. Surely on earth who do u think can voluntarily reduce his salary? But what amazes me most is how the President proceeded into making the statement on salary reduction in such a way that the impression created was that it was a directive that everyone should sustain a reduction but only to be ruled offside by the PS Kasanda.
Sorry PS Kasolo and not Kasanda as stated above.
Now they have u-turned over their own statement. Deceit and trickery has just failed big time. Who on earth can ever volunteer to have salary cut when everything is going up like liquid air!!!! Be serious guys!!!
Disaster!!!!
……but ba PF nimakolwe yeka yeka chabe, which human being thinks like that? How do the reduced salaries impact on what people pay for electricity? Those people you want to reducesalary by 10% are among the worst hit by fuel and electricity tariffs.
Ni Jemisoni kapena ni chani?
Brace yourselves as you’re about to go on 16 hrs involuntary fasting due to dununa reverse…popcorns please
He should have instead cut the free monthly electricity units to ZESCO workers.
It can go a long way in helping ZESCO itself to stay afloat in this challenging economic tide.
Mr. No bongo bongo, awe katwishi. What a useless President, Lungu sure awe