Luwingu District Commissioner Patrick Chanda has advised civil servants to desist from engaging in active politics and concentrate on the work they were employed for.
Mr. Chanda sounded the warning following the suspension of his District Administrative Officer for allegedly involving himself in active politics.
He said the suspension of his District Administrative Officer should be a lesson to other civil servants in the area.
Mr. Chanda said this when he was addressing officers from at the district administration and officers from Zambia News and Information Services in his office yesterday.
He said government will not forgive any officer engaging in active politics because civil servants were employed to implement government policies.
He further advises civil servants wanting to actively engage in politics to resign from the civil service and join politics.
Mr. Chanda also extended his appeal to the general public to refrain from posting commentaries on social media that might promote disunity in the country.
The District Commissioner also appealed to the traditional leaders to help unite the people in their chiefdoms in bid to maintain peace and stability the country has enjoyed for many years.
He has since thanked the people of Luwingu district for maintaining peace and stability.
But suspended Luwingu Administrative Officer, Deodatus Munsungwe said he did not attend a meeting that was addressed by opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) leader, Hakainde Hichilema.
Mr. Munsungwe said he just passed near the place where Mr. Hichilema’s meeting was taking place from.
This totally wrong how then are people going to have information to know who to vote for if people are not allowed to listen to the candidates?
The day District Commissioners stop drawing a civil service salary is the same day civil servants can stop being partisan.
We can not have one rule for the goose, another for the gander. The rule of law MUST start with those in power, otherwise they are inviting anarchy.
@Zoz a zoz – District Commissioners are civil servants. Where do you expect them to draw their salaries from?
either take leave or off government work hours then attend or pause at meetings
Luwingu district commissioner is he tonga? Because in Edgar’s mind only tongas are supporters of UPND and are throwing petrol bombs in Jameson bottles
@Ricky Bobby, what @Zoz is saying is that even the DCs are civil servants and should equally not be involved in partisan politics but yet they are. Just look at Chanda Kabwe in Kitwe and many others including the one, who has suspended Musungwe. It seems the rule is “do not be associated with the opposition.” You have Emmanuel Mwamba openly campaigning for PF yet he is a civil servant.
Don’t forget to fire Emmanuel Mwamba for being involved in active politics
Dictators are here get ready for shocking suspensions
expel all the TOLL NGAZ FROM GOVERNMENT
And who do you think will perform government duties? Bembas? kikikikiki
This is what makes my blood boil. Emmanuel Mwamba is all over the show trotting globe trotting from SA to Zambia to help PF .What is so different to this man?
Wrong decision. Please let us not be guilty of the misdeeds of the tribal party when making any decision.
We are in for it as Zambians i tell you!
If they were consistent i would have applauded this…look at that sly dirty crook in the Zambian High Commission in RSA Emmanuel Mwamba.
Car tall lay sit down coz the stench coming from your mouth is unbearable. Smelly pig
YOU WHO IS SAYING expel all the TONGAS, LOZI, NORTH WESTERN FROM GOVERNMENT can you also tell other tribes to leave our copper, Hydro Dams, Agricutural and Water sources. We shall see who needs the other the most. Without Zambezi River, Kafue River, Kariba Dam, Copper Mines in NW will you survive.
Think before you yap clueless people. Dont insult people who exercise their right to choose who they want. Look at the total percentage of people that voted for Sata in Luapuala it was 98% HH 2% did you cry triblism.
No of course not when its you speaking Bemba or Nyanja its okey, once I speak Lozi am a tribalism. Lets us break up and why are you hanging onto us if we are triblist.
atleast that was 3 times wat edigar got in dundumweezi where he got 0.8172%. surely 2% is far much better as it would have given edigar 789 compared to 252.
@Mary zimba,point of correction we, DONT and we shall NEVER need you. If you want you can break away and we shall still survive after all you are the minority and we are in the majority period! NO apology to make coz you have gone too far.Bembas this bembas that, atase you cockroaches . No bemba stood for president but you are always on us why? it is not our fort that we are king makers, it is a will of GOD that we are like that chapwa, kwamana, kwasila, period.
@Mary zimba,point of correction we, DONT and we shall NEVER need you. If you want you can break away and we shall still survive after all you are the minority and we are in the majority period! NO apology to make coz you have gone too far.Bembas this bembas that, atase you cock roaches . No bemba stood for president but you are always on us why? it is not our fort that we are king makers, it is a will of GOD that we are like that chapwa, kwamana, kwasila, period.
ATTENDIG A MEETING DOESNT MEAN YOU SUPPORT THE CANDIDATE. ZAMBIA IS TOO BACKWARD
Attending a rally is not the same as being actively involved in politics. So there were no civil servants at all those rallies before the elections? The man was not seeking political office, was he? (where he would be expected to resign) What if he had been passing by a PF meeting?
Having a District Commissioner like Mr. Chanda is sad. No wonder Luwingu is one of undeveloped districts in Zambia. If his District Administrative Officer was stealing the government time to attend UPND meeting then the administrative officer deserve to be fired. How would Mr. Chanda know which party to vote for if he does not listen or read the manifestos or platforms on which each party is asking to be voted for. I think the permanent secretary/” boss” should fire Mr. Chanda and reinstate the fired administrative officer. Mr. Chanda is a big stumbling block to development.
Elections are overs bane. so if you are a civil servant remember you can’t mix water and oil because as civil servants you are paid by the government hence stop engaging your selves in politics you are compromising your duties or else its becomes an ethical issue called conflict of interests.
In 2006 Mr Sata paid a visit on his nephew a Zesco employee on the Copperbelt. The gentleman was fired. Let this Luwingu man get his job back and should also stop icimpwena ati I was just passing by.