A Lusaka-based clergyman has commended President Rupiah Banda for pardoning nurses and other health workers who took part in last month’s countrywide strike.
Church of God former Regional Overseer, Bishop John Mambo, says the Christian community is happy to see that the Head of State has pardoned the nurses and other health workers who were on the verge of dismissal for their illegal act.
Bishop Mambo told ZANIS in an interview in Lusaka today that President Banda has demonstrated a fatherly heart by forgiving the concerned workers.
Bishop Mambo, who is also Chikondi Foundation president, said President Banda’s forgiveness for health workers has demonstrated the love he has for the public service workers in the country.
He, however, appealed to President Banda to pay salaries to workers who participated in an industrial unrest.
Bishop Mambo, who is also Nyamphande Orphanage founder member, said President Banda’s forgiveness for the nurses should also be extended to salaries, saying that nurses went on strike for the sake of pressuring government to improve their working conditions.
The clergyman further urged the labour movement to educate its members on the need to follow the laid-down administrative channels and promote rapport with government with a view to fostering economic development in the country before resorting to going on strikes.
Bishop Mambo said that he was concerned by the strike by health workers, especially that it resulted into loss of many lives in the country.
He has since called on government to address problems in the health and education sectors respectively, saying the two sectors were key to the social economic development of the country.
ZANIS
Bishop preach to RB
WHAT IS THIS MAN SAYING? WHATS THE LOGIC HERE? CAN HE JUST STICK TO CHURCH!
Mwandini I dont believe that illigal strikes should be compensated. This will encourage every civil servant to go on protracted illigal strikes knowing that they are merely on leave and that the govt will reward them. These people did not work and therefore they have forfieted their salaries to the govt. What more is their to argue about?
The intended case of not paying the nurses and othervhealth staff can never hold or take place. I say so because Government may not as well pay deny salaries to other workers who were on leave causing even more confusion on its part. Mark my word, RB is just intimidating.
Why not dock off some of their leave days and day off for same flat pay.. That is a better mitigation than withrawing the whole pay. This may cause problems and be counter productive.
Muvwela
Now you see the point. There must be some penalty for staying away from work illegally
No work …. No salary.. Don’t pay anyone from government fund if no job done, If the nurses went on strike out of advise from the trade union, The trade union should pay them. Muzungu know to spend public fund thats why they develop their countries we live in.
Is there a precedent set in Zambia, for striking workers not to be paid, if not , then they should be paid. For those that are equating it to no work no pay , Zambia’s work culture is different from the west. In Zambia workers are still paid a salary even when there is no show or no work done but in most western countries workers are paid by the hour and it’s a no show no pay culture. This would only make sense if the work culture is revised in Zambia by adapting to the hourly pay otherwise it is very unfair as there is no precedence to follow. God bless Zambia.
what about what GRZ owes nurses before the strike?What about those leave days that nurses dont take coz there is a shortage?What if nurses stick to legal number of patients per nurse?
Just pay them!
its about time someone told RB. i think nurses deserve their salary, they are barely getting wat they desreve anyway
# 2 walai nthwenu mputi business,
What Church can this pervasive criminal concentrate on when the Church of God has long ex-communicated him for years of theft, corruption, abuse, drunkardness , Pederasty behavior in his pedophilia life? this is the most corrupt wolf that has ever abused and brought unmeasurable shame to the God;s revered name.Silvia Masebo has just hired her to help insulate her from criminal conducts switching position from Chiluba he served reporting on other ministers from 1993-2001.
RB has grown some thick skin all of a sudden preach to him Bishop
I repeat it, those who want to thrive on impunity and illegality must resign from the people’s government, congregate and serve their impunity in the make Zambia ungovernable club.Paying people who deserted their jobs defying their calling, natural justice and existing civil service standing order of 15 days absence without clearance as ground for dismissal would be fanning illegality.paying them would be rewarding impunity and insulting selfless citizens that have shown service above self. I challenge any public policy administrators, labor law, and economics of labor scholars to take me on this one.This communist mentality must be rejected if payments must be a responsible economy.
Hired guns now soliciting that illegal strike must be rewarded are heartless anarchist belaboring to promote a cultural war against responsibility and labor contract law in the country. If they didn’t advocate for the dead and sick left helplessly at the eve of this illegality, they better be ignored and classified as callous anarchists in contract with the devil to mount death of helpless Zambians. True moralists could have been seen in calling for an end of this illegal strike that has costed human life. Thus, these illegal strikers must not take pay from tax payers turned victims for what they never worked for.
Doing so is appeasing impunity with underserved reward which would be a very bad precedence. Unless they were on paid vacation, disability leave, using PTO, Sick or legally binding absence, they should not be paid. They have abrogated their social contract and calling of noble citizen for noble people only. Pay must be for what one has worked for.
mambo,shut the f**k up!
Let them go ask for a one month pay from the Haka-Sata Joint Make Zambia ungovernable Presidency account that told them to extend the illegal strike and pledged untruncated protection and support for any consequences deserting their jobs was to bring on them. Alternatively, they should wait until their promised early election Government materialize if it will ever under the Zambian sun. Under consensus, their representatives signed a binding labor bill contract but the make Zambia ungovernable rubbish brain washed them.
They bought the rubbish that deserting sick Zambians triggering death toll would expedite a new Haka-Sata joint Presidential Government of 2 Presidents, 8 vice Presidents, 2 full cabinet ministers and deputies from each camp by July 2009.this irresponsible move and social negligence was anchored on the misconception that compliance would give them American healthcare level wages as part of more miracle money in the pocket. They believed everyone would become enumerated the doctors pay and drive new SUVs with mansions within 90 days.
In this time of need, they must now make a distress call on the Haka-Sata Joint Presidency of the Make Zambia ungovernable to pay them from the ungovernable project account.The two announce that they now have some business houses sustaining their programs. Leadership is measured by its commitment to promise given.
Whatever Government decides, I’m of the view that illegal strikers must not be rewarded for deserting human life creating death toll for the sake of appealing to doomsday political demagoguery of making Zambia ungovernable if they have to land on miraculous more money in the pocket rubbish.
DO NOT REWARD INDISCIPLINE!! Please DO NOT PAY THE NURSES WHO WENT ON AN ILLEGAL STRIKE. Could LT tell us how many innocent people died during the strike?? How many people were DENIED treatment by the same nurses? DO NOT ENCOURAGE ILLEGAL STRIKES.
SENIOR CITIZEN OUTDATED LIKE RB, NEW ZAMBIA #8 IS THE WAY FORWARD, YOU ARE RIGHT. HOURLY PAY SHOULD COME INTO EFFECT AFTER 2011. WHAT EVER GOV RB OLO SATA-HH. IF ZAMBIA YOU WANT TO DEVELOP THIS IS ONE AREA WE NEED TO CHANGE. ALL CASUAL WORKERS, IF POSSIBLE MAIDS AND GARDEN BOY( ARE THEY CASUAL?) ASWELL SHOULD BE PAID HOURLY. THIS SYTEM CAN WORK FOR THE GOOD OF US AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO HAVE BANK ACCOUNTS, PAY THEM STRAIGHT INTO THE BA..??BANK. OUR BANKS WILL HAVE MONEY TO TRADE WELL IN FOREX AND WHAT SO EVER, PEOPLE CAN GET NKONGOLE , PAY IN ADVANCE FROM MA BANKS AND PAY SLOWLY BUT SURELY COZ YOU KNW ZINGE? ZINGENA WEEKLY OR FORTNIGHTLY. LETS NT CRY OVER SPELT MILK, RB WILL CRY LIKE CHILUBA ONE DAY, DAYS ARE NUMBERED!
NOTHING IS ACCOUNTED FOR IN ZED AT MOMENT. CENTRAL STATISTICS DNT EVEN HAVE DATA ON ANYTHING, KAPOKO AND THE CARTEL LOOTED THE NURSES MONEY UNDETECTED. BWEZANI RUPIAH JUST THROWS A BONE TO YOU UNDER THE TABLE, HIS EATEN THE MEAT, IMAGE A BONE, YOU JUST SUCK THE BONE MARROW AND THROW IT DATS IT, HAND TO MOUTH NO PLAN. ZED IS LIKE MAIKO JACKSONS BODE, ONE BRINGS PANADO PUT INSIDE, SEPUTRINI PUT, KLOLOKWINI IS PUT, ANY SHADY POLICY PUT PUT PUT INSIDE MORE MORE AND MORE. SOME ONE STEALS THE NOSE UNDETECTED, HOW CAN SOME STEAL YOUR NOSE WHEN ITS IN FRONT OF YOUR TWO EYES?
If Bishop Mambo lick up RB any further, his tongue will get stuck in RB intestines.