Civic leaders in Nakonde district of Northern Province have appealed the government to consider paying them gratuity at the end of their term of office.
The ward councilors said government should consider paying them gratuity at the end of their terms in office as a way of appreciating their contribution to development at local level.
They made the passionate appeal during a full council meeting held in the council chambers yesterday.
This followed a report by the acting Council Secretary Titus Walima on the meeting of the Local Government Association of Zambia (LGAZ) which was held in Livingstone in Southern Province early this year.
Nakonde district council chairman Luka Simusamba said councilors do a lot of work on a daily basis and contribute greatly to the development of the country.
Mr Simusamba said no meaningful development could take place if people at the grass root level are not involved adding that the country has continued to record success in various economic sectors of the economy because of the involvement of people at various levels.
“Councilors do a lot of work in the district on daily basis and this is the reason why we are humbly requesting the government to consider paying councilors gratuity as a way of appreciating their efforts,” said Mr Simusamba.
He said councilors were not asking for hundreds of millions of Kwacha but suggested that they could be given even as little as K50 million each at the end of the term.
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Give them. What is good for goose should also be good for the Garnder! MP’s higher amounts and yet they do little work as compared to these councilors who are in touch with the grassroot
Okay you may need that but atleast should justify the gratuity
What do these councilors do? They just drink beer in compounds and allocating illigal plots to people and they bring cofusions during election campaigns. Now gratuity for what? They should first justify what developmental intiatives and project they carried before. balwafye CDF fund aba.
Better give them what is due to them before they are forced to get it by dishonest or corrupt means.
Dont give them K50M just give that money to the needs coz the money they have stolen is enough from locating plots.
which plots? some councilors are in the rural areas where people dont even have time to buy plots like shangombo and shilbwalya kapila. they deserve something but not K50m. that is just too much. a teacher, police man and nurse gets K150m after 25yrs or more of service daily how can a concilor who doesnt even report daily and never went to any school for the service be able to get that? K50m in 3yrs is just uncalled for. spear us this BULL S.H.I.T please.
Ask the councilors how many they are in Zambia for them to get that 50m each they are crying for .This is absolutely impossible talk of other things that will develop your ward.