KCM EMPLOYEES DEMAND RESIGNATION OF KCM CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER MALCOLM MEWETT
…..as calls by KCM employees to have Vedanta Resources KCM Chief Operations Officer Malcolm Mewett to resign have intensified
Saturday August 10, 2024
There is growing pressure at Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) with employees accusing it’s Operations Officer Malcolm Mewett of bringing confusion to the mining firm.
According to the workers, Mewett is terminating jobs for Zambians at KCM without giving them terminal benefits and without proper reasons.
“Vedanta Resources promised to improve our working conditions and create more employment opportunities but what is happening is the opposite and we won’t manage to cope with this situation,” they said.
The workers have further disclosed that Vedanta Resources promised to pay them K2,500 bonus but only got the K1,500 and others K1,000, which they say is clear that Vendanta will not improve their working conditions.
“Better our government finds another investor to run KCM, let them bring International Resources the investor running Mopani to also partner with KCM,” they further urged.
“It’s difficult to trust Vedanta Resources to operate KCM, our chief Operations officer Malcolm Mewett must be fired or must resign, because he has brought more confusion in KCM.”
Efforts to get Mr Mewett proved futile as his line went unanswered.
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As long as the broke vendata is at KCM zambia, employees, community in chingola should forget about any meaningful benifits.
These guys are there to use that asset for their benifit not anyone else.
That’s FACT.
This is a litmus test on the MoU signed. If a breach on the agreement is made the conditions must kick in. It was reported that due care was taken to ensure that the law would be used to enforce the contract.
We await to see the response. That is if these reports are accurate. So much misinformation is going on in the media these days. Watching this space as the events unfolds.
Nothing will come out of Chingola and Chililabombwe as long as vendetta runs the mine, not in this life and certainly not in the next. Period.
Vendanta, vendanta this company…
KCM won’t be the owners of that mine, the current government is too smart for that. As at 2021 , GRZ owed KCM billions for taking over a mine unlawfully, but with the current situation, GRZ, will still take it over but now legally, NAPSA is already slowly buying them out. One NAPSA will ask for its money and KCM will be too bankrupt to pay back and that’s how government will again bring in the issue of not paying taxes and employees and boom! The mine is ours. This may take time, but kcm if being baited at its own game…..and they can read between the lines-still arrogant as usual.
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