MANYINGA DEBS TOLD TO LEAVE THE DISTRICT IMMEDIATELY
Stakeholders in Manyinga district have demanded for the immediate transfer of the District education board secretary (DEBS) and the Human Resource officer after the majority of the teachers who were volunteering in various schools in the district were not picked for the recently concluded recruitment.
Some of the unemployed teachers had been volunteering mostly in the rural schools for over three years but none of them have been employed.
Out of 53 sent to the district only nine are locally based while the majority are not from Manyinga.
The stakeholders who met at senior Chief Sikufele’s palace with heads of departments from the district commissioner, DEBS and Council chairperson’s offices today have since rejected the list of teachers from other provinces sent to Manyinga.
First President Kaunda’s policy of taking civil servants to areas that were not their places of origin was meant to foster national integration. This should be revisited and clearly spelt out to all Zambians.
I agree. It worked very well because President Kaunda’s government was a no nonsense regime which never compromised on the issue of postings.Unfortunately today areas such as Manyinga, Zambezi, Kaputa, Mporokoso are just used as entry points by the newly deployed teachers and medical personnel from other areas. After a few months the majority leave those areas for “better” places with the help of their connections in high offices. Why overlook qualified locals? This is like preferring expatriates to well qualified nationals.