Southern Province councils have misplaced or unqualified workers – Sejani

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ACKSON SEJANI

S/Province councils have misplaced or unqualified workers – Sejani

By Edwin Mbulo in Livingstone

SOME councills in Southern Province have either misplaced or unqualified workers, says Ackson Sejani.

Addressing principal officers from local authorities in Southern Province during the formation of Human Resource Management Committees (HRMCs) at New Fairmount Hotel yesterday, Sejani the Local Government Service Commission chairperson said the commission has been realigning and placing personnel in appropriate positions according to their qualifications and skills.

“Let me hasten to say that the Commission is however aware that some local authorities in Southern Province have some staff who are either misplaced or lack the requisite qualifications and competencies,” he said.

Sejani said the realigning of council workers is a well thought-out strategy to equitably distribute human resources in all 116 local authorities.

He said the HRMCs were being established in line of the provisions of Section 33 of the service commission Act No. 10 of 2016 so as to timely process human resources matters at local authority level and boost the morale of workers as well as actualise the UPND’s agenda of realistic decentralisation.

Sejani said the commission has so far created 54 HRMCs in five provinces – 11 in Central, eight in Muchinga, 12 in Northern, 12 in Luapula as well as 11 in North-Western Province.

He said in Southern Province 15 HRMCs would be created bring the total number to 69 countrywide so far.

“Allow me to state that the HRMCs that we are constituting will be closely monitored and evaluated to ensure compliance with set standards including the code of ethics whose core objective is to set acceptable behaviour for persons in the public and local governance service,” said Sejani. “I wish to strongly warn would be HRMC members that the commission will not hestitate to withdraw delegated functions from those committees that will fail to fulfil the obligations with honesty, integrity and professionalism.”

Livingstone mayor Constance Muleabai said she was happy that the HRMCs were being formulated countrywide which shows President Hakainde Hichilema’s resolve to have real decentralisation actualised.

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