Nelly Mutti
Nelly Mutti

Emmanuel Mwamba
Speaker Wants Sauna Built For Her

I noticed a Tender for the Refurbishment Works at the Speaker’s Lodge at the National Assembly of Zambia.

Other than a full and extensive refurbishment of the Lodge, the National Assembly have planned to install Sauna facilities at the Lodge.

A Sauna is a room or building designed as a place to experience dry or wet heat sessions. The steam and high heat make the bathers perspire and may provide benefits for cardiovascular health that resemble those derived from exercise.

What surprises me is the attitude that top public officials have towards the use of public funds where they are used to pay for a luxury, exorbitant or extravagant lifestyle.

It may be just a Sauna, but this typifies other bigger things public funds are used on ignoring modesty, functional and minimalist approach but expenditure is made on ostentatious motor vehicles and homes for public officials.

Surprising, no matter how good the state of both the vehicle or home that the predecessor left maybe, the new official usually pursues new refurbishments to suit their personal taste!

And it doesn’t matter the state of economy or austere measures that is preached. Expensive travels, purchase of luxury items and high living continues unabated.

Bane! these are public funds, and our people,who are masters, expect us to be prudent with the resources. How do citizens tighten their belts when leaders keep on loosening theirs?

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