THESE ARE GREEDY LEADERS WE ARE DEVELOPING, MAGANDE CONDEMNS MINISTERS, MPS SALARY INCREMENTS
Former Finance minister Ng’andu Magande says the move by ministers and members of parliament to increase their salaries clearly shows the kind of greedy leaders the country is building.
Speaking with Daily Revelation, Magande said in the circumstances the country finds itself in, this was an environment where people should go into government to serve, and that serving meant sharing the little there was with other people.
He said particularly in recent years, a lot of people who go into government already have some means of livelihood, which would even be higher than most of the majority of their “neighbors”, that leaders must be able to behave like neighbors as that is the only thing that will enable them to offer a service to the people.
“But I think what has happened in the recent past is that young people see somebody driving a BMW and they say once I become an MP or I become a minister I want to buy not MB300 but MB600. And this competition has brought a lot of greed. Apart from greed; jealousy, that in fact when you see somebody putting on another suit you also want to get the suit,” Magande said. “So I am really very disappointed that here is a group of young people who were campaigning on the basis of ‘we are going to rectify the economic problems. We are going to make sure that people have better lives and then the first thing they do when… http://dailyrevelationzambia.com/these-are-greedy-leaders-we-are-developing-magande-condemns-ministers-mps-salary-increments