ZESCO MD EMPLOYS, PROMOTES HIS DAUGHTER
Lusaka- 25/04/2024
State-owned power utility, ZESCO Managing Director, Victor Mapani has promoted his daughter, Beenzu Mapani, as a Senior Legal Officer in charge of Litigation in Lusaka.
In 2022, Mapani employed Beenzu as a legal officer.
In a “Private and Confidential” letter of appointment to Beenzu Mapani, ZESCO’s Human Capital and Development Director, Maxwell Saya, informed Beenzu that she will begin on a salary of K18,000 in a senior salary grade ML6.
Beenzu will also be paid 75% and 40% of her monthly basic salary as Housing and Services allowances respectively.
-PF
Is it a problem if she’s qualified. Iyo ni jealous. Congratulations young lady
Who says relatives can’t work in same organization? Which law has been broken?
Who’s Beenzu Mapani? What is she trained in? Does she qualify for the position? How was she recruited? These facts have to be established in order to make a fair comment. Would it be proper to allow the son or daughter of a serving judge to join the Judiciary for example?
It is not about having the qualification. It is about following procedures. Was the job advertised? Did she apply? Were there interviews for those who qualifed and did she come out the best after interviews? These are the issues of fairness for others in the same situation. Otherwise employing a relative just because they have qualification is not enough. They must be subjected to full procedure and compete with others
Jealous is a bad seed in Zambia, honestly speaking they even have the time to start talking about it sure sure. Mulekwatako insoni shakulalanda pali progress yabanenu. kkkkkkkkkk
In PF such things were order of the day. Leave the young lady alone.
As long as the father never interviewed her at the time she was being employed.
In PF the whole MDs were coming one region. If you know what I mean .
Does it mean she can’t be promoted since her father is MD? Was she promoted alone or there are other workers promoted in the organization? Come on Zambians we can do better. I don’t know the girl or father but I think it’s unfair to go that far to slender them
@ Matumbo, aka Intestines, I agree with you. I believe there is a procedure for recruiting people at ZESCO so that the company gets the best candidates there is on the market. If procedure was followed, no problem, but if it wasn’t, this might point to some underhand methods and the relevant government wings are ideally supposed to take a keen interest in the matter.
Is this story verified and factual? Let the reporters dig deeper to ascertain whether indeed that person who was employed is related to the MD or is it just someone with the same surname. We can only judge from facts.
nepotism
the practice among those with power or influence of favouring relatives, friends, or associates, especially by giving them jobs.
Guilty as charged!
Daughter should expect to be retired in national interest with change of government!
Isn’t nepotism the worst form of corruption?
What was wrong under PF is still wrong under UPND!
It’s things like these that begin to decampaign the president!
Whichever way you look at this, it’s not ethical and morally right!
What may be legal may not be ethical and morally right!
Even where due process was followed, by virtue of her being the MD’s daughter put her at an unfair advantage over other candidates!
How is the HRM expected to fail the boss’s child and not expect to lose their job?
Such nepotism stinks!
These are some of the issues people should objectively look at. What was this lady before her promotion? If a position is advertised and procedures are followed and my son, daughter, niece, nephew qualifies and is picked at a place where I am the Managing Director, I don’t see any problem there. For example Panji Kaunda rose up to a colonel when his Father was the President, was it nepotism? No. Mrs. Gracie Machel was Minister of Education in her late husband’s government, so is Mrs Museveni and the son is a high ranked Army officer. These things happen everywhere, civil service, Army, Police etc.