Government Aims to Motivate Public Servants Through Housing Provision
Lusaka Province Minister, Sheal Mulyata says the government wishes to motivate public servants through empowerment schemes designed to help them acquire property.
The minister emphasised police officers and other public servants play a crucial role in the development of the nation, and that the government wished to motivate them through the provision of housing, land and vehicles.
She believes a motivated workforce will lead to improved performance, greater responsibility, and professionalism. The New Dawn government is eager to decentralise the provision of public services to improve its delivery, in this context a motivated work force committed to the national project of development is seen as particularly important.
To this end, the government is in process of establishing Human Resource Management Committees in all provinces as a way of empowering provinces and districts to be making their own decisions in management and human resource matters.
Zambian Police Service Commission Chairperson, Peter Machungwa, commented; “We are transforming the Police Service Commission and ensuring that matters concerning our officers are quickly addressed and this is why we are forming Human Resources Management Committees to look at staff matters of our police officers at the lowest level instead of referring everything to the Commission in Lusaka”.
Speaking in Lusaka on Monday when Chairperson Machungwa paid a courtesy call, Ms Mulyata noted, “Some of our police officers, like in Rufunsa, do not have good houses and we need to do something to improve their accommodation so as to motivate them to work hard”.
Chairperson Machungwa also emphasised that corruption would not be tolerated within the police, and argued that those desperate to be involved in partisan politics should not be involved in high level policing. In saying this, the chairperson was keen to emphasise the national project of development above partisan policies.
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