Lungu pledges to reward diligent civil servants
PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu says Government will continue identifying hard working civil servants and rewarding them with promotions to senior positions. President Lungu also said the appointments to senior government positions were carefully scrutinised and were on merit. He said this during the swearing in ceremony of Veronica Makwakwa Mwiche as Eastern Province Permanent secretary at State House yesterday. He said there was no better way of motivating officers in the government other than promoting them from among their own rank and file. “You may recall that I recently swore in two other directors to the levels of permanent Secretaries. This is as it should be. There is no better way of motivating officers in the government other than promoting them from among their own rank and file,” President Lungu said. Mr Lungu also urged Ms Mwiche to take advantage of her 28 years of experience in government where she specialised in strategic planning, policy formulation, organisation design and systems to help turn around the social economic fortunes of Eastern Province. He urged Ms Mwiche not to lose sight of the country’s aspirations of the Seventh National Development Plan as it is a blueprint for the country’s development agenda. “I am confident that with this vast institutional memory both in the government and donor agencies, you will focus on efficient reorganising the provincial administration. As you do so, you should not lose sight of the aspiration of the Seventh National Development Plan as it is a blueprint for our development agenda,” said President Lungu. He said Government was in a hurry to deliver quality services across all sectors to the people of Zambia in line with the Seventh National Development Plan. And speaking to journalists, Ms Mwiche encouraged other civil servants to remain focused as the job of civil servant was to serve people.