RETIREMENT PENSION BENEFITS AND DESTITUTIONREFLECTIONS WITH HICKS SIKAZWEDAVEY Lukwesa, aged 68, a security guard in Kitwe attended compulsory Zambia National Service (ZNS) introduced in 1975 in the UNIP era for secondary school leavers.After six months of military training at Kafue and 14 production in Katete, he joined a Kabwe-based state enterprise, otherwise known as parastatal. He was later moved to Ndola.In 1995, he was retrenched and according to him evicted from a house he was supposed to buy as a sitting tenant. He was then 42 years old.Since 1995 he has fought battles legal and civil, he says, he still has to be paid off. On April 10 2020, he was attracted by a Daily Nation front page story, SMEs, STIMULUS ROLLED OUT, AS PENSIONERS RETIREES SET TO BE PAID.After running through the story he scanned the inside pages of the edition, came across my contact at the bottom of this column and two days […]
Retirement, Pension benefits and destitution
