Thu, 27 Oct 2016 08:30:30 +0000 OVER 200 officers at the Ministry of Agriculture based in Lusaka have been paid allowances exceeding K700,000 in rural hardship and remote allowances when in fact they were based at the ministry headquarters in Lusaka. According to the 2015 Auditor General’s report, about 200 Ministry of Agriculture officers claimed rural hardship allowances when in fact they were not entitled. According to the terms and conditions of service for the Public Service regulation no.166, an officer serving in an area declared to be a remote area shall be entitled to receive a hardship allowance at the rate as may be determined by the Government. The AG’s report however stated that contrary to the above condition, 220 officers who were not eligible to receive the allowances were paid amounts totalling K708,799 rural hardship allowances. The officers received rural hardship allowances amounting to K673,468 and remote hardship allowances K35,331 respectively. The […]
