Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:53:00 +0000 By SANDRA MACHIMA COMPLAINTS by ward councillors across the country over their meagre allowances is justified and therefore, deserved a better package, former Chingola mayor Macdonald Mulongoti has charged. Mr Mulongoti said as much as the councillors were part time workers, it was important that their allowances adjusted. “I am alive to the fact that these civic leaders function on a part time basis but their role is equally important because they deal with the people at the grassroots who usually present various daunting challenges which require financial or logistical solutions beyond their means such as transport in cases of illnesses, funeral expenses and related issues inter alia,” he said. Mr Mulongoti said the President, Members of Parliament, mayors or council chairpersons and councillors were all elected at the same time but that there was an outrageous discrepancy in terms of allowances or emoluments which obtain currently among […]
