MPs Salary Increment: A Rich Man Representing a Poor Man By Pilato MPs are volunteers and so they shouldnt be seen as burdens by the general citizenry. When the government announced a possible wage freeze, our MPs didnt challenge that successfully because for them the misfortune was just for police officers, teachers, nurses and other marginalised civil servants. Our MPs didnt successfully fight for the restoration of our nurses that were fired for demanding for a better pay... we didnt have money to pay the nurses and we still dont have money to pay the MPs today and if the solution was to fire the over 200 nurses we can still fire the over 150 MPs for demanding for a better pay. Remember, our nurses are Zambians too with families and responsibilities just like our MPs. I know firing these MPs would be said to call for expensive by-elections but dont you despise the cost of recruiting inexperienced nurses. They tell us education is a key to success, but no one wants to invest in it. Our MPs should be advocating for more money to be pumped in our education system. While our MPs have that privilege to send their children to study in Malaysia, the average man doesnt even have money to send their only son to UNZA. Instead of demanding for a salary increment now, our MPs should be asking for windfall taxes from the mines, our MPs should be demanding for free education at university level, our MPs should be asking for youth employment. If our country does not have money to pay a nurse how can it have the money to pay the MP? If the pay is not good enough the worker has a right to resign. Mr and Ms MP just resign, we are all equal in the eyes of God. A rich man cant claim to be representing a poor man. You inadvertently receive favours and biased privileges just by being a Member of parliament, is that not enough? UNZA Network
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:24:00 +0000
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