The Minister of Works and supply has said her Ministry should spearhead the Housing Policy for civil servants.
Minister in charge Sylvia Chialikosa she she observed that some civil servants are occupying government houses illegally hoping that they can purchase the housing units.
Ms. Chalikosa said some former civil servants are still squatting in the government because they have not yet received their pensions.
She said this deprived those that are still in employment of accommodation and government was incurring extra costs as it had to rent houses for them.
According to a statement, she said “a number of wrongs have been identified and would be corrected though in the process of correcting them, Government was becoming unpopular at the expense of doing a proper job that would make people understand how best their affairs could be ran in a well-structured manner.”
She said her ministry was “the anchor in the provision of ancillary services to other Ministries and its mandate was wide as it had a lot of work to undertake” further urging Zambians “to strive towards changing their attitudes towards public assets and buy into the idea of preservation for the good of the nation.”
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