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Zanu-PF youths slam 'obscene salary' bosses
29 Jan 2014 at 15:55hrs | Views
The Zanu-PF youth league on Tuesday castigated managers who award themselves hefty salaries while low level staffers earn meagre wages.
The New Ziana reports that the comment comes in the wake of revelations that fired Premier Medical Aid Society chief executive officer Cuthbert Dube was earning a monthly basic salary of $230 000 while the organisation owed service providers millions of dollars.
Suspended ZBC chief executive Happison Muchechetere was earning $40 000 a month while workers went for seven months without receiving their salaries.
Top executives at Harare City Council are said to be earning more than $30 000 a month, while service delivery in the city is crumbling and council workers have gone unpaid for months.
It is also believed that bosses at many state enterprises are earning huge salaries while the businesses they head are struggling.
Zanu-PF secretary for youth affairs Absalom Sikhosana told a press briefing that such actions should not be allowed to continue.
"Surely what economy can we talk about if say everybody here earns $200 000? Where will the money to develop come from?" he asked.
"The youths are very much concerned. We feel there are areas where the law should take its course. It is not theft. We agree they might have agreed in their boardrooms to pay themselves that much but we as youths are saying that is criminal and I stand here on behalf of youths condemning that kind of attitude in the strongest terms possible. Let us be disciplined."
Sikhosana said the Government should act to stop the continuation of similar incidences.
"There should be an exercise to establish exactly what is happening throughout the economy so that there is rationalisation of salaries and allowances commensurate with the economy as things stand now.
"We are talking about growing the economy and when we talk of growing the economy we will be looking for people with character, people who are disciplined, people with love for the people of Zimbabwe, people with love for the country as a whole and I do not think comrades we will be loving our country if we do some of the things we see these days where as a developing economy we get some people paying themselves salaries that are out of this world," he said.
The New Ziana reports that the comment comes in the wake of revelations that fired Premier Medical Aid Society chief executive officer Cuthbert Dube was earning a monthly basic salary of $230 000 while the organisation owed service providers millions of dollars.
Suspended ZBC chief executive Happison Muchechetere was earning $40 000 a month while workers went for seven months without receiving their salaries.
Top executives at Harare City Council are said to be earning more than $30 000 a month, while service delivery in the city is crumbling and council workers have gone unpaid for months.
It is also believed that bosses at many state enterprises are earning huge salaries while the businesses they head are struggling.
"Surely what economy can we talk about if say everybody here earns $200 000? Where will the money to develop come from?" he asked.
"The youths are very much concerned. We feel there are areas where the law should take its course. It is not theft. We agree they might have agreed in their boardrooms to pay themselves that much but we as youths are saying that is criminal and I stand here on behalf of youths condemning that kind of attitude in the strongest terms possible. Let us be disciplined."
Sikhosana said the Government should act to stop the continuation of similar incidences.
"There should be an exercise to establish exactly what is happening throughout the economy so that there is rationalisation of salaries and allowances commensurate with the economy as things stand now.
"We are talking about growing the economy and when we talk of growing the economy we will be looking for people with character, people who are disciplined, people with love for the people of Zimbabwe, people with love for the country as a whole and I do not think comrades we will be loving our country if we do some of the things we see these days where as a developing economy we get some people paying themselves salaries that are out of this world," he said.
Source - New Ziana
