Africa-Press – Zambia. Socio-political anthropologist James Musonda has described the recruitment of close to 500 extra teachers than initially budgeted for 30,000 as bad economics and a lack of budgetary discipline by the Zambian government.
Dr. Musonda says it is not prudent for government to change the budget to respond to the overwhelming number of applications while the national budget is still largely dependent on loan financing, taxes and fines.
Dr. Musonda wonders whether government is ready to extend this flexibility introduced in the 2022 budget implementation to employ an extra 496 teachers to the recruitment of 11,200 health workers after more than 100, 000 applications were sent in.
He states that while the decision to employ extra teachers is good for politics, it denotes bad economics regarding fiscal discipline for a country that is failing to pay its current debt, seeking a $1.4 billion International Monetary Fund-IMF- bailout package and lacking significant income from its own investments such as the mines.
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