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Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>PF presidential hopeful Greyford Monde has argued against those insinuating that the civil service under the New Dawn Administration is sabotaging government\u2019s agenda. Hon Monde wondered how a civil service that has been existing way before PF ascended to power could sabotage the UPND government. He has expressed worry over the continued tendency by the UPND government to align the civil servants to the former PF regime.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know that the civil servants live longer than the tenure or term of a politician. A politician is only five years. The civil service, right now you go to check the civil servants, some of them, how long they have been in those seats. They have been, some of them for 30 years, 40 years, others are even retiring,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would they want just to sabotage the UPND today as if it\u2019s the only political party? No, it\u2019s because the UPND party has gone out for them and begin to align them to the former political party and say these are PF.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hon Monde said calling the civil servants \u201cPF civil servants\u201d is the beginning of failure. He explained that civil service is like a vehicle as he likened politicians to drivers. The party presidential hopeful said this when he featured on a debate hosted by Linda Banks yesterday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to tell you that when I went into the ministry myself, I had a very good time with those civil servants who are very well qualified. Some of them are not trained only in Zambia, they have gone into serious countries where they have received a lot of training and they have come out with serious qualifications,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo for anyone to just come today and call them that these are PF civil servants, that is the beginning of the failure. So the way the civil service is, it\u2019s like a vehicle. And these policy makers who are the politicians are like drivers. So you get into the seat, driver the car to where you want to take it. And the civil servants are always ready for these changes, following the manifesto, following the changes, following the budget, this is how the civil service works.\u201d<\/p>\n

He lamented that the civil service right now is receiving a lot of attacks from the UPND leadership, starting from the Presidency. \u201cBut these civil service right now is receiving a lot of attacks from these politicians, from the President to the last person. Even cadres are going out for the civil servants, calling them names, wanting to change them and all of that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is the problem and this is why you see that nothing is holding in this government. Completely nothing. Which sector is thriving today as we speak? You can ask everybody here there is no sector that is holding that you can call having achieved or having managed to treat the citizens, according to what they expect.\u201d Commenting on agriculture, Hon Monde said the UPND have made the same mistake of attacking the civil service in the sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very sad story. And when I talk about agriculture and I talk about services in the health sector, I don\u2019t want to speak from a political point of view because these are issues or matters that really affect our lives. And to start politicizing these issues and come to platforms and begin to blame everybody, including the PF…,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know that this is the second season that UPND is delivering services in terms of agriculture inputs and so on and so forth. The first season was actually the season 2021\/2022 farming season and that season came out very successful. Everything went well, no farmer complained. That reason I want to tell you that it is not UPND that performed that, it was the PF structure. So UPND just literally found all systems going… so this is their first season where we have rated them, not the first one.\u201d<\/p>\n

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