District Commissioners a waster of resources – Lifuka

GOVERNANCE advocate Rueben Lifuka says citizens expected the UPND government to scrap off District Commissioner positions because they are a drain on Zambia’s meagre resources in their current form. In response to a press query, Lifuka said currently, those positions were not serving any real purpose other than being a reward for cadres. “The new dawn administration has taken unnecessarily long to decide on the matter of District Commissioners and yet the United Party for National Development was unequivocal in its condemnation of what it termed as an extraneous political position. The general expectation from the voters and citizens alike was that the UPND government would take decisive action to basically scrap off this position which for all intents and...