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Zambian leader warns public workers against "wasting time" on Facebook

Xinhua, April 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

Zambian President Edgar Lungu said public workers should help his administration in expediting development by spending their energies on service delivery instead of wasting time on Facebook and other social media platforms, the Zambia Daily Mail reported on Thursday.

"This culture of sitting and posting stories on Facebook the whole day must come to an end and it is you permanent secretaries who can see that this comes to an end," the Zambian leader was quoted as saying when he swore-in two new permanent secretaries.

The Zambian leader warned that he will rid the public service of individuals bent on frustrating his administration's development agenda, adding that the public service does not need individuals that spend most of their time on Facebook.

"The civil servants are fond of saying that 'you found us in the system and you will leave us.' We will leave you if you deliver but I won't leave you if you don't. I will kolopa (mop) and that I will do," he added.

His government, he said, was in a hurry to develop the country and that it needs an efficient public service to do so, adding that public workers frustrating government's efforts must be recommended for extraction and not transfer.

"Don't ask me to transfer incompetence to other regions, we will recommend that they are extracted from the civil service so that the civil service helps us deliver," the Zambian leader, who became president after winning the January 2015 presidential election, said. Endi