Over 80 former Zamtel workers on Monday protested on the Copperbelt province and attempted to walk to State House in Lusaka to seek audience with President Michael Sata.
The workers want President Sata to help them get back their jobs in Zamtel as promised during campaigns. Mr. Sata and his PF party in the run-up to September tripartite elections promised to reverse the sale of Zamtel and re-instate all the workers that lost jobs during the privatization.
Monday morning the workers from various districts of Copperbelt province gathered in Kitwe to embark on a seven days long walk to Lusaka, a distance of about 350kilometres. The workers chanted slogans and shouted that Mr. Sata must fulfil his campaign promise.
The protest was only stopped by police who rushed to where the workers had gathered. Copperbelt Police stopped the match saying the workers had no permit to walk to Lusaka.
A senior PF Copperbelt official also rushed to the scene and pleaded with the workers promising that he would present their grievance to the relevant authorities.
The workers were laid off when the country’s only telecommunication company was privatised to a Libyan firm during the MMD era. The PF government has since reversed the sale.
It is time Sata gives the fired workers their jobs just as they have taken back the company. He promised to get back Zamtel and he has so do the same with z workers
Go back to the land.I hope each and every Zambian now knows how to vote based on real issues and not lies.Remember fake promises are better off than lies .Lies are unattainable and lies are what we got and continue getting under Sata and Winter ‘Kamimba’ .Creation of districts,universities …oh please gve us a break.And hope this is the last time we are hearing about another university before Unza and Cbu toilets start flashing and accommodation woes sorted out!
Its jst prudent to give the Zambian people what was promised.