Ex-Customs and Excise workers cry for their dues

Former workers of the Income tax and customs and excise departments who were taken on when the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) was established in 1994 have made a passionate appeal to President Edgar Lungu to help them get their terminal benefits.

The former workers’ representative Jonathan Kwalombota has lamented that the government has failed to pay them their monies when money for political expediency is available.

A disturbed Mr. Kwalombota says they have written two letters to the President to solicit his assistance to get their monies but to no avail.

He adds that despite several petitions by the former income tax and customs workers, government has not paid them anything tangible apart from the K200 they are given every month.

Mr. Kwalombota says the K200 they are given is too little to fend for their families and their school going children.

He adds that the former workers are now becoming frustrated because all avenues available to them including appeals to the President have been exhausted without desired outcomes.

He says President Lungu as the father of the nation should hear the cries of the ex-customs workers who are wallowing in abject poverty.

Mr. Kwalombota says it is inhuman that successive governments from 1994 to date have allowed the former workers to die without getting the monies they worked for.