ACB calls off strike
Employees of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) yesterday called off their strike following government’s commitment to raise their pay by nine percent.
However, the employees have said this is not the end of their engagement with government on the issue because nine percent is on the lower side compared to the 70 percent raise they demanded.
ACB senior public relations officer Egritta Ndala confirmed the development, saying: “We have just agreed that we should accept the nine percent raise. After all, the financial year is coming to an end [on June 30]. However, we shall continue engaging government on the increase of salaries. The problem was that government was not delivering on their promise that is why we downed tools.”
ACB staff terms and conditions of service stipulate that employees’ salaries are supposed to be raised every time there is an increment in the civil service.
It further says that the salaries would also be adjusted in the event of the devaluation of the kwacha in order to maintain their (salaries) value.
Please Malawian employees do not read CoS as they stand but be pragmatic. The government does not manufacture money as some of you may think. It works as an individual does to earn a living. Suppose your daughter wants a pushbike worth K 20,000 while other two daughters need school fees of K 10,000 each before writing examination in a week yet your Salary is K 40,000, can you accept to buy a pushbike or prioritise fees? Logic should help us to understand how government works. If you stop investigating Cash-gate cases on account of salary increment, then you are not patriotic Malawians, and not the right persons to be employed by ACB. You are there for money. Logic informs me that it is easy to corrupt or bribe you in order to give false information in the court of law. Salary increment is an acceptable practice everywhere but putting money first before your job is immoral and inhumane. Please humbly quit and joining Cash-gaters to loot our resources and the law will follow you and teach you to patriotic.