Shylock scheme shocks Scott Guy Scott has exposed a scheme in which former Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) management used to deduct money from thousands of employees' salaries illegally on the pretext of paying debts owed by the workers to Bayport Financial Services, a microfinance lender. The unfortunate thing about the scheme, according to Dr. Scott, is the fact that ZAWA management failed to remit the funds they deducted to Bayport. Dr Scott disclosed this in Chipata on Saturday evening during a radio interview and placed the number of affected employees at 2,000. The contracts were signed between Bayport and employees.So people had been cheated. We don't want that to happen to the Zambia squadron blue 13s for sale Police and other civil servants, Dr Scott said, when he met civil servants at Chipata College of Education. He said civil servants must access loans and mortgages at lower interest rates to enable them build houses, saying currently, civil servants are unable to borrow from banks for such projects because of high interest rates.
Dr Scott said all civil servants must benefit from the proposed loans of five percent interest rate to enable them build their own houses unlike the current situation where even senior public service workers are forced to spend about 20 or 30 percent on rentals. The five percent is being rolled but we want to be cautious. We don't want to have a situation where money disappears like the citizens empowerment fund with the MMD. The money was pumped in but it is nowhere to be found, he said. Many public workers have fallen victim to microfinance lenders known locally as kaloba who can charge up to 200 percent in interest rates for desperate public workers. Recently the Daily Mail exposed a scam in which some shylocks' were holding onto creditors' ATM cards and withdrew money from them on payday by force. Meanwhile, Dr Scott also described the shortage of teachers' accommodation countrywide as a national crisis playoffs 12s and attributed the problem to under-capitalisation of the education sector. And Dr Scott said teachers handling more than one class deserve to be paid double class allowances. He said such teachers should get proper information on the issue from the Ministry of Education and their respective unions. Dr Scott, however, said Government's move to employ 6,000 more teachers this year will address the problem of teachers' shortage grape 5s countrywide.
Meanwhile, Dr Scott has urged the people of Eastern Province to give the Patriotic Front government time to make the Chipata-Mchinji railway line, which has proved to be a white elephant' since its commissioning by former President Rupiah Banda. Dr Scott said so much was said about the railway line during the MMD's reign but no single train has ever moved on it. He said making the railway line workable will create more development opportunities for the province. People can even open mines to get iron ore and bring cheaper fertiliser from outside the country. That is just a bit of what the PF is thinking, Dr Scott said. He said this at Mchini Basic School grounds when he addressed a campaign rally to drum up support for the PF candidate in the July 25 Chipata Central parliamentary by-election, Lameck Mangani. And addressing another rally at Nakutwa Basic School, where former First Lady Thandiwe Banda taught before she got married to Mr Banda, Dr Scott said the MMD is a party of liars.
He said before the 2011 tripartite elections, the MMD peddled so many lies about the PF and accused President Sata of planning to introduce abominable practices if elected as President. Dr Scott said the MMD is now lying that the PF is killing' farmers by not supporting them with fertiliser.