 Hello viewers, it's Kaye Felix here and I welcome you to my YouTube channel Kaye Felix Inspire. I'd like to say a very big thank you to all of you for the support and the contribution you are giving to this channel. If you are new to this channel, please do not forget to subscribe and hit the bell icon so that you get notified whenever I post new videos. Stay tuned for more details in this report. Before UPND came into office, they promised the people that they were going to increase the salaries of all the civil servants by 1500 across the board. This has not happened and yet we think again of going to give the civil servants 10.5% salary increment. This is disappointing. I'm appealing to this government in earnest that please revisit this salary increment. It is emphasized that the cost of fuel will continue going up. In fact, next year the cost of fuel will be worse than it is today. But this 10% salary increment covers the period 1 January to 31 December next year. We have taken into account the cost of living that will be at play from January to December. Never mean any. Look at how many civil servants are committing suicide as a result of being in debt. The civil servants cannot survive on their salaries today for them to survive they have to borrow. And what is happening on social media you find that most of the civil servants are now committing suicide because unable to pay back the debt. Please UPND government consider a reasonable salary increment for the civil servants. I was very shocked that somebody has written a UPND card that now the PF in their 10 years were only increasing salaries by 4%. Let's have the facts correct. When PF came into office and I was labour minister, I sat down with President Mike Osata and then finance minister Alexander Chkwan and said look the level of the salaries of the civil servants were too low for people to survive. We decided to increase the salaries of the civil servants by a maximum of 150% and the lowest of about 100%. What we did was the lowest paid employees were increased by about 100%. The lowest paid employees were increased by 150% then the highest paid we increased by about 100%. And the pay rise for the civil servants jumped by 3 times what we had found. And obviously during the subsequent years it was okay to increase small small because we had already given them enough salary to sustain themselves. But today the cost of living has gone up by 3 times and yet we are now reducing even the percentage of salary increment. Last year 12% today we have gone down to 10.5%. I am telling you if you don't interact with civil servants you will not know what is happening. Some of them are merely living with their parents, they are failing even to marry, failing even to rent houses because their salaries are very little. And yet those in government find it fit that a 10.5 salary increment will suffice for civil servants. Let's have mercy on the poor people. The Bible says do unto others what you want others to do to you. But it appears those in government, ministers, MPs, the president are comfortable with their salaries but they don't care about the rest of the civil servants. Please save the nests, save the teacher, save the policeman and save the cleaners, office orderies who work for the government. This year going at what, looking at what is prevailing should have increased the salaries of civil servants by about 50%. And then next year you should have increased by 75% to 100%. And when we are dealing with issues concerning citizens, please let us be honest, please let us be serious. The other time I listened to the vice president's question time, vice president Alamango is a pastor, a mother made a very, very annoying and provoking, provoking statement that prices of commodities must first go up and then come down. What a way of thinking that I can't even understand. Where our nests could somebody say that in order for prices to come down, first they must go up. And then last week vice president Alamango issued another provoking statement that although the cost of fuel has gone up, the cost of millimeo has gone down and cost of some commodities has gone down. But I forgive you because the vice president's food is paid for by the state. So probably you've forgotten the cost of millimeo. There is no price of millimeo that has come down on Alamango to the contrary, the price of millimeo has continued going up. So when we issue these statements, you are addressing the same people that buy millimeo, the same people that are suffering. And Chilemonika, what kubatunfia, when you have been given the responsibility of being second in the land, vice president, please milatunfia Alamango, milatunfia Alamango. This salary increment must be condemned by all well-meaning zambia. I know the reason why they cannot give a proper salary increment. It is the IMF we are scared of. It is the IMF we are scared of because we want to show the IMF that our inflation is low. You know that if you increase the salaries more, the inflation is going to go up. And that's why I've said and I want to say it again that the current inflation figures are fictitious, they are not true. Because if your inflation is low, the cost of living must be low, the cost of commodities must be low. It is one in zambia where the inflation is low and the cost of living is high. But if we are going to want to impress the IMF by avoiding to show the actual inflation, people are going to suffer. And let me remind you, UPND government, that MMD lost elections to the PF despite having so flowerly microeconomical parameters. For instance, MMD's inflation was at 7%. Do you know why it remained at 7% because they went almost 3-4 years without increasing salaries of civil servants reasonably? Because they were scared that if we increase the salary of public workers and then the private sector also increase, the inflation is going to go up. They were bursting. We are running a very good health economy. Our inflation is 7%. The people of Zambia just said we are not going to eat inflation. They just said you can be with your inflation. We are going to vote you out of power because we are suffering. The money has lost buying power. This is exactly what is obtaining again. We have gone back to the same MMD and remember the same Musokatwani was the finance minister. Wrong advice. Let's keep the inflation low but let's keep the people suffering. Costed MMD to lose power. We are running a very good economy. The way we did it with Mr. Sata. Leadership is about providing a good and healthy living condition for our people. When you are working, you must be able to have breakfast, you must be able to have lunch, and you must be able to have supper. Today, I want to see what sevens are eating once per day. And yet again, when they are to hope, you go and give them 10.5%. Look, 10.5% salary increment for an average 7.7, average 7.7 in about 4,000 quats as basic pay. Because this goes to the basic pay. 10% of 4,000 is 400 quats. Now, the cost of living has gone up, electricity has gone up, fuel has gone up, millenial has gone up, sugar has gone up, everything has gone up. What is 400 quats are going to do? Besides, like I said, we emphasize that next year the cost of fuel because of the war in Ukraine and obviously, opaque oil producing companies have also reduced the production of oil. Meaning therefore, by next year the price of fuel may go to about 35 kwacha. If it goes to 35 kwacha, everything will go up, then you give 7.7, 10%. It's unfair. It's unfair. For me, I will provide checks and balances that will make you perform as UPND. But if you don't want to listen, the boy is in your court. If you don't want to listen, I used to tell MMD the same things that this thing of wanting to boast about inflation when the people are suffering will get you out of government. If you don't listen, you won't be able to survive for the next 20 years. Give the people a salary that they will be able to survive. Then you can go 2, 3, 4 years. But first and foremost, even the food basket for a family of 6, minimum food basket has gone to about 10,000. Now, 4,000 plus 400 Maluu, 4, 4. Well below the minimum survival food basket. So we want the people to continue suffering while we impress the IMF and the old world that the economy of Zandia is doing well. The inflation is low. Leadership is about balancing up the economic side and also the social side. But it appears this government is more interested in looking at the economic figures and not looking at the living standards of our people. Madam Nyinane, this will cost you. And not only cost you, I want to allow Mbuku to have one. I want to allow Mbuku to have one salary. But teacher inu inchita, Aba wambela kumpatamatu from run, na kapuri basi desu Kulu, they have to walk from run kumpatamatu. Teacher lehender panishi, a distance of about 8 km. Fintu if you. The cost of houses is something else. Please, I beg. If you don't want to increase the salary of teachers, hisha mataha nнийu deductwa enmi, suza kwa zabazinana hisha memsawul shikun持u. In cha ni, herinabe hisha yefr junior anga ema wan, linawe sole spv Na, if you end 4400, which else can you can a nurse or a teacher or a policeman afford? So gentlemen, my brothers and sisters, let's be serious about this salary increments. We are employing a lot more civil servants, but we are failing to sustain those who are already in employment. It doesn't make sense. because even those that you are going to employ well and good they will gain by getting in employment but back to more a day than they have now because West Engoma follow up stop budget so can we create a situation where people are able to afford basic needs from their salaries at the moment no siva sement hiawaini duni sewa, tuni lohto kitia, hini kwenakia niya na hiawanya. Asuniyu militanda teachers, ya npshile wo mta maertu, hini kwenakia niya, na mesti wajin numbers. Isu re kwenakia niya, 2 kuatya, mta wajileni ko ya 2 kuatya, yaa mecha vajasa. Nita kwenakia niya kwenakia niya, makeru wajisha niya, iau wanrafti omi wanrafti, kuatiza niya nia upiztivu. hannya? kwa wo zadi uziwa. Nepacimanunita ko na uziwa nga uziwa ya kongrouha, kwa iruza na kwa mnyega, nga uziwa mnyoga. Kwa kwa bu Antarugubu itimita kwa kwa waga na kunTO 2, ya uziwa maísa, kwa waga mmyu nilak through wa kwa mabu aerva, kwa kwa kwaya. llanis no. Ava tohawanen ja naísibutu betu hwanda kwa kusiaizutu jo uremari 50 percentu wa 50 percentu jua uremari mewa. Mwa nao ya uremari hwanda. Usumili kupasituliai kwa uremari. Usumili kupasiti uremari hwanda. Ni wakia kwa yatu, na iwa naja ni uremari hwanda. Na uremari hwanda, jubara nao, hwanda lukwana na nmama wa kakataean na mpa k'yea baytia mawi uremari, kertani kwa mawa kawanda nao. prezident, this is what we want you to be doing, to think of the poor people. As you have thought of the 100% payment to these men and women in uniform, from the security wing, the Zambia police, the army, Zaf, ZNS, please think of increasing the salaries of the teachers by more than this 10.5%. After all you are president, you can direct that presidential decree give them so much percentage because the unions are let down. The unions are let down. I thank you.