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Wage debt fuels corruption and lower productivity in Zambia

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Zambian deputy secretary to the Cabinet Oliver Kalabo says civil servants’ debt encourages corruption, resource diversion and lower productivity. He calls on human resource officials to better regulate loans, while Kelvin Shamizhinga advocates more adaptable skills, according to News Diggers.

Zambia’s deputy secretary to the Cabinet, Oliver Kalabo, warned that the burden of personal loans taken out by civil servants could encourage corruption, the diversion of resources and low productivity, reports News Diggers. He was speaking on Thursday at the 29th annual conference of the Zambia Institute of Human Resource Management in Livingstone.

Kalabo criticised human resource management practices, while acknowledging that borrowing was also the individual responsibility of employees. He questioned cases in which civil servants’ net salaries become negative after loan repayments.

At the same conference, the president of the Zambia Institute of Human Resource Management, Kelvin Shamizhinga, urged human resource professionals to prioritise agility over fixed qualifications.

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