LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-As one way of ensuring efficiency and effective service delivery, the Lilongwe City Council (LCC) authorities have reshuffled some of its key staff and directors in various directorate.
A move is facing heavy resistance from other quarters since some of the affected individuals have served and stayed on senior positions for close to 30 years.
This publication understand that the move in the long-run this will have a huge impact on the future undertakings in the city and lead to quality service delivery to the city dwellers.
According to our investigations, the development follows reports that in the past, all the directors were on permanent position except for the Chief Executive Officer was on contract.
“The above development was a breeding ground for sabotage, the directors could do as it pleases since their safety was guaranteed, by the end of the day it was the CEO who was paying the price” said our source.
The recent shake also follows a key staff performance appraisal exercise effected in response to the feedback collected from the capital city dwellers.
A further probe into the performance appraisal report shows the following yawning gaps in the directories.
On finance department, to date some city council employees are yet to get their December salaries an
suppliers no longer have interest to do business with the council due to non-payment of goods and services delivered.
On commerce, revenue collection is below target for no apparent reason and justification as city revenue going direct into individual pockets.
On legal, the council has scored the lowest during the appraisal and the ouncil is suffocating due to huge court damages.
On planning and development, developers deliberately frustrated for selfish interests of some officers while
parallel approval systems between the subordinates and the directorate resulting in approvals that do not bring revenue to the council but rather individuals;
Unnecessary delays in approval.
On health, the council faces deplorable sanitation;
very slow to act and the city turning into garbage center.
On public works, the council faces poor state of the road when each road has a dedicated contractor.
The development comes after Parliamentary committee on Natural Resources gave the council up until April this year to improve the sanitation in Tsoka Flea Market including constructing toilet facilities in the market.
Committee Chairperson, Werani Chilenga is accusing council authorities of negligence as they have failed to comply with 2023 recommendations that the council construct at least 20 toilet facilities.
But Chief Executive Officer for Lilongwe City Council (LCC), Dr. Macloud Kadam’manja says the council is failing to collect MK13 billion city rates from state and non-state actors which is affecting its operations.
