KAFUE District Commissioner Maurice Hikapulwe has sounded a stern warning to NCZ workers against politicking because the practice has adverse effects on the progress of the company.
Speaking when he toured NCZ to check on the preparedness of the company in view of the close to 50,000 metric tonnes which the giant fertilizer manufacturing company has been given to produce and supply, Hikapulwe who was accompanied by Kafue District UPND Chairman Clifford Mwaba, Hikapulwe urged NCZ workers to avoid bickering and finger pointing and let bygones be bygones.
Hikapulwe reminded the NCZ workers that they have a big task to prove that the company was not obsolete, a picture it was given by the previous regime.
“We speak with a small voice but we carry a big stick. There should be no politics in NCZ, and no vengeance. Let bygones be bygones. This is the one sure way that they will know that you are not like them. People think NCZ is obsolete so you have a lot of work to do to prove otherwise but with too much bickering, you may not achieve what is supposed to be achieved” Hikapulwe stated.
And Mwaba urged the workers to work together in unity for the good of NCZ.
Mwaba urged the workers to guard NCZ jealousy saying if they loose NCZ the way KTZ was lost, Kafue will becoming a ghost town and ghost towns never rise again.
“I understand there is a perception that during the previous regime some workers took a political position. But this is NOT time for vengeance, Ba Mubanga and Chiboza, you tell your people to work and live as a family. You are key in ensuring that the company achieves the task that it has been given” Mwaba said.
He called on NCZ workers to work towards bringing back the company to it’s vibrant days of the 90s were NCZ was the biggest employer in Kafue.
Meanwhile NCZ CEO William Mwale disclosed that the company has been contracted to produce and supply basal dressing fertilizer to to the Copperbelt, Lusaka and Central Provinces.
Mwale said NCZ so far has raw materials for 15,000 metric tonnes but the procurement process for the the other tonnage is in progress.