Central Province Permanent Secretary Milner Mwanakampwe has warned that public service workers who sought adoption for elective positions but failed to resign by the stipulated May 15 deadline risk dismissal from the civil service.

Dr Mwanakampwe says government issued clear guidelines requiring civil servants with political ambitions to resign before participating in partisan politics.

Speaking to journalists in Kabwe, he disclosed that only two District Commissioners in the province formally resigned before the deadline in compliance with the directive.

The Permanent Secretary identified the former District Commissioners for Serenje and Chitambo districts as the only public officers who officially declared their intentions to participate in partisan politics.

“Apart from the two, there is no other civil servant who declared to my office that they wanted to be adopted by political parties because they intended to contest as Members of Parliament. However, should we discover that there are others, whether from the ruling party or the opposition, they will be ejected from the public service,” he said.