{"id":4402,"date":"2026-06-01T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4402"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:50:16","slug":"partisan-civil-servants-face-instant-dismissal-warns-ps-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=4402","title":{"rendered":"Partisan civil servants face instant dismissal &#8211; Warns PS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Muchinga Province Permanent Secretary Tuesday Bwalya has issued a stern warning to civil servants in the province against engaging in partisan politics, declaring that those found wanting risk losing their jobs immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Speaking on the sidelines of a service charter handover ceremony to various government departments in Chinsali District, Dr Bwalya emphasized that the administration will take strict disciplinary action against politically active public workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Permanent Secretary stressed that the primary allegiance of public workers is to support the government of the day and deliver essential development to the masses through their daily operational duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He reminded the officers that under the Civil Service Commission mandate, their role is strictly to implement government policies and programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Dr Bwalya made it clear that active political involvement, particularly during campaign periods, will not be tolerated.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muchinga Province Permanent Secretary Tuesday Bwalya has issued a stern warning to civil servants in the province against engaging in partisan politics, declaring that those found wanting risk losing their jobs immediately. Speaking on the sidelines of a service charter handover ceremony to various government departments in Chinsali District, Dr Bwalya emphasized that the administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latestnewscentre","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4403,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions\/4403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}