By Pius Nyondo
Back-biting–apparent
recipe for disarray–has ensued among employees at Mchinji District Council who
claim that the present authority District Commissioner James Kanyangalazi is
not ardent in addressing their concerns, Nyasa
Times has established.
According
to our source, Kanyangalazi is new in town– with no more than two months old–
but is already leading with a heavy hand.
“He is
very hard and no one likes him,” said our source.
The
source also divulged to Nyasa
Times that for the two months
Kanyangalazi has been at the helm, the council’s direct employees have been
receiving their salaries very late.
“When
he [the DC] was probed, he said the council was not collecting enough money and
that they are currently thinking of reducing the number of members of staff.”
Additionally,
Kanyangalazi is allegedly also denying local newsmen in the district
interviews.
“I
once followed up a story on the salaries and I was condemned [by Kanyangalazi]
for that,” one of the reporters who works in the district said.
According
to the reporter Kanyangalazi, apart from denying him interviews, has refused to
give him contact details including e-mails.
But a
senior official at the council who did not want to be named described the
allegations as unfounded and blatantly untrue.
“That’s
surely the work of backbiters. People don’t like principled men,” he said.
In a
telephone interview with Nyasa
Times on Friday Kanyangalazi
refused to comment on both allegations and referred this reporter to Mchinji
District Information Officer (DIO).
“Where
are you getting all this from? I have not been in the office for the past three
weeks so talk to the District Information Officer,” said Kanyangalazi before
cutting the line.
When
this reporter tried to call the DIO, the number he was provided with could not
be reached the several times it was tried.
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