WORKERS in Zanzibar yesterday thanked President Ali Mohamed Shein for implementing some of their requests in improving their welfare including doubling the minimum salary effective April this year.
“Last week the civil servants received
300,000/-, up from 150,000/-. We are happy Mr President, that you keep
on implementing your promises,” Mr Khamis Mwinyi, Secretary of the
Zanzibar Trade Union Congress (ZATUC), said yesterday at a gathering to
mark International Workers Day.
He said that Dr Shein had proved to be
“a man of the people” by ensuring that the welfare of workers and the
citizens were improved alongside government’s efforts to promote decent
work in the Isles.
At the Workers Day gathering held at
Police Grounds, Mkataleni Village, Donge in North Unguja, Mr Mwinyi
emphasized in collaboration in solving workers problems and that the new
drive to minimize expenditure in public offices is being misused by
executives.
“The government’s order to restrict
unnecessary expenditure in public offices seems to disrupt efficiency
just because of ‘misinterpretation’.
There is over strictness in expenditure.
It is high time executives be flexible,” ZATUC secretary said. In his
speech at the ceremony also attended by the Isles Vice President
Ambassador Seif Ali Iddi, Chief Secretary Dr Abdulhamid Yahya Mzee,
Speaker of the House Mr Zubeir Ali Maulid, Dr Shein expressed his
satisfaction with the performance of most workers.
He also commended some government
institutions, particularly the revenue collection bodies on both sides
of the channel, the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) and Zanzibar
Revenue Board (ZRB).
“We are prompted to improve welfare of
the workers including salary increase if the revenue is collected well. I
thank officers from the TRA and ZRB for good work. I hereby ask the
respective Commissioners to reward them,” Dr Shein stressed.
He noted that the government was relying
on tax collections which had increased from 13bn/-in 2010 when he took
over as president to 50bn/- per month currently, as he called upon
members of the business community to continue being honest in paying
taxes.
The president stated that the government
would definitely implement its development plans such as better roads,
water, health services, and settle its internal debts including paying
retirement benefits, and sustaining the universal pension scheme if all
citizens and traders support the revenue collections initiatives by
paying taxes.
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