Information reaching this publication indicates that Mzuzu City Council workers are staging a sit-in to protest the reduction of the council’s pension contribution to Nico Life Insurance from 25 to 10 percent.

Workers’ representative Typen Kamanga says they are also demanding a 10 percent salary increase and the return of a council vehicle still being used by former mayor Kondwani Nyasulu.

Kamanga described the pension cut as unacceptable and unfair to employees.

Meanwhile, Council spokesperson McDonald Gondwe says the previous 25 percent contribution was financially unsustainable.

More details to come…

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