Pilferage

In the same vein, the Company has vowed to go to the full extent of the law on equipment vandalism and pilferage.

But my focus this week is on the wanton pilferage and malfeasance in the public sector.

Wage theft perhaps affects low-wage workers most adversely, because they rarely have the means to contest such pilferage.

We have already seen how some unscrupulous individuals have been involved in pilferage of relief food during this crisis.

Former Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Priscah Mupfumira battling for freedom has in her defence indicated that the pilferage of funds from Nssa was bigger than her.

Generally hotels catering to MICE (meetings and conferences) and Leisure segments tend to have much more pilferage than business hotels,” he says.

It’s only on the odd occasion that slip-ups happen,” he says, though he admits that pilferage levels depend on the type of hotel, demographic profile of guest, location, and so on.

Many of the stolen drugs were found in commercial vendor shops in Zambia and its neighbouring country, DR Congo, during a sponsored market survey, an indication of drug pilferage.

The current controversy began in November in Kenya when Cathy Mputhia, founder of an intellectual property law firm, wrote an article in Business Daily, a Kenyan newspaper, citing "hakuna mutata" as an example of "pilferage of African culture".

A further saving for propane fuel vehicle operators, especially in fleets, is that pilferage is much more difficult than with gasoline or Diesel fuels.

Due to pilferage, ignorance, and neglect, the country's infrastructure—electrical, water, road, transportation, and health—fell into ruin.