MINISTRY of Local Government and Rural Development Permanent Secretary for Technical Services Nicholas Phiri has called on politicians to stop politicising the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). Recently, Socialist Party leader Fred M’membe said the UPND’s CDF policy was bound to fail because constituencies had no capacity to administer huge resources. Responding to M’membe in an interview, Wednesday, Phiri wondered how CDF was not working when it had empowered local communities. “We’ve been here before and I think these are tired stories and they have no legs to stand on. In any case the beneficiaries, the people who are going to get the maximum benefits are the citizens who are the targets of CDF. So if there’s any one stakeholder who...