MINISTRY of Local Government and Rural Development Permanent Secretary Maambo Hamaundu says the 2023 Constituency Development Funds (CDF) that were not utilised have not bent sent back to the central government. Hamaundu says standard procedure calls for money that has not been utilised to be sent back to the central government, but explained that CDF is being treated as a special case, therefore the funds remain available to the constituencies. In an interview, Thursday, Hamaundu explained that although CDF utilisation stood at about 57 percent, government was not mopping up the resources that had not been used in various constituencies. “When we looked at [CDF] as of November 2023, the utilisation rate on average was around 57 percent. There are...