KANTANSHI PF member of parliament Anthony Mumba says there is total confusion in the utilisation of Constituency Development Fund (CDF) and he sees a lot of resentment from beneficiaries if the matter is not urgently addressed. On Monday, Finance Minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane lamented that CDF disbursed in the first quarter had not been utilised, attributing this to incompetence. “Here in Zambia, we have decentralised funding for development projects to the remotest places in the country. But the problem is that the money that we disbursed in the first quarter has not been utilised. In the meantime, the need is there. Children need classrooms, children and mothers need clinics, they need medicines, they need hospital beds, they need desks but...

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