AMERICA-BASED Zambian law Professor Muna Ndulo says the likelihood of corruption in procurement is higher if there is secrecy in the bidding process. Discussing Constituency Development Fund challenges when he was featured on “Economic Voices with Edna”, Prof Ndulo said transparency was crucial in the successful implementation of CDF. “I think the problem, we had funds allocated to constituencies before but they were minimal and for the first time we are having [a] substantial amount of money allocated to this. But then we had not really defined what these units are and what they can do. And you don’t have the capacity so we have to build that because you need a minimum structure of how things can operate, that...

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