LOCAL Government and Rural Development Minister Gary Nkombo says government will not entertain destructive criticism because it is focused on providing solutions through the Constituency Development Fund. Mporokoso PF member of parliament Brian Mundubile recently wondered why President Hakainde Hichilema boasts about the Constituency Development Fund when it is only three percent of the national budget and government still dictates how to use it. “Most of that money is still being spent centrally. According to the CDF Act, it’s the ward development committees that choose how to spend the money once it’s been allocated to them. But as it is right now, it is still central government that is buying ambulances using CDF, paying REA, buying police vehicles, buying monitoring...

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