LOCAL Government and Rural Development Minister Gary Nkombo says government allocates CDF to rural and urban constituencies equally because the population in urban constituencies is bigger than in rural setups. On Thursday, TIZ Public Resource Management Coordinator Tommy Singongi said his organisation expected government to apply an allocative formula for CDF by taking into account different disparities across constituencies around the country. Commenting on this in an interview, Monday, Nkombo said the geographic size of any constituency did not tell the demographic size of it. “The observation of the size of constituencies is a genuine observation from the TIZ but the geographical size of any constituency does not tell you the demographic size of it. The number of people who...

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