By SIMON MUNTEMBAINVOLVEMENT of politically-inclined individuals in rolling out of the much-talked-about Constituency Development Fund (CDF) empowerment will not yield the intended results as there will be temptation to favour cooperatives with members from their political parties, the Network of Zambians in Informal Employment (NetZIE) has said.NetZIE country coordinator, Danny Simumba said there was need to detach politically exposed persons from rolling out the Government’s enhanced CDF empowerment if it was to yield results.In an interview, Mr Simumba said it was wrong for politicians to be in the forefront of championing the creation of cooperative enterprises for their cadres in their constituencies and wards respectively.He said much as the decentralisation of development through CDF was a good move aimed at enabling the local people to come up with creative ventures, allowing politicians to hijack the programmes would kill the whole purpose of benefitting the community.“The proliferation of politically exposed persons’ initiated cooperative enterprises following the new […]
‘Politically-inclined persons will derail CDF empowerment’
