INDEPENDENT Nkana Member of Parliament Binwell Mpundu says Constituency Development Fund (CDF) provides an opportunity for elected leaders to implement school construction projects to help address the shortage of classroom space created by Government’s free education policy.Mr Mpundu said the free education policy had created a scramble for school places among citizens, forcing school authorities to over enroll pupils.He was concerned that there were as many as 170 pupils in one session with most of them sitting on the floor.Mr Mpundu, however, said CDF had created an opportunity for elected leaders such as MPs and councillors to address the shortage of classroom space and scarcity of desks.Mr Mpundu, who is former Kitwe district commissioner, was speaking at the weekend when he visited Kamakonde Primary School to handover a CDF project to a contractor engaged to construct a classroom block.“The school currently has inadequate classrooms and desks to an extent that some classes have 170 […]
Utilise CDF to build schools, prods Nkana MP
