CDF IS A LOOTING EXERCISE AND FEEDING FRENZY FOR THE UPND CADRES
By Amb. Emmanuel Mwamba
We have been disclosing that CDF has become a corrupt, feeding frenzy and utter theft of the fund by and for the UPND cadres.
As soon as President Hakainde Hichilema advised UPND party cadres to register cooperatives to benefit from both CDF and FISP programs, the cadres assumed this was a que to repayment and reward for their 2021 electoral campaign work and have hijacked the fund.
Supply of desks, the grants and loans, contracts for mending roads, building of 1×3 classrooms, building of clinics and health centres, and toilets, have all been hijacked by the cadres and have forced the contract awards to be given to themselves.
The resultant works done are shoddy and criminal in many cases.
In events where Council Secretaries and Town Clerks have attempted to do a professional process, they have been accused of frustrating UPND Government progress and have been harassed, transfered and others have faced protests calling them Patriotic Front members.
Recently terms of tenure for Ward Development Committees members expired, and the re-election has been a UPND affair.
The Ward Development Committees are key to procurement awards in the Constituency Development Fund (CDF).
For example, in Mutendere the election of WDC was so violent because area Member of Parliament, Hon. Mike Mposha, gave firm directives that only members of UPND should vote.
Yet this entire process is meant to be a community affair to allow citizens to participate in managing their development and local affairs.
So the shock experienced by the Minister of Finance, Dr. Situmbeko Musokotwane is laughable.
The looting and abuse of CDF he found in Kalabo and Liuwa Constituencies is normal. He should get a sample done by that ineffective and illegal Auditor General of theirs.
The so-called Auditor General also exposed the looting taking place on CDF and cited in his 2023 Audit Report.
This idiot Mwamba is not a Zambian. You don’t mean well for this country at all.
Actually some members of CDF cooperatives have been using the same money for travel to Turkey, China, South Africa to but, among other things, clothes they come and resell in Zambia. I know of a lady who went to buy clothes and sold some to me. But after failing to make profit, she again came back to me to ask for nkongole. So, are you not surprised that we are not seeing much about what CDF is doing for citizens? Are you therefore also not surprised that despite UPND increasing CDF many Zanbians today feel that PF was able to do more for citizens than UPND given the numerous infrastructure developments they left behind which most Zambians can see and are benefitting from?
I’ve always said that we zambians are not patriotic. We will always put self before public good
We’re spoiled a long time ago by KK when he started giving us free things because he found too much money in the treasury left by colonialists
This was made worse by ECL with his tantameni, uubomba mwibala syndrome
We destroyed ZCCM, many parastatals, etc because we like stealing ifya boma
The same way we’re destroying NHIMA and ND government medicine supplies
We need a serious President like HH7 to teach us that insala tempulilwa nindiminwa
So talking of Zambians running mines isn’t possible unless privately owned without government funding
President HH7 has provided but the foot soldiers are messing up CDF. Do you expect him to also supervise its utilisation? Where are the ministers and those below them?
Surely if ministers and their subordinates do visit constituencies, couldn’t they have noticed this abuse?
I think we zambians are comfortable with ECL type of leadership
It’s said that to know how a crocodile lives, one must ask the hippo. All that Mwamba had jotted down is based on hear say & assumptions. I’m in Serenje where the Council is PF dominated. Only truth shall set you free, Emmanuel. CDF is real for all Zambians regardless of their Political Affiliations.