IS MOPPING UP OF CDF BACK TO CENTRAL GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT HELPING?
Authored By Mupishi Jones
Mopping up of Constituency Development Program funds from district accounts back to central government holding accounts was meant to avoid huge amounts of money marooned into district bank accounts unused for a long period of time,thus shrinking the amounts in circulation.
Initially, the idea was okay but in the long run it’s proving counter productive.
A closer look at this is revealing that funds that appear to be marooned are actually committed funds to projects that are expected to be paid to contractors in phases before a project is completed.
These are also funds retained in bank accounts until youths and pupils under skills and bursaries CDF sponsorship are verified.
However, the situation in most local authorities today is that the projects have reached the payment stage but the monies have been mopped, the youths and pupils under skills and bursaries sponsorship have been verified and institutions have raised claims but the funds have been mopped.
Most of local authorities have requested to recall these mopped funds but it’s taking years to have the funds released.In certain cases,by the time funds are released, contractors have even demobilised, youths and pupils have even been sent away from class on account of failure to pay for both term one and two consecutively.
This is counter productive to the good intention of the New Dawn Administration.
Can officials at the Ministry of Finance and National Planning please up their game otherwise the situation on the ground is bad!
I think the government must rethink this exercise of mopping funds from districts because it’s working against itself.
I submit
Mupishi Jones
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@Mupishi Jones thank you for bringing the issue to the attention of the Government and particularly to the Ministry of Finance and National Planning.
On the other hand, it is unfortunate that Mr. Mupishi Jones is quick to make unsubstantiated statements and claims about the mopped CDF from District Local Authorities’ accounts without verifying his claims. Please Mr. Mupishi Jones stop deceiving yourself and the masses it is falsehood to allege that it takes years for government to release CDF to contractors and to pupils or students who you have claimed are sent away. Please stop telling lies. I challenge you to be specific in your unsubstantiated claims and mention the contractors who have demobilised from their work they were contracted. In addition, could you kindly mention the pupils or students who were sent away because of non payments of tuition fees and other fees and from what schools or institutions?
Also, what local authorities are affected?
Your generic assumptions have no truth in the, CDF is available and the processes of accessing and utilisation the funds is going on well. If there any challenges in the disbursement of funds it is very minimal as compared to your narrative of lies and false propaganda.
Learn to use social media responsibly and always present facts on any claims. Don’t be an agent of negativity by bringing false information to the attention of the public. Championing of allegations which do not hold water is falsehood and people involved in the habit of spreading rumours and lies about government should be held accountable for spreading lies which make the government and other institutions bad.