The government is considering boosting the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) to address the escalating costs of goods and services, as disclosed to the House of Representatives yesterday.
During the session, Minister of State for Policy, Coordination, and the House of Representatives, Hamza Hassan Juma, highlighted the government’s acknowledgment of the increasing costs despite the CDF rate remaining unchanged for the past nine years.
Initially set at 10m/- per year since its inception in 2011, the fund saw increments to 15m/- in the 2013/2014 fiscal year and further to 20m/- from 2014/2015 to the present.
In response to a query from Wawi Representative Bakar Hamad Bakar regarding plans to enhance the CDF to better benefit the citizens, Minister Juma stated that any increase would depend on resource availability.
The CDF was established by the government to support social and economic development by funding small-scale projects within constituencies. However, lawmakers expressed concerns that the current 20m/- allocation is insufficient to significantly impact people’s development within a year.
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