AVAP HAPPY WITH 2023 BUDGET
ANTI-Voter Apathy Project (AVAP) in Livingstone has described the 2023 national budget which was unveiled to parliament last week as a growth-working budget.
District Coordinator Nyambe Mutete has observed that the increase of CDF allocation for the 2023 national budget to each constituency from K25.7 million to K28 .3 million, with an increment of K2.6 million will help to address many challenges faced by the communities.
Mr Mutete also said that it was gratifying that the Minister of Finance and National Planning Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane also addressed the bottlenecks which will ensure speedy access for the disbursement of funds to the beneficiaries.
“Also the good news being that the Treasury will not call for any unutilised funds for this year’s 2022 as this will make more goods and services trickling down to the common person even in the streets especially to those who shall venture in cooperatives and income generating activities,” he said.
And Mr Mutete has noted that the issues of lack of desks, feeder roads, sanitation and inadequate classrooms will now be the thing of the past as this shall allow creation of sustainable economics even at a local level.
He said that now that the minister has provided a clear route on decentralisation process for CDF, his organisation is confident that the composition of CDF committees will be reduced to minimise on the accusations of perceived political influence by both MPs and councillors.
“We would like to have the roles of both the MPs and the councillors to be limited when it comes to nominating people who should sit on CDF communities,” he said.