Treasury releases K2.8bn out of the controversial K4bn

Treasury has released K2.8 billion out of the controversial K4 billion development fund to members of parliament.

Sado: Money has been released Government ministry

Treasury spokesman Davis Sado has confirmed that the K2.8 billion has now been released to the ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.

“The rest of the money would be disbursed after an evaluation on how the K2.8 billion has been used,” said Sado.

Officials from the ministry of Local Government and Rural Development say they are yet to give the money to district and city councils as the ministry is putting in place modalities on how the money should be used to avoid abuse.

Critics of the government and civil society organisations accuse the government of using the tax payer money for campaigning.

Civil society organisations (SCOs), who in their nationwide protests over governance concerns last month included the K4 billion allocation in their petition, said their calls to have the fund cancelled still stand .

The CSOs have since asked president Peter Mutharika to fire Finance minister Goodall Gondwe and Local Government minister Kondwani Nankhumwa over the issue.

But Gondwe on Friday proposed an increase of the fund to K6 billion in the 2018/19 National Budget.

In the new allocation, there is a shift in target as it is set to benefit 300 area development committees (ADCs) which will be responsible for implementation of projects instead of 86 constituencies.

Apart from the K6 billion channelled to ADCs, K20.7 billion has been proposed for rural development through District Development Fund (DDF), Local Development Fund (LDF) and Constituency Development Fund (CDF)and a further K7 billion that could be used on community projects has been included in the budget. This is more than 5 percent of the total Development Budget of the Central Government.

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Phwisa
Phwisa
5 years ago

I only hope Government will not consider the MCP MPs. It will be very unfair to us who supported the 4bn allocation when the leader of opposition Chakwera was leading demonstrations against the allocation of 4bn to all constituencies

Heavyduty
Heavyduty
5 years ago

Hahahahah bravo government. Government is not run by the so called CSOs . Stupid CSOs for that matter. CSO guys, you can continue to making your empty noise, that’s how you get daily bread. What you should know is that if there is no development out there, it will be government to be pointed fingers at, not you. You are just detractors, used by opposition parties, just like pawns in a chess game. Fools. Kenakomuvekere “amuna zikwatiranani”, tisiye azikazi anthu okongolawa? DEMET. You can fool some people sometimes but you can no fool all the people all the times. Iyaa!… Read more »

#DzukaniAmalawi
#DzukaniAmalawi
5 years ago

One of the reasons why disbursement’s to District Councils has never never yielded any tangible results is because there’s no capacity on the ground to translate such funds into developmental projects. The only capacity they have is looting.

HoRror
HoRror
5 years ago

ONLY IF SUCH FUNDS HAVE BEEN ACCOUNTABLE.. OUR CONSTITUENCIES WOULD NOT BE IN THEIR CURRENT SITUATION. FOR ONCE OUR COUNTRY NEED TO BE SERIOUS.. NDALAMA SIMATHERA MA ALLOWANCE NDI MUMATUMBA A KA THYALI

URIM AND THUMIM
URIM AND THUMIM
5 years ago

POVERTY/SUFFERING IN MALAWI IS IN OUR
DNA —

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