Some councilors in Mwense District want the Citizens Economic Empowerment Fund, CEEF, to establish access points for its application forms to rural centers which lack financial institutions.
The councilors told ZANIS in Mansa that the shortage of CEEF application forms at designated places like Banks and lack of forms in Districts without banks had raised concerns to would be beneficiaries.
Speaking on behalf of concerned councilors, Chiefs Representative, Joshua Chama, said the unavailability of the forms in such areas led to lack of confidence by would be applicants over accessibility of the funds because it was now perceived that the Fund was only targeting people in urban areas and rural areas with banks.
Mr. Chama, who was accompanied by councilors from Mwense’s Munwa, Lundashi and Mambilima wards said it was expernsive for people in areas not serviced by the banks to travel to such areas to access forms.
“We are disappointed to find that the bank stocking the forms has run out of those catering for amounts ranging from 1million Kwacha to 50 million which cost K20,000 but is only having those for 50million and above which cost K100,000. When you factor these setbacks you realize that more money is spent trying to secure the application forms,” said Mr. Chama.
He appealed to the CEEF to identify access points for its application forms in areas like Mwense, which is not serviced by any bank, to use the Post office, the District Commissioners or Council Secretary’s Offices’ in order to lessen the hurdles people intending to apply would encounter.
And Mr Chama has said the councilors had through the Area Development Committees (ADC) sensitized their communities and various vulnerable interest groups over the CEEF.
He said the people in the various wards were now aware and eager to see some beneficiaries of the Fund coming from their area.
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‘Some councilors in Mwense District want the Citizens Economic Empowerment Fund, CEEF, to establish access points for its application forms to rural centers which lack financial institutions.’
This is good and the only way to go. Access points must be reacheable by people easily instead of having a bereaucratic system that takes for ever in obtaining the required.
well
# 3 bwana
4th
Transparency with these funds…the usaul mumbo jumbo cadres enjoying
Typo usual instead of usaul
Avail these forms to all peoples of Zambia, even in therural areas.
wala wala wala where money is concerned wish. USAID was distributing these funds.
Not for caders please
who sits on the commission where are you and what are you doing