United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema says he will increase Constituency Development Funds (CDF) to K 5 billion kwacha per constituency once elected as Republican President.
ZANIS reports from Itezhitezhi District that the opposition leader said this during a live discussion programme on Itezhi Tezhi community radio on Thursday night.
Mr. Hichilema said on the radio that the current CDF funds are insufficient to bring about meaningful development in the country.
“The current CDF of K700 million is insignificant to bring any tangible development in the constituencies in the country that is why we, as UPND will increase it to K5billion kwacha per constituency,” he said.
Asked on where the money would come from to increase the CDF, Mr. Hichilema said that the UPND government will re-introduce the windfall tax and trim the cabinet to only thirty (30) ministers.
He said that by downsizing the cabinet and introducing the windfall tax, UPND government will save more than K 4 trillion and thereby which will be available to increase CDF and increase salaries of civil servants.
“When we increase the CDF to five billion per constituency each ward will be able to carry out meaningful development projects that will uplift people’s living standards in the country.
“ We will also pay rural hardship to government workers in rural districts like Itezhi Tezhi, ” Mr. Hichilema said.
Mr. Hichilema also said that government will increase the number of constituencies in the country because most of them are too vast.
He also said that UPND will put agriculture as top priority and will distribute fertilizer through headmen and ensure that proper storage facilities are built to prevent wastage of the maize.
He further said that UPND government once voted into power will built dip tanks and provides cheaper animal vaccines and employ adequate veterinary officers.
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You already have 2 votes from my house.You are the best thing to happened to Zambian politics.You surely are the best man for Zambia .
Ya but kuti waseka this guy is even coming out in the open saying that when they have failed to account for the K600 million they have bee receiving.Mwaibila sana abantu imwe
$1m CDF, great idea until you start thinking of who is going to administer the funds – MP’s again? You know where this money will end up going – in their pockets!!!! It will be Michael Mabenga in all constituencies.
We can add: Asked what he will do when the price of copper falls, HH said that since his actions as president will be entirely dependent on windfall tax (a) he will reduce the minimum salaries of nurses from K5 million back to K500,000 or even K200,000 (b) he will revert CDF to MMD levels (c) he will trim the cabinet further to 10 men. I would rather have the sustainable RB formula of investing mining tax revenue to grow the economy across the board, that way there will still be other taxes to pay civil servants and others.
I read something about promoting agro-business not just Copper mining
katie you are the one.tell these fools from HH to stop dreaming
they think government is runned like a kantenba where they where being chosen us chairman.Mwana Zambia is not Grantthornton.Umunut in RB and continuity will vote for.More hospitals, more clinics, more roads and what more all this in just three years.Will give another ten years so that we completely bury noise makers like HH and the Canoe
this man does not think…… he is too childish….. who does he think will vote for him…… for sure he is under 5!!!!
I.d.i.o.t.
hakaindebane has my vote, guys am coming to vote for 2 pipo, monde and hakainde, yes bulalira
hakainde bane has my vote, guys am coming to vote for 2 pipo, monde and hakainde, yes bulalira
viva RB Viva umuntu ni development.More clinics ,schools,roads and hospitals.What more can you aks of mwebantu
20HH
Katie good sweetheart and The Real People lets campaign even more for our President while some are dreaming K5bn CDF and others hallucinating about and seeing things in everything that is crossing the borders into the country.Bwana HH how come u failed to pay K5m to your workers at Grant thornton u r one of the worst employers in this country and u think overnite u will turn into a good employer.All the cash at Grant thornton was just being shared amongest the tonga partners we know u.
VIVA RB VIVA MMD CHWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
THE CLOCK IS TICKING.UMUNTU NI THE HOUR HAS COME FOR DEVELOPMENT MWEBANTU. CHWE!!!!CHWE!!!!!!!CHWE!!!!!!!! UMUNTU NI RB.RB WE SHALL VOTE FOR BECAUSE WE HAVE SEEN AND TOUCHED WHAT HE CAN DO.ICHINTU CHITU UMWENE MWEBANTU.LETS VOTE FOR DEVELOPMENT MWENBANTU. CHWECHWE!!!!CHWE!!!!!!!CHWE!!!!!!!! PEOPLE HAVE SEEN CLINICS, PEOPLE HAVE SEEN HOUSES ,PEOPLE HAVE SEEN ROADS WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT TO SEE THEN WAIT FOR THE FIVE YEARS SO THAT A CLINIC WILL BE AT YOUR DOOR STEP. CHWE!!!!CHWE!!!!!!!CHWE!!!!!!!! VIVA MMD VIVA MMD VIVA RB CHWE!!!!CHWE!!!!!!!CHWE!!!!!!!!
UPND 2011 UPND 2011 UPND 2011 UPND 2011 UPND 2011 UPND 2011 UPND 2011
SMART PEOPLE WILL VOTE OUT THE OLDER GENERATION AND LOOK TO THE YOUTHFUL FOR NEW IDEAS.
GO H.H
AYA HOW DO YOU BRING NEW IDEAS IN A PLACE YOU HAVE NEVER WORKED OR KNOWN.HH DOESNT KNOW WHAT GOES ON IN GOVERNEMENT WHAT IS HE GOING TO CHANGE.MY FRIEND WAKE UP FROM YOUR DREAMS.UMUNTU NI RB AND MMD BECAUSE HE TALK ABOUT THINGS HE HAS SEEN AND DONE. NOT SPECULATIONS THAT HOW INCREASE CDF FROM 600MILION TO 5BILLION BA HH KWISA UKO.
HH, thats what we need. The last cabinet was too big and wasteful
……And we are going to tarr the bottom road, build a national park in makeni so that zambians don’t have to go far to see elephants, we will move all the mines from North Western and Copperbelt to Livingstone, Kazungula, and Zimba so that we reduce on transportation costs to the sea, we devert the kafue river so that it passes through Lusaka for easy water supply and the Zambezi will go through Itezi tezi. In addition, we will dam all the major rivers so that water is retained in Zambia and does not go to waste at sea! Finally all men with at least 5 herd of cattle will be required to marry a minimum of 3 women to produce farm labours
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@chanda chimba thug,
hmmmm hahahahha that is a rhupia banda agenda for zambia indeed….
Some of you muli fikopo fye .HH has given you an alternative of cutting the cabinet to 30 and saving trillions for use by the constituents.Further more windfall tax will be reintroduced.The problem with us Zambians is that we have taken suffering and corruption as part and parcel of being Zambian.You are not thinking with your brains but skulls like Bembaman and the others.HH is not taking of violence or turning all the colleges into Universities.As for MMD, all they have done is legalize corruption to the level where we are now on of the most corrupt nation on the face of the earth.
#19 Red Square, “Some of you muli fikopo fye”. No Sir, we are just being realistic and serious with issues that affect our beloved country. HH’s talk is just a paraphrase of Mr Sata’s 90 days more money in your pocket “formula”. Is that what HH was taught in the PACT by the chief liar? If you read my other posts, I find HH’s judgment as an aspiring national leader highly questionable for choosing to go into an alliance with a man whose bad character is well documented. Unless of course he agrees that he is an underfive who is blank about Zambia’s political history to date.
Katie babes thats the word to swuare and he needs to be change to circle symboplizing Zero.Pant tapali sense
I admire HH for being smart but consider him still raw in the game of politics. He could however pull through as the most unlikely candidate who the populace never took seriously in these elections. Where is the money for what he is talking about going to come from? An idea can be derived in answering the question where the money for the unprecedented developments we are experiencing now is coming from as it is beyond what is in the 2011 budget! I am sure a raise in CDF funding would also call for measures in its administration as opposed to the current one in place. HH makes me wish the pact was not wasted for he definitely would have had state house coming his way after Sata’s grooming for their passion for the poor is similar.
WHAT DO YOU WANT IMWE MA ZAMBIANS. SOMEONE HAS GIVEN YOU EXACTLY WHERE THE MONEY WILL COME FROM BUT YOU STILL WANT MORE MONEY IN YOUR POCKETS WITHOUT ANY SOURCE. TRHESE ARE THE POLITICS WE WANT OF REALITY.