By ADRIAN MWANZA
CONSTITUENCIES do not have capacity to manage the additional responsibilities that come with the increased funding of K25.7 million in the 2022 budget, says Kabushi Member of Parliament Bowman Lusambo.
Mr Lusambo also said the K25.7 million was not adequate to deal with all the challenges that the budget has added.
Mr Lusambo said his constituency in particular has only three members of staff comprising a secretary, security and an administrative officer and none had capacity to dispense the K25.7 million. “There is no competent individual in my constituency office that can administer the dispensing of the K25.7 million Community Development Fund in constituencies,” Mr Lusambo said.
Mr Lusambo said that it would be hard for him to dispense the funds with only three workers who were not even competent to implement the additional workload added by the policy shift. He said he only had three workers comprising a secretary, security and an administrative officer who could not handle and be able to determine where to allocate the funds.
Mr Lusambo said that he was not comfortable with the K25.7 million because it was not enough to deal with all the challenges that his constituency was facing. “I was more comfortable with the K1.6 million because it helped work on certain projects knowing that the central government would deal with the other pertinent issues,” he said.
He said that people were not supposed to be excited because the K25.7 million allocation to all the constituencies was just two percent of the total budget. Mr Lusambo said that the ruling party were hypocrites who when in opposition accused the PF of over borrowing. He said that they had actually taken a similar route and had managed to get US$5 billion in a year and that he was expecting this to increase as the years went by.
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