Out of the 70 Constituency Development Fund (CDF) motor vehicles that were distributed by President Hakainde Hichilema, only nine were allocated to Patriotic Front (PF) Constituencies and 11 were given to Independent Members of Parliament, Stephen Kampyongo has disclosed.
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Mr Kampyongo says President Hichilema has so far allocated about 50 of the CDF motor vehicles to UPND Members of Parliament and that it was hypocritical for the head of State to claim that there was segregation in the distribution of DCF under the PF government.
Mr Kampyongo, the PF Chief Whip and Shiwang’andu Member of Parliament said the distribution of the motor vehicles was biased as the UPND had received more vehicles than the PF, the largest opposition political party.
He said of the 70 CDF motor vehicles, President Hichilema had distributed 50 to the UPND MPs while 20 were shared between the PF and Independent MPs which saw the former ruling party receive only nine.
He said during the PF reign, the CDF money was fairly distributed and that President Hichilema should stop claiming that some regions were being sidelined at the time.
“The schedule and mode of the distribution of the CDF monitoring vehicles is what surprised us because we realized that it was not balanced. Out of the 70 vehicles that were distributed by President Hichilema, only nine were allocated to the PF Members of Parliament while 11 were given to Independent MPs. The rest of the vehicles were given to UPND MPs and it is therefore hypocritical for President Hichilema to claim that the CDF was not equally distributed during the PF.,” Mr Kampyongo said.
And Mr Kampyongo says the PF shall not resort to threatening its Members of Parliament who seem to be drifting from the former ruling party because there was rules and guidelines of how the party deals with its erring members.
Mr Kampyongo said the PF had rules and procedures of dealing with its erring members and that it was not true that the former ruling party was threatening its Chama South Member of Parliament Davison Mung’andu for attending the distribution of CDF vehicles by President Hichilema.
He said as a matter of fact, Mr Mung’andu attending the car distribution jamboree in his personal capacity and that he was not in any way representing the PF.
Mr Kampyongo said MPs as elected representatives of the people should be mindful of the electorates and the clubs they belonged to.
He explained that if an MP of an opposition party felt that the club to which he belonged had stopped meeting his aspirations there were option which were democratically available such as leaving the club instead of inventing stories of threats.
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