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Government depoliticising disbursement of empowerment funds - Katema

Government depoliticising disbursement of empowerment funds - Katema
By Misheck Wangwe in Kitwe
Fri 23 Dec. 2011, 13:25 CAT

FUNDS meant for the empowerment of vulnerable groups will never be abused for political purposes like the previous MMD regime did, says Joseph Katema.

In an interview in Kitwe yesterday, Dr Katema who is the Minister of Community Development, Mother and Child Health said the PF government was working towards depoliticising the disbursement of the empowerment funds.

He said many poor people were not accessing funds meant for empowerment of citizens because the MMD government politicised the exercise to an extent where only the cadres were enjoying the money meant for people's human integral development, particularly those in rural areas.

Dr Katema said the desire of the PF government was to see ordinary citizens, especially vulnerable women and children, have access to the much-needed funds for their personal development.

"I have discovered that we have a situation where public funds meant for human development were turned from being developmental tools into political tools. People had to queue up for these funds with voter's cards in their hands.That is one of the abuses we want to clear….So under the PF government, its' hands off to everybody, we want our people who voted for this government to see development," said Dr Katema.

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