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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>President Salva Kiir has directed the Minister of Finance and Planning to pay the withheld ten-year Constituency Development Fund arrears to national lawmakers.<\/p>\n

The CDF program was adopted by the former Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly in 2007 to directly boost rural development, but the constitutional obligation was suspended following the 2013 conflict for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n

President Kiir has now tasked Minister Dier Tong Ngor to disburse the accrued money for the past ten years to enable MPs to fund projects in their respective constituencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CDF was created through the act of parliament to enable you the MP\u2019s to directly fund project intended to allow you members of parliament to remain in touch with the citizens,\u201d he said while speaking at Freedom Hall.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI am directing the ministry of finance and planning to work with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, President Kiir warned the MPs against misusing the Constituency Development Funds saying some MPs had previously pocketed the funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe parliamentary work must consider dispensing outstanding arrears all to the CDF, but there\u2019s problem some MP\u2019s will go and take CDF money to be their own money but still these issues will come to me and I will process on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commenting on the matter, Edmund Yakani, the Executive Director of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organizations, said he was impressed by the president\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

Yakani is now appealing to the Finance Ministry to promptly actualize the directive.<\/p>\n

\u201cAm so impressed with the speech of the president, on practical aspects that he has mentioned on the speech,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president has directed the minister of finance to make sure that the constituency development fund is released because it\u2019s the only thing that connects the MP\u2019s with the constituency.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI actual called the CDF part of peace dividends because if you look at chapter three and chapter four of the agreement always we silent about it and has been neglected for long.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow at least president has directed the minister of finance, and my appeal is that, at least minister of finance should respond directly to the call made by the president for the CDF to be actualized.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the CDF policy, 85 percent of the total allocation to each constituency are directed for projects while just 10 percent goes towards administrative costs.<\/p>\n

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