Moroka wants constituency fund owned by community :: Mmegi Online

PALAPYE: Kgosi Sello Moroka of Lerala has called for the newly introduced constituency fund (Local Government (LG) 1109) to be owned by the community not by the Village Development Committees (VDC) or political leaders.

Moroka was speaking at the Palapye Administrative Authority (PAA) stakeholders’ consultative forum for the programme recently. LG 1109 has been in place since 1978 to support and strengthen communities to engage in income generating projects and to create sustainable job opportunities. However, due to the economic meltdown, it was suspended during the NDP10 and has now been re-introduced in NDP11. The programme has been allocated funds amounting to P570 million thus P10 million per constituency.

Through the fund, communities will come with projects that will create employment and uplift each constituency status. Kgosi Moroka said to avoid conflicts of interest, members of the community should come up with ideas so that everyone benefits. He is against the idea of VDC and political leaders being the driving force behind the programme, which might tarnish the Government’s good intentions.

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