MPs, councillors left out of new CDF Bill

MPs could be locked out of the running of the Constituencies Development Fund if a new bill published two weeks ago is passed in its current form. The bill, which seeks to repeal and replace the CDF Act of 2007, leaves out MPs from the CDF committees and does away with the National Assembly’s Constituency Development Committee. Currently the membership of the CDF committees consists of MPs and councillors. MPs will not select members of the CDF committees as is the case...