{"id":2994,"date":"2026-03-14T15:18:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=2994"},"modified":"2026-03-14T15:18:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:18:01","slug":"president-hichilema-hailed-for-equal-distribution-of-cdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=2994","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT HICHILEMA HAILED FOR EQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF CDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muchinga Province Minister, Njavwa Simutowe has commended President Hakainde Hichilema for ensuring equitable distribution of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF)\u00a0which has brought development in various constituencies in\u00a0the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking when he inspected Kabuta market shelter in Chinsali District being constructed using CDF, Mr Simutowe implored on the marketeers in the area to utilize the facility once completed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand that people were consulted on the location for the market shelter because as Government we don&#8217;t want to see market shelters\u00a0turning into white elephants as such facilities are built to improve the\u00a0trading environment for the local people,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Simutowe reiterated that CDF is meant to transform communities and improve livelihoods of the Zambian people, saying this is evident through the immense infrastructure development dotted in various constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Indeed CDF is benefiting the people of Zambia just here in Kabuta area, the market shelter under construction will enhance the trading environment for the people,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muchinga Province Minister, Njavwa Simutowe has commended President Hakainde Hichilema for ensuring equitable distribution of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF)\u00a0which has brought development in various constituencies in\u00a0the country. Speaking when he inspected Kabuta market shelter in Chinsali District being constructed using CDF, Mr Simutowe implored on the marketeers in the area to utilize the facility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,15],"tags":[52,50,26,25],"class_list":["post-2994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latestnewsright","category-local","category-onlyzanis","tag-constituencydevelopmentfund","tag-construction","tag-ineverycornerofzambia","tag-zanis","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2996,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions\/2996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}