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Do not lock MPs out of CDF management, CIC warns

Commissioner of Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) Kamotho waiganjo addressing the press after a public forum on the division of the 2015 revenue at a Nairobi hotel on 25/2/15- [PHOTO/BEVERLYNE MUSILI/STANDARD]

The Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) has cautioned against efforts to take away management of the Constituency Development Fund from MPs, saying it may backfire.

Commissioner Kamotho Waiganjo has told Civil Society organisations that filed a court petition that saw the CDF law declared unconstitutional that for the fund to succeed in driving grassroots development, MPs should at least have some role in its management.

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