The Vihiga county residents support the enactment of a law to entrench the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) in the constitution.
Giving their views during the public participation exercise on the Bill that seeks to safeguard the Fund at the Vihiga Constituency office compound, they highlighted the many benefits they had reaped from the kitty.
Nicholas Lugalia, who described himself as a grassroots mobilizer, said the monies from this kitty has been used to among other things construct classrooms, build health facilities and police stations and provision of bursaries to the economically disadvantaged learners and thus the need to ring fence it.
Sylvia Ayoti from Emuhaya Sub County in the same breath lauded the NG-CDF, disclosing she was a benefitted from its bursary programme for her high school and university education.
