A Member of Parliament has defended Constituency Development Fund (CDF) saying it won’t be disbanded.
Kalumah said the fund was well established before the devolved system of government came into being.
"I want to tell you CDF will be there. Whether you say no or yes it will remain," said Kalumah.
He said the hope that CDF will be transferred from national government to county government will never happen.
Kalumah was speaking at Kisumu Social Hall during a public hearing on the review of CDF Act on Monday morning.
"The problem with some people is that they think devolution is a solution to all problems of development across our country. CDF targets national government functions," he said.
He added: "Functions reserved for the national government cannot be executed on the ground in the absence of a fund like the CDF because they are not county functions."
He said that if the CDF is abolished then people will go back to the old days where harambee was a way of life.
"You want to put a latrine in primary school, a fundraising is called. If you want to put a classroom, a harambee is called," he noted.
He said the CDF compliments issues of infrastructure and bursary in the Ministry of Education, which are a national government’s function.
"For the people of Nyanza, we have to be very cautious because we have suffered political marginalisation for long. In our time, the schools we had had mud walled classes and others studying under trees," Kalumah said.
“Each year we give so much money to the Ministry of Education. This year we gave millions of shillings to cater for school infrastructure."
He urged Kenyans to support a system where some amount of money can be available to people to access on matters development.