UDA & Azimio MPs Threaten to Impeach Treasury CS
UDA & Azimio MPs Threaten to Impeach Treasury CS
UDA & Azimio MPs Threaten to Impeach Treasury CS
Kenya Kwanza members of parliament teamed up with opposition lawmakers on Tuesday, January 9, to demand the impeachment of Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung’u. The lawmakers charged that President William Ruto’s administration was abusing formalities to stall the delivery of the National Government-Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) in a statement read by Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo on behalf of the other lawmakers.
The MPs threatened to introduce a motion against the Treasury CS if the administration did not provide the monies within seven days. “A memo from CDF, dated January 2024, has been sent to all CDF account managers nationwide informing them that funds cannot be disbursed due to certain changes made to the CDF Act,” Amollo stated.
As such, according to Amollo, the Treasury had refused to issue the funds noting they were supposed to recall proposals they had made and redo and resubmit.While accepting that legislators had made amendments to the Act in the months of November and December, Amollo termed the memo misguided.
According to him, the Treasury should have distributed 94% of the NG-CDF money because the revisions only had an impact on 6% of the total funds. The MPs questioned why the administration was drafting policies for the 2023–2024 fiscal year based on changes made at the end of 2023.
They maintained that the changes ought to have been discussed during the 2024–2025 Fiscal Year, which began in July 2024. The MPs gave President Ruto a deadline: “As a bipartisan team consisting of all members of both sides, we demand the entire allocation of CDF must be released within seven days as is due.”
The MPs threatened to impeach the Treasury CS for the third time in the 2023–2024 fiscal year. The National Government made available Ksh31 billion on January 3rd for the purpose of allocating bursaries under the NG-CDF kitty. The Members of Parliament stated that the amount was insufficient and that they required the entire sum, which equates to at least 2.5% of the government’s overall revenue.
