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National Assembly members are considering censuring Treasury Cabinet Secretary, Prof. Njuguna Ndung’u, for the alleged non-release of National Government Constituency Development Funds (NG-CDF).
MPs claim that despite National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula assuring that the funds would be disbursed by December 20, 2023, the Treasury has failed to do so. At Parliament grounds on Tuesday, lawmakers, led by Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo, expressed concern that the delay is jeopardizing the education of hundreds of thousands of students who rely on the bursary for their schooling.
MP Amollo stated, “No single cent has been dispersed in this respect with the consequence that pupils and students are stranded all over the country. CDF allocation should be Ksh.63 billion, we should have received at least 75% of the money by now, which is around Ksh.43 billion, but to date, we haven’t received anything despite some utterances that you may have heard elsewhere.”
Dismissing a government memo suggesting that NG-CDF funds couldn’t be released due to proposed amendments to the NG-CDF Act, Amollo deemed the information as “misguided, unlawful, and improper.”
“We demand that the entire allocation of the CDF must be released within 7 days as is due. If that is not done, we will call for a special sitting of the House and draft an appropriate motion against the CS Treasury and the NG-CDF board or any other entity as we may determine at the time,” he added.
Kabuchai MP Majimbo Kalasinga emphasized that the Treasury made an error in assuring Speaker Wetangula that the money would be released by December 20, 2023.
“Why is money being dispersed to other government entities, and yet NG-CDF that helps the vulnerable is not released? We don’t want stories; we want the money in our accounts today,” he asserted.
Suba North MP Millie Odhiambo added, “We are tired of people crowding our homes; we are tired of being added to WhatsApp groups. We are here as servants of the people, and when our people are suffering, we must speak, and because of that, we want to tell the Treasury that we are not joking; we are going to take you head on.”
