UDA & Azimio MPs Threaten to Impeach CS Ndung’u Over CDF Delays

Members of Parliament affiliated with Kenya Kwanza on Tuesday, January 9 joined fingers with opposition MPs to name for the impeachment of Treasury Cupboard Secretary Njuguna Ndung’u. 

In an announcement learn by Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo on behalf of the opposite parliamentarians, the legislators accused President William Ruto’s administration of utilizing technicalities to delay the discharge of the Nationwide Authorities-Constituency Growth Fund (NG-CDF). 

Ought to the federal government not launch the funds inside seven days, the MPs vowed to desk a movement towards the Treasury CS. 

“There’s a CDF memo dated January 2024, directed to all CDF account managers countrywide, directing them that cash can’t be launched due to sure amendments to the CDF Act,” Amollo remarked. 

As such, in response to Amollo, the Treasury had refused to concern the funds noting they have been alleged to recall proposals they’d made and redo and resubmit.

Whereas accepting that legislators had made amendments to the Act within the months of November and December, Amollo termed the memo misguided. 

He acknowledged that the amendments solely affected lower than 6 per cent of NG-CDF funds and as such, the Treasury ought to have disbursed 94 per cent of the funds. 

The MPs additional puzzled why the federal government was utilizing the amendments made on the tail finish of 2023 to make insurance policies for the 2023/2024 monetary yr.

They argued that the amendments ought to have been thought of within the 2024/2025 Monetary 12 months beginning in July 2024.

“As a bipartisan staff comprising all members of each side, we demand all the allocation of CDF have to be launched inside seven days as is due,” the MPs issued an ultimatum to President Ruto. 

This was the third time within the 2023/2024 Monetary 12 months that the MPs have been threatening to question the Treasury CS. 

On January 3, the Nationwide Authorities launched Ksh31 billion for use for bursary allocation below the NG-CDF kitty. 

The MPs remarked that the quantity was unacceptable they usually wanted the entire quantity which is no less than 2.5 per cent of the federal government’s complete income.