Treasury Releases Ksh4 Billion After MPs Threaten To Impeach CS

The National Treasury has finally released Ksh4 billion for the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF), ending a standoff that saw Members of Parliament (MP) walk out of a Mombasa seminar, twice.

MPs who attended the induction of Members of House Committees meeting told the press on Wednesday, January 25 that the government had disbursed the billions into the NG-CDF kitty.

According to Mosop MP Abraham Kirwa, they had received communication from National Assembly Speaker, Moses Wetangula, who attended the Mombasa seminar, stating that after discussions with the Treasury, it was decided that the MPs received the disbursement.

"Yesterday we were given Ksh2 billion, today another Ksh2 billion, tomorrow another Ksh2 billion and then next week another Ksh2 billion. Now it shall continue until we get all the funds. 

"The first thing that they did is to admit that the Treasury messed up because they wrote a letter committing that they will be giving us Ksh2 billion every week, but they only gave us for one week and kept quiet," Kirwa told Citizen TV.

"It's why you saw so many MPs getting angry yesterday wondering what they would do next because so many children have gone back to school and we don't have money to give them."

Following the new development, the MPs agreed to continue with the induction meeting taking place in Mombasa after they walked out of the seminar on two consecutive days.

The developments come after Embakasi East Member of Parliament Babu Owino disclosed that lawmakers had collected three hundred signatures in a bid to remove Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung'u from office.

"We have collected over three hundred signatures. We are going to impeach the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury & Economic Planning, Prof. Njuguna Ndung'u,"

"He will not joke with us, nor the interest of the Kenyan citizens. We are together because this is not a political party affair. This is the interest of the public," he told journalists.

The lawmaker went on to the extent of calling upon Kenyans to stage a protest against CS Njuguna and officials at the Treasury.

"You may be a Kamba, Mijikenda, Kikuyu or Kalenjin but you are tired of poverty. You may come from any community but your true tribe is poverty," he added, warning President William Ruto's government against playing hide and seek with the CDF owing to its popular nature across the country.

On Monday, January 23, over 200 MPs walked out of the seminar in mass protest over the delayed disbursement of the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) by the National Treasury.

The parliamentarians, representing all political parties, had sought Ksh10 billion from the Treasury while lamenting that the services at the Constituency level had stopped temporarily.

They added that they could not carry out any development agenda due to the delay in the disbursement of funds.