Editor's Review

  • MPs had threatened to paralyse the presentation of the budget over delayed disbursement of NG-CDF cash.

Members of Parliament are worried as the National Treasury struggles to pay their allowances and salaries.

The Treasury has been struggling to pay the MPs allowances from the beginning of the year painting a grim picture of the financial situation in the country.

Notably, the Treasury has also not released cash for the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) which is used by MPs to award bursaries.

“Projects have stalled, students don’t have bursaries and may drop out. Classrooms that are intended to create space for social distancing have been delayed, contractors who were undertaking the projects are threatening court action,” Belgut MP Nelson Koech told a local daily. 

MPs had threatened to paralyse the presentation of the budget over delayed disbursement of NG-CDF cash.

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The lawmakers accused the Treasury of holding Ksh13.7 billion that had been allocated to CDF and arrears of Ksh4.97 billion that is owed to the 290 constituencies from 2011/12 to 2014/15.

The NG-CDF Act, 2015 sets aside 2.5 percent of the total revenue raised nationally to be shared among the constituencies.