MPs' dance with courts on CDF last kick of a dying horse

CDF offends the devolved system of government, confusing the function assignment process and even taking over functions that belong to county governments. [File, Standard]

This week the High Court for the second time declared the CDF Act unconstitutional.

It goes to the ingenuity of Parliamentarians that this unconstitutionality was on a later version of the CDF Act, cleverly renamed National Government CDF, the 2013 version having been declared unconstitutional by the High Court, the Court of Appeal and finally by the Supreme Court in 2022.