Treasury under fire as MPs push for delayed cash

Treasury CS John Mbadi before the Senate's Finance Committee to deliberate on matters of 2025 Budget Policy Statement and also to Consider the Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bills No. 45 of 2025 ) at County Hall, Parliament, Nairobi. March 18th,2025. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

There was disquiet in the National Assembly plenary sitting yesterday after MPs threatened to paralyse House business over the continued delay in disbursement of NG-CDF billions.

The legislators, taking issue with the National Treasury and questioning the government's commitment to NG-CDF, said only funds for the first quarter of the financial year had been released-a move that had strained families and school-going children who depend on the money. They also vowed to defend the fund from "other quarters" pushing for its scrapping, despite a court ruling directing its winding up by next year.