Ndindi Nyoro: Ruto's Sh5trn infrastructure fund is 2027 ploy

Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro addressing the media in Nairobi on December 15, 2025. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

The expected implementation of the National Infrastructure Fund has been dismissed by Kiharu legislature Ndindi Nyoro as a political ploy to entice voters in 2027.

The MP who has become a fierce critic of the government since his ouster as the chairperson Budget and Appropriation Committee at the National Assembly, argues that the government ought to account for Sh4 trillion debt it has incurred since it took office.

Nyoro says such financial instruments are drowning the country into more debt considering they are off the budget book.

Speaking at his office, the MP said it does not make sense that the government is unveiling a fund to host trillion of shillings whilst it cannot explain where the Sh4 trillion borrowed funds have gone to in the last three years.

“The government is selling a grandiose idea so that Kenyans can lose track of the basics. How do you tell Kenyans of plans worth trillions of shillings when (school) capitation is being cut?” he posed.

He pointed out that a government in office has no business dishing promises to its citizens.

“They (government) have the responsibility of informing Kenyans on what they are doing not what they intend to do,” he said.

The National Infrastructure Fund (NIF) is the latest grand plan by President William Ruto on how to transform Kenya into a Singapore like economy but without burdening the country with more debt.

The plan requires about Sh5 trillion with the money meant to develop roads, rail transport, dams, power generation and airports.

The Sh244 billion proceeds expected from the sale of government shares in Kenya’s leading telco, Safaricom, has been ringfenced as the seed funding for this fund.

But Nyoro says the rush for such mega projects is typical of a government that is unable to grow the economy, yet the election period is getting close.

“The issue about the National Infrastructure Fund (NIF) is just a preparation for campaign launch,” he said.