MPs disrupt sitting over NG-CDF cash

Mr Wandayi said members had not been given any justification by the Treasury for not releasing the funds.

"We are now in the tenth month of the 2023/24 financial year and since this House disbursed funds, no single cent has hit the accounts of the constituencies. This House is going for a long recess yet we know that school children are opening school in the first school of January. Those who sat KCPE are joining Form One in that same period yet the counties have no funds," said Wandayi.

"Without NG-CDF bursaries and NGAAF, more than three-quarters of the students will not go back to school. The House would also be in order not to handle any other business in sympathy with the children of hustlers suffering out there and not knowing how they are going back to school," he added.

Majority Leader Kimani Ichung'wah, while agreeing that the funds release was a pressing issue, told the House that he had engaged the Treasury and the NG-CDF CEO over the matter and assured members that the funds would be released soon.

"I agree that this is a matter that ought to be treated with special attention. We have taken up this matter with the National Treasury which must deal with the twin issues of money to Parliament and money towards NG-CDF through the State Department for Planning.

"I have engaged with the CS, NG-CDF CEO and State Department Cabinet Secretary. They have indicated that they are working on ensuring there will be disbursements of the funds by the time we break," he said.

However, Azimio and Kenya Kwanza lawmakers stormed out chanting "no CDF, no recess!"