The Wajir North Member of Parliament, Ibrahim Abdi Saney, has expressed displeasure over the 2026/2027 Budget presented by the Treasury Cabinet Secretary.

Speaking during an interview with members of the press on Thursday, June,11,2026 shortly after CS Mbadi read the budget before the National Assembly, the MP accused the Treasury of sidelining Northern Kenya in the country’s development agenda.

On his part, the 2026/2027 Budget has failed to address the needs of Wajir North constituency and the wider Northern region, drawing in the conversation around the exclusion of the region.

“What are they producing? For me, probably there will be good things in the last year. So far, I’m not happy, and I can’t offer even a smile. I’m excluded, marginalised, and yet there’s always the talk of inclusion, which I feel is not honest of them,” Abdi said.

The UDA MP further argued that the budget allocations demonstrated continued exclusion of Northern Kenya from national development priorities despite a recent apology by President William Ruto on the past neglect of the region from development.

“It is just out of it we are further excluded. So this budget is for others, not me. There is nothing for Northern Kenya,” he explained.

A missed call to the North Eastern leaders

At the same time, the legislator accused leaders from the North-Eastern region of failing to stand up to the occasion and demand their rights, warning that the impact shall lead to a long-term marginalisation of the region.

“And until those who represent Northern Kenya rise to the occasion and demand their rights, we will ever be marginalised. The unfortunate thing, MPs from Northern Kenya are silent, sleeping, pretending to be part of this development, when we have nothing for our people,” Abdi stated.

“This is budget for south of the equator, nothing for the north of the equator, nothing for Wajir North,” he added.

Ruto’s apology to Wajir

Meanwhile, his concerns come just under a month after President Ruto issued a formal apology to Northern Kenyans for what he termed decades of historical marginalisation and economic neglect.

Speaking during the Madaraka Day celebration at the Wajir Stadium in Wajir County on Monday, June 1, 2026, President Ruto said that the people of northern Kenya have long been subjected to decades of historical marginalisation and economic neglect, committing to them that this is going to be a thing of the past.

“Decades after independence, this region was left behind. Fellow citizens, I want to tell you that on behalf of the people of Kenya today, as I stand HERE as president and leader of our great nation, to the people of Kenya in northern Kenya for this marginalisation, I want to apologise on behalf of the nation of Kenya,” Ruto said.

Reflecting on the historical trajectory of the nation, President Ruto emphasised that the celebration was far more than an exercise in public relations.

Instead, he framed the occasion as a structural turning point for how the Kenyan state interacts with its northern frontier.

“It is not a mere ceremonial gesture; it is a national declaration, it is a moment of affirmation that Madaraka, our freedom, our dignity, and our self-determination were never meant for some Kenyans, never meant for some region and withheld for others,” Ruto added.