Bumula Member of Parliament (MP) Jack Wamboka has called upon the members of the National Assembly to freeze the business of the house until the National Treasury releases the Constituency Development Funds (CDF) monies in full.

Speaking on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, while seconding a motion by Musa Sirma on the nominees for appointment in the NG- CDF board fund, Wamboka implored his colleagues to be firm and suspend House business, decrying the sorry state of events occasioned by the delay of the funds.

The MP elected under the DAP-K party castigated Treasury CS John Mbadi for taking the concerns of the MPs lightly while they bore the brunt of the action back at the constituencies.

“We need to operationalize our CDF offices by ensuring we have legally certified people in this office. I just want to call upon the Attorney General (AG) to move fast and gazette the names so that they start to work. But Mr Speaker, we have a minister, who for some time now has been playing with this house and as an assembly, we have to be firm. As we speak most students in our universities are starting exams but we don’t have money for bursaries,” Wamboka said.

“It is a crisis, Treasury isn’t responding. They have given us promissory notes that have expired and now they don’t have a face. I want to call upon members of this House that we freeze any operation and business of this House and continue when Mbadi has given us the money in full.”

His pleas were, however, quickly dismissed by House Speaker Moses Wetang’ula. The speaker confirmed that he has been in talks with the majority leader, the clerk and the Treasury PS on the matter stating that the Majority Leader was due to present a statement on the status of the disbursement of the funds.

Weatang’ula was however forced to give in to the MP’s demands, confirming that the Treasury CS will appear before the parliamentarians and answer their concerns.

“Paralysing the House may be too drastic and may not necessarily solve the problem. I direct the majority leader to search and find the honourable Mbadi and deliver him to the house tomorrow at (2:30 PM),” Wetang’ula said while acquiescing to the demands of the MP.

The foregoing is a continuation of the heated debate that dominated the floor on Tuesday, April 5, 2025.

Tuesday’s session saw MPs fault the executive slow response over the issue they termed as very serious.

Eldas MP Adan Keynan, Makalu Mulu of Kitui Central and Wilberforce Oundo of Funyula led the cries of the MPs who lamented the lack of states intervention to the impasse.

“I believe the Executive is taking this House for a ride. The CS Treasury had given us commitments in terms of timelines for the release of the NG-CDF disbursements. We are now in March and nothing has been honoured by the NG-CDF board. We cannot continue this way,” Mulu, the Kitui Central MP warned.

“This is a very serious issue, Mr. Speaker, and it is Kenyans who are suffering. As a House, we are accountable to the people who elected us and we are accountable to the Constitution of Kenya,” noted Eldas MP Adan Keynan.