Former Public Service Cabinet Secretary and Attorney General Justin Muturi has launched yet another scathing attack on the government over the constitutionality of the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF).
In a thin-lined statement released by the former government insider, he asserted that it was unlawful for the government to continue the programme despite the courts declaring it unlawful.
According to Muturi, the programme has over time been used to unjustly enrich the current Members of Parliament at the expense of the common citizens.
Muturi, who served as an Attorney General, an office entrusted with advising the government on the legality of policy directives, urged the government to scrap the whole scheme.
''NG-CDF is a corrupt, unlawful and unconstitutional slush fund to unjustly enrich the MPs, their families and cronies and should, therefore, be scrapped,'' Muturi stated.
In September last year, High Court judges Kanyi Kimondo and Roselyn Aburili sounded the alarm for the 20-year-old kitty by declaring it unconstitutional.
In a swoop, the action of the court cut the MPs to size by taking away a tool sometimes used to reward supporters and punish critics.
However, later, MPs issued a statement on September 22, communicating their resolve to challenge the ruling, whose ripple effect would be them not accessing the billions allocated to the fund from June 30 this year.
In a statement released after the ruling, the National Assembly stated that a legal team representing it had requested a copy of the judgment and court proceedings to challenge the decision at the Court of Appeal.
''In the appeal, the National Assembly intends to challenge all the findings of the court about the constitutionality of the NG-CDF Act 2015,'' read the statement in part.
This is not the first time the former CS has exploded on the government. Muturi, on April 4, alleged that President William Ruto attempted to coerce him into signing a suspicious Ksh129 billion deal with Russian investors while he was at the airport.
The deal, allegedly worth $1 billion (Ksh129 billion), was intended to fund the planting of three billion trees as part of the government's 15-billion-tree initiative.
Muturi stated that Ruto pressured him to approve the agreement while he was still at the airport without giving him the chance to review the document.
It was during the 2023 December COP28 Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, when the former CS traveled for a state visit, then directly flew to Dubai for the Summit, when he received a phone call from the president while he was still at the airport.
