The High Court on Friday declared the National Government, Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) unconstitutional.
According to the court, NG-CDF undermined the principle of devolution and faulted the extra layer created by the fund which the judges observes leads to wastage of public resources.
“For all the above reasons and conclusions, we now make the following declarations, that the National Government Constituency Development Fund Act of 2015 as amended in 2022, and 2023 is hereby declared unconstitutional,” stated the three-judge bench.Â
In 2016, Katiba Institute challenged the constitutionality of the Act on behalf of the Petitioners, who argued that the Act offended the principles of separation of powers, public finance and devolution.
