A three-judge bench comprising of Justices Teresia Matheka, Antony Ndung’u, and Jairus Ngaah has ruled that The National Budget cannot be read or unveiled before parliament approves how the National government will share its resources with counties. The court held that any future tabling of budget policy highlights without the inclusion of the division revenue bill will be unconstitutional. “A declaration is hereby issued that any subsequence tabling of the budget policy highlights and the legislative proposal by the CS Finance without the passing or including of the division revenue bill is illegal,” the court ruled. They said that the budget policy highlights and the legislative proposal for the Financial Year 2019/2020 have already been tabled and the case had been overtaken by events. The court was told that the Division of Revenue Act, 2019 has already been enacted and the Financial Year 2019/2020 had ended.

Source: The Star December 11, 2020 15:20 UTC