Garissa Township MP Aden Duale now wants the proponents of the flopped Building Bridges Initiative to account for the billions of shillings spent in the constitutional amendment process.
In a statement after the Supreme Court declared the process unconstitutional, Duale said the judgements by the three courts affirmed the aspirations of the people of Kenya.
He went on to say that it is time those involved account for the money spent on promoting the BBI process that has now been termed illegal.
“Now that the Supreme Court has put the final nail on the BBI Bill, we must ask the difficult ensuing questions relating to the whole process,” Duale said.
“One of which is that huge amounts of public funds and resources totalling an estimated Sh20 billion were used on the BBI process which illegality now stinks to the highest heavens.”
The former National Assembly majority leader said that the Auditor-general should move with speed, audit and report on all the accounts of the BBI Steering Committee and Taskforce on Implementation of the BBI.
He said the Auditor general should also confirm whether public funds were allocated to the entities and how it was spent.
“Article 201(d) and (e) of the Constitution provides that public money shall be used in a prudent and responsible way and financial management shall be responsible, and fiscal reporting shall be clear,” Duale said.
“We owe this to our people! What is however unfortunate is that now that the BBI Bill is completely dead we may be looking at an estimated Sh30 billion that was spent on the unconstitutional process having what in Swahili we say “pesa zilikunywa maji!”
