Battle over Kenya budget goes to court

Kenya's Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta has been sued for failing to submit estimates to Parliament ahead of the reading of the national budget next week.

A civil society group, the International Centre for Policy and Conflict, on Monday moved to the High Court in Nairobi arguing that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Mr Kenyatta is acting in breach of the Constitution.

The organisation says that it would be illegal to allow Mr Kenyatta to read the budget speech without having submitted estimates to parliament two months before end of the current financial year as required by Article 221 of the Constitution.

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Mr Kenyatta last week announced he will read the speech on June 8. The current financial year ends on June 30.

Justice Geanne Gacheche ordered that the case comes up for hearing on Tuesday.

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