NADCO Committee Has Failed, Sifuna Says As March Deadline Nears
Sifuna also made a shocking disclosure on ODM’s finances, saying recent party rallies were not being funded from party headquarters.
By Suleiman Mbatiah
ODM secretary general Edwin Sifuna has declared the committee overseeing the implementation of the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) report a failure, warning that it has just 30 days left before its mandate expires.
Speaking on Citizen TV’s The Explainer with Yvonne Okwara, the Nairobi senator said the panel had scored “zero out of 10” on the commitments contained in the memorandum of understanding signed between President William Ruto and the late Raila Odinga.
The committee, chaired by nominated Senator Agnes Zani, was formed on August 6, 2025, to oversee implementation of the March 7, 2025 agreement. Its mandate lapses on March 7, 2026.
Sifuna said the deadline was final and could not be extended.
“This MoU is not extendable. The expiry date was March 7, 2026. So I’m hoping that tonight, wherever Baba is, he knows that I have kept his promise to give these people a chance to work,” he said.
He said the MoU and the committee’s formation documents bear only two signatures — those of President Ruto and Mr Odinga — making any extension legally and politically untenable.
On implementation of the NADCO report, Sifuna said key commitments had not been met, including a comprehensive review of the 2022 General Election to enhance transparency.
He questioned whether any audit of the election had been conducted.
“IEBC CEO Marjan Marjan has a lot of questions to answer, not just to ODM or Raila Odinga supporters, but to the country about what happened in 2022,” he said.
Sifuna also faulted the government on expenditure cuts, citing reports of Deputy President Kithure Kindiki’s Sh340 million travel budget, and on devolution, noting that counties were allocated Sh415 billion instead of the Sh450 billion agreed, with frequent delays in disbursement.
On protection of young people and police accountability, Sifuna accused the government of presiding over continued extrajudicial killings despite the agreement.
He cited recent deaths in Kahawa West and other parts of the country.
“I have counted upwards of 20 people, young people, killed by this regime after signing this document,” he said.
He also accused the State of violating the right to peaceful assembly under Article 37 of the Constitution, citing violent dispersal of protests and the tear-gassing of churches.
“The Raila Odinga that I knew would never allow the tear-gassing of people in church,” he said.
Sifuna dismissed Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi’s remarks on the economic cost of protests, saying public anger was fuelled by government actions.
Sifuna also made a shocking disclosure on ODM’s finances, saying recent party rallies were not being funded from party headquarters.
“I can state authoritatively that the money and resources you see being spent in those ODM rallies are not coming from ODM headquarters. I can only account for monies that I’m a signatory to,” he said.
He said the party recently received about Sh100 million in delayed remittances, far below what he claimed Treasury owed ODM.
Sifuna dismissed claims that the NADCO process created the broad-based government, saying ODM leaders had joined Cabinet months earlier, following the June 2024 protests.
He expressed sympathy for committee members but dismissed talk of implementation matrices with a month to go.
“We do not need benchmarking tours for us not to kill our children,” he said.
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