A Kenyan court blocked President William Ruto ’s plan to carry out a forensic audit of the nation’s public debt, after two petitioners challenged the plan as unconstitutional.

The High Court temporarily halted Ruto’s ordering of the audit after petitioners Magare Gikenyi and Eliud Matindi argued that the auditing of public debt is “a constitutionally mandated function of the auditor-general and not any task force appointed by the executive,” according to the court documents.