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Odinga reveals next step if Ruto overrun parliament on 2023 financial Bill.
The Azimio La Umoja Boss Raila Amolo Odinga has revealed his next move if president William Ruto wins in parliament on financial Bill 2023.
In a statement seen by K47 news, the opposition Chief note that the Ruto’s Gov’t has ran out of ideas on how to sell the bill to electorate and has resorted to intimidations.
Odinga explains that if the current regime overrun the National Assembly, the Azimio team will regroup and overrun him in all National Assembly of whole people of Kenya.
“We have noted that the regime has ran out of sound bites and explanations for their Finance Bill 2023 proposals and has resorted to threats.” Odinga said.
Adding, “should Ruto overrun the National Assembly, we will regroup and overrun him in the wider National Assembly of the whole people of Kenya.”
Rather than burden Kenyans, Azimio boss says they want Ruto to undertake the following:
- Stop duplication of county roles and responsibilities. In the proposed Bill, budget for health is growing by Ksh35 billion at the national level, yet health is a devolved functions.
- Adopt zero-based budgeting. Don’t take the previous budget as the baseline. Every budget must start at ground zero where everything has to be justified.
- Don’t grow size of the budget, cut it down and live within your means.
- Instead of imposing new taxes, seal the loopholes that lead to loss of revenue.
- Stop non-essential government expenditures including the appointment of Chief Administrative Secretaries.
- Reduce the size of government.
- Cut non-essential Domestic and international travel.
- Freeze ministerial out of station allowances, ministerial house allowances and domestic allowance for cabinet and principal secretaries.
- Stop corruption and theft of public funds.
- Finally, we ask Ruto to humble himself, withdraw this Bill, offer apology and seek forgiveness from Kenyans for the anxiety caused, then begin afresh.
Odinga note that no regime has imposed so many high taxes on Kenyans people in return for nothing except fantasies and fairy tales. “This Bill is economic sabotage.”
“If Ruto insists on this Bill, this country will go into full recession. This Bill requires and must get fierce resistance.”