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Monday, June 17, 2024 –Kakamega County Senator Boni Khalwale has asked Members of Parliament from Western Region to vote ‘No’ on the Finance Bill 2024.
Addressing from his Kakamega County offices today Monday June 17, the vocal senator, instead, advised President William Ruto to spread the tax into five years so that to tax citizens less.
The politician, further, advised all MPs especially form Kakamega County to lead by an example by shooting down the questionable Bill that could end up hurting millions of poor citizens of this country.
Khaklwale said, MPs from Kakamega should live to their word of standing with the people who elected them into office.
“Ikana, Shinali should now demonstrate their leadership skills. Elsie Muhanda should now live beyond politics of skirts and fitting in skirts, and move to politics of analytical thinking. Salasya should move out of Tik Tok and save the people whom he claims to have come from. This also applies to MPs Nabulindo from Butere, Aseka Miradi and several others like Butere’s Tindi Mwale and Nabii Nabwera who was a senior manager at Coca cola before joining politics,” listed Khalwale in his media address today.
The politician who is elected on United Democratic Movement UDA Party ticket advised the government to learn to tax people gradually by spreading the exercise throughout a period of five or more years.
“Nothing is wrong even if you want to tax mwananchi to develop the country in one day, you can devise means of spreading the taxes in five years so that you can, as well, achieve your target.
Khalwale also argued that, as a senator, he has no powers to vote on the Bill because of the Constitutional reasons.
“According to the Constitution of Kenya, the responsibility of passing any Bill is in the National Assembly not in the Senate,” he added.
He told President William Ruto to listen to the majority of Kenyans who have since rejected the Bill because of some punitive sections.
Khalwale also seized the opportunity to advise fellow leaders to help the head of State to succeed in managing the nation.
Khalwale is not the only leader who has come out boldly to denounce the Bill, opposition leader Raila Odinga, recently shared his side of observation and warned that, should the Bill be forced to the people of Kenya, jobs, business and investments were going to reduce, drastically.
