Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has filed a motion in the Senate seeking to debate Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua’s conduct.
The Nairobi senator wants the Senate to censure Gachagua over what he terms attempts to marginalize sections of the country.
Moreover, Sifuna says Gachagua’s statement that Kenya is a commercial enterprise with shareholders is dangerous and likely to isolate some regions from government services.
According to the senator, the DPs recent utterances are an obvious attempt to divide the country into vote blocks and territories, based on the results of the previous elections.
“Mr Speaker, marginalization often begins as a roadside decree before it graduates to government policy,” Sifuna stated in the motion dated February 21.
“It is incumbent upon us to establish fast if any such words are already government policy and if indeed, they are what recourse is available to Kenyans who have been excluded from being shareholders in the so-called commercial enterprise,” he added.
Furthermore, the Nairobi senator in his motion which was received by the Senate’s Directorate of Committees states that in the age of enlightenment and globalization, citizens of a country will not readily pay taxes to fund services for enterprises in which they are not shareholders.
“Of greater concern is that his boss, the President, has found nothing wrong with his utterances and has yet to contradict or reprimand the DP,” Sifuna noted.
According to Sifuna, president Ruto’s silence, shows that, the deputy president has the blessings of the highest office in the land to balkanize the country into what amounts to the secession of parts of the nation.
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“It may no longer be fine to just dismiss the DP’s words as his own, without considering that such weighty matters he prosecutes callously on the national stage may indeed be on behalf of his boss,” Sifuna said.
Nonetheless, the Nairobi senator now wants the office of the President and that of the deputy president to be summoned to respond to the issues to determine if Gachagua’s position is also the official government position.
“If yes, does the Kenya Revenue Authority still reserve the right to collect taxes from all Kenyans if indeed they are used to provide services to only sections of the population?” Sifuna posed.
The senator further seeks for clarity on whether the continued “divisive politics of the DP ” are rooted in the Kenya Kwanza DNA and Kenyans can consequently expect nothing better in the coming years.
“Should it be considered fair if sections of Kenya marginalized by this official position of the regime proceed to create their own revenue collection authority in order to provide services in areas considered non-shareholders by the current Kenya Kwanza regime?” Sifuna posed.
As such, the lawmaker urged President Ruto to take a stand about Gachagua’s utterances on the issue.
