Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei has said the proposed Finance Bill 2023 will be passed without amendments as had been suggested by the opposition.
According to the senator, the government can either borrow more or raise its own revenue through taxation.
Senator Cherargei further criticized opposition leader Raila Odinga for not raising any objection over the ballooning debt during the retired President Uhuru Kenyatta’s regime.
He said Odinga’s current opposition to the tax regime is “hypocritical.”
“On the Finance Bill 2023, the decision to pass by Parliament is not optional where even coma shall not be amended be because we either borrow more or raise our own revenue through taxation. The serious public debt of 10T was put by Handshake govt of Uhuru/ Tinga that the Kenyans are paying heavily now,” Cherargei said.
Nonetheless, Raila Odinga has vowed to rally his troops to oppose the proposed Finance Bill in Parliament.
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“Tinga did not raise an objection in handshake government, yet he was senior advisor to Uhuru then this hypocrisy should stop,” the Nandi senator stated.
Nevertheless, Cherargei’s remarks comes a day after the Azimio leader said Kenya Kwanza government’s plan to raise taxes is a punishment to Kenyans.
“The Bill is a promissory note to strangle and suffocate the hustlers from whose necks Ruto promised to remove the rope,’ he said.
According to Raila Odinga, Azimio lawmakers will not spare efforts to ensure President William Ruto’s tax proposals under the Finance Bill 2023 does not sail through in the National Assembly.