Lang’ata MP Phelix ‘Jalang’o’ Odiwour and Nairobi Woman Representative Esther Passaria have mentioned they’ll reject the Finance Bill, 2024.
The two are among the many opposition lawmakers who had aligned to President William Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza administration.
Speaking in the course of the debate on the Bill, Odiwour mentioned he rejects the Bill, an announcement that sparked jubilation from Opposition MPs, forcing Speaker Moses Wetang’ula to name the House to order.
“Immediately it touched everything that touched the common person, that is the M-PESA, sanitary pads and cars, I looked back and saw the whole generation from Lang’ata having their voices sold out even after amendments. I had to make the choice that I made today,” he acknowledged.
“I am a friend to the President, I spoke to him and he knows very well that this is my stand,” he acknowledged.
The Nairobi Woman Rep additionally informed the House she rejects the Bill.
Ironically, Passaris took to social media a few month in the past to say that she is going to nonetheless vote for the Finance Bill, 2024 regardless of having some misgivings about some clauses in it.
While addressing her TikTok followers, Passaris began off by telling off her detractors, saying that she was bored with the fixed threats from voters who’ve been warning her of dropping her seat come 2027.
“Just as a result of I’m in Baba’s occasion, does not imply I’ve to hate Ruto. I really like the President, I really like the way in which he does issues,” she mentioned.
Passaris additionally mentioned that she was conscious {that a} part of Kenyans had branded her a ‘traitor’ for supporting the Finance Bill, 2023.
Debate on the Finance Bill 2024 is underway in Parliament forward of the voting.
This is even because the anti-Finance Bill protests continued in varied components of the nation.
Organisers of the ‘Occupy Parliament’ protests, which started in Nairobi, are demanding that the invoice be rejected in its entirety.
The protests paralysed companies in main city centres as police engaged totally different teams in operating battles.
