Shikuku wanted tax money used in educating poor children

Women in miniskirts in the 1970s. Former Butere MP, the late Martin Shikuku wanted miniskirts, wigs and alcohol taxed to fund exchequer

The former Britain Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once said that every family should have the right to spend their money after tax as they wish and not as the Government dictates.

But in 1970, veteran politician, the then Butere MP Martin Shikuku, told the Third Parliament that miniskirts and alcohol had to be taxed heavily to save Kenya from collapsing - just like the Roman Empire.