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Uhuru has his way on 8pc VAT on fuel in controversial vote by MPs

President Uhuru Kenyatta-Address from State House, Nairobi. [File, Standard]

President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday got his way with a raft of new taxes in a chaotic session characterised by claims of underhand dealings and blackmail in Parliament.

The majority of MPs opposed to the eight per cent value added tax on petroleum products alongside others, were shrewdly defeated by denying the National Assembly the requisite two-thirds majority (233) required to override the President’s recommendations on the Finance Bill 2018.

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