Finance Bill will hurt ordinary Kenyans, improve elite's lives

Narc-Kenya leader Martha Karua speaks during an interview with The Standard in March 2019. [John Muchucha, Standard]

The 2024/25 budget should have been about ending poverty and economic empowerment. Putting the country on a growth trajectory should have been the focus. Instead, it was largely about conspicuous consumption by the political elite and imposition of more taxes upon the already overburdened citizenry.

Currently, many Kenyans are dying of treatable diseases because of corruption in the health care sector. Lack of drugs, anti-malarial nets in hospitals and dispensaries is sadly the new normal. Unfortunately, the majority of citizens, including those that live in towns, have no access to clean drinking water, yet the regime has crafted a
budget that promotes ostentatious expenditure for itself in violation of Article 203 (a) and Article 43 of the Constitution.