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Transport CS Kipchumba Murkomen addressing during the launch of KeNHA 2023-2027 Strategic Plan at Barabara Plaza in Nairobi on January 26, 2024. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]
There is an unwavering determination by the Kenya Kwanza administration to raise taxes. That is understandable considering that it needs money - a lot of money - to seal the debt hole dug by the Jubilee government and which the current regime continues to deepen. William Ruto's government also desperately needs money to implement its development plans.
That said, there should be a limit to its tax ambitions. Consider the latest revelation by the Transport CS Kipchumba Murkomen of a plan to charge Kenyans for using some of our old roads ostensibly to help build new roads and maintain the existing ones.
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