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Explain Finance Bill in simple terms for ordinary citizens' sake

Treasury CS Njuguna Ndung'u. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

For citizens not trained in finance like myself, the Finance Bill 2023 that the Kenya Kwanza government has put out calling for public participation comes across as a technical document for the finance elite. There is nothing wrong with the content in the document.

Like many other Kenyans, the financial language therein makes me realise how little I know about the budget-making process which, paradoxically, I am constitutionally entitled to actively participate in.

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