President William Ruto's government has lost touch with ordinary citizens who propelled him to power, City Lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi has said.
The Lawyer, who heavily campaigned for Ruto's presidential bid, said this has led to many rejecting the Finance Bill 2023.
According to Ahmednasir, the Bill has been rejected not because all its proposals are bad ideas.
"The resistance to the Finance Bill, the punitive taxation it embodies and the Bolshevik-like ideas of soviet housing it embraces wasn't because all these are perse bad ideas or H.E Ruto's Govt is out of touch with the needs of the hustler. The resistance was more fundamental," the Lawyer said in a tweet Friday morning.
Ahmednasir went on to say Kenyans opposed the bill because Ruto has refused to address the emptying of public coffers by former President Uhuru Kenyatta's administration.
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He adds that the current head of state has failed to implement one single reform, especially in justice and law and order.
"The state of the country is the same as he vigorously campaigned against. The decay and decomposition of important institutions like the judiciary isn't addressed," the Lawyer adds in his fourth and fifth reasons.
Ahmednasir adds that Parliament is no longer the "people's representative" such that o meaningful debate, oversight, or legislation is going there.
Lastly, he avers that the current regime no longer sells hope as populist propaganda to inspire support for the Bill.
"Fine, parliament has now given President Ruto his budget as he wanted. Let him tell Kenyans how those who steal from us will be punished. Let him tell us those who stole from us will be punished. Tax collection is fine... but Kenyans need accountability...every shilling," he said.
