Even if the President William Ruto is now retracting some of his statements made after the break-up with the former President Uhuru Kenyatta, leading to anti-government faction by then tagged `Tangatanga Jubilee faction,’’ there’s a lot more to learn, say food for thought.
While his closest allies have remained soundless and burbling, either reexamining their antagonist remarks over the cost of living during former President Uhuru Kenyatta’s regime, `or has the ghost of state house, come to haunt them?
In his buoyancy, President William Ruto, avowed hustlers of the supply of cheap gas cylinders at a cost Sh500 and refilling them would cost Sh300 by the end of June, 2023-this seems to be fading!
Creating jobs for millions of unemployed youths, were another most prioritized KK campaign assurances, before appointing political class-who is who;- the soothing words have far been left to voters just to make their own verdict
The reduced electricity in the hustler nation’s households, rooms and their businesses has been revered to high cost of electricity, did you talk of taxation and grant loans?
Let’s track back some of their earlier statements before and during the campaign period
Chief Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, In April 2019 told previous regime that, “The new 1.5 per cent house tax on is insensitive and burdensome because you are taxing an already overloaded worker. It is also unlawful,’’.
Musalia had reiterated that the worker had been burdened by about the highest income tax in the world by then, the words which are now haunting him, would he recant or just forgo and bring another pretext as he did during the burial ceremony of the heroine Mukami Kimathi
Speaker of the National Assembly in September, 2018 urged the previous government to rescind the tax on fuel-by the President by assenting to the bill that was passed in the National Assembly where MPs suspended the imposition of this tax for two years
“In the event that this tax issue is not resolved, we are going to take serious steps including calling for civil disobedience,’’ Wetangula argued, now silent!
In September 22, 2021, Interior Cabinet Secretary and National Administration Prof Kithure Kindiki noted that the causes of the fuel prices were first over taxed, calling for abolishment of eight tax levies.
“There is the VAT, Excise Duty, Anti-adulteration of Fuel Levy, Railway Maintenance Levy and all manner of taxes, which have been imposed on fuel. We must bring this down,’’ Kithure noted by then.
Kiharu Member of Parliament Ndindi Nyoro who is now the Chairperson for departmental committee on budget and appropriation, never lacked word to throw to the former government
Nyoro told Kenyans that he had written to the office of the President by then [Uhuru Kenyatta] requesting to shoot down some of the acts of parliament burdening taxpayers
“I have written to the President proposing that they amend the VAT Act, the Excise Duty Act and the Fuel Fund Act so that we bring the prices of fuel low. I want to tell this government that prices of fuel products in Kenya must fall,’’ What Nyoro reminisced
On Sunday 14th May, the Energy, Petroleum Regulatory Authority announced new fuel prices for the period between May 15th to June 14th 2023. The retail prices for super petrol, diesel and kerosene have increased by Sh3.4o per litre, Ksh6.40 per litre and Ksh15.19 per litre respectively. The subsidy on diesel and kerosene were removed
However, the Head of State, is putting some strategies and for avoidance of doubts, he says-will put money in your pocket; by increasing food production, enhancing national revenues, slashing borrowing and delivering an ambitious housing programme are the heart of President William Ruto’s plan to transform Kenya. Shouldn’t we?
It’s a learning lesson for every Kenyan aspiring to climb that tree to know it’s not a walk in the park!
Let also Azimio section learn from the previous and the current administration on what haunts back, yes; while sitting that thrown of State House as they offer their constitutional rights of checks and balance to the government