Home
Martha Karua through her Martha Karua Foundation, has warned the Members of Parliament against passing the financial bill into law. She said that if the members of the National Assembly don’t listen to the pleas of Kenyans, they will feel the wrath of Wanjiku.
“If the MPs pass that bill and completely ignore the needs and pains of the ordinary Mwananchi we will make them know that we’re displeased by their actions. It is the mwananchi that sponsors the lifestyle of these MPs and they are state officers whose work is to serve the public. We will exercise our sovereignty as the people of Kenya,” said Karua.
Martha was giving a talk through a panel during a seminar that the Martha Karua Foundation had organized. The conference called A Wanjiku Symposium was aimed at addressing the negative implications that the Finance Bill would have on the low income-earning citizens. Therefore, the talks were dubbed Wanjiku Tax Pains.
There were different NGO leaders who had been invited to give their professional and personal opinions on the same. Some of the notable speakers were Institute of Economic Affairs CEO Kwame Owino, The Institute for Social Accountability (TISA) Diana Gichengo, a youth representative and an ordinary citizen to represent Wanjiku.
Karua berated the bill as only beneficial to the rich at the expense of Kenyans. “Why are we zero-rating things like helicopter spare parts when things related to medicine are not zero-rated? When food items are not zero-rated?”
