Kenyan President William Ruto has declined to sign the contentious Finance Bill 2024 into law, sending it back to parliament for amendments.
The bill, which aimed to raise taxes by $2.7 billion, sparked nationwide protests that turned violent, leading to at least 23 deaths and extensive property damage, including the storming of parliament buildings.
No one knows if the President rescinded his decision alone or took the advise the Senior Counsel Ahmednassir Abdulah admonished him NOT ASSENT to the bill and must send it back to Parliament.
He also advised that there must be a reduction on the wasteful expenditure and cut government expenditure.
Apart from that he further stressed the need to forgo the punitive taxes that define the bill and lastly, the President must listen to the national consensus that the Finance Bill is oppressive and cruel to all Kenyans.
He pleaded to President Ruto to give concession and it will not show weakness. It will show leadership. Listening to the will of the people is true leadership he concluded
