Opposition leader Raila Odinga has set political differences aside and gave himself a new role in helping Kenya’s economic recovery.
Raila unveiled surprising causes of the country’s financial woes setting stage for President William Ruto to take action.
The Kenya Kwanza government has been struggling to finance its expenditure forcing the Treasury to make stern proposals which might leave Kenyans with a huge burden.
In a recent financial bill, there are plans to increase taxes on beauty products, digital platforms and fuel.
The bill has already received opposition from Azimio One Kenya Coalition.
Raila has now come up with appropriate solutions for President Ruto to implement.
He advised Ruto to put an immediate stop to non-essential government expenditures including scrapping the positions of Chief Administrative Secretaries.
He argued that excess cabinet secretaries, principal secretaries, directorates, advisers, aides, departments and CASs were gobbling up finances with less benefits to the country.
He advised Ruto to assign MCAs the work of distributing relief food, inspecting ongoing project instead of CSs spending Sh20 million on a chopper to visit the area.
Additionally, Raila talked about corruption and theft of public funds as another reason for the country to run broke. He emphasized on the need to set strong anti-corruption agencies.
by: Ricardo_Magero