Azimio La Umoja One Kenya coalition now says it will hold a public consultative rally at the Kamukunji grounds on Tuesday next week.
Making the announcement, Narc Kenya party leader Martha Karua has said the meeting will declare the next cause of action following the passing of tax clauses in the Finance bill 2023.
Karua says it is unfortunate that the Finance Bill will forcefully become law with amendments that remain punitive and oppressive.
“Let us meet in Kamukunji next Tuesday and decide the kind of life we want to live.”
The bill will be read for the third time next week ahead of the start of the next fiscal year with the president expected to sign it into law before 1st July.
According to Karua, the ruling coalition leaders have had their way with the bill with intentions of siphoning the coffers dry, through corruption.
“We learnt the hard way that this illegitimate regime can ignore the people, their feelings, their fears, their circumstances, their hopes and aspirations and force its agenda on the people,” said the political outfit.
“That is what (President William) Ruto and his Kenya Kwanza followers did with the passage of the Finance Bill, 2023.”
Karua further described as ‘champions of democracy’ the lawmakers who opposed the tax clauses in the bill and maintained that all Azimio MPs who did not participate in the second reading will have to show cause.
“We celebrate the fact that whereas the regime had said not even a coma would be removed from the Bill, our MPs, with the push from millions of Kenyans were able to force the regime to accept not one, not two, but several amendments. But those amendments were not enough to guarantee the kind of life we desire for Kenyans,” Azimio stated.