MP Wamboka slams Gachagua for 'misleading' Kenyans over finance bill

By Peter Ochieng 

Bumula Member of Parliament (MP) Jack Wamboka has a 'borne to chew' with Deputy President Geoffrey Rigathi Gachagua.

The first term legislature on Saturday slammed the second in command, for allegedly misleading Kenyans over contents of the Finance Bill, 2023.

Speaking during a funeral ceremony in Sirisia, Bungoma County, MP Wamboka said that every Kenyan will feel an economic pinch if the bill is passed in the National Assembly.

He said Gachagua's notion that the bill is only targeting employed Kenyans with payslips is further from the truth.

The bill proposes among others, a 3 percent housing levy and an increase of VAT on petroleum products from the current 8 percent, to an all time high of 16 percent.

"The deputy president Rigathi Gachagua is not even ashamed of himself telling us lies that the bill will only affect those with payslips," said the lawmaker.

He was elected on the Democratic Action Party (DAP) Kenya ticket, under the Azimio La Umoja One Kenya formation.

The MP said Kenyans were to blame for electing William Ruto as president during the August, 2022 presidential contest, instead of Azimio leader Raila Odinga.

Wamboka pledged to back the shooting down of the Finance bill, 2023 in the National Assembly.