Kiambu MCAs call for boycott of licences and levies
Kiambu MCAs have told residents not to pay any license fees or levies to the county government as there is no law in place to legitimize the process. The 48 MCAs walked out of the assembly chambers after the executive presented the 2023-24 Finance Bill. https://bit.ly/44Ma3Nn
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00:00 [SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
00:01 -My name is Masharia Wambui, elected member from Nimuru
00:22 East, and also proposed majority leader of Kiambu
00:27 County going forward.
00:30 Today we were in assembly, and we were here to witness
00:38 tabling of the finance bill that was brought by the
00:42 executive.
00:43 And members unanimously have agreed they will not pass that
00:46 finance bill, giving citations of even what has been passed
00:52 before, the finance bill that have existed in previous years.
00:56 We have not seen anything that has been
00:59 happening on the ground.
01:00 And therefore, as members and responsible members of this
01:03 county, we decided that there is no need of you continuing
01:09 taking money from people, whereas you're not giving the
01:12 services.
01:13 That is the main reason as to why members have declined to
01:19 pass the finance bill.
01:20 Same Wanjiko, the people who elected us, are the same
01:24 people who are complaining to our offices, to everywhere,
01:27 that nothing has been happening in Kiambu.
01:31 And therefore, they are in better position to understand
01:36 us when we say that they should not give the county
01:44 government of Kiambu money, because nothing has been
01:47 happening on the ground.
01:48 And therefore, Wanjiko is in better position to understand
01:51 what we are talking about.
01:52 Today here in Kiambu County, Assebre, we have agreed
01:56 unanimously that we are not going to agree to table the
02:00 finance bill for Kiambu County for the reasons where we see
02:04 that the previous finance bill has not been effectively being
02:10 acted upon, because the governor has been collecting
02:12 the money.
02:13 Unfortunately, we have not been seeing any development in
02:16 Kiambu County.
02:17 So we are urging that we have stopped this particular
02:21 process to make sure that we see what the money that was
02:24 collected in the last financial year, what it has
02:27 done to Kiambu people.
02:30 So what you mean is that right now, every coin that is being
02:33 collected by the Kiambu County government is illegal.
02:36 It is illegal.
02:37 And we want to tell our people that now the finance bill that
02:42 is supposed to show the direction on how much is
02:45 supposed to be collected on like parkings, to be
02:48 collected in the business permit, they do not have any
02:52 legitimacy up to now.
02:54 And we are urging them not to pay anything, because whatever
03:00 they are going to pay, we are not sure.
03:03 We do not have any substantive amount that they're
03:05 supposed to pay.
03:07 [END]