Kenyans to go to Statehouse and collect their money which they paid for Housing Levy - Babu Owino
Embakasi East MP Babu Owino thanked the Judiciary for declaring the Housing Levy unconstitutional and urged Kenyans to go to the Statehouse and collect the money which they paid for the Housing Levy.
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00:00 I think number one I want to thank the judiciary for having a clarity of
00:06 thought on the issue of housing levy. I did advise Kenyans and also talked to
00:11 the president and did tell him that housing is a private good. In economics
00:16 we have three types of goods. We have private good and private good should be
00:21 left to individuals to do to get upon themselves and then we have the public
00:26 goods which are goods like the roads which should be provided by the
00:29 government and then we have the merit goods where a government should create
00:33 an enabling environment for these goods to be achieved for these goods to be
00:37 transacted on and these are goods like health care and also education but this
00:43 being a private good and today and it is very very coincidental that I'm also in
00:48 court today and the reason why I was arrested brought here in court is
00:54 because of the housing levy fighting for Kenyans so that this housing levy could
01:01 be declared a nullity, null and void and indeed true to my words and this proves
01:07 my innocence true to my words today the courts have agreed that the housing levy
01:14 that was pegged on the Kenyans put on the shoulders of Kenyans indeed is
01:21 unconstitutional and I want to really thank the judiciary for that and I want
01:26 to say that the government was stealing from Kenyans the government was
01:31 defrauding the hard-earned money that belonged to Kenyans and I want to say
01:39 that this is a type of a theft type of theft called theft by pen and I want to
01:44 urge Kenyans to go to state house and get their monies from state house it
01:52 doesn't matter where this money will be gotten from but Kenyans should rush to
01:57 state house now that the decision is still hot we strike while the iron is
02:01 still hot and you know very well my brother that right now people are
02:06 suffering people have paid people have really paid for this housing levy
02:10 they've been taxed they've been overtaxed they've been used they've been
02:14 misused and I can tell you that Kenyans are sniffing the blood of revolution let
02:20 them go to state house and get their monies from there the idea of the
02:25 postponement of this to take effect from January I don't think it is a right idea
02:30 because already in the wisdom of the judiciary they've seen that this thing
02:36 is unconstitutional so we can't say that it is constitutional now and it will be
02:41 unconstitutional from January it is unconstitutional ab initio from the
02:47 beginning so my brother I want to say that Kenyans we need to go to state
02:54 house and get our monies from there
02:57 you
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