Gatundu South Member of Parliament Moses Kuria has been the latest leader to weigh-in on the Central Bank of Kenya's (CBK) recent decision to recall all Sh1000 notes.
Speaking on Saturday during the Madaraka Day fete in Narok county, CBK governor Patrick Njoroge said that the bills will cease being legal on October 1, after the realization that they are being used in illicit dealings.
But Kuria has now taken issue with the aftermath of the announcement, after politicians seem to have fully adopted it, making it the hottest debate at the moment.
He said that the nation is becoming alarmingly petty, to an extent that people are trivializing almost everything and anything, including those that should be left to rest.
"We are becoming such a petty nation, one that trivializes everything and nothing else matters except politics," he said on Citizen TV's Day Break on Monday morning.
He said that the phasing out of the notes was a monetary policy which should not have found its way into agendas being discussed by politicians.
"My problem is that we are starting to politicize and trivialize something like monetary policies. This was a major monetary pronouncement by CBK’s governor," he added.
The debate has been hot among politicians allied to Deputy President William Ruto, some of whom on Sunday termed it another political shot aimed at victimizing the DP who has for long been battling claims of being corrupt.
They said that the deadline should be pushed closer so that they can prove that none of them has billions of shillings stashed in their houses.