Lawyer Miguna Miguna has opposed a proposal to scrap off the 2019 Finance Bill.
In a tweet on Wednesday, Miguna said that Prof Tom Ojienda and other lawyers opposed to the implementation of the bill are being selfish.
He noted that in Canada, lawyers are required to come clean on their proceedings from court cases and that is not different from the proposal.
He said that lawyers need to back the bill if they value transparency in service delivery.
Miguna, who has been very vocal on matters of national interest, reminded lawyers that they are not above the law following the complaints they launched after the bill was presented to parliament.
“In Canada, lawyers must report to their respective law societies all PAYMENTS IN CASH made by their clients of more than $7,000.00. It is wrong for Kenyan lawyers, politicians and crooks to believe that they are above the law,” he tweeted on Wednesday.
Ojienda claimed that the bill aims to frustrate them in different ways. He asked parliament and Senate to do away with the bill with immediate effect.
“It violates Article 27 (1), (2) and (4), 31, 50 (2) (I) and (g) and 50 (4) of the Constitution, [threatens] to obliterate the Advocates Act and Chapter 16 of the Laws of Kenya and poses a real threat to the very existence of the legal profession as we know it,” he said as quoted by Daily Nation.