Member of Parliament for Gatundu South Moses Kuria has come out to fault the Sh3 trillion budget that was tabled by Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich on Thursday.
According to Kuria, it was high time Kenyans reflected on the budget specifically the recurrent expenditure.
“In a budget of Sh. 3 trillion, half of it goes to people who are employed by the government (recurrent expenditure) – salary, mandazi, travel and flowers. In a country of Sh50 million people, civil servants are not more than 1 million.
"We have to ask ourselves, for how long are 49 million people going to carry the burden of 1 million people?” Moses Kuria stated during an interview with Citizen TV.
Moses Kuria also added that some of the policies in the budget will strain the citizens. He went ahead to use an example of the boda boda risers who will under the new budget be forced to obtain third party insurance.
“Today its okay to say that you are taxing someone or you are putting a burden on someone as much as you want to. But there is something called ‘can’t pay, won’t pay’. Among our 1 million boda-boda riders, I think only 200,000 or 300,000 have the third party insurance and the rest cannot afford,” Moses Kuria told K24.
The budget is for the financial year 2019/2020 which begins on July 1.