NAIROBI Kenya, Jan 30 – A section of Kenya Kwanza Senators are now accusing former President Uhuru Kenyatta of sponsoring Azimio rallies organized by leader Raila Odinga.
Speaking during a press conference on Monday, the legislators accused the former head of state of being selfish by inciting Kenyans against paying tax using the Azimio rallies.
They claimed that Kenyatta was defending his property that was illegally acquired.
“Some people are hiding behind those rallies and out of lack of wisdom, they want to continue to with plan and theft of public resources that have been there for the time they have been in power,” Senator John Methu said.
“We have very credible information that the person sponsoring the ongoing rallies and is President Uhuru Kenyatta the former President of the republic of Kenya for reasons we are unearthing one by one and slowly by slowly.”
They now want the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to probe whether the Kenyatta family is fully tax compliant.
The senators also advised Kenyans to refrain from being used for anyone’s personal gain or advantage.
“We as the senators urge the people of Kenya, please do not be used by anybody for their own selfish interest and gains that they want to take you to the streets to go and disrupt peace because they have been told to pay taxes, everybody should pay taxes in the country,” Methu said.
“We shall also ask for an audit from the Kenya Revenue Authority of all the tax waivers that the Kenyatta family have enjoyed from the government for the ten years because if they are asking for sh 1.4bn n tax waiver in the new regime how much were they asking during their regime.”
Senator Wahome Wamatingi of Nyeri claims that they are not interested in the former president’s private affairs but rather his refusal to pay taxes, specifically the removal of the tax waiver, and his inability to pay the debt of Sh 2 billion for the 5G network for which he obtained the license illegally.
“We are united in what we are saying and we are demanding the former president Uhuru that he misused his power in his regime and as Kenya Kwanza we are going after him, not his personal businesses but after the fact that he have been avoiding to pay taxes,” Wamatinga said.
“If you listen to Raila speak, you’ll here Uhuru Kenyatta and the fact that he is pushing Kenyans not to pay taxes.”
“We want to tell him that we know he is avoiding to pay the sh 2 billion he was supposed to pay after broking the license for 5G and the tax waiver for 10 years, however we are doing an audit for all this and he must pay that.”
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