Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna has urged government to cut down on many tax deduction to cushion Kenyans from high cost of living
Speaking on Thursday, he said that the deductions are making Kenyans suffer as the payslips are thin.
“When you look at people’s pay slips right now, people are suffering. Deductions have gone so high that people are saying it is more beneficial for them to be paid taxes and the government to go away with their salaries because the taxes are more than the salaries,” he said.
Sifuna touched on the housing levy proposal which President William Ruto had said that the housing project will still carry on.
“You hear the Head of State himself saying that the housing project is going to go on irrespective of the decisions of the court."
Sifuna said the supremacy of people must return as Kenyans had said they don’t want the housing levy project.
Sifuna had on November 2023 said that Ruto's economic policies are causing misery to many Kenyans.
Sifuna said Kenya needs leaders who have empathy and also listen to the cries of their people.
The Senator insisted that the current crop of leaders do not listen to the cries of Kenyans.
"The newspapers are absolutely depressing today. The economic policies of this regime are causing untold misery to Kenyans of all walks of life. We need to have leaders at the helm who have some empathy and who hear the cries of those they lead. What we have now is far from that," Sifuna said on X.
