Finance Bill enters final stage after MPs pass amendments

Members of parliament have voted to approve the Finance Bill, 2024 paving for its last phase which is the presidential assent into an Act.

A total of 195 members voted to pass the bill as 106 rejected.

There were only three spoilt votes.

The voting was conducted after the MPs endorsed the report of the committee of the whole house during the morning sitting.

The morning proceedings was chaired by Deputy speaker Gladys Boss and saw key amendments on contentious clauses introduced including those the Kenya Kwanza MPs agreed to drop.

Voting was by roll-call where the name of the member was called out by the clerk as they shouted a yes or no.