- Wamuchomba recently said she is opposed to what Kenya Kwanza policies because they are insensitive to the plight of her voters.
- The vocal MP said she has no apologies to make for going against some of Kenya Kwanza's policies.
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Githunguri MP Gathoni Wamuchomba now says that President William Ruto can fix the country, but he needs to do a few things.
Speaking on Monday night, Wamuchomba said it is time the President loosens some belts that he has put on Kenyans.
To fix Kenya, she said Ruto should do as former President Mwai Kibaki did when he succeeded former President Daniel Moi.
Wamuchomba noted that the Head of state needs to do away with his current team of advisors for people who have interacted with people at the lower level and understand what needs to be done.
She insisted that once such a team is constituted, the first thing they must do should be to repeal the Finance Act, 2023, which the legislator termed as punitive.
"President Ruto should do what Kibaki did, sit down and come up with an economic advisory team. Get serious economists, people who are in touch with the ground, not people who wear expensive ties with many titles," Wamuchomba said on TV47.
"People who have run Cooperative Societies can tell you what is it they require to get the revamp. He should create a team that will start from repealing the Finance Act, 2023."
She added that it is also time the country stopped looking at the International Monetary Fund to get us out of the economic hole Kenya is in.
"We must not make IMF our economic adviser because IMF is not our friend. IMF is our trader," the MP said.
The Githunguri MP noted that she knows that her remarks are exactly what the current administration wants to hear.
Wamuchomba, however, insisted that doing away with the punitive taxes is the only way Kenya can recover.
"I know this is not the right narrative Kenya Kwanza would want to hear, but for us to recover, we must forget about these punitive taxes," she said.
Wamuchomba recently said she is opposed to what Kenya Kwanza policies because they are insensitive to the plight of her voters.
The vocal MP said she has no apologies to make for going against some of Kenya Kwanza's policies.
"I knew if I did agree with them then, there is a section of people that I represent which I felt were not going to be treated fairly," Wamuchomba said adding that the decision was engineered by her socialisation.
"When the Finance Bill came and I read it through, I felt that the Kenya Kwanza government was insensitive to the needs of the people that supported him, people who had my story, resonated with my story and gave me votes."