- He cautioned his colleagues in Parliament that they were attracting and inviting curses on themselves by blindly passing legislation.
- He took a swipe at the controversial Finance Act 2023, describing the act as a thorn in the flesh of the masses.
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Kitui Senator Enoch Wambua has accused the executive of capturing Parliament.
Wambua said that if previous administrations were guilty of capturing Parliament, the Kenya Kwanza regime will go down in history as the regime that drove in the final nail in the coffin of parliamentary independence.
“Without shame, MPs elected from parties affiliated to Kenya Kwanza and a bunch of self-seeking Azimio-OKA members have found comfort as lapdogs and puppets under the full command of President William Ruto,” Senator Wambua said.
Wambua said that the drafters of the Constitution of Kenya 2010, made explicit provisions for the separation of powers between the three arms of government, which are the executive, legislature, and judiciary.
One arm of government, he said, therefore cannot and must not be allowed to load it over the other two arms of government.
“One cardinal role of the legislature is to tame the excesses of the executive in defense of the masses,” he said.
He cautioned his colleagues in Parliament that they were attracting and inviting curses on themselves by blindly passing legislation that an average Kenyan knows is aimed at oppressing the poor.
He took a swipe at the controversial Finance Act 2023, describing the act as a thorn in the flesh of the masses.
“Almost every person, institution, and interest group that appeared before the finance and budget committee of the national assembly sought a repeal of the proposed oppressive taxation. But riding on a manufactured tyranny of numbers, MPs allied to the Kenya Kwanza regime forced the bill through Parliament, and the president assented it into law,” he said.
The senator alleged that foreign investors are leaving Kenya and relocating to neighbouring countries because the cost of doing business in Kenya is no longer tenable.
“The sad news for my colleagues in Parliament is that when push comes to shove and the masses demand fair treatment, President Ruto will easily say, ‘I don’t make laws. This is the role of Parliament; ask your MP’. We all know where this will lead us in relation to the people who delegated their duties to us,” he said.
Senator Wambua, however, noted that all hope is not lost for Parliament to redeem itself, pick up the pieces, and stand to be counted on the right side of history.
The MPs, he said, can choose to be the leaders who fought on the side of the masses to lessen the burden of life made extremely heavy by the executive, or alternatively, they can choose to hear no evil and see no evil in whatever the executive does.
“On this matter of how to deal with the suffering of Kenyans, there can never be a middle ground. As a leader, you are either with the people or against them,” Wambua said.
He added that the level of mismanagement of the economy is such that Kenya risks being listed among the most highly indebted poor countries in the world, which would be tantamount to plunging the current and future generations into a pit too deep to crawl out of.
“If you are not bitter with the way this country is being mismanaged by the KK brigade, then you are probably part of the problem. You can’t be indifferent,” he said.