The Finance Bill Betrayal? Why Ndindi Nyoro & Babu Owino SKIPPED The Finance Bill Vote!

[00:00:00]What does daddy watch every morning?

[00:00:04]>> What is econ?

[00:00:09]>> Oh, daddy watches it every day.

[00:00:14]>> He released a very long statement, but was afraid was afraid.

[00:00:26]ended up abstaining from voting on the finance bill. Why? People expected them to vote no. Why? Because that's what MPs are supposed to do about the finance bill even since 2024. And it's reached a point where if the MPs don't have anything that they feel is not there, they have to come up with reasons.

[00:00:52]That's why Like at this rate so that's that's why we we've reached and these MPs look at the finance bill basically the taxes were reduced. So why were they supposed to vote no? It was cuz Twitter had said they had to vote no and they had to come up with all this.

[00:01:35]Remember he tried to do you know how messed up it is when even people like people like end up sounding intelligent. Why? Cuz people have been beaten to submission.

[00:01:53]Now there's nothing to say like was the first guy truly involved in his story because he was being accused of having been part of the 40 MPs who voted not the finance bill and say now they're going after I think it's 187 uh MPs who voted um many who abstained from voting I think abstaining 187 cowards finance bill 2026 absent cowards and I think to a certain level they are cowards they are cowards why cuz right now they're just supposed to do what the mob says and I think at some point I'd not call them cowards I'll say they're not leaders when you're a leader sometimes you have to just do. You have to lead. You have to be like, you know what? I know you guys want me to say no, but not this time. It's not cuz it does not mean I've started supporting the regime. It just means that with this one, there's nothing to say no to.

[00:03:05]There's nothing that that's the reason why we have to come up with nonsense.

[00:03:09]This has happened. This has happened.

[00:03:10]And it's reached a level where you're not even allowed to say that. Like someone with poor comprehension skills, I'm supporting the regime. like no I am as I keep saying I have not read the finance bill but the few parts that I've seen people saying are there are not there so the list of absent means yes then most of them I think from central is now they look like they're supporting uh R and that would mean that they can't get back into political office. So this is the reason why this list ended up happening. But now when we come to Denoro Doro this how look at it like he released this whole very long statement and all he should have said was I was afraid man I was afraid that you people were going to cancel me and so I come in peace and humility. The vote for the finance bill happened yesterday.

[00:04:22]Disappointingly I was not in parliament.

[00:04:24]I travel out of the country on Wednesday evening for engagements that could not have been postponed, but no explanation should absolve the blame. As for the feedback we've received from all Kenyans, we take it with humility. All the feedback will go a long way in making us better as we discharge our duties in parliament and outside. As uh we serve the great people of Kenya, we've always been available and forthright in debating both the appropriations bill and the finance bill on the committee and on the floor of the house as a commitment to giving a different and alternative view. This has also been an important platform of informing Kenyans on the things that affect them. The business says investment decisions and the economy in general. So where it's very important to see we've been available and forthright in debating that he does not need to explain which clause he's he's opposing. He just needs to he's there to debate. Why was Doro saying that? It's because we've scared him. So now he does not know he does not have an a single independent thought in his mind. He has to look at what is the mob saying. The mob is saying reject.

[00:05:37]Why should I reject? There's no maybe reason to reject but let me just reject so that I make them happy. I need to make them happy. And at some point you have to be a freaking leader. And this goes to show you know has not shown shown up. It's because of the same he was there like why should I reject let me just stay away and what happens maybe feel like they cannot be cancelled. I don't think He's going to be cancelled online but I don't think he's going to be cancelled in a I don't think he's going to be cancelled there. Then whereas this is important we must also acknowledge the fact that parliament is an an unprecedented face where both the majority and the minority leadership are on the same side thereby making it difficult to effectively act as an institution of oversight. That's why we chose to do to it both inside and outside. Okay, makes sense. On the proposals we had on reducing fuel prices, we had the opportunity to appear before the relevant committees.

[00:06:34]Unfortunately, the finance committee did not include the proposals in their final report. And east story of fuel prices, you remember it was very controversial and it was controversial amongst educated people more than illiterate people. Educated people, it was very easy to go on and see how much how the state of Hamuz affects oil prices. It was very easy to see how um even Trump had to come out and say, "Hey, we need peace in Iran because everything is going up.

[00:07:15]SD cards cuz SD cards the prices have gone ridiculously high and all this is tied to history. The street of home moves and what and what and what. So that has been the reality and this is a discussion we're supposed to be able to have with our mothers and sit down with our mothers but we are not allowed to cuz the minute you come back and say you know what this dude might be powerful but he's not powerful enough to affect global fuel prices he's not. Ah, they're like, "No, if the war in Iran continues, life is going to be unbearable. That's what happens when America has a clown for a president."

[00:07:54]No, he's not a clown.

[00:07:57]Okay, sir. We went to a war that okay, we went the world went was nearly in World War II for no reason. Then the guidance from relevant offices the alternative that was left was initiating a private member bill.

[00:08:16]However, this was deemed as a money bill and could not be carried as an amendment in the finance bill on the floor. It had to take its own course. The guidance from relevant offices in parliament was that we initiate the process after the finance bill process. uh since most offices officers of parliament and especially the parliament budget office were engaged in the process of the finance bill and the appropriations bill in December we were able to speak forthrightly about the plan to hike school fees for day secondary schools the plan was shelled not by involvement of parliament by the government knowing that Kenyans were aware so that's a good thing earlier this year we took up the issue of the 15% GO sale of safar shares while the majority of members prevailed in parliament. The judiciary sided with our view and money has never changed hands.

[00:09:05]The sale has never been affect affected.

[00:09:07]That was a good thing. You see facts.

[00:09:09]When you stick to facts, it becomes a very easy path. We've taken it upon ourselves to tabulate, collect and analyze economic related information which we always quietly and gladly share with members uh leaders both in parliament and outside for better oversight and alternative viewpoints.

[00:09:26]Then personal comfort would call for us to be quiet at the critical moments. But it's unpatriotic to seek comfort over what is right. And that's what you're supposed to do. Doro, don't just oppose because the mob wants you to oppose.

[00:09:41]Oppose things. You're planning to hike school fees, oppose that. Um you're planning to sell Safar, oppose that.

[00:09:47]You're planning to sell Kenya pipeline, oppose that.

[00:09:50]Don't come up with some fake story.

[00:09:54]Don't come up with don't do that. It excites the crowd but it does nothing like as human as we are we are far from being perfect and we always seek to learn from the feedback we receive as a African and Africa is our business. Um bringing up I saw what moving with speed can do.

[00:10:23]Um, everyone upgraded. This is something I've been saying before RT was president before whatever for a very long time. I want that place.

[00:10:46]Another reality I know is there's going to be corruption when it's being built.

[00:10:50]So, I have two choices. Either it's not built or it's built with corruption. But something needs to happen.

[00:10:56]I'm not allowed to say that. You are not allowed to say that. No one is allowed to say that. That we need to just get this thing done. It's shameful. We need to get the port holes done. We need to turn this country into some semblance of a civilized society.

[00:11:17]any type.

[00:11:22]Okay, let's let's quote una byp that's the Kenyan reality like and it's busted and it's always been like that something needs to happen but if everything is going to involve public participation nothing is ever going to happen cuz Someone is always going to spread disinformation and the people who are ready to receive when it you become angry you become a sponge. So when you're a sponge like that disinformation can just keep coming in and you have to keep believing it.

[00:12:06]You have to keep believing it. And that's what's happening. And now we have MPs who are super scared that every two minutes they have to release a statement. No, I did not vote for that.

[00:12:15]I did not. Wow. at some point how good is this public participation doing us if it's not going to be based on facts suffering home being sold that's a fact we against that uh story high school fees we have to be against that sale of these public assets cuz they'll outlive R we have to be against that but then never we should never come up with fake stories cuz when you come up with fake stories what happens yes so um ended up talking about this story and how the MPs had a rough time in parliament, opposition MPs and to a certain level I have to say uh the gang on Twitter has to take responsibility for this. They force these people cuz these people don't stand for anything.

[00:13:12]That's why Kenyan MPs are always they don't stand for anything cuz if you stand for something you're going to be like you know what this time I'm going to disappoint you but I'm not going to vote no and uh why cuz I see no reason to vote no maybe someone can say that but the gang on the internet as I keep telling you and that that gang is always louder and with a fake clause will be louder than the people who knew that ah this thing does not change the price of rice in you know a but okay bill finance billy support William R.

[00:14:36]>> So of course she also had no idea what was happening. she was just there to support R. uh what see have that statement the way opposition MPs ended up having a long day and because they ended up having a long day now they were afraid and they have to come up and you have people like Salassia now going against uh Linda Moni and uh cuz everyone now has to come up with like what's happening what's happening cuz Salassia think he was first accused of having uh not voted or something I'mma voted Yes, but we should not reach this level where these guys have to be always on the defensive and they're not doing any work. We still stuck in this third world nonsense and we don't see us going anywhere because our governors do not have to bring anything on the table. All they have to say is one term and two term. Look at like useless and I was like this is then I've heard that thing like a million times but that as long as he can do a slogan he's okay he doesn't have to deliver he just needs to criticize others who are not delivering and we start there like tell me Show me one county that has benefited from devolution. If you to have that honest discussion, which is that one county that has benefited? None.

[00:16:17]Why? Cuz all you have to be a governor is support the tribal kingpin or your time or your place.

[00:16:28]Most probably you pay him some taxes in form of bribes and that's it. No one will ever question you. Everyone will always look at the presidency and the executive and forget that even the governor is part of the executive in the county level and he's supposed to be delivering. He's supposed to be doing something. We are stuck in a situation whereby the governor of Nairobi goes to sit down to admire a pavement and to him the pavement in the CBD is more important than uh like roads. So, >> so guys vote. We wanted to know to vote it um uh wanted to vote it physically but the members who are there say that we vote electronically.

[00:17:42]He is um is one of the top guys in this in this Kenyan politics.

[00:18:00]and we voted it and I was there and I voted no.

[00:18:04]>> He's taking pride in him voting no. When he says something like this, he's supposed to go to the specific clauses of the reason why he voted no. That would be the intelligent discourse to have cuz of course I have to uh maybe put this on record. I'm not saying everyone should vote yes. I'm saying that people who vote no should have a real reason and should be able to quote.

[00:18:25]This is the reason why I voted no. And just them doing that should not make them be labeled as one term or two term.

[00:18:32]It should be based on what is happening there. But you just have to say I voted no. Why? Because in 2024 you are voting no.

[00:18:43]Okay.

[00:18:45]Uhhuh.

[00:18:47]So that's why there's no people, the young politician So when he's explaining why he voted no, I'm saying he never explains the reason why. He just voted no cuz it was the cool thing to do. It was the politically correct thing to do. And damn, man. Like how did we get here, man? I I'd want to know how we got here. Where the most literate people in Kenya are the ones who are not ready to listen, who are not ready to be like, you know what, I I I should not be a rebel without a cause. I should not just rebel at some point. Let me You know what? Let me this one. Let the guy have it. If if that's how you're looking at it, uh let's wait for the next real issue. Let's not come up with some fictional issues. Oh 500 strictly a lot of people who buy because of nostalgia especially come to the middle class. I can understand the so-called like lower class 50 t-shirt maybe like some ugly trouser 500 shillings cuz it's going to be still expensive but he come to soal middle Brand new collection that they never let go. They collect shoes. They never let go. It's the so-called lower classes especially let go somewhere.

[00:21:28]So that's not even an issue. But politician But I want to tell them that take me no substance just I voted no.

[00:22:03]Why did I vote no? Because you wanted me to vote no. Why did you want me to vote no? Because you wanted me to vote no.

[00:22:10]Nothing. No substance.

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[00:23:18]I love the same way somehow I don't know what's his name I don't know what but he's been against a certain level he never comes out like so I want to tell those MPs Wenda, you know when uh as the only elected uh member of parliament >> in western Kenya and young vibrant, I hosted the the United opposition, his excellency, honorable Matani Eugeneal and his and JB. It was so massive and I think there are some young leaders like hey mostly activist I don't think you can go against if you truly and 100% support you know that's what people are going to think about when people hear Linda Moni phrase the first person that comes to mind is so against that if you're not going against him in some sort of way. So um but I want to tell them that in the next two hours the official list vote no or yes out where will They hide their face when they are going when the hands is going to come out officially for those who voted electronically because it was not it was not physical.

[00:25:48]>> So uh why were people supposed to vote no? They were just supposed to vote no because voting no was the way to do it.

[00:25:56]And uh wow man I don't think I don't see us going anywhere. um democracy it's supposed both a blessing and a curse for Kenya I think we are going to settle on the curse side more internet is going to spread more disinformation and we going to elect more cowards we going to elect people who stand for nothing and since they stand for nothing they'll always tell the mob what the mob wants to hear that means we'll never advance what's going to happened. People went to court to stop compensation here protest victims. Why? Cuz it was the cool thing to do. Have you asked what does Masai think? What does Denzel think? That's what I want to hear. I don't want to hear about you on the internet who thinks that financial compensation means that there's a price to life. There's no it just means it's it's the worldwide practice when people are killed wrongly IV US complications I think his family when the US settled for is it 8.5 billion Kenyan shillings of course that economy is much different from the Kenyan economy does that mean that that's the price of his life. No, but financial compensation is still necessary. But so you have that as I keep saying JK we going to go to court and people who are going to go to court are people who go to JKI and after JKI they go to these other airports and they see the difference but they're going to go to court not because maybe there's a lot of substance in it but because it's the cool thing to do. What happens is her. Where are we going, man?

[00:28:21]Where are we going where MPs just have to be proud that I voted no? And you ask them why? And they don't have a reason.

[00:28:30]and online on the other side maybe someone voted yes why are you angry because voting yes means that person is supporting R they're like no it does not necessarily mean that can we go step by step and see what does this actually mean why is this and we're stuck in this situation where we are always in uh I don't know if there's such a word but hyper politicized state and nothing happens other countries keep advancing while we keep debating one term and two term econ