Raila Odinga Launches Digital Signature Platform
Opposition leader Raila Odinga has launched a program of collecting signatures for purposes of taking back the powers we delegated to our leaders.
According to Odinga the exercise, which is ongoing, is meant to express people’s displeasure with Ruto and the raft of punitive, unfair and unjust taxes that he has decided to impose on the people, without the people’s consent.
“This is part of the campaign of resistance, the civil disobedience and citizens’ actions that we have decided to pursue to force Ruto and his regime to respect and listen to the people,” said Odinga.
He noted that the Finance Act 2023 clearly exposed the fact that leaders have decided to take instructions from the Executive and the Executive has decided to pursue its own wishes, regardless of what the people feel or say.
“Both the legislature and the Executive have ganged up against the people, and the people have been left on their own. In return, the people have decided, rightly, to gang up against the Executive and the Legislature. The people have decided to invoke Article 1 of the Constitution.
The process we are engaging in is about the deliberate policy decisions by the Kenya Kwanza regime to make life unbearable to a great majority of Kenyans despite the consistent appeal by Kenyans for the regime to take actions to lessen their burden,” Odinga added.
He said the digital platform unveiled is complementary to all other efforts and platforms including civil disobedience, tax boycotts and defiance that are meant to compel the regime to repeal the Finance Act 2023 and take deliberate steps to lower the cost of living.
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