Published on June 18, 2024 by Agencies for Kenya Online News
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The former ruling party Jubilee Party will take disciplinary action against its Members of Parliament (MPs) who vote for the controversial Finance Bill 2024.
Secretary General Jeremiah Kioni said disciplinary action would be taken against those who will go against the directive.
He said heir position as Jubilee and members of Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Alliance is that the Finance Bill, 2024 must be rejected.
“We agreed as Azimio that we will do letters to all our MPs so that the position is made clear both in terms of the day of voting and also to ensure members are present in the House during debate,” he said.
“The party constitution spells that very clearly; that disciplinary action will be taken against anyone who will defy. It is not the party you’re defying, you are being contemptuous to the people who voted for you. They have rejected the Bill,” he stated.
The directive by Jubilee comes barely a week after ODM instructed its MPs to be present in the House duration of the consideration of the Finance Bill, 2024.
The ODM leadership wants all party members to be present in the House during tabling and voting on the Bill.
In a letter to all MPs, secretary general Edwin Sifuna said the party’s Central Committee directed him to write to the lawmakers to ask them to be in the House during the period.
“You are further requested to suspend any other engagements that would otherwise see you out of Nairobi during this critical period,” the letter reads in part.
Sifuna said any MP who will have compelling reasons to be out of the country during the period is required to inform the party in advance.
He noted that the proposals contained in the Finance Bill, 2024, have elicited sharp public debate with many Kenyans concerned about their punitive nature.
