National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichung'wah has admitted that Parliament quietly passed the Finance Bill, 2024, in December 2024, just months after the deadly anti-finance bill protests.
Speaking during a church service at PCEA Kikuyu on Sunday, June 22, Ichung'wah revealed that the government decided to take this step after realising that Kenyans were hell-bent on believing 'propaganda' being spread on social media about the bill. "We tried to enlighten them, but they did not listen to us.
Finally, we decided not to pass it until people cooled down," he stated. "For your information, because not many people know this, on June 25, we decided not to sign it in.
On December 4, 2024, only five months later, everything that was in the finance bill was passed quietly, without any deaths or throwing stones, until 97 per cent of it passed." Members of the National Assembly during a session on Wednesday, March 12, 2025 Photo Parliament of Kenya He further added that the 3 per cent rejected were as a result of the amendments made before Kenyans started a campaign of "Don't amend, reject." According to the lawmaker, this decision was made because the government felt it was in the best interests of Kenyans.
