Joseph Namuar, a member of Kenyan Member of Parliament, has publicly apologized for supporting the passage of the controversial Finance Bill 2024.
While apologizing over the Finance bill 2024 during a recent press briefing, Namuar, representing Central Turkana in the parliament, said: “If there is a way we did wrong for those of us who voted YES we ask for your forgiveness.”
The lawmakers praised President William Ruto for withdrawing the Finance Bill, saying “And just the way the president called for a dialogue, we as the president’s soldiers, ask for forgiveness on his behalf.”
Ruto bowed to public pressure and withdrew the controversial Finance Bill recommending tax on cars, bread, phones, sanitary pads and other commodities.
In a live broadcast, Ruto said: “Listening keenly to the people of Kenya who have said loudly that they want nothing to do with this Finance Bill 2024, I concede and therefore I will not sign the 2024 Finance Bill and it shall subsequently be withdrawn.”
Protests against the bill began not too long ago and turned bloody as police shot at the protesters in Nairobi as they made efforts to occupy the National Assembly.
The protesters defied police clampdown and eventually broke into the parliament.
In a statement, Amnesty International revealed that 23 protesters were killed, 200 were injured while 50 protesters were abducted.
The organization accused Ruto of overseeing massacre of citizen and called for his trial at the International Criminal Court