{"id":142709,"date":"2026-05-31T14:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/odm-leaders-fault-state-spending-rallies-rejection-of-finance-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T14:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:02:45","slug":"odm-leaders-fault-state-spending-rallies-rejection-of-finance-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/odm-leaders-fault-state-spending-rallies-rejection-of-finance-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"ODM Leaders Fault State Spending, rallies Rejection of Finance Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya May 31 \u2013 The ODM Linda Mwananchi faction has ramped up criticism over the proposed taxation in the 2026 Finance Bill, faulting the Kenya Kwanza administration for what they term runaway public spending.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Key figures including ODM Deputy Party Leader Godfrey Osotsi, ODM Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna, and Embakasi East MP Babu Owino have accused the government of mismanaging public resources while overburdening citizens with taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Senators Osotsi and Sifuna cited what they described as inflated State House expenditure and questioned the government\u2019s fiscal priorities amid prevailing economic hardship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot of wastage in government. Can you imagine State House uses KSh18 billion in a year, yet Kibaki showed us that you can run State House with even KSh3 billion, and it still delivers,\u201d Osotsi stated.<\/p>\n<p>Sifuna added, \u201cIt\u2019s unacceptable. How can one person alone spend KSh17 billion while Kenyans are suffering out here? He says he cannot reduce taxes, yet you hear he\u2019s moving around giving one young man KSh2 million, another KSh10 million, and KSh5 million to a church. Where do you think that money comes from?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The leaders urged MPs across the political divide to vote against the Bill, warning that any legislator who supports it would face public backlash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Finance Bill is coming. Where will this Finance Bill take our lives? It will punish children, it will punish women. That is why we are saying reject the Finance Bill,\u201d Babu stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are a Member of the National Assembly, under the \u2018Linda Mwananchi\u2019 movement your vote should be a \u2018No\u2019 to the Finance Bill. Any MP\u2014whether from the government or opposition\u2014who votes \u2018Yes\u2019, we will ask Gen Z to occupy their homes,\u201d Osotsi asserted.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya May 31 \u2013 The ODM Linda Mwananchi faction has ramped up criticism over the proposed taxation in the 2026 Finance Bill, faulting the Kenya Kwanza administration for what they term runaway public spending. Key figures including ODM Deputy Party Leader Godfrey Osotsi, ODM Secretary-General Edwin Sifuna, and Embakasi East MP Babu Owino have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}