Because at that point, they knew they had tyranny that they would control at a whimper. They didn't anticipate the 'temporary unity and calmness ' being experienced in parliament an Kenya? today. You will see soon, the system will be upset to return it to status quo in order to have centres of blame games and finger pointing.

When you make promise you know you don't have 100% capacity to fulfill, that's what we call living a lie.

And who, when you haven't paid rent, takes the only cash at hand and goes on holiday? That's what we're doing ---spending 10's of billions tarmacking village cattle tracks just coz people are obsessed with tarmac, yet you will strain to count 10 vehicles down that road in a whole day, building electricity infrastructure in every nook and cranny just to light homes yet people could still survive with kerosene lamps if the pending debts were paid first..the list could go on

For once and after lengthy self introspect I agree with you Gentleman. I am also able to note that it would have been better to to impose that tax in a different category, let say petrol base rate since the Government would have an hand to moderate it appropriately to manage inflation, this taxable base item being a dominant inflationary factor,and also equitable and distributable.

The one positive in all this crisis is that WSR is loosing capacity to even offer himself for the biggest job in the land.. I doubt Kenyans will have the stomach to issue him with the green light to state house. I pray for peace in 2022

Every time he takes the podium and says 'we have tarmacked so many KM of roads, we have given counties so much, we have connected electricity, we have set aside so much to do this and that, blah, blah I wonder whether these people ever sit back to take stock of whether kenyans are getting value for money, or it's just a pedestrian way to hoodwink the ever gullible public, consequences not withstanding.

Looking back with hindsight, it seems Kibaki was near genius in public finance management. With the current crop, only PK would come a close second. But he's outside the arena.