Photo: Raila Odinga addressing a huge rally during ODM grassroots recruitment in March, 2024.
ODM Party Leader Raila Odinga has endorsed Gen Z demands as youthful protesters marched again in major towns.
Mr Odinga equated rejection of Finance Bill as a vote of no-confidence against President Would Ruto's led government.
Mr Odinga while endorsing youths' protests which seeks Ruto to resign, said the country needs to be 'fixed.'
https://www.facebook.com/100064434804092/posts/pfbid0oedPAsBq2ZRgXMJ7Wn9YLsgUcGLHoH2HZGcNVBME7k5rFc7yRTHo15ueor8J9qTbl/
President Ruto bowed to pressure and said he will not sign the Finance Bill 2024.
The president said the people have spoken.
"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with this Finance Bill 2024, I concede and therefore I will not sign the 2024 Finance Bill and it shall subsequently be withdrawn," he said.
Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi had earlier warned of the consequences of rejecting the Finance Bill 2024.
Photo: Ruto and Gachagua at State House.
Mudavadi said that rejecting a Finance Bill on any government is a vote of no confidence on the President.
The PCS alleged that those rejecting the Finance Bill are plotting to ouster President William Ruto.