Don’t expect much from the 2021/2022 Budget, MP tells Kenyans
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A man uses a cart to transport drums used to make jikos and other items in the jua-kali sector. [File, Standard]
Alego Usonga MP Samuel Atandi has told Kenyans not to expect much from the 2021/2022 budget saying the government, just like in past financial years will not meet its revenue target.
The MP said the Sh3.6 trillion budget read in Parliament on June 10 by Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani is only good for PR, but the implementation will be less than 60 per cent.
Kenyans should not expect any miracle from this budget because the government itself is not sure of where and how it will re-engineer our revenue bases,” he said.
According to the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2021-22, the prices of imported mobile phones will increase. On the other hand, the prices will go down for locally manufactured or assembled blender, juicer, mixer, grinder, electric kettle, rice cooker, multi-cooker, pressure cooker, washing machine, microwave oven, and electric oven.
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Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], June 4 (ANI): Kerala BJP president K Surendran on Friday termed the first budget of the second Pinarayi Vijayan government as disappointing and said there has been no attempt to strengthen the state s economy.
Surendran said the Finance Minister KN Balagopal should give details under the COVID-19 financial package announced last year. The announcement of second COVID financial package of Rs 20,000 crore, that was introduced in the last budget too, is to deceive people. The government should state what benefits the economic package has brought to the people other than paying the arrears of public works contractors, he said.