Parliament has set Tuesday next week as the date when it will debate President Uhuru Kenyatta’s tax reduction proposals. The date couldn’t have come soon enough. The virus, now in its second month of indiscriminate infections, continues to exert a heavy economic toll, with Kenya’s poor and working masses among the hardest hit by the cost implications of the mitigation measures.
Every day, labourers are losing out as opportunities shrink due to measures like social distancing. This has reduced their income, further denting their ability to meet their needs and those of their families.
