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@AnuarSaddat Uwongo

Ruto used kshs 50 million to mobilize people around Lang’ata come see him launch a project built by CDF at a cost of kshs 3 million.

Doctors are at the heart of the declining healthcare system they’re corrupt to the core.

@CarolRadull No. Marcus Rashford is better fit.

Gunners, would you take him?

@Kaikainaipaa Being impeached as Gachagua was is summary dismissal. The articles of impeachment were properly before the house, and as such, he isn't entitled to any payments, but of course, the lawyers must pay their bills.

The Constitution doesn't say anywhere that an impeached Deputy President must be paid special damages (such as Sh.80 million) or a severance package for early removal. Unlike some labour‑law contracts, the Constitution treats the DP office as a public‑trust office, not an employment contract that comes with guaranteed “pay‑in‑lieu‑of‑notice” if the term ends early. Riggy G lawyers should tell him the truth

@ConradKulo @KRACare Ones obligation and compliance are independent of others. In fact, when one pays, then the moral & legal basis to demand evaders to do the same is cemented. Ama vipi?

If @KRACare can not address UDA tax evasion then there is no reason any Kenyan should be asked to pay tax. We can not have a selwctive way of applying the law.

@Kaikainaipaa His team is trying to clothes impeachment as retirement and facilitate the greed thereof. Impeachment here is like summary dismissal and doesn't entitle gachagua to any payment.

The Constitution guarantees Rigathi Gachagua salary and benefits for the time he actually served but It does not entitle him to future salary for the remaining 35 months as if he were guaranteed a full term. His compensation claims for “loss of future earnings” is not anchored in the Constitution

@WashiraX Shouldn't have brought fresh evidence, stick to the lapse 60 days and the 5 year rule. Waliponea technically!

Imara steel did not come to play with KRA. There is a company called Imara steel. They cook metals to make mabati in Industrial Area, Nairobi. In 2022, as they were busy cooking metals, KRA was busy cooking their tax bill at Times Tower. When KRA was done, what came out was 3.9B. This bill covered 5 years. - 2015, 2016, 2017,2018, 2019 Next morning, KRA airdropped the bill to Imara steel email. When the director arrived at the office, the accountant stormed in. Akamsalimia. Then served him the bill even before chai. The director looked at the numbers. He could not believe it. He thought his magnifying glasses were magnifying the numbers. He removed them. He saw the same mad numbers live live. • 3.9B. He went nuts. • Lesson 1: Never allow your accountant into your office before the tea person. Director ordered the accountant to turn the fans on. There is no electricity. He is now worked up proper. The accountant sneaked out. And immediately embarked on a fault finding mission. He came back with disturbing findings: 1. KRA was out of time for 2015 and 2016. Those years were beyond the 5 year statutory audit limit. Unless there is fraud. KRA had shown no fraud. 2. KRA had assumed 23% profit margins. Figures Imara had never achieved. Wakasema baas. This is it. They wrote an objection / protest letter to KRA. Explained everything. And demonstrated they had paid taxes to the last cent. KRA could not hear any of it. They only wanted 3.9B. In June 2022, KRA rejected the objection. And confirmed Imara must pay the 3.9B. All this time, the accountant is not sleeping nor eating. Amekanyanga tu wire. Then something interesting happened. KRA sent the rejection letter to the wrong email. And never realized. So 60 days passed. No response is received from KRA. Imara knew the law. If KRA does not respond within 60 days, your protest is deemed accepted. They knew they had won. Director called the party. Six months later, in Dec 2022, KRA came back with threats. We want the 3.9B. Pay or we freeze your bank accounts. Imara responded: Guys, but you accepted our objection. KRA said: Noo. We rejected it and emailed you. Here is the proof. Pay us up ASAP. Imara looked at it and said: Guys, that is not our email. Everyone at Times tower got shocked. How did that happen? KRA said: OK the email was wrong. But tax is yours. Lipa. As KRA is doing all this, they are unaware of two dangerous sentences in Kenyan tax law. They read: • KRA cannot audit past 5 years without proving fraud • KRA must respond to objections within 60 days Imara ran to court. - Argued it cannot pay tax on rejection notices served out of time. The tax appeal tribunal agreed the rejection letter was communicated to Imara out of time. But still asked Imara to bring fresh evidence to dispute the tax. Later the Tribunal ruled the evidence was not enough. • Imara was ordered to pay 3.9B. KRA retreated to Times Towers celebrating. Imara ran straight to the high court. - It argued that it cannot pay tax out of rejection notices served to them out of time. The judge looked at the case. Then invoked the 2 dangerous sentences. You remember them? - No audits beyond 5 years without fraud - No rejection after 60 days The judge sided with Imara. - Imara was ordered to pay nothing. - And KRA was ordered to pay legal costs to Imara. Case closed. Lesson 2. • Everyone needs an accountant trained kukanyanga wire. • KRA cannot audit beyond 5 years without proving fraud. • If KRA misses the 60 days, call the party. You have won.

@Bossyator However, there is a DTA btwn KE & and UK, and if he pays the lower rate in the UK, it is credited to him in KE. Then allowable deductions could see him pay kitu kidogo.

Sebastian Sawe total earnings from London Marathon win will be USD355,000. That is expected to get to about Ksh75M inclusive of bonuses. Guess what?.. KRA is taking a whooping Ksh18,000,000!

@WashiraX The peanuts are the taxable amounts. Besides, the letter of the law, in this case, trumps the spirit. Then the Debt Management ya KRA will pursue this debt forever as projection falsely. Kabura a relax.

Before you loot… sit down and budget for KRA. You all remember the 2015 NYS scandal. That one shall surely remain one for the books. The one most entertaining character in all that play was one Josephine Kabura. Do you recall her? The story goes that she was a young salon woman. And the then CS for Devolution, Anne Waiguru, was her frequent customer. One day, story zikashika. The salonist was told: Set up companies. Tenders will come. She listened. Obeyed. And registered companies. One by one. 20 companies. And true to the promise. Tenders started to flow in. Violently. • Lesson 1: Sio kila mushene ya salon ni ya kutrap wanaume. Things escalated so fast that, 15 out of the 20 companies got tenders before they were even registered. Unbelievable, right? When the scandal finally blew up, Kabura became the song and talk of town. • The salon girl had been awarded tenders worth 1.6B shillings. Arrests began. Prosecutions followed. The girl was left a lone ranger. When her accomplices disappeared, Kabura decided Kumwaga unga. She told it all. - She was just a conduit - Money would come into her company bank accounts & - She would withdraw and pass it to the big people And at one point, she withdrew 100M cash. Packed it in sacks. And delivered it to her masters. Her masters only touched cash. They knew cash is king. In return of acting as a conduit, she got peanuts. But it was better than salon wages. As the country was busy reacting and praying for the govt of the day to burn its stomach while dozing, KRA was busy listening. Recording everything. Waiting. When the dust settled, KRA pounced on Kabura. • Hello Kabura. We hear you are a billionaire. But you have been competing with Kibabii University comrades to file NIL returns. We want our cut. Kabura responded: what do you mean? KRA responded: We have run the numbers. We want 400M. Kabura started crying: I don’t have the money. The big people took everything. KRA responded: That is not our problem! We want 400M! Kabura ran to court. She argued that: - She did not have the money. It was all taken by her masters. - The little she had had been confiscated by assets recovery authority. - She had nothing to tax. KRA responded: My lord. Our job is to collect taxes. Not to pursue the legality or illegality of it. Wherever money shows up, we show up to tax it proper. At some point, Kabura turned to her lawyer: Wakili si uongee. Nitafungwa. Wakili akasema his English has run out. Wakili later stood and withdrew from the case. Saying the client was uncooperative. The Tribunal looked at everything. And sided with KRA. • Kabura was ordered to pay 400M. Case closed. Lesson 2. • As you loot, budget 46% for KRA. - 30% income tax - 16% VAT Are we together?

@kenyanpundit Water under the bridge ...

By the way were the energy guys who resigned charged with anything?

@bakhita_esther Kwenda na huko ...

DNA testing is breaking many families apart, and in the end, it’s the children who suffer most. There should be laws regarding these tests. For instance, if you have been a present father, you shouldn't be able to abandon the children just because you find out you aren't their biological parent.

@AlinurMohamed_ People are familiar with this ...

This happened in Kisumu today. The media won't show it to you because he's not Sifuna or Babu or Orengo or Caroli.

@nyorude Agenda - Baba hakuzaa waoga!

Can someone share one policy, programme, or agenda that the linda wananchi shared with the people of Winam?

@OmbetaC Honestly, what's sifuna's biff with kasongo - make it make sense. If his mentor left them in his care, how is it the guy is leading a rebellion against that legacy 🤔 - not that he has an iota of chance of succeeding!

Sifuna na kidole cha wantam.. Jamaa na vidole via tutam.... No fighting, no violence. Kila mtu ame eleweka.

@abbiezuena @edwinsifuna Isn't your country a democracy under new constitution dispensation?

Something @edwinsifuna has said today has hit home so hard. As we were being taken through a short tour in the historic museum inside Baba's home he recognised his uncle the late Lawrence Sifuna- who fought alongside James Orengo as part of the 7 Beaded sisters that were fighting for Multi Partism democracy! Sifuna said this "Its so sad that we are still fighting for the same things generations down the road, things must change! This must be the last fight about democracy and rule of law we should have!" And it has stuck with me as a reminder that this fight is beyond us all. Its a generational purpose to end the struggles of the generations before us. This generation must end the chains of bondage that keeps us fighting for the same things over and over again! This is why am in Linda Mwananchi because we understand the call to ensure it ends with us! We must liberate this country and #RutoMustGo #LindaMwananchi #AbbieZuena

Turkey just signed a deal with Formula 1 worth around $200 million. Turkey is the one doing the paying. The fee buys the right to host a race once a year for five years, starting in 2027. Turkey walked away from F1 once before. After 2011, the race was dropped because Turkish organizers refused to pay the higher hosting fee F1 was demanding. The fees have only climbed since. Today, hosting an F1 race costs an average country $30 million to $40 million a year. Newer entrants pay $50 million to $60 million. Qatar pays $55 million. Saudi Arabia pays over $50 million. Even Monaco, which got a sweetheart deal for decades, just renewed at roughly double its old rate. Most contracts also include a 5% bump every year, baked in. Spread across five years, Turkey’s bill likely lands somewhere between $165 million and $220 million. The fee is only the entry ticket. The host country also pays for the track, the maintenance, and the entire event operation. F1 keeps everything that follows: the TV rights ($1.21 billion in 2025), the global sponsorships, and the trackside ads. The host country gets ticket sales and a few local sponsorships. Nothing else. These hosting fees alone bring in about $1.03 billion a year for Liberty Media, the company that owns F1. That is roughly 27% of F1’s total $3.87 billion revenue, and the steadiest income the sport has. Whether 50,000 fans show up or 300,000, the host pays the same flat amount. Some countries have already learned what happens when this gamble goes wrong. Korea lost $37 million on its 2012 race and never came back. India lost $24 million in 2013 and disappeared the same way. Australia loses money on its race most years, but the state government keeps writing the check because Melbourne pulls in around $150 million in tourism over race weekend. Turkey is making the same bet. In 2024, a Turkish company paid $118 million for a 30-year deal to run Istanbul Park. For years, the site had mostly operated as a car dealership instead of a racetrack. President Erdogan personally pushed for the return. Liberty Media bought F1 for $8 billion in 2016. By 2024, takeover offers were valuing it at $20 billion. The hosting fee model is the engine doing most of that work. Turkey just bought a ticket to keep it running.

@orengo_james Diminished returns: Is it a perpetual revolution in light of multiparty/democratic dispensation under the new constitution?

Today, I led the Linda Mwananchi Movement to Kang’o Ka Jaramogi to honor the giants who paved the way. I returned to the roots of the struggle to pay homage to my mentor, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and my comrade, Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga. Before we take the stage, we seek the blessings of our elders and the spirit of the revolution. The foundation is solid. The mission is clear.Kisumu, we are ready. See you tomorrow!

@Arsenal Mbona hamkuwa mnafanya hivyo dhidi ya Bournemouth na City, hii team nayo COYG

WHAT A START! Eze plants one into the top corner from distance 💥 🔴 1-0 ⚫️ (9)

@FaraiMazhindu In speech, it is called phatic humour 😄

The uproar following President Ruto's lighthearted remark about Kenyan versus Nigerian English is proof that people will twist almost anything just to have a reason to vent. It's not as if this were a formal competition, it was a single sentence in a broader speech focused on international labor and Kenya's human capital. It's honestly embarrassing to see people attempt to sound intellectual while only exposing their own shallowness, turning a casual, passing comment into a major controversy is nothing more than petty sentiment blown out of proportion. bbc.com/news/articles/…

🚨 Anne Hathaway with an Arsenal shirt at The Devil Wears Prada 2 premiere in London! 😅