Miracle Wachira 🇺🇦

That’s my PM.

I’ll always champion peaceful protest. But the Unite the Kingdom march organisers are peddling hatred and division. We’ve already blocked visas for far-right agitators who want to come here to spew their extremist views. They don't speak for the decent, fair, respectful Britain I know.

Safaricom has been ordered to pay KShs 9,900,000.00 in total, that’s KShs 900,000.00 to each of the 11 petitioners for violating their constitutional rights to privacy, dignity and consumer protection. The court found that Safaricom employees had accessed and shared private data, including financial transactions, betting activity, and location details, with third parties such as betting companies. Safaricom tried to blame “rogue employees,” but the court rejected that argument and held the company fully responsible as the data controller. Justice Bahati Mwamuye made it clear that privacy is not just a paper right. Once personal data is exposed on that scale, the harm is real. I feel that the compensation should have been higher.

Fuel Prices Shocker: Petrol prices increased by Ksh.16.65 per litre Diesel prices increased by Ksh.46.29 per litre Diesel will now retail at Ksh 242 per litre Petrol will retail at Ksh 214 per litre #CitizenTonight

Newly-elected Reform councillor’s double life as an online porn star lbc.co.uk/article/reform…

The Finance Bill, 2026 was published on 30th April and is now before Parliament and every Kenyan deserves to know what is in it. The government targets Ksh3.63 trillion in revenue for 2026/27 and a wider budget deficit of 5.3% of GDP in the 2026/27 fiscal year (July-June) up from 4.7% in 2025/26. These are not unreasonable fiscal objectives but the manner in which the burden of achieving them is distributed is a cause for serious concern. On tax filing timelines, the Bill moves the income tax return deadline to April 30th which is two months earlier than the current June 30th and compresses nil return filing to January 31st. This reduces the time available for audit completion, cash flow planning and compliance. For small businesses and individual traders, this is not administrative reform. It is an additional compliance cost they can ill afford. On mitumba, the Bill inserts a new Section 12H into the Income Tax Act which deems profit at 5% of customs value payable upfront before goods are released by KRA as a final tax. A trader importing a bale worth Ksh1 million pays Ksh50,000 regardless of whether they make a profit or a loss. I cannot in good conscience describe this as equitable.  The Bill increases residential rental income tax from 7.5% to 10%. Absent a serious enforcement framework, this will drive non-compliance rather than revenue. The government must fix the enforcement gap before it increases the rate. One without the other is burden-shifting. On digital financial services, the Bill removes existing VAT exemptions on money transfers and payment processing. These are the tools of financial inclusion that millions of Kenyans including the very people this government says it wants to reach rely on daily. Making them more expensive will not serve the objective of a broader tax base.  By including interchange and merchant service fees within the definition of management or professional fees for withholding tax purposes, the Bill introduces a compliance burden into automated banking processes. That burden will be passed on to businesses and ultimately to consumers. The amendment to Section 24 of the Income Tax Act empowers KRA to deem at least 60% of a company's undistributed income as dividends for tax purposes. This fails to account for legitimate decisions on reinvestment, working capital and business growth. It is a retrogressive measure that sends the wrong signal to the investors Kenya needs. A 25% excise duty on telephones for cellular and wireless networks is proposed. A phone is not a luxury. It is how Kenyans bank, communicate, conduct business and access government services. Parliament must interrogate this carefully. On PAYE, Kenyans were led to expect relief and a restructuring of the tax bands to ease the burden on salaried workers. That proposal does not appear in this Bill. That is not a minor omission. An explanation is owed to every employed Kenyan who was waiting for it. To be fair, the Bill is not without merit. The reduction of corporate tax for non-resident companies from 37.5% to 30% improves our investment climate. The extension of the tax amnesty to cover liabilities up to 31st December 2025 provides a genuine and welcome pathway to compliance. VAT exemptions on electric buses, bicycles, dialysers, animal feed raw materials and PPP infrastructure are sensible measures. The clarity introduced on trust taxation ensuring beneficiaries are not taxed on income already taxed at the trust level and the recognition of gratuity contributions as exempt income are also steps in the right direction. Be that as it may, we cannot afford a repeat of June 2024. Parliament must discharge its oversight role with the seriousness this moment demands. They should not merely rubber-stamp what the Treasury has placed before it. Every clause must be scrutinised. Every punitive or ambiguous provision must be rejected or amended. #FinanceBill2026 #PublicParticipation

Re-watching this for no reason.. #Kangata youtu.be/jQ0ZFFgpJ3s?si…

Comey: Well, they're back. This time about a picture of seashells on a North Carolina beach a year ago. And this won't be the end of it. But nothing has changed with me. I'm still innocent. I'm still not afraid. And I still believe in the independent federal judiciary. So let's go. But it's really important that all of us remember this is not who we are as a country. This is not how the Department of Justice is supposed to be. And the good news is we get closer every day to restoring those values. Keep the faith.

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Congratulations to Sabastian Sawe on an historic run, and to everyone taking part in the London Marathon today. A huge effort from thousands of participants, volunteers and supporters from right across the country.

Every time bro is down in the polls gunshots magically enter

Trump is going to go for staged assassination attempt again blame it on Iran I will put a 25% chance on this play Trump has lost all global respect (such that he had)....allies and enemies alike, laughing at him

Kenya 🇰🇪 and other important stories this week.

WE KEEP electing leaders who prioritize getting kickbacks over getting competent contractors. Governors & MPs for instance are perpetually using incompetent proxy companies to do the bulk of the counties and constituencies development projects. And when the result is shoddy and poor workmanship, we blame the entire construction sector for lack of local capacity. In nearly all facet of the public sector arena, the priority during procurement of contractors is not competency. This country has some of the most ingenious, consummate and experienced construction professionals, probably in the continent. There is an embarrassing wealth of experience in this sector. That the priority in many public projects is not to procure such professionals cannot be a burden for the sector to shoulder. Excuse us!

The report in The Standard exposes not just a regulatory lapse but also a coordinated breakdown across the entire fuel supply chain. First, substandard fuel from the MT Paloma cargo measuring 43ppm sulphur against the 10ppm legal limit was not isolated or rejected. Instead, it was injected into the Kenya Pipeline Company system, blended with compliant stock, and effectively laundered into the national supply. Once blended, retrieval became practically impossible. Second, documentation shows that One Petroleum Limited had already invoiced oil marketers KES 8.08 billion for the cargo issuing 57 invoices on March 28th well before any public indication that the shipment had been rejected. That timing raises fundamental questions about whether the “rejection” was ever genuine. Third, the allocation of this cargo to major players; Vivo Energy Kenya, TotalEnergies Marketing Kenya, and Rubis Energy Kenya confirms that distribution into the market was already underway. This was not an isolated batch sitting at the port; it had been fully commercialized. The unavoidable conclusion is this: the fuel was sold, invoiced, and circulated before regulators stepped incand by then, the blending ensured there was nothing left to “recall.” What the public was told that the cargo had been rejected , does not align with the documented sequence of events. It suggests not just failure, but possible misrepresentation

Frame One: UDA staff are not paying taxes. Frame Two: KRA illegally waived Ksh 4.7B for 4,677 state bootlickers Frame 3: The weaponisation of KRA to hunt down government critics. They are not paying taxes and they are also looting what we pay. The secret to removing William Ruto from power is in our pockets. Stop paying taxes! Why must we continue servicing the lavish lifestyles of crooks? #RutoMustGoNow #DrainTheSwamp

One Petroleum (Mohamed Jaffer) delivered substandard, carcinogenic fuel into Kenya via the MT Paloma vessel on March 27. 🫆Instead of rejection, named government officials — Wandayi, Liban, Kiptoo, Sang — ensured it was accepted and distributed 🫆Kenya’s supposed safeguard, SICPA SA’s fuel marking system, either failed or was complicit. 🫆COFEK independent lab tests in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania confirmed carcinogenic halogenated bromides in Kenya’s fuel supply 🫆The racket runs through the G2G procurement framework — no competitive bidding, no scrutiny, billions in dirty profit. 🫆Kenyans pay full price for poisonous fuel while their engines, health, and public finances are destroyed

Kenya is a crime scene. It's only fools like you and me that pay taxes. This is pure nonsense.