Elijah

@kijana_misa One thing I love about the Chinese and the Indians is that they protect local industries religiously but us here have bought into that IMF BS of globalization and competition. We need to revisit this if we are to industrialize

This Kenyan man came so close to defeating Coca-Cola in market share. Unfortunately, his own government couldn’t protect him or help him build a true Kenyan brand. Peter Kuguru started Softa Soda in 1997. He believed that Kenya deserved its own drink at a price that ordinary people could afford, and it worked. By 2004, Softa had taken 10% of the entire carbonated drinks market in Kenya. By 2007, they controlled 70 to 80% of the market within 200 km of Nairobi. So what happened?Kenya’s soda industry depends on recycling bottles, but Coca-Cola had the biggest collection network in the country. When Softa bottles ended up in Coca-Cola’s sorting yards — which happened most of the time — they simply disappeared. And here is where the government comes in. All that was needed was a simple regulation requiring companies to return competitors’ bottles within a set time frame. This kind of rule exists in other markets, but the Kenyan government classified it as a private commercial dispute and stayed out of it. Why? Because this was the liberalisation era, and Kenya was under pressure from international lenders to open its market and let competition run its natural course. Getting involved would have looked like a protection scheme.On top of that, Coca-Cola was one of the largest taxpayers in the country, and governments tend to protect revenue sources. In the end, a promising Kenyan brand was lost.

@oti17969 @_lennoxomondi Fine if this is 1995, you would be killing it on Quake

@_lennoxomondi Lucky you

How greedy are ISPs out there? Do they want to share a 100Mbps bandwidth among 500 people or what? My internet experience in Mombasa and Nairobi was terrible. Leave alone the slow internet speed, I was experiencing about 50% packet loss. How can I, in rural Kenya, be having a better internet connectivity than folks in major cities?

@_fels1 @SaginiJojez Origin of the temporary insanity plea

@SaginiJojez "Iif you sleep with another man's wife and he catches you, you will be killed quickly and permanently, and serve as an example to others." Those who think it's a joke are resting six ft underground. We don't say, "sleeping with someone's wife is not reason enough to kill."

Men hold each other accountable. If a man goes to Quiver, gets drunks, picks a hoe and takes her home, then later get drugged and robbed (sometimes the hoes overdose them and they end up dead), we call out the man. We ask them critical questions and warn others. We don't tell them, "nobody deserves to be drugged" or "that is not reason enough to drug someone". If you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. But there is no faster animal on the planet than a woman running away from accountability.

@WashiraX He should also sue KRA for malicious prosecution since they never investigated the identity theft claim

Court has warned KRA to go for real thieves, not NIL filers. There is a company called Kapwell Enterprises Limited. Their business is not complicated. They sell cargo clearing and forwarding services. When they started, they had no one to show them mashimo. They only had hope and determination. They hit the road. 2013, no deal. 2014, zero deal. 2015, no nothing. Kazi ni kufile tu NIL returns. As the director was busy tarmacking and accumulating tiny stones under his shoe heels, Some crooks had stolen & were busy importing goods using Kapwell’s KRA PIN. In 2018, Kapwell has known mashimo. They are minting real money. KRA notices. They decided to audit. Checking their internal customs system, they discovered that Kapwell’s PIN had imported goods worth 25M in 2013 and 2014. Yet they had filed NIL returns faithfully. KRA went mad. They took the 25M, added a fictitious 20% profit margin, computed income tax, VAT, penalties and interest, and slapped Kapwell with a tax bill of 11M. Next morning at 3am, the director akagurumuka. He reached for his phone to check time. Saw an email notification. Hoping it was a client, he opened it. Bahati mbaya, it was KRA. Delivering the bill. Sleep ended instant. • Lesson 1: usiku wacha simu sitting room. At dawn, without even taking tea, he rushed to KRA to report a system error. Akaambiwa ndugu keti. He was shown mad numbers on the screen. He swore he had never imported such goods. KRA wakamwabia hii utalipa. He ran to the police and reported a case of identity theft. Got an OB number. Took it back to KRA and asked them to investigate who had used his company PIN. He even gave them a list of competitors he suspected. He then served KRA all of his bank statements. They were all zeros for those years. But KRA could not hear any of it. As KRA is doing all this, it is unaware of one dangerous sentence chilling quietly in Kenyan tax law. It reads: • KRA SHALL make inquiries into all tax issues raised by a taxpayer. Make sure to underline the word SHALL. MANDATORY. KRA did not investigate. Their position was: • PIN ni yako. 11M ni yako. Lipa. Frustrated, he ran to court. The Tribunal asked KRA: Where is your investigation report? - KRA said hakuna. Tribunal invoked the one dangerous sentence. You still remember it? • KRA SHALL make inquiries. Tribunal ruled that the word SHALL is MANDATORY. Tribunal concluded Kapwell was a victim of identity theft. 11M tax was set aside. You would think that is the end. Noo. KRA retreated to Times Tower swearing: 11M haiwezi enda hivo. Aje? They appealed to the High Court. In court, Kapwell was asked: Why don’t you want to pay tax under your PIN ndugu? He responded: My lord, I have no problem paying taxes. But not for goods I never bought, never touched, and never sold. The good judge asked him: What do you mean? He responded: My Lord, if you owe your landlord 100K. You take the 100k bundle to his office and hand it to him. As he starts counting, a thief storms in, orders everyone down, and in the confusion the landlord throws the money back at you. The thief grabs it and disappears. Have you paid rent or not? The court went silent. The judge asked him: Kapwell what are you saying? He replied: My Lord, who should the landlord pursue for the money? You the tenant or the thief? Judge removed his spectacles. Paused. Then sided with Kapwell. The 11M tax was set aside. KRA wakaambiwa waende watafute wezi wawalipe. Case closed. Lesson 2. • KRA cannot tax a victim of identity theft. • KRA must go for the real beneficiary thief.

@Chetuyachinago And it will never change until oppressed prove that they can dish the same to the oppressor. I.E Nuclear Armed protection

One of the best-kept secrets of European colonialism is that it was not just a state enterprise, it was a corporate racket. During the early stages of global expansion, European monarchs and governments frequently lacked the funds, the bureaucratic spine, or the political will to directly conquer distant lands. Their solution to this was outsourcing the conquest to private joint-stock companies. They issued "Royal Charters" that did not only grant these companies monopolies on regional trades; these charters handed corporations absolute sovereignty, giving them the right to raise private armies, mint money, forge treaties, and wage war. These private companies did the empire's dirty work, and they were terrifyingly good at it. The British East India Company (EIC) didn't just trade spices; it recruited a mercenary army, effectively swallowed the Mughal Empire, and established corporate primacy over the entire Indian subcontinent. In the case of Nigeria, the British government handed a royal charter to the Royal Niger Company (RNC) to conquer the exact territory we call Nigeria today. When local rulers like the emirs of the Sokoto Caliphate dared to resist the corporate monopoly, the RNC didn’t negotiate. They sent gunboats and Maxim machine guns to obliterate their armies and level their towns to the ground. This criminal syndicate masquerading as global trade continued unabated until formal empires finally collapsed after World War II, and nations like India and Nigeria wrenched back their independence. However, these companies never wanted the music to stop. The racket was simply too lucrative. It did not matter to them that their business model relied on the brutal subjugation of millions of human beings and the wholesale looting of their wealth. The only things that mattered were corporate profits and uninterrupted access to cheap oil and raw minerals. Unfortunately for these mega corporations, the modern era meant they no longer had Royal Charters. They had no flags, no legal right to raise standing armies, and no official seats at the UN. So, to feed their insatiable greed, they attached themselves to their host nations like a parasite. Today, instead of royal decrees, they use mega-lobby groups and dark campaign money to buy politicians wholesale. The dynamic has completely flipped: the state is no longer the master outsourcing its dirty work to the company. The company is the master, using the state as its heavily armed errand boy. And here is the darkest, most twisted part of this entire neocolonial racket. When the Royal Niger Company wanted to crush a local uprising, they actually had to dip into their own profits to hire mercenaries. Today’s corporate titans are far too cheap for that. Because they have successfully captured the governments of the Global North, they simply outsource the violence to the taxpayer. When a sovereign nation in the Global South dares to step out of line, maybe they decide to nationalize their oil, protect their native forests, or demand a fair market price for their copper, the corporate lobbyists just snap their fingers. Suddenly, their political lapdogs in Washington, London, or Paris starts tripping over themselves to rush to the microphones. Overnight, they declare that this uncooperative nation is a "threat to global security." They are suddenly in desperate need of "democracy." They are a "terror regime" harboring "Weapons of Mass Destruction." The next thing you know, working-class military personnel are packed like sardines into warships and transport planes, shipped across the Atlantic for a full-scale invasion. The profound tragedy is that these governments are practically sending their own citizens to bleed out in foreign deserts and jungles, sacrificed entirely on the altar of unbridled corporate greed. And when the gun smoke from these illegal wars finally settles, the grift comes full circle. The politicians who are still absolute slaves to their corporate masters, begin dishing out billion-dollar, no-bid contracts to private companies to "rebuild" what the military just destroyed. This is exactly how Halliburton and the rest of the American military-industrial complex pocketed hundreds of billions of dollars in juicy defense contracts. And to this day, these mega cooperations continue to hide behind the flag of their host nations to to plunder the globe to amass weather and resources.

For the last six months been working on a product to make sense of my Mpesa statement. Here is the result let me know if it helps smart-ledger.blueviolet.tech/signin

Just got my hands on a piece of Nvidia edge compute and now am preparing myself like the priest from the exorcist since this things will show you things @NVIDIAAI

@Safaricom_Care Hi, been trying to register an individual till but the OTP never arrives. Kindly assist

@CA_Kenya Are you aware of the shitty network services provided by @AIRTEL_KE calls failing repeatedly, SMS multiple sending or failing with multiple billings, Kindly look into this post haste

@KenyaPower_Care Hi, my power is constantly in low voltage and completely usage for the last 2 hours. I have reported under ref 10417720 but I have not received any help

@heistimi Very interested

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@KenyaPower_Care Power off in Donholm again, my neighbour has power but I don't MTR no 37176700930

@KenyaPower_Care Power is back

@ethagana Hello, we have registered your complaint under reference number:10004214 .Our Technical team will attend. ^AG

@KenyaPower_Care Power off in old Donholm, Neighbours have power but I don't MTR is 37176700930, location is near PEFA church

Power is back, thanks

@KenyaPower_Care Power off in old Donholm, transformer explosion heard. Kindly resolve

@ardisasa quick question have you guys thought of integrating the platform with Blockchain?

@KeEquityBank When using the app, when it comes time to receive the OTP, the message arrives sometimes as late as 15 minutes making the usage experience quite hellish

@ethagana Hi Elihah, it's unfortunate to learn of the difficulty faced. Kindly, share with us via Dm a screenshot of the point that you're getting stuck to allow us probe further.  twitter.com/messages/compo…

@KeEquityBank usage of your app has become quite atrocious. Those OTPs take forever to arrive. Kindly have a look and let me know