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It's worse! Government allegedly paid some students Ksh8,000 and others Ksh10,000 for fake public participation of 2026 finance bill at Asyana Garden in Rongai! One of the students revealed he got Ksh8,000 in cash after the event! #2026financebill #financebill2026

Kenyan youth chant anti-Ruto slogans as #RejectFinanceBill2024 protests begin in Nairobi

This group of #RejectFinanceBill2024 protestors is now marching into Nairobi CBD.

Ruto is no longer preparing to win 2027. He is preparing for what happens AFTER Kenyans reject the results. Look carefully at the pattern. Njoki Ndung’u being pushed to the ICC. Philomena Mwilu exiting soon. Warsame already singing “respect the appointing authority.” A carefully cultivated Supreme Court bench slowly taking shape around one man’s political survival. This is not random. This is architecture. A 7 judge shield designed to sanitize disputed elections, neutralize constitutional resistance and protect power at all costs. Kenyans must stop thinking rigging only happens at polling stations. Modern state capture happens in the courts, in appointments, in institutions and in silent elite deals made years before an election. Why is State House so invested in judicial positioning? Why are loyalists being rewarded strategically? Why is every independent institution slowly becoming politically obedient? Because Ruto understands one thing: The real battle after 2027 may not be in the streets. It may be in the Supreme Court of Kenya. Observe the SCOK carefully. Observe the appointments. Observe the silence. Observe the programming. This regime is not planning for democracy. It is planning for legal protection after democracy is violated. History has taught us one painful truth: When the judiciary is captured, the citizen becomes powerless. 2027 will not just be about votes. It will be about whether Kenya still has institutions strong enough to defend those votes. #Borrowed

Government Allegedly paid students Ksh1,500 or more to attend a Fake Finance Bill Public Participation at Asyana Gardens in Ongata Rongai. They were also given fake ID cards, with fake details, but with their real pictures. #financebill2026 #2026financebill

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

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@herbertj254 @SomoinaKapeen I still hate her😂😭

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This is your weekly reminder that Uhuru Kenyatta constructed these affordable housing units without the Housing Levy.

Jambo Jambo! Ni kuoga na kurudi soko…unavoidable circumstances ni wewe. Injili lazima iendelee #RutoMustGo

@RadioJamboKenya wanadai “unavoidable circumstances” 😁😁😁😁 but IYKYK! Hata ndio mzuri nione Arsenali wakipigwa bila pressure ya kuamka mapema.

@osoroKE Always have one in the chamber

Lakini boss wewe ni mlafi sana, ugali moja iko waiting bay

Mko wapi? Tuko kadi

Phew! Ya leo was fair bana. Diplomacy stuff So tunaeza banter kiasi. Was tryna catch up with nius za 254, Murders everywhere! Sijui nani kachinja bibi, mara the SDA singer. Hizo mbili staki kuongelea saana Marej is too intricate a topic for my noggin. The SDA singer Acid attack, my empathies. It is a known secret that hawa choir youth wa Adwen na chode ni 5 and 6 I know thanks to ule CAS. Aki imba utadhani heavens are shaking. Same way he can get your legs trembling They engage their genitalia more than their singing trachea. Youth camps zao huwa "religious orgies" Zile rubber huokotwa after camps zao if recycled is enough ceiling for affordable housing Shauri yao na kanisa yao Ile imeniuma ni the KMTC girl. Goes with boy, 4th year student kwa local Waka kamata ka quarter, boy akaomba beshte yake keja. Kufika, kumbe comrade ako tu na mbao na ashambao Dame akazusha. Ka hauna doo, sikupei. Nirudishe campo Ati sawa bas, oh, tupitie hii shortcut. Na ni usiku. And you know niggas when horny suspend the common one The only sense functioning is the sensation in their scrotum. Babe kapitishwa kichaka, raped, strangled Babake anaongea na uchungu aise! My girls, your boyfriend sio budako. He owes you zero responsibility. Kama lazima achote ndio upeane, enda Koinange If he has to strain to sustain, chances are, he will revenge. Akitoa from his heart, sawa... Plus ukikubali meetup, hadi unaenda kwa keja, the only kesha that will happen ni wewe kupenduliwa usiku kucha Be socially intelligent. If you are not ready, meet public place mchana na uwe na fare yako Ile pocket money mzazi ana sacrifice kukupea, tosheka. Maliza shule with your neck intact! That is how some of us survived KIMC. Nilinyoa hadi sijui 3rd yr when I could get gigs za writing. Some of the comrades who used to call us snobs, anga ugly wako DM sai looking for connections Oya, finally comrades. Do not jeorpadize your future over shimo ata upewe 100yrs, huwezi jaza Utakuwa bibi kamiti over nothing. Ukiachwa, achika. Akikataa, mfungulie mlango aende, in fact hata make sure amepanda gari Be broke but Free. Jela sio jokes! Madem wako wengi. Tongoza hata beshte yake, hata mamake, kwani! Our fathers fought for indepedence and Democracy, Sisi tunauana over pussy!

Hello good people. I plan to #TukoKadi to all parts of the country. So I know many people didn’t get the chance to join us tomorrow. But be ready our next location is still Nairobi and that means tuko na shugli inahitaji mbogi Tena. Kama you didn’t get a chance, please be ready with your ID card. Next week tuko ground tunazoza. Remember, you can register to vote anywhere and vote anywhere.

@ItsOpuk Amen 🙏

"ewe Mungu Baba, tukapotoka manyumbani mwetu kwenda kutafutia familia, tunaomba ulinzi wako hadi turudi tukiwa buheri wa afya"

Together with @Midea, Nairobi's Female Young Leaders brought confidence, leadership and empowerment on and off the pitch! 🩵⚽

All the ways you can be part of the movement…. On the web lindamwananchi.com @LindaMwananchi_ on X @LindaMwananchi_ on IG @LindaMwananchi_ on Tiktok @Linda Mwananchi on FB Happy Friday!

Naeza toka siaka😅😅😅