The Blessed.

This isn’t fair taxation — it’s forced extraction. It penalizes reinvestment, treats business cash flow as government cash flow, and lets KRA override management decisions. It punishes growth to collect tax on unrealized income. This tax policy direction will definitely contract Kenya's economy.

Finance Bill 2026 is asking for permission to kill local businesses. Right now, if your company makes profits, you can choose to: • Reinvest profits back to business • Or distribute it as dividends to shareholders Finance Bill 2026 wants that removed. And be replaced by one hard rule. That, • At least 60% of your profits can be treated as dividends by KRA. Even if you did NOT distribute anything. “At least” means minimum. KRA can push it to: 70%, 80% even 90% if they don't like you. Read that again. Meaning: • If you reinvest all your profits in your business, KRA will says: - Noo. At least 60% must be distributed to shareholders. And since you didn’t, we will assume you did, and demand dividend tax from you. As a result: • You are taxed on money you never paid out • 5%–15% withholding tax on “deemed” dividends Who is in cooked? • SMEs reinvesting profits to expand • Manufacturing businesses expanding • Real estate firms with paper profits but no cash Who is safe? • SEZ companies • NIFC companies • REITs Because their dividends are already exempt. But for everyone else, this is a forced dividend rule. The govt is no longer waiting for you to run your business. They want KRA to run it for you. Is this fair taxation? Or forced extraction?

@japan_nobunaga This one of the Performance Improvement Principles taught in Business Schools all over the world. Small daily habits become business principles. From Japan to the World.

In Japan, there's a chain called Saizeriya. It serves Italian food. In every major city. A plate of pasta: 400 yen. A pizza: 400 yen. Escargot: 400 yen. A glass of wine: 100 yen. That's $3. That's $3. That's $3. That's 70 cents. Four people can sit down, eat until they can't move, drink wine, and walk out for $25 total. Not a food truck. Not a discount day. A clean restaurant with menus and waiters and a free unlimited drink bar. Tokyo has hundreds of them. The hardest part isn't paying the bill. It's believing it.

@japan_nobunaga What a great lesson- From JAPAN to the WORLD.

In Japan, there are almost no public trash cans. They were removed in 1995 after a terrorist attack on the subway. The cans never came back. The trash never showed up either. Not because of fines. Not because of cameras. Because people just take it home. In a bag. In a pocket. For hours sometimes. Until they reach a bin that's actually theirs. Think about the last time you carried your own garbage for three hours because nobody else should have to. That's a normal Tuesday in Tokyo. The clean streets aren't a system. They're a quiet agreement made by millions of strangers every single day.

@Rainmaker1973 True servant leadership. @japan_nobunaga

Rather than protecting his own privileges during a crisis, Haruka Nishimatsu, then CEO of Japan Airlines, chose to share the hardships of his employees. In the late 2000s, as the airline struggled under massive debt and the fallout from the global financial crisis, Nishimatsu took dramatic steps: he slashed his own salary by 60%, reducing it to less than what many of his pilots earned. He also gave up executive luxuries such as a chauffeur-driven car and fine dining. Instead, he commuted by public bus, bought his own suits, and ate lunch alongside his employees in the company cafeteria. Nishimatsu believed true leadership meant standing shoulder-to-shoulder with workers rather than insulating himself from sacrifice. His actions were aimed at avoiding mass layoffs and demonstrating genuine solidarity — a powerful message that executives should not enjoy comfort while ordinary employees suffered. This approach embodied a traditional Japanese corporate ethos of humility, accountability, and shared responsibility, where leaders accept the burden alongside their teams during difficult times.

@japan_nobunaga The great display of humanity, through the following:- 1. Honesty 2. Humility 3. Respect 4. Responsibility - (Leaving spaces better than they found them) 5. And many small soft human actions

@MwakaJohn Thank you. I think many Japanese people sometimes forget how unique these small everyday customs really are until someone from overseas notices them. What part of Japanese culture first made you fall in love with Japan?

To those thinking of moving to Japan, let me be honest with you. On the train, we don't talk on the phone. In a quiet street, we don't shout. At a restaurant, we wait in line — even when no one is watching. We bow to strangers. We pay before we receive. We apologize before we explain. These aren't rules. There's no law for any of them. They are just 1,500 years of small daily promises we keep, without being asked. If you can love that, you will love Japan. And Japan will love you back. If you can't, please — think it through carefully. For your sake, and ours. 🇯🇵

@ray_omollo The hidden sarcasm to the community. From your view Patchwork is the best you can offer. We take note.

For far too long, Machakos, and indeed the wider Eastern Region, has been dismissed in careless jest as a land of 'dust and shrubs,' a narrative born of neglect. Access to reliable water, a most basic human need, is a gap that previous regimes failed to decisively close, leaving generations to endure scarcity and uncertainty. Through deliberate investment and focused leadership, the ongoing rehabilitation of Maruba Dam and its integration into the broader Machakos Water Supply Project signals a firm commitment to restoring dignity, unlocking potential and ending the historical injustices that have long burdened the people. Under the stewardship of Tanathi Water Works Development Agency (@tanathiwwda), the upgrade includes the installation of high-capacity elevated steel storage tanks, electro-mechanical pump sets and advanced intake and transmission systems designed to optimize water abstraction, storage and distribution. These enhancements will significantly improve system efficiency, ensure pressure stabilization across the network and guarantee a more reliable and sustainable water supply to Machakos Township, Muvuti, Kimutwa, Kiima Kimwe, Mumbuni and Katheka Kai. In line with its mandate, the State Department for Internal Security and National Administration continues to play a critical facilitative role by ensuring a secure and enabling environment for project implementation, mobilizing local administrative structures to support community engagement and safeguarding public assets. @InteriorKE MORE PICS - shorturl.at/Bfb92

African Banking Business is Extremely Lucrative. Their double digit lending rates are more exploitative as opposed to geared towards busines growth. Often & majorly lending to governments, crowding out businesses by denyingthem growth capital. This guarantees African economies (especially sub-Sahara) to remain uncompetitive globally & remain THIRD WORLD for the longest.

African banking revenues surpassed US$100 billion for the first time, reaching US$99 billion in 2024, 2025 estimate is US$107 billion. Top 10 markets in terms of revenue in 2024: · South Africa: US$26.4 billion · Egypt: US$18.0 billion · Nigeria: US$8.7 billion · Morocco: US$6.9 billion · Kenya: US$5.9 billion · Algeria: US$4.0 billion · Ghana: US$3.1 billion · Tanzania: US$2.3 billion · Tunisia: US$2.2 billion · Cote d' Ivoire: US$1.5 billion Important nuances that stand out: · Retail & corporate segments accounted for 88.0% of total revenue at US$48.9 billion & US$38.1 billion, respectively · On a constant-currency basis Africa's banking sector expanded at approximately 17.0% annually between 2020 & 2024. In US$ terms, growth moderates to 5.2% annually. · From a profitability standpoint, ROE for African banks closed 2024 at 19.0% (2025 estimate at 17.0%), against the 10.0% global average · Africa's cost-to-income ratio also improved reaching 49.0% in 2024 and 2025, compared with the global average of 51.1% Credit: McKinsey & Co (@McKinsey)

This is how nations develop & maintain civilization.

@ImtiazMadmood Determination, Resilience & Learning Always Bears Fruit. Congratulations to Zhou Qunfei

At this U.S. visit to China dinner banquet, the most eye-catching figure in the prime center seat between Musk and Cook was Lansi Technology founder Zhou Qunfei—from a rural factory girl to China's richest woman, with absolutely no background to rely on, building everything from scratch through her own grit. She was born in a small village in Hunan Province. At age 5, her mother passed away, and her father became disabled and blind from a work injury, leaving the family in dire poverty with nothing to their name. At 16, unable to afford school fees, she was forced to drop out and head to Guangdong to work in a factory, grinding glass on the assembly line—working days away during the day and furiously self-studying at night, earning certifications in accounting, computer operations, and other skills. That's how she spent a few years, until she scraped together 20,000 yuan from her wages, rallied eight relatives including her brother, sister, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law, and started a small workshop in Shenzhen doing watch glass processing. She handled machine repairs and sales runs single-handedly, grinding away like that for another four years. By the 2000s, the mobile phone industry began booming on a massive scale. By a stroke of luck, her watch glass factory landed an order for TCL phone screens. She spotted the huge potential in the phone glass market and quickly founded Lansi Technology, specializing in the production, R&D, and sales of phone glass. At first, they only handled domestic phones and knockoffs, but everything changed when she went after a Motorola order—foreign companies had insanely strict quality standards. She bet nearly all her resources to meet Motorola's demands and snagged the V3 order, which sold over 100 million units worldwide, catapulting Lansi Technology straight to industry leadership. From there, she smoothly secured deals with Nokia, Samsung, and other foreign giants. The pivotal turning point hit again in 2007, when Jobs unveiled the first iPhone, revolutionizing phones toward full-glass touchscreens. Jobs' obsessive craftsmanship demands left the whole world scrambling for a supplier that could meet them. Zhou Qunfei keenly sensed this was another massive opportunity, so she led her team in a three-month joint push with Apple engineers, breaking through key processes to mass-produce the first-generation iPhone glass panels. That locked in a long-term Apple contract, and soon after, nearly all Apple gear—from iPads to MacBooks—went to Lansi Technology for production. It also propelled Lansi to become the world's top player in touch glass panels. That's why she got to sit next to Cook. But why was Musk right there beside her too? After dominating global glass panels, Lansi Technology branched into more diverse smart devices, including car cockpits and robots. In autos, they've already locked in deals with 30 carmakers like Tesla, BMW, Mercedes, and Li Auto for windows, center consoles, and more. In robotics, they handle joints, sensors, and other components—areas with deep overlap in Musk's businesses. A girl who dropped out at 15 with just a junior high diploma, emerging from rural Hunan to build an empire from nothing and become China's richest woman—forty years later, stepping into U.S.-China talks, seated between Musk and Cook. That's Zhou Qunfei's story. - @hihongjie

@WashiraX The unpredictability of Kenya's Tax regime is on it's own level.

Finance Bill 2026 wants to make you helpless before KRA. Right now, the law says: - If you lose a tax case at the Tax Tribunal and appeal to the High Court, • KRA cannot freeze your bank accounts • Until your appeal is heard and finalized. That protection is called Section 42(14)(e) of TPA. The Bill wants to DELETE it. Completely. Meaning: Even if you have appealed your case to the high court, KRA can still: - Freeze your bank accounts - Grab money in your bank accounts - Collect money from your tenants and customers All while the tax case is live in court. Implications: • Pay now, argue later becomes the law • Businesses shall lose all cash during active disputes • You may win in court but find your business already dead This is one of the most dangerous sentences in the Finance Bill 2026.

@dereckgoto China used more concrete between 2011 and 2013 than the United States used during the entire 20th century? Can this be verified?

I have spent the past week touring different parts of Beijing as part of a Zimbabwean media delegation. Beyond the city's beauty, astonishing cleanliness, and striking modernity, what has arrested my attention above all else is the scale of construction taking place across this vast metropolis. Everywhere you look, something is being built. New transport systems. New commercial districts. New residential developments. New infrastructure designed not merely for today, but for decades into the future. It pushed me to dig deeper - to properly appreciate the full scope of what China has achieved. And what I found sounds almost fictional to the uninitiated: China used more concrete between 2011 and 2013 than the United States used during the entire 20th century. Read that again carefully. An estimated 6.4 gigatons of concrete in just three years - compared to approximately 4.4 gigatons used by the United States across an entire century of constructing highways, skyscrapers, dams, suburbs, and the Interstate Highway System. At some point, one has to stop viewing China's rise as ordinary economic growth. What is unfolding here is civilisation-scale development in real time.

@BSAT_Properties Japan is where time matters. Three Minutes Delay is a Major incident. "Doumo Arigatou gozaimasu"

I was on a train in Tokyo. We stopped between stations. Announcement in Japanese, then in English: "We apologize for the delay. We will resume shortly." The delay was maybe 3 minutes. Not a big deal. When the train started moving again, another announcement: "We sincerely apologize for the delay. We were stopped for 3 minutes and 20 seconds. This is unacceptable. Thank you for your patience." Three minutes and twenty seconds. They measured it exactly. And called it unacceptable. When I got off at my stop, there were station staff on the platform bowing and handing out delay certificates. I took one out of curiosity. It was an official document stating that the train had been delayed by 3 minutes and 20 seconds, signed and stamped. The staff member said in English "for your employer. So they know the delay was not your fault." I said I'm a tourist, I don't need it. He looked confused. "But the delay affected you. You deserve an apology." Three minutes. They were treating a three-minute delay like a major incident. Later I mentioned this to a Japanese friend. They said "oh yes, delay certificates are normal. Trains are supposed to be exactly on time. If they are late, they must apologize." I said three minutes isn't late, it's nothing. My friend said "in Japan, three minutes is late. On time means on time. Not approximately on time." They said the train company probably investigated why there was a 3-minute delay. "They will find the cause and fix it so it doesn't happen again." I kept the certificate. It's framed in my apartment now. A reminder that somewhere in the world, people care about three minutes. © 6IX.

“The boy whose laughter changed his family’s life forever…” 💔🥹 Before the world knew Albert, his family lived in deep hardship. According to his mother, they survived in a small shelter provided by charity. Some days, there was no food. Paying school fees was almost impossible, so Albert and his siblings often stayed home while other children went to class with their backpacks and dreams. Life was painful, uncertain, and full of struggle. But despite everything, Albert never lost his joy. He had a laughter so pure, so innocent, and so full of life that it could light up even the darkest moment. A laughter that refused to reflect the suffering around him. Then one ordinary day, someone recorded a short video of Albert laughing naturally. No script.
No camera crew.
No plan for fame. Just one genuine moment. But that little video touched millions of hearts around the world. People couldn’t stop sharing it. His laughter brought smiles, tears, and hope to strangers from different countries. And suddenly… help started coming. Messages. Donations. Support. Love from people who had never met them before. Albert’s mother said:
“In just a few days, our lives changed completely. For the first time in a long time, we stopped worrying only about survival and started dreaming about a better future.” What broke many people emotionally was this:
A little boy who had almost nothing… ended up becoming the reason his family finally had hope again. Sometimes, God uses the smallest moments to create the biggest miracles. ❤️

@onu_slim The man leapfroging Africa to development. He can as well be the president of Africa.

Let me give you the full Dangote-East Africa Refinery picture because it is bigger than one refinery in one country. Dangote’s Lagos refinery is already exporting 1.1 billion litres of aviation fuel to Europe while South Africa has positioned Nigeria as its primary source of refined petroleum imports. One Nigerian private refinery is supplying a continent and competing with Europe simultaneously. Now he is expanding. Dangote has committed to building a Nigeria-scale refinery in East Africa processing 650,000 barrels per day, mirroring the Lagos model exactly, with a four to five year delivery window. With Same size and capacity. Dangote has announced plans to list 10% of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery in a $40 billion multi-exchange IPO across multiple African stock exchanges, funding a $40 billion expansion over five years under his Vision 2030 strategy targeting $100 billion in group revenue. The expansion plans include doubling refinery capacity from 650,000 to 1.5 million barrels per day, quadrupling urea fertiliser production, copper refining in Zambia, and building storage tanks across southern Africa. One man. No government help. No oil bloc allocation. No NNPC partnership. Building the energy infrastructure of an entire continent from private capital while African governments export raw materials and import finished products at a premium. Dangote himself said it plainly. By exporting raw materials and importing finished products, Africa is further impoverishing its 1.4 billion people. He is not just talking about it because he is personally reversing it. The Nigerian government had oil revenue for 66 years and built nothing that lasted. Dangote has one lifetime and is industrialising a continent. Omo the contrast does not need commentary.

@tanpukunokami Integrating law enforcement into the community creates trust and deters would be law breakers from initiating crime.

Japan has police boxes everywhere. They're called koban. Tiny ones on street corners, run by a few officers in shifts. About 14,000 across the country if you count the rural ones too. You go there for stuff like asking directions, turning in a wallet you found, or reporting something. Honestly, a lot of people just stop by to say hi. The officers walk around the neighborhood. They know who lives where. Kids wave at them on the way to school. Singapore copied the whole system in 1983. Their crime rates dropped. Brazil and parts of the US have done the same. Japan didn't make policing better. They made it friendlier. 🇯🇵

@MoraraKebaso That's why everything rises & falls on leadership. Leadership at all levels MUST change for any meanful change to ever occur. MOST of our leadership is SPINELESS short term thinkers and easily compromised. A classic HALLMARK for third world leadership.

Some things will take me forever to understand. Why does a 1 and a half hour flight from Nairobi to Dar Es Salaam cost Ksh. 40,000 to Ksh 50,000 yet a 24 hour flight from Nairobi to China is Ksh 75,000. What exactly is going on? Why does accomodation for one night at a four star hotel in Kenya cost Ksh 20,000 yet in China a four star hotel is Ksh 5,000 per night? Why do borrowers in Kenya pay an interest rate of 18% to 22% for loans yet in China the interest rate is 3%. How will a kenyan company that is borrowing to expand its manufacturing technology or equipment compete with a chinese company that is borrowing 1 billion dollars at 3%?

@KeruboSk In Nairobi you would rather arrive at the airport 4hours earlier and dose off on the seats as you wait.

I missed my flight in Nairobi once because of traffic on Mombasa Road. Like fully missed it. I got to the airport sweaty, exhausted, dragging my suitcase like it personally betrayed me. I already knew there was no chance, but I still ran to the counter hoping for mercy. The woman checked her screen, looked at me, then said, “You were the last passenger.” I laughed a little because what else do you do at that point? Then she lowered her voice and said, “The plane is still on the ground.” Next thing I know this airport employee is SPEED WALKING me through the terminal like we’re in an action movie. Security waved me through, another worker grabbed my carry-on to help me run, and I’m apologizing to literally everyone while fighting for my life. I got to the gate completely out of breath. The guy scanning boarding passes looked at me and said, “Eh, Nairobi traffic. We understand.” People on the plane actually clapped when I walked in looking half dead. I have never respected airport workers more in my life. Big up to them.

@KenMuokatene @sholard_mancity @MutemiWaKiama Someone sealed a borehole in coastal region after something popped up.

This nonsense must stop! Turkana Tulow Oil wells was discovered by a man who was drilling borehole for his client. When he took the sample to government lab for tests, the government minister summoned him, he was ordered to take geologists to that location, late on, he was chased away from site and the minister sold the rights to international company for drilling. That was back during Kibaki government.

A Kenyan has just beaten Safaricom PLC in court and been awarded Sh1.4 billion. And honestly, this case is disturbing. Peter Nthei Muoki says he developed a child-wallet concept for M-Pesa and pitched it to Safaricom in 2021. According to court documents, he was told it wasn’t workable. Then later, Safaricom rolled out a similar feature. He sued. And High Court Judge Josephine Wayua Wambua Mong'are ruled in his favour. Safaricom has now been ordered to pay him Sh1.4 billion plus annual royalties. Imagine being told your idea won’t work, then later seeing it launched by one of the biggest companies in the country. That’s the painful part. Because, how many ordinary Kenyans have pitched ideas to powerful companies, been ignored, and watched those same ideas come back as products? This case will make many innovators think twice.

@nettermike A great innovation it is

A 16-year-old student (now 22) from Limpopo, South Africa, has received attention for a safety device she designed. Her name is Bohlale Mphahlele. She created the idea for a device called the "Alerting Earpiece." It is a small device shaped like an earring. The goal is to help people in dangerous situations. She got the idea because of high crime rates and gender-based violence in South Africa. She wanted to design something small, simple, and easy to use. The design includes a small camera, a GPS tracker, and an alert button. The idea is that the user can press a hidden button. The device would then take a photo of the attacker. It would also send the user's location to trusted contacts and emergency services. The device is still in development: The prototype has won awards (including bronze at the Eskom Expo) and international attention, but it’s not yet commercially available. It will hit the market sooner than later show how one idea from one person will eventually effect the lives of many Stay tuned to stay safe on this