GEORGE GITAU

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[Kones. @BCherich]

Guess the Importer.

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Here is the latest list of the top countries Kenya owes loans to:

China – Sh611 billion
France – Sh103 billion
Japan – Sh77 billion
Germany – Sh56 billion
Belgium – Sh25 billion
Spain – Sh16 billion
USA – Sh8 billion

[👑King Drey Phemy 👑 @phemydarey]

@Humanrights256 Foreigners took over their jobs because they are weak

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[Africa Today Media Group @africatodayMG]

Ethiopia's export exploding from $3 billion to $10 billion thanks to Ethiopia Tamirt.
In 2025, Ethiopia launched "Ethiopia Tamirt" initiative (Made in Ethiopia) which was meant to drive production and consumption of Ethiopian made products.
The initiative saw over 750 industries entering into manufacturing and attracted massive support from Ethiopians.

From the initiative, Ethiopia has saved $4.85 billion in imports and manufacturing sector has grown jumped from 4.8% to 13% in nine months.
Meanwhile the drive has also improved Ethiopian exports from $3 billion in 2025 to $10 billion expected by the end of 2026.(Andrew Akech)

[Evans Bett @iam_bett]

This is how the Kpone Dumpsite in Ghana, looked (before vs after), a toxic 33-acre toxic landfill that was transformed by @ZoomlionGhana_ into a beautiful green recreational centre.
Nairobi has similar sites sitting on valuable land.
Can we achieve such pale mtaa?? #SafishaKanairo

[Rasna Warah @RasnaWarah]

One day someone will write the history of Kenya and say, here lie the ruins of a nation destroyed by greed.

[NTV Kenya @ntvkenya]

Shiro Theuri: The 35-year-old running the technology engine of Glovo | Women and Power https://t.co/6SsLohhzl0

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A French ad company once pitched the city of Paris on a strange deal: let us put ads on your bus stops, and we'll build you public toilets that clean themselves every time someone uses them. Paris now has 435 of them on its sidewalks. Taxpayers paid nothing.

The toilets are called Sanisettes. JCDecaux invented them in 1981 and put the first two near the Centre Pompidou museum. They cost 1 franc back then. The city made them free in 2006. People used them 18 million times in just the first nine months of 2025.

The cleaning is what people film and share. After you walk out, the door locks. The floor swings open. Jets spray the toilet, the walls, and the floor with disinfectant. The whole cabin gets a wash. About 30 seconds later, the door unlocks for the next person. If you try to walk in during the cycle, the door doesn't open. There's also a 15-minute timer inside, so you can't move in.

Cities don't pay for any of this. JCDecaux builds the toilets, installs them, cleans them, and maintains them with their own staff (who, by the way, stay on the job for an average of 18 years). In exchange, the city lets the company sell ads on bus stops, info displays, and other things on the sidewalk. JCDecaux pulled in nearly €4 billion in revenue last year doing this around the world.

This same trade was offered to New York. In 2006, NYC signed a $1.4 billion deal for 20 of these toilets plus 3,300 bus shelters. Two decades later, only 7 toilets are in service. The rest spent years sitting in a warehouse in Queens. The reasons get bureaucratic fast: neighborhood boards rejecting locations, state laws getting in the way, fights over wheelchair access, fights over which agency cleans them. Paris was swapping in 7 new toilets every single week during its 2024 rollout. New York managed 7 in 20 years.

The same model now runs in 28 countries. The full network is 2,500 toilets strong, used by over 30 million people every year. Berlin alone has 278 of them, the second-biggest network in the world. San Francisco, Stockholm, Lagos, and Abidjan all use the same trade. Nobody pays except the advertisers.

A private ad company has been keeping millions of strangers in 28 countries from peeing on the street, for free, for 45 years now. And most cities still can't pull it off.

[Iran Updates🚨 @IranUpdatesNow]

A farmer in the countryside of Khorasan Province in Iran has built a wind turbine with a 10-meter tower to generate his own electricity.

A wind farmer without any qualifications built his own wind turbine, and this has received widespread praise on social media.

[CPA Wachira Joseph @WashiraX]

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.

[NFL Africa @NFLAfrica]

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#BrotherlyLove #FlyEaglesFly

[adidas @adidas]

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[Catch Up @CatchUpFeed]

A Turkish boxer murdered a florist in cold blood by punching him so hard that it shattered his skull. The victim’s sister had the audacity to share a photo of the fighter’s wife’s floral bouquet on the shop’s Instagram page. The woman got mad about it and sent her husband to confront the florist.

The fighter lost his temper the instant the victim walked in and killed him on the spot. The florist had no idea anything was wrong.

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Kenya’s imported cars face total taxes of about 70%–100% of their value, pushing prices higher.

Here is the explanation of how the taxes are structured.

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The number that should terrify every Western automaker is 1,500 kW.

BYD's Flash Charging pushes 1,500 kilowatts into a car battery. The fastest charger you can find in the US today maxes out at 350 kW. ChargePoint is bragging about rolling out 600 kW chargers sometime in 2026. BYD is already at 2.5x that. Deployed. 5,000 stations live. 20,000 planned by December.

The car in this video, the Song Ultra, starts at $22,000. Five minutes of charging gets you 250 miles of range. The fastest-charging EV you can buy in America is the Lucid Gravity at 400 kW, and it starts at $80,000.

So BYD is charging 4x faster at one-quarter the price. And Geely just beat them last week with a 4-minute charge. The Chinese automakers aren't competing with each other on range or styling anymore. They're in a charging speed war that Western companies haven't even entered.

BMW's response was literally "pursuing quick charging forces other compromises." That's the "640K ought to be enough for anybody" of the EV era.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Chinese carmaker BYD unveils a recharge as fast as filling up with gas

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

What the f*ck man 🤯🤯

[Market Rebellion @RebellioMarket]

This is why quit my 9-5 2014 Forever: