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[My world Kenya @HamWambui]

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Kasongo haroo

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Equatorial Guinea government resigns after failing to meet targets https://t.co/a6glmcH1Mo

[My world Kenya @HamWambui]

@JCarhire Nikupeleke Long drive ya Samburu?😍

[My world Kenya @HamWambui]

@FabrizioRomano This is so absurd when African countries are allowing Visa free entry. Colonialism never ended

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Countries with retrogressive visa policies should not be allowed to host global tournaments.

The Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan was reportedly denied entry into the US despite having a valid visa, meaning he will miss his World Cup debut as the first Somali official at the tournament. That alone tells you how broken this hosting model is.

You cannot invite the world to your country, collect tournament glory, collect tourism money, collect broadcast attention, then humiliate qualified officials and participants at the border.

Even the extortionist visa system at the US Embassy in Nairobi should be condemned. Kenyans pay money, fill forms, queue, wait for months, then someone rejects them in two minutes and keeps the money.

If your visa policy treats Africans like suspects and ATMs, you have no business hosting the world.

[My world Kenya @HamWambui]

@FIFAcom @FIFAWorldCup Shame

[My world Kenya @HamWambui]

@Kotsocha_ke Bro mbona ukaacha kufanya skits ya Mwalimu wa maths, those photos were too legit and funny

[KOT Socha 🇰🇪 @Kotsocha_ke]

Mchanga ilibadilisha maisha ya huyo dem sana,,from earning 15k per month to owning a mazda Cx 5 and iPhone,also to wearing expensive pants.
Tunashukuru maandamano ya 2024 aki

[My world Kenya @HamWambui]

@Waziri_Mvurya @TeyaKevin

[CPA Wachira Joseph @WashiraX]

KRA wants a share of dowry money.

There is a guy called Kamau.

When it was time to buy his wife, he mobilized his most monied buddies.

He put them in a WhatsApp group. The fundraising began.

Those boys were loaded. They were only 35.
By by the time they were done, they had contributed 4.5 million shillings.

Others who were not in the group wired money directly to Kamau's bank account.

The ruracio D-Day arrived.

And as always, the one and only Kikuyu ruracio anthem was tuned.

🎶 Wero... Werokamu guku kwa wa Kanini... Werokamu... 🎶

Before they could finish the song, more than 2,000 people had pulled up.

Wakaanza kutoa funjo. Then one man stood on a stool and announced they could not sit until they had given Kamau top up money to add to the dowry.

The donation book was hurriedly brought. People lined up. Cash started flowing.

By the end of the day, another 2.8 million shillings had been raised.

Kamau took the money and banked it.

Total dowry contribution sitting at his bank account: 8m shillings.

The ceremony became the talk of Gatundu South.

Kamau paid his dowry. Collected his wife. And went home peacefully.

• Lesson 1. Monied friends are good for paying dowry.

I have no clue how. But sometime later, Kamau was marked for a KRA tax audit.

KRA went straight for his bank statements. They found deposits of 8 million shillings.

Immediately, they baptized the entire amount as undeclared taxable income.

Then demanded: 30% income tax. Penalties plus interest.

Total bill: 2.5 million shillings plus.

When Kamau saw the tax bill, he went mad.
He could try to talk but words would not come out. He nearly swallowed his tongue.

When he came back to real life. He shipped a protest letter to KRA.

He explained the money was dowry contribution from his family, friends and well wishers.

- He produced WhatsApp group fundraising screenshots.
- He produced RTGS confirmations.
- He produced the donation book.
- He even produced videos of the ceremony.

Including footage of the Werokamu song.

KRA could not hear any of it. They only wanted 2.5 million.

When Kamau realized KRA was not playing, he ran to court.

He told the Tribunal:

- My lord, look. I have shown KRA where the money came from.
- I have shown KRA who contributed it.
- I have shown KRA the ceremony.
- What more do they want from me?

KRA responded.
And what they said nearly made the judges fall off their chairs.

They argued the evidence was not convincing.

Why?

• Because the 2,000 plus donors had not sworn affidavits confirming that the money they gave was a donation and not payment for goods or services.

The Tribunal looked at the matter in amusement.

Then ruled.

- Kamau had discharged his burden of proof in full.
- KRA had acted unreasonably by ignoring and disregarding the substantial evidence he provided.
- And most importantly: Income tax is a tax on income. It is not a tax on every deposit appearing in a bank account.

The Tribunal found that KRA was wrong to treat all bank deposits as taxable income without first removing proven non income items such as dowry contributions.

The tax demand was killed.

Kamau won.

KRA retreated to Times Tower. And rested.

Case closed.

• Lesson 2.

- Document everything.

- KRA will push. Push hard.

[My world Kenya @HamWambui]

@DCI_Kenya You failed terribly on this one. This is a journalist. He runs a YouTube channel called Chuma Moto Tv. Don't just arrest innocent people trying to prove a point just because they're Kikuyus

[The Washington Times @WashTimes]

'The Americans are very selfish': Kenya protests decry Ebola quarantine facility

[My world Kenya @HamWambui]

@amenya_nelson Hapa karibu uvalie zile nguo za wamama wa hii church😆

[Kenyans.co.ke @Kenyans]

U.S. Govt Issues Travel Advisory for Kenya
https://t.co/EM5ulegFnG

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Two people shot dead amid Kenya protests against US Ebola quarantine centre plan https://t.co/1H9z9HJCF9

[My world Kenya @HamWambui]

@Railajunior What about putting in auction and use proceeds to uplift some lifes?🤔

[My world Kenya @HamWambui]

@emjmboga @Asamoh_ @RoyalMabati Are you crazy or something, the order was place in March 2025

[Fox News @FoxNews]

"You're f****** crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your a***. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."

That's what a U.S. official tells Axios President Trump unloaded on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a heated phone call over Israel's military actions in Lebanon.

Trump was reportedly furious that Israel's moves risked blowing up U.S. diplomatic efforts in the region, at one point also asking Netanyahu: "What the f*** are you doing?"

[My world Kenya @HamWambui]

@Haky49501827 Just like the Managements assume that WhatsApp is an official way of communicating shouldn't be expecting formal resignations from employees

[My world Kenya @HamWambui]

I foresee a situation where the government will announce a fake Ebola patient to just justify the Laikipia Quarantine facility for the US citizens. #SomeoneShouldDoIt

[SokoAnalyst @SokoAnalyst]

The USA Government has come out strongly to defend itself saying that its President Ruto who vehemently requested the USA Government to host its sick citizens with Ebola in Kenya & in return give Ruto USD 1.7B.

Our own President has decided to kill all of us by using Ebola. Ruto must be removed by any means possible. We cannot wait till 2027.

[My world Kenya @HamWambui]

@thekenyatimes Leta poll