Meshack Makokha

[Meshack Makokha @MeshackMak24334]

@KenyaRailways_ Kindly give each class with respective fares to Mombasa

[Meshack Makokha @MeshackMak24334]

@KRACare

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet.

The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax.

So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K.

Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail.

Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card.

The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price.

Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.

[Meshack Makokha @MeshackMak24334]

@aziz_mire How much do we earn from being a transit hub. Little. We should aim to be a service and manufacturing hub.

[Meshack Makokha @MeshackMak24334]

@Bygones_24 Got 8 out of 8 As in KCSE.

[Meshack Makokha @MeshackMak24334]

@RobertAlai That's how goonism started. When crime is celebrated rather than punished. The same people who celebrated are wondering why goon culture is entrenched. That was the ground zero of the goon culture

[Meshack Makokha @MeshackMak24334]

@MigunaMiguna Malisa yeye. Entitlement

[Meshack Makokha @MeshackMak24334]

@Borjr3 @Chalbiwsk Auditors have been calling corruption since independence. Nothing new

[Meshack Makokha @MeshackMak24334]

@Borjr3 @Chalbiwsk Allegations. That's what you run to when you run out of facts. Corruption

[Meshack Makokha @MeshackMak24334]

@Borjr3 @Chalbiwsk Since independence. Ruto will not solve everything in 3 years. Why didn't you ask Jomo, Moi, Kibaki, Uhuru? Also ask your MP to use CDF.

[Meshack Makokha @MeshackMak24334]

@Borjr3 @Chalbiwsk Ruto has built 23,000 classrooms and employed 120,000 teachers.

[Meshack Makokha @MeshackMak24334]

@rodgers_adai @otherafrikan Read more about the problem China is in coz of one child law. Also why S/Korea and Europe are about to import human labour

[William Samoei Ruto, PhD @WilliamsRuto]

Reviving cotton farming

[Decoded @Bygones_24]

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Boarding school is not a common phenomenon globally.

In most of Europe, the US, and Asia, children go home every day. Boarding is the exception – reserved for the elite, the troubled, or the rural.

Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana? You find them in such numbers that they're practically the default.

Our boarding obsession is ABNORMAL, and it is rooted in colonial copy-paste

[Meshack Makokha @MeshackMak24334]

@prince_gitau @Reuters You can't localise sports. Look at our athletes, the are cheered allover the world. They are global icons. Now think again if we said only Kenyans can cheer them.

[Meshack Makokha @MeshackMak24334]

@prince_gitau @Reuters He is building more stadiums than the rest of Presidents combined.

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Karibu @WilliamsRuto.

[Vincent 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪 @VinceChepkwony]

Salgaa police check must be the most lucrative of all.
A small police post has 13 officers on the road, you wonder who has been left at the station.

[Meshack Makokha @MeshackMak24334]

@2ttttj 88

[Meshack Makokha @MeshackMak24334]

@wnyakera @JonathanAbere What percentage did your govt deliver when you were a PS.

[Radio Generation @RadioGenKe]

Hon. Zaheer Jhanda, MP: Since independence, no president had ever launched 50km of tarmac roads in my constituency, but President Ruto has done it.
@JhandaMp @bashirhalaiki
#TheWindDown
#HomeOfHardTruths