Mufasa Poet

Poet - Performing Artist - Change won't come when our leaders change, Change will come when we change.

[Mufasa Poet @mufasapoet]

Our Constitution is not a tissue!

#poetictuesdays

[Ty Ngachira @anto_ty]

I used to be very hopeful about devolution. I assumed that governors would genuinely work and love for their people who were neglected in the national conversation.

But barring a few, we mostly created small tyrants who steal from you but at least speak your mother tongue

[Mufasa Poet @mufasapoet]

This is not 1992 to mistake duty for favor,
Government fundamentals are not ornamentals,
We will not romanticize infrastructure.

The president has not built roads, our taxes have.
The president did not pay for Talanta stadium, loans that Kenyan will pay for have.

Every time the president says ametenga,
You need to remember,
Huge spending doesn’t mean service delivery,
Especially when every project costs way, way more than it’s supposed to.
We do not call that development..
Everywhere in the world they call that embezzlement.

#poetictuesdays

[Stakabadhi @gufydox]

Say hello to the newest Poetry Open Mic in the city hosted by @mufasapoet and I.

Limited slots available. Get your tickets here

https://t.co/yNrLaY6zxF

[John-Allan Namu @johnallannamu]

Again, the brutality is the point. Believe your lying eyes. You can't afford what you used to, and you're pointed to a road being built and told the economy is working. You're abducted, or beaten, and told "si sorry bas, we have a good constitution". Goons roam the streets and you're told security starts with you. This is an argument between Kenya's past and its future.

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Kenyans are now being told taxes pushed the cost of Talanta Sports City from Sh35 billion to Sh45.8 billion.

That is a Sh10.8 billion increase, almost the entire cost of redeveloping Uganda’s Mandela National Stadium.

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

Lenders beware: Kenya’s High Court has greenlit our petition challenging US$54bn in odious debts under Kenyatta & Ruto.
No parliamentary approval. No public benefit. Offshore siphoning.
Kenyans WILL NOT repay what they never authorised. Accountability MUST be restored. #OdiousDebt #DeniBandia

https://t.co/Gc9U2Ypy1b

[Sozo shira @SozoShira]

Nimeona mmekasirika sana about August 29th...

Sasa sisi wale tulipanga shughuli at the beginning of the year piano tutapigwa mawe????

Save some little monies and come chill with us pale Karen. Lots of Choma, Chai and Bonfire

Also @mufasapoet @njoki_karu @Riggaman Ndio setlist

[Brian Gathu @_brian_gathu]

Cold Days in Nairobi
Ft @mufasapoet

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

The World Bank has given Kenya more than 10 conditions before it can access the next round of loans.

Here are 10 of the main conditions explained in simple terms.

Thread below:

[Faith Odhiambo @FaithOdhiambo8]

Our children are being stolen. Between Jan 2025–Mar 2026, Kenya recorded 10,581 child protection cases,1,952 abductions, 173 trafficking cases. That is 23 children a day.

Last week in Githurai, a 2-year-old was kidnapped by a teenager sent to steal a child for a phone. In Juja, residents shut down the Thika Superhighway after 4 children vanished in two weeks. In Central Kenya, 372 violence-against-children incidents in under a year. This is a national emergency.

The Penal Code provides for life imprisonment for kidnappers. I want to see DCI and DPP match that seriousness with urgent investigations and full prosecutions, not just press releases.

To every Kenyan, watch the children around you. Speak up and report because if we do not protect our children, we have failed at the most fundamental duty of a society. Our children are not a footnote. They are our future.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

[IDA - World Bank @WBG_IDA]

Powerful words from at our @JacobsLadder_A + @WBG_IDA event on jobs, opportunity, and the future that young people are building across Africa.

Thank you @mufasapoet for bringing honesty and creativity to the conversation. #IDAworks

[Jacob's Ladder Africa @JacobsLadder_A]

Spoken Word Session at the JLA * IDA Youth Engagement Session on May 12th, 2026, in Nairobi, Kenya.

Artist: @mufasapoet, born and based in Nairobi, Kenya.

@Sellahb @Mandakhabetsa @WorldBankGroup @WBG_IDA @WorldBankKenya @WorldBankAfrica

[Faith Odhiambo @FaithOdhiambo8]

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

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Kenya’s government creates a problem that didn’t exist, then offers a solution that doesn’t solve it.

[www.sanaapost.com @SanaaPost]

Congratulations to @BlackwellFilms for the wins at Alma Film Festival

[Sauti Sessions Network @SautiSessions]

We are officially live with our first Sauti Sessions show of the year 🎊

The opening performance by @mufasapoet was incredible

The perfect way to set the tone for the night.

[Ademba Allans @Ademba_47]

Thika IEBC offices right now. #TukoKadi

[Mzalendo Halisi Foundation @UtuNaUzalendoKE]

I feel like,
We don't have a president,
We have a resident in state house who doesn’t care about the state of homes in this country.

I think high electricity cost is the price we pay for having leaders who want all the power,
A populist government,
Politicians raising fans while we fundraise for the sick.
And I’m sick and tired of the word affordable, coming from the mouths of people who’ve built nothing but a structure of lies.
And how do we expect them to pay attention when everything they have, we paid for.

I’m tired of healthcare being so expensive in this country,
I’m tired of trying to be tougher,
I’m tired of watching families with terminally ill patients suffer,
I’m tired of cancer,
I’m tired of kids getting cancer,
I’m tired of watching people sell everything in a country where healthcare is a cancer,
And what exactly do people say to people with cancer, don’t overthink? Don’t invite defeat? Don’t worry about the bill, how you feel, how to deal?
Thank God we have a climate warrior who flies a lot to beat the climate?

The last time someone died because they couldn’t afford treatment was everyday.
The last time the government lied about services available at a public hospital was everyday.
The last time a patient was kept waiting for months to get chemo at a public hospital was everyday.
The last time a hospital was a prison to someone who couldn’t pay the bill was everyday.

And I’m sick and tired of watching businesses die.
Ask around, entrepreneurs are surrounded by structures whose ploy is to take out the joy in self employment,
Businesses on chopping boards,
Business decisions choking boards.
We don’t have leaders, we have rulers.
There’s a lot a ruler can’t measure,
Like the blood pressure of broke parents surviving a dying business.
Don’t call it suicide, businesses don’t kill themselves
Corruption man, is a business.
Taking away from a business is its business.
Don’t say Kenyan contractors do a bad job if those who give them the job pocket 3/4 of what was for the job, in fact, don’t call it a bad job,
call it a miracle!
The way we can afford to smile while our leaders fill their pockets with our sweat,
Is that what they call working out?

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By @mufasapoet