Joe Mureithi

An optimist. Tommorrow will always be a better day.

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

@SethOlale Unpopular Opinion! We need the Bomas of Kenya Facility. KICC is DATED and we need a modern conference and i believe Bomas Internatiinal Convention Centre (BICC) is the Answer.

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

@carter6f 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

@AbdulahiAdan10 Dudes are watching too Many American Road range clips on Tiktok

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

@kenyasgossips @KenyaAirways . My boy Mutuku can re-upholster the seats at Kshs 4K per seats for economy and 7k per seat for business class. Hola me

[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.

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

@Mmatow @KURAroads And my taxes???

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

Great Results Morocco!!!!

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

@CarolRadull NOT a PENALTY!!!!!

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

@CarolRadull Now you know why we dont have GENERATIONAL WEALTH 🥲🥲🥲

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

@Kimuzi_ Add Tetu in Nyeri. It's the Switzerland of Kenya

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

@MaryK2022 Gut... Health

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

@MaryK2022 Ethiopia is ranked first as country with best git health coz the eat alot of injera which is fermented. Also they have retained traditional foods. We need to get back to traditional African foods.

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

@KeNHAKenya
@MinOftransport

Something to consider for the Rironi-Mau highway. Would keep produce from kenya food basket cheap.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I found this absolutely hilarious.

So China has this nationwide policy called "Green Channel" (“绿通”): if you transport fresh produce like fruits or veggies, you don't need to pay highway tolls.

It's real, I checked, here is a government website describing the policy: https://t.co/1ktAm1lL1c

This is meant to reduce food costs and reduce friction in food logistics. If you're a small farmer producing - say - watermelons in Xinjiang, thousands of kms from Eastern cities, highway tolls alone could cost more than the watermelons themselves are worth.

There is, however, a loophole that's going viral on Chinese social media these days 👇 It applies to pickup trucks! So if you have a pickup truck, you just need to pack the back with cheap cabbage and - voilà - free highway for you 😂

So in China these days, if you go on the highway, you're increasingly seeing more and more pickup trucks packed with fruits and veggies in the back 😅

It actually doesn't go wasted and may even work in favor of the policy. When they arrive at destination, the drivers do sell the produce so, on top of waiving highway fees, they even make a profit - basically becoming the small-scale food distributors the policy was designed to support.

The video describes a driver from Zhengzhou, Henan who reportedly bought 500 yuan of cabbage, drove toll-free to Xinjiang, sold it for 1,500, then loaded up watermelons for the return trip and sold those back in Henan. He saved 2,000 RMB in highway fees and probably got his gas paid by the food profit!

I'm myself planning to drive the whole summer touring Western China with my family in an RV: I wonder if it applies, I might try it! If you're in China and see a French guy driving a RV packed with cabbage, don't get surprised 😂

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

Grand Inga could generate 40 GW of power—equivalent to nearly half of Africa's current electricity consumption at full output.

At an estimated cost of US$100 billion, that's roughly US$2 billion per African country.

Yet the project remains stalled decades later due to financing, governance and political challenges.

Africa's greatest untapped opportunity may still be waiting on the Congo River.

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

The Grand Inga Dam would supply power equivalent HALF of total current Africa power usage today. But it would require Usd 100 B to build. Which is just about Usd 2B per country. But this may never get built due to corruption. DRC with its mineral wealth could THEORETICALLY fund this with internal resources. Key word THEORETICALLY

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

This is an important case. Accountability is key in assuring public that their money is being used prudently.

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

PRESS STATEMENT BY SENATOR OKIYA OMTATAH ON THE PUBLIC DEBT CASE RULING

Fellow Kenyans,

Today, the High Court delivered an important ruling in our public debt case.

The Court upheld the @IMFNews claim of diplomatic immunity and struck it out of this petition. While we respect the Court’s decision, accountability for Kenya’s debt burden cannot end there.
We are preparing a separate legal challenge to the Bretton Woods Agreements Act, 1963, against the Constitution of Kenya 2010 to ensure all actors involved in Kenya’s debt processes are subjected to proper scrutiny.

Most importantly, the Court rejected attempts by the Attorney General and other respondents to have this case dismissed. The judges ruled that our petition will proceed to a full hearing on its merits.

The Court also dismissed applications by the former Auditor General, former Controller of Budget, the current Auditor General, and the current Controller of Budget seeking to shield themselves from these proceedings.

This is a significant victory for transparency, accountability, and the Kenyan people.

We will amend our petition as directed by the Court and return on 22nd July 2026. Our mission remains unchanged: to establish how Kenya accumulated trillions in public debt, how the funds were utilized , whether the public benefited and whether the law was followed at every stage.

This case is about protecting the future of our nation and the interests of every Kenyan taxpayer.
We remain focused, determined, and committed to seeing it through.

God Bless Kenya.
#DeniBandia #OdiousDebt

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

@Paultimothy504 @Maryian96 True!!!

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

Nature abhors a vacuum. Migrants are filling jobs many locals no longer want to do. The EAC guarantees free movement of labour. Burundians are picking coffee in Murang'a, my barber is Rwandan, and he does a fantastic job.

Let's focus on growing our economies, not scapegoating workers. Deal with criminals individually, not entire communities.

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

@EDikiir @ASuruni Thought they were lion killers 😹😹😹😹

[Joe Mureithi @MureithiJoe]

@EDikiir @ASuruni 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣