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[Donald B Kipkorir @DonaldBKipkorir]

Your Excellency President @WilliamsRuto , everyone says Wicknell Chivayo is a Conman, a fraudster & a Criminal .. Why have you allowed him unimpeded access? Why is he given unrestricted access to our country? How can he openly give money to our airport employees? How does our country benefit from a known criminal? How can we compromise our national security & prestige to such man of dubious reputation?

[C N @Redpine255]

@lookonchain If you buy at premium what do you expect?

[Ramah Nyang @Ramah_Nyang]

These proposed changes to the 2026 Finance Bill, if approved, would deny citizens & businesses their right to a fair trial by effectively front-loading their punishment before the case is solved.

If you and @KRACare have a case at the Tax Tribunal - they win and you appeal the outcome, you'd have to pay the tax in dispute *despite* the case not having been definitively settled.

That's state-sanctioned daylight robbery!

It's compounded by what MPs are saying in (4). Refunds seldom come from KRA, if they did, we'd not have firms complaining year-in, year-out, about a long backlog of tax refunds (KES 50 billion was the figure floating around in May). MPs cannot say they're ignorant of this.

Folks in this space are getting a sense of deja vu reading this, because in the 2022 Finance Bill, there was a comparably stupid idea. At the time, the proposal was to deposit 50% of the tax value in dispute at @CBKKenya, pending the resolution of the appeal of outcomes at the Tax Tribunal.

[Ramah Nyang @Ramah_Nyang]

There’s fiscal indiscipline, and then there’s what Kenya’s Finance Ministry (@KeTreasury) does - sneaking in a second Supplementary Budget just two weeks before the end of the financial year.

The Executive wants to raise spending by KES 18.24 billion ($140.8 million). Where that last-minute money is going?

🏛️ @StateHouseKenya: Requesting an extra KES 1 billion.
👤 The Deputy President: Seeking authorization for KES 200 million more.
🛡️ Internal Security Ministry: Demanding another KES 1.55 billion.
📚 Education Ministry (@EduMinKenya): Requesting an additional KES 1.5 billion—all of it earmarked for “Quality Assurance and Standards.”

This mismatch between spending forecasts and execution reality is nothing new. In 2022, the Treasury projected that the fiscal deficit for FY 25/26 would drop below 4%. Instead, it has ballooned to 6.4%, with next year’s forecast looking just as dismal at 5.5%.

With a track record this patchy, can Kenya plausibly hold onto the B3 credit rating upgrade it got from @moodysratings in January?

As David Rogovic told me, while that upgrade reflected "lower near-term default risk," the rating remains constrained by weak points impossible to ignore: a massive fiscal deficit, a persistent inability to rein in spending, and dangerously weak debt affordability.

[Fathers Diary @Fathers_Diary]

Man to man

[C N @Redpine255]

@kahome_steve He could be right. Ghana scenario is on the way

[Yoko @Kibet_bull]

Chivayo is just a proxy, Ruto has awarded himself a tender to renovate JKIA.

[THEE ALFA HOUSE @thee_alfa_house]

Jimmi Wanjigi WARNS Kenyans against buying TREASURY BILLS AND BONDS

"Anybody that is now going to pretend that you're buying treasury bills and bonds, in this next financial year know it is anchored in our laws, it has not been passed by parliament and you will never be paid. Do not buy a treasury bill, Do not buy anything to do with treasury bills or bonds." - @JimiWanjigi

@otienowill

[Anwar Saddat @AnuarSaddat]

That KTN investigation showing how the UDA government is selling Kenyan IDs and Passports to foreigners for as low as kshs 15,000 should worry all of us.

A passport and national ID isn’t just a piece of book or card, they are what defines our nation, Kenya.

The damage Ruto and his gang are doing to Kenya when they sell Kenyan passports and IDs to foreigners, will outlive their short stay in power.

We really fumbled in 2022 by electing an individual and government that will do anything, including selling passports to foreigners for money.

Ruto and his administration are an existential threat to our republic.

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

BREAKING: KTN has aired a major investigation alleging Kenyan IDs are being sold to people in Somalia for as little as KSh 15,000. We share some of the revelations.

Look at the images below.

The 2nd image shows Hassan Mohamed Nur's Somali identification documents. According to those records, he was born in Mogadishu on 14 December 1985.

The third image is a copy of a Kenyan ID featured in the KTN investigation. Key details have been blurred.

According to that Kenyan document, the holder was born in Tarbaj on 1 July 1985.

Same person. Different birthplace. Different date of birth.

If this were simply a case of lawful naturalization, why would the date of birth be different?

The investigation further alleges that the individual now holds a Kenyan passport.

And it doesn't end there; residents from Somalia and Ethiopia are being sold IDs. And it's scary. I am sharing more examples shortly. Follow me here- sholla ard

[C N @Redpine255]

@NationAfrica Woe unto you if you still invest in Tbills and Tbonds. Ghana scenario is on the way

[ephraimnjegafan @ephraimnjegafan]

Imagine that this is an excerpt from a budget speech read by Treasury CS John Mbadi yesterday. The speech begins with these fake statistics.
As per the @KNBStats , only 45.8 million bags of maize were produced in 2025, but the CS blatantly inflates that number to 67 million bags

[Dr. Miguna Miguna @MigunaMiguna]

How can an African president visit Norway to seek “an operator of a shipping port” and claim that such primitivity “benefits Kenya?” Does the so-called fishing port even exist? This is embarrassing!

[Dr. Miguna Miguna @MigunaMiguna]

In a failed state like Kenya, stealing chicken lands you 20 years in jail but stealing billions of public money, shooting, maiming and murdering unarmed civilians gets you appointed, promoted or elected into high office!

[Dr. Ho Yinsen @kinjeketile]

The Kibaki era normalised selling of counterfeits.
Just because it is widespread does not mean it will not bite if you are unlucky.

[Dr. Ho Yinsen @kinjeketile]

Kenya’s top economist thinks investment in manufacturing is a waste of time and BPO is the way to go.
We are not going to make it I’m afraid.

[Dr. Miguna Miguna @MigunaMiguna]

The court has cooked @rigathi. Two fatal findings on public participation and bias have sealed his fate. But I believe the court’s findings on these two issues are implausible and incoherent in view of the evidence before them. We will wait for the decisions of the Court of Appeal in 2028 and the Supreme Court in 2029!

[Mihr Thakar @MihrThakar]

Selling future tax revenue, selling people for kafala labour, selling blood overseas and now selling government-generated data. Where does it stop?

[Aziz Mire @aziz_mire]

KRA recently claimed that it lost 9 billion from reduced VAT on fuel.

I want to rephrase: This is money gained into people's pockets who can multiply it in the economy much better than the state

[Alfayaz 11 @Alfayaz11]

I think every Kenyan would wish for the same. The problem is the environment. The capital city is in darkness, the infrastructure is gone, lawlessness has taken over and the crime rate is going up. Who is failing the President? The trend is spiraling countrywide. We have a serious problem with our agencies and leaders. I will speak for Nairobi and I doubt there is any sane person who thinks the capital is working. Yet we are trying to attract investors?