Lydiah

Living intentionally. #CleanEnergy #RenewableEnergy #Geology #CCUS

[Isaboke. @BelvinIsaboke]

You mean this?😂😂

[Lydiah @Tedanskii]

@ivymuthe Haiya, there's Ngiriambu Boys?

[Mack @whatMackSays]

Who names their child Meza?🤷‍♂️

[𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔬 💋 @bgftjcypsy]

all these events have made me realize i'm not a real music listener bc people will be like " OMG!!!! two eggs in a basket are coming to Kenya " and i'm just like who tf are those 😭😭😭

[Lydiah @Tedanskii]

😍😍😍🔥🔥

[Blackish Press @blackishpress]

Lupita Nyong'o on BTS of that ICONIC photoshoot for Elle magazine

Via vernonfrancois on IG

[𝕁𝕁 @marsfirelight]

i couldn’t accept softness into my life until i accepted that i couldn’t love people into emotional safety. that lesson changed everything.

i stopped overextending, overexplaining, overaccommodating, overfunctioning.
i stopped tolerating people, situations, and even thought patterns that kept my nervous system trapped in survival mode.
i stopped abandoning myself just to keep other people comfortable, happy, in a better place than i was.

the constant stimulation, the emotional ambiguity, the pressure to always stay available just to keep everything around me “stable”…
all of it
had 👏🏽
to 👏🏽
go 👏🏽

i finally chose myself.

because eventually i realized none of it was protecting me.
it was keeping me exposed.

and i wasn’t asking for an unrealistic amount of peace.

i just normalized an unrealistic amount of noise.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

In english we say : I love you

But Dostoevsky said : I do not ask for your love in return. To love you is enough. To have known you, to have felt alive in your presence-that is my greatest joy, and I will carry it with me always. You cannot imagine how much happiness you've brought into my life. You came like a light in my darkness, a warmth in my cold solitude, and for that, I will always be grateful. Even if it was but for a single moment, I have known what it is to love and be loved, and that moment will be mine forever, untouchable by time or sorrow.

[Jackson @Jacksonsrule]

Call it a millennial crisis if you want.
But in my 30's, I realized l don't actually want the life I worked so hard for. I don't care about titles. I don't care about climbing anyone else's ladder. I care about time. I care about slow mornings. I care about peace. I care about bare feet at the beach with nowhere to be. I still want to make money.. just not at the cost of my life.

[Michael Asari @Mburu_reads]

Jana kwa mat nilipanda nikienda home everyone was looking so pissed - tired, exhausted, underpaid and underfucked, mpaka conductor akasema ati “jamani tulipe fare kwa upendo” 😭😭

I kid you not 😂😭

[Lydiah @Tedanskii]

🤣🤣🤣 thekete mani!

[Jungle @jwaweruh]

Kumbe pasta ni spaghetti.

[CPA Wachira Joseph @WashiraX]

KRA is not playing with Naivas.

You know Naivas. Hii tu moja.

It was a fully family owned supermarket giant.

When the time came to cash out, the owners weighed their options.

If they sold the supermarket from Kenya, they would pay insane taxes.

So they went shopping for low tax countries. And Mauritius presented itself. It was irresistible.

- 0% tax on sale of the company.

In 2015, the family registered a shell company in Mauritius. Called it NIL.
Then transferred all their shares to this company.

So Naivas was now 100% owned by a Mauritian company.

To make it even tighter, they added another layer.

They set up a second shell company. Called it GFI.
And transferred all NIL shares to GFI.

So now:
• GFI owns NIL
• NIL owns Naivas Kenya
Proper entanglement. Achana na hiyo yako.

As all this is happening, they are unaware of one dangerous sentence sitting quietly in Kenyan tax law.

It reads:

• Any company managed and controlled from Kenya is a Kenyan resident company.

Then the family went looking for a buyer.

In 2020:
• They sold 30% of the supermarket for 5.2B
• By selling 30% of NIL shares

So:
- Naivas is still owned by NIL
- But NIL now has a new shareholder

And everything happened in Mauritius quietly.
Nothing has changed hands in Kenya trigger anything.

• Deal is closed. 0 tax.

Bahati mbaya, KRA caught wind that Naivas is gone.

Immediately, KRA embarked on a fault finding mission.

In 2022, KRA discovered that:

- The family has always lived in Kenya. Not Mauritius.
- They managed and controlled every single operation of the shell companies from Kenya

They invoked the one dangerous sentence.
You remember it?

• Any company managed and controlled from Kenya, is a Kenyan resident company.

KRA said:
• These Mauritius shell companies are Kenyan
• They must pay tax in Kenya

Tax demanded: 30% of 5.2B. Plus penalties

• Total Bill: 1.8B

Naivas ran to court.

The court looked at it, and sided with KRA.

Family wakaabiwa walipe tax.

Case closed!

Lesson.

• Structure your offshore company properly.

• Or KRA will structure it for you.

[Subie queen @queen_subie]

Za vitz na demio zimefika...

[s @Sincyyyyy_]

‘Unaniambia nivae heels nikikuja date ndio nianguke nikufe nikose kupiga kura’

[stopper @blan_kks]

Mungu nipee tu pesa ya GLE ukinipea ya demio nitakula

[✒️ @Literariium]

this!

[vuyi @justvuyi_]

Two very gorgeous girls came up to me as I pulled in my parking spot asking for a lighter and I didn’t have it. That ruined my day. Now I have to keep a lighter in the car 🙂‍↔️. I have no business not pleasing women when they need me to.

[TurboDiesel @alexmwanzo]

missing person alert
RT WIDELY

[Prince BYK🥇 @dawgdeyfool]

this made me so happy … i can’t stop laughing 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[ل @iced0llz]

Just wanted to let y’all know that I ate an apple today