Arkham maruta

simple,honest,humble and peace loving gentleman

[Arkham maruta @ArkhamJohn]

@MurimaMaestro @kot there is somebody who owes us an apology. Mentioning Nairobi fwaaaaa

[George Njoroge @georgenjoroge_]

You now understand why Wicknell had to die.

His company, Intratrek won the Gwanda solar tender and ZPC paid $5 million for a 100MW plant.

Number of Solar panels installed: one. One.

[Donald B Kipkorir @DonaldBKipkorir]

When Olusegun Obasanjo was democratically elected as President, he went on a State Visit to India with a large delegation as is usual with Nigerians. The delegation were politicians & fraudsters & petty businessmen. In the business meeting in India, on the other side was the Indian Prime Minister & dollar billionaires. On this side was President Obasanjo & zero billionaire! It is then that he decided he was going to deliberately create a dollar billionaire in every sector in Nigeria. Ii is when Nigeria reduced its banks from hundreds to few big banks. And it is when dollar billionaires arose in Nigeria: all without exception with Obasanjo deliberate intervention.

The rest is History!

[Master Yoga @DasBob_rasiert]

This one is brilliant. ❤️🙌

[husseinkhalid @husskhalid]

Who ate the 100 billion for Mombasa-Likoni bridge that was given to Kenya by the Japanese government?

Instead of a 100 billion bridge, the government is now only buying a 3 billion ferry. Nani amekula 97 billion?

Corruption in this country is denying people development and impoverishing millions while just a few benefit. Nkt!

[MAKANAKI @blackbhoy_]

Hard choice but I agree with him

[Arkham maruta @ArkhamJohn]

@georgediano It is strange plus unusual silence on the roads

[Arkham maruta @ArkhamJohn]

@ombachi13 @iAmNgash Sasa Ng'ash asikose kutokea kwa next meal giveaway to supporters. Plus awekewe supu ya kihuria moko aka pweza

[Maverick Aoko @AokoOtieno_]

Always told you about Ndindi Nyoro!

Bro bamboozled you (us) with big economic jargons then bailed out

Already hata you wanted him as next President

Anyway, by the time you reckon who Ruto truly is

He will be at Kasarani

“I William Kipchirchir, Arap woreva”

Chesa

[😈 Xavier ✞ @RealXavier011]

Stop these pranks 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[Presidential Library & Archives @OPLMKe]

FRIDAY PROFILES
John Koech
One afternoon in Nakuru, after a graduation ceremony at Egerton University, Cabinet Minister John Koech headed to President Daniel arap Moi’s Kabarak home for the traditional post-event luncheon. But at the gate, he was turned away.
Humiliated and furious, Koech drove straight to the Nation Media Group bureau in Nakuru and drafted a resignation letter. The following morning, just as the country was starting to buzz, he called a press conference to retract his letter. Nobody knows what transpired overnight but Koech went back to work having learned the bitter lesson that when you were appointed by Moi, you served at his pleasure. And you stopped serving at his pleasure, not yours.

That dramatic episode perfectly captured the complicated political life of John Koech: brilliant, independent-minded, loyal at times, but never fully comfortable playing politics by the rules of the day.
Born in 1946 in Olbutyo, Chepalungu, Koech’s journey began in the classroom. After studying at Tenwek High School, he graduated from Makerere University with a degree in Economics in 1972. He worked as a teacher and later as an education officer before plunging into politics during the turbulent transition from the Jomo Kenyatta era to the Moi presidency.

He first lost the Chepalungu parliamentary race in 1974, but by 1979, with Moi now firmly in power, Koech won the seat and quickly emerged as one of the South Rift’s rising political stars. Education became his calling card. Roads, schools, and electrification projects followed him across Chepalungu and the wider South Rift.
But in Moi’s inner circle, loyalty mattered as much as performance.

Koech’s independent streak often placed him on a collision course with powerful figures in Government. In 1988, he was appointed Minister for Public Works, only to be dismissed barely a year later. Allies claimed he had blocked influential individuals from exploiting his ministry for personal gain. After the sacking, his relationship with KANU deteriorated rapidly.
By 1990, he was expelled from the ruling party altogether, a political death sentence in the one-party era. His parliamentary seat was declared vacant and he was pushed into the cold.

Yet Koech was not finished.

After being politically rehabilitated, he reclaimed his Chepalungu seat in the 1992 elections and eventually returned to Cabinet in the late 1990s. But even then, his diplomatic style and refusal to embrace confrontational politics made him an uneasy fit within Moi’s hardline political machinery.

Outside politics, Koech remained deeply invested in development and education. He is remembered for helping establish Moi Siongiroi Girls Secondary School and pushing for rural electrification in Chepalungu. Unlike many politicians of his era, he openly criticised the culture of political handouts, insisting that true leadership meant empowering people rather than buying loyalty.

John Koech’s story is one of ambition, defiance, exile, and return. A story of a man who thrived in Moi’s system, yet never entirely belonged to it.

[CPA Wachira Joseph @WashiraX]

Court has warned KRA to go for real thieves, not NIL filers.

There is a company called Kapwell Enterprises Limited.

Their business is not complicated. They sell cargo clearing and forwarding services.

When they started, they had no one to show them mashimo. They only had hope and determination.

They hit the road.

2013, no deal.
2014, zero deal.
2015, no nothing.

Kazi ni kufile tu NIL returns.

As the director was busy tarmacking and accumulating tiny stones under his shoe heels,

Some crooks had stolen & were busy importing goods using Kapwell’s KRA PIN.

In 2018, Kapwell has known mashimo. They are minting real money. KRA notices.

They decided to audit.

Checking their internal customs system, they discovered that Kapwell’s PIN had imported goods worth 25M in 2013 and 2014. Yet they had filed NIL returns faithfully.

KRA went mad.

They took the 25M, added a fictitious 20% profit margin, computed income tax, VAT, penalties and interest, and slapped Kapwell with a tax bill of 11M.

Next morning at 3am, the director akagurumuka. He reached for his phone to check time. Saw an email notification. Hoping it was a client, he opened it.

Bahati mbaya, it was KRA. Delivering the bill.

Sleep ended instant.

• Lesson 1: usiku wacha simu sitting room.

At dawn, without even taking tea, he rushed to KRA to report a system error. Akaambiwa ndugu keti. He was shown mad numbers on the screen.

He swore he had never imported such goods.
KRA wakamwabia hii utalipa.

He ran to the police and reported a case of identity theft. Got an OB number. Took it back to KRA and asked them to investigate who had used his company PIN. He even gave them a list of competitors he suspected.

He then served KRA all of his bank statements. They were all zeros for those years.

But KRA could not hear any of it.

As KRA is doing all this, it is unaware of one dangerous sentence chilling quietly in Kenyan tax law.

It reads:
• KRA SHALL make inquiries into all tax issues raised by a taxpayer.

Make sure to underline the word SHALL. MANDATORY.

KRA did not investigate. Their position was:

• PIN ni yako. 11M ni yako. Lipa.

Frustrated, he ran to court.

The Tribunal asked KRA: Where is your investigation report?

- KRA said hakuna.

Tribunal invoked the one dangerous sentence. You still remember it?

• KRA SHALL make inquiries.

Tribunal ruled that the word SHALL is MANDATORY.

Tribunal concluded Kapwell was a victim of identity theft.
11M tax was set aside.

You would think that is the end. Noo.

KRA retreated to Times Tower swearing: 11M haiwezi enda hivo. Aje?

They appealed to the High Court.

In court, Kapwell was asked:
Why don’t you want to pay tax under your PIN ndugu?

He responded: My lord, I have no problem paying taxes. But not for goods I never bought, never touched, and never sold.

The good judge asked him: What do you mean?

He responded: My Lord, if you owe your landlord 100K. You take the 100k bundle to his office and hand it to him. As he starts counting, a thief storms in, orders everyone down, and in the confusion the landlord throws the money back at you. The thief grabs it and disappears. Have you paid rent or not?

The court went silent.

The judge asked him: Kapwell what are you saying?

He replied: My Lord, who should the landlord pursue for the money? You the tenant or the thief?

Judge removed his spectacles.

Paused.

Then sided with Kapwell.

The 11M tax was set aside.

KRA wakaambiwa waende watafute wezi wawalipe.

Case closed.

Lesson 2.

• KRA cannot tax a victim of identity theft.

• KRA must go for the real beneficiary thief.

[Captain Dominic Omondi @CaptainDominicO]

These people should now be arrested 🤣 how did they found the exact Oburu Odinga, Babu Owino and Esther Passaris. Hii ndio real talent 🤣🤣🤣

[Josh @joshpearson180]

Please watch this absolute masterpiece

David Munyua what a man! 🤩 🇰🇪

[Arkham maruta @ArkhamJohn]

@BreakTheKnown @amerix Esp Gastritis,

[Arkham maruta @ArkhamJohn]

@RAMaries22 @_James041 cappuccino assassino

[Arkham maruta @ArkhamJohn]

@citizentvkenya @OBurrows Lies, they have always turned this stone, and nothing happens

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

" I wish we have President Ruto for the next 25 years" - This is what Devki said 11 months ago!

[Brian Gitt @BrianGitt]

6/ The Bettering Human Lives Foundation aims to get clean cooking fuel into millions of African homes by giving low-cost loans to small African businesses to expand gas access and affordability.

No handouts. No government subsidies.

[Arkham maruta @ArkhamJohn]

@CjRandhawaX CV