AWESOME JAY

[IRAN EMBASSY in KENYA @IRANinKENYA]

Trump: “I call the shots.”
Netanyahu: “I don’t think I’ve allowed you to call anything, mate.”
The puppet finally realized who holds the strings.

[Mutuma Mathiu 🇰🇪 @mutuma_mathiu]

By proposing to clear 100 acres of precious endangered tropical forest - to build a State lodge that will be used once in a blue moon, an airstrip only about 30km from an international airport and a bloody golf course - UDA and the dim Governor of Meru have dug their own political graves.
First, Meru is probably one of the most endangered agricultural and biodiversity ecosystems in Africa. Most of the forest, its main water catchment area, is already destroyed. Its rivers have all become seasonal. And the glaciers on Mt Kenya are expected to be all gone in about three years.
Where will the farmers get water for their coffee, tea and cabbages? The State Lodge tap?
The spineless governor just cut off his own political cojones. He has started a fight he has already lost. Wait and see.

[CPA Wachira Joseph @WashiraX]

KRA wants a share of dowry money.

There is a guy called Kamau.

When it was time to buy his wife, he mobilized his most monied buddies.

He put them in a WhatsApp group. The fundraising began.

Those boys were loaded. They were only 35.
By by the time they were done, they had contributed 4.5 million shillings.

Others who were not in the group wired money directly to Kamau's bank account.

The ruracio D-Day arrived.

And as always, the one and only Kikuyu ruracio anthem was tuned.

🎶 Wero... Werokamu guku kwa wa Kanini... Werokamu... 🎶

Before they could finish the song, more than 2,000 people had pulled up.

Wakaanza kutoa funjo. Then one man stood on a stool and announced they could not sit until they had given Kamau top up money to add to the dowry.

The donation book was hurriedly brought. People lined up. Cash started flowing.

By the end of the day, another 2.8 million shillings had been raised.

Kamau took the money and banked it.

Total dowry contribution sitting at his bank account: 8m shillings.

The ceremony became the talk of Gatundu South.

Kamau paid his dowry. Collected his wife. And went home peacefully.

• Lesson 1. Monied friends are good for paying dowry.

I have no clue how. But sometime later, Kamau was marked for a KRA tax audit.

KRA went straight for his bank statements. They found deposits of 8 million shillings.

Immediately, they baptized the entire amount as undeclared taxable income.

Then demanded: 30% income tax. Penalties plus interest.

Total bill: 2.5 million shillings plus.

When Kamau saw the tax bill, he went mad.
He could try to talk but words would not come out. He nearly swallowed his tongue.

When he came back to real life. He shipped a protest letter to KRA.

He explained the money was dowry contribution from his family, friends and well wishers.

- He produced WhatsApp group fundraising screenshots.
- He produced RTGS confirmations.
- He produced the donation book.
- He even produced videos of the ceremony.

Including footage of the Werokamu song.

KRA could not hear any of it. They only wanted 2.5 million.

When Kamau realized KRA was not playing, he ran to court.

He told the Tribunal:

- My lord, look. I have shown KRA where the money came from.
- I have shown KRA who contributed it.
- I have shown KRA the ceremony.
- What more do they want from me?

KRA responded.
And what they said nearly made the judges fall off their chairs.

They argued the evidence was not convincing.

Why?

• Because the 2,000 plus donors had not sworn affidavits confirming that the money they gave was a donation and not payment for goods or services.

The Tribunal looked at the matter in amusement.

Then ruled.

- Kamau had discharged his burden of proof in full.
- KRA had acted unreasonably by ignoring and disregarding the substantial evidence he provided.
- And most importantly: Income tax is a tax on income. It is not a tax on every deposit appearing in a bank account.

The Tribunal found that KRA was wrong to treat all bank deposits as taxable income without first removing proven non income items such as dowry contributions.

The tax demand was killed.

Kamau won.

KRA retreated to Times Tower. And rested.

Case closed.

• Lesson 2.

- Document everything.

- KRA will push. Push hard.

[Charles Kanjama SC @ckanjama]

We equally want to see the Kenya government take robust measures to avoid cases of Ebola from entering Kenya. That includes declining the request by the US Government to set up an Ebola Treatment Centre in Kenya where Ebola patients from other countries will be flown in.

Since all Ebola patients deserve access to the highest standard of medical care, and we owe them human solidarity even as we protect the healthy population, public health dictates require that the medical treatment facility and treatment isolation protocols be set up near the common epicentre of the infection. That is either in Eastern Congo or Western Uganda.

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

“You don't expect the people who came to invade us to write the truth about us.” ~ Miriam Makeba

[AWESOME JAY @awesomejaymes]

@IRANinKENYA is it true that your enemies were stealing your rain?

[IRAN EMBASSY in KENYA @IRANinKENYA]

Unfortunately, a 4.6 magnitude earthquake hit Tehran tonight. Thought I'd report it myself before Trump claims it as another achievement of his war.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. IRANinKENYA

[Wholesome @wholesome_X_]

A Tanzanian teacher welcomes his students some of whom are visually impaired by cleaning their shoes and offering them words of affirmation.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

MALEMA DROPS A BOMBSHELL — "AFTER ALL YOUR ATTACKS, HOW MANY JOBS DID YOU CREATE?" 🇿🇦 ✊🏾

South Africa's Julius Malema has silenced the xenophobia debate with one powerful question! You marched. You burnt shops. You beat innocent Africans in the streets.

So tell us: where are the jobs?

Zimbabweans, Nigerians, and Ethiopians did not steal your future. A broken government and corruption did!

Malema said it loud and clear: "I don't want votes that make me hate fellow Africans!"

Africa helped South Africa defeat apartheid. This is how you repay the continent?

Violence never created a single job. Ever.

[IRAN EMBASSY in KENYA @IRANinKENYA]

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[IRAN EMBASSY in KENYA @IRANinKENYA]

Agree, Prof., since our Kenyan energy is that unlimited, maybe we can just teleport to Hormuz, uninstall Trump's blockade, and still make it back for matatu fare.
https://t.co/89mTzXv8e9

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

Gladys Shollei is pushing a dangerous amendment, and Kenyans should pay attention.

Yesterday, during a debate on the Public Participation Bill, she proposed removing a key safeguard: the requirement to publish public participation outcomes.

Right now, Section 12(2) requires that once public participation is done, the results be made public, for example, on a website, so citizens can see what Kenyans actually said.

Her proposal? Remove it completely or
Keep that information private.
If you want it, you must apply to the same authority that collected it.

Let me be honest, we already know how this ends.

We have been requesting NHIF, Housing levy, and capitation data for over 6 months. Letters sent to MOH and MOE. No response. Total silence. We are now heading to court soon.

Now imagine this:

A bad bill is rejected by Kenyans during public participation.
The authority then claims: “Kenyans supported it.”

How do you verify?
You write to them, and they ignore you.
That’s the trap.

This amendment would legalize secrecy and make it impossible to hold the government accountable.
Public participation without transparency is just a rubber stamp.

MPs must reject this amendment.

Kenyans deserve a public portal where participation outcomes are visible, verifiable, and permanent.

Enough hiding.

Article 35 on access to information is becoming ceremonial, and soon, we will prove that in court.

[Miad @ZFXtrading]

EURUSD looks very heavy.

Market has already worked through the entire previous wave of targets.

The next obvious target remains at 1.13XX

This is the FX setup we’ve seen in weeks.

[Nelson Havi SC @NelsonHavi]

Dr Job Obwaka is a decorated obstetrician and a leader at the Nairobi Hospital. He was abducted at 9am by the police and his phone confiscated and switched off. All this in pursuit of a determined effort by senior officials in Government to grab the land on which the hospital is built. We must stop these people on the ballot in August, 2027. It is WANTAM!

[Hon. Justin Muturi, EGH @HonJBMuturi]

In May 2022, while I was in Mombasa, William Ruto called me and asked me to come meet him in Karen when I returned. When I got there, he wasn’t around. I waited for some time and eventually sent him a message saying I was leaving.

He called me back and told me he was meeting “some three gentlemen.” I asked, “Which ones?” He told me himself: Wafula Chebukati, Abdi Guliye, and Boya Molu. This was just two days before he named Rigathi Gachagua as his running mate.

They were meeting at the main house in Karen, not at the IEBC offices. The meeting was not official, and even the people who were coming there didn’t know it was happening. I don’t know what was discussed, but what I do know is that from that meeting, William Ruto was very confident he would win the 2022 elections.

[JH @CRUDEOIL231]

I bought more here. You have to look at actions, not words—but too many ppl seem so distracted by the talk that they're ignoring the reality.

He was just spouting wishful thinking and bragging about military achievements.

It's a total paradox to talk about seizing the Strait of Hormuz and installing a new leader for Iran while expecting a ceasefire.

[Anwar Saddat @AnuarSaddat]

Kijana Mwangi Ng’ang’a was abducted by the state several days ago because of this tweet.

He has not been charged with anything and his family has not been told where he is.

We continue to tell the government that citizens have every right to criticize the government.

These continued abductions need to stop.

We hope that the abduction squad that took him have not harmed him in any way.

We look forward to that day that Ruto and the those around him will develop thick skin to withstand citizens criticism, and not necessarily abducting and killing those who criticize his government.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president.

The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo.

Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water.

I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit.

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

If this was Gaza there'd be a second strike coming about now to reward the rescue workers.

[kipyegon @edwin_mbosso]

There's a rumoured tape that was allegedly captured Rigathi Gachagua and MP Emurua Dikirr Johana Ngeno plotting to overthrow william Ruto in a certain hotel in Kisumu. I regret and blame Gachagua for failing to execute that idea.