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.
πΆ Wero... Werokamu guku kwa wa Kanini... Werokamu... πΆ
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.
β’ 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?
β’ 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.
β’ Lesson 2.
- Document everything.
- KRA will push. Push hard.
Edwin Sifuna is a true son of Baba Raila Odinga and a real Kenyan patriot, who stood with him in good and bad times.
βOn this special day, we honor your courage, your consistency, and your unwavering dedication to the mwananchi.
βHappy Birthday !
How can a poor third work country called Kenya spend Kshs 1.1 trillion in just 9 months on tea, mandasi, samosa, workshop/seminars in Mombasa and air tickets?
Getting Ruto out of power canβt and must not be the only agenda. Itβs an agenda, but not and cannot be the only one.
The MAIN AGENDA must be the complete structural and institutional overhaul and transformation of the incurably defective colonial system which imposes, protects and sustains charlatans like Ruto in power. The system which was DESIGNED to subjugate Africans to servitude and to perpetuate impunity of the few over the majority.
Unity of purpose must be based on a common progressive, revolutionary and transformative ideology, vision and program of action; not mere sloganeering.
Anyone who aspires to unite with Fred Matiangβi, Uhuru Kenyatta, Babu Patel and other CRIMINALS who have maimed, tortured and murdered innocent Kenyans is part and parcel of the rotten system Kenyans must overhaul and transform.
Those shouting that the only thing that matters is to remove Ruto from power without ARTICULATING their vision and UNVEILING their transformative programs only want to INHERIT the same rotten and incurably defective system so that they continue perpetuating impunityβjust like Moi, Kibaki, Uhuru Kenyatta and Ruto did (is doing).
Kenyans must reject the recycling of imperialist and Zionist lackeys whose primary agenda is the continuation of the neocolonial anti-people state for their self aggrandizement!
He is fired from KRA. He is then appointed Ambassador same minute. I don't get it!...and hundreds of career officers some working in the Minstry for 30 years are overlooked...Orwellian...Animal Farm!
1. Daniel Arap Moi with Jaramogi - 1993 Cooperasoon
2. Daniel Arap Moi with Raila Odinga- 1999 Merger of KANU and NDP
3. Mwai Kibaki with Raila Odinga - 2008 Nusu Mkate Grand Coalition
4. Uhuru Kenyatta with Raila Odinga- 2018 Handshake
5. William Ruto with Raila Odinga- 2024 Broadbased
We are avoiding the inevitable. We need a constitutional dispensation that will guarantee Kenya long term sustainable peace and stability without these personal deals. We need to pick from where BBI failed. Only for those who love Kenya. Only for those who are worried like I am about the future of our children.
Why do Kenyans keep saying Albert Ojwangβ was βarrested in Homa Bay?β That is the story by the murderers you are repeating.
Albert Ojwangβ was ABDUCTED from his home in MIGORI.
Liberation starts with speaking the TRUTH and avoiding lies manufactured by the criminals.
#JusticeForAlbertOjwang
#Justice4AlbertOjwang
#ArrestEliudLagat
#ArrestMohamedAmin
#OccupyStateHouse
#RutoMustGoNow
The cabinet is made up of;
- Drug dealers
- Terrorists
- Home wreckers
- Pedophiles, Rapists and Sodomites
The indiscipline in the Executive cannot take this country to greater heights.
#RailaRutoMustGo#DrainTheSwamp
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There's a petition in High Court which was filed by Human Rights Activists,
Seeking for the impeachment of William Ruto through a people's referendum.
That petition has given that man sleepless nights because he knows that if High Court okays it,
He will be unanimously impeached by 8:13 a.m.
No one can stop an ejaculation that has already left the testicles.
#RutoMustGo