fika mtaani

[Sophie Mugure Njehia @MugureNjehia]

Free Ademba ✊

[Kenyans.co.ke @Kenyans]

Building roads and stadiums is not an argument for re-election. As taxpayers, we deserve those things, they are not favours - Edwin Sifuna

[BRAVIN YURI @BravinYuri]

We can all learn from Ol Kalou residents. This is the proper 2027 template.

[Assweto🍷🍾❤️ @Asswetooo]

Maasai patriots blocking a politician's helicopter from landing, telling him to build roads instead of flying in to campaign. The chopper turned back without landing. A powerful message is being sent!

[MethoDman @polo_kimanii]

Olkalau Residents to @WilliamsRuto today:

[The People’s President @bonifacemwangi]

CS for Interior Murkomen, who issued a shoot-to-kill directive to police officers last year, wants the body that investigates police shootings the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) to come under his ministry.

This is not only illegal but also unconstitutional.

[The People’s President @bonifacemwangi]

Ol Kalou wamefunza waKenya dawa ya Ruto. Kula pesa ya UDA, chukua gas, matress, ata bebwa na boat yao lakini pigia kura kiongozi mwenya aja-kuhonga. Today democracy won. Kenyans in Ol Kalou defied goons, gunshots, and voted their candidate of choice. Siasa ya ukora imeanguka!

[Nelson Amenya @amenya_nelson]

Remember, Vietnam emerged from decades of war, including conflicts with the United States and invasion of Cambodia. Yet after the war, its leaders invited Lee Kuan Yew to advise them on building a free market economy. His speeches and book were translated into Vietnamese and distributed throughout the government so senior officials could study his ideas. Vietnam became the last of the Southeast Asian economic miracles. Despite losing years to war, it caught up with and ultimately surpassed Kenya, a country that has never been at war or geopolitical conflict.

[Hanifa 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 🇨🇩 🇰🇪 @Honeyfarsafi]

Kenyans in general need to learn from Ol-Kalou residents. If you must take their money,take it but don’t vote for them 😂😂😂

[Yoko @Kibet_bull]

A young lawyer student from Egerton University shares her views about the 2026 finance Bill.
She says we reject it

[Faith Odhiambo @FaithOdhiambo8]

The Finance Bill, 2026 was published on 30th April and is now before Parliament and every Kenyan deserves to know what is in it.

The government targets Ksh3.63 trillion in revenue for 2026/27 and a wider budget deficit of 5.3% of GDP in the 2026/27 fiscal year (July-June) up from 4.7% in 2025/26. These are not unreasonable fiscal objectives but the manner in which the burden of achieving them is distributed is a cause for serious concern.

On tax filing timelines, the Bill moves the income tax return deadline to April 30th which is two months earlier than the current June 30th and compresses nil return filing to January 31st. This reduces the time available for audit completion, cash flow planning and compliance. For small businesses and individual traders, this is not administrative reform. It is an additional compliance cost they can ill afford.

On mitumba, the Bill inserts a new Section 12H into the Income Tax Act which deems profit at 5% of customs value payable upfront before goods are released by KRA as a final tax. A trader importing a bale worth Ksh1 million pays Ksh50,000 regardless of whether they make a profit or a loss. I cannot in good conscience describe this as equitable.

 The Bill increases residential rental income tax from 7.5% to 10%. Absent a serious enforcement framework, this will drive non-compliance rather than revenue. The government must fix the enforcement gap before it increases the rate. One without the other is burden-shifting.

On digital financial services, the Bill removes existing VAT exemptions on money transfers and payment processing. These are the tools of financial inclusion that millions of Kenyans including the very people this government says it wants to reach rely on daily. Making them more expensive will not serve the objective of a broader tax base.

 By including interchange and merchant service fees within the definition of management or professional fees for withholding tax purposes, the Bill introduces a compliance burden into automated banking processes. That burden will be passed on to businesses and ultimately to consumers.

The amendment to Section 24 of the Income Tax Act empowers KRA to deem at least 60% of a company's undistributed income as dividends for tax purposes. This fails to account for legitimate decisions on reinvestment, working capital and business growth. It is a retrogressive measure that sends the wrong signal to the investors Kenya needs.

A 25% excise duty on telephones for cellular and wireless networks is proposed. A phone is not a luxury. It is how Kenyans bank, communicate, conduct business and access government services. Parliament must interrogate this carefully.

On PAYE, Kenyans were led to expect relief and a restructuring of the tax bands to ease the burden on salaried workers. That proposal does not appear in this Bill. That is not a minor omission. An explanation is owed to every employed Kenyan who was waiting for it.

To be fair, the Bill is not without merit. The reduction of corporate tax for non-resident companies from 37.5% to 30% improves our investment climate. The extension of the tax amnesty to cover liabilities up to 31st December 2025 provides a genuine and welcome pathway to compliance. VAT exemptions on electric buses, bicycles, dialysers, animal feed raw materials and PPP infrastructure are sensible measures. The clarity introduced on trust taxation ensuring beneficiaries are not taxed on income already taxed at the trust level and the recognition of gratuity contributions as exempt income are also steps in the right direction.

Be that as it may, we cannot afford a repeat of June 2024. Parliament must discharge its oversight role with the seriousness this moment demands. They should not merely rubber-stamp what the Treasury has placed before it. Every clause must be scrutinised. Every punitive or ambiguous provision must be rejected or amended.

#FinanceBill2026 #PublicParticipation

[Ndegwa Njiru Adv. @NjiruAdv]

WHY WE MUST REJECT THE FINANCE BILL 2026

Here is the numbered list of the controversial sections of the Finance Bill:

**Warrantless Data Access: **

Grants KRA unchecked access to private bank and mobile money records without a court order, violating constitutional privacy rights.

*Higher Smartphone Costs:*
Raises the excise duty on mobile devices from 10% to 25%, making phones more expensive.

**Costlier Internet: **
Imposes a new 15% tax on mobile data packages and internet bundles.

*Expensive Mobile Money:*
Removes VAT exemptions on financial transactions, driving up transaction fees for mobile transfers and payment systems.

**Upfront Mitumba Tax: **
Forces second-hand clothes traders to pay a 5% tax at customs based on "deemed profit," regardless of whether they make a loss.

**Increased Rent: **
Raises residential rental income tax from 7.5% to 10%, which is expected to trigger higher monthly rent for tenants.

**Fuel Pricing Changes: **
Alters the EPRA fuel levy formula, this will secure state funds rather than lowering local pump prices.

*Taxed Healthcare and Food Inputs:* Strips tax exemptions on raw materials used to make local medicines, animal feed, and green energy products.

#rejectthefinacebill

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

“Kenyatta National Hospital is an assassins’ den, not a medical facility,” a pastor says, adding that the Kenyan healthcare system is in the ICU.

[Sheryllisa @Sheryllisa52263]

Occupy politician houses and business is the deal.

[Nelson Amenya @amenya_nelson]

The most dangerous form of blindness is believing that your perspective is the only reality.

[Paul Muite SC @Paul_Muite]

People MUST resist Freehold Land being turned into Leasehold and oppressive TAXES imposed with the Land being auctioned upon failure to pay the those taxes.Objective is to disposess people of their Lands and turn them into labourers for the new owners.We have a CRIMINAL regime

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

The latest propaganda being pushed around UDA and 2027 is very simple.

They want Kenyans to believe that the election is already gone, that Ruto will rig, that voting will not matter, that registration is useless and that the people should enter 2027 already defeated in their minds.

That is why you are seeing this “they will rig” line being sponsored and amplified everywhere, including by sections of the media that have become very friendly to this regime.

NTV itself has carried the framing of UDA leaders allegedly plotting to rig 2027, showing how loud this narrative has become in public conversation.

To be honest, the optics of serious, countrywide rigging are too heavy for this regime.

This is a government that cannot repair potholes, cannot manage fuel prices, cannot manage schools, cannot manage hospitals, cannot manage salaries, cannot even explain simple taxes without creating anger.

You really believe the same confused regime has the intelligence, discipline, secrecy and technical sophistication to manage a clean nationwide rigging operation without being caught?

Rigging a presidential election is not like bribing a few brokers in a hotel or manipulating a small party nomination. A national election has agents, polling stations, forms, constituency tallying centres, observers, media, screenshots, live streams, parallel tallies and millions of angry citizens watching every number. The moment Kenyans realize even one vote does not tally, this country will enter a crisis bigger than anything this regime can control.

That is why I believe this “he will rig anyway” chorus is not just a warning.

It is psychological warfare meant to kill voter registration, kill turnout and create apathy. It is also meant to make young people say, “Why vote if they will steal it?” That is exactly where they want you mentally.

The real answer is not to stay home but massive registration, massive turnout, agents in every polling station, parallel tallying, civic vigilance and zero fear.

Elections are not stolen from people who are awake, organized and watching every vote. Elections are stolen from people who were discouraged before the first ballot was even cast.

So don’t fall for the propaganda. The vote still matters, registration matters, turnout mattes and polling station vigilance matters.

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

This fuel increase is economic terrorism against Kenyans.

Petrol is up, Diesel is up. Transport will go up, food will go up, power backups will become more expensive, and every small business will be squeezed again.

You cannot keep looting, overtaxing and mismanaging a country, then punish citizens at the pump and call it regulation.

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Kenya’s government creates a problem that didn’t exist, then offers a solution that doesn’t solve it.

[Mwafreeka @Mwafreeka]

Iko Nini Studio ROBBED! Help Us Identify Robbery Suspects!Iko Nini Podcast is offering a Ksh 100,000 cash reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the three men who robbed our studio and stole 2 cameras.