U dont have 2Bliv everything I tweet.Retweet doesnt constitute endorsement.@times I tweet 2provoke debates.Moving Onwards & Upwards.Test of wording is in doing!
The amount of setbacks Arteta suffered in the transfer market over the years was incredible.
Pep spent €500m in his first two summer despite inheriting a title winning team.
Arteta inherited mid table mediocrity, spent less & had Arsenal competing for the title in 22/23.
Mad.
For a second time after winning gold, skater Kevin Kiarie has been ignored by the Kenyan government. Unlike athletes in other disciplines, Kevin was only received by friends and family, with no government presence.
I’ve endured this club’s struggles year after year, facing ridicule and becoming a laughingstock. Some fans gave up but we remained loyal to Arsenal. We earned the nickname next season FC for our unwavering belief that next season will be better than the last. Finally, all that loyalty is paying off. We’re just three games away from becoming Premier League champions and then we head to Budapest to conquer Europe.
We love you Arsenal. Yes we do.
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.
The joy some people derive from Arsenal’s defeat says more about human nature than football. There is a strange comfort many find in the fall of those who are striving, perhaps because it makes their own struggles feel lighter. When something or someone is seen as “good,” their failure becomes a spectacle, not just a result. It reminds us that, for many, it is easier to celebrate a downfall than to confront someone else’s rise.
Ethiopia is landlocked.
It imports its oil mostly from the Gulf (Saudia & UAE), and the rest from India and Singapore.
Its oil lands in Djibouti and gets connected to a 550km Pipeline to Addis Ababa.
After all this, it lands petrol at the pump at KES 110-120 amid the current geopolitical crisis.
Kenya gets oil from the same Gulf, ships it directly to its own ports, and then a pipeline that the government mostly controls.
It then retails petrol at KES 206.
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!
🚨🚨💣 | Thomas Frank on Arsenal’s Title Charge: 🗣️
🎙️“For a long time, I had to stay quiet; professional reasons, you understand. But that’s behind me now. I don’t have to hide it anymore. I’ve always had a soft spot for Arsenal, and now I can finally enjoy watching them properly… maybe even with an Arsenal mug in hand (laughs)
What Mikel Arteta and the players are doing right now is elite. The structure, the discipline, the bravery it’s top-level football. And let’s be honest, not many teams have shown the kind of consistency and growth Arsenal have managed over the last three seasons. That doesn’t just happen by luck.
I’m rooting for them to go all the way. The Premier League is there for them if they push, and why stop there? They have everything needed to compete for the UEFA Champions League as well. They’ve earned the right to believe
On the Critics ?
I hear the noise, the criticism and honestly, it’s a bit amusing. Most of the people talking haven’t reached the level Arsenal have set in recent years. It’s easy to criticize from a distance, but much harder to build what this team has built
Now it’s simple go all out, leave nothing behind. Good luck to Arteta and the boys… finish the job”