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[National Police Service-Kenya @NPSOfficial_KE]

PRESS STATEMENT : CLARIFICATION ON THE DEATH OF ALBERT OMONDI OJWANG

[🅿️ @notnamedjean]

I be in her ear just like this

[PM Breaking News @PMBreakingNews]

Breaking: Fire causes historic Bata shoe factory to collapse in Zlín, Czech Republic.

[Talisman🔫 @maximpelle]

Chesaa

[Nyamisa Chelagat @Nyamisa_Chela]

Good morning.

[Yoko @Kibet_bull]

Today we stand with Halima.

#FreeHalima

[limitless Media Ke @LimitlessKe95]

A plainclothes police officer was spotted pointing a gun at an unarmed lady in Kiamaiko…

[🍁RASTA MAN™🍁 @ItsJeffreyJeff]

RIP to Onstream😭💔.. i have really enjoyed those 3+ years i have used it to stream movies! Ebu recommend sites mnatumia bwana! I am suffering

[elaine @teqstina]

my mayor that beefs with 300 y/o corpses

[The Standard Digital @StandardKenya]

Rest in peace, Our Heroes.

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[Mwango Capital @MwangoCapital]

@WilliamsRuto @coldtusker Someone made this perfect ad for the Standard 😅

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

BREAKING NEWS: Kenyans have occupied Parliament Buildings.

[Babu Owino @HEBabuOwino]

😂😂😂 where is this boy?

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

Kenyan youth chant anti-Ruto slogans as #RejectFinanceBill2024 protests begin in Nairobi

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

This group of #RejectFinanceBill2024 protestors is now marching into Nairobi CBD.

[Mzalendo Mūtemi wa Kīama @MutemiWaKiama]

Ruto is no longer preparing to win 2027.

He is preparing for what happens AFTER Kenyans reject the results.

Look carefully at the pattern.

Njoki Ndung’u being pushed to the ICC.
Philomena Mwilu exiting soon.

Warsame already singing “respect the appointing authority.”

A carefully cultivated Supreme Court bench slowly taking shape around one man’s political survival.

This is not random.
This is architecture.

A 7 judge shield designed to sanitize disputed elections, neutralize constitutional resistance and protect power at all costs.

Kenyans must stop thinking rigging only happens at polling stations.

Modern state capture happens in the courts, in appointments, in institutions and in silent elite deals made years before an election.

Why is State House so invested in judicial positioning?

Why are loyalists being rewarded strategically?

Why is every independent institution slowly becoming politically obedient?

Because Ruto understands one thing:

The real battle after 2027 may not be in the streets.
It may be in the Supreme Court of Kenya.

Observe the SCOK carefully.

Observe the appointments.

Observe the silence.

Observe the programming.

This regime is not planning for democracy.

It is planning for legal protection after democracy is violated.

History has taught us one painful truth:

When the judiciary is captured, the citizen becomes powerless.

2027 will not just be about votes.

It will be about whether Kenya still has institutions strong enough to defend those votes.

#Borrowed

[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

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

KLM flight attendant has been hospitalized after being in contact with hantavirus cruise ship passenger who eventually died.

[jackson herbert @herbertj254]

@Lobe_sh @SomoinaKapeen 😅