KanCedi @kancencious - Twitter Profile

2 months ago

Mr President, the deeper issue is not whether government should collect revenue. Every functioning state must fund roads, security, fertilizer support, healthcare, and other public goods. The real question is whether you are taxing a sufficiently productive economy or trying to compensate for weak production through increasingly aggressive extraction. An economy cannot sustainably fund public services if businesses are shrinking, manufacturing is weak, energy remains expensive, and millions of young people remain economically underutilised. Eventually the tax burden becomes concentrated on too few formal workers and enterprises while the broader productive base remains thin. That is where the real danger lies. Long-term stability does not come primarily from finding new taxes every year. It comes from expanding productive capacity so that more people, firms, and industries generate value, employment, and taxable income naturally. Countries that built durable public services first built economies capable of carrying those services sustainably. Kenya needs a shift toward large-scale production, industrial growth, cheaper and reliable energy, export competitiveness, stable tax policy, and conditions that encourage businesses to expand rather than constantly adjust defensively. A broader productive economy would enlarge the tax base, reduce debt dependence, lower pressure for repeated tax increases, and ultimately make public services more sustainable. The challenge is not simply raising revenue. It is building an economy strong enough to generate it without exhausting its citizens in the process. Tunaelewana my friend?

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3 months ago

As we speak today, Kenyan politics remains the graveyard of imagination because the people who rule this country keep becoming billionaires without building anything that can honestly be called industry. Take Rigathi Gachagua as an example. He is a billionaire today, yet when you ask what serious industry he owns, what factory he built, what product he created, what export empire he established or what invention changed people’s lives, the answer disappears into tenders, land, proxies and state access. If you want to track stolen Kenyan money today, stop looking for complicated explanations and just follow the plots, the sudden apartments, the ranches, the malls, the relatives and the proxies who become rich without any visible enterprise. Kenya’s political class has perfected the art of turning public office into private land, then calling the proceeds investment. Now look at gambling and ask yourself why almost all politicians are linked to betting, Aviator style addiction and gambling companies that drain poor Kenyans every day. A young man loses his last fifty shillings chasing fake hope on his phone, while the same political class that ruined the economy stands behind the machinery taking the money. From Ruto to Gachagua and the wider political class around them, the problem is not just corruption but a total lack of creativity. These people are not creative enough to build industries, so they build gates around public money and charge Kenyans to pass through their own country. They do not create value for citizens, they create access for themselves, and when they gather in one place, you are not looking at leaders with ideas but at the easiest industry in Kenya for people whose only real talent is extracting money from poor citizens without shame.

C_NyaKundiH's tweet photo. As we speak today, Kenyan politics remains the graveyard of imagination because the people who rule this country keep becoming billionaires without building anything that can honestly be called industry.

Take Rigathi Gachagua as an example.

He is a billionaire today, yet when you ask what serious industry he owns, what factory he built, what product he created, what export empire he established or what invention changed people’s lives, the answer disappears into tenders, land, proxies and state access.

If you want to track stolen Kenyan money today, stop looking for complicated explanations and just follow the plots, the sudden apartments, the ranches, the malls, the relatives and the proxies who become rich without any visible enterprise.

Kenya’s political class has perfected the art of turning public office into private land, then calling the proceeds investment.

Now look at gambling and ask yourself why almost all politicians are linked to betting, Aviator style addiction and gambling companies that drain poor Kenyans every day.

A young man loses his last fifty shillings chasing fake hope on his phone, while the same political class that ruined the economy stands behind the machinery taking the money.

From Ruto to Gachagua and the wider political class around them, the problem is not just corruption but a total lack of creativity.

These people are not creative enough to build industries, so they build gates around public money and charge Kenyans to pass through their own country.

They do not create value for citizens, they create access for themselves, and when they gather in one place, you are not looking at leaders with ideas but at the easiest industry in Kenya for people whose only real talent is extracting money from poor citizens without shame.

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