Judith Adem Owigar

Founder @JuaKaliWorkers | Co-founder @AkiraChix | The intersection of E-mobility, gender, youth, governance and technology. She/Her. Tweets-my own.

[Judith Adem Owigar @owigarj]

Do the work as an offering, and then whatever happens, happens.

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[Green Belt Movement @GreenBeltMovmnt]

UHURU & CENTRAL PARK UNDER THREAT AGAIN!
Reports indicate plans to take parts of these public parks for Uhuru Highway expansion. Survey beacons are already on site. Kenyans deserve answers. Once public land is lost, it is rarely recovered. #HandsOffUhuruPark #HandsOffCentralPark

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

They've engineered the silence because they fear you more than they fear any judge. An informed public is their worst nightmare. So read the filings. Track the hearings. Ask the hard questions. The @IMFAfrica @KeTreasury, @NAssemblyKE, and every pen that signed these loans must answer.

Some politicians waiting in the wings will not speak because they hope to inherit the same broken system. To those seeking office: this is a test of principle. You cannot inherit a system you refuse to question.

We don't need their headlines to know our rights. The Constitution didn't give us a voice to whisper. The front page isn't theirs to give. It's ours to demand. Stay loud. Stay informed. The law is on our side
#OdiousDebtKenya #PeoplePower #DeniBandia

[CPA Wachira Joseph @WashiraX]

KRA has refused to let Java House go.

You definitely know Java House.

Me, I first encountered it in 2015 while hunting for an attachment in the streets of Nairobi.

All along, I thought it was a biig college teaching Java coding. With branches in every corner.
Until my boss asked to meet me there.

I rushed thinking the legend had enrolled for classes.
Only for him to order coffee for me.

Since then, it has been my favourite coffee joint.

Buana ushamba iheshimiwe.

Now,

In 2012, the two founders of Java House had made their kill after running the company for 13 straight years since 1999.

It was time to go to the beach. They sold the company to ECP Africa in Mauritius.

There was no capital gains tax in Kenya then. So the boys left with their money KRA free.

Before ECP bought the company, they knew:
- Kenya changes laws very fast.
- If they bought shares directly in Kenya
- And later sold them
- They could face taxes if laws changed

So they got smart. They set up a shell company in Mauritius. Called it Java House Mauritius Limited. This company is the one that bought Java House Kenya.

So we now have:
- ECP Africa (Mauritius) owning
- Java House Mauritius
- Which owns Java House Kenya
Clean stuff.

Time came to cash out.

ECP Africa remembered it was also owned by ECP fund in Washington DC.

And ECP DC had a subsidiary management company in Kenya called ECP Kenya Limited.

They agreed and tasked ECP Kenya to:
- To study Java house and improve the business to make more valuable on behalf of ECP Africa.
- Decide when to sell it
- Find a buyer
- Negotiate the deal

In short, ECP Kenya was managing the entire investment.

As all this was happening, they are unaware of one dangerous sentence chilling quietly in Kenyan tax law.

It reads:
• Any company managed and controlled from Kenya is a Kenyan resident company.

In 2017, ECP Africa sold Java house Mauritius company to a Dubai mogul for $100M.

- About 10B shillings.

Everything happened in Mauritius. No shares moved in Kenya to trigger anything.

• Deal is closed. 0 tax.

Bahati mbaya, KRA caught wind that Java is gone.

KRA immediately embarked on a fault finding mission.
And in 2022, found that:
- The entire transaction was managed from Kenya
- Through ECP Kenya

They invoked the one dangerous sentence. You remember it?

• Any company managed and controlled from Kenya is Kenyan company.

KRA said:
• This deal is Kenyan
• Tax must be paid in Kenya

Tax demanded: 2.5B
ECP Kenya to pay it.

ECP Kenya ran to the tax appeal tribunal. Tribunal sided with KRA.

ECP Kenya ran to the High Court. They judge looked at the case and asked KRA why it behaved like a bitter ex.

KRA responded: My Lord, imagine educating your wife, then akigraduate she leaves you for a man of her class. How would you feel?

Judge akakubali inauma.

ECP wakaambiwa walipe tax.

Case closed.

Lesson.

• Structure your offshore deal properly.

• Or KRA will structure it for you.

[ꪝe @_wej01]

This lady said,,
My husband and I were at a dinner last night with some close friends and we were discussing feminism and more specifically the “Grape Academy” and the male counterpart said he didn’t align with my statement that all men are dangerous to which my husband promptly and immediately stepped in and said. “We don’t know which shark might bite us if we swim with sharks either. Women know it’s not ALL men. The issue is they don't know WHICH men.”

[Alinur Mohamed @AlinurMohamed_]

Lawyer and human rights activist mzee Dr. John Khaminwa went to Central Police Station last night to offer free legal support and pay cashbail for the gen z that were arrested during maandamano in Nairobi CBD. He was denied access. The OCS run away.

[Kadathi @lucindajanet]

I went to check my IEBC biometrics and to my surprise as well as the clerks, there was a photo of a man instead of me🙆🏾‍♀️🙆🏾‍♀️

[Hanifa 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 🇨🇩 🇰🇪 @Honeyfarsafi]

After I posted the mchanga audited reports in 2024 , exhausted, mentally drained and almost running mad, jobless and traumatized, Mwabili shared my number here enthusiastically and Kenyans gave me a million ksh that I’ll never forget. It’s our turn now to support him 0799428109

[Author Sakwah Ongoma @CSakwah]

They made Literature optional in senior school, where English is compulsory.
They have banned politically themed items during high school drama festivals.
Publishers are now needed to submit PDFs of each book published to the Kenyan Senate.

We are back in the 1980s.

[Sophieeee @Is_Sophia2]

Went to register a SIM today, and what happened honestly got me thinking.

After the first process, he captured my face, and I assumed everything was done. Next thing, he said the registration didn’t go through because the network was bad. Since I wasn’t paying too much attention at first, we started the process all over again.

This time, I noticed he picked up another SIM entirely, not the one we had registered earlier.

That was when it hit me… he had registered two different SIMs.

This is exactly how people get implicated in things they know nothing about.

I made sure I collected both SIMs, even though he kept denying it. I’m very sure of what I saw.

In the next 24 hours, I’ll find out if both were activated.

Please, whenever you’re registering a SIM, pay close attention. Don’t assume anything. Watch every step.

[husseinkhalid @husskhalid]

Receiving information from @VOCALAfrica_’s Nairobi team @odhiamboojiro and @StacyAkiny13706 that the postmortem for Vincent Otieno Ayoma, who was shot and killed yesterday in Kitengela, is planned for tomorrow, Tuesday.

Vincent was 28 years old when he met his untimely death. He was shot in the eye and the bullet exited from the back of the head. He lives behind a wife - 24yrs old Khadija Riamey - and one daughter.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

It’s been months and I’m still trying to figure out why AI data centers need fresh water. Not used water. Not recycled water. Fresh water???

[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

It has now been confirmed that one person lost their life in Kitengela yesterday. The Police shot and killed 28 year old Vincent Ayomo. This is another senseless and needless killing by Ruto’s regime. We send our condolences to Vincent’s family and demand for justice and accountability. This is exactly what we are fighting against.

[The People’s President @bonifacemwangi]

Mwabili Mwagodi is currently being held at Lunga Lunga Police Post. He was arrested yesterday en route to Tanzania on a warrant from Michael Sang of @DCI_Kenya with no crime specified. He spent the night in jail. #FreeMwabili

[Kamoga munawa @KamogaMunawa]

I’m loving how Kenyans Gen Z are picking up on Ugandan affairs…🇺🇬🇰🇪

[Kawangware Finest ™ - Geoffrey Moturi @cbs_ke]

Dear @ntsa_kenya,
This brave gentleman believes Kenya must be a country of order and discipline.
At Allsops, drama unfolded when a matatu driver (KCA 527T) invaded a pedestrian walkway. The man stood his ground and refused to give way.
This driver needs JESMA 006 immediately.
Kindly also identify the matatu tout who was verbally abusing this citizen for doing the right thing.

[KAI @OmwengaVicton]

Today Mpesa we are paying twice for the same thing. I can't check my balance or access my mini statement. It's time we go back to Cash. Mpesa is so unreliable

[Engdrkamunde @StanleyKaruga]

What is happening with Safaricom. Mpesa?

[Sarah Kimani @sarahkimani]

East Africa is normalising sexual violence in politics. It's terrible! Terrifying to imagine what Barbie went through.

[Lydia Owuor @itslydiaowuor]

I know I’m not the only one who notices the quiet grief we Africans carry. For delayed exposure, slow systems, almost zero safety nets, starting adulthood already tired and having dreams literally cut short by bad governance.

No single day goes by on this app without reading it.

[Motorist Association @motoristsoffice]

MAK STATEMENT
The Motorists Association of Kenya (MAK) strongly voices resentment on the carefree conduct of KeNHA under the Director General for deliberately creating artificial traffic congestion along the Salgaa–Mau Summit corridor during the festive season. Scheduling and timing road works when thousands of Kenyans are travelling for the holidays is callous, insensitive, and directly contradicts KeNHA’s stated mandate of providing seamless connectivity. The congestion witnessed at Mai Mahiu, Gilgil, Salgaa, and Kikopey is not accidental, it is artificial and engineered to falsely “prove” congestion and justify the push for tolling public highways by profit seeking privateers. MAK rejects this bad administration and demands accountability, transparency, and people-centred planning that prioritises safety, mobility, and the dignity of motorists.