BREAKING: The Auditor General has warned that the Finance Bill 2026 could make life more expensive for ordinary Kenyans & threaten Ruto's BETA goals.
Here's how:
• Medicine prices could rise because pharmaceutical manufacturers will face higher production costs after VAT changes on key inputs.
• Animal feed prices could rise because feed manufacturers and farmers will no longer be able to easily recover VAT on inputs, increasing the cost of livestock production.
• Transaction costs could rise because VAT exemptions on money transfers and payment processing are being removed.
• Affordable housing could become more expensive because approved projects will now face an additional 16% VAT on certain goods and materials.
In simple terms:
You could pay more at the pharmacy.
Farmers could pay more to feed livestock.
Businesses could pay more to move money.
What makes this story even more interesting is that when some of us raised these concerns, we were told we were lying and spreading propaganda.
Now the Auditor General is warning Parliament about the very same issues.
If medicine, food production, and digital transactions all become more expensive, who exactly benefits from the Finance Bill 2026?
Fred Matiang'i alighted from his car and faced police officers who had been ordered to block his rally.....Shockingly, Police Officers told him they've been badly misused by Govmnt to fight the opposition.
Madness in Kakamega today: police tear-gassed a busload of Friends School Binyenya kids returning from a music festival in Mumias — mistaken for United Opposition rally supporters. This is what happens when our police are weaponized for politics instead of protecting citizens. Sad.
Kenya has over 75% of non-alcoholic drinks and up to 89% of pesticides potentially counterfeit, according to studies.
This is raising health risks and exposing gaps in enforcement
Heavily armed DCI officers in a white Subaru have stormed Great Wall Gardens, Athi River and abducted a man among people protesting water shortage in the estate.
The man was seen being gun-whipped before being bundled into a Subaru Sedan.
Watalipia hizi zote, I'm telling you guys.
Kenyan MPs drive cars worth more than their lifetime salaries. At the expense of we the oppressed taxpayers money.
Loot your last, ruling class. The revolutionary fire is lit we the people are coming for you. Tayarisheni Shing-Hoe,Your time is UP.