Mbithe Mutavi

Jul 1, 2024 | debunk.media | Mbithe Mutavi

Dear Gen Z, Please allow us to start off this epistle by referring to you by your proper epithet at this monumental juncture in our

Jun 20, 2024 | debunk.media | Rasna Warah |Mbithe Mutavi |Ras Mengesha |Eddy Ashioya

Jun 19, 2024 | debunk.media | Mbithe Mutavi |Rasna Warah |Steffany Ndei |Bobby Mkangi

It is June 2022. Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for the Treasury Ukur Yatani has presented President Uhuru Kenyatta’s final budget to Parliament. To finance the ambitious KSh 3.3 trillion budget (a 10 percent increase from the previous one), Yatani, through the Finance Bill 2022, has proposed an avalanche of new taxes – including a 3 percent tax on digital services.

Jun 11, 2024 | debunk.media | Mbithe Mutavi

A transparent look at how the Kenyan government spends public funds.

Jun 11, 2024 | debunk.media | Mbithe Mutavi |Mwende Ngao |Lilian Mutinda |Ras Mengesha

Sometimes when one hears the figures politicians and their handlers bandy around in a country as unequal as Kenya, one can’t help but wonder, do these folks breathe the same air the rest of us breathe; do they eat the same ugali the rest of us eat; and do they eventually go to the lavatory (it surely can’t be a toilet, because how can someone casually throwing around such obscene figures go to the toilet just like the rest of us?) to let it all turn to waste?