{"id":12753,"date":"2024-01-15T05:56:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T05:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=12753"},"modified":"2024-01-15T05:57:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T05:57:00","slug":"kenyans-must-pay-their-taxes-diligently-if-the-country-is-to-return-to-a-state-similar-to-president-mwai-kibakis-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=12753","title":{"rendered":"Kenyans must pay their taxes diligently if the country is to return to a state similar to President Mwai Kibaki&#8217;s regime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kenyans must pay their taxes diligently if the country is to return to a state similar to President Mwai Kibaki&#8217;s regime when he said the economy boomed. &#8221; &#8211; President William Ruto<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/aa_20240115_085225_0000-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/aa_20240115_085225_0000-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/aa_20240115_085225_0000-980x980.png 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/aa_20240115_085225_0000-480x480.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>President William Ruto has justified his tax policies, asserting that they are essential for steering Kenya away from accumulating detrimental debts. During a speech in Elgeyo Marakwet, he emphasized the importance of diligent tax payment to restore the economic prosperity experienced during President Mwai Kibaki&#8217;s tenure. Ruto highlighted the decline in tax as a percentage of GDP, attributing the country&#8217;s increased debt burden to this trend, and expressed a commitment to making necessary decisions for Kenya&#8217;s progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyans must pay their taxes diligently if the country is to return to a state similar to President Mwai Kibaki&#8217;s regime when he said the economy boomed. &#8221; &#8211; President William Ruto President William Ruto has justified his tax policies, asserting that they are essential for steering Kenya away from accumulating detrimental debts. During a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705297842394.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12756,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753\/revisions\/12756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}