What about suspect identification by prosecution witnesses? Ama that was Vioja Mahakamani stuff?

Eti High Court imeachilia hutu tumtu?

Why should a judge interfere with ones choice of dress? The judge is there to hear the case not to judge peoples dressing.

they have not been charged yet. the investigators have allegedly been investigating them for over four months. then the other friday they are all arrested. then they were taken to court only for the prosecutors to say they need more time to investigate them so they wanted to be allowed to hold them for 21 more days. in effect after all that time the investigators are still not sure whether their actions warrant being charged or not. that is why they are being brought to court as a group. unless you want judicial time to be wasted for the same application to be made in respect of each and every single one of them. in the meantime in our zeal to fight corruption we are ignoring one thing - there is a tendency for the police to nowadays arrest people even before investigations are done and with the worrying support of the courts hold them for long periods of time. in some instances they are innocent people who are never even charged.

The whole KRA cabal has the hands in the tax money cookie jar literally. Everybody pinches depending on where they are positioned. Big man big size, small man small size. It's like in the Matatu Industry, the conductor has his cut, Jamaa wa stage his cut, driver his cut , the Karao his cut etc and nothing for the matatus owner ( in this case the tax payer).

@mkenyan, I thought by the time a suspect is taken to court there's enough evidence to convict and charges are not based on speculation? Ama? Otherwise it defeats the purpose. I understand they are being held as the investigators conclude but the main meat of the case has already been locked. Or?

Only sad thing is that the reason govt agencies have gone overdrive to tackle corruption at KRA and tax evasion by importers is that govt is between a rock and hard place to meet debt obligations.

Since they're not dealing with rootcause (bloated govt and too much dirt / cobwebs the treasury, corruption in ministries and counties), am afraid whatever additional collections to be achieved through these efforts will also be stolen.

You can be sure some fat cat somewhere already strategizing how to reap benefit from the improved collections

I can tell you for free that the biggest hindrance to progress in Kenya is a mediocre civil service. And it's by design.
You see government must employ its citizens to give hope and for work and that's why most are from the rural. But the employees know that once you are in, it's almost impossible to be let go of. Now, majority of these people do nothing, others get involved in corruption etc. We can never progress with this kind of system. Don't you wonder how all these thousands of employed people can't get anything right? Collecting taxes, duty, aliens, accounting, health, agriculture, anything... you name it.... Imagine if just one ministry operated like Safaricom, eabl or Equity?