An insider has come forward with details that explain what many Kenyans have been wondering for months. How betting taxes are being stolen right under our noses, and who is behind it. The name that keeps coming up is Senator Aaron Cheruiyot.
Under the previous government, things were straightforward. Betting companies had no choice. Their systems were directly linked to KRA. Every bet placed, every shilling taxed, went straight into official government accounts. There were no shortcuts. There were no middlemen.
That setup did not last long. When the new government took over, a few powerful people quietly moved in to change everything. At the center of it all was Aaron Cheruiyot. What he and his group pulled off was nothing short of a coup. They pushed KRA out of the way and created their own private channel to collect money from betting companies.
They started using the Compulynx eRevenue system. A system originally designed for county governments to collect parking fees and small charges. In this case, it was hijacked to handle billions from Kenya’s betting industry. But instead of the money going directly to KRA like before, it first goes through this private system controlled by Cheruiyot’s network.
The most shocking part is how they charge . Service fees should not exceed four point five percent. But this rogue unit charges over twenty percent. Out of every hundred shillings, more than twenty is quietly taken away. To make it worse, they do not even declare everything they collect. Only a small portion is forwarded to KRA. The rest disappears.
This is why, even as more Kenyans gamble daily, the government’s betting tax collections have been dropping. It is not because Kenyans stopped betting. It is because Aaron Cheruiyot and his gang are stealing the money before it even gets to government records.
Meanwhile ordinary Kenyans are the ones left to suffer. Families are pushed deeper into poverty. School fees go unpaid. Hospitals run out of basic supplies. And the people responsible carry on as if nothing is wrong.
Senator Aaron Cheruiyot has a lot of explaining to do.
And we are not going to stop asking until the answers come out.
