Former Nakuru Governor Lee Kinyanjui has 'released' a new poem.

In this satirical piece, Kinyanjui has taken a swipe at the Kenya Kwanza government for imposing punitive taxes on Kenyans.

In his Facebook post put in a poetic format, the former governor has chided the government of imposing tax on anything and everything, yet providing poor services to the citizens

Some of the taxes he indicated are excessive and others unnecessary.

He for instance pointed out the housing levy which is meant to support President William Ruto’s pet project the affordable housing program and the medical insurance cover -the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF).

According to him, many Kenyans will not be able to afford the houses the government is purportedly building for them while at the same time not enjoy the health care services covered in the medical insurance scheme.

“Today I paid my taxes, to build houses I will never live in and a health care that will not care when needed but I paid anyhow,” read part of the post.

Mr Kinyanjui who is known for his mastery of the English language painted a picture of a government that is determined to milk its citizens dry through its mandatory levies and taxes which do not reflect in the delivery of service.

He notes that despite the government heavily taxing agricultural production, it still goes ahead to dupe the farmers by giving them fake farm inputs such as the fertilizer.

“I paid my avocado tax, dairy tax, macadamia, coffee and digging tax but got packaged soil for subsidized fertilizer,” he stated.

On the roads and transportation, Mr Kinyanjui brought out the irony in the government's decision to demand taxes relating to the use of roads as the insurance tax, proposed motor vehicle tax, fuel levy tax, and inspection tax, yet the state of roads has remained in a worrisome filled with potholes.

Furthermore, Mr Kinyanjui faults the government for being unable to guarantee security to its citizens who are grappling with street muggings, police brutality and banditry among others.

According to him Kenyans have been given no option but to pay the taxes without question as indicated in his last lines of the stanzas.

'But I paid anyhow,' A Lee Kinyanjui production

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