Its always disappointing when parents do what they tell their children not to do influencing them the wrong way one way or the other.Its worse when legislators partly responsible for law and order in the country become the law breakers themselves.
A billionaire Kenyan Member of Parliament is officially the kingpin of tax fraud in the country as exposed by the Kenya Revenue Authority after filing no tax returns for five year despite earning huge chunks at the end of the day.
According to KRA court documents, Lugari MP Ayub Savula, through his company Sunday Publishers Limited, earned Ksh1 Billion in five years from state agencies but never remitted taxes.
The contest, which has put the legislator at loggerheads with both KRA and the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI), saw the MP slapped with a Ksh473.8 million in tax arrears including accrued interest.
Broken down, the company received Ksh84 million in 2013, Ksh174 million in 2014, Ksh397 million in 2015, Ksh150 million in 2016 and Ksh207 million in 2017.
Savula, who co-owns the company with his wife, then moved to court to prevent their arrests by DCI.
In court filings, the duo sought “a declaration that the respondents impending and imminent arrest, detention and prosecution of the applicants amount to a gross violation of the petitioners’ fundamental rights and freedoms under the Constitution and under the relevant tax laws.”