Punda Amechoka!Kenyans Hilariously Comment on housing levy fund

Urgent notice for employers and employees to start paying a 1.5% housing levy fund from May has stirred a sharp reaction from kenyans who took it to social media criticizing the action by the government to implement such a policy.

I can't imagine a Kenyan residing
in a thatched rocket house and he's expected to build a house in Westlands ,Nairobi he/she can't even reside in. Tunalipa fuliza,mshwari,okash,tala. Tutajenga lini nyumba hatuwezi ishi?#MainaAndKingangi

— YOUNG PROFESSOR HAMO (Men-Representative) 🇰🇪🇰🇪 (@AmozKipchirchir) April 17, 2019

The first contribution will be due by May 9, 2019, the ministry of Housing and Urban Development reported on Tuesday.

In the new policy, the employers are require to deduct and remit the levy together with other statutory levies from both the employer and the employee by 9th of each succeeding month.

The notice gazetted by KRA was debated in various radio stations in a bid to get views from Kenyans.

What Kenyans Had to say as picked from a local radio station

why is the government not reclaiming the billions stolen by individuals to run projects like this?

We are tired and we cannot take this anymore. I already have a house so why should I be deducted.

This is a country where someone passes you driving a Porsche yet they had nothing a few months ago.

How are Kenyans sure that they will get these houses after the taxation?Let people decide for themselves cause this plan will leave many devastated,It's a scam!!

— Monique Kimmss (@moniqueKimm) April 17, 2019

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You cannot even afford a vacation with your kids the donkey is tired .

The houses that were being build in Kibra, Mradi in Matahre Area four so why should they start another project if walishindwa na hizo

 I have a house so why should I pay for another house…. before 2022 you will hear hii pesa yote imeiibiwa.

…. have we ever sat down to ask where the NHIF and NSSF cash goes to considering it has at one point been marred in scandals? We are tired they can deduct everything for all we care.

We see billions being stolen every day and no one is arrested.

Mr Maraga and Mr Matiangi should lead by example and arrest thes people once that is done kujeni mtuitishe pesa.

The President should also sack his advisers because it is obvious they bare misleading him.

the conversation went on and on and from the vies it is so clear that Kenyans are not happy with the Levy given that the government is full of scandals and they cannot trust their money with their projects