KRA Comes for Kenyan Prince After He Casually Counted Millions on Camera

Honey, the taxman has entered the chat and he is NOT playing.

Kenya Revenue Authority nearly broke the internet this week after sliding into the comments of forex trader and certified show-off Raymond Omosa, popularly known as Kenyan Prince, after the man had the audacity, the nerve, the unfiltered BOLDNESS to sit on camera and count thick bundles of cash like he was auditioning for a Nairobi version of Power.

KRA’s own public handle on X, KRA Care, did not send a letter. Did not call his lawyer. Did not send a polite email. Instead, they clapped back in Swahili, writing “Hi Kenyan Prince, uliomba ukiface wapi aki, ni mbaya.” Translation for those who missed Sunday school? They basically asked this man where exactly he was praying when God decided to bless him like this, because something is not adding up, and it is not adding up loudly.

Nairobi went absolutely feral.

Now for those who do not follow this particular corner of the internet, Kenyan Prince is not a quiet man. This is someone who posts luxury cars for breakfast, expensive watches for lunch, and trading screenshots for dinner. He once claimed he made KSh 51 million in a single trading session during a Dubai conference. A single. Session. In Dubai. Fifty one million. The man did not whisper this information. He announced it the way people announce wedding engagements.

So when KRA came calling, Twitter erupted faster than Nairobi traffic on a Friday evening. Opinions split down the middle harder than a bad avocado. One camp insisted that forex earnings are automatically taxed before they even touch your account, practically daring KRA to mind their business. The other camp, equally loud, reminded everyone that automatic deductions or not, you still have to explain where the physical cash in your hand came from, because anti-money laundering laws do not care about your follower count.

Omosa himself responded with the energy of someone who was not even slightly shaken. He wrote “Now you realise you have started a real hustle, let’s work hard,” essentially patting KRA on the head and telling them welcome to the grind. The audacity of this response alone sent Twitter into a second spiral.

Here is where it gets spicier. Critics have long whispered that Kenyan Prince’s real income has less to do with pips and spreads and more to do with content deals, promotions, and the kind of affiliations that tend to pay well when you have a large and impressionable following. Nobody has publicly come forward claiming he stole from them, which his defenders wave around like a victory flag. But the question of source of funds is a different beast entirely from the question of theft, and KRA knows this better than anyone.

The authority has been sharpening its digital claws for a while now. They use eTIMS to flag undeclared income, they cross-reference transactions with tax filings, and they have been issuing warnings to people whose bank records and nil returns are living completely separate lives. Forex profits in Kenya are taxable income, full stop, and unlike your salary, nobody automatically deducts anything. You declare it yourself, which means the honour system is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this country.

As of now KRA has not confirmed any formal investigation into Omosa, and Omosa has not offered any additional context about the cash video that started this whole beautiful mess. What we do know is that somewhere in Nairobi, a tax official with a good sense of humour typed a Swahili clap back and accidentally started a national conversation about wealth, accountability, and what exactly it means to be winning in public.

The camera never lies, Kenyan Prince. But neither does the taxman.