Kenya’s used car industry pays KSh49 billion in taxes
Source: Kenya Auto Bazaar Association (February 2019)
Total tax on both new and used car imports less than KSh49 billion
Does South Africa spend five times more on healthcare per person than Nigeria? Does one doctor serve 16,000 Kenyans? We’ve put together some startling facts from our work on the continent.
Seven claims about the government's achievements
Source: Uhuru Kenyatta, 2019 State of the Nation Address
Three correct, two mostly correct, one incorrect and one misleading.
Three claims on funding of Kenya’s judiciary and parliament
Source: Senior counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi (March 2019)
All three incorrect
How many people in the region don’t have safe water? Do Cape Town residents use it mainly for their pools and gardens? Do well-off Nairobians pay less for their water?
As the world marks International Women’s Day, we dug up notable facts gleaned from our work in fact-checking.
Kenya’s counties spent 87.3% of their entire budget on recurrent expenditure and 12.7% on development in 2017/18.
Source: President Uhuru Kenyatta (February 2019)
Counties spent 57.8% of budget on recurrent expenditure and 16.3% on development.
Nine claims ranging from diaspora remittances to the constitution, railways, electricity and Kenya’s development.
Source: Kenyan deputy president William Ruto (February 2019)
Three correct, two mostly correct, one exaggerated, one incorrect, one misleading and one unproven.
An average Kenyan will have to work almost 60 days to afford Apple's premium iPhone XS.
Source: Capital FM (January 2019)
“Average wage” excludes informal sector workers.
We have less than 500,000 mortgages. I think it is probably closer to 200,000 mortgages.
Source: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta
There were 26,178 home mortgages in Kenya as at December 2017.