The Embu County Assembly has proposed a waiver of licence fees for traditional healers due to the challenges in collecting such money. If implemented, the move could make Embu a ‘tax haven’ for witch doctors and sorcerers (warogi).
The proposal was made by the Assembly’s Finance and Economic Planning Committee.
Muminji MCA Newton Kariuki said the proposal to remove a tax provision for the traditional health services, herbalists and divine healers from the 2016 Embu County Finance Bill could see an uncontrollable mushrooming of witchcraft dens in the county.
Kariuki maintained that the proposed annual charges of Sh5,000 for anyone wishing to start the ‘witchcraft, divining, astrology, sorcery or rainmaking’ business, should be retained “to avoid making Embu County the Kenyan capital for black magic.”
He predicted that advertisements for sorcery and witchcraft services would litter the county if the business was left untaxed, but cautioned that the Embu County Tax Waivers Act, 2015 did not cover this category.
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