Why Kenya ended up on EU red list despite helping nab Sh12b tax fraud

The tEU decision means that any partner country will put high vigilance in transactions emanating or, meant or involving Kenya or Kenyans. [Courtesy]

Around May 23, 2024, everything seemed normal, other than tension about the Finance Bill 2024.

At that time, the Kenyan security had an important guest, who had been trailed for six months. It was an operation dubbed after the biblical giant but brutal Philistine, ‘Goliath’, who had oppressed and massacred those he faced in wars.