The introduction of a new raft of taxes in Kenya – including the doubling of VAT on fuel and a 1.5 percent mandatory housing levy on salaried workers – has ignited a debate about the number of Kenyans in formal and informal employment. In one post shared hundreds of times, a social media user claimed that Kenya’s health cabinet secretary Susan Nakhumicha Wafula lied on TV about the number of Kenyans in formal employment. However, data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows tha