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Seems more like a THREAT to the next government against cancelling those deals should the current government be ousted. Is it a PRICE people are willing to pay?
Based on the government reports, the Ebola cases reported so far revolve around the family members of the 1st victim and the healthcare workers who attended to them.
So yes, there are no communal cases that have been reported so far in the country.
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Be hard on yourself.
Be rebellious.
Don't accept what the masses have "normalised."
The threshold of normality is so low nowadays. Don't let it become your standard.
People today have normalised mediocrity, feelings, incompetence, dishonesty, victimhood, lies and shortcuts.
They know how to gaslight you when they can't compromise your belief system.
Build a tamper-proof belief system that can't be compromised.
Have high standards and remain FIRM, FOCUSED and FAITHFUL.
"... to establish a national DNA registry"
Dr. Nyikal and a guy called Renson Yeri have a proposed bill for mandatory DNA at birth at the cost of the ministry.
The Bill also proposes the establishment of a DNA database where children can look up their records when grown.
Should be at the floor soon.
Each child deserves the right to THE RIGHT IDENTITY!!!
Mr. President,
Does it mean that will have to accept that we have to wait till 2027 to right some wrongs, including the issue you have just mentioned, because we are 'powerless'?
In as much as justice delayed is not justice denied, for how long shall the people suffer?
The reason Ruto speaks confidently in rallies telling us to use “formal channels “ to get documents held by the state is he knows his gatekeepers in Parliament will never approve this business to make it to the floor. This one on the Lamu Refinery has suffered the same fate. We must uproot this entire system in 2027 to rescue our country.
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They're also trying to sell voter apathy. They want Kenyans to feel powerless and say: "What's the point of going to vote if they're going to steal to election anyway."
Voter Apathy=Low Turnout=Tutam for Ruto.
Raphael Omondi retweeted
Kenya: this will be the narrative over next 10
months.
“All politicians are corrupt & crooks. Give up. Nothing will change.”
Ruto’s US-based PR firm came up with this. Why? Because his corruption & crimes are so evident, they need to demotivate voters.
Apathy.
Keep fighting & informing your fellow citizens.
Seems they’re afraid of Sifuna’s rise. They want to make him look like he’s one of them.
If he’s ok, go for it with more passion than they can handle.
Takeover trap? Legal minefields of Kenya’s ready-made political parties zurl.co/fnBh0
There's nothing new under the sun.
Look closely at this photograph and the two images of a pharaoh. The photo shows the Luo funeral headdress and bears striking similarities to the royal insignia of ancient Egyptian pharaohs.
Taken by Joy Adamson in 1945, it shows the son of the great Luo hero Okore Ogada. Note the ornaments: a broad, beautifully carved ivory frame and a solid ivory tusk on his chin, both resembling the royal regalia of Egyptian kings. Instead of golden chains, he wears strings of python vertebrae.
His brass earrings closely resemble ancient Egyptian designs, and the bluish-green beads match colours commonly associated with Egyptian royal adornments.
Could these similarities point to a deeper historical connection between the Luo and ancient Egypt? Could some pharaohs have been ancestors of the Luo?
Gustave le Bon's book, The Crowd, puts this so well.
It's an art of persuasion, where such degrees are used to construct credibility to create an image of authority. They lead to transfer of trust, in as much as they do not show genuine competence.
Seek to verify the info peddled
Every unintelligent public servant or politician is now rushing to pursue Doctorate Degrees,
They believe having the prefix or honorific title "Dr." will mask their incompetence and impassivity.
They believe the prefix will keep the public from questioning how they sat in class, wrote theses, defended them, and whether they ever gave academic lectures in their fields of study to genuinely earn these doctorate degrees.
It is because academic institutions nowadays are business models. You pay them a hefty amount of money, and then they sell you a certificate.
If you sit down with these latter-day doctorate civil servants or politicians, you will be shocked by their lack of intellect, poor language use, and open shallowness in their so-called area of doctoral study.
None of them has the dexterity to publish research articles in newspapers and peer-reviewed journals.
None of them has published any book.
None of them can define the theory of philosophy with the equanimity of Stoic Philosophers like Marcus Aurelius.
None of these politicians has the bravery and clarity to organise a public lecture.
It is embarrassing.
Raphael Omondi retweeted
For the first time since February 2013, I have bought a newspaper.
I wanted to read this article on why Kenyan graduates struggle to find employment, and it corroborates what I wrote on this channel yesterday and on X today morning.
I agree that WORKPLACE CULTURE and POOR COMMUNICATION are rightfully the most common weaknesses I experience in new employees.
I have no problem with employing them even when they are still naive, but they don't want to be mentored.
They don't want to be corrected.
If you correct them, they call you toxic.
They don't want guidance.
If you guide them, they say you are intimidating them.
They want to be pampered.
They think they know better, and they see the employer as ignorant.
They don't value the culture of discipline, commitment and hard work.
They want to be paid 1 million today, buy a car today, buy a house today and become rich now.
Some start betting their salaries with the assumption that it will triple overnight, and once they lose, their productivity at work stumbles.
No employer is patient enough to embrace this behaviour, because bills don't care about a misbehaving employee.
Mentoring them through capacity-building programs costs a lot.
Unfortunately, those who have been mentored well get poached by other employers with promises of better pay, so employers fear training them.
Colleges and universities have let us down.
Parents and families have let us down.
We are inheriting a burden that should have been offloaded by family, school and even religion.
Values, morals and ethics are inherited at home, school and even religion.
It is costly carrying this burden.
However, if you are looking for an employment opportunity, then strive to be different.
Be a person of Discipline, order, and Commitment.
Don't say, "Nowadays jobs are given through nepotism."
Even those who give jobs without merit will think twice about whether to let their companies collapse through irregular hiring or let them flourish through meritocracy.
Competition has never been easier.
Step out, push harder, knock more, be consistent; something will give.
Don't get tired.
Raphael Omondi retweeted
This myth of IQ needs to end. How can you take a generation that has known war, displacement, poverty and broken education systems, then use their test scores to make sweeping claims about their intelligence? Many don’t even speak English to begin with, yet they are being judged using tests developed in completely different linguistic, educational and cultural environments. You cannot remove history and material conditions from the equation and pretend everyone started from the same line.
Africa has been subjected to Western standards for far too long, from what constitutes development and civilisation to what constitutes intelligence. Who designed the test? Whose language does it use? Whose education system does it assume? And who gets to interpret the results? There is an old African proverb: “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” That is the deeper problem here. If we continue allowing others to define the standards by which African societies understand and measure themselves, we should not be surprised when Africa perpetually emerges at the bottom of their rankings.
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If you’re easily incited to hate on fellow Africans, you also can be easily turned against your own neighbors, communities and tribes.
Politics of division doesn’t start and end with tribalism.
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Many citizens don't know why we fought for devolution. We can't go back to the old imperial system.
Karua and that team were against it.
Dr Crispin Mbai had to be assassinated because he was the chair of the devolution committee at Bomas.
The cabal didn't want it. They weakened it in the Wako/Kilifi draft, and that is why it was rejected in 2005, what led to the birth of ODM.
Factually, only 15% - 20% of the national revenue goes to counties.
The rest, 80% - 85%, remain in the national government.
We can't be going 10 steps forward, and then 15 steps backwards.
Vote for sober Governors, intelligent Senators and competent MCAs.
Attend county budgetary meetings and follow the proceedings of your county assemblies.
But you vote for idiots and crooks, hire corrupt contractors (Ni nyinyi wenyewe) who construct shoddy county projects, and then you come on social media to complain.
CHANGE or PERISH.
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This morning the Government of Kenya began enforcing a crackdown against immigrant small traders, using a law that does not exist.
It is merely based on a September announcement by President Ruto that hawking and small-scale retail would be reserved for Kenyans, with enforcement from 7 September. In the same address he directed Parliament to accelerate the Local Content Bill, 2025. That Bill has not been passed.
A directive read at State House does not amend the Constitution, and it does not release Kenya from the East African Community (EAC) Common Market Protocol, which explicitly guarantees the free movement of persons, labor, and goods.
We cannot profess to lead a regional Jumuiya while simultaneously subverting its foundational frameworks, and President Ruto cannot purport to credibly champion continental initiatives, while simultaneously inciting domestic actions that subvert the tenets of Pan-Africanism.
Kenyan traders are drowning, and that pain is real. But close every foreign-run stall tomorrow and the price of maize does not move by one shilling, because the cartel that sets it is Kenyan and it has friends in government.
What killed Kenyan small businesses this year is a matter of public record: pending bills the state refuses to pay, county licence fees that rise without service, credit no trader can carry, and a revenue authority that pursues a mama mboga while fortunes leave the port undeclared.
The Government’s own figures show foreign nationals were about 1.6 per cent of the workforce in foreign-invested enterprises in 2024. This was never where the jobs went. A government that cannot give you a market will always offer you an enemy to blame. This is scapegoat policy.
It is unconscionable for a regime to actively export young Kenyans as low-wage laborers abroad while its leaders profiteer from private ownership of labor externalization firms, only to turn around and criminalize fellow Africans seeking a modest livelihood within our borders.
Ruto's "Bottom-Up" economic framework promised to ordinary hustlers has instead yielded record youth unemployment, unlawful abductions, and a tragic loss of life.
To saddle this nation with an astounding Ksh 5 Trillion in debt over a mere four years, with no tangible, worthwhile results to show for it, and then appear to blame small scale traders from Jumuiya for the economic mess is a disingenuous move.
The primary catalyst for the extreme economic misery witnessed on Kenyan streets today sits in the highest office of the Executive.
It is a gross betrayal of trust to look the Kenyan poor in the eye and pretend to protect them through xenophobic crackdowns, while simultaneously overseeing a systemic, annual loss of over Ksh 1 Trillion to state-sanctioned
corruption and wastage including the Ksh 33 Billion spent by Ruto, well above the budgetary allocation for State House.
A government that is at the forefront of propagating xenophobia will not hesitate to turn those same divisive tactics against its own citizens along ethnic, religious, or other identity lines.
Kenyans will not fall for this cheap diversionary and divisive tactics.
Under my leadership, we will respect our legal and regional commitments, and account for the resources of the Kenyan people.
We must be a country confident in our ability to solves our problems internally while looking Africaward for the friends we need in forging global strength. #Ukombozi
And then you start wondering why we have a problem of water hyacinth in L. Victoria.
As long as the water remains contaminated the hyacinth will continue doing its work, and the more they'll keep multiplying.
KIBOS SUGAR COMPANY has been discharging toxic effluent into Lake Victoria since 2020, a blogger from that region (Now a politician in Nairobi) did a story but they later bribed him and deleted the story. Kibos also bribed NEMA officials and funded local politicians to look the other way. By the way Kibos also gave the blogger a tractor 🚜 and would occasionally collect sanitizers from them in jericans.
Sometimes these theatrics by the govt amaze me. A phone call, to prove something is working? No data, no statistics. Just words from the person on the end of the line claiming its working. We need to be serious and do fact checking.
If it’s true that SHA is working, why should the OUTGOING President @WilliamsRuto be the one staging a four hours TV show to convince Kenyans how the damn thing is working?
Why have a stage-managed doctor on site while calling hospitals on a live television show just to justify and confirm that SHA is working?
Why don’t you go to Mathare or Mukuru-Kwa Njenga and do a random survey on the poor hustlers on whether the damn scam is working?
#RutoMustGo
