To our Millennium youth on X, FB who do not understand the Palestinian question:
Palestinians were dispossessed of their country & land in 1948 when Israel was established on it forcibly by the British & the West, in the same way they occupied Africa, Asia & many other
Duale's removal wasn't unexpected but was cowardly. He deserved better, not brute ingratitude. The bigger picture is a painful loss for Muslims/ Somali as he was the highest ranking in Govt. To Duale, may Alah grant you something better! You're the richer.
Well done! Uhuru said he did 10,000 kms in 10 years but we couldn't find it. Please list the roads & distances for verification by Kenyans, including the cost of each.
A Mandera village yesterday. Nairobi Expressway this morning. One nation, two worlds. Millions spend daily to water plants on the expressway; many are losing livelihoods, even lives, due to lack of water. Misplaced priorities.
Dear Kenyan MPs:
1. Finance Bill 2024 is NOT for raising the 2024/25 Government's estimated revenue of sh 3.4 trillion .
2. The Bill contains tax measures intended to raise ADDITIONAL tax of sh 346 billion only.
4. If the Bill is not passed, KRA will still collect the targeted
REVENUE COLLECTION:
Kenyans pay taxes equivalent to the 3 East African countries combined.
Kenya Revenue target: $23 billion
Tanzania - $12.5 billion
Uganda - $7.5 billion
Rwanda - $2.5 billion
Total 3 countries = $22.5 billion
Kenya population: 50M
The 3 EAC countries
FUEL LEVY:
How does EPPRA/ GoK increase fuel levy from sh 18 per litre to sh 25 without public participation and approval by Parliament? And no amendment to the Road Maintenance Fuel Levy Act? Worse, a week after announcing they have shelved the plan!
Unacceptable!
IEBC Chair Chebukati, Comm. Prof Guliye, Comm. Molu & CEO Marjan are the true heroes in August 9 elections. Their steadfastness & fidelity to the law at the risk of their lives was unprecedented. Congrats to all IEBC staff for one of the most transparent Presidential elections!
Shame to you
@orengo_james
for taking the judges on "a wild goose chase". Even to ordinary folks like us, your submissions to the court sounded like conspiracy theories out of Hollywood, fictitious drama & hubris. It's characterisation as "hot air" is in fact an understatement!
SCORK: now that the hearing is over, we can all act as judges for the weekend! My take...President-elect declaration will be upheld, God Willing. IEBC defense was astounding. No material irregularities to overturn the election result. Allah knows best.
Kenya has 6M registered taxpayers, 12% population. Rwanda has 300K, 2% population. Our tax revenues as a % of GDP is 17%; Africa's average is 16%. Rwanda is at 15%. Kenya GDP is $110 billion, Rwanda is $10Billion. Kenya collects $20B in taxes, Rwanda $2B. Our problem: SPENDING!
Dear MPs
The buck stops with you. Was it really necessary for you to debate this Bill today in this atmosphere, literally under the barrel of a gun, after turning Parliament into a bunker?
Was it? When millions accross the country have expressed concern about the Bill. Sad.
BBI: the President & Baba have put their reputations & future on the line for BBI. It is clear that the Handshake deal has a hidden agenda for the two that is yet to be revealed. Politics is about interests. Their desperation about BBI cannot be about Kenyans. Never.
East African Countries expenditures 2023/24 Budgets:
Rwanda $4.4 B
Burundi $1.4B
S Sudan $1.3B
Uganda $14B
Tanzania $19B
Total..........$39.9B
Kenya........$32.5 B
We are 25% of the region's population & we spend 45% of the tegion's total budget. Great!
This is a joke! Your Prime CS said yesterday the Government loses sh 608 billion to corruption annually. Pls look for that...its more than you will collect in your remaining term through new taxes!
@StateHouseKenya
NEW TAXES? President Ruto asks MPs to find ways of amending the law to help the government raise money for development projects after rejection of Finance Bill 2024.
Nothing unusual in the country ndugu. It's always been this way for most ordinary folks in the periphery. Just that you guys close to the centre always enjoyed state largasse. Now that you are weaned off, reality has dawn on you. Welcome to the Kenya where rights are unusual.
23 bodies are still missing in Marakwet landslide tragedy. These people are searching for their loved ones. RC Natembeya and the Military went their took pictures and left. meanwhile thousands of them are without shelter.What the hell is going on in this country?
@FredMatiangi
Pro-Palestinian march in Central London? I thought so too! This is yesterday's protest march against the Finance Bill in Nairobi CBD. Some day, soon insha Allah, we shall also have a similar march in Nairobi against the Zionist Israeli occupation genocide in Gaza.
2017: Uhuru team declares that 5 men ( judges) cannot overturn the will of the people
2021: Baba's men declare that 5 men (judges) cannot overturn the will of the people (read Govt)
The more things change, the more they remain the same..in our country!
President William Ruto should visit parts of the drought striken counties urgently to get a first-hand view of the famine emergency. He should see severely malnourished children & starving families to appreciate severity of the crisis & take firm action. Their pain is too much!
Kenya joins the rest of the world in solidarity with the State of Israel and unequivocally condemn terrorism and attacks on innocent civilians in the country. The people of Kenya and their government hereby express deepest sympathy and send condolences to the families of all
As a proud citizen of this great nation, I unreservedly support the Hon Raila Odinga
@RailaOdinga
for election as the Chairperson of the African Union Commission. No one understands this continent & pan-Africanism better than him.
Regardless of the number of taxpayers, KRA collects more tax revenues than all the other 5 EAC countries combined. Our problem is Govt spending - misplaced priorities, no value-for-money procurements & graft
1/2 Increase in fuel prices is not due to increase in global crude oil prices.
In July & August 2022, oil price was $111 - $100 per barrel. Our pump prices was sh 159/litre
In July & August 2023, the price was $74 - $85. Pump price is sh 211!
#fueledpain
This affidavit by Martn Nyaga, Database Administrator of IEBC makes minced meat of Githongo story on hacking. Download it from SCORK portal. It makes you appreciate expertise.
The duplicity! Only months earlier, SRC rejected allowances for our health workers. This morning, it advised Governors to give MCAs car grants totalling sh 4.5B. What a shame for an independent Constitutional commission that now plays second fiddle to the Executive.
Out of 25 key departmental committee chairs in the National Assembly, 12 will go to Mt Kenya region MPs & 10 will go to Rift Valley, for the larger Gema & Kalenjin communities. The rest of the 40 Kenyan tribes get 3! The 2 make up 35% of the population but get 88% of the seats!
"One big achievement of BBI has been to drag Mr Odinga into the murk, and silence what was previously one of the most powerful voices against institutionalised graft and general misrule"
A moral lesson:
The soldiers entered a village and raped all of its women except one of the women who resisted the soldier, killed him, and beheaded him!
After the soldiers completed their mission and returned to their barracks and camps, all the women left their homes, picking
Check at home: Colgate toothpase from India, Dove bath soap from Germany, Listerine mouthwash from South Africa, Always sanitary pads from Egypt, Cadbury chocolate from Egypt, etc their manufacturers relocated from Kenya due to our high production costs, taxes.
@StateHouseKenya
Cabinet appointments:
By including Salim Mvurya & Hassan Joho in the Cabinet, both Muslims, and both from Coast region, Ruto has met the requirements for diversity in the Executive as required by the Constitution.
Congratulations to both!
WSR boarding Baba's BBI train after fighting it for 2 years, ati ordinary wananchi interests now taken care of in the document! Birds of the same feather after all...
Kenyans are strange. We shouted ourselves hoarse that Uhuru & Raila should dialogue to save the country. And when they finally meet, we accuse them of selfishness & all manner of skepticism. After all, even dudes Trump & Kim are meeting soon!
#UhuruRailaTalks
The Edible oils scam:
Imported dutyfree cooking oil fill up KNTC Msa warehouse & is stored in open yard.
Overpriced, inferior quality that can't be sold with VAT except at a huge loss!
A misadventure driven by greed, gone sour!
@KRACare
@EACCKenya
@StateHouseKenya
With nearly 20 Million sq m of unutilised office space in the city, why would Governors splash sh 5 billion building Ugatuzi skyscrapers in the city to house their offices amidst the Covid crisis? Poor Kenyan lives are no longer a priority in this country. What a tragedy!
Kakamega is only 43 kms from Kisumu International Airport. It makes no economic sense to build a new Airport there. These vanity projects are misplaced priorities that have saddled the govt with huge debts.
The 5 men who run the country's economy & resources - all from Mt Kenya region. Yet,
@RailaOdinga
&
@rigathi
think the region is shortchanged on resources allocation. How?
Absolutely unacceptable! Treasury pays sh 2.5 billion tax for a private firm! Madness. Whose company is this? Ndugu must be forced to refund this money. All the time KK administration was accusing Uhuru of tax waivers, they were doing the same. This is why Kenyans will not accept
Parliament has been subdued, wholly. Political parties have surrendered & embraced unflinching loyalty. Judiciary whimpers under the radar, dodging hostile 'acquisition'. It can't be all about clipping the wings of an 'errant' assistant. Its a bigger picture...sounds ominous?
I can't believe the President can mislead Kenyans that Bidco, Kapa, Pwani Oil, Menegai & a dozen other manufacturers of edible oils are merely packaging & branding imported finished goods. Yet, H.E. & his CS declined invitation by the sector / KAM to visit the factories. Sad!
CDF should be scrapped. It's unnecessary duplication of the role of county governments. When it was set up in 2003, there were no other devolved funds & there was a huge inequity in the distribution of resources. Devolution resolved it! MPs should focus on oversight of the
“We (MPs) have no business building markets, roads and hospitals. Get rid of the CDF that bastardizes the role of a Member of Parliament. We want leaders to be leaders, not leaders to be dealers,”
Crystal Asige, Nominated Senator
#KBCniYetu
^RO
Farmaajo is gone; its Somalia that's the poorer. It will miss his patriotism, integrity & humility. Obama once told us that choices have consequences. Somalia has taken a wrong turn but we wish that nation & its citizens well & pray to Allah to guide its new leadership.
Let those paranoid about NE people & their leaders know that we are not guests of anyone in Kenya. We can visit Somalia or any other country like others. Treason? Go ahead & charge them! If folks in Kenya are tired of NE & it's people, try us...tumechoka being 2nd class citizens
Somalia has never been our BFF as her strategic goal is to create One Nation for all people of Somali ethnic group .. Somalia is therefore our strategic enemy ... The Kenyan Somali MPs who went to meet secretly with Somalia Intelligence Services must be charged with TREASON.
KK administration's 'self-righteous' attitude: this is how they brand the rest -
1. Businessmen - cartels
2. Media - rogue
3. Opposition - saboteurs
4. Peaceful protesters - thugs
5. Judiciary - corrupt
6. Uhuru administration - thieves
7. Taxpayers - tax cheats
How then
Outrageous. Taxpayers to spend nearly sh 25 billion on Nairobi Expressway, yet CS Macharia had told Kenyans on national TV it is a PPP & that Govt will not pay a cent. It's an economic crime!
Gen Z: The fear is gone!
The President: The fear is gone!
The Media: The fear is gone!
The Police: The fear is gone!
Opposition: The fear is gone!
The Public: The fear is PULPABLE! It's REAL! The parents, the school kids, the economy, the businesses, the investors etc, are the
KPLC: lost power twice in Nairobi in the 30 minutes. Anyone who tells you this crisis is due to load occasioned by increased power demand is LYING! economic activity has been declining past 12 months - where does the demand come from? Crookedness or mediocrity, or both!
Wealthy Kenyans and politicians will import helicopters and planes at cheaper prices after three taxes on aircraft and parts are scrapped as Treasury hits ordinary Kenyans with higher fuel and salary taxes.
Where are our priorities?
The SOMALI factor in Kenya’s security:
1. In 1982, fmr CGS Gen. Mohamud brought down the military coup against Moi & saved the country.
2. In 2007, Gen. Ali who was the Police boss, saved the country from plunging into anarchy & helped Kibaki retain his presidency.
3. Last
Prof Mahoga profiling a Muslim woman NTV reporter as al shabaab! This clueless, arrogant buffoon should be relieved of his duties by
@StateHouseKenya
. Apology is not enough!
KIAMBAA: It's time our President appreciates the handshake, big development or anticorruption war is not what matters to the common man today. It's the economy. Period! Kenyans are hurting. His administration has screwed up the economy & stl lives in denial.
@DavidNdii
An airport in Kericho? Is this necessary? Kericho is 80kms from Kisumu International Airport, 1 hr drive. Another airport planned for Kakamega, Kisii...all within an hour's drive of each other!
Economy: Raising more tax revenues & removing subsidies on essential goods do not necessarily grow the economy but will only generate more revenues for GoK to spend. Worse, it will raise cost of living for taxpayers & reduce our competitiveness. Focus should be to reduce spending
KDF deployment:
The temporary deployment of KDF in Nairobi is absolutely necessary to prevent the violence & anarchy witnessed on Tuesday in which our police were outnumbered by protesters, leading to loss of many lives and massive destruction of businesses and property. Lets
Daily Nation cartoon: Our Presidents flagging off relief food to impoverished Northern Kenya...from Jomo Kenyatta to William Ruto. Doing the same things for 60 years & expecting different results!
The script is now familiar. 1st, contact tracing to confirm if you had contacts with WSR past 3 yrs. Nxt, quarantine follows & the leader is lockeddown, loses rights. After the stigma, treatment at Capital Hill follows. Once you test negative, you're readmitted to the BBI family.
With respect & reasonable objectivity, I think some of the CSs performed satisfactorily in their dockets:
1. Salim Mvurya
2. Kindiki Kithure
3. Adan Duale
4. Ezekiel Machogu
That a public servant convicted of being in breach of Constitution by the courts can berate independence of Judiciary & call it "rogue" before a Parliamentary committee is sadly an indictment of a morbid, compliant Parliament & a dearth of accountability.
I strongly condemn those behind this heinous explosion in Nairobi CBD this evening. But both the media & the police are wrong to ethnisize the matter by suggesting the suspect was a "Somali" even before investigations are done. A criminal has no ethnicity.
I have never seen a President go round the country urging Kenyans to support his Cabinet nominees. Unprecedented. Unnecessary. Only Parliament can endorse or reject them. Wahenga wanasema: kizuri chajiuza, kibaya chajitembeza!
STATEMENT ON TOXIC WASTE DUMPUNG IN NE KENYA:
A prominent Kenya leader, Hon Cyrus Jirongo, has revealed in a televised
interview that the Government authorised the dumping of hazardous toxic waste
in North Eastern Kenya in 1980s by Western firms licensed ostensibly to
explore
President Kenyatta: Relaxing measures by 20% would lead to 200K infections and 30K deaths by December. Relaxing measures by 40%, infections would peak in November with 300K infections and 40K deaths. Relaxing by 60% would peak infections in Oct to 450K and 45K deaths
That would not only be a silly move but unlawful. My sim card is a contractual service with Safaricom in which the govt has no business meddling in. In fact, telcos should move to court to protect their businesses. This is nonsense!
BREAKING NEWS: Communications Authority of Kenya has said that the government will switch off phone sim-cards whose owners fail to register for Huduma Namba by May 18.
#GetTheWholeStory
Japan's +200% Debt to GDP ratio cannot be compared to Kenya. Almost all of Japan’s debt is owned by the central bank and the domestic financial system. If it did not repay, it will default against itself. Much of ours is external. If we default, we will be thrown under the bus!
Watched Nairobi Gubernatorial debate tonight. My friends Igathe & Sakaja a brilliant, super lot. A truly presidential debate.Both have leadership qualities. Both v passionate, hands-on, articulate. Nairobi residents may be spoilt for choice. Clearly, Sakaja had an edge on issues.
It's not the revenue which is the problem. It's irrational public expenditure & huge debt servicing obligations. It's a pity our media always shares same misleading statements by Govt
Ambassador, that's all we have left..free speech. Screw up the country but allow us to vent. It won't hurt you. Run your ministry n leave the airspace to us 'ignorants'. Your rants n insults on social media are unbecoming of the office you hold, courtesy these " foolish" Kenyans
Free speech in kenya is the scream of cliche, ignorance and psychological dementia brought on by minds warped by thousands of western financed workshops and freebie “training programs.” We don’t need a million Chinese at our gates to ruin our country, not with our talking heads.
A shame that desperation for power can make a leader imbibe ignorance. Revenues are allocated based on a Constitution that was endorsed by all Kenyans, not BBI trash. And just for records, Kiambu got 12B, & Mandera recvd 11B lawfully! Cheap politics.
Your excellency, leave these small functions to your CSs. You've to sit down in your office & work on how to realize the economic revolution you promised Kenyans; meet & listen to farmers, industrialists, entrepreneurs, SMEs, etc to get their input. Govt doesn't have a monopoly
As usual. When Israel attacked Iran, its convenient to remain quiet. When the latter retaliates, we issue statements accusing it of breach of UN Charter. Israel rubbished UN, its resolutions, laws, institutions but we look the other way. Sad. We are still colonised by the West.
Kenya is deeply concerned by Iran's attack on the State of Israel. This disturbing development only serves to aggravate an already delicate situation in the Middle East. The attack represents a real and present threat to international peace and security, contravenes the Charter
FINANCE BILL WITHDRAWAL:
A momentous speech! Statesmanship. Kenyans expected no less.
@WilliamsRuto
, you have saved the country from descending into an abyss. Next, work on the proposed austerity measures. But more importantly, listen to Kenyans!
We have warned the ruling outfit ad nauseum that BBI is ill- advised & Kenyans have no appetite for this misadventure. Kangata's admission of 20% support in Mt Kenya is to say the least being polite to his boss.
BBI ‘unpopular in Mt Kenya’:
Irungu Kang’ata warns Pres. Kenyatta of BBI unpopularity in Mt Kenya
Kang’ata: Only 2 out of 10 ppl support BBI in Mt Kenya
Irungu says BBI presented as a factional agenda in Jubilee. Senator cautions against use of provincial administration in BBI
RAILA:
We have called him a conman. Accused him of betrayal. Labelled him the laundry on Capitol Hill towers, etc. Nonetheless,
Raila remains the foremost politician in Kenya with unmatched reformist and statesmanship credentials. When it comes to a crunch & the nation teeters
Damn!
@DavidNdii
was right after all. We ain't done with the dynasties. Uhuru wants Raila out of AU job & promises him again Mt Kenya vote 2027. He wl pair Raila with Muhuho Kenyatta. Kalonzo, Gen Zs et al are pawns in a dynasty powerplay!
BBI to eliminate unemployment, economic decline, education problems, poor governance, political conflict, etc, at zero cost...this must be a miraculous document! Can we patent it & export the recipe to world for more cash?
@WehliyeMohamed
Well done Senators
@Senate_KE
. Might is not right. Thank you for keeping the bullies in check, for now. Its a fight for future of all deprived & fair- minded Kenyans. Kenya must be for all! Washindwe.
It's Baba's moment to show his statesmanship as a highly respected leader in Kenya, & beyond. He should concede to crown his sacrifices for this nation & save the nation from further anxiety & instability. Many Kenyans stood with him since 1997 & its God's will that prevails.
Exports are low because we lost our competitiveness due to high costs of production...high taxes, high cost of power, high fuel prices, corruption costs, etc. It's certainly getting worse!
Shilling on free fall:
CBK governor at pains to explain performance of Kenya shilling. Governor Thugge says Kenyan exports to GDP ratio low.
Thugge says drop in tourism also a contributing factor
#TheExplainer
@YvonneOkwara