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With bylines at @BloombergAfrica . | Business Journalist @cgtnafrica . | Moderator | Car Nut | Views here = mine.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

1 month

One of the more fascinating data trends in the first half of 2024, has been how some banks have been trimming their holdings of Kenyan government securities. It’s not a dramatic decline, but it’s a notable one. In the year to end June, for example, @NCBABankKenya cut its

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Ramah Nyang

3 months

WSR describing the kids who were shot dead in parliament as 'victims of demonstrations' is a very curious turn of phrase. Also one which will not land well with the public. WSR: "I am sure the police will have an explanation for every situation they were engaged in." How do

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@Ramah_Nyang

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1 year

64-seconds, zero words spoken, to deliver commentary on how the Kenyan state is adept at looting resources from citizens and not spending taxes in the right places....and he absolutely nailed it.

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1 year

PUBLIC SERVANT HOUSES 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 #STANDAGAINSTDEPRESSION

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Ramah Nyang

8 months

If there's one line to take home from this 9-minute clip, it's this, from @edwinsifuna : "You elders what have you done for this country? You have messed up this country for other generations!" Useful reminder of how the ridiculous idea of 'respectability' is weaponized to shut

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@citizentvkenya

8 months

Sifuna: I refused to listen to President Ruto’s lies during the presidential debate. Mungatana: This isn't an ODM rally, you can’t call the President a liar. Let’s be parliamentary. Sifuna: We're not in Parliament; this is TV. Speaker Kingi is not here to protect you #DayBreak

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Ramah Nyang

3 months

In more ways than one, the move to appoint a ‘taskforce’ to audit #Kenya ’s public #debt fits into the same old pattern of [1] obfuscation [2] waste of very limited public resources. The things this team should do, are the legal mandates of other bodies, or they’re re-hashing

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

4 years

The fact that such far-reaching restrictions on movement, work, were announced without any financial relief measures in place, really tells you just how disconnected policy making in GoK is, from the reality of millions of citizens.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

4 years

ODM MPs approved the passage of the 2013 VAT Act, including its provisions to eventually impose VAT on fuel. They also approved the last 2 versions of the Energy Act [2006, 2019]. There's mediocre efforts at playing to the gallery, and then there's whatever this is.

@ntvkenya

NTV Kenya

4 years

ODM Party opposes EPRA's latest fuel price hikes; Sec-Gen Sifuna calls on the regulatory authority to revise the prices before the decree becomes effective tomorrow.

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Ramah Nyang

3 months

GoK is told, clearly, that people do not want another tax hike on fuel prices, taking the Road Maintenance Levy from KES 18/liter of petrol/diesel to KES 25 - +39% () What does the regulator ( @EPRA_Ke ) do? It imposes it anyway, public feedback be damned.

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Ramah Nyang

2 years

LOL, what? 🤣🤣🤣

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Ramah Nyang

4 years

Borrowing $ 40 Billion in dubious, opaque uber-expensive dollar debt [and having nothing to show for it] certainly is something your predecessors didn't do.

@citizentvkenya

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@citizentvkenya

4 years

Uhuru Kenyatta – ‘In 7 years, my gov’t has done more than all other Kenyan presidents combined’

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3 years

Mr. Kenyatta’s #SOTN2021 speech was an interesting exercise in obfuscation, given how the data he presented was framed. It can certainly make for interesting course material in future communication course. THREAD.

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Ramah Nyang

6 years

It does appear Kenya’s backed itself into an interesting legal tight spot, on this issue of the VAT exemption on petroleum products coming to an end. This thread will explain why.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

3 months

If gov't spending programs are going to be downsized to reflect the fact that resources are limited, why persist with destructive capital-extraction programs like the Housing Levy, or the utter, utter mess that was the move to SHIF? Real incomes in the private sector are down

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

2 years

5 pages of assets up for auction, the bulk of it land & houses. But we’re home to a growing economy. Can I get an amen?

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Ramah Nyang

2 years

Pretty much a continuation of Jubilee policies, going by some of the economic data points WSR is making here. Education Reform comments are certain to get attention from parents with children in the CBC system. Some initial impressions to follow though.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

3 months

@EricLatiff to WSR: "Are you saying that these 24 people who were killed with live bullets...were criminals? Were the 24 armed? Did they pose a danger, a direct threat to the police?" WSR: "The same agency told the nation that 20 people were killed in Githurai. The same

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

2 years

Remind me, was Aden Duale not part of the rubber-stamping of tax hikes and debt binges #Kenya ’s been plagued with since 2013? Was he not pushing hard for the passage of the 2018 Finance Bill [with its VAT application on fuel]?

@ntvkenya

NTV Kenya

2 years

MP Duale: Kibaki was not a petty leader as some people are today... he never believed in debt... 'When Kibaki left, a loaf of bread was KSh. 20, today Kenyans are buying a loaf of bread for KSh. 55.'

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

4 years

If the debt contracts with the Exim Bank of #China to fund the construction of the #SGR are *still* not public (and any other relevant documents) why should anyone take this new found drive for transparency in GoK seriously? This reeks of selective amnesia.

@citizentvkenya

Citizen TV Kenya

@citizentvkenya

4 years

“I also hereby direct that the Ministry of Health within the next 30 days must come up with a transparent mechanism through which all tenders & procurement done by KEMSA are available online…the people have a right to know how their funds are utilized” - President Uhuru Kenyatta

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Ramah Nyang

4 years

The fact that entities like Kenya Power sought an exemption from minimum tax tells you just how odious it is. Tax policy ought to be fair for pretty much everyone. If the minimum tax is bad enough for KP to seek a legal exemption, why is it "good" for everyone else?

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

1 year

#Kenya ’s Government is now borrowing medium term cash at ~ 18%. T-Bills are all well over 14%. KES has lost ~ 20% of its value against the USD in 8 months, & tax policy is taking a bigger cut from household income that was lower in 2022 than it was 5-years earlier. Bonkers.

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Ramah Nyang

4 months

The ‘there is no free lunch’ line applies in economics just as much as it does in international relations. What’s the quid pro quo for ‘just helping’ a ‘friend’ with a KES 190 million jet payment?

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Ramah Nyang

6 years

Nairobi, circa 2019. Given the explosive rates at which apartment blocks are replacing houses in places that formerly used to have single story bungalows, how soon before our sewer system implodes? As it is, the water infrastructure can't cope. A sewer-plosion isn't far off.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

2 years

The fact that so many market actors are unwilling to speak on the record [mostly out of fear of GoK retaliation] about the USD access problem in Kenya's FX market, speaks volumes about the situation we're in.

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Ramah Nyang

4 years

#Kenya 's fuel pricing system never fails to provide some grim humor. The tax component of the final retail price is nearly twice as high as the price of the underlying product. Roads, on the other hand, are still pretty poorly constructed and maintained.

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Ramah Nyang

6 years

If you need a classic example of how the work of black people is erased, here's an example. "He was pictured alone," one line reads. Really @TheSun ? Really? He also single handled fought off German dreadnoughts at Jutland, I suppose.

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SAS hero led charge into Kenya hotel to kill terrorists and save victims

A LONE SAS man was hailed a hero of the Kenya terror siege — after storming in to wipe out attackers and save civilians. He was in the country training Special Forces when news broke of the gun and…

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Ramah Nyang

3 months

WSR: rejecting the Finance Bill means we cannot support milk farmers with 2 billion shillings. This is a wildly flawed argument. There are two places where you can raise more than the KES 2 Billion WSR speaks of here. The offices of the First & Second Lady alone have a KES 1.2

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Ramah Nyang

2 years

The KES 8 Trillion plus debt mountain we're sitting on right now [and the subsequent $ 11 B in debt service for FY 22/23], is partially a result of having spineless characters in those committees. This economy can't afford another 5-years of that sort of flaccid policy making.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

2 years

That these two statements came barely 24-hours of each other, is a pretty -ve indicator of the quality of governance we have at KRA’s Board at present. Purporting to suspend laws and acting as an Executive Chairman when the agency has a CEO = 🚩🚩

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Ramah Nyang

10 months

"We have had to cut back significantly on expenditure, WSR says. But his Finance Ministry tabled a supplementary budget in October which raised overall spending by 4.9%, & recurrent spending in the executive by 5.4%? So what cuts is he on about here?

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Ramah Nyang

3 months

@EricLatiff J. Ageyo: you may not believe the National Commission on Human Rights, but we have seen a return to abductions. WSR: "There will be no extra-judicial killings in Kenya. I have kept my promise." Arrests, he says, but those do not amount to an abduction. @LinusKaikai cuts in,

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Ramah Nyang

2 months

Pretty remarkable (but also not surprising) that so many of the employees we pay over KES 700 000 p.m. are not in the house for this debate on spending cuts, as proposed by the Budget & Appropriations Committee.

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Ramah Nyang

3 years

Kenya really is just one big 'fuliza' experiment on steroids. Loads of debt taken on. Virtually nothing to show for it. The barest minimum accountability for the folks who took on the debt & blew it. Then we *all* have to clean up the mess they created.

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Ramah Nyang

5 months

Last thing Kenyan parents need now is another 1.20am statement pushing the re-opening date again on the day the term is due to resume. Would be ideal for @EduMinKenya to provide data to parents *days* in advance, rather than repeat Monday's mess.

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Ramah Nyang

7 years

This is a corruption free zone. ~ Kenyan Proverb.

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Ramah Nyang

3 years

Cue the very loud, very hypocritical complaints from MPs over the next 3-4 days about how they will ‘investigate’ why fuel prices at the pump are as high as they are. That - as the young ones say these days - is just clout chasing. Nothing more.

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Ramah Nyang

6 years

Who approved bigger and bigger fiscal deficits? Legislators. Who approved raising debt limits? Legislators. Who approved more & more draconian taxes? Legislators. So, how can legislators claim to be part of the solution to the problem they helped create?

@ntvkenya

NTV Kenya

6 years

#Sidebar Q: Do you trust your Member of Parliament to help in bringing down the cost of living? Let us know. Be sure to join @KenMijungu at 10pm tonight as we assess the state of the Economy from policy makers, lawmakers and human rights crusaders.

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Ramah Nyang

4 years

The fact that bodies like @CAA_Kenya have to make clarifications hours after directives were issued is just one more bit of evidence of either: [1] really poor inter-govt communication. [2] an absence of common sense planning. Or both.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

6 months

Every year, there are some pretty intense rains. It's not a surprise. These are often forecast fairly accurately. Every year, there's the annual ritual of govt officials pretending to be surprised that there are parts of the city that get flooded.

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9 months

I moderated ~ 10 fascinating discussions in 2023, but here’s one which neatly sums up the dilemmas countries & businesses will keep dealing with in 2024. This was in #Abidjan in June. The Q&A starts with @MworiaJ , @CentumPLC 's Group CEO, challenging the case @IMFNews makes for

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Ramah Nyang

3 years

Might as well go the whole 9-yards and remove the curfew as well.

@citizentvkenya

Citizen TV Kenya

@citizentvkenya

3 years

Public transport operators to resume carrying full capacity from Monday to cushion sector from massive losses, gov’t advises commuters to observe Covid-19 guidelines.

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Ramah Nyang

2 years

GDP growth forecast at 6%, the Finance Minister says, citing agriculture as one of the key drivers. Curious. We’re smack in the middle of a nasty drought, so what underpins that expectation of agriculture being a key growth driver? #Budget2022KE #BudgetKE #Budget2022

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

2 years

EABL’s H1 numbers are an interesting lesson for any policy maker who actually pays attention to the effect their policies have. A surge in excise tax cutting consumption - this is not the first time this has happened. But are MPs, Treasury listening? Likely not.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

4 years

Good evening Huduma Number holders. How's your service delivery so far? Other than the $ 60 Billion of recklessly acquired, opaque debt that your kids will still be servicing, that is.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

5 years

Wait a minute. Kenyan citizens pay taxes already. Taxes which are then channeled to you, via the Exchequer, as approved by legislators. In other words, resources are already allocated to you for these functions and others. So why charge taxpayers for a service they've paid for?

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DCI KENYA

5 years

Good afternoon @KegAmbassadorKE . Please note that you DO NOT have to pay to prove your innocence.However, if you need to have the certificate as tangible proof, then you must pay that Govt Service Fee to facilitate all the processes involved. The resources involved are at a cost.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

3 months

@IPOA_KE WSR to the panel of 3 journalists: "Are you guys bothered about the fact that parliament was burned? Are you guys bothered that millions of businesss of Kenyans were burned?" It's an interesting distraction here. The journalists are not public servants. He is. So to try to make

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Ramah Nyang

4 years

Every year, MPs have an opportunity to make changes to the tax code when the Treasury brings the Finance Bill to the House. Put another way, MPs [ODM ones included] have had *many* opportunities to change taxes on everything from fuel, to your salaries, to your pension.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

6 years

Kenya's Public Debt, with @UKenyatta and @WilliamsRuto in charge. 2013: KES 1.73 Trillion Shillings. 2018 (mid-September). KES 5.146 Trillion shillings. That's an extra KES 3.416 T in outstanding public debt, in about 5 years. An increase of 197%.

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Ramah Nyang

4 years

Kenya raised KES 673.6 Billion Shillings in tax revenue in the 6-months ending in December. The tax revenue target for FY 20/21 is 1.568 Trillion Shillings, remember. Achieving only 42% at the half-way point, in the middle of a pandemic, bodes ill.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

4 years

#Tanzania ’s President to the Finance Minister: “With your current approach, you’re killing taxpayers.”

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Samia Suluhu

4 years

Maelekezo Yangu leo Kwa Waziri wa Fedha

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Ramah Nyang

4 years

First round of restrictions on movement and a curfew in 2020 was a hammer blow to the economy. Millions of jobs lost. Incomes drastically cut. At least back then, we had cuts in personal & corporate income tax, and a 200 bp reduction in VAT to soften the blow. [1/n]

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

3 years

Is it ever possible to build something in this little corner of East Africa without destroying public assets in the process? 🤦🏾‍♂️ As it is, loads of roads in #Nairobi are built with no regard for pedestrian, much less cycle traffic. Doing this makes no sense.

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Ramah Nyang

3 months

@EricLatiff @LinusKaikai WSR's argument [which he has repeated several times] is that he made the Kenya Police an operationally independent unit, every time he is being asked why cops have responded with disproportionate & deadly force to demonstrations. In effect, throwing the force under the bus.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

7 years

Public health care has been wrecked on their watch. But mandatory voting is a clear priority. This is quite instructive.

@ntvkenya

NTV Kenya

7 years

Jubilee on mandatory voting: Party to amend constitution to compel Kenyans to vote #AMLiveNTV @TrevorOmbija

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

3 years

Worth nothing the grim silence from the @DCI_Kenya account on the 6 individuals accused of killing Emmanuel Mutura & Benson Njiru in Kaianjokoma. No long, threaded narratives. No mug shots of the arrested parties.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

3 years

Even as a bit of performative theater, the ‘National Prayer Breakfast’ is a remarkable waste of time.

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Ramah Nyang

6 years

This VAT on petroleum products story is one entirely of our own making, through our fiscal indiscipline, and inability to fix our own messes without relying on other people's money to bail us out, albeit, temporarily.

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Ramah Nyang

5 years

This is a massive fail @SafaricomPLC . What's the point of having an app and then telling clients they can only access it via mobile data? What are you not telling clients here?

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Ramah Nyang

2 years

That rush for the exits from Kenyan stocks continues unabated. @SafaricomPLC , as the biggest, most liquid stock at the NSE, is getting absolutely hammered. Down over 6% today, -40% over 5 years. Back to March 2017 levels at these prices.

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Ramah Nyang

4 years

Tell me how we don’t have an air pollution problem in #Nairobi .

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Ramah Nyang

4 months

Seems quite a few MPs from the ruling party’s coalition are arguing off the exact same talking points - spending money on paying teachers in junior secondary schools, CDF allocations [which is pretty self-centered for MPs], etc. Key weak link with their arguments: they presume

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

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If nothing else, at least October in #Nairobi had a flood of these Jacarandas in bloom. Didn’t enjoy sweeping these off the road as a teenager, but as a fossil, I appreciate having them around. This country needs way more trees, in and outside urban areas. Not less.

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6 years

Alright. Kenya’s President @UKenyatta , has laid out his defense for VAT being on petroleum. Some thoughts & highlights to follow. #ThreadAlert !

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Ramah Nyang

4 years

Only in Kenya will someone install a tint on vehicle windows so dark, that driving the vehicle is dangerous at night. 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

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Ramah Nyang

2 years

There’s lots of things that do not add up in the economic measures WSR is proposing. He says, on one hand, that he wants to expand the tax base. It’s a worthy goal given that we have a narrow tax base, but *where* is this expansion to happen, and how?

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Ramah Nyang

2 years

Yet again, agencies like @KeNHAKenya demonstrate their lack of focus. Is the A8 lit? Nope. Has the center median been rehabilitated? No. Has the Kangemi interchange been sorted out? No. But what was happening today? More needless rumble strips were being added. 🤦🏾‍♂️

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Ramah Nyang

3 months

It's interesting how often WSR refers to "criminals", yet at no point has he identified these persons. @EricLatiff : It's now Sunday. How many of these criminals are in custody? WSR: "You will seen them in court tomorrow. If we don't deal with it, we will not have a country."

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Ramah Nyang

4 years

Apologies for the potato cam quality, but man, parts of this country are all kinds of pretty. Very pretty.

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Ramah Nyang

4 years

The money government spends in your name, with your authority does *NOT* grow on trees. You're the source, & it's deeply limited. The more that's wasted, the less is available to pay for public goods we actually need. NB: a fleet of fat, slow Prados is NOT a public good.

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4 years

Shooting ourselves in the foot with badly crafted, myopic, extortionate policy is #Kenya 's national sport. E.g: We borrowed over $ 40 Billion since 2013. We have virtually nothing to show for it other than an annual debt service bill of $ 9 Billion to $ 10 Billion.

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Ramah Nyang

3 months

...here comes the policy excuse. WSR: "When I pushed the housing program, it was not about the housing program, it was about jobs." That, strictly speaking, is a red-herring. When your government is decimating incomes via fast-changing, punitive tax policies, borrowing at

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

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@EricLatiff @LinusKaikai : the police officers who shot civilians and abducted people were also caught on camera. Will action also be taken against them? WSR: "Any killer cop who went beyond what is provided in the law. Action will be taken against them. Are you telling me a police officer

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

2 years

Latest padjustments from @EPRA_Ke raise more questions, especially since PDF audits are yet to be public. Product costs (for petrol, diesel, kerosene) fell. Crude prices fell ~ 12%, Jan-Feb. $-KES rate in the managed float rose by 2.5% - but you’re raising retail prices? 🤔

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Ramah Nyang

3 years

Roughly this time, last year. Still sorting out teething issues on this project, but she was good enough to step out for a little drive.

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Ramah Nyang

7 years

We've built an education system which taught millions to regurgitate data, without inquiry. It's fertile ground to build a narrative of hate

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Ramah Nyang

3 months

WSR: The police must never act outside the rule of law. A. key problem with that argument, however, is that the police are *seldom* held to account. Screenshot below is from @IPOA_KE 's 2019 Annual Report. If the police act outside their legal mandate, he says, "they will be held

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Ramah Nyang

3 months

What are tens of millions of restive, angry, hurt citizens in #Kenya being distracted from? 🤔

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Ramah Nyang

1 year

Some data to keep in mind now that #debt , #debt service & the opportunity cost incurred is back in the public discourse in #Kenya . Here’s the broad outline of what our debt service obligations look like, up to June 2026. Even at current $-KES rates, that’s > $ 10 Billion, p.a.

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Ramah Nyang

4 months

Imagine they’re just my ‘friends’, and this way, none of our local resources are utilized.

@cobbo3

Charles Onyango-Obbo

4 months

Russian Wagner Group private military contractors provide security for convoy of the Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra. I wonder, what does a president who is protected by foreigners tell his people? 📸Clément Di Roma/VOA

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2 years

Near 2 years of minimal to zero rainfall in this part of Kajiado. Nature, as always, finds a way.

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Ramah Nyang

4 years

Name a tool less used on Kenyan roads.

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Ramah Nyang

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Petrol prices going over KES 200/liter this week, or will Govt try and kick that can down the road again with poorly utilized 'subsidies' that OMCs are barely seeing?

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Ramah Nyang

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But...think about it. Has your MP really utilized these opportunities to *your* benefit? When your SME gets hit with, inter alia, the 1% Minimum Tax [which Kenya Power asked for an exemption on, BTW], is your MP making tax policy for you, or against you?

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

4 years

Remind me, what's NHIF for, exactly? There's no comprehensive safety net for unemployed Kenyans (aka, taxpayers and your effective employers)....so why should you get one at their expense?

@citizentvkenya

Citizen TV Kenya

@citizentvkenya

4 years

MPs now want Ksh.10M medical cover after losing seat, pension for single-term lawmakers

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

5 years

All this furore over the 1.5% National Housing Fund Levy is a good reminder that we, #Kenyans , need to pay way more attention to when policies that affect us are being made. This idea was in the 2018 Finance Act....but how much attention did we give to that bill, then?

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

2 years

@Taifa_Leo still delivering punchy headlines.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

1 year

Treasury came to market seeking to raise KES 30 Billion, at a coupon of just under 12%, for 3 years. Total amount accepted was less than 6% of the KES 30 Billion target. Interesting times in #Kenya ’s fixed income markets. Very interesting times.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

2 years

Alright, where’s this chap? 😆😆 (Credit to @MwangoCapital for unearthing this little gem).

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

3 months

One does not 'create' jobs, by wrecking the core job creation engine in the economy - which is the private sector in the formal and informal sectors. The Finance Bill is not the invention of William Ruto. We have made it "much more transparent."

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

3 months

WSR: "We have raised 2.3 trillion in taxes this year." Unclear if this is for the entire FY 23/24, which would represent a revenue miss of over 400 billion vis-a-vis the tax revenue target set in June. Equally important - when WSR is making the argument that revenues are way

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

1 year

Another wholly avoidable loss by GoK when it tries to dodge transparency obligations. There's no 'National Security' argument that can hold water in explaining why NIC & CBA got a tax waiver on their merger - yet that's the 'defense' GoK tried to use:

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CS ordered to give Omtatah tax waiver information on NIC-CBA merger

Justice Mugambi held that the state violated both the Constitution and the relevant statutory provisions.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

2 years

Fertilizer delivered at lower prices…but who’s picking up the tab in the price difference? The taxpayer? Or is the state just going to throw another SOE under the bus, as has happened with NCPB in past dodgy, populist grain import schemes?

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

5 years

Greetings, Kenyan minions. Today is yet another day when we're reminded of just how easy it is to bake a pie in the sky. Just throw some numbers in an Excel spreadsheet, ignore cash flow problems you caused, raise taxes, and boom, problem solved!

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

4 years

We have $ 70 Billion in public debt. Healthcare works on the public payroll are inadequately paid, working with grossly sub-par equipment (when it is available). But we want to redirect increasingly scarce public resources to benefits for a few politicians? 🤦🏿‍♂️

@NationBreaking

Nation Breaking News

@NationBreaking

4 years

RAILA SAYS he supports proposal to extend car grants to MCAs; adds that he understands the challenges the local leaders go through.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

3 months

@LinusKaikai probing the point that WSR has a massive credibility deficit in the eyes of the public, and says they will play a series of clips of his own comments in the past - the 3 clips here are about using the police against political opponents, and aggressive tax policies.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

10 months

Remind me: what was the point of these planters, since the local authorities have clearly given up on maintaining them?

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

4 years

"As his most persistent critic and perhaps his most prominent victim, I was and I am, frankly, relieved to see him go." @TunduALissu examining the legacy of J. P. Magufuli, in @dailymaverick

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

8 years

Germany's Minister in charge of the Economy evidently has no chills. 👏👏👏👏

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

3 months

For example, in July 2022 the courts ordered @KeTreasury and the Transport Ministry [now headed by @kipmurkomen ] to disclose all contracts & related documents on the loss making SGR program [loss of KES 33.6 billion in FY 22/23 over at @KenyaRailways_ , way bigger than anything

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

5 years

About 3-4 years ago, Kenya had a chance to be on the cutting edge of setting up drone logistics. We blew it. Spectacularly. Years on, Aviation regulators still clung to "security" objections, and then introduced extraordinarily draconian UAV operation rules. [1/n]

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

7 years

How much debt did GoK add between June 2016 and June 2017? Nearly $ 8 B.

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@Ramah_Nyang

Ramah Nyang

2 years

It’s impossible for a tax base that’s been squeezed mega hard to now magically have faith that the same Govt that’s been wasting their taxes, has now had a ‘Road to Damascus’ moment, and it will have the fiscal discipline of a monk.

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