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@TweetingPundit
Okolla™
9 months
'sisi wote hapa ni watu wazima'
@Arap_Nyasikera
Eng. Nyasikera
9 months
Those who scored A in Kiswahili, what is "with all due respect" in Kiswahili?
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2 months
Wamejaribu kurushia teargas?
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Bane
2 months
Police can’t access their salaries from their police SACCO. 😆😆
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3 months
A new country slowly emerging, and soon it'll dawn on everyone.
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3 years
They grow up so fast.
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2 months
The pain is in that 'formless, and faceless' speech 😂 they're used to having a name they can bribe or threaten. Hii imekataa.
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3 months
The KENYA you knew is gone, make peace with that.
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3 years
Where did we get this idea that having many jobless graduates is an indictment of 8-4-4?
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2 years
@shobanes Dondoo.
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2 years
That Oprah rags-to-riches model of storytelling ought to be retired. Now Charlene Ruto getting roasted for it. Relatability doesn't have to be built around shared struggle; empathy, tenacity, and charisma can be enough.
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2 months
KANU 2nd Liberation movement has played its last card, so the GEN Zs 3rd Liberation movement needs to dust off and keep going. Time is on your side, not theirs.
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3 years
3000 Kenyans have hidden an est. 7T-15T abroad. In 2007 alone 1T was smuggled abroad-Kroll report. For context Kenya's economy is about 10T.
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3 years
They said they've arrested the three terr.......uhm never mind.
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3 years
Never has a petulant president met such a stubbornly resolute judiciary. #BBIRuling
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3 months
Everyday he looks like he didn't know that after you win elections, you then have to plan, lead and govern. #RutoMustGo
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2 months
Every 72hrs there's a viral consensus that the GEN Z REVOLUTION is done and dusted, only for it to rise and disprove the naysayers, and 7 weeks later it keeps moving.
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2 years
Once those gangs are formed, they never disband. When they come back to the estate broke, high, and idle, it's you they'll harass, bully and rob. #Maandamano
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Okolla™
10 months
They're going to vote.
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Buitengebieden
10 months
What is going on here? 😅
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3 years
27-35 yr old Kenyans going through 2 episodes of IMF SAPs even before exiting the youth bracket...
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Okolla™
10 months
1. Kenya Literature Bureau 2. KICC 3. National Oil 4. Kenya Seed 5. Mwea Rice Mills 6. Kenya Pipeline Co. 7. KCC 9. Rivatex East Africa Ltd 10. Numerical Machining
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@beth_kasinga
Beth Kasinga 🌴
10 months
What are you selling today?
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Okolla™
2 months
These youngins were 5-7yrs during PEV and have no loyalty to your guy, it's the millennials who're having a meltdown.
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3 months
They will confidently tell you to follow due process, because they control the process.
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2 years
@Wamuhu_ @MwihakiWaNganga I paid 2x weekly, & figured in 3 months it'll be equal the cost of a fairly good bike. I just bought my own.
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2 years
This country's median age is 19.7yrs. 2007 was 16yrs ago. Your typical Kenyan can barely recall it. That's why @wmnjoya reminds you that Vasco Da Gama subjects are critical. Tell these kids.
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2 years
Nabii's first term is simply shock therapy for the economic eff ups of the last 10years. That he knew this, yet chose to over-promised was such a rookie mistake.
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1 year
@shobanes Your uber has arrived.
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1 year
Ruto could have zero-rated the annual 245B levies/taxes on fuel, then bank on multiplier effect, & bump custom duty target to 1Trillion to cover for the deficit. But his team chose demand-side madness. We'll be in this for a while.
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Okolla™
1 year
You people had all the machinery, cash, and power to win but fumbled, and now we've to live with your daily political insolence.
@ledamalekina
Sen. Ledama Olekina
1 year
National Accord does not mean Nusu Mkate! It simply means a process not controlled by one person.
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1 year
This govt needs to rescued from this delusional idea about endless pool of funds lying out there in citizens hands.
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Nation Africa
1 year
Street tax agents are coming: Ruto gets Sh1.2bn boost to deploy KRA in markets
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2 years
I see many #KE intellectuals anticipate a fundamentalist fascist state, I foresee KK as a conservative, developmental state, bogged by economic concerns & zero social policy.
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3 years
@KariukyKamau @IamMzilikazi 'Hello, can you hear us Jessica?... I think her camera is frozen'😂😂
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1 year
@RachelNuwer @NoemaMag Hitler-rish, racist, eugenic fetishes disguised as analysis.
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Okolla™
11 months
While the oil revenues keep dropping ⬇️. At this point it's clear this is meant to break the society, not raise taxes.
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Kenyans.co.ke
11 months
The price of fuel could go up to Ksh300 per litre - CS Davis Chirchir
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29 days
Constitutions are great but they are not gods & can't solve all your problems; popularize philosophy, clean-up theology, entrench the arts, and curate your history.
@ericomondi_
ERIC OMONDI
30 days
Five things we must do URGENTLY. 1. Reduce Counties from 47 to 8 2. Abolish Nominated Members 3. Abolish the Senate 4. Do away with Deputy Governors 5. Abolish Women Reps #PundaImechoka
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1 year
Kibaki had a strong political goodwill but a weak economy. WSR has a weak economy & a drained political goodwill. A shrewd govt avoids having an economic & political crisis at the same time. #FinanceBill2023
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Okolla™
2 years
@wmnjoya @PharaohMenya Those who kept quiet & their heads low became paramount chiefs and the black aristocracy. That logic stuck; don't ruffle feathers.
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1 year
The fact that this country started as a business 1852 1888 1963 2023 IBEA CROWN xfxcx 👇🏾👇🏾
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Okolla™
3 years
The myth of meritocracy. 3yrs on.
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2 years
@shobanes The most undereported maritime disaster in this country. Even school textbooks omitted it.
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3 years
Mimi I wrote a 4k word thesis on the SAHEL securitization, small small I see your fave iNGO has set-up a $3.5M kitty on the topic. 1/3
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Okolla™
2 years
They had chaebols Nabii, chaebols. From the 1960s President Park Chung Hii directed banks to fund the two dozen massive industries Samsung, LG, Lote, Hyundai, Dongbu, Hansol and create the huge corporate dynasties.
@citizentvkenya
Citizen TV Kenya
2 years
Ruto: While in South Korea, I had a great revelation; 30 years ago, Kenya was lending money to them, but today, it is the world's 10th largest economy. I received the revelation that it is not by might or power, but by the Spirit of God. I urge Kenyans to trust God.
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Okolla™
1 year
I think it's critical to the success of the project that we revisit the particular roles we're each supposed to play, in order to meet the timelines.
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1 year
How do you sneak in “unaoverdo” in corporate lingo on an email?
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Okolla™
2 years
Between VAT and Excise duty all Kenyans pay taxes.
@MugambiNandi
Mugambi Nandi
2 years
Voting should be based on taxation. The End.
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Okolla™
1 year
In a country where the average salary is Kshs. 20,000, be careful with this.. This is a class war based on a lie.
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Paul Olind
1 year
There comes the demonising😁 now the topping will be the salaried being dynasties🤣
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2 months
@weak_spell @kijomba1 He's always wanted to be accepted by the old guard, yet even with the highest seat they still 'huyo kijana' him, must be disorienting.
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Okolla™
10 months
@Yemihazan Watch his Netflix episodes on hip-hop evolution. 50 has always been a menace, even to gangsters.
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Okolla™
1 year
Don't build a country around yourself. Systems beat charisma, and culture always beats strategy.
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Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸
1 year
Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the President of Burkina Faso, received a triumphant welcome upon his return 🇧🇫🇷🇺
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3 months
What next for a broke government?
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3 years
@MarigaThoithi @MigunaMiguna One of the Kenyan public's major weakness is the inability to connect the dots - @wmnjoya 2017
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2 years
@wmnjoya We underdeveloped philosophy, disparaged arts, neutered sociology, privatised psychology, muted anthropology now we're stuck with politics & hyper-religiousity as the most overt forms of spiritual and psychosocial expression.
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3 months
Ruto knows what needs to be done, hiyo dialogue ajiongeleshe kwa mirror, and starts acting right. Nobody got time.
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2 years
If the Interior CS issued orders now, this crime spree will be over by evening, and that how you know this is sabotage and dereliction of duty.
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3 months
They still don't get it, it'll be a hectic 3yrs.
@HusseinMohamedg
Hussein Mohamed, MBS.
3 months
Press Release: The Executive Office of the President outlines the roadmap for the National Multi-Sectoral Forum on Youth Engagement.
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Okolla™
1 year
If our creative sector had budgets KK would be such a Netflix hit. Such a proper Cast of Characters. House of Awful Cards.
@ntvkenya
NTV Kenya
1 year
DP Gachagua: I disagree with Moses Kuria's suggestion that we stop advertising with NMG; we are a democracy
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2 years
@RamzZy_ Jatelo, it is kicking and going.
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Okolla™
10 months
I know kuria is crass and annoying, but this one here is the real JJ Kamotho.
@ntvkenya
NTV Kenya
10 months
‘No SHIF registration, no State services’
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Okolla™
3 years
also we barely have 3% graduate numbers, compared to say 34% (US) or 55% for S. Korea.
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2 years
@CPAkipkemoi @alaminkimathi Your uber has arrived
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@TweetingPundit
Okolla™
2 years
Intellectual labor, ideas, concepts, are work. Pay consultants in CA$H!
@muhzle
Meghan McCormick
2 years
Just landed in Nairobi! Would love to meet with people who work with SMEs, creators, side hustlers, and entrepreneurs to understand the market here. Happy to trade ☕️or 🍻for insights and also to share what I’ve learned working for the same customer based in W. Africa.
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3 years
In Khali Kartel III when Rekless sung, 'na bado nyi ndo mnakaa kwa hizo keja zina parking'. A parking lot as class definer is just...
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3 months
You know?!
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Okolla™
3 years
@iFortknox @RamzZy_ Our vegetation cover is low. Nyanza counties are way worse for an area with so much water.
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2 months
@mary_mumbi Heartburns tu, they don't realize the old logic of elite convergence as an illusion of stability is dead.
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Okolla™
2 years
We have a name for that, private universities..
@CapitalFMKenya
Capital FM Kenya
2 years
Govt will no longer fund public universities, Education CS Machogu says
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Okolla™
10 months
@B3laze If you ever can, shadow her for a few hours/days as she responds to those distress calls. Society looks very different from that lens.
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Okolla™
3 years
@wmnjoya Wandia our colonial school system isn't about education. It's a pipeline, a worldview, and conveyor upon which the entire reality of the 3% rest. They've no life outside/besides it.
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Okolla™
3 years
@MarigaThoithi Grace A. Musila explores the role of grapevine in coping in a country where opacity, & silence are the top languages.
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Okolla™
3 months
Ndii is a fatalist with a penchant for the false choice theory: IMF or hell, debt or hell, this or hell, that or hell...
@DavidNdii
David Ndii
3 months
Keyboard economists, come for your country.
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Okolla™
1 year
Keeping debt:GDP ratio above 4% for 6 F/Ys? Best case you need 24-36 months to fix that. Kenyans made their bed in '13 & '17.
@DennisOnyangoGM
Dennis Onyango
1 year
That Kenya was deep in debt was known as we went to polls. We were looking for leaders to fix it, not a book of Lamentations. It’s incompetent to say it’s either salaries or debt servicing. If government doesn’t pay workers, how does it generate the money to pay debt @DavidNdii ?
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Okolla™
3 years
Pole kwa mazishi ya mzee, lakini unaweza nisaidia mia tano ya kushikilia mfuko.
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Okolla™
1 year
Absurd, this can affect anyone ditto teachers, doctors, lawyers who've many dependents. Using your disdain for a few political hangers-on & civil society folks to open a broad war on the middle class is pathetic.
@DavidNdii
David Ndii
1 year
This is how to know whether you are middle class. If you were to lose employment for good, how long would you sustain your currentvsocial status. Would your family/community social capital provide a status safety net or would you have to go back to the village?
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Okolla™
3 years
Delays in the washroom. Miss Mandi outside:
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@theMagunga
M A G U N G A
3 years
Lakini imagine unaendesha alafu ukitoka nje ya loo unatandikwa.
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Okolla™
3 years
TL is so intense today 💔 still, let's keep talking police reform, useless curfew, vaccine uptake, job losses, coz it matters.
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Okolla™
2 years
@KokiMburu @99thsense Nyika plateau you only see a mudhouse every 20km and it's occupied by a shosh who has 2 mutinas and a chicken shade.
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Okolla™
3 years
'What is your solution?' 'Why are you judging?' 'What have you done yourself?' 'at least they are trying'. 'Why are you always critical?'
@wmnjoya
#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia
3 years
The bots of the ICC suspects and their sponsoring embassies are starting to gaslight us for next year. You want to know how they trap us with words and manipulate our emotions? Watch my playlist "Kenyan narratives of public life."
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Okolla™
3 years
@johnallannamu Alas. Stuck between a neutered legislature & a messy executive, the judiciary seemed like the last bastion of sobriety.
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Okolla™
2 years
Uncle Sam now feels like a a high-end Fallujah.
@ThtOneGuyRashad
Rashad
2 years
Wtf is wrong with people? Some dude was walking around my apartment complex at 1am checking doors with an AR in his hand
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Okolla™
3 years
Age doesn't always come with wisdom, sometimes it comes alone.
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Okolla™
2 years
@gufydox You said..
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Okolla™
9 months
A black market will develop or people will find addictive stuff, because liquor is just a cover.
@Sir3_
SIRE
9 months
Wines and spirits license fee should be Quadrupled. That's one thing I'll support fully. It's finishing the youth and they're so many per square kilometres
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Okolla™
2 years
How conservation started in Kenya. @m_ogada
@inaxusein
Nasser Ega-Musa
2 years
1)This month is the anniversary of ex-US President Teddy Roosevelt’s 1909 “conservation mission” to E. Africa. The results of this conservation was the killings of approximately 5000 animals, 4000 birds, 2000 reptiles and 500 fish. Many were stuffed and presented 2the Smithsonian
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Okolla™
3 months
Kenya's colonial modernity from 1895 built the mission schools-church-hospital nexus around the country. Time to revisit and dismantle that logic.
@lindahoguttu
Lindah Oguttu aka Mtu ya mjengo
3 months
Church has been one of the biggest let down in this country. That the first thing the President does is host church leaders baffles me. They will not help him.
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Okolla™
3 years
We shall leave no turn un-stoned.
@mqhlay
Muganda Clay
3 years
You gotta love how Kenya's political analysts mix metaphors and idioms to sound knowledgeable: "You know, DP has bought a can of worms. The SGR is a white cow. RAO is closing the Pandora's box. Uhuru is riding a Trojan elephant. That is the straw that built the zebra's back..🤣🤣
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Okolla™
3 years
Karen-ism and white female hystericism; between pathology and fetishism of the black phallus
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StanceGrounded
3 years
Emmett Till would be 80 today but on August 28th of 1955 A white woman lied resulting in his kidnapping, beating, & lynching as a 14 year old child. His killers were Acquitted & 62 years later in 2017, the white woman finally admitted she lied! This Karen phenomenon isn’t new.
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2 years
@ombachi13 Waiting for Twitter Parenting Commission to issue a statement.
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Okolla™
3 years
@mqhlay The height of impunity, no?
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Okolla™
3 years
We project job market issues, onto the education sector..
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Okolla™
3 years
Active citizenship is Kenya's weak link. Its not a once in 5yrs gig. It is showing up every week. It is doing the boring work of public participation, budget reviews, that will fix this country.
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Okolla™
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@Mr_Guantai He'd disappear from the public for so long, the media would start asking then he randomly pops up at a private event for photo ops.
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Okolla™
3 years
Kenya is still a plantation with a flag and an anthem. #PandoraPapers
@wmnjoya
#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia
3 years
Kenya is a lie. #PandoraPapers
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Okolla™
1 year
You have an expenditure problem, not a revenue problem.
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@citizentvkenya
Citizen TV Kenya
1 year
'Give us an alternative way to raise revenue,' Mudavadi tells critics of the Finance Bill
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1 year
@jkobuthi He's lost a 10-month window for a people-centric flip on the dynasties. Now's it has to go knuckles.
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Was it really 17 kids who perished, and if so where are the other 40+ kids, and how come they haven't reached out to their parents, relatives or even well-wishers if they're stranded?
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Okolla™
3 years
@B3laze India started regulating that.
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Okolla™
3 months
So until Thursday afternoon they were still asking, who are the leaders of this group we negotiate? #MassiveIntelligenceFailure .
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Okolla™
2 years
What becomes of the DEEP STATE, both the system (if it exists), and the place of that idea within our public banter?
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Okolla™
3 years
When Uhuru meets the price the price of cooking oil.
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Okolla™
3 months
We've crossed a psychological barrier as a citizenry, and Gen Z at the forefront buys us a 40 yr fight.
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