As a kid who grew old waiting to meet his father only to know that he died when I was 12, I know what your friends journey. That gap will never be filled, but I hope this edit makes it better.
This started as an amazing train journey to Nanyuki but 12 hours later, Nanyuki is nowhere in site. We have been stuck at some ravine in Nyeri County for the last 5 and half hours after the train engine failed.
Dated for six years, took her home to meet mom and the clan one day, she caused some drama the next day, and left ... came back after 3 months ... 3 months after coming back, we were expecting a baby ... took her for the ultrasound, discovered the pregnancy was 5 months old.
I left the HDU on this day in 2019 ... I didn't believe them when they told me I'd be okay.
I was broke, but my family and friends said they'd make sure I didn't sell the car I'd just bought.
I don't think 2019 is a year am going to forget anytime soon. On 29th April of 2019, I died twice. During an operation after a fatal accident I flat lined two times and the doctors resuscitated me. I had a chest operation to fix a torn heart, a spleenectomy,
@PhinelSenior
@MrMadaga
Don't be an alarmist. There was an AU meeting that was ending today. It is understandable that people would rather go back home on a Sunday to start a new working week.
Kenya's alcohol taxation has been a huge policy failure. Kenya practically taxed EABL out of the East African market. Nobody in Arusha chooses a KShs.240 Tusker over a KShs.60 Serengeti or Kilimanjaro Lager anymore.
2. The high taxes that make Kenyan alcohol expensive push people to illicit booze (59% of alcohol in Kenya is sold in the illicit market):
"In Kenya beer is pricey not just because the market is dominated by a big firm, but also because the government taxes it so heavily."
@ahmednasirlaw
Ahmed, don't be unwise. You can't go against religious teachings, sire children out of wedlock, and then rush back to religion to shield you from the consequences and resultant responsibilities.
@MKMadoka_
Google Purchasing Power Parity, Standard of Living, Cost of Living, and Income par Capita. When you understand these, you will know why a Nyanya costing 200 bob in the US will still be more affordable to an American than a nyanya costing 10 bob is to a Kenyan.
@celeb_undercovr
@AfricaFactsZone
For the Meru who live on the Eastern and Northern half of Mt. Kenya, the name Kenya means Eternal, that which has been, and that which will forever be.
@alexmwanzo
@nhifkenya
I had a bill of 6.3 million, or was it 7.3m? So they came and said they could only pay 150,000, then some of their staffers said if ... long story short, I ended up being investigated for something that happened when I was in a comma. In this country, just pray for good health.
@michukipn
@SethOlale
Si ungoje tujue ninini kinaendelea? Mambo ya intimidation mnatoa wapi? Like anyone would think the DP can be intimidated to drop out of the race?
Brits built a better Statehouse in Entebbe, gave Uganda almost all of the Lake(s) and most of Mt. Elgon; donated all Kilimanjaro to Germans in Tanganyika, hived off Zanzibar from Mombasa... indeed, Kenya was that kid parents don't even remember they have, until he makes it.
@Terriz_Sam
Zero professionalism, a dearth of wisdom, a total lack of the temperament needed to perform the role you've been given... this is definitely not it. Do not personalise this thing. You will lose you, and lose it.
@citizentvkenya
@caloti
Kenyans, as usual, glorifying bad manners. The ambassador only repeated what the IEBC and the Supreme Court of Kenya said. Why would Raila want to interfere with her freedom of speech and conscience? Is he superior to both these institutions?
@ThisIsBett
Ningekwambia upack urudi kwa baby momma for a month, lakini mtaenda mzae tena mashida ziongezeke. The fact is, the woman in your house won't change, the baby momma too, and you can stay away from both and have them both, each when ako in good moods.
@MuriraKinoti
@kipmurkomen
@KURAroads
Kwanza hizo zimeekwa on the new Kenol Marua sijui wametoa designs zake wapi. How do you place mountains on a dual carriage surely?
@kiplimoNick
Took her for lunch at CJ's Village Market, said nothing about the issue. Put her in a cab back to a relative she was living with. Called the best friend and told her I knew. I didn't talk to her ever again. She later told a mutual friend that she got very sick and lost her baby.
@iamjoseh_
@MeanKaiser
My home in Nairobi is an Airbnb, which is home to many other people.
Naomi Campbell's home in Malindi is the Lion of the Sea resort she co-owns with Flavio Briatore. Our inability to look at the bigger picture as a nation is the reason we are what we are, two generations later.
@Kenyaisdraining
@theMagunga
You miss the point. When you ask me to do something in Swahili, and I tell you I'll try, that means I'm politely telling you I won't do it. Even when I tell you "nitajaribu niwezavyo." It's probably a Bantu thing. A Yes is a Yes, but we'll go around a NO in circles.
@SingoeiAKorir
@UNHumanRights
You do not respond to the UN's human rights watch dog body in a manner that hints that abuse of people's rights is justified in a country that is not at war. What you describe are mere acts of lawlessness that should be dealt with within the law.
@AfricaFactsZone
These gentlemen are making African conductors of bureaucracy very uncomfortable. The birth certificate here has to have a mother. The father can be ×××× ××××, but everyone must have a mother.
@OleSiololo
@jumaf3
So sad, bro. Nothing saddens me than the death of a milk cow. Can't even share here.
I find the current Meru politics lacking in principles, very uncivil.
NSSF Twitter will tell you this is where corruption in Kenya started. On Sundays, we gave God a tenth of the tithe. The rest of the tithe bought these. Our guardians never thought we could 'steal' from God.
Stop beating around the bush. Just say you've given Raila the Kikuyu customary apology goat in the presence of Mama Ida, your mother, and your wife, and yes. From the look of things, your apology has been accepted.
As part of the ongoing national support for my very good friend Rt Hon
@RailaOdinga
's candidature for the position of African Union Commission Chair, today my mother Teresia, my wife Joyce, my friends and I were treated to a sumptuous lunch by Mama Ida Odinga as we wished Baba
@Baitoro_
@McKenzieCNN
Blow up to where? I have not voted for a winning candidate in the presidential election since Kibaki round one but I always support the winner with all my heart. Same for an absolute majority of Kenyans. Join them.
@moneyacademyKE
@andbuddie_
It would be nice to tell us what consumption plunged from, so we can properly appreciate the magnitude of the reduced economic productivity.
@trtafrika
Israel is the homeland of the Jews, with thousands of history to back it up. There is no Palestinian race. No one is in Israel Jew or Arab who don't need to be there. The moment we all accept that, is the moment they'll find peace.
@mohammedhersi
@LarryMadowo
You are looking at Larry's reporting through the short-term prism of tourism stakeholders. Never doubt his love for Kenya. On floods, not only is he keeping the government on its toes (deservedly), but he is also consolidating global support for the same government.
The rivers draining the entire east of Mt. Kenya and the Nyambene Mountain Range are not dammed. These Meru rivers flow into the Tana and are responsible for most of the flooding in Garissa and Tanariver. The proposed Grand Falls High Dam will take in the Mt. Kenya Rivers
Almost forgotten is my former boss who offered the work van to drive my friends from Meru to Aga Khan to donate blood. They donated too much blood until Aga Khan told them it was enough! I thank God for them and wish them God's blessings this year.
@MarthaKarua
Martha, it doesn't matter if you recognise him or not. He is the president and will probably be after 2027, if you don't organise early, and start working towards winning. Kindly stop wasting time on sideshows and start forming a winning team.
I did not know about this young Meru man and his content until he died, and his body was later found by a river in Tharaka, east of Meru.
His content can be said to have been kiMeru chants, said like a prayer, and in this one that I listened to, he was rebuking a sister to a
@Ngafocus
Everything has/had it's time. If you can fly from the middle of nowhere, land in New York, and find your way to the UN General Assembly, then you can effortlessly find a suits shop and use it.
the nurses and the doctors at Aga Khan for giving me a second opportunity at life, my family, my friends and my colleagues for moral and financial support.
Happy New year to all of you and may you be blessed in 2020, more than you can ever imagine!
@Josephmutimba3
@gpdkaluma
Sasa mlikua mnataka Governor wa Meru akajenge fish factory in Nyanza? This begs the question: If Meru County can build a fish factory at Kanyakine to process fish from Ĩrarũ River, why can't five Nyanza counties together build a fish processing factory at Mbita Point?
It is for this reason I want to take this opportunity to thank God, the nurse at Kiambu hospital who called my family to get me to a better hospital when it was apparent they couldn't do much,
Zoomed into these women from this photo of women, girls and small children in a 1800s Meru homestead and I note that despite all being of the same social strata having come from the same family, they are dressed differently.
📸
@HistoryKE
📌 Meru, Kenya.
@djeduhmaks
@fredrickmaina95
Mnasema Flo navile ni mali safi kameamua kasumbuana na jamaa ako na baby momma issues? Wacha niite mkutano ya Njuri Ncheke.
@BehindHerEyes7
@Toomey_Turmett
Ruaraka is actually Rũũĩ rwa Aka ... (Women's River) A proper history research may find that Kikuyu women, maybe even Maasai women, were circumcised on this river.
@FarahMaalimM
Just like Kenya will not make any progress by blaming it's deficiencies on colonialism, Somalia will not gain stability by blaming foreigners for its of instability. Some few Somalis have to stop killing fellow Somalis and their neighbours, and the rest have to root them out.
@MKJohn254
@mwendathuranira
@BLepalat
Our old men died when we were kids, and we barely remember them, so it's always been our moms ... but this is a good conversation, especially about us and our choices when we decide to marry. We need to marry our friends and not competitors.
I left Aga Khan hospital with a KShs.6.3million, almost all of which has been paid thanks to the generosity of my relatives, my friends & my workmates.
This is a year that not only changed my appearance but also touched my spirit and gave me a different perspective towards life.
@paulinenjoroge
Pauline, don't be a tribal bigot. Let us look at everyone, Uhuru, Gachagua, and Ruto, as individuals who made their beds individually and are sleeping in them. Let us not make a mountain, and a valley out of them.