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“To do an injustice is to yourself an injustice. To do harm is to do yourself harm. It degrades you” - Marcus Aurelius
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Strong advice for newbie joggers/runners .. carry some Uber money!! Thank me later 😭😭😭
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Kenya is an interesting place sometimes .. just discovered on IG that we actually have a serious junior tennis player called Angela Okutoyi who’s actually playing in the Australian open 🙌🏿🙌🏿🔥🔥
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Many people emigrating to the west in this latest wave of departures are Kenyans in their 40’s and 50’s:IMHO previously,Kenyans used to leave in their youth. Quite jarring to read a colleagues linked in profile and see their new address is Calgary Canada 😳what’s going on?🤔🤔
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Lake naivasha resort is full full of GoK vehicles and functionaries. I was even evicted from my room coz of overbooking 🤣🤣🤣I thought we’re having austerity 🔥🔥🤣🤣🤣
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Things no one tells you about adulting: 1. How unjust the world is 2. Merit is an evil rumor 3. The centrality of money in nearly all things 4. That you’re fundamentally alone in this world 5. The selfishness and often the sheer evil of humanity.. feel free to add to the list 😩
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People take this COVID19 thing seriously .. just spent 6 nights in ICU and 6 days in the regular wards at KU teaching referral hospital😳😳😳thanks to their fantastic staff well on the mend but will be off this bird app till I recover 💯💯💯
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Kenyan exceptionalism never fails to shock me… you mean there are Kenyans who don’t know that Sudan is an African STEM superpower? 🤔🤔🤔 what’s the genesis of this exceptionalism…does anyone know?🤔🤔
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How is it possible that the late Ken Okoth built 2 whole schools and another MP in the same parliament flatly refuses to repair a toilet block? Are we living in parallel universes?😂😂😂
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Seeing some wishful tweets that WSR will be constrained by the katiba the same way UK was 🤣🤣🔥🔥people forget that he’s at Least 10 times smarter, a teetotaler and 100 times more hardworking and infinitely more ruthless 🔥. This is my last political tweet🤣it’s been real🤣🤣
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Reading Leakey’s book on the Kikuyu shocked to read that the mathira kikuyu could form alliances with the Maasai to raid their southern kikuyu tribesmen below river chania…and that lenana was the son of Mbatia..shocking things to learn at my old age😭😭🤣🤣🤣
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My people you may disagree with what he says but this is what ideology driven politics looks and feels like…🤔🤔🤔🔥🔥🔥👏👏👏
The Republic of Kenya is sovereign, IMF is hellbent to destroy it
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This bird app will show us things I swear .. you mean people actually don’t know about YK92 ?! 😳😳😳🤣🤣🤣
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People driving mitumba cars pontificating about used clothes.. is this satire ?! 😳😳😳😂😂😂😂
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One of the more disturbing things about the employment scene in both public and private sectors are the demands by many managers for open and regular displays of sycophancy!! Apparently performing your job diligently isn’t enough nowadays😩😩😩who’ll save KE from this crap?!
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@DavidHundeyin
My brother that Netflix documentary on how Qatar won the hosting rights for the World Cup and the deals struck therein should have convinced you that the whole of Africa has no elite to speak of .. 😭😭😭🔥🔥🤣🤣🤣
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There are 2 things that really worry me about African twitter debates 1. The overwhelming binary way of looking at things ..everything is either black or white
2. The seeming inability to hold 2 contradictory ideas in our minds at the same time
What explains this?! 🤔🤔
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The more I think about it… Kenya’s greatest luck is in its almost complete lack of valuable mineral wealth…this forces our local kleptocratic political elites to at least pretend to listen to the populace so as not to kill the golden tax goose… 🤔🤔🤔😭😭😭
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Who remembers when Isabel Dos Santos was feted by african media as a savvy business titan ?! We have seen things 😳😳😳😳
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Chess is now big big in schools it seems … there’s a national youth competition at mangu high school and the numbers are huge !! When did this happen? 🤔🤔🤔😳😳🔥🔥
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A leading research parastatal decided to conduct a HR audit as part of the process of being ISO certified: the results were astounding with >50% of the staff having fake certs & findings were shelved. Many people don’t appreciate how deep the rot is in 🇰🇪 IMHO 🤣🤣
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When you walk around arboretum you begin to see the multiple ways in which safe green spaces enrich city life .. some people exercise, seen many many photo shoots, a lot of filming of scenes, parties, yoga, etc .. we need to have more green spaces in our urban areas!!
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Who remembers when “next to Sgr “ , “next to konza city” was an actual selling point for plots of land ?! 😂😂😂Kenya is a crime scene I swear !! 😂😂😂
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This Ugandan minister of health looks like she knows her stuff ( the usual caveats about african leaders having been taken into consideration 😭😭😭)
This morning, I flagged off 200 survey teams that will conduct a rapid assessment exercise to establish the prevalence of COVID-19 among communities in Uganda. Results from this survey will inform the phased lifting of the lockdown.
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One of the things I wish and understood earlier is the sunk cost fallacy .. I’ve wasted precious time, money and emotions on things, businesses and relationships that I should have just written off.. learn to write off stuff and move on my people!! It’s an underrated skill🔥🤣
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Periodic reminder to Kenyan voters on the TL that a poor quality legislative branch has more potential to completely destroy your lives than a rogue executive ever can…don’t say that you were never warned….🤔🤔🤔
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How the jubilee govt left a mountain of unpaid suppliers debt in the midst of rampant local and international borrowing plus record revenue collection by kra should be the subject of serious academic study 😳😳😳🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣
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If you want to finish all your money just go the sarit center book sale on second floor .. don’t say I didn’t warn you 😭😭😭🔥🔥🤣🤣🤣
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Another thing I have observed in my sojourn in the low income areas is that The ordinary Kenyan’s belief in education as a ladder out of poverty remains as strong as ever and this realization has humbled me kabisa 😭😭😭…
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After these latest fuel price hikes do Kenyans now realize the need to elect sensible legislators instead of characters who come to wail on twitter like us? Or am I expecting too much?! 🤣🤣🤣
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One of the more disturbing discoveries as an adult is just how dispensable you’re as a person in peoples lives generally… and how the world will continue functioning in your absence in its own humdrum way😳😳😭😭…terrible terrible 🔥🔥🤣🤣🤣I deserve an earth tremor at least!🤣
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To someone who grew up in the era where the local photographer went round the estate on a bicycle with a film camera,the evolution of the photography profession is really fascinating. They now have huge digital cameras and many paraphernalia like lights, umbrellas etc 🤣🤣
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I hope Kenyans have learnt the CoK2010 with its presidential system requires an active engaged citizenry which doesn’t sleep a wink😳😳in 12 years the legislative arm plus all the so called independent commissions are completely neutered!! We’re on our own Kabisa😩😩😭😭
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Nobody ever tells you how rudderless someone seems to become after the loss of both parents no matter what age you are/ whatever your achievements. No wonder all religious texts exhort people to be kind to orphans😭😭be kind to orphans of all ages my people….
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The four well populated urban areas of Kajiado county Rongai , kitengela, Ngong
and kiserian are IMHO testing “the private solutions to public problems” to its extreme limit: boreholes drying, impassable interior roads,sewer discharge, etc. Something needs to be done ASAP!😳😩
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After roaming around a few counties over the last few weeks I am more convinced than ever that we MUST NEVER ever allow devolution to die in Kenya … despite all its problems, devolution is making a real difference to the lives of the people at the grassroots …🤔🤔🤔✊🏿✊🏿
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If you have time as a young African read books by Claude Ake, Achille Membe, Dani Nabudere, John mbiti et al. You may not agree with everything therein but IMHO the books will make you think deeply about the global order and Africas place in it ..🤔🤔
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People should not allow themselves to get distracted. There should be ZERO motor tax!people are being sucked into discussions about how much it should be and what are the minimum/max amounts. STOP IT!! These are Cass Sunstein/Richard Thaler’s NUDGE tactics!😳
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It never fails to shock me that many Africans on this app aren’t fighting to change oppressive socioeconomic systems but simply want a place at the trough .. it’s truly depressing to watch 😩😩😭😭😭
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As a man who came of age at the height of the Nyayo era I will never ever take the freedoms that we enjoy for granted because I know what sacrifices in lives, blood, sweat and tears it took to achieve them✊🏿✊🏿anyone who comes to my TL to support despotism will be blocked ASAP!!
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As somebody who’s worked in the low income areas of NBO , there’s no way IMHO that gas filling place would have existed without the active connivance of county & national govt mandarins plus the police oiled with regular handouts..🤔🤔😭😭graft kills.
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Invigilating an exam and nearly all students are trying to cheat!!! Is Kenya broken?!😩😩😩😩
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When Nairobi county inspectors land in eastlands everyone closes their shops and flees for dear life .. even the ones with licenses prominently displayed…what does it say about public attitudes towards officialdom? 🤔🤔🤔🔥🔥🤣🤣🤣
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How many Africans on this bird app believe that they’ll be safe as long as they have enough money even if all public social services collapse and there’s continuing rampant joblessness?! 🤔🤔🤔😳😳😳
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One of the more interesting things one sees in low income areas of NBO is the seemingly highly developed informal child daycare system….because mothers must go to work and house-girls are now too expensive relative to income…daycare is the only option…🤔🤔🤔
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I have said this before …but one never fails to get surprised at just how few people cook their own food in the low income areas of NBI… 🤔🤔🤔is cooking now a middle class luxury I wonder ?! 🤣🤣🤣
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You relocate to the bush for peace and quiet and then a church with a loudspeaker opens nearby …😳😳😭😭😭
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The deconstruction of uthamakism and Kenyattaism in general on this app is one of the most heartwarming things I’ve seen on this bird app...a special mention goes to
@wmnjoya
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@DavidNdii
for their stellar roles in this 🙌🏿🙌🏿🔥🔥🔥
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This IMF ruckus I hope, acts as teaching point to all Kenyans. When next time your fav politician assumes power take time to listen to his/her critics..
@DavidNdii
penned numerous articles warning jubilants abt reckless spending/borrowing.. all he got were insults. Now see😱😱
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There’s a running joke in SA that you can’t find any people who supported apartheid ...I’m seeing the same phenomenon with the SGR..everyone now accepts that it was a bad idea. We’ve all forgotten the vilification of its critics as anti development 😂😂😂😂
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It’s surprising how many problems in Africa can be solved simply by adhering to the rule of law...
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Was being told of a story juzi how one of these CS turned governors was lamenting that governorship is a hoax coz you can’t eat money properly coz of all these oversight organs & MCAs unlike in the ministry where you can loot with abandon 😳😳🔥🔥🤣🤣is Kenya finished?! 😭😭
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How is lake olbolosat doing in these floods ? Remember a big chunk of its former
Shores has been sold as plots🔥🔥😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣
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This Private member ICT bill that has just been passed is the latest demonstration of how much damage a clueless legislative branch can do to a country .. 😳😳😳😭😭😭😩😩😩
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Your periodic reminder that your faves will ultimately fail you but principles will never fail you .. so stan for principles never humans...✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
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You’ll never appreciate the havoc that these WhatsApp groups are wreaking until you have an elderly relative that you’re trying to convince to go for COVID19 vaccination 😩😩😩😩
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To my African brothers and sisters on the TL .. if you see any posh African intellectuals criticizing Africans for not starting industries in their countries .. just know that that person has never tried to start a mfg plant in their country...listen to them at ur peril!😂😂
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I think Kenyans were too naive in expecting a regime that has displayed gross incompetence in many other spheres to manage a pandemic response well 😂😂😂😂I agree with the good prof
@LukoyeAtwoli
that we might as well stop pretending and we just open up!! 😭😭😭
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One of the most disappointing realizations of my adult life is that a sizable portion of our 🇰🇪 political and professional classes look back on the Moi/kanu era with nostalgia…While the youth who form the majority are blissfully ignorant of its depredations🤔😭😭
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One of the more interesting albeit disturbing things about African twitter is the seeming love for the “benevolent dictator” trope. Why does a sizable portion of intelligent people believe in this concept ? 🤔🤔🤔
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KRA must cease and desist from sending people all manner of emails including these ones on COVID19.. they’re giving people unnecessary anxiety and heart palpitations 😭😭😭
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Imagine living a life driven by nothing but money.. no ideals, no higher aspirations, no fidelity to any principles… living just for accumulating filthy lucre … that’s a life of mind boggling poverty and emptiness IMHO… can never be me!! 🔥🔥🤣🤣
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I was talking to someone today who told me two shocking things 1. That most of the groundnuts consumed in KE are imported 2. There was a time when a lot of groundnuts used to be grown in Nyanza province and Busia… what happened? This country seems to be going backwards!!😳😳
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One of the more disturbing trends I have seen on this app is the excessive deference and attention given to people with money … they suddenly become experts on everything and people accept it Willy nilly like a perverse form of the halo effect .. was it always like this?! 🤔😳
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Who has a credible explanation for why African states seem so poor at maintenance? .. what’s the use of launching new projects while the existing ones are in serious states of disrepair?! 😳😳😳😭😭😭
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After observing the shenanigans around CK’s death .. I’m moved to ask this question: how many of the 10k dollar millionaires in KE have never been public servants/closely connected to the state ? From the answer you can see why ke is stuck in a morass of misrule& graft 😳😳
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Who remembers when Meles Zenawi, Museveni , Kagame and Afeworki were being feted by the White House as the new generation of African leaders… Africans have seen many things I swear 😩😩😩😭😭😭😳😳
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One of the most distressing things about being an academic is the need to constantly pivot and go to areas where research money is heading ... right now academics of all stripes (including me) are pivoting to become COVID19 experts 😭😭😭..
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I have met many educated well informed Kenyans who are always willing to invest in Ponzi schemes hoping to be first in and first out (with outsize gains). IMHO this partly explains why these scams continue to litter the “investment” landscape 😭😭😭
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I’ll never understand for the life of me African professionals who are where they are because of publicly funded education and other social services calling for their privatization.what explains this ?!🤔🤔
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Koigi Wamwere warned us that you can’t have reforms without reformers … as aptly demonstrated yesterday by the controller of budget, it’s also useless to have all these “independent” commissions if they’re staffed by people who buckle easily under pressure …🤔🤔🤔
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Are there more abused words in african Econ policy circles like innovation and resilience ?!…🤔🤔🤔feel free to add to the list my people 🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥
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Has any county in Kenya led a sustained campaign to revive traditional/indigenous food since Agric is devolved ? For example, I still remember that the late prof John Kokwaro documented > 40 traditional vegetables in siaya …🤔🤔🤔
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I’ve just listened to a podcast and learnt that the African curly hair is indispensable for keeping the brain cool since it creates multiple air pockets which act as good insulators..v different from the straight Caucasian hair…🤔🤔🤔
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As somebody who’s helped a number of relatives through university I’m still awed by the transformative effects an employed graduate has on the Econ fortunes of his/her family . Human capital development is in IMHO the only 💯💯sure fire approach to sustainable devpt ✊🏿✊🏿
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On a serious note how are parents expected to fork out full school fees for the first term after a 1-2 week break in July ?! Who in the ministry of education wrote this school schedule? Do they live on this earth ?! 😳😳
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The wanton mismanagement of SACCOs in Kenya hits me hard ...because without sacco loans I wouldn’t have an education 😭😭😭sacco mismanagement is almost like genocide IMHO😩😩😩
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Who remembers when people who opposed the medical equipment leasing scheme were thoroughly vilified on Twitter as anti development?!😂😂😂good times those......
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One of the enduring legacies of the jubilee era will be to trivialize Money.. in this era people talk about billions as if they were millions.. all scandals now are in billions ..yet a billion is serious serious money!!!😳😳😳
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Who has a good explanation of how Vietnam seems to almost seamlessly scale up production of crops that it has interest in? I mean look at coffee and now macadamia nuts ? What is the secret sauce ? 🤔🤔🤔😭😭😭
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I’m one of unfortunate people who’ll undergo 2 IMF/world bank structural adjustment plans in his adult life 😩😩😩
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That epic thread by
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Free advice to entrepreneurs.. don’t employ your relatives ati coz they’re jobless and are doing nothing at home.. they may damage your business so much till they also make you jobless too😂😂😂
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@asemota
One of my rich friends was telling me that wealth gets you a lot of deference in African society and that after sometime you become addicted to this kowtowing. it becomes a vicious cycle. You become terrified of losing it so you keep looking for money to maintain status!🔥🤣🤣
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McKinsey is still getting jobs from African governments after all their past shenanigans? Project Mawingu should have been their last project ever in Kenya IMHO😳😳😳😭😭😭😩😩😩
Strategy and consulting multinational, McKinsey, has been commissioned to conduct a cost-benefit analysis for Kenya’s transition from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles.
Finance Act 2023 VAT zero rated of e-Mobility Vehicles and components such as solar and…
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Suppression of knowledge about Gandhi’s racism must be one of the greatest PR coups of all time!!😩😩😩
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A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies - Nietzsche
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I’m getting PTSD 😭😭😳😳… only old timers can remember this feeling of having your account closed because it’s below a certain amount …🤔🤔😭😭😭😩😩😩
Standard Chartered Bank Kenya is closing accounts of small businesses that fail to hit monthly cash inflow of Shs 10 million.
- Business Daily
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Who has a good explanation why the typical post colonial African state is so so bad at providing public goods? A cursory look at African twitter reveals the same problems all over: bad roads/infrastructure, no water &sewers, bad healthcare and now electricity 😭😭😭😳😳
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A periodic reminder to demand the highest possible levels of quality governance and rectitude from your government… and avoid the “at least they’re trying “ phenomenon !!! 😳😳😭😭
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One of the more disturbing things IMHO about african twitter is the sheer brazenness with which the offspring of African politicians prance around social media with the proceeds of ill gotten wealth .. it never fails to shock me 😳😳Africa is a country 😩😩😩😭😭😭
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The late Moi used to have this slogan “ Hakuna mtu duniani anapenda mwafrika” loosely translated for non Kenyans “nobody likes the African globally”sitting in the wreckage of latest knee jerk red lists/flight bans..difficult to argue with this sentiment 😳😳🤣🤣
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For Kenyans of a particular age…the transition of ukambani from an area that was once synonymous with relief food to one where you almost don’t hear stories about hunger is in IMHO an under appreciated stories.. what explains this wonderful development?! 🤔🤔🤔
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What explains this curious obsession among Africans for the so called benevolent dictatorships .. it’s one of the more fascinating phenomena that you see on this bird app often propagated by people who should know better !!
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You have to give it to the West in terms of their espionage abilities. Who would have predicted that nabii would turn out to be so West leaning ?it boggles the mind!! 🤔🤔😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥
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Anyone who’s lived near Kenyan athletes and seen their dedication, and relentless effort will agree that their hard earned wealth &affluence is 💯 deserved. Why aren’t they celebrated more in KE? Instead politicians and other dodgy people garner most attention. Why? 🤔🤔😳
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There was a time Thika town was full of industries my friends and had a fully fledged
Industrial area .. many of those industries are now ploti Maguta maguta..has any of kiambu past governors ever discussed an industrialization strategy ?! 🤔🤔🤔
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quite confused by kenyans though.RAO/NASA said repeatedly that without changes to iebc they wouldn't participate in rerun. So why the shock?
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Who on the TL has a credible explanation why trees from the Acacia genus aren’t more intensively cultivated as agroforestry species in KE despite their well documented uses& benefits as well as their drought tolerance?! 🤔🤔🤔
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Is it only me or does Africa seem to be stuck in a rut? Stuck in recycling failed policies from the 60’s, always in dalliance with tyranny.. my spirit quails at the thought that my generation will bequeath a failed continent to future generations 😩😩
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