hot take, but not really: the majority of the advice you're getting about your life is just somebody describing what worked for them under conditions that no longer exist.
"Your call may be recorded to ensure high-quality service." I believe we've recorded quite a few customer service calls over the years. Can we get the high-quality service now? When does that start?
WTF did Apple do to the iPhone keyboard? Because why am I fighting for my life just to type a simple sentence? I can’t type anything without making 137 typos.🤦🏽♀️
Let me educate you a little because you seem not to get the narrative.
The office of the controller of budget requires that counties should spend atleast 30% of their budget on development expenditure such as roads, hospitals etc.
30% of 88 billion is 26.4 billion. 1 billion can do 10km of rural roads, that means if they were to use just 10 billion, there would be more than 100km of new roads since devolution.
Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu has revealed that Ksh243 billion disbursed through the National Government-Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) bursary programme over the past 5 years may not have reached the needy students it was intended to support.
Ni Mbaya.
Amazon Prime is hands down the worst streaming service. Like, “thanks for subscribing, here is a list of movies you need a different subscription for”.
Matiang’i says that before they left government, they had completed geomapping and identified minerals estimated to be worth KSh 18 trillion.
The plan, he says, was to move to the next phase: exploit these resources, use the proceeds to pay down Kenya’s debts and ultimately free Kenyans financially.
If that figure is accurate, then this is the bigger question:
Why is Kenya borrowing more and more while sitting on mineral resources potentially worth trillions?
We cannot keep telling Kenyans to tighten their belts, increase taxes and accept unbearable living costs while our natural resources remain largely underground.
Mineral wealth is not wealth simply because it exists beneath our soil. It becomes national wealth when it is properly explored, extracted, processed, transparently accounted for and used for the benefit of citizens.
The real conversation should therefore be:
What minerals were mapped? Where are they? What are they worth? Who holds the exploration and mining licences? How much revenue is Kenya receiving? And what happened to the plan to turn this wealth into a tool for debt reduction and economic freedom?
Kenyans deserve answers, not just promises.