Celyne Omollo

Lover of life. Realist.

[dennis ombachi OLY @ombachi13]

If you’re easily incited to hate on fellow Africans, you also can be easily turned against your own neighbors, communities and tribes.

Politics of division doesn’t start and end with tribalism.

[John-Allan Namu @johnallannamu]

The RSF is welcome in Kenya, but not the Burundian street vendor. A militia that has killed and discriminated on the basis of ones ethnicity and race has the diplomatic red carpet rolled out for its leaders. Yet the scapegoat for a struggling economy is the Burundian street vendor.

[BRAVIN YURI @BravinYuri]

William Ruto’s push to expel foreigners is not a spontaneous response to a problem but rather a calculated political distraction. Look at the timing.

First, it diverts public attention from the Access to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2025, which raises serious questions about Kenyans’ ability to access information from those in power. Limiting access up to 30 years.

Second, let’s not forget that some of these foreigners were issued Kenyan identification documents under the watch of the very same government now presenting their presence as a crisis.

And just so you know, they will be expelled but these IDs will be used in the elections.

If the government genuinely believes foreigners were unlawfully documented, the obvious question is: who enabled the system that allowed it to happen?

And then there is the Tata Chemicals issue, which deserves scrutiny but risks being buried beneath a much louder political spectacle.

There is also a dangerous pattern emerging. First, tribalism is pushed into the national conversation. Then xenophobia is placed on the table.

The result is predictable: an angry, divided, and emotionally charged population fighting among itself while attention moves away from the decisions being made in government.

This is how political distraction works. You do not necessarily need to silence people. You simply give them so many battles to fight that they lose sight of the battle that actually matters.

We are being bombarded with controversy after controversy, outrage after outrage, tribe against tribe, Kenyan against foreigner, while potentially consequential things are happening behind the scenes.

The question we should keep asking is simple:
Who benefits when Kenyans are too angry to pay attention?

Do not allow anyone to weaponize your emotions against your own interests.

Stay angry if you must, but stay rational. Follow the money. Follow the legislation. Follow the decisions. Follow who benefits.

You will realize that the only enemy you have is Must Go.

[(MimiNdioSifuna)LawrenceKinuthia 🇰🇪 @Kinuthia_Lan_]

I had a payslip when this idiot came to power. 2022. I was earning considerably well. I would have had a family.

Right now: 4 years later, 15+ of my former colleagues are struggling. Right now I don't even even a single shilling in my savings. I used all my savings to save my life when I got Pneumonia as SHA shıt couldn't help.

Now tuko end month, sina hata income. Rent is due. My bills are due. I have a pending surgery.

What I want him to know is that he is going home. And within an year he will be in jail.

He doesn't care. We won't care when guillotine goes through him.

Kwa muda tu.

Tumekubali kuteswa. But soon yeye pia tutamtesa.

[David Maraga @dkmaraga]

Kenyans are working harder than ever and falling further behind.

Taxes rise while wages stagnate and the cost of a meal climbs every week.

An economy that punishes honest work has lost its purpose.

#Ukombozi2027

[David Maraga @dkmaraga]

Fellow Kenyans, here is the link to the Report of the National Taskforce on Improvement of the Terms and Conditions of Service and Other Reforms for Members of the National Police Service, Kenya Prisons Service and National Youth Service, widely referred to as the Maraga Taskforce report:

https://t.co/6ATPBmSJyf

#Ukombozi2027

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

This is a constitutional coup against the TSC.
Article 237 gives the independent Teachers Service Commission exclusive power to appoint teachers, not @StateHouseKenya, not the Speaker, not Members of Parliament & political brokers.
@HonWetangula’s admission that letters now come from @StateHouseKenya is an open confession of executive capture. It turns jobs into patronage, locks out qualified graduates, and reduces @TSC_KE to a rubber stamp.
Hoarding and dishing out these letters through MPs is institutionalised corruption.
@TSC_KE

[Kwame Owino @IEAKwame]

Here's the debt clock 👇🏽

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

Kenyans are being squeezed from every direction. Electricity is getting more expensive, fuel remains costly, taxes keep rising, and the cost of basic living continues to climb. Now another KSh4.70 is being added to every unit of electricity consumed in August.

This is the real cost-of-living crisis that the government cannot keep talking away with statistics and slogans. Businesses are paying more to operate, households are paying more to survive, and the higher cost of electricity ultimately feeds into the price of everything else.

Government cannot claim economic success while ordinary Kenyans are continually being asked to absorb higher costs. The question is simple: when will Kenyans actually feel the prosperity they keep hearing about?

[David Maraga @dkmaraga]

Open letter to President WiIliam Ruto

[WILLIE OEBA @WillieOeba]

Other countries have access to WiFi almost everywhere

In Kenya they want to implement consumption based invoicing & meter number for WiFi to track dissenting voices. Repression must go

Hii Hapana !!

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Electricity costs have gone up again.

EPRA has added new charges that will increase power bills by about Sh4.70 per unit in August.

[Donald B Kipkorir @DonaldBKipkorir]

The Only National Conversation we need to have in Kenya is this:

How is that one becomes an a State Corporation CEO or Chairman, MCA, MP, Senator, Governor, Cabinet Minister, Deputy President & President with nothing or with minimal assets & in many cases with no house in the village or Nairobi, no car & no bank account & with one wife but in less than 5 YEARS, they have houses all over, multiple cars, local & foreign bank accounts & several mistresses? And all this time, the life of an average Kenyan is worse.

We can only fix Kenya if we make sure that one who becomes any of above, leaves public office with the assets he had with when he joined state/public office and if any increment, it is commensurate to his salary less taxes & expenditure. You can’t join state office with no house & leave after 5 years with two houses: how were you surviving?

Kenya needs honest conversation on its leadership. Homa Bay showed us leaders flying around in helicopters whilst its voters literally live in dust!

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

Treasury just dropped a surprise,they’re finally dangling real income tax RELIEF after years of bleeding us dry on PAYE.

Mbadi is promising to make the first Sh30K tax-free and ease the rate up to Sh50K. Public participation this month, bill in Parliament by September.

And get this: they quietly slashed the income tax target by a massive Sh78.6 BILLION first, creating the “room” to look generous.

This isn’t pure kindness. This is textbook election-year sugar.

Soften the payslips now, buy the 2027 votes later.

After all the pain, the high cost of living and the squeezed salaries… suddenly they’re the good guys, because they need your vote.

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

Wait, hold up… NTV just cancelled the full Ol Kalou documentary “due to unforeseen circumstances.” 😳

The same one they had already dropped clips of at 7 p.m.?

You mean the one showing goons, shootings, bribery, and mothers burying their sons after that by-election the government desperately wanted to win?

Suddenly, “unforeseen circumstances” appear the moment the story starts pointing fingers higher up.

We’ve seen this script before. Hard-hitting investigations that make State House uncomfortable somehow develop last-minute problems.

Media houses don’t just pull election-violence exposés for fun. Somebody got a call. Somebody got threatened. Somebody was told to kill the full story.

Ruto’s people are running scared of their own shadow after Ol Kalou exposed them.

We’re not fools. We can smell pressure from a mile away.

What really happened between the 7 p.m. teaser and the full broadcast? Who made the call? This govt must go.

[Conrad Kulo @ConradKulo]

Here is a clip of Gladys Wanga telling senators that a 2-door pit latrine in Homa Bay cost half a million shillings in big 2026. But you know what, we have to blame Kibaki's 10-year rule, Uhuru's, and Mt. Kenya for alleged 'marginalization'
We hear you @SamuelAtandi

[Henry Kabogo 💧 ❄ 🇰🇪 @Kabogo_Henry]

They forced the Housing Levy on us.

Kenyans went to court. Kenyans protested. Kenyans said NO.

The government said: pay anyway.

Three years later, over KSh 206 BILLION has been deducted from workers.

Now we are being told there is a gap of more than KSh 100 BILLION between what should have been collected and what reached the Housing Fund.

And the solution?

Not accountability.

Not answers about employers who deducted money and failed to remit it.

Not a public explanation of where every shilling went.

Instead, MORE POWER FOR KRA.

Treat Housing Levy arrears like tax debt. Pursue defaulters. Go after accounts and assets using tax-enforcement machinery.

Follow the logic:

They imposed a levy many Kenyans opposed.

Billions were deducted.

More than KSh 100 billion allegedly failed to reach the Fund.

And the response to that failure is stronger enforcement powers.

Have you seen enough houses to explain over KSh 206 billion?

Exactly.

They lost track of billions, and somehow the punishment lands on you.

Remember this in 2027.

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

WAKE UP, KENYA. 🚨

The Ruto government quietly handed KRA a loaded gun.

The Finance Act now lets them treat unpaid housing levy exactly like unpaid tax.

That means they can freeze your bank account overnight, kill your PIN, seize money straight from the bank, ban you from travelling, and attach your property, all over the 1.5% housing levy.

They’ve already taken over Sh200 billion from salaries since 2023. Yet the Housing Fund Board itself admits more than Sh100 billion is still “missing.”

Employers deducted it from broke workers and never remitted it. Informal traders never paid. An Auditor-General report even exposed 6,390 companies paying PAYE but completely skipping the levy.

Housing PS Charles Hinga confirmed it: KRA now has the “greater bite” they demanded and will start reconciling and coming for the money.

This doesn't look like enforcement. This looks like economic warfare on ordinary Kenyans.

[Celyne Omollo @CelyneOmollo]

@triciagilo @KenyanSays Ama ati service wanakupea ni ya bure