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A pessimist is a well informed optimist...⚛

[Bildad Urandu @bnamawa]

I have travelled far and wide in Kenya, never have I experienced the kind of hostility I have experienced in Magadi on my way to @kweniaecolodge/ @KweniaRange today. What’s up with the Maasai in that area?

A group of friends and I decided to go shoot our shots at Kwenia ranch, however, about 4kms after exiting the Nairobi magadi road and 9kms to the range, we came across a group of Maasai youths who had blocked the road with acacia shrubs. They said that for us to pass we must call the area chief or talk to @KweniaRange guys to come for us.

After almost an hour, tension was rising and by then, the group had grown to about 30 men who popped from every direction. We were forced to turn back and abandon the days plans.

One peculiar thing however, is even after turning back and going up to the tarmac road leading to Magadi. The group followed us, threatening that we should leave that area. By then there were two other vehicles that had been turned back as well. At the junction they had even brought down the Kwenia ranch sign post.

I can imagine what the guys at Kwenia go through, you invest in an area, but your patrons get turned away and are prevented from reaching your premises. In terms of the business lost today, I estimate quite an amount. This is because in total, we’re about 25 people.

[Kiswili Cyprian @kharsh_art]

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[David Maraga @dkmaraga]

It is with heavy hearts, but endless gratitude for a life richly lived, that we share the passing of our beloved mother, sister, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Mrs. Sabina Kemunto Otiambo.

Sabina was wife to the late Raphael Otiambo Nyangena, and a pillar of strength to her family. She was a cherished sister to Chief Justice (Emeritus) David Maraga, alongside her loving siblings James Ochengo, and her late brothers and sisters Onduko, Ongondi, Barake, Nyanduko, Okongo, and Kemuma.

Her warmth and wisdom live on through her children: Grace Moraa Ochoi, David Nyangau, Simon Monari, Eunice Kemuma, Job Miranga, and Florence Nyanchama, as well as the fond memories of her late sons, Peterson Nyambane and Kamanda. Sabina was also blessed to see her legacy bloom across generations as a proud grandmother and great-grandmother to 53 children.

We will gather to celebrate her remarkable life and lay her to rest on Friday, October 9th, at her home in Nyairobi Village, Kipkelion (Kericho County). The funeral service will take place at the home, followed immediately by her interment.

Thank you for your warm prayers, love, and support as our family remembers a truly special matriarch who lived to a remarkable age of 107 years.

[The Standard Digital @StandardKenya]

17 killed on the spot in grisly Salama road crash as multiple vehicles collide on their way to National Prayer Day

Video by Stephen Nzioka

[Amos Kibaru 🇰🇪 @akibaru]

🙏🏾 I am urgently seeking help from anyone who knows or has dealt with Kamaa of Top Sea Consolidators, Guangzhou, China 🇨🇳 — [phone].

I trusted Kamaa with one simple assignment: to arrange freight for two 40-foot containers carrying machinery I had purchased in China.

His role was purely to arrange the freight booking.

The containers were booked, loaded and shipped. When he requested payment for the freight, I paid him USD 10,000, believing that the shipping charges had been fully settled.

He was then to send me the Bill of Lading documentation after receiving the payments which I would us to prepare for clearance of the cargo in Kenya.

What happened afterwards has left me shocked and financially distressed.

When the containers arrived in Kenya and I received notification from COSCO Shipping, as the named consignee, I discovered that the freight forwarder was claiming that payment had not been made to them.

Even more disturbing, I am now being told that my two containers have become entangled in a wider dispute involving alleged debts arising from Kamaa’s other shipping and consolidation business.

These are debts and private arrangements that I knew absolutely nothing about and was never a party to.

From the information now being given to me, Kamaa apparently works through a Chinese intermediary, Guangzhou Jieyun Supply Chain Co., Ltd., while another company, Qingdao Baihuaying International Freight Forwarder Co., Ltd., appears within the COSCO freight chain.

I am further being told that credit arrangements may have existed between these parties and Kamaa in relation to other shipments connected to his consolidation business.

If that is correct, then my biggest question is simple:

Why should machinery belonging to my company be held as security for private debts allegedly arising from business arrangements between other parties?

My shipping documents are very clear.

The shipper is my machinery manufacturer, and the consignee is Floor Decor Kenya Limited.

Kamaa is neither the shipper nor the consignee.

Apart from introducing or linking me to the freight arrangement, there is nothing on my shipping documents showing that he owns this machinery or this consignment.

Yet today, I am watching two containers carrying expensive machinery belonging to my company sit at the port while demurrage and other charges continue accumulating every single day.

What makes the situation even more frustrating is that COSCO Shipping in China and their agents in Mombasa appear to be distancing themselves from the dispute and referring me back to third-party forwarding agents, leaving me caught in the middle.

The painful part is that I have even offered to pay the freight again directly, despite already having paid USD 10,000, simply so that my machinery can be released.

I never imagined that engaging someone only to arrange freight could leave me fighting to recover machinery that I purchased and paid for myself.

I am therefore urgently appealing to anyone who:

• Knows Kamaa personally
• Has dealt with Top Sea Consolidators
• Has previously shipped cargo through him
• Has dealt with these freight-forwarding companies
• Or has any genuine information that may help resolve this matter

Please inbox me privately.

This machinery represents a major investment for my company, and every additional day of delay is causing serious financial loss.

If this matter cannot be resolved commercially, my final option will be to seek urgent intervention from the High Court of Kenya through its admiralty jurisdiction for protection and release of the cargo.

🙏🏾 Any genuine assistance, contact or useful information will be deeply appreciated.

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

Juja woman loses four babies days after rare quintuplet birth https://t.co/YFpXA0gM0m

[Bishop @barrack_gumba]

It is 7.20AM in the morming and this Burundian woke up to his normal mandazi-kahawa hawking business in Nairobi’s Gikomba market, at least he could get some fare back to his country. Gikomba people have shown him dust insisting he should just go back as President Ruto said. 😭😭

[dennis ombachi OLY @ombachi13]

Life so private, no one knows @EliudKipchoge was once my teammate 😂

It’s been 10 years since we shared the stage at the Rio 2016 Olympics, carrying the hopes of a nation in the same colours.

A decade later, we meet again in completely different chapters of our lives. This time not on the Olympic stage, but over a plate of butter orange and herb poached carrots with a lemongrass and kaffir lime leaf-infused mursik dressing cutting through their richness, served alongside creamy managu, grilled rump steak and ugali.

Eliud took running beyond its limits and showed the world that NO HUMAN IS LIMITED. Now his dream goes beyond records, to make this world a running world, bringing people and communities together through running.

My dream is to do the same with food, tell people’s stories through what we eat, where tradition meets free will and the only limit is what we’re willing to imagine.

NO HUMAN IS LIMITED!
NO INGREDIENT IS LIMITED!

[Data Privacy and Governance Society of Kenya @DPGSK_Ke]

Today, DPGSK mourns Rosemary Koech-Kimwatu, our founding and first Vice President. Her wisdom, diplomacy and dedication helped build our Society and strengthen Kenya’s privacy community. We extend our heartfelt condolences to her family and friends. Rest in eternal peace,Chemu

[KICTANet @KICTANet]

🕊️Rest In Peace Rosemary Koech Kimwatu.
Link to our full tribute: https://t.co/JT4DxDm7Ub

[dennis ombachi OLY @ombachi13]

Have you ever wondered what Weevils taste like?

Let’s recreate the infamous Ugali & Cabbage, a staple in many Kenyan high schools and institutions of learning.

Welcome to Episode one of this mini series where I recreate the meals that raised or traumatized us through high school.

What meal takes you straight back to your high school days ? And would you go back for it.

[Juma G 🇰🇪 @jumaf3]

Dear @SakajaJohnson, your county rules say that when a business has 1 - 5 pool tables, the license is Ksh 15,000 for the pool tables. But now for 5 pool tables, your officers are saying it Ksh 50,000, that is Ksh 10,000 per pool. All these5 pool tables are under one roof. When will we succeed with this kind of exploitation? Who will help small businesses in this country?

[UEFA @UEFA]

Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National Associations

[Julians Amboko @AmbokoJH]

Former National Treasury CS, Prof. Njuguna Ndung'u, says whereas institutions in Kenya have the capacity to do the right thing, "the current President overruns all the institutions and that is why everybody in those institutions will have to conform, for fear"

[Intrepid Deviant @estrendat]

Ignore the cameras in the city. Those ones aren't working. They're moving the speed cameras around in these VW Transporter vans. Be on the lookout for these ones.

[Wamutahi @Son_of_Laikipia]

This is what Ruto's state funded militia is doing in Ol Kalou 😌.

[Ole Teya @TeyaKevin]

Wueh

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Gaza community figure, Mohammed al-Wahidi was killed in an Israeli air strike just moments before displaced children gathered to watch Egypt face Argentina in a World Cup screening he organised.

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

Egypt has been robbed!

[Shoba Gatimu @shobanes]

This Bill has been in Parliament since July 2025. Nobody in govt has bothered to inform Kenyans on why they want to enact it, implications and benefits if any. Kenyans are asking questions. Now they are trying to convince us it's good. No clauses, just ''It's good. Accept it.''