dave ayugi

Am very weird in a good way :)

[dave ayugi @D_Ayugi]

@CallmePat_ricia Amen to that

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@brokensuit44 Front grill

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@Kvaati This road should be free. Very unfair to charge road users

[Morayita @morayita123]

The most manipulative but effective thing I’ve ever done in my life was when I read an article about how children moderate their behavior to protect their self-identity, so if a child believes he’s smart, for example, he’ll intentionally study and try to do well to protect his image of himself.

Anyway, I would pull kids aside with behavioral issues at church and tell them, “David (obviously fake name), you’re such a kind person and such a good listener. I can see that in you. Thank you for always listening.” “Little Annie, thank you for taking such good care of the babies around you. You’re going to be such a good big sister. Can you be in charge of watching Sally?”

They would ALWAYS behave afterward. ALWAYS. Worked like a charm. Morally questionable because it wasn’t initially true, but I kind of willed it into existence. Tbf, I did think that they had that in them or I wouldn’t have tried.

Will publish longitudinal results of this method once my kid is old enough to report back.

[dave ayugi @D_Ayugi]

@RealKaruga Bones are not poisonous where did people get this rumour from? Venom is stored in glands connected to the fangs

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@bungehustleke @BarryIpapo Someone seems to forget they were together the whole first term 50/50

[dave ayugi @D_Ayugi]

@the_beardedsina COVID vaccine?

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@gari_za_kenya_ According to me,It means you bought the lower trim

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@UTDIMole Khedira

[Nzioka Muli @nziokamul1]

There's a very expensive flower that grows naturally in the 400 acre Mbololo Forest in Taita Taveta County.

The African Violet.

This is a 50 million dollar industry annually, that benefits foreigners while the people of Taita languish in abject poverty.

Locals aren't allowed to farm it.

The forest is under the custody of the Kenyatta family.

Again, it just also happens to be endowed with;
Rubies
Tsavorites
Red/blue/green garnets
Aquamarine
Beryll
Corrondum
Quartz.

Wake up.

[LaughBreak: Dad Jokes ‘N More @MediocreJoker85]

Four beer company CEOs walk into a bar.

The CEO of Budweiser orders a Bud Light.

The CEO of Miller orders a Miller Lite.

The CEO of Coors orders a Coors Light.

The CEO of Guinness orders a Coke.

The other three look at him and ask, “Why aren’t you drinking a Guinness?”

The CEO of Guinness says, “Well, I figured if you three weren’t ordering beer, it would be rude if I did.”

[dave ayugi @D_Ayugi]

@WorldCup26HQ Vini should see this and start changing his ways

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@Puck_254 Nice new houses..outside, no infrastructure.

[dave ayugi @D_Ayugi]

@WuodImelda @Ademba_47 How will that reduce the price? it's the work of the present regime to tell us.Unaongea Ni kama mafuta kwako Ni half price

[dave ayugi @D_Ayugi]

@GovtMinimal @Lightcasttvke I wish people could see these games being played on us. Pretend to lose in 2027, become the main opposition till 2032 then vie

[Josh Hunt @iAmJoshHunt]

This one will require a stiff drink.

In the early 1990s, the government came up with a clever idea. Instead of borrowing money cheaply to build hospitals, schools, and roads, it would get the private sector to build them and then pay the private sector back over 25 to 30 years. The Private Finance Initiative. PFI.

The attraction was obvious. You got a shiny new hospital today. The bill didn't show up on the government's books. The cost was deferred into the future. Politicians got ribbon-cutting ceremonies without the awkward conversation about borrowing.

It was, in effect, the nation's credit card. Buy now, pay later. Except the interest rate was extraordinary.

The total capital value of everything built under PFI was around £50 billion. As of March 2024, there were 665 PFI contracts still running across the UK, with roughly £136 billion in remaining payments stretching out to the early 2050s. These are payments public bodies are contractually locked into. Hospitals, schools, councils, government departments. Paying for buildings that in many cases were constructed twenty or thirty years ago.

And the terms are extraordinary.

PFI contracts were structured so the private sector would not just build the facility but manage its services. Cleaning. Maintenance. Catering. Portering. These services are bundled into long-term contracts with built-in inflation increases that the public sector cannot renegotiate, cannot exit without paying massive penalties, and often cannot even fully scrutinise because of commercial confidentiality clauses.

In one case raised in Parliament, a hospital was charged £333 to change a lightbulb. That isn't an urban myth. It was cited in Hansard.

The NHS has been hit hardest.

According to parliamentary analysis, the capital cost of NHS PFI projects was around £13 billion. The total repayments are estimated at around £80 billion. And the peak of NHS PFI annual repayments isn't even here yet. It arrives in 2029. The bills are still going up.

In 2020-21, NHS trusts paid £457 million purely in interest charges on PFI contracts. Not services. Not maintenance. Interest. In the last five years, NHS trusts have handed over more than £1.8 billion in PFI interest alone. We Own It calculates that money would have covered the starting salaries of over 50,000 new doctors.

One NHS trust, Essex Partnership, has reportedly paid back 27 times what was originally borrowed. Some hospitals are spending more on PFI repayments than on medicines for patients. And remember, these repayments come out of the same NHS budget that's supposed to fund patient care, staff, and equipment.

Scotland got it just as badly. Audit Scotland reported that Scottish taxpayers will pay a cumulative £40 billion for PFI assets worth just £9 billion. North Ayrshire Council will have paid £440 million by 2038 for four schools that cost £83 million to build.

Now here's what makes this worse.

Many of these contracts are starting to expire. The buildings are being handed back to the public sector. And the NAO has warned of significant risks around the handback process, including cases where public bodies were dissatisfied with the condition of assets being returned to them. Decades of payments. And some of these buildings may come back needing significant further investment.

So what actually happened?

The government could have borrowed money at significantly lower rates to build these hospitals and schools itself. Sovereign borrowing has always been cheaper than private finance. Instead, it paid the private sector to borrow at a premium and passed the inflated cost on to the taxpayer. The private sector took the profit. The taxpayer took the risk. The buildings are now ageing. The debts are still being paid. And the services that were supposed to benefit are being squeezed partly because so much of their budget is locked into contractual obligations they cannot escape.

PFI wasn't investment. It was an accounting trick. A way for governments to build things without the borrowing showing up in the national debt figures. It made politicians look fiscally responsible while loading future generations with obligations they had no say in and no ability to renegotiate.

Both parties did this. The Conservatives created PFI in 1992. Labour massively expanded it after 1997. More than 700 projects were signed. The coalition eventually wound it down. The current government scrapped the latest version. But the contracts remain. The payments continue. And the damage is already done.

This is what it looks like when a country chooses to buy its infrastructure on hire purchase instead of investing properly. You lock in above-market rates for decades. You lose control of the assets. You tie the hands of future governments. And when the bill keeps coming due, you're told there's no money for doctors, teachers, or social care.

There was always money. It just went somewhere else.

[dave ayugi @D_Ayugi]

@Jimakaveli4 @Seid101 Nice idea but hio Chuma ni hotcake Kwa watu wa scrap metal

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@BabaKim19 @litundunya @KTNNewsKE Yes, WE have settled on Sifuna

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@husseinkhamala More like blow to Kenyans, he will win and impose himself as a candidate creating confusion in the opposition and that will benefit ruto