Djuma Bizabishaka

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[Djuma Bizabishaka @DjumaBiz]

"Sur les réseaux dits sociaux, les gens sont frustrés. Et pour s'en guérir, ils préfèrent mentir aux autres, et parfois à eux-mêmes.
Ils choisissent les mensonges qui les confortent et les vérités qui les arrangent. C'est la clustérisation." @TheMwami

[Djuma Bizabishaka @DjumaBiz]

@DANYKAB1971 @SSyria50155 @netanyahu Ewe mabuto sha

[Djuma Bizabishaka @DjumaBiz]

Rwagasore version Temu

Grand frère wawa mu diplomate aherutse kwirukanwa muri AU 🤔

[KK. Dar🇧🇮 @KGDarrr]

Uyu ninde ko ntamumenye? 😃

[Djuma Bizabishaka @DjumaBiz]

@Samiaraje @KGDarrr Temu 😂

[Djuma Bizabishaka @DjumaBiz]

@JEANCLA56958781 RT itwagwa na "Darcy", aba komando bambaye amahereni na Rasta nka @ReynoldsButari bariko birira ubuzima muri vieux monde.

Uru rugamba ruzoba rurerure walahi.

[McsLionel @Mcslionel]

Dans la chambre climatisée, la température dépend de plusieurs facteurs étrangers aux tropiques. Ici, dans la véranda, comme le veut Willame, ceux qui sont accoutumés à la prodigalité de la nature comptent atteindre leurs objectifs en appliquant un principe de causalité primaire et grégaire.

Des années n'ont toujours pas appris à ceux qui pratiquent la technique de jachère sur le plan de la pensée qu'ils ont laissé l'avenir entre les mains de politicards fumistes.

[Djuma Bizabishaka @DjumaBiz]

@MAEBurundi Igifaransa kirwaye kwashi na sutama..

Akantu ka respect de la hierarchie nakihorere kandi arazi impamvu

[Djuma Bizabishaka @DjumaBiz]

@dorineirakoze2 Egome cane barafise embassy mu kinindo/kabondo nimba batimutse.

Naho ngira ikibazo cawe cataye agaciro

[Djuma Bizabishaka @DjumaBiz]

Akantu ka #ripe niko gasekeje. Ariko kuba uri kumwe numukozi wa SNR vyoneyene ubwavyo birerekana ko amakuru yatwanze yose hatabuzemo ukuri. Bamugucungishije?

[Appolinaire Nishirimbere @ApolloSmile]

Uyu musi natewe iteka ryo gusangira n'umukozi w'Imana Intumwa Isidore Mbayahaga.

Arabaramutsa mwese abipfuriza amahoro ava ku Mana !

[Djuma Bizabishaka @DjumaBiz]

#Abatwip nkubu twokwirengagiza kuryana umusi umwe gusa hama tugahezagira uyumwana ariko atunezereza twobiki? @ngendapatrick @InesKid1 @JosJonesNkunz @yigenga @ReynoldsButari @pnininahazwe @Sir_Umuhirwaa2

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

Nothing is stopping that baby girl…. She’s so full of life!! God bless her🥹❤️🎉

[Djuma Bizabishaka @DjumaBiz]

@ngendapatrick @PMiganda Plus precisement "amabwayisi". Don't ask me which language is that but bose niko bayita nowadays

[Djuma Bizabishaka @DjumaBiz]

Bro on a very serious note, you need a burner account. Yaba arukuri canke conviction personel, it harms the very country and organization you represent. @KwaNtare @Edbiziman @BurundiGov @GeneralNeva

[Edouard Bizimana/ MoFA 🇧🇮 @Edbiziman]

In a very interesting discussion on @publicsenat,@normand95244005 touched a very important aspect:FDLR is just an alibi used to cover real motivations of the war imposed on Congolese people.Toute solution durable devrait tenir compte de cette réalité. https://t.co/YuokDPIa5u

[Djuma Bizabishaka @DjumaBiz]

@ngendapatrick Aba perses bubahwe, bararenze. Trump ahari yumiwe yahisemwo kuza kwikinira golf muri ireland 😂

[Djuma Bizabishaka @DjumaBiz]

Uncle @ngendapatrick naho ufatiriwe na weekend hamwe nivyo Bel Mandeb hirya Mubarak, aka nako might be of interest

[kashoggiexavi blaise @kxaviblaise46]

@KwikirizaNova Those asking what he deleted here it is.

[Djuma Bizabishaka @DjumaBiz]

@JosJonesNkunz JJN be like

[Djuma Bizabishaka @DjumaBiz]

😢 😭

[Bishop @barrack_gumba]

Burundi is the poorest country in the world. We must help Burundians, purely from a humanitarian point of view. The country is really doing badly and they realised the streets of Nairobi are goldmines. You don’t expect a Burundian to come to Kenya to set up a sugar-processing mill or a factory. With what money? The easiest business they could do is tea and mandazi or even do manual jobs that are low paying. Not even Kenyans can do what those guys do in the streets of Nairobi. The country is dead broke. It is one of the poorest nations in the world. These people are here because they see some hope in Kenya, and they are able to take care of their families while here.

They are here for help. Not for fun.
Burundians should be viewed through a humanitarian lens, not simply as economic competitors or a burden. Just like we seek help from America and China, Burundi needs help. The West has abandoned it, and Africa wants to abandon them as well. These are our brothers. Today they might be poor; tomorrow, only God knows. It only takes one discovery of gold or oil, then boom, a country rises.

Of all the East African countries, Kenya has been like a shield to Burundi, until this confused man became President. Although it is wrong to have illegal immigrants, the question is, how did they end up here? And you can't convince me that all entered within 3 years ago. Some have been here for a decade. We still fault our immigration system. My proposal is that even if we are going to stop other foreigners from hawking, please let's allow Burundians only, due to their current condition. Give them documents as you have promised and let us properly accommodate them.

[Djuma Bizabishaka @DjumaBiz]

Settled debate 😌

[Silas Nyanchwani @nyanchwani]

A few months after leaving the University of Nairobi, I was homeless. What rescued me was not the Kenyan economy. It was a South Sudanese friend from college who took me to Juba to help start a newspaper while he ran a bakery. We rode a Kampala Express bus out of River Road, and I fell in love with Uganda on the way, a country where a man with no money can still have a good evening. That is not true of Nairobi, where the venue is the velvet rope.

The bakery worked. The newspaper did not. Within months I was back in Nairobi, homeless again. Again, a South Sudanese friend picked me up and took me to Northern Bahr el Ghazal, where he employed me for a year alongside many other Kenyans. I earned enough to come home, resume journalism, hijack a girl and start a family. One foreigner's favour to another paid for the next ten years of my life.

On Wednesday at State House, President William Ruto told small-scale traders that foreigners running small businesses should close them within the week. He promised legislation barring foreigners from certain trades. Kenya wants investors who create jobs, he said, not hawkers. The deadline falls today.

I am not neutral on this. I have a career, a marriage and the best decade of my working life because other African countries let a broke Kenyan walk in and work.
The man the president wants to shut down is me, twelve years ago, in somebody else's capital.

Four to five million Kenyans work outside Kenya, by the government's own estimate, more than half of them in other African countries. They are nurses, teachers, hairdressers and hawkers, running precisely the businesses a Ugandan president could close on a Wednesday if he spoke the way ours did. In the twelve months to May 2025, Kenyans abroad sent home Sh931.8 billion, according to a joint KNBS, Central Bank and FSD Kenya household survey. The Central Bank's own 2025 figure, measured differently, is USD 5.04 billion. Either number beats tea, coffee, horticulture and tourism combined.

That is his claim, not mine. He has praised the diaspora at State House for exactly the behaviour he criminalised on Wednesday when other Africans do it here.

The answer to his argument sits twenty minutes from his office. Somalis fleeing the collapse of Siad Barre's state after 1991 ended up in Garissa Lodge, where tenants turned their beds into stalls by day. That is hawking with a mattress. It now holds more than seventy malls and some 25,000 shops, and is estimated to generate between thirty and forty per cent of the tax the Kenya Revenue Authority collects in Nairobi. Governor Johnson Sakaja once told this president, in public, that Eastleigh's economy is larger than Rwanda's. Every part of it began as what he announced he would close on Monday. Foreigners. Small businesses. No permits. The state's contribution was to raid it and deny it building approvals.

We have also measured this properly, on Kenyans. The World Bank and UNHCR study of Kakuma found the camp raised the host region's economic output by 3.4 per cent and local employment by 2.9 per cent, and modelled that letting refugees work and move freely would lift Turkana income per head by around 6 per cent. Not refugee income. Turkana income, in one of the poorest counties in Africa. The World Bank returned this May with the corollary: when aid was cut, host livelihoods fell with refugee incomes, because Turkana and Garissa traders sell into the camp economy.

None of which means the anger is invented. Kenyan traders are being destroyed, and a man losing his corner does not want a lecture. But look at what is destroying him. Credit that costs more than his margin. Cess collected three times on one crate of tomatoes. Cartels controlling imports and market access. A tax net that catches the mama mboga and misses the importer. Close every foreign-owned kiosk in Nairobi on Monday and every one of those is still standing on Tuesday.

The giveaway is Eastleigh's own last trade war. It was Somali shopkeepers shutting their malls in protest at Kenyan hawkers outside, who paid no rent and no licence and undercut them. The real fight in our informal economy is between people carrying overheads and people avoiding them. It has nothing to do with passports. Nationality is simply the version a politician can win without spending money. Fixing credit is slow and makes enemies with lawyers. A crackdown on foreigners is free and makes enemies only of people who cannot vote, ten months before an election.

It also contradicts his own policy. In March 2025 this administration launched the Shirika Plan at this same State House: the end of encampment, identity documents, tax numbers, bank accounts, business permits, and the right to live anywhere in Kenya without a movement pass. Eighteen months later the same president has ordered the people it was designed to bring into the economy to shut their shops. You cannot integrate people on Tuesday and evict them on Wednesday.

He cannot hide behind the public either. Stanford researchers put the question to more than 3,300 Kenyans. Sixty-seven per cent supported refugee work permits and financial inclusion, 69 per cent access to government services, 57 per cent freedom of movement. In July, when a Kenyan man was filmed accusing a Burundian trader of stealing his opportunity, the dominant public reaction was embarrassment. Not that the government cares about public opinion.

I did not arrive at this position cleanly. Those traders bothered me for most of a decade, and what I felt was not an economic judgement. Reporting changed it. The reason so many of them hawk on the streets all over is that we made every legal route impassable. A refugee has the right to work on paper and needs a Class M permit in practice, obtained through a process so slow and costly that law and reality have stopped speaking to each other. That question is before the High Court. Judgment is expected on Tuesday, the day after the president's deadline expires. We forced people into the informal economy and now propose to punish them for being in it.

So make the Class M permit fast and cheap, and informal trading becomes taxed trading. Implement Shirika on its own timetable. Enforce licensing against everyone equally, which is compliance, not nationality. Fix the credit, the cess and the cartels. And in the East African Community, whose free movement protocol we signed, behave as though we meant it.

None of this is charity. We have spent twenty years arguing that Kenyans should be welcome everywhere, and collecting nearly a trillion shillings a year on that argument. We do not get to make it in Doha and Atlanta and then unmake it on River Road because an election is coming.

Somebody's brother in Juba decided that a broke Kenyan with nowhere to sleep was worth a job. Everything I own descends from that decision. On Monday, this country proposes to make the opposite decision, thousands of times over, against people who are exactly who I was.

Eastleigh settled this argument thirty years ago. That we are still having it tells you it was never about economics.

[Nyandarua's Finest @SefuSahm]

I refuse to fight a man selling coffee and mandazi just to feed his family in Bunjumbura while Kenyan girls travel to Saudi Arabia to work as house managers.
#IStandWithBurundians

[Rebel @rebelde_ke]

A Burundian comes, buys a 200 Bob bucket & 500 Bob thermos, starts cooking kahawa and mandazi, goes around every morning selling to anyone. A Kenyan idiot, sits their buttocks somewhere saying that the Burundian guy is the cause of their unemployment. Very idiotic. Very stupid.

[Djuma Bizabishaka @DjumaBiz]

@OlivierHagera Nakazika atarikumwe nindaya

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@LIrakoze85454 @Sir_Umuhirwaa2 Bébé bebinazo 😂 😹