The LAPSSET Corridor Masterplan was a Raila Odinga's brainchild with his advisor, Professor Hiroyuki Hino.
He presented it to the Coalition Government (2008 - 2013) for its adoption and execution.
We don't appreciate Baba enough.
He carried the insults, we carry the glory.
Who destroyed Kenya's first oil refinery?
In 2009, Kibaki & his VP Kalonzo allowed the sale of 50% of Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited in Mombasa to Essar Energy of India for $7 million. Essar was to inject $1.2 billion to modernise the refinery. 7 yrs later in 2016, Uhuru administration paid off Essar $5 million to take back the shares of a moribund plant. Why? By 2011, the refinery had ground to a halt due to inefficiency. Essar reapped off Kenyans, did not put in a dime, and worse, did asset stripping!
Not entirely different from the Kenya Railways story. In 2006, Kibaki group's Transcentury Limited set up Rift Valley Railways (RVR), an offshore consortium that took a 25-year concession to revamp Kenya - Uganda Railways. In 2010, Transcentury sold 85% of its interest for nearly $40 million to Egypt's Citadel Capital which pledged to inject $150 million to modernise it. In 2017, Kenya Railways terminated the deal. Citadel ripped off KR through asset stripping, did not put in a dime and failed even to pay concession fees. RVR filed for $2 billion claim in a London court which our GoK won last year.
Sorry folks. Kenya's assets were destroyed by those noisy detractors crying 'holier than thou' from atop the mountain. Read your history!
Yesternight as I was coming to Nairobi from my constituency we were involved in an accident after being hit from behind by a speeding Isuzu DMax (KDX961T) registered to Isuzu Kenya leased to the ministry of interior.
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Abbas Araghchi on President Trump's Comments to Wipe Out Iran:
"We stand firm in the face of any new aggression, even if it comes to a Doomsday War
We have learned from the two previous wars and have changed our tactics"
The Israeli ambassador to the UN was expelled from the General Assembly after walking up the central aisle for disruption and harassment against the Iranian speaker.
🇮🇱🇺🇳 The Israeli ambassador to the UN was expelled from the General Assembly after walking up the central aisle for disruption and harassment against the Iranian speaker.
Before there was a Quickmart, there was a farm. And a bar. And a butchery. And a lodging. And a dream...
Zipporah Kinuthia, wife of our founder, the Late John Kinuthia (JK), shares the story of how Quickmart began.
From a little kiosk in Nakuru, to 72 stores across the country...now on the way to the @NSE_PLC
Government says in 2022, our maize harvest was 34 million bags … And we didn’t have shortage!
Government says our maize production last year was 70m! 70m bags… more than double 2022 production. Our population has not doubled!
So, why are we experiencing great shortage? Did we transport our maize to Zambia then re-importing it?
I don’t understand some things. Maybe Government Experts can explain to me.
🚨 هناك زعيم جديد في الشرق الأوسط. وليس السعودية.
إنها تركيا.
انظر إلى الأرقام:
🇹🇷 صادرات الدفاع: 7.4 مليار دولار، رقم قياسي جديد، بزيادة 30% في عام واحد
🇹🇷 بايكار: أكبر مُصدّر للطائرات المسيّرة المسلحة في العالم، 3 سنوات على التوالي
🇹🇷 الهدف: ضمن أكبر 10 مُصدّرين للأسلحة في العالم
🇹🇷 جيش في الناتو، وأصدقاء في العالم الإسلامي في الوقت نفسه
وواشنطن لاحظت ذلك.
ترامب، أمام قادة الخليج، عن أردوغان:
"شخص صعب المراس."
"رجل رائع."
السعودية لديها المال.
تركيا لديها المصانع، والطائرات المسيّرة، والجنود.
في الحرب، أيهما تريده في صفك؟
ميزان القوى في الشرق الأوسط يتغير الآن.
من سيقود المنطقة بعد 5 سنوات: تركيا أم السعودية؟
تابعني للتنبيه القادم.