@MaryK2022 If you make a claim, you who makes the claim have the burden of proof, which you have clearly failed to do. And so it follows, your claims are baseless, false and merely wishful thinking.
The promise that university will now be free for all sounds like progress but when it comes months to an election, after years of complaints about a broken funding model, Kenyans are entitled to ask, is this policy or politics?
For years, universities have been running on deficits, students have been locked out or saddled with loans, and the new student‑centred funding model has left families choosing courses they can afford rather than those they qualify for. Half of public universities are already potentially insolvent, and HELB can fund barely a fifth of first‑years under current allocations.
If the State could not sustainably fund the existing model, how does it suddenly find resources to fully fund every KUCCPS‑placed student without a clear legal framework, costed plan and honest conversation about trade‑offs in health, housing and other services? A constitutional government must not dangle free rights as campaign bait while hiding the fiscal maths from the very citizens expected to pay the bill.
I stand with students, parents, lecturers and workers who want real reform, not last‑minute promises. We demand transparent costings tabled in Parliament, a credible financing law, and guarantees that any move towards universal higher‑education funding will not collapse already struggling institutions or deepen inequality between those in public and private universities.
Free, quality university education is a legitimate aspiration but it must be built openly, sustainably and with citizens at the centre, not announced from a rally podium as a political surprise. Kenyans deserve more than applause lines, they deserve a plan.
@NytoP2PMwangi Christians are not obligated to pay tithes and offerings according to the NT. Jesus nor the apostles never taught about that. The Church is to prioritize sharing and giving voluntary and with a cheerful heart.
@M0JINGA@MihrThakar This is the reason: The hope that maybe a few or even one of the children will eventually make it in life and therefore turn around the fortunes of the family.
THE SHYLOCK NEXT DOOR
You would never let someone use your ID to borrow money from a Shylock, then expect you to repay the loan. You would call it THEFT.
So why are we so quiet when it happens to our country?
Kenya’s public debt now stands at about KSh 12.8 trillion. This year, about 91 percent of the taxes we collect will go to paying debt, not improving hospitals, schools, roads, or supporting counties.
We feel it every day through higher taxes, delayed county funding, delayed and reduced capitation, struggling public services, and fewer development projects.
Debt is not the problem. Debt without clear results is.
Every Kenyan is paying for these loans. Every Kenyan has the right to ask one simple question.
What did we borrow all this money for?
Your name is on the bill. Your voice should be part of the conversation.
#KenyaDebtCrisis #OdiousDebt #DeniBandia #GetitDone #ReKe
The World Bank says Kenya's Sh5 trillion National Infrastructure Fund will help finance infrastructure but will not fix the country's revenue collection and public spending challenges.
China has sentenced former Nanjing official Yang Youlin to death for taking $325 million in bribes.
Dear Lord, when will Kenya reach a place where stealing from the public is treated as a national capital punishement like China? And not a political strategy?
When will the corrupt in power face real consequences, recoveries, jail terms and permanent removal from public life?
Because here, they steal billions, buy voters, mock the poor, recycle themselves in government, and still ask us to clap for them.
We know the Ruto regime is broke, that one is no longer a debate, because every new policy now looks like Treasury searching under mattresses for money.
We know that even if they are handed Sh1 trillion from SACCOs, the same tender games will start, costs will balloon, projects will be revised, brokers will appear, and politically connected tender boys will become richer overnight.
They are telling SACCO members that their money will go into infrastructure, but nobody is explaining when those roads, airports or projects will zaa matunda and return real money to the teacher, nurse, farmer, trader or boda rider whose savings were touched.
Kenyans have already seen this movie, where a project starts with clean English, moves into inflated contracts, disappears into tender corridors, then returns years later as a scandal that nobody is punished for.
Why are we pretending this is development financing when everybody can smell the scam from the gate, especially after the same government borrowed everywhere, taxed everything, sold assets and still came back for private savings.
Call it what it is.
This is a scam in an infrastructure helmet.
@StandardKenya A superb reply, Kenya Kwisha gafament and UDAku party will fall. Continue doing the Lord's work @StandardKenya. Watu wa ground we support you💯