David Gitonga

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[David Gitonga @GettyGitonga]

.."he set a high-water mark for administrative competence that has never been equaled".. Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Amazon will build its first African satellite ground station in Kenya under Amazon Kuiper Kenya Limited.

It will support internet speeds of up to 1,280 Mbps by linking satellites to global networks, competing with Starlink which offers speeds of about 50–250 Mbps.

[Karomo Richú @tonykaromo]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has suspended its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.

Karim Khan was William Ruto's lawyer during the ICC case. Immediately he became Chief Prosecutor, Ruto's charges were vacated.

Kumbe ni mikora tu pia.

[Dr. Miguna Miguna @MigunaMiguna]

The court has cooked @rigathi. Two fatal findings on public participation and bias have sealed his fate. But I believe the court’s findings on these two issues are implausible and incoherent in view of the evidence before them. We will wait for the decisions of the Court of Appeal in 2028 and the Supreme Court in 2029!

[David Gitonga @GettyGitonga]

"The reality is that taxes, levies, and economic policies do not care about tribe, political slogans, or campaign songs. What matters is the impact they have on ordinary citizens.

It's time to move beyond the "mtu wetu" mentality and judge leaders by their actions and policies."

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

The Ruto Government has imposed a 0.8% levy on tea exports. Exporters are the ones officially paying this levy when tea is sold at auction or exported.

However, leaders and farmers in Kericho, Bomet, Nandi, etc., are very unhappy.

The catch is clear: farmers and cooperatives believe exporters will simply pass on this 0.8% cost by reducing the price they pay farmers.

Others fear it will make Kenyan tea more expensive in the international market, pushing buyers to Rwanda, Sri Lanka, India, and other competitors.

At the end of the day, we all know who is likely to carry the real burden - the farmer.

This is what happens when people support governments blindly. Some assumed that by chanting "tutam" or because President Ruto is a Kalenjin, tea-growing regions would be protected from painful government policies.

Today, many of those same farmers are watching new costs being introduced that could ultimately reduce their earnings.

While the President continues flying around the world on expensive trips and government spending remains high, the ordinary tea farmer is left wondering why they must keep carrying the burden.

The reality is that taxes, levies, and economic policies do not care about tribe, political slogans, or campaign songs. What matters is the impact they have on ordinary citizens.

It's time to move beyond the "mtu wetu" mentality and judge leaders by their actions and policies. Tea farmers in Kericho, Bomet, Nandi & other growing regions are now learning that lesson the hard way.

And by the way, if the loacals arent careful that levy will be securitized.

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

The Ruto Government has imposed a 0.8% levy on tea exports. Exporters are the ones officially paying this levy when tea is sold at auction or exported.

However, leaders and farmers in Kericho, Bomet, Nandi, etc., are very unhappy.

The catch is clear: farmers and cooperatives believe exporters will simply pass on this 0.8% cost by reducing the price they pay farmers.

Others fear it will make Kenyan tea more expensive in the international market, pushing buyers to Rwanda, Sri Lanka, India, and other competitors.

At the end of the day, we all know who is likely to carry the real burden - the farmer.

This is what happens when people support governments blindly. Some assumed that by chanting "tutam" or because President Ruto is a Kalenjin, tea-growing regions would be protected from painful government policies.

Today, many of those same farmers are watching new costs being introduced that could ultimately reduce their earnings.

While the President continues flying around the world on expensive trips and government spending remains high, the ordinary tea farmer is left wondering why they must keep carrying the burden.

The reality is that taxes, levies, and economic policies do not care about tribe, political slogans, or campaign songs. What matters is the impact they have on ordinary citizens.

It's time to move beyond the "mtu wetu" mentality and judge leaders by their actions and policies. Tea farmers in Kericho, Bomet, Nandi & other growing regions are now learning that lesson the hard way.

And by the way, if the loacals arent careful that levy will be securitized.

[I am Chege @_James041]

Gunshots, teargas and running battles in Nanyuki Town, Laikipia County as Kenyans unite against Ebola quarantine facilities across the country.

[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

Full parade to welcome Madam President. Welcome to @LindaMwananchi_ @FaithOdhiambo8 !

[Bonnie Mwangi, CPA, LLM, MBA @MwangiBonnie]

If you have ever wondered how the US dominates global innovation and commerce, look at this list and you will begin to understand why.

Research into universities that produce the most start ups in the world shows that 15 out of the top 20 are US universities.

Two are Israeli.

Two Canadian.

One Indian.

As someone who attended one of these universities, I can tell you that the amount of resources dedicated to innovation in these schools is astounding.

The support students obtain- particularly in advanced sciences, is amazing.

I am not surprised at all by this list.

I show you this to drive the point I have been making over the last couple of years- that the disservice our rotten ruling class is doing to Kenyans - particularly young Kenyans - is beyond comprehension.

Take a look at the attached summary of our budget for 2026-2027.

KSH 4.8 trillion is what we want to spend.

But we will have to borrow between 40% and 50% of this amount, to make the budget work.

Because- our country has never earned more than KSH 3 trillion.

Ever.

But the ruling class is hell bent on spending KSH 4.8 trillion.

And it is not to be able to fund innovation and research. Supporting young students in our universities.

No.

It is in order to continue paying ridiculous compensation to our politicians.

To be able to send our politicians to Dubai for meetings about budgeting!

To be able to send MCAs to London public parks so that, believe it or not, they can ‘meet Kenyans”.

And, to be able to fund corruption.

You see - when money is there - politicians can continue stealing.

In 2026-2027 - 47% of that KSH 4.8 trillion will go to cover DEBT SERVICE.

Alone.

It will be our largest expense- by 1000 miles.

We will spend 1 shilling on healthcare for every 11 we spend on debt service.

We will spend 1 shilling on education, for every 3 we spend on debt service.

If our country is lucky to earn KSH 2.8 trillion- which it has never done before, we are going to have added KSH 2 trillion in new debt to our balance sheet.

And, we will have spent ABOUT 80% of that entire KSH 2.8 trillion in debt service that year.

Friends - when you are told that we are heading to Singapore, please understand that the people telling you this lie have no idea how to locate Singapore on a map.

They cannot spot the country on a map.

Much less, understand what it takes to get there.

How can Kenyans - particularly young Kenyans - compete with Americas and others when we are 50 years behind today in terms of technology, and, when we are spending 80% of all revenue on debt service?

When you start seeing our leaders make dumb decisions such as allowing Ebola into our country, please understand that these decisions will only continue the subjugation of our country economically and technologically.

Perhaps even psychologically.

We are pulling off every dumb move imaginable with our resources, and, somehow expect escaping unscathed.

Our country has no real choice but to change.

If you don’t believe it, ask yourself this question:

We owe close to KSH 12.5 trillion today.

This year 80% of all national revenue will go to debt service.

This debt guarantees that unless our country discovers previously unknown billions of barrels of crude oil, or diamond, we will never be able to spend even 10% of our income on innovation.

It will never happen.

This year, KSH 2.3 trillion is throw away money.

It will not send one student to school. It will not create one job.

It will not fund one patient’s cancer treatment.

It is 100% wasteful.

This is why you will continue seeing our country making dumb concessions such as allowing our country to become a ward for Ebola.

Or, selling our healthcare data to more advanced economies- for these countries to use that data to develop medicine and technologies that they turn around and sell it to us for everything we have.

That’s the price we pay as a country.

[SokoAnalyst @SokoAnalyst]

So the sharp boys & women in Ruto's government have decided that the best way they can protect themselves if they lose the 2027 elections is to SECURITISE all taxes now, so that the next government will have no money at all to work with. They seem to forget that we will jail them, all of them, and freeze all their assets.

These people are really evil.

[Kenyans.co.ke @Kenyans]

There is a trend that anytime the government has interfered with any process, Ruto flies out of the country - Kirinyaga Senator, James Murango

[Macharia Njeru @MachariaNjeru]

The Maungu lorry park in Taita Taveta was built at a cost of over Sh320 million. It has 182-lorry capacity, 70 guest rooms, and 24 stalls. It sits on the busiest highway in East Africa, the Nairobi-Mombasa corridor, a lifeline for Kenya's entire import and export economy. It currently generates Sh8,000 a day. Sh8,000. On a Sh320 million facility. Built with public money.
The park has no reliable water supply, no electricity, no designated parking for trucks carrying dangerous goods, and no basic firefighting equipment. Meanwhile, trucks park along the highway the very problem the facility was built to solve.
This is not a management failure. It is a governance failure. Someone approved Sh320 million. Someone commissioned it. Someone handed it to private operators. And someone has been watching it rot since 2015.
Who? And will anyone answer for it?

[Nelson Havi SC @NelsonHavi]

It was good that the entire judgment was read word for word and broadcasted live for ten hours to the entire Kenyan public. How else would you have understood the problems we keep pointing out daily about incompetence, misconduct and misbehavior by a Judges?

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

Charles Kanjama: Normally, when a right to fair trial or fair hearing is infringed, you invalidate the hearing, you set it aside, or you order a new trial. This is the first time in my experience as a lawyer that the court has made a clear finding that the right to a fair trial was substantively violated but has failed to reverse the underlying outcome of that fair trial. The court said our hands are tied because impeachment is final; we cannot undo it. The court at that time said we can overturn the outcome of the impeachment, but today it has said once the impeachment is done, it cannot be overturned. There is a lot of inconsistency in the decision of the court #CitizenMondayReport

[David Gitonga @GettyGitonga]

@sholard_mancity Those trips are about hiding the loot and covering his footsteps in islands you won't touch.

Arooooo....

[Kipkalya Kones @MrKipkalya]

Sections of Uhuru Park will be hived off to "expand Uhuru Highway".

Parts of Karura Forest will be hived off "to plant tree seedlings and build rangers' accommodation units".

Parts of Nairobi National Park will be hived off "to construct parking yards for the new Bomas International Convention Centre".

Sections of Ngong Forest are being cut down for "the construction of the Ngong-Riruta rail line and an international resort and casino".

Practically every green and gazetted area within the Nairobi Metropolitan area is being targeted.

And this is place where scrutiny is highest.

Can you imagine what is happening in gazetted areas in the Rift Valley.

When pastoralists are in power, every green space is either pasture for "wega ngombe wagule yiote" or merely something to degazette, cut down and build some ugly concrete structure.

Scarcity mentality at birth.

[Dr. John Njenga Karugia PhD. @johnnjenga]

Rigathi Gachagua is absolutely not an option, but his rights are sacrosanct. ⚖️

[Anwar Saddat @AnuarSaddat]

The “African Client” used taxpayers money to buy himself an aircraft and appoint ACASS to manage it.

He then has the government lease the aircraft for his use during his sightseeing trips abroad.

While overtaxing his people without mercy.

Hustler Jeuri, Sharp Boy Número uno!

[Ahmednasir Abdullahi SC @ahmednasirlaw]

It is an open secret in legal circles that this case against KETRACO is owned by judges. The majority shareholder is a Supreme Court judge. Another major shareholder is a High Court judge. @NelsonHavi @LawSocietyofKe

[Dr. Fred Matiang'i @RealMatiangi]

The ruling in Hon. Gachagua’s impeachment case makes no sense to me. If the court finds that his constitutional rights were infringed, it cannot, in the same breath, allow the outcome of that flawed process to stand.

[Eric Theuri SC @etadv]

The Gachagua judgment is a political decision at best as it is legally absurd. The Constitution expressly provides that any decision in violation of rights void. The effect of impeachment is that the person cannot hold public office. So how does a decision in violation of rights for which the Court has awarded damages operate as a bar to running for office. Those are judicial gymnastics that reflect a captured court