Gitonga Muchemi

Writer,social commentator loath deceit, hypocrisy; believer in the work ethic. In pursuit of truth,honesty, professionalism,uprightness&justice. A better world.

[Gitonga Muchemi @GitongaMuchemi]

@kbcenglish @johnkaranijk Jk you have been a source of great hope, inspiration & immeasurable pleasure listening to you from your earliest tenure at kbc thro 2day.
Doubtlessly you are good at whatever you do.
I wish you nothing but the best in your future&may it be crowned by success,good health & wealth.

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

🚨JUST IN: Gov. Ochilo says: "What is happening in Mt. Kenya is hatred... you hated Raila... now you hate Ruto..."

​Wueeeh. Imagine reducing millions of voters to emotional toddlers who only vote out of "hatred."

​This is a classic false dilemma. People don't need to "hate" a politician to vote them out, it’s called holding them accountable for broken promises.

Since when is a rational political choice labeled a mental breakdown?

​What happened to the bright minds of ODM? Reducing basic democratic accountability to "hatred" isn't analysis, it's just embarrassing, childish coping.

No leader is entitled to votes. 💀

[Gitonga Muchemi @GitongaMuchemi]

@kbcenglish @johnkaranijk Great show JK!

[Gitonga Muchemi @GitongaMuchemi]

@kbcenglish Dr Otieno needs to address the issue of disappearing files in crucial government offices.

[Gitonga Muchemi @GitongaMuchemi]

@SocietyNews @citizentvkenya @JamilaMohamed But why do you think it concerns me that I would feel offended if you blocked me?.
I wouldn't care less.
Expedite.
We aren't here to participate at a contest that some treat as a push & pull & a sprucing of egos.

[Gitonga Muchemi @GitongaMuchemi]

I invite anyone with a weird justification to support the ongoing violence against immigrants from fellow African countries to listen to this https://t.co/rnCPKxNJ9Y

[Gitonga Muchemi @GitongaMuchemi]

@SocietyNews @citizentvkenya @JamilaMohamed While at it even as Trump has overtly supported&executed a most unjust deportation of illegal aliens fro the US with a Yankee1st xcuse,r'ber he was castigating Ramaphosa 4his countrymen killing of white farmers.
It's crass to justify crimes against humanity onworldly possessions.

[Gitonga Muchemi @GitongaMuchemi]

@SocietyNews @citizentvkenya @JamilaMohamed Well, how do the militants identify illegal immigrants,drug dealers spontaneously&does the ever explosive demeaning term Makwerekwere ring a bell? Granted that a country's pple come first, why would a pple whose liberation struggle got support from sister states turn this savage?

[WesternPulse @WesternPulse88]

McDonald's loses lawsuit against chef Jamie Oliver, who proved that the food they sell is unfit for human consumption because it is highly toxic.

Chef Jamie Oliver won a lawsuit against the world's largest fast-food chain.
Oliver demonstrates how hamburgers are made.

According to Oliver, fatty cuts of meat are "washed" with ammonium hydroxide and then used to fill the hamburger patties. Even before this process, the TV presenter says, this meat was unfit for human consumption.

Oliver, a radical activist chef taking on the food industry, says:

"We are talking about meat that is sold as dog food and then served to humans. Aside from the quality of the meat, ammonium hydroxide is harmful to health." Oliver calls it "the pink slime process."

What sane person would put a piece of meat soaked in ammonium hydroxide into a child's mouth?

In another initiative, Oliver demonstrated how chicken nuggets are made: After the "best parts" are selected, the rest—fat, skin, cartilage, eyes, bones, head, feet—is subjected to a mechanical separation process called "Canica"—a euphemism used by food engineers. This blood-pink paste, which is deodorized, bleached, refreshed, and re-colored, is then coated in flour and deep-fried. It is typically fried in partially hydrogenated oils—in other words, toxic substances.

The food industry uses ammonium hydroxide as an antimicrobial agent, allowing McDonald's to use meat in its hamburgers that is unfit for human consumption. Even more alarming, however, is the fact that these ammonium-hydrogen-based substances are considered "legal components of the production process" in the global food industry, with the approval of health authorities. Consequently, consumers will never know what substances are in their food.

Please stop giving this fake food to your children.

[Gitonga Muchemi @GitongaMuchemi]

@citizentvkenya I doubt that you haven't data on the number (population) of vehicles on our roads. U oversee transfer of ownership, the new number plates etc.must surely indicate it.
Someone told Citizen TV that some private owners don't care to establish their vehicle's condition, how now?
2/2

[Gitonga Muchemi @GitongaMuchemi]

@citizentvkenya DG unconvincing when u state that private (small cars) constitute only 2%of vehicles on road,why do u require all vehicles to be subjected to an annual inspection yet the 98% undergo annual inspection.
Besides vehicle condition,our roads r cause major accidents 1/

[Gitonga Muchemi @GitongaMuchemi]

*imposition of fines, punishment or otherwise for a tort is arbitrated mutually*

[Gitonga Muchemi @GitongaMuchemi]

In upcountry urban centres Parking spaces,parking fee&non conformity measures imposed have never made sense to me Counties generating Own Source Revenues notwithstanding.
In Nanyuki town exists a team of hawkish enforcers mainly female staff only too eager to either solicit or 1/

[Gitonga Muchemi @GitongaMuchemi]

run & hide (even with the bright yellow dust coats on) upon sighting a motorist seeking their assistance. The rewards were solicitation of huge bribes &surcharges after clamping&towing of the car to City Hall.
Even in a Court of law arbitration is negotiated for award/amends 4/4.

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

🚨 BREAKING: Kenyans are already being targeted by scammers exploiting the new NTSA traffic fines system.

We have come across another case, in addition to the one shared by lawyer Donald Kipkorir, and we've also identified what appears to be a security concern with how NTSA ticket links are generated.

A Kenyan reached out to us after receiving an SMS claiming their vehicle had been captured speeding. The message directed them to make payment through a link.

After clicking it, they were taken to what looked like the NTSA website. But if you look closely at the address bar, the domain is not NTSA's official website. Instead of ntsa . go .ke, it is a completely unrelated domain made up of random characters.

That is a classic phishing website designed to impersonate NTSA.

Then there is the case shared by lawyer Donald Kipkorir. According to his post, his son received a message about a KSh10,000 traffic fine, clicked the payment link and paid, only for the money to end up under another person's name instead of NTSA.

We have been looking into these cases, and here is what we have found.

One possible explanation is that scammers are harvesting vehicle registration numbers and phone numbers that are publicly available online, particularly from platforms used by ride-hailing drivers. They then send convincing fake traffic fine messages and direct victims to cloned NTSA payment pages.

We have also looked into the name that reportedly appeared during one payment. While we cannot conclude who is responsible, our preliminary checks suggest it may belong to a KCB agent. If true, it is possible that the fraudsters used an agent account as part of the money collection process. That is something investigators should verify.

We also noticed something else.

The NTSA ticket link shared in the Kipkorir case appears to use Base64 encoding. Decoding it revealed information such as the ticket number and vehicle registration.

Base64 is not encryption; it simply converts data into another format. If official NTSA links rely only on easily decoded or predictable identifiers without additional safeguards, that could increase the risk of scammers creating highly convincing fake messages. Whether that is an actual security flaw depends on how NTSA's systems validate requests, but it deserves urgent review.

One thing is already clear: scammers are exploiting the traffic fines rollout to target Kenyans.

If you are an Uber, Bolt or taxi driver, or anyone whose vehicle details may be publicly available, you should be extra cautious. Never assume an SMS is genuine simply because it mentions your registration number.

NTSA should urgently strengthen this system. One possible solution would be an official NTSA mobile app where users log in securely before viewing or paying fines.

Another would be allowing payments only through an official Paybill using the ticket number as the account reference, instead of asking people to follow links sent via SMS.

Please share this so more Kenyans don't become victims.

[Revolutionary Mankuyio @RevoltMankuyio]

Retweet widely please 🙏
Free Davis Lichuma immediately
#FreeDavisLichuma

[Gitonga Muchemi @GitongaMuchemi]

@citizentvkenya & you can't avoid remembering the unpopular clause in the 2024/25 budget proposals where govt wished to impose an annual motor vehicle circulation tax.

[Gitonga Muchemi @GitongaMuchemi]

@citizentvkenya Better ways of ensuring compliance to road safety if this is the actual motive exist.Blaming private vehicles as defective/unroadworthy is lame&far fetched/ redemptive.Statistics concerning major traffic accidents culprits have commercial vehicles including cargo freighters&PSVs.