Ruto just spent 40 minutes trying to create a false equivalence between our national values set out in the constitution and his so called “development”. Kenyans, please trust me when i tell you there is a reason the Preamble comes before Article 43. You don’t get to the “development “ clauses until and unless you have taken into account the reasons we passed this constitution in the first place. Democracy, Human Rights, Freedom, Equality, Rule of Law and Social Justice.
@GunnerAfrican Anyone who has a basic understanding of the constitution or how govt. works knows that all infrastructure development must be underpinned by adherence to the rule of law. Omwami is not against development. What is foundational to him and to us is adherence to the rule of law.
Let me take this opportunity to set the record straight on behalf of all Kenyans.
@HusseinMohamedg
With regards to inflation: 9.6 → 4.6 %
One headline says it all: Kenyans are borrowing KSH 13 billion a month, in order to be able to eat.
Prices didn’t fall because of better management. They fell because Kenyans stopped affording basic goods.
The “lower inflation” reflects economic paralysis — small businesses shut down, farmers can’t access credit, and demand has collapsed. Food inflation still hovers around 9–10%, while household incomes are shrinking.
With regards to shilling: 165 → 129 per USD
The stronger shilling isn’t from exports or productivity. It’s the result of short-term dollar borrowing — Eurobond proceeds, IMF tranches, and syndicated loans. Kenya is borrowing to look stable. When those borrowed dollars run out, the shilling will tumble again. It’s an illusion funded by future generations.
Think about this: The 18-34 years age group is the most productive age group globally. In our country, this age group faces a 67% poverty rate.
Nobody from this age group will walk into Quick Mart and trade in the "savings from shilling appreciation" for food. Kenyans need jobs, and they are not getting them.
With regards to reserves: $5.7 B → $12 B
Conveniently leaves out that those “record reserves” are borrowed dollars from new IMF loans, syndicated loans, and Eurobond proceeds — not export surpluses. Kenya is literally borrowing to look solvent, because President Ruto lacks the courage to deal with the real issues destroying the economy - such as corruption and a crushingly expensive government.
With regards to CBR: 13 → 9.25 %
Yes, the Central Bank cut its policy rate, but commercial lending rates remain 15–18%, and SMEs still can’t access credit. Why?
Because the government itself has become the biggest borrower in Kenya — tapping commercial banks for short-term domestic loans at double-digit interest. In 2023-2025, domestic debt was 51% of our sovereign debt, while interest on that portion of debt was 70% of the total interest obligation. No different than borrowing from a loan shark to take your girlfriend to Las Vegas.
This crowds out ordinary Kenyans and businesses: banks prefer lending to government (risk-free, high-yield) rather than to citizens or the productive economy.
Result: the government borrows, banks profit, citizens suffocate.
With regards to GDP: KSh 17 trillion — Growth on paper, misery in reality
The size of the economy only confirms if there is food in the kitchen, and the amount of the food.
A more important question is, WHO IS INVITED TO EAT?
Our country today is using roughly 50% of every shilling we have on salaries for less than 2% of the population.
For example, in 2023-2024, when our country earned KSH 2.5 trillion in revenue, KSH 1.2 trillion, or 48%, was devoted to salaries for one million employees of the national government.
That is less than 2% of our population.
That 2% is WHO IS EATING.
The 98% of us are mere spectators in the feast.
@dkmaraga Wakisema you are boring wakumbushe the more boring you are the more interested we become. Tumechoka na sarakasi. Tunakuingiza state house upende usipende, wapende wasipende!
@jimNjue_ He's a public servant not an thief of public funds. If Kenyans want a leader that will safeguard and uphold the constitution, then he is the man to vote for. Don't worry about the money ndugu. We'll raise the money for you.
Iran must survive.
Because if it falls, the door opens wide to the final assault on multipolarity itself.
This is not an isolated conflict. It is a test case.
A trial run to see how easily a sovereign state can be encircled, destabilized, and shattered under the banner of "democracy" and the so-called "rules-based order."
If Iran breaks, Russia and China are next.
Not by accident. By design.
The goal is not peace. It is submission.
Not stability, but supremacy.
To defend Iran is not to pick sides in a regional dispute.
It is to take a stand against empire.
And every nation that still remembers what empire feels like has a stake in this.
@gpdkaluma@RailaOdinga@WilliamsRuto Your attempts to turn the 2027 elections from an issue based one to a tribal competition will fail. Wajinga waliisha Kenya. We know you are the problem and we will eject you na wengine kama wewe from office. Ata utengeneze pie charts ngapi. You mark this tweet.
@Classic105Kenya@ItsMainaKageni These politicians are trying too hard to divide Kenyans along ethnic lines. They know the only chance they have at re election is through tribal balkanization. But Kenyans are wiser and we now understand the problem. Its leaders like you. Na ndio maana tutawafagia nyote.