Lumumba Wa LumumbaDr.

Father. Filmmaker.

[Lumumba Wa LumumbaDr. @HowardLumumba]

@KenyaPower_Care Hi, we have no power in Kahawa Wendani since last night.

[Lumumba Wa LumumbaDr. @HowardLumumba]

@BGobannos @appiecule Ooh, like at Man City?

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

After SACCOs, Banks And M-Pesa Are Next As Kenyans Become Guarantors For A Debt Crisis They Never Ate

Kenyans must stop asking why Kenya has not defaulted and start asking who is being prepared to carry the default when the music finally stops.

Ghana was here.

Sri Lanka was here.

Zambia was here.

Argentina was here.

Lebanon was here.

The script is always the same, because a broke government borrows until lenders get tired, taxes until citizens are dry, leans on banks until credit disappears, pushes pain into pensions and domestic savings, then tells the public that sacrifice is needed to save the country.

That is why the SACCO story should scare Kenyans more than they currently seem scared, because SACCO savings are not government money, they are the private sweat of teachers, police officers, nurses, farmers, matatu people, boda riders, mama mbogas, small traders and workers who ran there after banks abandoned them.

In every default story, the government does not stand alone at the edge of the cliff, because it drags citizens there as guarantors through inflation, taxes, currency pain, bank losses, pension restructuring, frozen credit and forced patriotic nonsense dressed up as national recovery.

Banks already formed a comfortable debt circle with government, where lending to Treasury became safer and sweeter than lending to SMEs, which slowly choked biashara, starved the real economy and turned ordinary Kenyans into beggars inside their own banking system.

Now the same government that fed banks with public debt is walking into SACCOs, looking at the last pool of money ordinary Kenyans still controlled after taxes, deductions, mobile money charges, fuel prices, school fees and rent had already eaten their pockets.

The anus cannot be stitched to stop diarrhoea.

A debt crisis cannot be solved by raiding SACCOs, squeezing banks, eyeing M-Pesa, selling public assets and pretending that every desperate grab is an infrastructure plan.

Ghana called it domestic debt exchange.

Sri Lanka called it restructuring.

Argentina called it emergency controls.

Lebanon left people staring at bank balances they could not freely touch.

Kenya will give it a cleaner name, maybe national development, domestic resource mobilisation, infrastructure financing or patriotic investment, but the meaning will be the same.

The citizens are being prepared as guarantors for debts they never ate.

Kenyans are not angry enough, because if they understood where this road ends, they would know SACCOs are not the final target, they are the warning shot before banks, M-Pesa and every private pool of money still breathing outside Treasury’s hands.

The money is finished.

[Lumumba Wa LumumbaDr. @HowardLumumba]

@Kenyans Heri yeye ni wantam. The one we will elect will be half term akicheza. We are tired of nonesense.

[The People’s President @bonifacemwangi]

A direct question for President William Ruto and First Lady Rachel Ruto:
If one of your own children joined a peaceful protest, would you want them shot dead?

In 2024, police killed 104 Kenyans during protests. In 2025, that number rose to 125. Since June 2024, the Ruto regime has carried out 83 enforced disappearances and over 3,000 arbitrary arrests. Forty-one protest-linked Kenyans are still missing. So far in 2026, police have already shot dead 51 more protesters.

Yet the President has done nothing to stop the bloodshed. Instead, his government offers compensation as the bodies continue to pile up. We reject this kill-and-pay culture.
Kenyans, we must speak out against these killings and abductions before they become normalised.
We demand justice. Not bullets.
#RutoStopKillingUs

[Lumumba Wa LumumbaDr. @HowardLumumba]

@NationAfrica Then runs to join the "united opposition" who are known for decades of tokenism.

[Lumumba Wa LumumbaDr. @HowardLumumba]

@Utopia_Writing @LlewellynOuya So ut means you already have work, that's why you wouldn't take the 15k job.

[Lumumba Wa LumumbaDr. @HowardLumumba]

@mak28152 @LlewellynOuya Of course it doesn't make sense to take the job. Just curious though, how are you affording the 9,500 for rent without the job?

[Lumumba Wa LumumbaDr. @HowardLumumba]

@Juust_Jaake @austin_tunoi @GayaTosh @martoh_mxomruf @LlewellynOuya How can someone hiring tell a candidate is a critical thinker/problem solver?

[NTV Kenya @ntvkenya]

Have you seen…
Anyone arrested, convicted for the Covid Millionaires scandal?
Investigators were to conclude investigations in 21 days
Today is: 2,135 days…

@DannMwangi's #RhymeAtPrime (#RAP)

[Lumumba Wa LumumbaDr. @HowardLumumba]

@Papalefty2 @LarryMadowo You are telling a world renowned journalist, who has traveled the whole world and spoken to a lot of the world rulers, to research on who the rulers of this world are, as who? Unless you are one of those rulers, you don't have any moral standing to ask this of Larry.

[Lumumba Wa LumumbaDr. @HowardLumumba]

@___jumpman23_ @EBL2017 Scoring goals.

[KTN News @KTNNewsKE]

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN.
You asked. You shared. You demanded it.
So we're bringing it back. The Gallery of Ruto's Lies returns for a special re-air today—the Eighth Day.
🕤 9:30 PM
Don't miss it. Only on KTN.

#ChekiKTN #FactsFirst

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

If we depend solely on mainstream media to tell us what matters, we will remain perpetually distracted while the country is picked clean. Just like the current ‘beef’ btwn WSR and Gideon.
We must be intentional & support independent alternative media, and keep our eyes firmly on the ball. Let them chase their clicks. We will continue to chase justice and accountability in the corridors of the courts and on the streets. Sauti ya mwananchi haitazimwa. Viva ✊🏾

[Joel Jirani @JoelJirane]

Out of over 700 politicians it's only comrade Okiya Omtatah talking about odious debt.

Bwana know your friends early.

[Lumumba Wa LumumbaDr. @HowardLumumba]

@Aliafkalahaye @sholard_mancity Simple- Reduce government spending and refuse to pay odious debt.

[The Standard Digital @StandardKenya]

The trips are endless, luxurious, and incomplete without large convoys, complete with a fleet of helicopters. The millions of shillings in mobilization handouts on each trip add to the reckless spending spree that President William Ruto’s regime has adopted for his domestic trips.

https://t.co/PAI9LD01nI

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[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

The Kenyan budget has KSh 101 billion that has been budgeted as “Other Operating Expenses” This is budgeted corruption.

[Lumumba Wa LumumbaDr. @HowardLumumba]

I'm really tired of what the 3 arms pf this govt are doing to us as a country.

[K24TV @K24Tv]

High court accepts CS Duale’s apology, discharges him with a warning