Joel Gichuru

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Fortes Fortuna Adonai👌🏿

#HaiTekuBaka👨🏿‍💻📈
#KurumaBaka🏎🚗🚙

#AWorkInProgress⚖

[Sam Block @theblockspot]

Knicks didn’t draft Brunson.
Knicks didn’t draft OG.
Knicks didn’t draft KAT.
Knicks didn’t draft Hart.
Knicks didn’t draft Bridges.
Knicks didn’t draft Shamet.
Knicks didn’t draft Alvarado.
Knicks didn’t draft Clarkson.

They built a monster in a different way.
This is wild.

[NBA @NBA]

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆

New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!

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

Some figures regarding the state of devolution today:

(1) We have 47 counties.

(2) Each county has an average of 47 MCAs.

(3) The average county has a budget of around KSH 10 billion.

(4) The average county spends around 10% of its budget on these 47 MCAs. In fact, each MCA costs Kenyans KSH 21 million annually.

(5) The average county employs around 1% of its county population.

(6) The average county spends around 45% of its annual budget on salaries alone, for this 1%. This is illegal by the way, because the legal limit under the law is 35%.

(7) In the last two years (2022-2023, and 2023-2024), county governments have stolen KSH 67 billion from citizens by spending an additional KSH 67 billion in salaries to this lucky 1%.

(8) For every 1 shilling our counties spend on bursaries, they spend 27 on their salaries. And for every 1 shilling they spend on support for hospitals, they spend 40 on their salaries.

(9) Out of our 47 counties, 0 are self-sufficient, from a fiscal standpoint. In fact, the average county can only support 10% of its annual budget.

So, understand the implications of this situation.

Every county is a beggar. Indigent. Panhandler. By a lot.

Let's look at @marsabit as an example.

Marsabit likes to spend around KSH 8 billion annually. But it can only raise KSH 54 million within Marsabit.

In other words, it costs KSH 21,918,000 per day to run Marsabit County Government.

But Marsabit can only raise KSH 148,000 per day.

So, every single day, they need help from Kenyans across the country. In the amount of KSH 21,770,000.

Every. Single. Day.

Despite getting KSH 67 billion in 10 years of devolution, Marsabit has a 66% poverty rate. But it must have 33 MCAs, who consume around 11% of the annual budget.

In fact, every single MCA in Marsabit costs citizens about KSH 29 million.

(11) 20 of the 47 counties have a population of less than 1 million. See first attachment. In 10 years of devolution, these 20 counties have received KSH 1.03 trillion collectively. But they have a poverty rate of 47% on average. And they spend roughly 45% of their annual budget on salaries alone, for the 1% they employ.

(12) 100% of these 20 counties, spend more money on travel, than they devote to bursaries.

(13) These 20 counties, 10 years into devolution, cannot raise more than 6% of their annual budget.

(14) The cost of MCAs alone, is normally several times what the county can raise locally. For example, for every 1 shilling Marsabit raises locally, they spend about 16 on MCAs.

Now you know.

@KenyaGovernors @marsabit @Mizani254 @Kenyans @KimaniWaKarangu @ReubenKigame @fit_ermined

[Julians Amboko @AmbokoJH]

Folks,

The much awaited Supplementary Budget I 2024/25 has dropped.

Now that Finance Bill 2024 was withdrawn, focus has shifted to the much talked about budget rationalisation to align the 2024/25 spending plan with the downgraded revenue forecast.

The Supplementary Estimates have been transmitted to the Clerk of the National Assembly, see quoted tweet.

A 🧵

[Rufas Kamau ⚡ @RufasKe]

When a supplier provides goods and services to a county government, and then the county refuses to pay, mostly because the top dawg is asking for a bribe, suppliers often sue and get a garnishment order.

This is an order requiring a bank to suspend an account until the supplier is paid, or otherwise requiring the supplier to be paid through monies held in that bank account.

As fate would have it, governors wamejua mchezo wa taoni. So, they create a separate account and direct payments to the new account and leave the disgruntled supplier dry until they yield to a bribe.

Wondering why county governments have 100's of bank accounts?

Thank you for attending my TED talk.

[Just Ivy Africa @JustIvyAfrica]

The Office of the Auditor General is almost the only thing working in Kenya. Their work, though commendable, their findings are really quite sad.

They published their report on the FY 21/22, 22/23. Here is a THREAD of the 8 worst corruption findings of the reports:

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

This man shares his views on the Kenya protests

[Rufas Kamau ⚡ @RufasKe]

Let's have a conversation about Bitcoin in Kenya.

[Dr. King'ori (Felixe JaSiaya) @Dr_Kingori]

President Ruto has ended tribalism, and united all Kenyans. Against his Will

[Kelvin N @NdemoKelvin]

Based on feedback and requested, i have created this new GPT called Kenya Law Guide, at the moment, it is trained on the following:

- Kenyan Constitution
- Traffic Act
- Finance Bill 2024
- Finance Bill 2023
- The Land Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2023
- Penal Code

If you have any bill/legislation we should add, let me know in the comments we add, we need to make all this information, bills and Acts of Parliament accessible to everybody.

https://t.co/MYQ8rS5KHm

[KEMRI-Wellcome @KEMRI_Wellcome]

📚This week’s #Researchhighlight: Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of the Social Communication Questionnaire in Rural Kenya

See summary and read more 👇
https://t.co/BsHzDNOdsw

@patkipkemoi @PGC_Africa

[Joel Gichuru @Jowellz]

@macsleem @MombasaEmir How can I get in touch? Dm is not open..

[Mike Posner @MikePosner]

on my 26th birthday, i wrote I Took A Pill in Ibiza…10 years ago. The song became popular several years after i wrote it. Yesterday i celebrated my 36th birthday. i feel proud to look at the song lyrics and know that NONE of them are true anymore. I’ve grown into a completely new man…one that i’m proud of. check this out… 🧵

[Joel Gichuru @Jowellz]

@Pete_Wanyoike Good try lakini... Would have been nice to have both on podium.

[Luke Smith @LukeSmithF1]

📻 Sainz: "A bit of Carlando action there to protect from the Mercs!"

#F1 #SingaporeGP

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Albert Einstein taking a nap in his yard in Berlin, Germany, 1933.

Einstein slept nearly 10 hours a day. He was known to be a firm believer in the importance of a good night’s sleep, often aiming for around 10 hours of rest. However, his approach to sleep was somewhat unconventional.

He frequently took short naps during the day, sometimes even multiple times a day. These power naps were brief, lasting only a few minutes, and he believed they helped him recharge his mind and creativity. He claimed that these naps allowed him to tackle complex scientific problems with a fresh perspective.

[Joel Gichuru @Jowellz]

@Mutisoooo_ @MaureenInKwenia What solution are you suggesting? Could you share the details?

[Jared Friedman @snowmaker]

Some of the best startup ideas live in a grey area of legality. Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, YouTube, Coinbase were all somewhere between questionable and flat-out illegal in their early days.

One reason for this is that incumbents cannot take any legal risk on a new initiative. Even if Google execs saw Uber and thought "that seems promising", there was no way they could launch a competitor because they would face unlimited liability that could destroy all of Google.

So a startup taking legal risk will be invulnerable to competition from big companies for a long time.