Ephraim the Builder 🏗

ALA’17🇿🇦 | ALU’22🇲🇺 | Entrepreneur, VC, Storyteller ⚒| Co-Host: Boardroom Banter Podcast.🎙 I build platforms that unlock your full potential 💯

[Ephraim the Builder 🏗 @KaranjaSean]

@WWWMovement I’ve been looking for the full lyrics for this song for so long! I’d love to get them 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[CG @cgtwts]

Claude Code watching me write code manually

[𝙋𝘼𝙐𝙇. 𝐎. 𝐍𝐄𝐊𝐎 @ouma_neko]

When a government announces KSh 6 billion for “relief food” targeting 3 million Kenyans, it sounds massive. It sounds compassionate. It sounds like leadership.

But break it down.

KSh 6,000,000,000 divided by 3,000,000 people is KSh 2,000 per person.

KSh 2,000.

That is what the state believes a starving Kenyan is worth.

Turn on the TV. A family of 13 receives 5kg of rice and 5kg of beans. That is 10kg total. Divide that by 13 people. You are looking at less than a kilo per person. That won’t last a week. In some homes, it won’t last three days.

This is not relief. This is optics.

We have the Kenya Defence Forces with logistics capacity that can deploy across the country in hours. We have the National Youth Service with machinery, manpower, and water drilling equipment.

How many emergency boreholes have been sunk in the worst-hit areas?
How many new dams fast-tracked?
How many affected schools supplied with bulk food deliveries?

If the answer on the ground is zero or negligible, then this is not a crisis response — it is a distribution ceremony.

Relief food should be the last resort, not the headline strategy. Real leadership drills water. Builds dams. Irrigates land. Secures supply chains. Strengthens local agriculture so hunger does not become an annual political event.

Instead, we see cameras. We see token handouts. We see announcements measured in billions — but measured in kilograms when they reach the people.

Hunger is not a photo opportunity. Starvation is not a budget line to be milked. When money is allocated and citizens still receive crumbs, people will ask hard questions.

Where did the rest go?
Who supplied the food?
At what price?
Through which procurement channels?

Because if KSh 6 billion translates to 5kg of rice on the ground, then someone along the chain is eating far better than the hungry.

Kenyans are not statistics. They are families, children, farmers, workers. Relief must be transparent. Procurement must be audited. Distribution must be verifiable. And long-term solutions must replace short-term theatrics.

Anything less is not governance. It is management of suffering.

And a nation that normalizes managing suffering instead of ending it is not facing drought alone it is facing a leadership crisis.

[Pepe Invests @pepemoonboy]

We are so cooked fam.

[@jason @Jason]

So the go forward plan is to own roughly 1/3rd:

1. Ranch, guns, livestock, water, solar, etc
2. global equities
3. gold and other resources

😂

[Ephraim the Builder 🏗 @KaranjaSean]

@VusiThembekwayo these are spreading like wildfire! 👀

[Neesh 🥭 @Neesh774]

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[Magatte Wade @magattew]

The highest form of patriotism in Senegal, Nigeria, or Kenya is creating a job. 

The government's highest duty is to make that act the easiest thing a citizen can do.

[Ngunjis Khan :/ @rjkariuki]

you're seeing this on your TL
you're getting mad at his audacity
but you've not registered to vote.

you're an enabler.
go register to vote.

[Ephraim the Builder 🏗 @KaranjaSean]

I think it’s time we returned to the streets 😤

[Ahmednasir Abdullahi SC @ahmednasirlaw]

We have normalised corruption and theft of public funds that we treat theft of Kshs 11 billion as 11 cents. Waziri @HonAdenDuale how can 4% of Kenya's annual budget be stolen just like that? Is stealing Kshs 11 billion like a thief stealing a chicken in Bulla Iftin? Where are the arrests and prosecution of the thieves? Were is the NATIONAL OUTRAGE?

[Ahmednasir Abdullahi SC @ahmednasirlaw]

We have normalised corruption and theft of public funds that we treat theft of Kshs 11 billion as 11 cents. Waziri @HonAdenDuale how can 4% of Kenya's annual budget be stolen just like that? Is stealing Kshs 11 billion like a thief stealing a chicken in Bulla Iftin? Where are the arrests and prosecution of the thieves? Were is the NATIONAL OUTRAGE?

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Reporter: Was Malcolm X preaching hate and violence?

Denzel Washington: Is the sheep preaching hate and violence when he says I'm not going to let a wolf eat me anymore?

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

Many Kenyans may not know this.

Last year, the William Ruto government took a multi-billion shilling World Bank loan to support senior secondary education, including Grade 10 and junior levels.

The money was meant for scholarships, textbooks, and free school meals for students from poor families.

The funds were disbursed by end of December.
So where did they go that parents are being asked to buy books , pay for food etc ?

Today, Grade 10 students are out of school because of fees.
Classrooms remain in poor condition in many parts of the country.

This loan will be repaid by Kenyans starting 2029.
The question is simple:
Where did the money go?

Accountability is not politics.
It is a duty.

[litquidity @litcapital]

Gotta hand it to the Somalis in Minnesota. They executed the HBS grad playbook of rolling up mom & pop daycares and managed to operate at ~99% EBITDA margins that they largely passed through as special dividends to themselves

[Dan Aceda @danaceda]

Platform sovereignty is an extremely important next step for Africa. And we must achieve it in our lifetime. Because Global North platforms will ALWAYS do stuff like this.

[Myron Gaines @MyronGainesX]

As a former agent that investigated these crimes, fraud is rampant in these Somalian communities.

From daycare, to covid relief, welfare, and immigration fraud, the Somalians put Nigerians to shame.

This money is then funneled back to Somalia to fund corrupt politicians, pirates, paramilitary and or terrorist organizations like Al-Shabaab.

W for Nick Shirley in exposing this massive fraud scheme that 90% of American tax payers were completely unaware of.

[Ephraim the Builder 🏗 @KaranjaSean]

My whole feed is just Americans and Kenyans ripping into this fraud scene. It gets deeper and deeper 😮‍💨 it spans across the whole USA!🇺🇸 Same playbook, same players. These neighbors of ours have chomad kabisa 🙃

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

The fraud taking place in this country is so much worse than anyone can even imagine. Pure rot.

There are 5,000 child care facilities in Washington state.

Over 500 of them are Somali run with:
- No physical address
- No hours of operation or 24 hours
- Subsidy participation

Minnesota was just the tip of the iceberg. This goes nationwide.

h/t: @kristenmag

[Ephraim the Builder 🏗 @KaranjaSean]

Absolutely CRAZY 😮

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable

We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening, the fraud must be stopped.