It's crazy how we grow up thinking having home-cooked meals every day is normal, only to get older and realise how much time, effort and love our mothers put into making it happen. You don't realise how blessed you were until you grow up and understand what it took. ❤
Fifteen consequences Kenya is likely to face if William Ruto secures a second term by any means:
1. Presidential term limits will be dismantled. Removing or weakening the two-term limit is expected to feature early on the legislative agenda of a second Ruto administration.
2. The terms of Members of Parliament and Governors will be extended from five to seven years. This change is anticipated as an immediate priority. As seen in comparable cases elsewhere in the region, legislators from across the political divide can be induced to support such a measure through substantial financial incentives.
3. Devolution will be progressively hollowed out and functions recentralised. The national executive has already assumed control over housing, agriculture, healthcare, markets, industrial parks, and major road networks~functions constitutionally assigned to county governments. Little meaningful authority is likely to remain with the counties.
4. The tax burden will rise further, driving up the cost of living, electricity, and fuel. Odious debt will be the order of the day.
5. Interest rates will remain elevated or increase, leading to more loan defaults and property auctions. Public borrowing will continue without a full, independent audit of the debt accumulated over the combined Uhuru and Ruto periods.
6. Poverty, crime, gender-based violence, insecurity, and organised thuggery are expected to intensify.
7. Industrial closures will accelerate and unemployment will worsen.
8. Education and healthcare will face accelerated privatisation. Families will confront sharp increases in costs. Proposed education legislation is expected to raise interest rates on student loans to levels that will impose severe long-term financial strain on households.
9. Environmental degradation will deepen. Policies favouring genetically modified crops, large-scale land transfers to foreign entities for carbon-credit projects, and continued forest clearance are projected to damage rivers, lakes, wetlands, and coastal ecosystems on a significant scale.
10. Civil liberties and human rights protections will be substantially eroded. Media freedom, the right to assembly, and freedom of expression will face severe restrictions. Extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances are expected to continue or increase.
11. Key institutions~the Judiciary, Parliament, the Kenya Defence Forces, the National Police Service, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, and independent commissions~will be brought under effective executive control. This will entrench impunity and weaken adherence to the rule of law, potentially rendering core constitutional safeguards inoperative in practice.
12. Large-scale infrastructure projects financed through external debt will push the country toward a deeper fiscal crisis. Once creditors begin to enforce repayment terms, the short-term political benefits of road and other projects secured through ethnic bargaining will be outweighed by the economic costs.
13. National sovereignty will be further compromised. Mineral resources and strategic assets will be placed under foreign control or influence. External security or paramilitary actors may be engaged to suppress domestic dissent.
14. The international standing of Kenyan passports and the credibility of Kenyan academic qualifications will come under greater scrutiny.
15. Rising mental-health pressures among young people, including depression, will contribute to a broader social unravelling. Declining trust in religious institutions that failed to confront governance failures is expected to accelerate the rejection of conventional family structures and further erode the social fabric.
When you're dead, you don't know you're dead. All of the pain is felt by others.
The same thing happens when you're stupid and you support corrupt politicians.
Kenya’s government now has over 60 infrastructure projects under public-private partnerships (PPPs), but many of the projects lack public disclosure of contracts and financing terms, raising concerns over transparency and accountability
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My dear they is something happening in Eldoret
Iten
Marakwet
Nandi and part of kericho
In Eldoret people have been employed to door to door regulations and ID is being issued to kids 17 years and below
And even school before closed some were registered with IBC
Am currently in Eldoret secretly identifying whats going on here
Kindly be alert tell comrades
Edwin Sifuna is telling ordinary Kenyans something important: your rights do not depend on knowing a politician, attending a rally, or praising the government online. Your rights come from the Constitution.
The plan by MPs to pass a bill to remove the legal requirement for IEBC to live stream election results takes us back to the dark old days when figures were cooked in darkness. It's a deliberate attempt to reverse the gains we have made towards achieving transparent elections. We must be vigilant and resist any attempt to deny us the fundamental right to transparent elections
There is always consequences to any action and a price paid for waking up early and electing thieves, corrupt, dealers, and people with no country's interests at heart. That price is poor education, falling healthcare standards, poor roads, nepotism, unemployment etc.
On this Mashujaa Day, we recognise Senator Okiya Omtatah for his unwavering courage in defending the Constitution and challenging injustice. He deserve a medal on behalf of kenyans
Everyone in Japan has a job in factories, etc. No one has been forced to give up their Land. This model you want to replicate in Kenya is not your model. It is a model of the multinational GMOs whose plan is to take over the African Landmass and dictate the seeds we grow. Dangerous neocolonialism....
If world bank helped George Natembeya to built a market worth of 800m then that "Nandi based village politician-William Ruto" came and put up a plate that says "it was built using money from affordable housing fund".
This makes us ask the hard question,izi pesa za affordable housing levy,zinaenda wapi?