Titus Gitonga

Advocate for Ethical Leadership and Good Governance

[Donald B Kipkorir @DonaldBKipkorir]

My kid-bro received a text message purportedly from @ntsa_kenya for overspending … As a dutiful citizen, he paid the fine to the account at @KCBInKenya given by NTSA .. The account is in the name of CATHERINE JERONO TOMNO …. The law doesn’t allow Government institutions to open bank accounts in the names of individuals. Is NTSA exempt?

[Ciru Muriuki 🇰🇪🪬 @CiruMuriuki]

We need to stop calling them goons and name this by its correct name; a state-sponsored militia.

[I am Chege @_James041]

Why would you do this to someone living with disability?

Polisi si binadamu!

[Donald B Kipkorir @DonaldBKipkorir]

Your Excellency President @WilliamsRuto , everyone says Wicknell Chivayo is a Conman, a fraudster & a Criminal .. Why have you allowed him unimpeded access? Why is he given unrestricted access to our country? How can he openly give money to our airport employees? How does our country benefit from a known criminal? How can we compromise our national security & prestige to such man of dubious reputation?

[The Standard Digital @StandardKenya]

KWS Director General, Erastus Kanga, has announced plans to relocate the Nairobi Animal Orphanage from its current 7.2-acre site to an 89-acre parcel opposite Bomas of Kenya, saying the 64 year old facility has outlived its usefulness. The new orphanage is expected to boost wildlife rescue services, create 1,000 jobs, increase visitor capacity and generate up to Sh4 billion annually for KWS.

Photos by Collins Oduor

[Nahashon Kimemia @NahashonKimemia]

US Presidents have 2 official residences: the White House & Camp David. In other words, 1 state house & 1 state lodge.

Currently, Ruto has about 15 official residences: 3 state houses & approx 12 state lodges. He wants to build another lodge in Meru.

Are Africans normal? 🤔

[Faith Odhiambo @FaithOdhiambo8]

Our children are being stolen. Between Jan 2025–Mar 2026, Kenya recorded 10,581 child protection cases,1,952 abductions, 173 trafficking cases. That is 23 children a day.

Last week in Githurai, a 2-year-old was kidnapped by a teenager sent to steal a child for a phone. In Juja, residents shut down the Thika Superhighway after 4 children vanished in two weeks. In Central Kenya, 372 violence-against-children incidents in under a year. This is a national emergency.

The Penal Code provides for life imprisonment for kidnappers. I want to see DCI and DPP match that seriousness with urgent investigations and full prosecutions, not just press releases.

To every Kenyan, watch the children around you. Speak up and report because if we do not protect our children, we have failed at the most fundamental duty of a society. Our children are not a footnote. They are our future.

[KTN News @KTNNewsKE]

The issuance of a Kenyan identity card to a foreigner who vows that never requested it shines a spotlight on the rot in the office that bestowed this important responsibility. Bosnian national Zlatko Gegic told the High Court that he was given a Kenyan ID card after he requested a residence permit.
https://t.co/Gxmew53qkM

[Katiba Institute @katibainstitute]

Orders granted!

The Court certified the application as urgent and granted interim conservatory orders restraining the Respondents from establishing, operationalising, approving, or facilitating any Ebola exposure, quarantine, isolation, or treatment facility in Kenya under any arrangement with the United States or any other foreign government or agency, pending the hearing of the application.

The Court further barred the Respondents from admitting into, transferring to, receiving within, or facilitating the entry into Kenya of any persons exposed to or infected with Ebola pursuant to the impugned arrangement.

The matter is scheduled for mention on 2nd June 2026 for further directions.

[Henix Obuchunju @Obuchunju]

Stabex International will supply fuel worth Sh458.2 million to Kenya Power after Rubis Energy lost its bid challenge over the tender award.

Rubis had quoted Sh542 million while Stabex emerged as the lowest evaluated bidder.

[TI-Kenya @TIKenya]

We have begun our People's Forum to discuss Judicial perks, public debt and constitutional accountability.

Our moderator, the Executive Director @nisisikenya, @kawive

The rallying call from our ED, @SheiMasinde is

"Can't pay, won't pay."

#TheKenyaWeWant #AccountabilityNow

[TI-Kenya @TIKenya]

"Kenyans, this country is broke. The minute the judges get this benefit, everyone else will get on this bandwagon.
Very soon, the 4,000+ current magistrates will demand the same benefits.
How many Kenyans can afford a Chef?" ~ Diana Gichengo – Executive Director, The Institute for Social Accountability @TISAKenya @dianagichengo

#TheKenyaWeWant #AccountabilityNow

[Transparency International Zambia @ti_zambia]

TI-Z Launches its Elections Project to Promote Transparency and Accountability https://t.co/8ooAWQKPg2

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

@ephraimnjegafan Is this debt legal or odius and should we pay for it?

[Sheila Masinde @SheiMasinde]

Cost of taxable car grants&judges retirement benefits is too high for Kenyans, punda imechoka, we can't pay we won't pay.Why are taxpayers funding luxury retirement benefits at the top, while hospitals, schools, and basic services are under strain? #CostOfJusticeKE

[TI-Kenya @TIKenya]

Today, TI-Kenya, led by @gibsonmwaita1 joined partners from across the continent at the 6th Edition of the @AFRODAD2011 Media Initiative #AFROMEDI VI in Nairobi, a critical platform bringing together journalists, civil society, and policy experts to deepen African conversations on sovereign debt, climate finance, and public accountability.

The forum, convened by AFRODAD in partnership with TI-Kenya and @StopIFF, seeks to strengthen investigative reporting and amplify African perspectives on development financing and debt justice.

#DebtJustice #ClimateFinance #PublicFinance #GovernanceKE #AFROMEDI @AFRODAD2011

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

I was honored to accept my Human Rights Defender of the Year award today. Ahsante 🥹

It comes with $1,000 cash prize (Ksh129,000). I will donate it to a young journalist anywhere in Kenya who highlights issues in the community. Please nominate yourself or someone in the comments

[John-Allan Namu @johnallannamu]

The Trump administration is planning to send US citizens exposed to Ebola for treatment in
KENYA: https://t.co/lftPuVfjQp @MOH_Kenya I don't see you quoted in this NYT article. When was this going to be shared with the public if true?

[I am Chege @_James041]

This is the Al Jazeera clip they are gatekeeping.

How surveillance tools in Kenya are turned on ordinary Kenyans.

[Rodgers Adai @rodgers_adai]

I looked at Public Debts for Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia 2025.

Kenya US$ 100 Billion ( KShs 12.8 Trillion)
Tanzania US$ 46 Billion ( KShs 5.9 Billion)
Ethiopia US$ 51 Billion ( KShs 6.5 Billion).
Note that Public Debts for Ethiopia and Tanzania are 50% of Kenyas Public Debt.
It is difficult to tell where Kenya's KShs 12.8 Trillion was used.
I will analyse looking at major Projects the 3 Countries have undertaken since 2002 when the three has almost same Public Debts at US$ 7 Billion.
I will look at Kenya last.
Tanzania:
1. US$ 10 Billion Shs 1 Trillion 2,300km Standard Gauge Railway Dar Dodoma Mwanza Kigoma linking Rwanda Burundi DRC
2. US$ 3.6 Billion Julius Nyerere Hydro Power Plant 2115 MW
3. US$ 260 Million JPM Magufuli 3.2km Bridge Lake Victoria.
4. Dar es Salaam BRT US$ 332 Million
5. Kigamboni Bridge US$ 136 Million.
6. US$ 550 my Kinyerezi 400MW Gas Turbines

Total US$ 14.8 Billion ( Shs 1.28 Trillion)
If you consider Tanzania has built more Bitumen Roads (15,000kms versus 9,500km for Kenya), already about 50% of the Foreign Debt is accounted for.
And Julius Nyerere HPP was funded largely from Exchequer. Similarly more than 50% of SGR was funded from Exchequer.

Ethiopia:
1. US$ 5 Billion Grand Renaissance Dam 5150 MW
2. US$ 4 Billion 750 km Addis Djibouti Electrified SGR
3. US$ 1.7 Billion Awash Woldia SGR 425 km
4. You can't ignore Ethiopian Airlines, one of the biggest in the World with 150 Aircraft with 70 Wide Body Aircraft 100% Govt owned. At US$ 250 Million each, that is at a minimum US$ 20 Billion
US$ 12.7 Billion KShs 2.66 Trillion.
Again already about 50% of the Public Debt is accounted for.
And they can even fund GERD US$ 5 Billion from Exchequer.
Kenya
1. US$ 3.26 Billion 600km SGR Mombasa Suswa
2. Olkaria Power Stations US$ 1.3 Billion
3. US$ 360 40km Thika Superhighway
4. US$ 800 Nairobi Expressway
5. US$ 400m Dongo Kundu 17km
Total US$ 6.12 KShs 783 Billion.
When you compare with Shs 12.8Trilliin Debt,bthus is a mere 6% you can see.
I can't think of a Major Project the size of Julius Nyerere HPP or GERD in Ethiopia that Kenya has funded from internal resources the last 25 years.

Remember Kenya has borrowed KShs 6.4 Trillion more than either of those two countries.
Moreover Tanzania has 15,000 km Bitumen Roads more than Kenya at 9,500km
The ex Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta opined that about KShs 2B ( US$ 17 million) was being stolen everyday during his tenure. It is not far from the truth.
If you consider Tanzania is almost double the size of Kenya and people live everywhere.
Kenya, we live in only 30% of the Country. So Tanzania has more Roads, Population and Public services compared to Kenya.
Ideally Kenya's annual Budget should be half of Tanzania.
Instead it is 1.5 times bigger
That is about Shs 1 Trillion 'lost' annually.

This problem started after 2002 because the Public Debts were the same in the 3 Countries at US$ 7 Be each.
The mistake in Kenya is probably the choice of Political System. We chose Democracy where the one who does a better public circus gets elected. So you can end up with more than 90% of elected representatives with a dubious background who can lead a country into the abyss.
Unlike Ethiopia and Tanzania who tend to have Technocratic high quality leadership because of their Socialist past.
If you look at Kenyan Politicians the last 20 years and see who could make it in CCM Tanzanian leadership, very very few can make it.

And today, Kenya cannot do any minor Project without borrowing.
And we are still promoting PPPs as if it is free money.
Useless PPPs like Motor Vehicle Inspections, Speed Cameras, Africa50, Adani etc
So long as Foreigners are doing the PPPs, it is a burden on the KShs and they will have to be paid in US$ FOREX.
Kenya needs now to start thinking about whether the choices of Democracy and Devolution were a mistake.
At the moment, Kenya's future is bleak and nobody seems to have a clue on how to reverse.