If Linda mwananchi prints shirts and Caps wasitupee bure...let them open official stores across the country. We will buy them to support our own campaigns for the Incoming president H.E Edwin Sifuna.
Ruto just spent 40 minutes trying to create a false equivalence between our national values set out in the constitution and his so called “development”. Kenyans, please trust me when i tell you there is a reason the Preamble comes before Article 43. You don’t get to the “development “ clauses until and unless you have taken into account the reasons we passed this constitution in the first place. Democracy, Human Rights, Freedom, Equality, Rule of Law and Social Justice.
@citizentvkenya This is the dump thinking i have come across , instead of addressing the issues , you are bringing tribal cards . This government needs to man up
Before we compare Kenya to London and other “middle income countries”, let us examine our reality.
Sit with Wafula, a boda boda rider in Gitaru, and walk through his day. From morning to evening, he might make 15–20 short distance trips. On a good day, he brings in about Ksh 1,500–2,000.
Out of that, fuel takes a significant share, now add bike repayment or rent, a little for maintenance, and by the end of the day, what is left is barely enough to take care of his family needs, let alone save.
This is the reality for many Kenyans.
The issue is what fuel costs a Kenyan whose income has not kept pace, whose business depends on daily movement, and whose survival is tied to every shilling spent at the pump.
In the UK, higher prices exist alongside higher incomes, reliable public transport, functioning healthcare, and social systems that return value to the taxpayer.
Hapa Kenya, hizo mizigo zote ni za mwananchi, who already is stretched, with little cushioning and even less return.
So the question remains, is fuel affordable for Kenyans, within our reality?
The government must answer that without comparisons, but with solutions that ease the pressure on everyday lives.
Just yesterday, Kipsigis leaders announced that they should not be recognized among the Kalenjin sub-tribes. Ngeno was on his way out to join the WANTAM movement. The Kipsigis contribute about 65% of the Kalenjin votes. The last Kipsigis leader who threatened to walk out of the voting bloc was Kipkalya Kones; he died in a helicopter crash. History seems to be repeating itself... same story, same script. But the die is already cast. Ngeno had already given the Kipsigis people direction. Unfortunately, the leaders we are left with are as Useless as a man's nipples.