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[OVC™ @NjorogeMaina_]

🎬 Join us on a cinematic journey as we unveil 'Ogiek at Crossroads,' a documentary exploring the vibrant traditions and dilemmas within the Ogiek community. 📽️ Premiering this Wednesday at 17:45! Subscribe now for an immersive cultural experience. 🌟 #DocumentaryPremiere

[Nicki Bigfish @nickiBIGFISH]

Now is when you get to see that, beyond comedy, some of our friends lack basic reasoning and understanding. This is what we’ve been dealing with behind the scenes for years. I’m glad we are now all experiencing it together. 😁

[brian obra @just_obra]

Bruh…my phone started issues with the second sim slot and I haven’t used my @AIRTEL_KE line in a bit. But it is my business number on Whatsapp, which I use daily for messaging and calls.
Why tf have you deregistered and given out my line to someone else?
What’s the point of registering emails and emergency numbers if you won’t fkin use them?

[Macklemore @macklemore]

What happened to me is bigger than one artist or one stage. When the billionaire class can decide which voices are allowed on stage and which ones are too dangerous to hear, everyone should be paying attention.

So we're going on tour. All proceeds will benefit organizations supporting the Palestinian people and movement.

Sign up at https://t.co/2na35y8pQ5

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Today, @NYCMayor and I discussed a shared challenge: building an economy for the many.

Spain is showing that another economic model is possible. More jobs. Better wages. Less inequality.

Social justice is not the enemy of economic growth.

[Irish Foreign Ministry @dfatirl]

As the world readies for UN High-Level Week, Ireland’s campaign for a seat on the Human Rights Council from 2027-29 enters its final phase

[MisterQuigley33 @MisterQuigley33]

People have given me pushback about sharing Ms. Rachel clips. Upon further consideration, I have decided to double the fuck down.

[WildlifeDirect @wildlifedirect]

OPEN LETTER TO H.E. PRESIDENT RUTO, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA

Dear Mr President,

You, perhaps more than any president before you, have spoken openly and frequently about your faith. But prayer cannot replace responsibility. Your leadership is completely silent on the destruction of God’s creation. Faith without stewardship is hollow.

Our forests are being cut down, rivers are polluted, mountains are burning and coastal habitats degraded. National parks and wildlife corridors are under constant pressure from roads, buildings and developments.

Everywhere we look, nature is under attack. Our country is rapidly dismantling the natural systems that keep it alive.

On 2 September, the International Theological Commission published Caring for Our Common Home: A Responsible and Fraternal Response to the Triune God, with the authorization of Pope Leo XIV.

Its message is direct: the ecological crisis is also a theological crisis. It reminds us that everything is connected. These words could have been written for Kenya.

When ecosystems are pushed to collapse, we become hyper vulnerable to climate changes and when people are pushed to destitution, social order also collapses. What we are facing is not just ecological collapse, but a collapse of our values.

We cannot destroy the systems that protect life and then act surprised when illness, hunger, conflict, poverty and political upheaval follow.

Mr President, the Constitution of Kenya recognizes the right of every person to a clean and healthy environment. It obliges the State to protect biodiversity, forests, water systems and the ecological inheritance of future generations. Yet environmental protection is treated as an inconvenience that can be pushed aside for politically connected developments.

It is no longer enough for leaders to plant ceremonial trees while forests are being degraded elsewhere. We cannot celebrate Kenyan tourism while destroying the habitats on which that wildlife depends on.

I ask you to publicly embrace the central message of Caring for Our Common Home and make care for creation a national moral duty. Make ecological regeneration core to our identity.

Direct your government to stop developments that threaten the integrity of nature, parks and ecology. Make regenerative ecology and park visits required in every school.

Kenya does not have to choose between people and nature. That is a false choice. A country without functioning ecology cannot be prosperous. When nature collapses, the economy follows.

Mr President, this is a moment for moral leadership. You must step up.

Dr @paulakahumbu

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

MPs now want the Controller of Budget to oversee billions of shillings held in government funds and levies.

They are pushing for changes to the Public Finance Management Act to give the CoB powers to approve withdrawals and report on how the money is used.

[Sky Sports Darts @SkySportsDarts]

David Munyua has booked his place at Alexandra Palace ✅

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

CoB Margaret Nyakang’o says she has no visibility of anything called a ‘fund’ or ‘levy’ because they sit outside the Consolidated Fund.

When public money bypasses the main treasury, independent oversight becomes completely impossible

[Amb Hon Ababu-Namwamba, EGH🇰🇪 @AbabuNamwamba]

Beautiful to see multiple dreams come to life. VISION. Kenya Hoyeeee!🇰🇪

[Makhanu W. Oliver @MakhanuWOliver]

BREAKING: High Court rules parties & observers can access the Register of Voters, servers, audit logs & all election data.

The petition was opposed by UDA & IEBC, but they have LOST.

Win for transparency ahead of 2027! Nothing will save Ruto
#SisiNdioSifuna #WhyPresidentSifuna

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

PRESS STATEMENT

WHY KENYA'S ELECTORAL SYSTEM MUST PASS THE CONSTITUTIONAL TEST

Fellow Kenyans,

Yesterday, I appeared before the High Court in a constitutional case concerning the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (@IEBCKenya) and the integrity of Kenya's electoral system.

The petition asks the Court to test the entire chain of our elections - how Kenyans register, how they are identified at the polling station, how their votes are cast and counted, and how results are transmitted, verified and declared - against the standards the Constitution itself sets.

That question is simple to state: Does Kenya's electoral system meet the constitutional test?

Article 81 requires that elections be administered in a manner that is impartial, neutral, efficient, accurate and accountable. Article 86 requires that, whatever method is used to cast, count and transmit votes, that method be simple, accurate, verifiable, secure, accountable and transparent. The Elections Act sets the same standard for the technology IEBC deploys.

The Constitution anticipates an electoral process that is not just free and fair, but one that is also tamper-proof. Free and fair speaks to conduct on the day; tamper-proof speaks to the design of the system itself - whether it can withstand interference at any point in the chain, and whether that can be proven, not merely assumed.

To be clear, this case is not just simply about paper versus electronics.

Kenya's system already combines both - paper ballots, electronic voter identification, and electronic transmission of results. Technology, properly designed and independently verifiable, can be a powerful ally of electoral integrity: it can reduce unnecessary human discretion, create reliable audit trails, make results easier, not harder, to verify, and significantly reduce the cost of elections.

But technology is not self-certifying. It does not become trustworthy simply because it is technology. Like every other part of the electoral chain, it must be shown to satisfy the Constitution's own tests of transparency, verifiability, security and accountability - and, ultimately, to be tamper-proof.

That is the real question before the Court: does the entire electoral chain - registration, identification, casting, counting, tallying, transmission, verification and declaration - give Kenyans sufficient safeguards that their vote, once cast, cannot be manipulated, mishandled, or rendered impossible to verify?

This is not a personal quarrel with @IEBCKenya. It is a constitutional and public-interest matter.
Sovereignty in this country belongs to the people, and the vote is the sole instrument by which that sovereignty is exercised. An electoral system that cannot be meaningfully verified is not one the Constitution permits us to accept on faith.

I want to be precise about where this matter stands. The High Court has not ruled on the merits. The parties were heard, and the constitutional questions remain before the Court. I respect that process fully and will abide by whatever directions and determination the Court makes.

My role as a citizen, a public representative, and the petitioner in this matter is to ensure these questions are placed squarely before the Court and answered according to the Constitution and the law, not according to convenience or assumption.

Kenyans should not have to be told their votes were counted correctly. They should be able to verify it. That is the standard the Constitution sets, and it is the standard we are asking the Court to enforce.

The vote belongs to the people. The Constitution protects it. Our electoral system must do the same - free, fair, and tamper-proof.

We proceed, firmly and within the law.

God bless Kenya.

Okiya Omtatah Okoiti

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

13 Kenyan startups that collapsed after raising a combined Sh93 billion:

Full list below:

Twiga Foods — Sh24.1 billion
Copia — Sh16 billion
Gro Intelligence — Sh15.3 billion
Koko Networks — Sh13 billion
Mobius Motors — Sh7.3 billion
MarketForce — Sh5.5 billion
Wefarm — Sh4.2 billion
Sendy — Sh3.2 billion
iProcure — Sh2.2 billion
Lipa Later — Sh2.2 billion
Kune Foods — Sh130 million
Zumi — Sh130 million
Notify Logistics — Sh50 million

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

Instead of explaining how the rot in SHA is being confronted, you are busy performing constitutional gymnastics on social media and throwing insults at a former Chief Justice.

The irony is breathtaking: you are lecturing a former CJ on the Constitution while offering nothing beyond “read the law.” If you disagree with his interpretation, cite the provision and make the legal argument. Insults are not jurisprudence.

As for Bomas, that is precisely why the conversation must remain anchored at the polling station, where results are declared and verified at source. We are not going back to the era where Kenyans are expected to place blind faith in opaque aggregation processes.

Challenge the argument. Defend your position. But spare us the empty theatrics.

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

Okiyah VS IEBC https://t.co/zGhT00z3ur

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Kenya to host 2029 World Athletics Championships in African first https://t.co/bqxh2byUEq

[World Athletics @WorldAthletics]

Meet our next host cities for the World Championships ‼️

Nairobi and Munich have been selected to host the 2029 and 2031 World Athletics Championships, respectively, following one of the strongest bidding processes in the history of the sport’s flagship event.

Read more in the press release 🔗 https://t.co/ajpS5RwASO

#WorldAthleticsChamps

[Zachary Oguda @zaxoguda]

Ababu Namwamba might have been the best Sports CS we have had under this regime.

There was something about how quickly he moved to address certain football issues, particularly those involving management wrangles. He was hands-on and seemed willing to get into the trenches when the situation demanded it.

He was also instrumental in Kenya’s AFCON 2027 bid and had spoken about Nairobi’s ambition to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships long before the formal bid was eventually submitted.

Looking back, perhaps we did not appreciate his time in the Sports docket enough.

@pepeta_ke

[Eric Njiru ⚽️ @EricNjiiru]

Credit where due @AbabuNamwamba 👏🏿Three years down the line Kenya 🇰🇪 got both events ✅