its Isaac

Son | Brother | Uncle | Friend | Pharmacist | Software engineer | Research Enthusiast | Entrepreneur |Masters student

[Mzee Kobe 🐝 @mzee_ki]

There has been never been a dull day in Kenya. Someone made a website (track minister .com) that keeps all the records about performance of Kenyan members of parliament.

[davido yelling FAN LUV @moodbackup]

Sorry, I will stand beside this one.

[𝔻𝕒𝕟. @fwdaniels]

me at 3am, tired & sleepy but the princess is ovulating. 😭

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

Catch me if ya can

[NASA @NASA]

Artemis II may have splashed down, but our photos and videos from the mission are still rolling in! Keep an eye on the latest: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[Australian High Commission, Kenya @AusHCKenya]

Congratulations to @LarryMadowo for being awarded Human Rights Defender of the Year in Kenya for his courageous reporting in Kenya and beyond.

[LANDLORD🇰🇪 @bozgabi]

Algorithm ikikufikisha hapa, piga repost na like ya our incoming Super President David K. Maraga 😃

[rewaju @onedarkhorse_]

.@grok please put this man in the fucking middle of the painted feathers, i can’t take this.

[“All Ego” Ethan Page @OfficialEGO]

.@wwehornswoggle

[Davji Bhimji Atellah @Davji]

Basic Salary Adjustments – Implementation Update

As previously communicated, the Ministry of Public Service convened a consultative meeting on December 5, 2025, bringing together all key stakeholders involved in the basic salary adjustment process. These included the Ministry of Health (MoH), the Council of Governors (CoG), the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC), and the National Treasury.

The meeting was held as scheduled, and its resolutions were formally communicated to the Union on December 18, 2025. During the engagement, a proposal was made to constitute a new multi-agency forum to re-examine the implementation of the adjusted basic salary component.

As KMPDU, we unequivocally repudiated this proposal. We reminded all parties that a multi-agency team had already been constituted in early 2025 and had worked on this matter for over eight months, culminating in agreed salary notches and clearly defined, implementable arrears. The Union formally conveyed its position in writing on December 22, 2025.

Subsequently, both the Ministry of Health and the Council of Governors supported our position, acknowledging that further multi-agency engagements would only result in unnecessary delays. They jointly recommended that the Department of Public Service Management (DPSM) proceed with the implementation of the agreed salary adjustments without further deferment.

As a result, there is now an ongoing engagement between the SRC and DPSM to finalize the implementation framework. We expect a substantive progress update on this process by mid-February 2026.

The Union remains steadfast and fully committed to ensuring the full implementation of the adjusted basic salaries. While the process has been protracted, it will be concluded. Both the Ministries and the Council of Governors have affirmed that funds are available to actualize these adjustments.

Going forward, it will be critical to accurately track and account for all arrears accruing from July 2025 up to the point when the adjusted salaries are fully reflected on members’ payslips.

We are stronger together.

Long live KMPDU.
Long live the Union.

Dr. Davji Bhimji Atellah
Secretary General,
KMPDU

[Davji Bhimji Atellah @Davji]

The dignity of the Kenyan doctor is not for sale.

For years, our healthcare system has allowed the exploitation of doctors local and foreign through unfair pay, illegal contracts, and blatant disregard for labour laws and professional standards.

Over 3,000 foreign doctors have been licensed in recent years, not to fill genuine skills gaps, but to serve as cheap, vulnerable labour in some private facilities. This violates SRC guidelines, CBAs, and ILO conventions on equal pay and equal treatment.

When hospitals commodify doctors, ethics collapse.
When dignity is ignored, patient safety follows.
The recent organ transplant scandals are not isolated incidents they are symptoms of a broken system driven by profit over professionalism.

KMPDU fully supports the CS @HonAdenDuale for Health’s directive on the licensing and employment of foreign health practitioners. Going forward, every doctor practising in Kenya must be employed under dignified, lawful, and transparent terms without exception.

We will enforce 100% compliance across public and private facilities.
Those who continue to exploit doctors should brace for collective industrial and legal action.

This exploitation ends now.

[Isiah Whitlock Jr. @IsiahWhitlockJr]

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[Silas Nyanchwani @nyanchwani]

Life. Man.

When you are 25, 35, or 40, it looks like a lifetime away.
If in a good place at 25, say a graduate with good career prospects, and a steady lover, everything seems possible. You imagine you can squeeze a family, husband or wife, two kids, dream home, a PhD, and live your dream life by 35 or 40.

At 25, you look at older relatives or people with messy lives, and you wonder what could have gone wrong.

I remember the first time I attended my daughter’s PTA. I was a relatively young man. There were older folks, older men with vitambis, one or two with greying hair, and in my own youthful folly, I may have cursed inwardly, wondering, “where were they?”
When you are young, you will never understand how someone can be older and be jobless or be rudderless or without a family. When you are young and successful, you become criminally blind to the surprises of life. Sometimes things go so right, you win so much, so consistently, you forget about failure or losses. And these are the people likely to be hit the hardest when life happens.

A business partner in the UK told me how his sister recently alijitia kitanzi. The sister was a bright student all her life and ended up working in a large, global corporation. When she was laid off, the accumulated stress from the loss of her job and undetected depression sent her on a spin ending in death. She was 38.

What is ten years?

It sounds long. Right?

Yeah, but all it takes is one bad, long-term relationship to waste some six years. And you need up to two years to heal. That is, if you are strong and there are no kids. Divorce is a different ball game altogether. It takes almost two years from the point you decide to divorce, to another long year of back and forth, doubts, and all. Post-divorce is a terrible time, and both men and women handle it differently, and people move on in different timelines.

You think ten years is a long time, but all it takes is people saying “tutam” in a mannerless way, and you are stuck in a bad job or jobless for another three years, barely scraping by. We rarely talk about how bad governments keep being shackled in poverty longer than necessary.

You lost a job, and before you know it, three years have passed since you got another one. Some guy commented on my post that it took him 13 years to find a job after losing his first one.
Yaani, 25-42 is such a tumultuous period, and nothing in our constitution prepares you for the vicissitudes of that critical period. Marry right, and you have hit a jackpot. Marry wrong, and a decade of your life is flushed down the drain just like that.

A lecturer in a Kenyan university can turn a basic master’s degree into a nightmare, and what was supposed to be a two-and-a-half-year course can turn into a harrowing five years. There is a year you will drop it altogether, until a sensible friend encourages you to go back and finish.

You can fall sick unexpectedly and get derailed. Things can go wrong. May be ni wachawi wa kwenu. Maybe it is the poor choices you will make.

For instance, in the deep throes of passion, when the sex is good, when her legs are on your shoulders, and you are fishing deeper, you don’t stop to think that maybe, this guy, so good and tender, is a deadbeat-in-waiting. When a girl is all feminine, all-loving, all respectful, as a man, you never think for a moment that in two years she will turn you into an alcoholic milaya, sleeping with anything to get back to her, which is foolish already. Nobody, at the peak of a good relationship, stops to imagine that their partner will be the source of their future anguish.

And red flags?

Useless indicators. Red flags occur to you in startling clarity in hindsight. In hindsight, everything is so clear. But in real time, we assume. Assumption is the mother of all blunders adults are likely to commit.

Can you game life? Can you extract good outcomes if you play right?

I bet you can. Or maybe, everything is predestined to happen, as it happens, and we are just unwilling actors playing out a script whose end we don’t know.

I no longer know these things. Nowadays, I am willfully ignorant.
I saw this meme, and it’s like all of us are here for the first time, so “tupunguze advice”. We won’t stop dishing advice; those of us who do need some humility.

What I have learnt is that advice only makes sense after the experience. Not before.

Sometimes people come to me and all they want is for me to agree with their preconceived notions. When I point out different perspectives, they either go cold on me or disappear, only to reappear a few months later, saying, “Silas, you were right.” I don’t revel in them learning the hard way.

I am also like that.

There was this girl I loved and was so head-over-heels into her. And she had a sparkling charm, and something I had desired in a woman for such a long time. One day, I went to pick her up from the airport with my friend. After we dropped her off at her place, my friend told me to dump her. He was unequivocal with his advice. I was adamant that she was a good girl and that my friend was being unnecessarily hard on her for very humane, if girly, mistakes. After all, no one is perfect. My friend gave me that weary look we give friends who are about to trip. I thought he was jealous. I thought he wanted her. I felt myself smarter than him.

Roughly, a month later, the girl did the thing. No anesthesia. Ushawahi achwa hadi unajicheka? I had to hide from my friend for a while. He still laughs at me. And I hate him because of that.
But after she did that thing, my friend’s advice made sense. He had seen what I could not see when I was in love.

Anyway, to young people, live your life with diligence and discipline. There is so much within our control. And there is more that is beyond our control.

A few things I have learnt, I can tell my 25-year-old self:
1. Your personal goals (career, academic, social, spiritual, hobbies) are yours and yours alone. Never let anyone interfere with them. Not a spouse, not a child, not a family member. Indeed, there is room for adjustment here, a compromise there, as sensibly as it is possible. But never sacrifice personal goals for the greater good of something that can end like a relationship.
2. Don’t judge. Most of us millennials became those unmarried uncles and aunts pretty fast. We became the lucky unemployed uncle and the struggling aunt before we even knew it. Accept your wins as a young person with grace, and your losses with greater grace.
3. Don’t be addicted to anything: alcohol, drugs, sex, or gambling. Nothing enslaves or wastes time like treating an addiction. If you must drink every weekend, if you must use drugs, if you are gambling, you are on a very treacherous path. Morgan Housel said that self-control is having empathy for your future self. Ask an addict how difficult it is to stop a habit that has become their second nature.
4. Quit bad relationships sooner. It doesn’t matter if his pipe cures your demons. Or she rides the ghosts out of you—date people who are likely to complement your life desirably. Nothing wastes more time or derails people more than staying longer in useless relationships.
5. For men, know that at some point, between 25 and 45, you will lose something extremely important in your life. It can be your family (wife and kids), a dream career, your health, yourself, etc. What matters is not that you will lose that thing. What matters is how you handle the loss.
6. Save. Save. Save. Invest. Invest. Invest. However little. However much. You are never too young to be financially wise. Being financially wise is more of an attitude thing than the income you make itself. That is why a government employee earning Sh 50,000 has a better savings portfolio than an NGO guy earning Sh 200,000. Invest in financial literacy, son.
7. Invest in knowledge.
8. Have fun, as in live. Eat your best food. Date your crush. Drink what you like. But all the fun must be earned.
9. Always remember that the years go by very fast. And sometimes, life happens. Your dreams of what you will be ten years ahead may end up misplaced, and you can never predict where you will end up. I have a friend who is working in Kyrgyzstan. Good luck finding that on the map. Dude had completely different plans for life.
10. This came last because it is controversial to most people, but I will always encourage young people to find God.

May the week break.
Uncle Silas.

[Michael Brandt @MichaelDBrandt]

“Mom how did we get so rich?”

“Your dad locked in Sept-Dec 2025"

[Lukorito @Lukorito_]

I once worshipped at a Jehovah's Witness church. Services were nice because it was always more of a discussion than preaching. After a month I asked my friend, "Since I've been coming here there has never been an offertory session during the service. How does one contribute?" ...

[Demon Lord Kharioki @kharioki]

100rts and I build a crowdsourced web/app for this information.
Bonus: I’ll deploy it on my “wantam” domain