Here are my comments on Kenya's draft National Payment System Policy, August 2026, in response to the Public Notice requesting comments and inputs from the public.
Wazee wa jamii ya Sabaot kutoka maeneo mbalimbali ya Afrika Mashariki wameandaa sherehe ya siku mbili ya kitamaduni Marambach, Trans Nzoia, kwa lengo la kuitakasa jamii dhidi ya laana za jadi wanazoamini zimechangia migawanyiko.
#NTVMashinani@bugufatuma
I've always told my PhD students that a PhD is a marathon and not a sprint. Now that Sabastian Sawe has run the London Marathon in under 2 hours, I'll need to think of something else to tell them.
@_fels1 Barasa’s panic is already showing just months after Tim stepped in. When a leader starts punctuating every statement with his opponent’s name, it’s no longer confidence, it’s fear in plain sight.
He knows 2027 isn’t business as usual. The ground has shifted.
When did NDC meet and approve that our tshirts and caps to be printed with ruto image ?
When was this one approved, Dr Oburu Odinga ?
Yaani mumevua suruali tu hivi kwa barabara? Hamtaki ata mula! Jameni .
Kenya needs a renaissance and odm needs a renaissance too!
This is Nyadhi Primary School’s administration block in Alego Usonga, frozen in 1988, untouched by budgets, speeches, or promises.
Yet every weekend the skies are noisy with helicopters, cameras, and choreographed concern.
Constituencies don’t run on protein shakes.
Schools aren’t built with squats.
Roads don’t emerge from selfies.
Jakom, it is nearly three months since you left. Many of us are no closer to overcoming this loss than we were two months ago. Indeed, your larger than life profile and the impact you had on us and the nation, means we may never stop mourning.
As it is your birthday today, we find occasion to pause in mourning, in deep reflection and gratitude, to celebrate the life of the most iconic leader this nation has ever produced.
The 80 years Raila lived represent a sum total of courage, sacrifice and an uncompromising belief in freedom and justice, the pursuit of which Raila neither wavered nor relented.
However, as we reflect, we also take stock of these past two months, a period in which the ideals and principles by which Raila lived and conducted his politics, have been violated by an emerging culture of impunity, intolerance, dictatorship and a conspiracy of silence in the face of threats to multiparty democracy.
As the country’s foremost second liberation warrior, Baba was the acknowledged father of multipartyism and the new constitution, which gave birth to devolution; two facets of Kenyan life that were meant to lessen government influence on our daily lives and to share out national resources equitably.
Multiparty democracy was intended to be a smooth avenue to free expression and choice, in which the identities and ideologies of political parties would remain distinct and independent, giving rise to a political environment of robust and diverse opinion. It is no wonder Baba insisted that we include respect for multiparty democracy and the integrity and identity of all political parties in the MoU he signed with president Ruto.
His death has created a platform for regression and shrinking of this space he envisaged, and more than ever, the country misses the wisdom and foresight of Baba, whose navigation of this space was supreme and unmatched.
Despite this, it behoves all of us he mentored and nurtured , to stand firm on principle and to lead a new political renaissance that seeks to align with the preamble of our constitution; which affirms the sovereignty of the people, celebrates our diversity and commits to rights, equality, democracy, social justice and the rule of law.
We do not have the luxury of rest, nor do we possess any fear in pursuit of Raila’s ideals. Raila Odinga was consistent in standing with the oppressed, speaking truth to power and in placing country before self, even when the personal cost was unbearably high.
In moments when compromise was convenient, he chose principle. In moments when silence was safer, he chose resistance. And on his birthday, we his students, as well as political and ideological mentees renew our dedication to the principles he stood for, as we honour his memory and legacy by staying the course on this path he charted for us.
His birthday warms our hearts immensely and makes us proud to have known him and learned at his feet.
Happy birthday Baba!
Wanaume Ni Kupambana Sio Kukunja Mkia Na Kulambalamba Mwanaume Mwenzako...
I Was Taught By The Best Ahead of The Rest... Bring It ON!!
MIMI NDIO SIFUNA!!
@OmbetaC The goveement should appluad her providing free acomodation and shelter to needy kenyans but what does she get... prosecution... your honor... add
@DidmusWaBarasa We’re not in 1950 anymore; sympathy stunts and tea dates with widows won’t fix poverty. We need leaders who write policies, not scripts. Thank God Tim came with substance, not theatrics.