Ruto can read all the reports, charts and manufactured data he wants, but the real economy is on the ground, where businesses are closing, taxes are choking traders and families are struggling to survive.
His investor-confidence jaba cannot rhyme with empty shops, collapsing businesses, job losses and Kenyans whose incomes disappear before meeting basic needs.
You cannot govern through PowerPoint presentations when the country outside State House is suffocating.
Former National Treasury CS, Prof. Njuguna Ndung'u, says whereas institutions in Kenya have the capacity to do the right thing, "the current President overruns all the institutions and that is why everybody in those institutions will have to conform, for fear"
FELLOW KENYANS, THE CONSTITUTION IS UNDER SIEGE! 🇰🇪
Our Constitution was designed with one clear principle. No single political office should have unchecked control over public money. That is why it separates political leadership from the management of the country’s finances.
Article 225(1) establishes the National Treasury as the constitutional custodian of public finances. Its role is too important to be left to politics alone.
Yet Section 11 of the Public Finance Management Act places the National Treasury under the National Executive and under the authority of a political Cabinet Secretary.
This is not a small legal issue. It goes to the heart of constitutional governance.
Parliament has the power to make laws that implement the Constitution. It does not have the power to change the Constitution through an ordinary Act of Parliament.
When the independence of public financial management is weakened, the checks that protect taxpayers’ money are weakened too.
The Constitution must remain above politics. Every law passed by Parliament must respect it.
If we fail to defend Chapter Twelve today, we risk eroding one of the most important safeguards for accountability and responsible use of public resources.
The Constitution belongs to all of us. Defending it is a duty we all share.
Banks are cutting PesaLink transfer fees to challenge M-Pesa.
Nineteen banks now offer free PesaLink transfers up to Sh1,000 and a flat Sh20 fee for transfers between Sh1,001 and Sh999,999.
The full list of the 19 banks is in the thread below.
MOTION FOR SENATORS TO ACCESS THE IFMIS RECORDS IN REAL TIME
Pursuant to Articles 96 and 217 of the Constitution, I have moved a Motion in the @Senate_KE to compel the National @KeTreasury to provide Senators with real time IFMIS reports for every county. Effective oversight cannot rely on delayed reports long after public funds have been spent.
Transparency begins with timely access to information. If Senators are to protect county resources and hold governments accountable, we must see public expenditure as it happens, not after the damage is done.
No accountability without transparency. No transparency without real time access.
If you default on a loan and you gave your land as security, the bank/lender must issue these notices before selling your land:
1. 90-day Statutory Notice of Default – If you remedy the default, they cannot sell.
2. 40-day Notice to Sell – They notify you they intend to sell if you don’t rectify.
3. 45-day Redemption Notice – You still have a chance to comply and save your land.
4. Advertisement – If you don’t redeem, your land must be advertised in a newspaper of nationwide circulation and after 14 days the auctioneer may sell.
Banks can’t just wake up and sell your land because you missed a loan payment.
High Court orders the government to produce key records on the Kenya Pipeline sale within 21 days in a case filed by Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah and others.
The petition seeks access to valuation reports, Cabinet records, IMF agreements and other sale documents.
THE SHYLOCK NEXT DOOR
You would never let someone use your ID to borrow money from a Shylock, then expect you to repay the loan. You would call it THEFT.
So why are we so quiet when it happens to our country?
Kenya’s public debt now stands at about KSh 12.8 trillion. This year, about 91 percent of the taxes we collect will go to paying debt, not improving hospitals, schools, roads, or supporting counties.
We feel it every day through higher taxes, delayed county funding, delayed and reduced capitation, struggling public services, and fewer development projects.
Debt is not the problem. Debt without clear results is.
Every Kenyan is paying for these loans. Every Kenyan has the right to ask one simple question.
What did we borrow all this money for?
Your name is on the bill. Your voice should be part of the conversation.
#KenyaDebtCrisis #OdiousDebt #DeniBandia #GetitDone #ReKe
An employee has been ordered to pay his former employer Ksh. 1,452,112.12, while the employer has been ordered to pay him Ksh. 241,668 for unfair termination.
The employee sued claiming that he was unfairly dismissed for poor performance. His employer argued that he had negligently handled clients' printing machines, causing costly damage, unnecessary repairs and the expense of flying in engineers from India.
The court agreed the employer had valid concerns about his performance but found that it failed to follow the mandatory disciplinary process before terminating his employment, making the dismissal procedurally unfair.
However, the employer also filed a counterclaim seeking to recover the losses allegedly caused by the employee's negligence. Since the employee failed to challenge that evidence during the trial, the court allowed the counterclaim and awarded the employer over Ksh. 1.45 million.
This is a reminder that winning an unfair termination claim does not shield an employee from liability for proven negligence.
The Cooperatives Bill isn't a compulsion mechanism. It sets SACCO governance and licensing standards, nothing that directs member deposits into NIF projects. The NSSF comparison cuts the other way too. NSSF members can't easily exit a statutory scheme. SACCO members can withdraw or vote out a board that gambles on illiquid infrastructure paper. If SACCOs end up burned the way NSSF has, that's a board failure, not a legal mandate. Watch how the Sacco Societies Amendment Bill defines fiduciary duty and liquidity ratios. That's where the real risk sits.
The signs of a sovereign odious debt default are now very clear, even for those who have no brains, because a government that has borrowed everywhere, taxed everything, sold public assets, squeezed workers through deductions and now wants SACCO savings is no longer looking for development money, it is looking for survival money.
Banks built a comfortable debt circle with government, where lending to the state became easier, safer and more rewarding than taking risks with SMEs, traders, farmers, contractors, manufacturers and ordinary Kenyans trying to keep their biasharas alive.
That relationship slowly choked the real economy, because banks preferred government paper, Treasury kept borrowing, SMEs were starved of credit, small borrowers were punished, and Kenyans who could no longer breathe inside the banking system ran back to SACCOs.
SACCOs became the last refuge for people abandoned by banks, the place where teachers, police officers, nurses, boda riders, matatu people, farmers, mama mbogas and small traders could still save slowly, borrow with dignity and keep families moving.
Now the same government that helped banks turn debt into a feeding system is following Kenyans into SACCOs, looking at the savings people built from salaries, farming, biashara, side hustles and painful monthly deductions.
This is the last nail.
SACCO money is not idle Treasury money waiting to be touched, it is private sacrifice by ordinary Kenyans who saved for school fees, land, homes, hospital bills, emergencies, small businesses and survival in an economy already squeezed by taxes, loans and bad policy.
A government that cannot explain where borrowed billions went cannot be trusted with SACCO billions, especially when the same infrastructure language has already been used for years to hide wastage, inflated contracts, brokers, political friends and budget games.
This is how a country tells you quietly that lenders are tired, banks are already overfed on government debt, taxes are no longer enough, public assets have been lined up, and the last pool of money outside Treasury’s direct hands is now being targeted.
The money is finished, and now they are following Kenyans into the last safe corner they had left.
PRESS STATEMENT BY SENATOR OKIYA OMTATAH ON THE PUBLIC DEBT CASE RULING
Fellow Kenyans,
Today, the High Court delivered an important ruling in our public debt case.
The Court upheld the @IMFNews claim of diplomatic immunity and struck it out of this petition. While we respect the Court’s decision, accountability for Kenya’s debt burden cannot end there.
We are preparing a separate legal challenge to the Bretton Woods Agreements Act, 1963, against the Constitution of Kenya 2010 to ensure all actors involved in Kenya’s debt processes are subjected to proper scrutiny.
Most importantly, the Court rejected attempts by the Attorney General and other respondents to have this case dismissed. The judges ruled that our petition will proceed to a full hearing on its merits.
The Court also dismissed applications by the former Auditor General, former Controller of Budget, the current Auditor General, and the current Controller of Budget seeking to shield themselves from these proceedings.
This is a significant victory for transparency, accountability, and the Kenyan people.
We will amend our petition as directed by the Court and return on 22nd July 2026. Our mission remains unchanged: to establish how Kenya accumulated trillions in public debt, how the funds were utilized , whether the public benefited and whether the law was followed at every stage.
This case is about protecting the future of our nation and the interests of every Kenyan taxpayer.
We remain focused, determined, and committed to seeing it through.
God Bless Kenya.
#DeniBandia #OdiousDebt
We have formally notified the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Embassy of the United States of the commitment by Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale to the court that the construction of the proposed Ebola facility at Laikipia Airbase has stopped.
We call for immediate compliance with the court orders.