Sabah, ironically, is a football club in the far distant Azerbaijan that was only created 8 years ago and is playing in the Champions League for the first time today.
Yet somehow, in this short time frame, they’ve managed to win the same number of Champions League titles as Arsenal have in 140 years.
VINDICATED. The mystery Dubai photo I flagged, on January 9, has now become official Kenyan policy.
🔴 Back when I broke this, State House stayed silent on what Ruto was doing in Dubai with F1 mogul Flavio Briatore and healthcare tycoon Kamel Ghribi — while the official diary had him "in Kenya." No explanation. No transparency.
🔴 Fast forward: Ruto has now signed a formal agreement with Ghribi's GKSD Group at State House Nairobi — 15 hospitals across 15 counties, 13 Level 5 county referral hospitals + 2 Level 6 national teaching/referral hospitals, under Italy's Mattei Plan for Africa. DP Kindiki and Health CS Aden Duale flanked him at the signing.
🔴 In between, Ghribi led a high-level #GKSD delegation back to State House, where they signed a cooperation protocol on sustainable development — with healthcare innovation explicitly on the agenda.
🔴 Briatore's role, for the record: convener and connector, not a healthcare player himself — a longtime Kenya-linked hospitality billionaire (Billionaire Resort, Malindi) who's brokered Italy-Kenya business ties before.
🔴 So the "unofficial" Dubai meeting Kenyans were left to piece together from Instagram? That was the room where a multi-hospital deal affecting our health sector was quietly taking shape — away from Parliament, away from public scrutiny, away from any pre-signing disclosure.
🔴 The deal may be real and needed. The secrecy around how it was born is the story. Transparency in presidential travel and foreign engagements is not optional when the outcome is this consequential. #AccountabilityMatters