Ant'er V D M N

The Road, Across

[Ant'er V D M N @_dmbuthia]

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

💙🏡

[Ndegwa Njiru Adv. @NjiruAdv]

Uhuru did not sponsor the killing of Albert Ojwang.
Uhuru did not sponsor the mass killing of Gen-Z protesters.
Uhuru did not sponsor the theft of Ndabibi land.
Uhuru did not sponsor the grabbing of Murumbi land.
Uhuru did not sponsor the Muteshi land controversy.
Uhuru did not sponsor the Kedong land theft.
Uhuru did not sponsor the grand theft surrounding Arror and Kimwarer dams.

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

Alonso at the Bridge. 😍

[GISTE @ggiste]

I Bought a Matatu & Made KSh20,000 on a Good Day—Two Months Later, I Was Broke

In 2023, at 36, I used my KSh900,000 SACCO savings to buy a second-hand 14-seater matatu operating between Kisumu and Busia.

The business looked promising. On good days, the vehicle could collect KSh18,000–KSh20,000. I expected to make more than KSh100,000 a month after expenses.

I hired my brother-in-law as the driver because I trusted him.

At first, everything seemed fine. But soon, the reality hit. Fuel, crew wages, Sacco fees, parking, county levies, police enforcement and frequent breakdowns ate into the collections. One month, repairs alone cost nearly KSh70,000.

Then the daily collections became inconsistent—KSh18,000 one day, KSh9,000 the next. The explanations were always traffic, low passenger numbers or police crackdowns.

I eventually visited the stage unexpectedly. A conductor told me the driver was allegedly hiding some fares and private weekend hires from me.

When I confronted my brother-in-law, he denied some claims and admitted to others. The issue became a family dispute, and the trust between us collapsed.

Meanwhile, the matatu continued draining my salary. I had made the biggest mistake: I confused revenue with profit.

From the outside, the matatu looked successful because it was always on the road. Behind the scenes, however, I was losing money.

Eventually, I sold it for KSh750,000 to stop the losses.

A business can look profitable from the roadside while quietly draining your finances. The matatu business requires proper systems, close supervision and accurate records—not just trust.

[Ahmednasir Abdullahi SC @ahmednasirlaw]

I agree! Singapore without RULE OF LAW, ZERO TOLERANCE TO JurisPESA judges, ZERO TOLERANCE TO THE 4 DOLLAR BILLIONAIRES AND THEIR ILK, ZERO TOLERANCE TO CORRUPTION is fantasy in la-la land. Singapore was built on Rule of law and zero tolerance to corruption. The skyscrapers came later...much later.

[Mwango Capital @MwangoCapital]

KCB Group rewards shareholders with a 50% hike in its H1 26 interim dividend to KES 3.00 per share, from KES 2.00 in 2025.

Shareholders on the register at close of business on 2 September 2026 will be paid on or about 10 November 2026.

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

Tuesday….Tuesday ….. Next week Tuesday is General elections day. Any thing beyond that is unconstitutional. Temporary incumbency sets in

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

TUKO KADI na TUKO TAYARI!

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

I remain resolute: Kenya's next General Election must be held in August 2026.

The Constitution leaves no room for ambiguity. Article 136(2)(a) commands that:

"An election of the President shall be held... on the second Tuesday in August in every fifth year."

The operative words are "in every fifth year." They are deliberate, mandatory, and constitutionally binding. The Constitution does not say after five years or at the end of five years. It says in the fifth year.

Any interpretation that postpones the election to August 2027 necessarily extends the electoral cycle into a sixth year. That is not what the Constitution prescribes. Courts are not at liberty to rewrite constitutional text by substituting words that the people of Kenya never enacted.

Constitutional commands are not suspended by political convenience, administrative practice, or majoritarian preference. The supremacy of the Constitution demands obedience to its text, not accommodation of expediency.

I therefore maintain, without equivocation, that if Article 136(2)(a) is to be given its ordinary, natural, and purposive meaning, Kenya's next General Election must be held on the second Tuesday of August 2026. Any contrary position departs from the plain language of the Constitution.

[Dr. Miguna Miguna @MigunaMiguna]

Mr. @otienowill is vindicated on the correct date of the presidential election, being the second Tuesday of August 2026.

We told Kenyans that they were wrong to assume that the inept @IEBCKenya had gotten the presidential election date correctly, but most people, as usual, just believe misinformation from anyone in power or state institution.

Always interrogate information given.

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

TERM LENGTH vs. ELECTION DATE

These are two distinct constitutional concepts. Conflating them leads to a fundamental error in constitutional interpretation.

1. TERM LENGTH

A presidential term concerns the period during which an elected President lawfully occupies office.

Article 142(1) provides:

"The President shall hold office for a term beginning on the date on which the President is sworn in and ending when the person next elected President is sworn in."

The Constitution therefore defines when a term begins and when it ends. It does not prescribe when the election must be held.

2. ELECTION DATE

The timing of the presidential election is governed separately by Article 136(2)(a), which provides:

"An election of the President shall be held on the second Tuesday in August in every fifth year."

This provision fixes the constitutional election date. It is not expressed as "five years after swearing in" or "upon the expiry of five years." The Constitution deliberately adopts a fixed electoral calendar.

The distinction is critical. Article 142(1) regulates the duration of an incumbent's tenure. Article 136(2)(a) regulates when the people exercise their sovereign power to elect a President. They serve different constitutional purposes and must be interpreted harmoniously, not conflated.

Once elections are tied to the personal tenure of an incumbent rather than the constitutional election cycle, the electoral calendar becomes variable. Delays in swearing-in, whether arising from election petitions, logistical challenges, or extraordinary circumstances would inevitably shift the date of future elections. That would undermine the certainty and predictability that Article 136(2)(a) was designed to guarantee.

The Constitution establishes a fixed election cycle. Presidential terms must operate within that cycle, not redefine it. If the framers had intended to guarantee every President five complete calendar years in office irrespective of the constitutional election date, they would have said so expressly. They did not.

The rule of law requires fidelity to both provisions. Article 142(1) defines the presidential term. Article 136(2)(a) fixes the election date. One cannot be interpreted so as to nullify or rewrite the other.

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

The law is the law. It does not matter for how long the law has been violated. Article 138(1) & (2) of the Constitution, on the Procedure at presidential election, categorically provides:
(1) If only one candidate for President is nominated, that candidate shall be declared elected.
(2) If two or more candidates for President are nominated, an election shall be held in each constituency.
Voting at elections is conducted as provided under Article 86, which provides:

86. At every election, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries
Commission shall ensure that-

(a) whatever voting method is used, the system is simple, accurate, verifiable, secure, accountable and transparent;

(b) the votes cast are counted, tabulated and the results announced promptly by the presiding officer at each polling station;

(c) the results from the polling stations are openly and accurately collated and promptly announced by the returning officer; and (d) appropriate structures and mechanisms to eliminate electoral malpractice are put in place, including the safekeeping of election materials.

From the law above, there is no way the results for the Presidential elections cannot be announced at the Constituency as required by the Constitution. #ReKe #GetitDone #KnowYourConstitution

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

MPs, Governors and President must vacate office next week Tuesday and if they are to continue in office they are temporary incumbents with no sovereign legitimacy. The people donated legitimacy ends on Tuesday next week

[Gichuki Kahome @kahome_steve]

Minimum amounts to get started with various investments in Kenya:

1. Money Market Fund - Ksh 1,000

2. T-bills - Ksh 50K

3. T-bonds - Ksh 50K

4. Offshore stocks & ETFs - $1(Ksh 130)

5. Nairobi Securities Exchange - cost of 1 share of your favorite stock

6. REITs - Ksh 5,000

7. USD MMF - $100

8. Eurobonds - $20K

9. Special funds - 250K

Which asset are you adding to your portfolio in 2026?

[Eric Muriuki @Benign_Overlord]

There is a plan to nuke the Supreme Court before elections next year so as to create chaos that will enable Kasongo steal a second term without a Supreme Court to nullify the election. The plan was hatched in Dubai in late 2024 and the idea was to create a new IEBC and a new “compliant” Supreme Court. I was so shocked when a senior member of the executive laid down the plan with incredible detail and that’s when I saw the boycott and the JSC drama specifically involving the Supreme Court for what it is.

In late 2024 a Supreme Court judge made some remarks during a seminar he was addressing asking how we can be a serious country without an IEBC for almost 2 years by then. These remarks sent chills through the house on the hill and the impasse that had been artificially created regarding the IEBC selection panel was resolved and a relative to a senior Statehouse worker was eventually appointed as IEBC chairman.

However the issue still remained that even with a compliant IEBC chairman but without a pliable Supreme Court, the 2027 outcome could not be guaranteed. In Dubai, a senior counsel met with Kasongo until around 2.30 am and the plan was hatched with the caveat that they were not to mention him anywhere.

Phase 1 of the plan was sustained social media attacks which almost hounded the chief justice out of office but wise counsel prevailed upon her to remain steadfast and not resign.

Fast forward to 2025, a number of petitions were filed at the JSC seeking to remove all the Supreme Court judges from office. The first cohort were the Dari petitions by Raphael Tuju which even included some judges who had not sat in the Dari matter. He had to make an application to remove some of these names when he realized he had goofed. These petitions have since been withdrawn.

The second cohort of petitions by @NelsonHavi Rosana, and Ahmednassir senior counsel all related to the 2023 ban where the Supreme Court barred Senior Counsel along with his associates and members of his firm from appearing before the court.

There was some mediation and the ban was quietly lifted after senior counsel privately met the judges and reconciliation was achieved.

The Nemwele Momanyi petition seeking to remove the CJ as chair of JSC was struck out. Another petition was filed against the CJ alleging general incompetence. A separate petition has also been filed against the DCJ with respect to the empaneling of the bench that heard the impeachment cases, a matter which has since been overtaken because the CJ empaneled the same bench.

The Kasongo operatives targeting the Supreme Court realized that they were fast losing ground so they went back to the drawing board and sat with some members of the JSC, one of whom was caught live on camera donning the UDA colors and attending a political event at Statehouse. I personally filed a petition for his removal from office but Parliament hushed it down and none of these advocates militating for removal of judges ever showed any interest or enthusiasm to even call out the JSC vice chair for attending partisan party events wearing yellow.

So two JSC commissioners advised Kasongo and his team of lawyers that the only way to remove Supreme Court judges and have the new supreme court was to have the associates of Senior Counsel Ahmednassir file their own petition since they had been banned alongside senior counsel even though they had not themselves done anything wrong.

Two tribunals were even composed beforehand, one for removal of the CJ and one for the other judges. The plans were proceeding quickly and seamlessly until someone leaked the said plans to the Supreme Court Judges who then seeing that their case was predetermined, sought high court orders, stopping JSC from proceeding with the petitions.

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

Signed and sealed. ✍️

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

If Aisha Jumwa has honestly joined Jubilee, then it’s GOOD RIDDANCE. That’s where she fits best, alongside fellow political thugs in a party that played a huge role in creating many of the broken systems we are still struggling with today. She can even go back to Ruto for all I care.

This idea that she “has the masses” is exactly the kind of politics that keeps us going in circles. If people genuinely want change, then we have to stop rallying behind famous faces and start rallying behind people of integrity. That also means not shying away from civic education and challenging voters to ask harder questions before they cast their vote.

Ruto must go, and he will go, but we will not be left behind with the very people who helped him butcher this country. Replacing one set of failed leaders with another is not change.

Linda Mwananchi has to mean exactly that, protect the wananchi. Not recycle the same political thugs every election because they’re popular or looking for an easier political home.

WANTAM

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

Ruto’s Special National Address felt so random and forced. You listen carefully, waiting for substance, but there’s no depth, no value, no direction. Just a lot of words that amount to nothing. Pure nonsense

It almost feels like this administration needed something to dominate the headlines because the numbers are down. Total waste of time

Fellow citizens…WANTAM!

[Kenyans.co.ke @Kenyans]

Thousands unable to buy Kenya Power tokens after Nationwide blackout

[H.E. Kimani Wamatangi @Wamatangi_]

When a nationwide power blackout brought much of the country to a standstill, Kiambu refused to go dark.
The Kiambu’s bus parks and other public spaces remained illuminated by our newly installed solar streetlights.
Kiambu County Government-Kenya has already installed 12,000 solar streetlights in the first phase, with another 12,000 set to be installed during this financial year.
#MakingKiambuGreatAgain
#KaziNdiyoHiyo
#RohoNdiyoHiyo