PAIN OF WILLIAM RUTO AS KENYA’S MOST EXPENSIVE AND AIRBORNE PRESIDENT!
🟢 Ruto has made 62 visits to 38 countries in his first 20 months in office, spending half of June outside Kenya
🟢 Chartered luxury private jets cost between Sh1.1M–Sh1.7M per flight hour, translating to hundreds of millions per trip
🟢 The govt spent Sh10.8B on foreign travel in just 9months of FY-2024/25
🟢 Sh3.13B went to foreign travel; Sh7.74B on domestic travel
🟢 Current Travel Itinerary (June 2026)
June 3–5: South Africa (bilateral talks with Ramaphosa)
June 10–11: Finland (diplomatic tour)
June 12–17: France (G7 Summit, Évian-les-Bains)
Belgium also scheduled (bilateral meeting with King Philippe)
🟢 Government Defence
Treasury CS John Mbadi argues eliminating the entire foreign travel budget would save only Sh8.5B — “too small to make a meaningful fiscal difference”
Parliament’s own travel costs (Sh3B) dwarf the Executive’s foreign affairs allocation (Sh2.9B)
🟢 Critics & Pressure
Analysts say cutting travel could yield over Sh150B in the next financial year
Savings could be redirected to agriculture, health, education, and job creation
Foreign trips have not yielded visible, tangible economic benefits for ordinary Kenyans
Travel continues even as Kenyans protest high fuel prices and Finance Bill 2026
1. Why did a Kisii woman give her child this name?
2. This child is ideally only 3 and a half? In which school is this bullying allowed on a new kid in Reception Class?
3. Why did NTV reference Wandeto and the tattoo when Police said her brutal attack had nothing to do with it?
🚨🚨| JUST IN: Iraq's Aymen Hussein was held for 𝟕 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒 by US authorities upon arrival in Chicago with the national squad for the FIFA World Cup. 😳🇮🇶
He was the only one that was held up by the authorities for the interrogation.
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Btw why don’t Kenyans speak up when matatus and other people are acting with impunity?
We’re mad at the politicians but where do you think they learned that their behavior is acceptable in our society?
News in the same day:
A student was being sexually molested by several adult men in Murang'a
A student was thrown off a moving matatu to his death
Kenyan adults: You know we have to oppress kids in school for their own good, otherwise they will be distracted
Hapa CIA wamecheza kama ile kesi ya waiganjo, the real culprits walishikisha huyu msee handball. They brought him in and made him the face of the program just in case this time came.