When Mumias Sugar Collapsed the entire economy around it also collapsed.
Frame 1: These dilapidated one-roomed houses is where sugarcane truck drivers lived. Those who remained behind are now living in squalor.
Frame 2: This was a very active commercial centre inside the complex, just a few meters from the factory. Here, there was:
- Post Office
- Bus Booking offices, in fact, Easy Coach parked here all the way from Nairobi.
- Police Station
- Shops, the first Mumias M-Pesa in 2007, were set up here.
- Nation had an active courier shop here.
Frame 3: These are offices of Asians who were contracted to transport cane. They owned hundreds of trucks and tractors. The place is now a shell.
Frame 4: Former employees of the company have resorted to doing menial jobs like burning charcoal to make a living.
Fuck you, Kidero.
Those attacking Arsenal fans for turning up in huge numbers in Nairobi but not showing up for protests are missing the bigger point.
People do not fail to protest because they love suffering. They fail to protest because Kenyans are not angry enough, not desperate enough and not organized enough to sustain serious resistance. That is the uncomfortable truth.
A football victory march is easy because it is joy, identity, banter, music and vibes. A protest is risk, police, tear gas, arrest, job loss, injury and sometimes death. You cannot compare the two as if people are choosing Arsenal over liberation. People are choosing comfort over sacrifice because the pain has not yet crossed the point where staying home feels more dangerous than going to the streets.
That is why these 8am to 6pm CBD protests, almost arranged like someone is reporting to a job, will never shake a regime properly. People come, shout, run from police, take photos, trend for a few hours and go back home before darkness. The government simply waits them out.
A real people’s movement is not an office-hours activity. It is not something you squeeze between breakfast and supper. It is built when the anger is deep, widespread, fearless and impossible to manage with police trucks and press statements.
So stop blaming Arsenal fans. They have only exposed what we already know. Kenyans can gather when they want to. The problem is that, politically, the country is still not angry enough.
You see this thing about kids missing, guys, just keep on reposting even if they are not Kenyan. We could be having another Epstein situation in our hands
KRA will now tax companies on some of their retained profits.
If a company does not pay out at least 60% of its profits as dividends, KRA will treat part of the remaining profit as “deemed dividends” and tax it, under finance bill 2026.
Former President of France🇫🇷 Jacques Chirac: “While speaking of Africa, we must check our memory.
We started draining the continent four and a half centuries ago with the slave trade. Next, we discovered their raw materials and seized them.
Having deprived Africans of their wealth, we sent in our elites who destroyed their culture.
Now, we are depriving them of their brains thanks to scholarships which are definitely another form of exploitation because, at the end, the most intelligent students do not go back to their countries.
In the end, noticing that Africa is not in a good state and as bonuses for the wealth we made on its back, we are giving lectures…”
"ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and 'consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.' Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study."