Dann Oti

Banker | Opinion shaper | Sports Commentator| Manchester United football club fan.

[Premier League @premierleague]

Making an instant impact for his new club ❤️

@ManUtd’s goalkeeper Senne Lammens is @BarclaysFooty Transfer of the Season 🙌

[Phannie A. Kwegah 🇰🇪 @MissKwegah1]

The Utumishi Girls Academy fire happened this morning in Gilgil, 28 years after the one at Bombolulu Girls High School in Mazeras, Coast Region in March 1998 where 26 students died. After the Bombolulu fire, President Moi formed a Commission of Inquiry chaired by Bishop Lawi Imathiu and it submitted its report on 31st July 1998.

The recommendations included

All exit doors in school buildings must open outwards.
Fire extinguishers must be provided and mandatory fire drills conducted for staff and students.
Dormitory capacity must not be exceeded; overcrowding must be legally enforced against.
Teachers' houses must be built so that at least the headteacher lives within the school compound.
Matrons must have minimum qualifications (Form IV and nursing/housekeeping training).
Regular, rigorous school inspections must be conducted as required by the Education Act.
Unqualified tradesmen must not be permitted to carry out electrical installations.
A national Fire Service Act should be enacted.
Students must receive coaching on emergency procedures including fire.
Schools must have adequate, functioning security fencing.

The similarities between the Utumishi incident and the Bombolulu ones are deeply disturbing.

1. Timing — a night fire in a dormitory. Bombolulu burned at night. Utumishi burned at night. Students were asleep, in darkness, in an unfamiliar emergency. This is precisely why fire drills and clear escape routes matter most — and why they are most often neglected.

2. Inward-opening or locked doors. One of the Bombolulu Commission's most urgent recommendations — Recommendation 21 — was that exit doors of school buildings must open outwards. A parent at the scene of the Utumishi fire claimed that one of the emergency exits remained locked during the fire, and that only one matron was on duty, meaning only one of the two emergency doors was opened. A parent told NTV that most of the injuries were caused by students jumping from the upper floor because one of the doors was closed. Twenty-eight years after the Commission made this recommendation in the strongest possible terms, students are still dying at doors.

3. Single matron, inadequate supervision. At Bombolulu, the Commission was scathing that only one under-qualified matron was responsible for the safety of 146 girls at night, with no teachers on site. The Utumishi parent alleged the school had only one matron assigned to the dormitory, arguing that two matrons could have opened both emergency exits simultaneously. The Bombolulu recommendation that matrons hold minimum qualifications and that headteachers live on the school compound appears not to have been implemented.

4. No fire drills, no emergency preparedness. The Bombolulu Commission found that not a single student or teacher had been coached on fire emergency procedures. The speed with which the Utumishi dormitory became fatal — with students jumping from upper floors — suggests students did not know what to do and did not have a practised evacuation route.

5. Overcrowded dormitories. Bombolulu's dormitory held nearly 50% more students than its capacity. No information on Utumishi's occupancy has yet been confirmed, but the number of casualties — 16 dead and over 100 hospitalised from a single dormitory — raises the same question.

6. The national legislative gap. Recommendation 24 of the Bombolulu report called for a national Fire Service Act. Kenya currently does not have a single, overarching national Fire and Rescue Act that governs the entire country. While there are specific legal codes and workplace rules, legislative efforts like the Fire and Rescue Services Professionals Bill and various national disaster management policies have been introduced in parliament but are still uncompleted - Twenty-eight years later.

[Veloria 🌊 @veloriahq]

“𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶.”

— 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘈𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘴

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Nyali leads Kenya’s coast in beachfront land prices based on the latest HassConsult report, ahead of Lamu and Mombasa.

Top coastal areas and prices per acre:

Nyali — Sh146 million
Lamu Island — Sh140 million
Mombasa — Sh120 million
Shanzu — Sh99 million
Bamburi — Sh97 million
Diani — Sh65 million
Kilifi — Sh47 million
Watamu — Sh45 million
Mtwapa — Sh44 million
Kikambala — Sh36 million
Malindi — Sh26 million
Vipingo — Sh19 million

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Kenya’s Finance Bill 2026 Explained

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[DeeDi @DeeSandy20]

A woman not being able to keep and retain maids at her house speaks alot about her character .
In my opinion you’re intolerant and impatient and somewhat selfish.
You can’t have 10 maids in a year. All 10 can’t be bad. You’re the problem

[Dann Oti @dannotti_KE]

😅😅😅

[PINKMAN @mrpinkman55]

Ule msee alipanga letters kwa keyboard kwani angezieka in order angekufa, mbwa.

[Gichuki Kahome @kahome_steve]

Your Kenya Power dividends can pay your electricity bill,

your safaricom dividends can pay your internet & airtime,

your Stanchart dividends can help repay your loan

your EABL dividends can fund your friday drinks with the boys or girls night out.

Once you become an owner, not only a consumer, you get rewarded as shareholder.

The only way you can own pieces of these businesses is by investing in the listed companies in the NSE.

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Here are the most profitable companies in East & Central Africa as of 2025:

Equity Group — Sh75.5 billion
Safaricom — Sh70 billion
KCB Group — Sh68 billion
NMB Bank — Sh37 billion
CRDB Bank — Sh36 billion
Co-op Bank — Sh30 billion
MTN Uganda — Sh23 billion
Absa Kenya — Sh23 billion

[IRA Kenya @ira_kenya]

PUBLIC NOTICE:
The Insurance Regulatory Authority has placed Trident Insurance Company, KUSCCO Mutual Assurance Limited, and Corporate Insurance Company under statutory management in accordance with the provisions of Section 67C(2)(i) of the Insurance Act. —

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

We have managed to uncover Traffic (Minor Offences) Rules and the charges motorists face following the rollout of the new NTSA Instant Fines system.

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[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

Which asset are you adding to your portfolio in 2026?

[Dann Oti @dannotti_KE]

This is abnormality 😅😅

[Dann Oti @dannotti_KE]

Wueeeh 😅😅😅

[Nimechill @Billyjules_ke]

Nikiwa highschool kuna mwalimu ashai ni ambia take your paper,its straight from cattle dip,haina tick hata moja..

[Martin Oduor-Otieno @OduorMartinO]

You promoted your best salesperson to sales manager.

Six months later, they're struggling, and you're wondering what went wrong.

This happens everywhere. We promote our best doers into management, then wonder why they can't lead.

Here's why:

1/4

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Great sitting down with @BrianTylerCohen to talk about everything from the courage we saw in Minnesota, to how Democrats can be true to our values and get stuff done, to how we’re building a community of changemakers at the @ObamaFoundation. https://t.co/xyskxKbM8n

[Dann Oti @dannotti_KE]

😅😅😅

[Chairman🇰🇪 @Mdenno_]

I hate these people who keep asking others "unapelekanga wapi pesa na huna familia" that is disrespect bana wewe unapeleka wapi familia na huna pesa

[Dann Oti @dannotti_KE]

🤣🤣🤣

[Wayne Rooney @WayneRooney]

@piersmorgan by the way i know how to spell arsenal. But arseanal sounds better.

[Gichuki Kahome @kahome_steve]

Instead of investing in that KPC IPO, why not consider some of the undervalued stocks in the NSE:

1. KPLC
2. DTB
3. KCB
4. Equity
5. Car & General

And if you are looking for dividends:
KenGen, Stanbic, BAT all have better dividend yields than KPC

Anyway langu jicho tu🧐

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has launched Bitchat, a messaging app that enables encrypted communication using Bluetooth technology.

The app does not require internet access, cellular service, servers, or user accounts.