@Dr_AustinOmondi Politicians can't change lives...yes but they make our lives a living hell with the decisions they make...so whatever she's saying matters a lot.
Gachagua and Ruto need to stop taking Kenyans for a ride. Let’s talk about BATUK…
Gachagua now claims Ruto’s administration demanded a KSh 3 billion bribe to allow BATUK to conduct its military training in Kenya this year. If that allegation is true, then maybe it starts to answer some of the questions Kenyans have been asking for years because, BATUK’s presence in this country has been controversial for years. We’ve heard concerns about environmental damage, unexploded ordnance left behind after training, damaged roads, allegations of misconduct involving some personnel, unresolved court cases, and communities that have spent years demanding accountability and compensation. Yet through all that, BATUK has remained. So if it’s true that a KSh 3 billion bribe was demanded just to allow this year’s training, then it’s only natural for Kenyans to ask whether this is part of the reason so many of these concerns have never been adequately addressed.
But Gachagua also lost me when he said Nanyuki’s growth is courtesy of BATUK.
First things first, we need to stop this slave mentality that makes us believe our prosperity depends on foreign military bases. BATUK sits on hundreds of acres of Kenyan land worth billions. Imagine if that land was put to work directly for Kenyans through agriculture, industry, housing, research or other productive investments that create opportunities for our own people. Why are we being conditioned to believe that our development depends on hosting a foreign army?
And let’s also be clear, BATUK is not leaving Kenya. They are simply not conducting their military training here this year. Their base is still here.
So instead of turning this into another Ruto vs Gachagua political circus, let’s finally have the conversation Kenyans have been trying to have for years. Does this arrangement still serve Kenya’s interests? Have the benefits genuinely outweighed the environmental, social and legal concerns that communities have continued to raise? And is this really the best use of hundreds of acres of valuable Kenyan land?
Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.
What is life Anyway? Elizabeth Njoki is 21 years old. She was born and raised in Nakuru by a banker father and a businesswoman mother. Her father built a 12-bedroom mansion and owned two cars while her mother ran a boutique. Life was comfortable until she was 12, when her father was diagnosed with cancer and diabetes. He died a month later.
Two weeks after the burial, her father's two brothers showed up and kicked the family out of their own home. They took the cars and the boutique, claiming everything belonged to their late brother. The family had nowhere to go.
They were taken in by a friend of her mother for two weeks. They then moved to Naivasha where another friend helped her mother find a job to provide for the children. The children went back to school and tried to accept their new reality.
After some time, the mother fell into depression and nearly lost her mind. Together with a friend, Njoki helped take her to Mathare Hospital where she was admitted. With her mother gone, Njoki dropped out of school and started doing casual jobs to buy food for her three siblings.
Her mother eventually got better and was discharged from hospital with help from the area MCA. Despite everything, Njoki managed to score 378 marks in her KCSE and a Good Samaritan paid for her entire secondary education.
But in Form Three, her mother's condition worsened again. She started disappearing for days at a time before returning home. Without her knowledge, some men took advantage of her situation and she came back pregnant. Njoki once again had to leave school and look for casual jobs to keep the family fed. Her mother later gave birth to their fifth child.
When they could not pay rent, the landlord locked them out with all their belongings still inside. A family friend then relocated them to their rural home in Kinangop to live with their grandmother. Things stabilised for a while. The children went back to school and Njoki adapted to a life of casual work because her mother's mental health kept deteriorating.
Their grandmother died in 2024 and they were kicked out of that home too. Njoki used her savings to rent a single room and life went on.
In June last year, Njoki collapsed and was rushed to hospital by a neighbour after she was found bleeding. Doctors discovered she had fibroids in her uterus requiring urgent surgery, or the uterus would have to be removed entirely to stop the bleeding. She could not raise the 80,000 shillings needed for the operation and continued living with the daily bleeding.
She was trying to manage her own condition, care for her mentally unstable mother, provide for the younger children and pay rent all at once. It became too much. The landlord kicked them out again and a neighbour took them in.
Then in August last year, their second born son was involved in an accident and died on the spot. Njoki went to the area chief who helped organise a simple burial within two days at a public cemetery in Longonot. Only a handful of people attended. Their mother was absent.
Njoki scored a B plus in KCSE. She had the grades to build a future for herself. Instead she chose to stay behind and hold her family together. Today she lives on hope alone, trusting that God will find a way through.
At some point, we are going to have to publicly vouch for a leader we believe in and for me that person is former Chief Justice David Maraga.
And this is not about who is trending or making the most noise. It’s about what actually makes sense for this country right now.
We are dealing with a system that is broken at the core. Corruption has become normal. Public money disappears with no consequences. Institutions that are supposed to protect us have been captured. And every election cycle, we are given promises that sound good but change nothing.
What stands out to me about Maraga is simple, he is not selling us miracles. He is saying, fix the foundation first!!
~Rule of law.
~Respect the constitution.
~Independent institutions.
~Actual consequences for corruption.
That might not sound exciting, but if we are being honest, that is exactly what Kenya is bleeding from. You cannot fix the economy when money is being stolen. You cannot fix healthcare when systems are looted. You cannot fix education when leadership has no accountability. For once, here is someone saying ,let’s deal with the root.
And we have seen him before. When he was Chief Justice, he made decisions that were not popular, but they were right. He showed that the law can stand above power. That matters!! Because what we are missing in this country is not intelligence, it is integrity.
This does not mean he is perfect. No leader is. And supporting someone does not mean you stop questioning them. In fact, it means you hold them to an even higher standard.
But if we are going to move forward, then we have to stop playing safe. We have to start being honest about the kind of leadership we want.
For me, I choose someone who understands that without accountability, nothing else works.
That is why I am backing David Maraga.
Jaden Ivey on Steph Curry:
“He don't know Jesus... I pray he's saved in Jesus name... All that stuff isn't gon matter on Judgement Day. All them rings he got. All them rings LeBron got. All them rings Jordan got... They gon try to stop me, but I'm not. I'ma keep speaking the truth.”
(h/t @JoelXLorenzi)
So I was reading about King Solomon in the Bible, and honestly… this story messed with my head a little. In 1 Kings 3:12, God literally told Solomon that He would give him wisdom like no one before him and no one after him. Like… imagine being the wisest person to ever live. Ever. That made me wonder, Why did God make Solomon so special? Why give him wisdom greater than anyone else in history? Then I kept reading, and I found his downfall in 1 Kings 11.
I was confused. Where did that wisdom go?
How could the wisest man in the world end up worshiping idols? How could someone so wise make such foolish decisions? So I kept searching, reading, thinking…... and then I found this line that hit me hard: "If this was the case with the wisest man who ever lived, then what hope do we have apart from constant dependence on Jesus Christ? Let the example of Solomon drive us to greater dependence on Him." And that’s when it clicked. No matter how smart you are. No matter how blessed you are.
No matter how high God lifts you. If you stop fearing God….. If you stop depending on Him..... You can fall. Badly. Even Solomon fell.
And it honestly felt like God was talking straight to me:
“Oh you want to be wise?
Look at the wisest man in the world.
See what happened when he stopped walking with Me.”
God’s works are truly beyond our understanding.
Praise the Lord!
@Martin410085908 @NjokiOdongo@moneyacademyKE Of course we can. But we need to build a refinery first, that's a big one because the quality of the oil in Turkana is basically almost the kowest in terms of quality. Then still we'd have to transport it to Mombasa either way. Short answer: Extremely bad governance and greed.
All Uhunye wanted us to do was to drink his milk. Huyu jamaa anataka anataka tuzaliwe kwa hosi yake, twende kwa nyumba zake, twende shule zake, tufanye kazi kwa kampuni zake, tulipiwe kwa bank yake, tuchungwe na goons wake, tukule mayai zake, tupate food poisoning twende kwa hosi yake tutumie insurance yake isigothrough tudedi tupelekwe mochari yake. We can't do another 5 years bruh.😫😫