Ruto wants to create a nation of maids and bus drivers. Not scientists, innovators, philosophers, writers, world class entrepreneurs. He will be remembered for destroying a country for MONEY.
It is untenable for Kenyans to shoulder a 1.5% Housing Levy, 2.75% SHIF contribution, 6% NSSF contribution and PAYE that can reach 35% while still facing exorbitant school fees, soaring rents, high fuel prices and endless medical fundraisers.
If citizens are taxed more but must continue paying privately for basic services, then the fundamental question is: what exactly are their taxes delivering?
Taxation must translate into tangible public services, not simply a heavier burden on working families.
Please stop wasting our taxes and your time on plastic bags when government is turning Kenya into a desert by bringing down every possible tree.
Soon we will make you answerable for simply watching as our environment was messed up by greed. You will pay for it.
I started constructing my mother’s house in February 2022, when a bag of cement cost me KSh 650.
Today, as I construct a pig structure, the same bag costs KSh 950.
But @OleItumbi wants us to believe his X captions instead of what we are actually buying on the ground.
Ama Kenya tuko na economy mbili!
I started constructing my mother’s house in February 2022, when a bag of cement cost me KSh 650.
Today, as I construct a pig structure, the same bag costs KSh 950.
But @OleItumbi wants us to believe his X captions instead of what we are actually buying on the ground.
Ama Kenya tuko na economy mbili!
Keeping everyone (including Africans) completely ignorant about Africa and the central role it plays in the economic and natural world is a core feature of Europeanised education, not a bug.
You're not supposed to know that the DRC is the most resource-rich country in the world, with an estimated $24 trillion sitting under its soil. You're not supposed to know that the rise of "western civilisation" from the 15th century on was entirely made possible by European contact with Africa, and that the resources and labour extracted from coastal West Africa from 1492 onwards are the entire reason why both American continents exist in their current form.
You're not supposed to know that both WW1 and WW2 were essentially wars fought over the right to African colonial domination and expansion, and that even the uranium that was used in "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Shinkolobwe uranium mine in eastern DRC. You're not supposed to know that the reason the country of France exists in its current form is because tens of thousands of conscripted West African soldiers fought and won against the Nazis in Europe, and the French thereafter shipped them back to West Africa and massacred them at Camp Thiaroye in Senegal to avoid paying them their due wages.
You're not supposed to know that there was nothing cold about the so-called Cold War, because the vast majority of the hot theaters it was physically fought in were on the continent of Africa. (Zimbabwe, DRC, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Eritrea, Zambia etc). You're not supposed to know that the ongoing Ukraine war and the war in the Sahel are in fact the same conflict being fought by the same 2 sides, and that the reason France is desperately pushing funding and arms to Ukraine even as it falls into internal crisis is that Ukraine is acting as its proxy army in West Africa, as it tries to regain its lost colonial territories there, especially Niger where the cheap yellowcake uranium for its famously cheap nuclear energy used to come from before the 2023 revolution.
You're definitely not supposed to know that the entire global economy and system of trade as you know it is built on ruthless extraction from Africa and ensuring that Africa does not control anything it exports. You're not supposed to know that "Italian leather" doesn't come from Italy - it comes from Kano, Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that "Swiss chocolate" does not exist because cocoa does not grow anywhere in Switzerland or Europe - it comes from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that Israel and the UAE control the global diamond and gold markets even though Israel has no diamond mine and the UAE has zero gold mines, because both resources are literally being stolen from the DRC and Sudan on an industrial basis.
You're basically not supposed to understand that the entire geopolitical world as you know it, rests entirely on extraction from Africa, poverty of Africans, and your own ignorance about where everything you use comes from.
Completely deliberate 500+ year-old feature, not accidental bug.
Nigeria keeps bringing total GDP to a GDP-per-capita argument. 😭 You have roughly 4× Kenya’s population and only about 2× the GDP. At some point, somebody has to introduce you to the denominator.