We met the family of Erick Otieno who died on Sunday night after being held and reportedly beaten in custody at Muthaiga Police Station. Their pain and heartbreak was palpable and devastating.
The post-mortem report confirms that there were numerous injuries consistent with blunt force trauma to the chest and abdomen. This emerges as information from police on the reason for arrest and what transpired while he was in custody remains scanty. This is Albert Ojwang all over again.
@IPOA_KE have received the report and taken statements from the family, and we expect that swift investigations will be carried out to establish the truth. We call upon the leadership of the @NPSOfficial_KE to preserve the evidence, take decisive steps to identify and bring the perpetrators of any element of foul play to book.
#HakiNaImani
Dear Mr CS, @davis_chirchir
Just checking in on you regarding your promise to have Rironi to Naivasha section opened by August. Time really does fly right? but I know you are a magician and must have used it to beat engineering principles.
Looking forward to hearing from you on this important matter.
Best,
Concerned Kenyan
The average price of a car in Kenya has gone up 72% in the past two years, driven by higher import costs and KRA's new vehicle valuation schedule.
For example, a Toyota Vitz (1300cc) now costs about Sh1.5 million, up from Sh1.3 million.
Eric Otieno: Beaten To Death?
The post-mortem examination on the body of Eric Otieno has revealed that he succumbed to internal haemorrhage.
The boda boda rider from Mathare died shortly after being released from Muthaiga Police Station on Sunday.
#NTVTonight@MichelleNgele_
As promised, I reveal the following truths now.🚨
I’ve been digging through NHIF data from 2018 to date, and my fellow Kenyans: we were robbed clean in my opinion.
A single local pharmacy clinic received KES 199.6 MILLION from NHIF and majority of it in 6 months. Much more than major County Referral Hospitals handling thousands of sick patients daily.
They drained KES 116M in just 180 days
The facility is Beirut Pharmacy & Medical Centre (registered ~2017/2018).
Look at these numbers:
- Total Disbursed: KES 199,685,920
- Over 85% (KES 168.9M) was paid out in 2022 alone.
- 58.4% (KES 116.6M) was pumped out in a narrow 6-month window (Jan–June 2022).
That’s an average payout every 10.5 days. How? I have attached all screenshots in replies below via a link. It doesn't end there.
Hon. Duale,
I build information systems for a living, so let me speak to you not as a politician but as the technical man in the room because the defence you have mounted is legally tidy and technically hollow.
You have answered the wrong question.
The country did not ask whether the two per cent fee is legal.
Everyone can see it is gazetted.
The country asked whether it should exist and who was positioned to collect it before the ink dried.
“Parliament approved it” is not a rebuttal to that, it is a confession that the charge was written into law rather than won in a tender.
Let me put it in terms my clients understand.
When an organisation buys an ERP, it pays once to build it and a maintenance fee to keep it running.
It does not then pay a toll every time a clerk writes a record into a database it already owns.
You have built the health rail with public money and then legislated a turnstile on it and pegged the turnstile to two per cent of the value passing through.
That is not “a capped fee for the use of a system,” as you put it.
The KES 5,000 cap limits a single claim; it does nothing to the aggregate.
As enrolment grows and claim volumes rise, that revenue line grows with them, automatically, forever.
You have not priced a service.
You have indexed a private income to the size of the national health budget.
Call that what it is.
You defend the arrangement by noting the law “permits sub-contracting.”
When a man reaches for the sub-contract to justify the deal, he is protecting whoever sits beneath the consortium and earns the percentage.
You told us where to look.
Here is the technical truth beneath the legal language: when you write the revenue model a fixed percentage, a named “Data Exchange Component,” a specific architecture into a regulation, you have not run a procurement.
Any of us who has sat on the other side of a Microsoft or Oracle negotiation knows exactly what a vendor lock written into law looks like and this is it, only worse, because the customer here cannot walk away.
Every Kenyan is the captive user.
I will grant you the one thing you are right about.
UHC cannot run on paper, and digitisation is not the enemy I would be the last man to argue it.
But that is not the fight, and you know it.
The fight is whether a public health system, once built with public money, should carry a private, volume-linked toll written into the law itself, and whether the hand collecting it earned that place on merit or was simply named in advance.
You closed by saying every shilling under Taifa Care belongs to the Kenyan patient.
You wrote that one paragraph after explaining the two per cent that does not.
Yours, in candour,
Njoroge from Kingeero.
Another life lost in police custody. Another family left with questions. Another silence where there should be accountability.
The death of a boda boda rider from Mathare after detention at Muthaiga Police Station is not an isolated tragedy, it echoes the unresolved shadow of Albert Ojwang’s death. How many more names must we turn into hashtags before we confront the truth?
Police cells must never become waiting rooms for death. They are spaces of lawful custody, not unrecorded endings. When the State takes a citizen into its hands, it assumes a duty of care, not a license for cruelty, neglect or disappearance.
This is how impunity becomes culture, not in loud moments, but in repeated silence. And we must refuse to normalise it. It also strikes at the heart of the rule of law, undermining the constitutional guarantee under Article 50 that every person is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Justice must not be begged for. It must be demanded, enforced, and seen.
We thought it would end with Albert Ojwang, or Julia Njoki. Muthaiga police arrested Eric Otieno on Saturday and on Tuesday he was dead. They BEAT him to DEATH! We can't live like this Guys. Somethings got to give. Thursday ni Maandamano.
Leadership must go to the people, not wait for the people to come to us.
That is why I will continue travelling to every corner of this country, listening, learning, and building a movement from the ground up.
See you in Taita Taveta County this Friday.
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Article 10 of the Constitution is not a suggestion. It is a binding obligation on every State organ.
When the government borrows in our name, it must uphold the national values of transparency, accountability, integrity, and public participation. Article 201 reinforces this by requiring openness, accountability, and public participation in all financial matters.
Public debt is not the government’s debt. It is the people’s debt. Every loan signed today will be repaid by Kenyans through taxes, now and for generations to come.
Before any government commits the nation to more debt, Kenyans have a constitutional right to know why the money is being borrowed, how it will be spent, what it will cost, and what benefits it will deliver.
Borrowing without meaningful public participation is not just poor governance. It is inconsistent with the values and principles of our Constitution.
#KnowYourConstitution #ReKe
Kenyans speak down on Congo as if it's a failed state, yet this is exactly what happens in Congo. Armed guards protecting illegal miners who have no interest in protecting human life or the environment.
BREAKING NEWS 🛑
Two people have been shot and wounded in Gem Ramula, Siaya County by William Ruto's killer militia (GSU officers) following a second attempt by Shanta Gold to do illegal displacement.
It's reported that the GSU officers are breaking into homesteads and forcefully evicting villagers from there ancestral lands despite a court order stopping the eviction.
KTN once exposed how Somalis were given Kenyan national IDs and even passports. The people like Murkomen said that it was fake news.
Today the president of Somalia confirmed that it’s indeed true.