When you hear politicians suddenly uniting to tell you who the “enemy” is, pause and ask yourself one question:
Who benefits when citizens are divided and distracted?
Too often, the political class closes ranks not to defend the people, but to defend the system that feeds them. They want Kenyans fighting each other while corruption, impunity, unemployment, and economic injustice continue unchecked.
The moment someone begins questioning the structure of exploitation, the wardens of the prison quickly unite and point at a new “enemy” to keep the prisoners distracted.
Kenyans must stop worshipping political camps and start defending principles. Accountability is not tribal. Justice is not regional. Truth is not partisan.
The real struggle is not between ordinary citizens. The real struggle is between a corrupt system and the people paying the price for it every day.
To those dismissing odious debt as theory, history says otherwise.
Mozambique challenged hidden loans in court. Ecuador audited and repudiated illegitimate debt. Iraq secured massive debt cancellation after Saddam. Cuba rejected colonial debt imposed without consent. South Africa resisted apartheid-era obligations tied to oppression.
Odious debt is not fiction. It is a principle backed by precedent, law, and the sovereign right of people not to finance corruption, repression, and theft.
Kenyans cannot be forced to repay debts they neither approved nor benefited from.
This is a monument to policy failure. The people of Nandi will not leave their farms to become hermits in tenth-floor bedsitters. The serenity of Nandi, the land of champions cannot be traded for concrete caves that nobody wants to inhabit.
The State Department for Housing boasts a 96.3% budget absorption rate. But what has been absorbed? Public money into empty walls. Meanwhile, the government has mobilized over KSh 518 billion for this programme, collected over KSh 110 billion in housing levies from hardworking Kenyans, and allocated another KSh 50.6 billion for the coming fiscal year.
THE REAL CRISIS: OUR SCHOOLS ARE CRUMBLING. While billions sit idle in unoccupied apartments, Kenya's 24,566 public primary schools across 47 counties are falling apart. The government's own data reveals a KSh 117 billion funding shortfall for education over the past four years. Primary schools alone face a KSh 14 billion deficit.
Children are learning under trees. Classrooms built for 40 pupils now hold 100. The Competency-Based Curriculum requires laboratories, libraries, and adequate spaces , yet a majority of schools lack even basic mathematics materials and proper sanitation.
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba admitted before Parliament that "as a country we do not know how much it costs to educate a child." This is not governance. This is abdication.
THE NUMBERS DO NOT LIE. If the government redirected the KSh 518 billion already mobilized for housing, plus ongoing levy collections, toward school infrastructure at the current standard NG-CDF construction rate of KSh 70 million per two-story school building, we could immediately upgrade over 9,600 schools; nearly 40% of all public primary schools in Kenya. Within three years, EVERY single public primary school in Kenya could have proper classrooms, offices, sanitation, and learning materials. We call upon the National Assembly, the Executive, and every Kenyan of conscience to reject the politics of concrete and embrace the politics of human capital. Let us PRIORITIZE to build schools. For the record you don’t need the Housing Levy tax to achieve this. The budget has a lot of misplaced priorities that can be realigned, leakages and theft stopped and we make this happen. Let us educate a generation, not warehouse them in empty promises.
Affordable Housing Project units built in Emgwen in Nandi County remain 99% unoccupied exactly 4months after its completion. Just one unit is occupied by Sabastian Sawe who was awarded after jetting back to the country for breaking marathon's world record.
This Boma Yangu Estate in Kapsabet Town, features 220 modern housing units across nine blocks, including 60 studio units, 20 one-bedroom units, 120 two-bedroom units, and 20 three-bedroom units.
The project seems to be a white elephant already because tell me, who will live in these concrete caves except maybe migrant workers? 2. How can one leave the serenity of Nandi land and go live like a hermit in a bedsitter on tenth floor?
Harry Truman once said: “The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.”
Fellow Kenyans, our crisis did not begin yesterday.
The looting. The illegal debt. The betrayal of the Constitution. The collapse of public services. The silence of career politicians. These are old scripts repeated by leaders who believe Kenyans forget quickly.
They believe another scandal will trend. Another distraction will come. Another funeral, another handshake, another coalition, another slogan.
Meanwhile, you pay more taxes for debts you never approved and never benefited from.
Between 2014 and 2024, Kenya borrowed Sh9.11 trillion. Only Sh2.57 trillion received proper parliamentary approval. The remaining Sh6.54 trillion is odious debt, unconstitutional borrowing forced onto the backs of struggling citizens.
This is why food prices rise while wages stagnate. This is why hospitals lack medicine while billions disappear. This is why schools decline while politicians grow richer. This is why young people graduate into hopelessness.
And while Kenya bleeds, legacy politicians remain silent. Many are not fighting to fix the system. They are fighting to inherit it.
They criminalize protesters. They weaponize police. They reward political loyalists with advisory jobs funded by taxpayers. They protect corruption networks while ordinary Kenyans suffer.
We go to court because the Constitution is the last line of defense between the people and organized state plunder.
From the struggle for independence in 1963, to Saba Saba, to the 2010 Constitution, every generation of Kenyans has been called to defend freedom against greed and impunity. History is watching us now.
If we remain silent while our country is looted, future generations will remember us as the people who watched Kenya collapse and did nothing.
Read history. Defend the Constitution. Reject fear. Reject silence. Reject thieves disguised as leaders.
We must be a nation that reads, remembers, and refuses to be misled by the same old tricks. Know your history, defend your rights, and let us not be "newly" surprised by what we should have already learned.
Kenya istahili heshima
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The Treasury is hiding KSh 150.7 BILLION in a secret "Sovereign Bond Proceeds Account", OUTSIDE the Consolidated Fund.
This is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
No parliamentary oversight. No Auditor General. No Controller of Budget.
We demand: Name the bank. Open the books. Freeze the account.
The NSSF CBD towers:Chinese contractor,Chinese designer, Singaporean advisor—funded by Kenyan pension money.
Is this a financing problem,a skills gap, or a policy failure?
Kenya's construction industry needs to answer this honestly.
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Pursuant to Standing Order 53(1) I sought a Statement from the Standing Committee on Education on the regulation and compliance of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions across the country.
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They've engineered the silence because they fear you more than they fear any judge. An informed public is their worst nightmare. So read the filings. Track the hearings. Ask the hard questions. The @IMFAfrica@KeTreasury, @NAssemblyKE, and every pen that signed these loans must answer.
Some politicians waiting in the wings will not speak because they hope to inherit the same broken system. To those seeking office: this is a test of principle. You cannot inherit a system you refuse to question.
We don't need their headlines to know our rights. The Constitution didn't give us a voice to whisper. The front page isn't theirs to give. It's ours to demand. Stay loud. Stay informed. The law is on our side
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