DRC has been battling repeated ebola outbreaks since 1976. Sometimes it spreads to Uganda which has experience of dealing with it. Suddenly, Kenya that has never had an Ebola case, says it has set up 23 centres, a country whose public healthcare has crumpled?
A Kenyan has just beaten Safaricom PLC in court and been awarded Sh1.4 billion.
And honestly, this case is disturbing.
Peter Nthei Muoki says he developed a child-wallet concept for M-Pesa and pitched it to Safaricom in 2021.
According to court documents, he was told it wasn’t workable. Then later, Safaricom rolled out a similar feature.
He sued.
And High Court Judge Josephine Wayua Wambua Mong'are ruled in his favour.
Safaricom has now been ordered to pay him Sh1.4 billion plus annual royalties.
Imagine being told your idea won’t work, then later seeing it launched by one of the biggest companies in the country.
That’s the painful part.
Because, how many ordinary Kenyans have pitched ideas to powerful companies, been ignored, and watched those same ideas come back as products?
This case will make many innovators think twice.
Affordable housing locations really kill me. You can be driving in the middle of nowhere and look to your right, deep in bushes, right next to maize shambas there is a cluster of 6 10-storey buildings, closely packed together with only a slither of carbro separating them
KRA says it will not monitor personal M-PESA transfers, only business payments through PayBills and Till numbers.
But Kenyans are right to ask: where is the line between tax compliance, privacy, and State overreach?
Hii Nairobi uko kwa jam, you buy a hat from a Tanzanian, bananas from a Burundian, then go to your Rwandese barber and finally drive home to be welcomed by your Ugandan maid ... Jumuiya kweli.
Nike has now officially opened its first East Africa store at Sarit Centre, Westlands in Kenya, a direct store for customers, not a reseller like before.