Kanyamwa 🤴

Lawyer/Farmer/ Manager at Mosh Ventures/Business Consultant/Business Trainer/Entrepreneur/liberal thinker.

[Kanyamwa 🤴 @JackOgonda]

Check out my latest article: What Next after the Review of PPAs in Kenya? https://t.co/bKPpdCrpnH via @LinkedIn

[Kipkalya Kones @MrKipkalya]

Billionaire Joe Wanjui is dead. When we were small kids, on hearing his name, we used to be told that he was the owner of the East African Industries (EAI), the forerunner to Unilever Kenya. Those guys used to manufacture nearly everything we saw at home; Kimbo, Vaseline, Closeup, Omo, Elianto....the works.

I'm often amazed by how great people in this country die quietly and their stories fade off like that. There are things people do not know about Wanjui. Apart from the fact that at some point, he was the Chairman of the DP Council of Elders, the moneyed Kikuyu businessmen who funded Mwai Kibaki and his party. But after the 2002 elections, when Kibaki's surrogates brought back tribalism by the truckloads and shut out the other communities, Wanjui was the powerful insider voice who constantly called Kibaki to order and demanded that the government be run in a way that sustained not only lasting peace, but an environment conducive for business and thrift. He also frowned on the contempt and hubris exhibited by the new Mount Kenya power brokers under Kibaki.

But I pay tribute to Joe Wanjui for two main reasons...

One, and especially in the current Kenyan circumstances, he was one of the last among a breed of Kenyan billionaires who actually MANUFACTURED SOMETHING to make money, a far cry from the modern Kenyan quick-fix billionaires who amass wealth through "ni God manze". This fact is important in determining the stark contrast between Kikuyu Entitlement and Kalenjin Incompetence. The Kikuyu old money networks built lasting money through industry. Even those alleged to have stolen money from government ran thriving private industrial concerns and left the government parastatals alive. Their Kalenjin counterparts under both Moi and Ruto would wake up and become billionaires overnight, leaving dust where previously a state enterprise stood.

Because people of Wanjui's ilk knew the value of wealth and its sustainability, they didn't go around carrying money in sacks at harambees, or tapping their feet like illiterate penguins, to illustrate the count by each million. Certainly, this group wouldn't don watches of 20m, because those who make money genuinely don't tie it to an asset around a wrist. Amidst the Gen Z protests, perhaps we need to take a step back and ask what the new Kalenjin power brokers around Ruto, and their fraudulent friends like @DidmusWaBarasa, have done to buy helicopters overnight. Because Joe Wanjui and his peers showed us that the credible way to create wealth was to first create a going concern, build it and employ people. But the Sudis of our time have turned this philosophy upside down.
The second and bigger reason I celebrate Joe Wanjui happened during interesting times. At the peak of the fallout in the Kibaki regime in 2005, when the LDP wing, and especially the Luo community, had all but bid farewell to the NARC-Rainbow coalition, the vacancy for Vice Chancellor at the University of Nairobi came up for filling. Part of the reforms brought by the Narc government was that unlike previous times, when the VC was appointed by the President, this was going to be the very first time a VC was being competitively interviewed. You should have seen the top scholars, foreigners from Europe, America, South Africa, Asia and the Middle East, who all wanted the job, arriving at JKIA for the interview. Joe Wanjui was then the Chancellor of the UoN, again the first time the President of the Republic wasn't the one. He would chair the interviews.
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[Gabriel Oguda @gabrieloguda]

Guess who's back!

[Kasmuel McOure @_KasKazini]

I’M FREE!🙏🏿

[MICHAEL @kahamamike]

I want to give @AmbokoJH his flowers. Reading an entire bill, the subsequent reports and packaging it into digestible pieces via Twitter threads is not an easy job. He has been consistent at it. Year in year out. May your star shine brighter Amboko.🙌

[Kelly Sly Kiarie🇰🇪🇿🇦 @kiarie_sly]

It’s getting scary 😭😭 Let’s push in finding him! He is one of us. Retweet widely!
#FreeKas

[Gabriel Oguda @gabrieloguda]

Guys. Cops are at my gate.

[Kanyamwa 🤴 @JackOgonda]

@CyrusVI11556749 @Gtunduny @gabby_yego [email protected]

[JaPrado. @Dr_AustinOmondi]

We are on the ground at Sikh Union Club, Forest Road.. The turn out is amazing.

[Alinur Mohamed @AlinurMohamed_]

#FreeJaprado now! Why arrest a doctor?

Share this widely until they release him

[JaPrado. @Dr_AustinOmondi]

Calling me with a private number to tell me you'll shoot me on site is asinine. I can only assume that a rogue officer. Even in wars, doctors are not killed. Our oath binds is to serve everyone. Anyway, ata mkinishoot I have a team of 2000 medics. Mungu atatuguide.

[Bomer Kip 🇰🇪 @bomerkip]

Holy Family Basilica

Pauline Njoroge / Millicent Omanga / Panic / #OccupyChurches

[Mercy Nicky @Mercynicky_]

#FreeBilly keep retweeting don't relent

[𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗝𝗔 @iamjoseh_]

Serikali haifai kuogopa hashtag

#RejectFinanceBill2024

[Thanos (25/26 🏆) @Muchang_i]

Msikubali tweet yoyote ipite kama haina retweets. We need the world to see this piece of shit called the government and police

#FreeBilly
#FreeCrazyNairobian
#FreeEricOmondi
#RejectFinancebill2024

[KOT OCS👮👮 @WaruiJohn2]

Just Repost

[Sir-Rap-A-Lot @Osama_otero]

Umoja ni fahari yetu.
Undugu ndio nguvu.
Chuki na ukabila.
Hatutaki hata kamwe.
Lazima tuungane, tuijenge nchi yetu.
Pasiwe hata mmoja.
Anaetenganisha.

❤️❤️❤️

[Eric @amerix]

No way!

I read this tweet in 2015.

I attended his burial in Bumula, Bungoma.

Today, I have just seen this tweet and almost jumped, thinking he has resurrected.

Jacob Juma is speaking to Kenyans from the grave.

Unbelievable!

[Hanifa @Honeyfarsafi]

#JusticeforRex!!! We will fight for you ❤️

[Arsenal's @AubaMiss_]

South Africans just tweet #REJECTFINANCEBILL2024 you don't have to understand. Thank you