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Nothing to see here...... Move on along ......

[Kipkalya Kones @MrKipkalya]

It's the strangest reason ever, but after Moi, the only reason I missed a Kalenjin presidency was so that whoever became president would restore the dignity and prestige of the Kenyan military, which thrived under Moi but became just another tender machine after 2002. Some of the Kenyans I totally admire and adore are retired Kalenjin military officers, led by my eternal hero, Gen Daudi Tonje and former Kenya Army Commanders Lt Gen Lazaro Sumbeiywo and Lt Gen Agostine Cheruiyot, perhaps the three most principled Kenyans of all time.

Yet the Ruto presidency has disappointed me the most on this. Each time there are military changes, the casual nature hits you. Three years ago, the Commandants of both the National Defence College and the National Defence University Kenya (NDUK), both of them three-star General appointments, were retired. Their replacements were two-star Generals. And it stayed that way for a whole year.

Today, Brigadier Peter Limo has been promoted to Major General and appointed to the prestigious position of ACDF Personnel and Logistics, replacing Maj Gen Edward Rugendo, who takes up the position previously held by Brigadier Limo, as Managing Director of the Defence Forces Welfare Services. But Limo was a one-star General at that position. How does Maj Gen Rugendo, a two-star General, take up a one-star posting?

The second issue I have with the changes under Ruto is also something that is becoming a bad habit but quietly laying a bad precedent. The military officer ranks (from 2nd Lieutenant all the way to four-star General) are divided neatly into three categories: Strategic (General, Lt Gen, Maj Gen and Brigadier), Operational (Colonel, Lt Colone, Major) and Tactical (Captain, Lieutenant, 2nd Lieutenant).

The strategic level is where the country's national security, political and long term goals are determined. It is heavily but quietly political. It is at this level where changes and promotions are made by the Commander in Chief in conjunction with the Defence Council, in other words, the changes usually announced by the President. Below the Strategic (below Brigadier), the promotions and changes within the Operational and Tactical officer ranks are usually made by the military's Board One, a competent enough body for this. Why are the Defence Council and CIC in the Ruto regime making changes upto Lt Colonel and Major ranks?

And this is an important point to ponder. Because, of the over 160,000 KDF troops, the Strategic Level is made up of less than 70 people, and is acknowledged as an apex influenced by national politics. But the Operational Level, the guys who are a bridge between national- political goals and their counterparts who undertake war at Tactical Level, are meant to stay off such political influence. If the Defence Council now promotes Majors, how soon before they start running around identifying 2nd Lieutenants, straight out of Cadet School, for promotion? That is plain old CIC over-reach, which is very dangerous in a civilian democracy.

Now to today's changes...

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[West Beaumont @BeaumontWest]

Let the games begin.

[Nelson Havi SC @NelsonHavi]

The French cut off the head of their King and Queen for arrogance of a level much lower than that exhibited by Aden Duale in Parliament today. We are tolerating a lot of mediocrity and abuses from our elected leaders in Kenya.

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

Can the government provide a clear legal, economic, and policy justification for a system in which salaried Kenyans are mandatorily taxed through the Housing Levy to finance the construction of housing on public land ; land that is collectively owned by the people of Kenya only for those same citizens to later purchase the completed units at market prices through intermediaries and developers who assume limited financial risk and add little demonstrable public value?

If the capital originates from workers' compulsory contributions and the land is already a public asset held in trust for all citizens, on what basis is private profit extracted from a project substantially financed by the public? How does such an arrangement align with the principles of equity, public interest, and accountable stewardship of public resources? More fundamentally, what distinguishes this model from a system where citizens are effectively required to pay twice ; first through taxation to finance construction, and then again through purchase payments to acquire the resulting homes?

[Beatrice Marshall @BmarshallCGTN]

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?

[Joel Jirani @JoelJirane]

I have just watched how Ebola started in Liberia and how it spread to Guinea.

A quarantine facility was set up manned by military but Ebola wipped out patients together with medical team.

This is what Kenyan government is tolerating.

[Dr. Ekuru Aukot @EAukot]

Would you disobey a court order issued even by a district circuit court in the USA? Tell the Kenyan authority you are in touch with to respect our courts the same way you would do in your country.

[ephraimnjegafan @ephraimnjegafan]

This dalliance with the US government to establish a Ebola centre in Laikipia is going to bite Ruto more than Gachagua ever did.
Ruto is a series of epic blunders. Looks like he can't help himself; greed blinds him entirely.

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

Breaking: We reveal that hidden in Sections 34 and 35 of the Finance Bill 2026 is a proposal that could have major privacy implications for every Kenyan.

Most people think it's just a tax on phones.

It's not that simple.

The Bill moves excise duty on mobile phones from the point of importation or sale to the point of activation.

It also states that the excise duty must be paid to the Commissioner by the time the phone is activated.

But here's the problem, and I have attached all evidence in the replies.

The Bill never explains how that system will actually work.

For the government to enforce such a tax, it must somehow know:
✅ Which phone is being activated
✅ whether tax has been paid
✅ and potentially who is activating it

And that's where the concern begins, because it might involve collecting your phone number, names etc.

Every phone has a unique IMEI number.
Last year, dealers were already required to submit IMEI details of devices supplied to them.

Now the government wants taxes to be collected at activation.

To make such a system work, the phone, the IMEI number, the SIM card/ phone number, and the tax payment must somehow be linked.

Will sellers collect the tax and remit it?
Will telecom operators verify payment before activation?
Will buyers have to pay directly to KRA through eCitizen or M-Pesa before a phone can be activated?

The Bill is silent.

And if payment ends up being made through M-Pesa, eCitizen, or another digital platform, that creates another trail of personal data, including names, phone numbers, and transaction records.

Piece all that together and you have more than a tax system.

You have the foundation of a database capable of linking a specific phone to a specific Kenyan and be misused against anyone.

Today, it is being introduced as a revenue collection measure.

Tomorrow, it could become a powerful surveillance and tracking tool.

Your phone is not just a gadget.

It contains your contacts, conversations, location history, financial transactions, and much of your daily life.

The most effective surveillance systems are rarely introduced as surveillance systems.

They are introduced as administrative measures that sound harmless at first.

There are more details we have found that we will share, so follow me here -Sholla Ard - as we expose everything

Most Kenyans are focused on the tax.
The bigger story may be the hidden agendas. Reject the Finance Bill 2026

[Kishan Bhatt™ 🇰🇪 @bhattkishan9]

I was driving past UN avenue after Gigiri.

It’s usually a short, clean, downhill descent, but the guys of @KURAroads just can’t bear to see a road longer than 100m and not put a bump on it.

There are lorries right now pouring asphalt and have already made one bump. They’re making the 2nd one on the same stretch.

Mind you that bump is about 30cm in height because the fat chucks at KURA assume everyone drives a Prado.

RIP people who commute during rush hour. They’ve added 30 minutes to your time because people are going to drive at 10 kmph on that stretch.

And don’t get me started on how all the accidents that are on Redhill bypass are as a result of poor engineering.

[June 25th @Jasiri_D30]

I've been questioning the sanity of a certain individual for a long time and even asked what constitutes treasonable, impeachable offence. Allowing a foreign state to build a quarantine facility of a highly infectious disease inside your main fighter air base is exactly that!

[Generali Osumo @generali_osumo]

They have finally exposed themselves. The CROOKS and HECKLERS who were hired to the FAKE public participation on the Finance Bill at Jevanjee Gardens the other day want to skin each other over the money government/Mbadi have for them to be paid!

We saw it and said that the John Mbadi Jevanjee Gardens alleged Finance Bill public participation was all theatrics and drama. All the attendees, speakers and participants were hired and given specific instructions on what to say and how to behave.

It's not a coincidence that since that day, Mbadi has suddenly become a blogger in his social media pages posting videos from Jevanjee at an interval of 20 minutes for the past two days. He thinks Kenyans are as dumb as most of the affordable politicians, supporters and bloggers!

Madwanzi tu!

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

Mr Speaker Sir 🙋‍♀️,

Since State House is a "protected area", I propose that the US-imported Ebola patients be quarantined there so they can also be prayed for by our national healer, the one who once turned dirty water into Dasani.

That way, if anything goes wrong, the rest of the country will remain safe because the area is heavily protected.

As many as are of that opinion say “Aye.”

[𝐹𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑟 @OmilJr]

Watching Fox news and even they are wondering why a president would expose Kenyans with this Ebola quarantine bs

[𝙋𝘼𝙐𝙇. 𝐎. 𝐍𝐄𝐊𝐎 @ouma_neko]

For months, they treated Kenyans like fools. Now the truth is crawling out of the courtroom piece by piece, and it is uglier than many imagined.

The court has heard that DIG Eliud Lagat and former Nairobi Regional Police Commander Adamson Bungei allegedly tried to bury the truth behind the killing of Rex Masai. Not just silence it, cover it up completely.

IPOA investigator Justin Nyatete revealed how investigators kept hitting a wall every time they asked for critical police records. OB extracts. Arms movement registers. Deployment schedules. Basic evidence that should have been surrendered immediately in any honest investigation.

Instead, there was obstruction. Delays. Excuses. Resistance.

IPOA reportedly had to go to court just to force the police to release documents connected to a young Kenyan who was shot dead in broad daylight.

Think about how serious that is.

A citizen dies. The people entrusted to protect life are accused not only of failing him, but of allegedly hiding the paper trail afterward. That is not incompetence. That reeks of panic. Panic from people who knew the truth could expose something devastating.

Rex Masai was not just another name on a police file. He was a human being. A son. A friend. A young Kenyan whose blood was spilled while those in power calculated how to protect uniforms instead of pursuing justice.

And this is exactly why Kenyans no longer trust official statements issued hours after police killings. Because too often, the first instinct is not accountability, it is containment. Control the narrative. Hide the evidence. Protect the chain of command.

But no cover up lasts forever.

The courtroom is slowly dragging into daylight what some hoped would stay buried in darkness.

[Dr. John Njenga Karugia PhD. @johnnjenga]

"We cannot and will not allow any cases of ebola to enter USA" but ebola should enter Kenya? ⚖️

[Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @KrutikaKuppalli]

I am sorry, but as an American this makes no sense to me.

I know Kenya has a great health infrastructure and can do this - the question is WHY did they agree to this.

Would be interested to know what kind of pressure or concessions the US government made to convince the Kenyan government

[Muganda Clay @mqhlay]

Kenyans who were annoyed that Maraga house is small are now annoyed that Salasya house is big...😄

[Waihiga Mwaura @WaihigaMwaura]

"The number one priority of our foreign policy is to protect the American people. We can not and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States" ~ Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

BREAKING: As I promised, here is evidence showing how the Finance Bill 2026 could increase M-Pesa and digital transaction costs. Reject the Finance Bill 2026

UDA propagandists asked for evidence. Here it is.

Go to pages 16 and 17 of the Finance Bill under Clause 31(b).
TWEET 2

The bill says:
“Section A of the First Schedule to the Value Added Tax Act is amended,”
Then specifically:

“in Part II.... by deleting subparagraph (b) and substituting therefor the following new paragraph...”

This is important.
Let's move to 2/5