Julius Kundu

[The Standard Digital @StandardKenya]

High Court throws out AG Oduor's application to block Senator Okiya Omtatah's Sh7 trillion public debt case, judges rule petition will go to full hearing.

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

PRESS STATEMENT BY SENATOR OKIYA OMTATAH ON THE PUBLIC DEBT CASE RULING

Fellow Kenyans,

Today, the High Court delivered an important ruling in our public debt case.

The Court upheld the @IMFNews claim of diplomatic immunity and struck it out of this petition. While we respect the Court’s decision, accountability for Kenya’s debt burden cannot end there.
We are preparing a separate legal challenge to the Bretton Woods Agreements Act, 1963, against the Constitution of Kenya 2010 to ensure all actors involved in Kenya’s debt processes are subjected to proper scrutiny.

Most importantly, the Court rejected attempts by the Attorney General and other respondents to have this case dismissed. The judges ruled that our petition will proceed to a full hearing on its merits.

The Court also dismissed applications by the former Auditor General, former Controller of Budget, the current Auditor General, and the current Controller of Budget seeking to shield themselves from these proceedings.

This is a significant victory for transparency, accountability, and the Kenyan people.

We will amend our petition as directed by the Court and return on 22nd July 2026. Our mission remains unchanged: to establish how Kenya accumulated trillions in public debt, how the funds were utilized , whether the public benefited and whether the law was followed at every stage.

This case is about protecting the future of our nation and the interests of every Kenyan taxpayer.
We remain focused, determined, and committed to seeing it through.

God Bless Kenya.
#DeniBandia #OdiousDebt

[Alphonce Shiundu @Shiundu]

There’s no guesswork when it comes to ambition, dreams, and vision; but you will weep (a little) when you read the tender documents for the modernisation of Kenya’s main airport, JKIA.

You see, the minister of transport issued a brief that says that by 2045, the airport will be handling 22.31 million passengers and 860,400 tons of cargo. /1

[Mohamed Wehliye, MBS @WehliyeMohamed]

Another big issue in Nairobi real estate is folks selling apartments based on plans. Building is complete. They then tell you they are processing the title. Meanwhile, they take a bank loan using the building as collateral. You move in & a bank comes and kicks you out! Beware!

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

DEFENDING KENYA’S STRATEGIC ASSETS: PETITION FILED TO STOP KPC PRIVATISATION

On 2 January 2026, together with Bernard Muchiri Muchere and Naomi Nyakerario Misati, we filed a constitutional petition at the High Court of Kenya challenging the proposed privatisation of KenyaPipeline Company Limited (@kenyapipeline) and other strategic State-Owned Enterprises.

We have moved to court to stop the Government’s plan to sell 65% of KPC through an Initial Public Offering by March 2026. This plan is unconstitutional, unlawful, and anti-sovereign. It is not a decision of the people of Kenya, but one driven by external pressure from the International Monetary Fund (@IMFNews).

KPC is a profitable, 100% publicly owned strategic asset. In 2024 alone, it posted KSh 6.87 billion in profit and paid KSh 7 billion in dividends to the @KeTreasury. Selling such an asset to service public debt violates public finance law and erodes national sovereignty, energy security, collective ownership, and intergenerational justice.

Our petition raises grave constitutional concerns, including:
•IMF conditionalities that undermine Kenya’s constitutional sovereignty
•Over KSh 97 billion in unaccounted retained earnings and depreciation funds at KPC
•Lack of public participation and transparency
•Irregular and unlawful appointments at the Privatisation Commission
•Misuse of Parliament, with approvals sought via Sessional Paper instead of proper legislation

We are asking the Court to declare the entire privatisation process unconstitutional, quash all related decisions and notices, and permanently bar any further steps toward the sale of KPC.

This is a public-interest case. We seek no compensation or costs. Our sole objective is to defend the Constitution and protect public assets that belong to all Kenyans, today and for generations to come.

[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

Parliament has invited your views on the Turkana Oil FDP that we are considering currently. You should pay attention because this is Ruto’s biggest scandal yet.

1. The ownership of the Company that is to produce the oil (Gulf Energy, Formerly Tullow) changed names and hands multiple times in a matter of weeks. Days even. Your lawyer will tell you thats symptomatic of attempts to mask real ownership. It is telling that the current FDP was approved by government days after the last ownership changes.

2. The Original production contract has been varied a million times. Most notably on 25th November 2025 just days after the last ownership changes, to raise the maximum recoverable cost for petroleum production from the initial 55% to 85%. Kenyans will never see any real benefit from that oil.

3. On the same day Clause 27(2)(b) was amended to expand the definition of capital
expenditure to include expenditure on labour, fuel, repairs, maintenance,
hauling, mobilisation and supplies and materials relating to production,
development, exploration and appraisal and decommissioning costs. We may basically never see a coin from our oil.

4. Crucially, we in the Senate passed the Local Content bill which requires the oil company to utilize locally available resources including labour and supplies. They have cleverly made the current agreement with Gulf exempt from such legislation.

We don’t have leaders. We have dealers in government who don’t care about anything other than themselves.

[Shoba Gatimu @shobanes]

Short story from something I read not so long ago.
Around 2012, Sameer as Yana tyres were doing about 4 billion in revenue. Manufactured being over 80% and the rest imported. Then Operation costs, cheaper imports affected market dynamics. These factors pushed revenue lower each year. Ministry officials and KRA cared less. There was robust, brisk business from imports. By 2016, they were closing down NBO and also focusing on importing cheaper tyres from China and India. By this time they were doing about 1.6b which further plummeted to less than 200 mil by 2020.
In 8 years they had gone from a multi billion giant to barely paying salaries. Job cuts were massive. Then they decided to focus on real estate which grew revenue to around 400 mil. When they were manufacturing, their real estate wing was previously classified as supplemental income. Kitambo, that would be their pesa ya chai na mandas. 😂 And even then, they still downsized staff to just property management. Sold about 4 Acres, Cleared a 500 mil facility and posted 250 mil in profit. The highest in 11 years. What I'm saying is, when you see manufacturers closing shop for real estate ventures you will know this country has a policy issue. Think installed capacity, supply and reliability, cost of electricity, haphazard tax policies, directives from Ministries etc. While all these are happening, the taxman is clapping for himself for surpassing collection targets and govt is proud to spend on more lavish items.
We went from Firestone to selling buroti maguta maguta.
Kenya has a policy problem. Not a manufacturing, agroprocessing, industrialization problem.

[Alfayaz 11 @Alfayaz11]

I’m often labelled as an “elite” because of where I live, the car I drive, or perhaps my lifestyle. The the truth is, I’ve always been a strong believer in good governance, law and order, and the delivery of basic services with high standards.
What many don’t realise is that I’ve championed these values for years, not for the rich or the upper class, but for every citizen, regardless of race, religion or financial status. I believe we should all speak up when faced with bad governance.

When people ask me why I bother, my answer is simple: if we don’t speak up for those who can’t, then who will speak for us when the rot finally reaches our own doorstep?
If you think that’s elitism, that’s your opinion, and I respect it.I remain unbothered by such remarks. Work hard, build yourself and you’ll soon understand why these standards matter, and why you’ll demand them too.

This thread of photos shows just how Nairobi has regressed, why it has become chaotic, lawless, and disorderly. And the cause? Poor leadership, incompetence and corruption.

I don’t lower my standards to fit in, I raise my voice to demand better, backlash or not.

It is what it is.

Clown 047 aka TikTok1, can create some content with these, I am sure.

[ephraimnjegafan @ephraimnjegafan]

If devolution had worked, we wouldn't be struggling with repaying the debt. Devolution was supposed to create 47 engines of economic development. 🧵

[Alex Vacca @itsalexvacca]

Before AWS existed, one company ran the servers for Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook's entire app ecosystem.

They owned Node.js, invented containers 8 years before Docker, and Peter Thiel even backed them.

Then something happened...

[Faustian Augustus @FaustAugustus]

Hey remember when it turned out Amazon Go wasn’t AI at all but actually was thousands of underpaid Indians watching you through the store’s security cameras and manually adding things to your cart when you picked them up?

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

The gov’t used Fuel Levy as security for a secret Ksh.175B loan,’ MP Ndindi Nyoro explains the drastic hike in fuel prices

[Atieno @JudyAtieno]

Tokyo, the most populous city in the world at 37m people has 311 parks & gardens, New York City at 8m has 1700 parks & playgrounds.
Nairobi, 4m residents has only 5 parks.
Purple blob wants to lie that NBO is growing so fast they need to eat the park!
They believe we are fools.

[NBA @NBA]

STEPH CURRY YOU DID WHAT?!?

BEHIND-THE-BACK TO A FADING FLOATER TO BEAT THE 1H BUZZER 🤯🤯

[ephraimnjegafan @ephraimnjegafan]

Imagine a litre of petrol is being charged KSh 80.50 as taxes and levies. Petrol lands in the country at KSh 79 per litre but retails at KSh 176. How can this make sense? How can the economy grow when people and goods can't be moved at an affordable cost?

[Caxstone P. Kigata @CaxstonePKigata]

South Africa Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi literally explains Kenya’s healthcare system. It’s about money and not service delivery.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The first Starlink satellite direct to cell phone constellation is now complete.

This will enable unmodified cellphones to have Internet connectivity in remote areas.

Bandwidth per beam is only ~10Mb, but future constellations will be much more capable.

[Cornelius K. Ronoh @itskipronoh]

Geoffrey Mosiria deserves more security. The Nairobi cartels are not good people.

[Spinnin Backfist @SpinninBackfist]

Nahh this promo is INSANE
Via @Turki_alalshikh

[Ivar The Boneless @roomthinker]

Every day. Utter nonsense from this clown show 🤡 that is the current administration