Ya notaron que ahora que EE.UU. ha robado todo el oro y el petróleo de Venezuela ya no hay lanchas de drogas y todos los problemas del país han desaparecido mágicamente de las noticias?
Opening Twitter immediately after waking up to check the state of the world is basically our generation’s version of our grandfathers reading the newspaper every morning.
Guys we need 1 million tweets for our brother Albert Ojwang.
Killed by the police just because of a tweet.
If this post appears on your TL, RETWEET WIDELY !
#JusticeForAlbertOjwang#RutoMustGo#FreeKevinMoinde
It is the rich people in Europe that eat fresh farm foods like the poor people in Africa while it is the poor people in Europe that eat junk food like the rich people in Africa.
Dear Twitter Users I’m asking for 2 seconds of your time today to help RETWEET my paintings 😊❤️
Equatorial Guinea Elon Musk's $1 NOT HER Baltasar Engonga
Dear Mr. Ndegwa & Safaricom team,
I hope my message finds you well. I don't know where you were when Mpesa started, but a quick memory flashback will suffice.
When MJ became the first CEO of Safaricom and mooted the idea of Mpesa , banks, the top banks were furious. They lobbied and finally had a date with the acting finance minister, then Hon. Francis Michuki, alongside the governor of CBK Njuguna Ndungu. @CBKKenya
Banks made it clear that a communication company venturing into the world of money without being a bank is a big no-no. While banks approached CBK 17 years ago, Safaricom is today approaching CCK the regulator trying to stop a fellow communication company.
The wise men Michuki and Ndungu paid close attention and disregarded the banks' appeal, allowing Mpesa to continue operating. If banks receive the news that Mpesa will disappear today, they will be the first to voice their objections.
I saw a letter asking CCK not to license Starlink but to insist they partner with local players. Why does Starlink need a local player to set up shop apart from the unnecessary broker role, which is not required at all?
It saddens me greatly that today a firm that benefited from the free market is busy seeking favors that don't exist in law. The Internet is a necessity and no longer a luxury. As a hotelier, we have camps and lodges that struggle with connectivity, and even what we get is hit-and-miss while the cost is insane.
In Kenya, there are numerous small towns and schools that lack connectivity. This means that learners and residents of these smaller towns often miss out on the benefits of full connectivity at decent speeds, simply due to their perceived lack of financial resources.
Safaricom has no business trying to place obstacles in Starlink's path. Today, Safaricom finds itself in a similar situation to banks, which are attempting to block Mpesa services. Well, what is good for the goose is good for the gander, so please allow Starlink to be.
Starlink doesn't require you, Safaricom, or any other player to act as a go-between. This is precisely why Starlink relies on satellite technology, eliminating the need for intermediaries who would only increase the cost.
Bw Ndegwa Please wear your creative hat with your team and come up with a counter as opposed to seeking to place hurdles in the path of Starlink.
When MJ was asked about Mpesa he said he is not targeting the bank's clientele; he was simply targeting what the banks then described as the unbankable. Those are the clients who could not maintain a minimum bank balance of Ksh30,000. Today, Starlink is also serving the unserved and undeserved in the digital world of connectivity. Well they will also then target Safaricom clients like yours truly here in fact I am using my homefibre to share this message.
Instead of trying to stop a river, how about building a dam for a rainy day? Reach out to Starlink to be their partners in Kenya and use your wide network across Kenya to service them. Banks did not insist that Mpesa service go through them but by default that finally happened purely dictated by market demand and not through goverment control or dictates.
Please learn to grow the cake to achieve a larger pie, and avoid becoming overly comfortable with a bigger slice of a smaller cake. When you get too comfortable, you get obese don't let Safaricom get too comfortable.
Please let Starlink be
As always, I choose to remain an optimist.
Why Safaricom wants billionaire Musk’s Starlink out of Kenya https://t.co/wIV1kC5X8T
@kibeandy 😂😂 Noted. Hii energy ukonayo Kifee si uretweet biz yangu leo Kiongozi. Nauza vitabu my guys. Should I draft a tweet uquote retweet? I would go a long way my guy.
A Nigerian man who lives in the United Kingdom posted this on Facebook. He is using reverse colonial tactics to denounce colonialists who claimed they discovered places in Africa.
READ HIS FULL POST BELOW:
On the 24th day of the 10th month in the year 2021. A black African man from Igbo Naton in West Africa, called Mazi Uba Acho discovered a Lake in Leicester East Midlands of England. This newly discovered Lake by Uba Acho shall be called Iyi Ojemba.
Just as Mungo Park discovered river Niger in Nigeria. A river Ogbaru, Anam and Onitsha people and ancestors had been fishing in and swimming in long before the great great grand father of Mungo Park was born. But hey! Mungo Park travelled over six thousand miles from Scotland in 1795 and discovered it.
Just as David Livingstone travelled thousands of miles in 1855 to discover Zambezi river in Zambia and Zimbabwe also discovered a waterfall which he named Victoria-falls. Of course all the people, tribes and communities in Zimbabwe and Zambia, who have been hunting, farming, rearing their herds in that area for centuries were all blind they couldn’t see such water bodies. Until a Scotish man came from Britain to discover it.
And up till today these are still in our African school curriculum, still being taught our children. And you wonder why we have adults and leaders who take no pride in being African. And what you have no pride in, you can’t value, what you don’t value, you can’t cherish, what you don’t cherish, you can’t preserve nor develop.
So today, I Mazi Uba Acho have discovered this Lake and named it Iyi Ojemba. Put it on record, teach it to your children.