Kanyi Kevin

An Afri-CAN; I belong I believe and am becoming. We are saved by faith... so that none can boast.

[BRAVIN YURI @BravinYuri]

A permit to make noise has never made sense to me.

Take the Arboretum, for example. We are told loud music will disturb the monkeys and the ecosystem. Fair enough. But somehow, if you pay a fee, you are suddenly allowed to disturb the monkeys.

So the problem is not the noise. The problem is whether you can afford it. Make that make sense.

If the purpose of the fee was to fund noise mitigation by providing some soundproofing, there would at least be a logical argument. But that is not what is happening.

What we have instead is a system that turns environmental protection into a revenue stream. A cash cow.

And if the argument is that the fee limits the number of people who bring loud music, then the policy becomes even more troubling. It does not protect nature equally. It simply says those with money can break the rule, while everyone else cannot.

When a regulation stops being about protecting the public good and starts being about selling exemptions, it is no longer conservation. It is a privilege for sale.

[Kanyi Kevin @KanyiKevin]

@SallieSoni @randomworldke Exactly.
Last mile connectivity started with Kibaki.
Forex g&l apply both ways and impact of movement is obvious to any average investor.
KPLC is a monopoly.

[Kanyi Kevin @KanyiKevin]

@kilundeezy Protein chapati.
mtu akisema carbs.

[Kanyi Kevin @KanyiKevin]

@wyx05 @KenyanSays Hahaha

[Kanyi Kevin @KanyiKevin]

@Mufc_Yuuto Worst Man U team? Really?

[Kanyi Kevin @KanyiKevin]

@Kabogo_Henry Anyone who is "right" can't win elections.
We need to plough through inspite of the bozo who gets to power.

[Kanyi Kevin @KanyiKevin]

@TheFP @magattew Not quite. Many businesses in Africa operate informally well before the bureaucracy you refer to becomes a bottleneck.

[Kanyi Kevin @KanyiKevin]

@CrystalAsige Did the issue have to be bundled with LGB++ to gain legitimate attention?

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

Y₀ = 2022 (year of last general election, held 9th August 2022)

T = 5 (constitutional election cycle in years, per Article 136(2)(a))

So the general formula becomes:

Yₙ = Y₀ + T × n, where n = number of completed election cycles

Y₁ = 2022 + 5 × 1 = 2027 — This is what some mistakenly claim.

BUT WAIT.

The Constitution says:

“Election shall be held in the fifth year.”
Not after 5 years, not at the end of 5 years — in the fifth year.

Apply Constitutional Time Computation (Article 259(5)(c))
“If a period of time is expressed to begin on or to be reckoned from a particular day, that day shall be excluded.”

So let:

Start Date (S) = 10th August 2022 (day after election)

Each "constitutional year" runs from:
Sₙ = S + (n – 1) × 365 days

Now compute the fifth year:

Year 1: 10 Aug 2022 – 9 Aug 2023

Year 2: 10 Aug 2023 – 9 Aug 2024

Year 3: 10 Aug 2024 – 9 Aug 2025

Year 4: 10 Aug 2025 – 9 Aug 2026

Year 5: 10 Aug 2026 – 9 Aug 2027

So any date in August 2026 (from 10th onwards) falls squarely within the 5th year.

Therefore:

Election Date D must be: D = 2nd Tuesday of August 2026

1st August 2026 is a Saturday

First Tuesday: 4th August 2026

Second Tuesday = 11th August 2026

[Kanyi Kevin @KanyiKevin]

@Jasiri_lima53 Underrated tweet!
We are hurtling towards becoming a kingdom.

[Spry Voice @SpryVoice]

@Nanjala1 Sounds familiar- violent conditioning.
Tanzania is perfect with this too.
UG and Rwanda use a different variant to gain acquiescence. A combination of active violent stimuli as well as appeal to historical atrocities.

[Nanjala Nyabola @Nanjala1]

Long story short, if you see someone do something brave and stand up for the right thing, it is not useless to celebrate them. (Even if they sell out later -wanajijua). It helps to unlearn the idea that authoritarianism is inevitable. It gathers momentum towards systemic change.

[Kanyi Kevin @KanyiKevin]

@wmnjoya This is so true and quite frustrating. We keep circling back to the same conversations without making any progress or reaching escape velocity.

[Abdulahi Adan @AbdulahiAdan10]

My fellow Kenyans hii content imeweza 😂😂😂

[Rev. Tony Kiamah @RKiamah]

When money speaks, the church's ability to hear God is tested—cursed is the one who puts their trust in man.

[Kanyi Kevin @KanyiKevin]

@Saginidr @profkagwanja The work referenced was what Uhuru did when he was still the president. The current govt shut him down immediately when they came to power.

[Kanyi Kevin @KanyiKevin]

@VeterinaryKenya If you as professionals were not consulted or engaged, who is going to do the vaccinations? Shouldn't it be done by vets? Or is there another profession allowed to do so?

[Bonnie Mwangi, CPA, LLM, MBA @MwangiBonnie]

My dear Kenyans,

We say that we are angry about our situation.

I say that we are not angry enough.

WE ARE NOT ANGRY ENOUGH.

A while back, I gave you a window into the utter debauchery eating up @NairobiCityGov

In that analysis, I walked you through the insane level of theft of public resources in that county.

I told you for instance, that in a period of three years, @KideroEvans and @MikeSonko individually in their capacity as Governor oversaw the hiding of KSH 18 BILLION in revenue from the county's financial reporting system.

And that was not even 10% of their crimes.

In virtually all my posts, I tell you that you need to wake up to a certain unfortunate reality. And that is, that this government of @WilliamsRuto is a GOVERNMENT OF THIEVES, FOR THIEVES.

Every single Kenyan needs to wake up to that reality. Tell it to your 80-year-old grandmother, to your infant children, to your friends on hospital beds. Tell it to everybody.

Because it is the truth.

This weekend, we found out that @WilliamsRuto has now appointed famous thief of public resources @KideroEvans into a government job.

Much like he appointed @GovernorNanok into Statehouse, after he stole billions from @TurkanaCountyKE

Much like he appointed @DrOparanya when his own @EACCKenya told him not to touch that crook with a ten-foot pole.

In self-respecting countries, which have self-respecting leaders, criminals are prosecuted and shunned. The are crushed using the law.

In this country - criminals are sought, embraced, and promoted to high office.

This is unacceptable - and MSUT STOP. IT MUST STOP.

We need to tell @WilliamsRuto that - the fact that you won an election does not give you carte blanche to fill the government with thieves and your criminal associates.

If we are angry enough as Kenyans - we need to organize and send a resounding message immediately.

If this country can shutdown business for one month to deal with an impeachment of @rigathi then it can shut down to deal with the corruption taking place.

THERE IS NO MORE SERIOUS ISSUE IN KENYA THAN CORRUPTION. NONE.

I am bringing back my original analysis of @NairobiCityGov - just so that EVERYONE is reminded of who you are dealing with.

Which is, A GOVERNMENT OF THIEVES, FOR THIEVES.

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My fellow Kenyans,

Earlier this week, I told you that my next County to review would be Nairobi County.

When I said that, one compatriot asked me to consider cautioning anyone who might read my findings to be ready to deal with the shock of a lifetime, and for this reason, I should probably recommend that readers be armed with a glass of water to help them absorb the shock. My response at the time, given what I was finding, was that everyone needs to be armed with one of the following 1) a bucket, in case they throw up profusely, 2) a nice glass of strong alcohol, 3) some painkillers, or 4) a bible.

As part of my contribution to civic education, I am here to discuss my findings with you. That having been said, I must warn you that you may need ALL of the above to get through the findings. Additionally, given that it’s Friday, I want to start by jogging your mind a little bit.

Let’s say that you are the President of Kenya. You want to select a list of 20 people from the 55 million people in the country to serve in your cabinet.

Assume that all these people are qualified for the position of Cabinet Secretary (“CS”). And then assume that there are 3 people who have been accused by your own government of corruption, out of these 55 million people.

Question 1: What do you think is the chance that you end selecting 1 of these 3 corrupt people in your cabinet?

Question 2: How about the chance that you end up with 2 of these 3 people who have been accused of corruption in the cabinet?

Question 3: And finally, how about the chance that you end up with 3 of these 3 people who have been accused of corruption in the cabinet?

Stay tuned for the answer.

To get started, please bear the following in mind.

One: My review focused on 5 years, between the 2016-2017 fiscal year, and the 2021-2022 fiscal year.

Second: As in previous cases, the information I discuss here is not new to the people plundering our resources, or the government. They have all have seen it, or can see in a few seconds, if they are interested.

Third. The figures you will see here are, for lack of a better word, humongous. They are like nothing you have seen in my other analyses. You can attribute that to the fact that Nairobi has a significantly bigger budget, and the fact that the people stealing are more brazen in the case of Nairobi County.

An important thing to remember is that some of the people mentioned here, particularly Mike Sonko and Evans Kidero have had their cases stalled or frustrated by our “justice system”. They are free men today, and are still viable politicians, believe it or not. This to me is the height of impunity.

Four. I am not here to discuss the merits of their legal cases. I am here to review what took place in Nairobi County under their “leadership”, and try to contextualize their accusations given my observations of how the County operated under their “leadership”, and I use that term very loosely here.

Five. By now, I think that we have established that our politicians are the key beneficiaries of our current system of government. In my last three commentaries, I walked you through how most of your money is spent, and therefore a reasonable conclusion is that the vast majority of the money available ends up in politicians pockets. Nairobi is no different. My review indicates that in fact Nairobi is worse than any County I have reviewed so far, in terms of not just the scope of the theft, but also the disproportionate allocation of money to the bureaucracy and politicians at the expense of the public.

For purposes of reviewing how the County is spending your money, I won’t spend any more time beating this dead horse, other than make a few observations here and there, using the County’s spending for the 2022-2023 fiscal year.

As I like to do, I want to start with some context, and so I ask you to indulge me a little bit in that regard.

I want you to take a look at attachment number 1. The first 4 pictures in this attachment show a PUBLIC school that my son attends in Texas. The last two pictures on that first attachment show the PUBLIC library that my son goes to after school and on the weekends. In Texas.

Now please look at the second attachment. The first two pictures show a couple of PUBLIC schools in Nairobi County. The second set of pictures in that second attachment show what seems to be the most important things in Mike Sonko’s life, the former Governor of Nairobi. I must say that I have nothing nice to say about him. The last set of pictures in that second attachment are what appears to be the most important things in Evans Kidero’ s life, the first Governor of Nairobi County. Much like Sonko, I have nothing nice to say about him.

The third and fourth attachments contain the details of my findings. I will highlight of some of them here, but please note that there is a lot of mind-boggling debauchery that went on in the County during the period of analysis, and we have little time and space to discuss all of it here.

Your first question is probably, “why are you showing these pictures”? So let me answer that. I show you the first set of pictures to let you see the possibilities in life when society has leaders that understand that leadership is public service. When you have leaders that understand that when everyone does well, society benefits. Leaders who understand that developing good societies, attaining progress, wealth, and good citizens is not a miracle. It requires strategy, effort, honesty, and putting the public interest above self-interest. So, when you see the first attachment, I want you to envision the possibility of opportunities that can befall every child who lives in a society that is not governed by thieves.

Please remember that the school and the amenities you see in the first set of pictures costs me exactly $0 annually for my son to attend. $0. I pay taxes, and that is the end of it. Juxtapose that with the second picture, and your own situation if you have children.

I show you the pictures in the second attachment for two reasons. One, I want to acknowledge the contradictory parallels of Kenyan society that our corrupt politicians are doing everything they can to ignore. The first two pictures show you a couple of PUBLIC schools in Nairobi County. When you look at those pictures, ask yourself how the child that attends that school will be able to compete with someone who attends the school in Texas, in a world that is highly connected. The kids we are raising today will have to compete with people from diverse backgrounds and in far-away places for opportunities. With that in mind, think about the odds that this child in those schools will need to overcome to compete in a highly globalized world.

And then remember that the difference between the opportunities available to these two children, the one attending the school in Texas and the one attending those schools in Nairobi, is not the lack of resources or some curse that we cannot overcome. The difference is, who is at the table making decisions about how to allocate resources, and how much to steal for self-enrichment. Thieves, or leaders who go into public office to serve the public.

The issue of providing opportunities to children is very dear to me, for this reason. When I look at the children in the second attachment, I see myself. That is who I was a while back, before I was blessed with an opportunity to pursue an education in America and Canada, including at the Ivy League, and building a career. I am the product of the schools you see in those pictures, and I sit here knowing that the difference between me and those kids is one thing only: opportunity. That’s it.

As I like to do, let me put some numbers on the table to frame the discussion.

0.000109%. Remember the question I asked you about what the chances are that you as the President of Kenya would select 1 of the 3 people in the country who have been accused of corruption? The answer is 0.000109%.

0.000000000377%. I also asked you what the chances are that you end up selecting 2 of the 3 people in the country who have been accused of corruption. That chance is 0.000000000377%.

0.000000000000000000411%. This figure represents the chance that the president ends up selecting 3 of the 3 people who have been accused of corruption, out of 55 million people in Kenya, to his cabinet. The answer to Question 3 above.

Keep that number in mind.

KSH 9 billion. This is the rumored net worth of @KideroEvans

Ask yourself what business your are aware of that made Kidero KSH 9 billion in Kenya, and remember that he ran Mumias Sugar and Nairobi to the ground when he was at the helm.

KSH 18 billion. As you will see below, between 2016 and 2019, Kidero and Sonko both did not disclose KSH 18 billion in revenues that the County made, in County’s financial statements.

Think about that. They left that money out of the County’s financial statements, until the auditor made the discovery after that fact.

KSH 5.3 billion. With a B. This is the total amount of unexplained expenditures, or amount that was illegally taken from Nairobians during 2016, per my analysis.

KSH 22 billion. With a B. This is the total amount of unexplained expenditures, or amount that was illegally taken or hidden from Nairobians during 2017, per my analysis.

KSH 900 million. This is the total amount of unexplained expenditures, or amount that was illegally taken or hidden from Nairobians during 2018, per my analysis.

KSH 4 billion. Again, with a B. This is the total amount of unexplained expenditures, or amount that was illegally taken or hidden from Nairobians during 2019, per my analysis.

KSH 14.5 billion. Again, with a B. This is the total amount of unexplained expenditures, or amount that was illegally taken or hidden from Nairobians during 2020, per my analysis.

Take a break if you want to.

86%. In the 2022-2023 fiscal year, Nairobi spend 86% of its funds (about KSH 32 billion) on recurring expenditures, and only about 14% on development. In many cases, the vast amount of “recurrent expenditure” is spent on salaries and benefits, and the ridiculous allowances. Remember Counties are not supposed to spend more than 70% on “recurrent expenditure”. Nairobi is a frequent violator of this rule.

KSH 529 million. This is the amount of money the County spent on domestic travel in the 2022-2023 fiscal year (with the Governor spending KSH 326 million and the County Assembly spending KSH 202 million).

KSH 5.5 billion. The Office of the Governor and the County Governor spent KSH 5.5 billion in just 2022-2023. Just think about that number. Two office holders and their aides ate up about 17% of the funds available. That was more money than the County spent on the Information technology department, Finance and Economic Planning, Health, Education and Youth Affairs, Trade and Commerce, Public Service Management, Agriculture and Livestock, Environment and Water department, Urban Renewal and Housing, Ward Development Programs, Nairobi Metropolitan Services, and the County Assembly!

If you are tracking, this office was the biggest spender relative to all other departments. KSH 2.2 billion. Nairobi County spent KSH 2.2 billion on the County Assembly, on about 123 MCAs, which means that 1 MCA costs Nairobians KSH 17.8 million annually.

For context, Nairobi spent more money on the County Assembly that ALL departments, except for except for 3 departments!

For example, Nairobi spent only KSH 2.1 billion on education, much of which went to salaries and allowances.

Review Findings

As I mentioned above, the debauchery that took place in Nairobi County over the 5 years I reviewed would make Governor @GovernorNanok and the other thieves in Mandera, Turkana, and Migori blush. Take a look at some highlights below:

2016-2017 year. Evans Kidero is Governor.

KSH 1,819,654,993. The County puported to have KSH 7,925,600,412 of expenditures but data and available evidence only supported KSH 6,105,945,419, meaning that the difference, a whooping KSH 1.8 billion, was likely stolen.

KSH 1,503,005,579. The County Government reported spending a certain amount on buying assets, but review of payment records (County Bank account) showed that a different, smaller amount was expended, meaning that the difference was likely stolen. This amount was KSH 1.5 billion.

KSH 1,762,711,478. Nairobi County claimed to have purchased KSH 1,762,711,478 in assets, but could only provide evidence for KSH 61,174,422to auditors, meaning KSH 1,762,711,478 was likely stolen.

2017-2018 year.

KSH 209,385,752. The Governor and or his lackies withdrew KSH 209 million from Equity Bank for unknown reasons without any documentation or authority substantiating the reason for the withdrawal. And nobody knows where that money is.

KSH 381,841,224. This represents payments to third-parties outside of the government’s procurement system, without any documentation or explanation.

KSH 3,045,914,596. During 2018, the County was found to have bank accounts at KCB and National Bank containing KSH 3 billion, which were NOT reported on the County’s Financial Statements, which could indicate a plan to divert the funds to personal accounts.

KSH 6,022,896,123. KSH 6 billion that was withdrawn from City County account without approval and in contravention of the law. For this year, the County had “own service revenue” of approx. KSH 10 billion, so 60% of that was withdrawn and nobody knows how the money was spent.

I know at this moment, your head is beginning to spin.

Trust me, you have not heard the half of it.

KSH 3,012,201,436. The Governor and the County contented that KSH 3 billion in County Revenue was deposited into a County Bank account at Co-operative Bank of Kenya. When auditors reviewed the bank statements, they discovered this was a lie.

KSH 2,340,969,739. Similarly, the County Government contended that KSH 2 billion was deposited at the County’s County Revenue Fund at the Central Bank of Kenya, but COULD NOT provide any evidence of such a deposit.

KSH 152,055,313. The County Government made an irregular and suspicious payment to a company known as Webtribe Limited, for what was reported as collection of revenue. When asked by auditors for documentary evidence, the County Government absolutely refused to share details, meaning that there it is possible that some of all of this payment was stolen.

KSH 3,652,534,274. The County spent KSH 3.6 billion on expenditures for which no invoice, contract, or other documents were available.

2018-2019 year. Mike Sonko is now Governor.

KSH 595,075,247. Money paid to legal firms. The County could not name the legal issues the payment pertained to, or provide contracts and other supporting evidence. Note that the County has a legal office costing more than KSH 200 million per year.

KSH 206,385,752. The Governor directly or through his lackies withdrew KSH 206 million from Equity Bank without the required authority, or explanation. Nobody knows what that amount was used for.

2019-2020 year.

KSH 2,072,323,179. According to revenue records, the County’s “trade, industrialization, cooperative development and tourism sector” collected KSH 2,076,990,059 in revenue, BUT ONLY KSH 4,666,880 was reported in financial statements.

KSH 109,310,436. Payments totaling KSH 109 million were NOT backed up by ANY support such as invoices or payment vouchers.

KSH 248,893,590. The County made payments to many different companies, who supposedly collected garbage in the same areas at the same times. One company claimed to use their truck 23 hours a day for 22 days, and one particular day, 29 hours in a day with 24 hours!

KSH 498,202,795. Illegal payments made between March 25, 2020 and June 30, 2020, to third-parties for services which had been transferred to the National Government.

2020-2021 year.

KSH 1,937,357,693. The County made almost 2 billion in payments to vendors WITHOUT AN INVOICE. As such, nobody can say what the payment was for, or if the amount was inflated or outrightly stolen.

KSH 1,572,378,187. The auditor discovered that KSH 1.5 billion in receipts/income during the year through a certain County bank account were not reported on financial statements.

KSH 369,429,434. KSH 369 million collected by the City County Alcoholic Drinks and Licensing Board was NOT reported by the County in its financial statements.

KSH 9,773,905,233. KSH 9.7 billionin expenses by the city had no invoice, vouchers, or contracts that would help confirm legitimacy of the expenses.

I think you will agree that we don’t need to keep beating this dead horse. Would you not?

As I told you, I looked at 5 years. But you can see the mess that is Nairobi County. During those 5 years, in 80% of the cases, the auditors gave either an adverse opinion or refused to issue an opinion on the financial statements.

An adverse opinion means that in the judgement of the auditor, the financial statements do not fairly present the financial position, results of operations, and changes in financial position, as per generally accepted accounting principles. In simpler terms, this says that the financial statements are nothing but a steaming, hot pile of cow dung.

When an auditor issues no opinion, it is because he or she, for whatever reason, does not believe that he or he has enough information to evaluate whether or not the financial statements are fine, or if they are a steaming, hot pile of cow dung.

In many of the above cases, the County Governor either explicitly refused to provide the requested information, or the information that was available showed different facts.

And so this brings to me to my last point.

Where do we go from here? Honestly, I don’t know. For our country is completely under siege by thieves.
And they have cut a deal to work together. Think about this. We just saw above what looks like the theft of billions of shillings annual. This stolen money could change the lives of the children I talked about earlier.

But the people that have been trusted with these resources are stealing 20% to 25% of the budget to begin with, and then take half of the remainder through salaries and allowances. With this situation, we cannot be surprised that a County can have KSH 30 to 40 billion budgets every year, and has schools that look like what you saw in the second attachment.

It’s cruelty of unimaginable magnitude meted out to the most vulnerable in our society. What worse is that, we have a culture that promotes and embraces thieves.

Think about this.

The president just announced his new cabinet recently, having fired the last confederacy of dunces that was masquerading as a cabinet. Which was made of thieves, clowns, or both. When he fired that group of deplorables, he promised Kenyans that he had heard their cries for a clean, lean, and competent government.

When he announced the new nominees, half was from the last motley crew that he had fired, and half is primarily made up of thieves or people who have bedeviled our society for decades.

So, the question, how is this possible after so many people have died on the streets?

The answer is, it’s unbridled impunity.

I told you that for the president to end up selecting 3 of the 3 thieves known to have been accused of corruption, his chance was 0.000000000000000000411%.

Incredibly, the president beat those odds, and appointed Davis Chirchir, @HassanAliJoho and
@DrOparanya, into his cabinet. It was just last week when the EACC told the president not to appoint Oparanya, who is under investigation for corruption. Also consider this.

Despite knowing the Evans Kidero was charged with stealing from Nairobi while in office, the president appointed him to a CAS position in 2023.

Lastly, you will recall that @GovernorNanok stole billions from the good people of Turkana.

The president, in full knowledge of this, appointed him to work at State House.

So, the president must be the unluckiest man on earth, or, thieves gravitate towards him much like flies gravitate towards garbage.

What else is there to say?

Nothing else.

It is a depressing time to be Kenyan. It is a depressing time for those of us who know that Kenya is better when we don’t have children attending the kinds of schools you saw on the second attachment. And it is a depressing time to see the person who should be setting the standard for ethics and honesty in the country be the one appointing thieves into office.

But that is our reality today. We must keep fighting. We possess the power to change our lives at the ballot box. Whether we exercise it to end this nightmare is up to us.

@EAukot @WilliamsRuto @rigathi @KideroEvans
@MikeSonko @okiya @ledamalekina @NationBreaking
@citizentvkenya @TIKenya @NAssemblyKE @Senate_KE @CNN @EricLatiff @MarthaKarua @OkiyaOmtatah @Paul_Muite

[Kanyi Kevin @KanyiKevin]

@KenyanSays What came of these hearings btw?

[Hon. Mbithe Mulinge @Mbithe_Mulinge]

Young men and Gen Z women, strive diligently so that your mothers won't have to plead with corrupt and arrogant politicians like this. This photo is the most heartbreaking thing I've seen today.