Juma, Lawrence

Founder - @zaidagrisol | Program and Operations Mgr w/ 10 years experience | @YALIRLCEA fellow.

[Juma, Lawrence @lalloyce]

@pierre_dlgr Keep running into this when trying to sign up

[Juma, Lawrence @lalloyce]

@moneyacademyKE Isn’t it Parliament’s job to make laws? If Treasury had made a proposal, isn’t it Parliament to amend, review and pass an alternative? Why throw the ball back to Treasury?

[Juma, Lawrence @lalloyce]

Loved this.

[Juma, Lawrence @lalloyce]

@farman4x Any number raised to the power of 0 = 1. Therefore square root of 144 = 12. Our numerator becomes 12 x 1 = 12. The denominator is 4. Therefore 12 div 4 = 3. Way easy

[Juma, Lawrence @lalloyce]

@wmnjoya I came across this, and I remembered something you talked about re: reading comprehension among students, and how students didn’t want to read; just skim through and skate by. https://t.co/YJGqOvQFx6. Slightly different take, but same result, I think.

[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?

[Juma, Lawrence @lalloyce]

@wmnjoya @OPLMKe Totally agree. We have a serious problem of duplication and copy cats. Good at copying, but can’t even paste it properly

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Kenyans should be very careful with this impeachment noise around Ruto.

A weak impeachment attempt does not always weaken a president. Sometimes it strengthens him. Bill Clinton survived impeachment and came out looking like a victim of political overreach. Donald Trump turned impeachment into a persecution campaign and used it to harden his base. Hugo Chávez used a failed removal attempt to purge enemies and rally loyalists. Even Uhuru and Ruto turned the ICC cases into political fuel in 2013.

So before Kenyans start shouting “impeach Ruto,” ask yourself….impeach him with which Parliament? The same MPs who clap for him, beg him, defect to him, disappear when needed, and vote exactly as instructed?

If Ruto already controls Parliament, then impeachment talk can easily become a trap.

It can help him test loyalty, expose weak MPs, rally his side, create a victimhood narrative, and make the opposition look unserious when the motion collapses.

Not every loud political move is resistance. Some of these things are traps acting as courage. Kenyans must stop waiting for captured MPs to rescue them from the same system those MPs are feeding from.

[Juma, Lawrence @lalloyce]

@sholard_mancity Why do they want to kill a system that works (dealers/importers paying the tax) to a completely new uncertain system (consumer paying at activation)? There’s something they know that they aren’t saying.

[OCTOPIZZO @OCTOPIZZO]

The land question in Kenya remains one of the most sensitive and least honestly discussed issues of our time. Land is not merely property, it is identity, inheritance, history, and survival. For many families, especially in rural Kenya, ancestral land is the only asset passed from generation to generation.

The Constitution of Kenya recognizes land rights and the historical injustices surrounding land ownership. Yet proposals or systems that place additional burdens on freehold ancestral land raise a serious moral and social question: should people be forced to continuously “pay” to retain what their forefathers already fought for, occupied, protected, and passed down?

How does a jobless father in the village, struggling to feed his family, become a debtor on his own ancestral land? At what point does ownership become conditional? At what point does inherited freedom become a recurring financial obligation?

A nation must distinguish between taxing wealth creation and penalizing existence. Because if a citizen must perpetually pay to keep land that has belonged to generations of their family, the contrast begins to resemble a modern form of economic servitude: not ownership, but conditional occupancy.

Kenya’s land history is already scarred by displacement, dispossession, and injustice. Any system that risks pushing vulnerable families from ancestral land must be questioned aggressively. Land rights should protect people, not create new pathways for exclusion.

The land conversation cannot remain silent. It is not just an economic issue. It is a dignity issue.

[Ramah Nyang @Ramah_Nyang]

If GoK was serious about this (and their actions tell us they are not):

(1) the state would not be fighting as aggressively as it is to keep SGR contracts secret, hiding behind ‘national security’ claims
(2) @KeTreasury would have made contracts for loans from institutions like TDB public (annual debt service to that body can be in the $ 1 billion p.a. range)
(3) we would have far more regular updates on inflows & outflows from funds that should be ring-fenced (but as PDF, RDL prove to us, they are not)
(4) we would see all tax returns & asset ownership data for anyone in public office - both politicians & civil servants
(5) Energy Ministry would have given taxpayers detailed clarity on what the triggers are for subsidizing fuel ages ago. This was required in our last @IMFNews program, but GoK chose not to comply.

This idea that ‘transparency’ is only for ‘other people’ (taxpayers like you and I, that is) is the unspoken part of how GoK makes policy. One rule for thee, and another for me.

[𝙋𝘼𝙐𝙇. 𝐎. 𝐍𝐄𝐊𝐎 @ouma_neko]

Kenyans are choking under the weight of taxes, fuel prices, school fees, rent and hunger while Members of Parliament live like untouchable kings.

A Kenyan wakes up at 4am to push a mkokoteni, ride a bodaboda in the rain, drive a matatu through police harassment, till dry land hoping for rain, teach hungry children in overcrowded classrooms or spend the whole day selling tomatoes by the roadside only to return home with almost nothing.

Then look at Parliament.

Over Kshs 300,000 fuel allowance.
Kshs 350,000 car maintenance allowance.
Kshs 16,000 sitting allowance.
Kshs 750,000 salary.

Millions every month funded by citizens who cannot even afford a full tank of fuel.

How do you expect such people to feel the pain of ordinary Kenyans?

How can a man who spends more on fuel allowance than a teacher earns in months understand the suffering of a parent skipping meals so their child can stay in school?

How can leaders surrounded by luxury convoys understand the pain of a lorry driver sleeping in his truck because diesel prices have destroyed his business?

How can they fight for mama mboga when they have never stood under the scorching sun praying customers buy sukuma wiki worth fifty shillings?

Parliament has become a sanctuary of greed. A marketplace where the suffering of citizens is traded for allowances and political deals.

And Kenyans must finally understand this truth:
A comfortable parasite will never fight for the wounded host.

This country cannot heal until citizens rise and clean out the rot inside Parliament. We must sweep it clean from top to bottom. Not with violence, but with the power of votes, civic action and public resistance against greed, betrayal and political gluttony.

A nation cannot survive when leaders feed like emperors while citizens survive like refugees in their own country.

The infected pigs destroying this nation’s future must be removed from power before they consume what is left of Kenya.

[Kairetu 👩🏾‍💻 @Mwende_Mugambi]

The Bot not only translates Climate Change Policies but also all policies kenyans are struggling to understand! And the beautiful thing, it is on WhatsApp.

We look forward to building offline ones too that can be accessible in remote areas💗

[Juma, Lawrence @lalloyce]

@IEAKwame Does this take into account the billions being lost in scams?

[Murithi Godwin @GodieMurithi]

We just launched something we've been building for a long time.

🧵

1/ Orion Terrametrics has spent 5+ years mapping Africa. 5,00+ projects. Kenya, Somalia, Zimbabwe, and beyond. Today we open-source that infrastructure to the continent.

https://t.co/vQRMVyUz8P is live.

[Juma, Lawrence @lalloyce]

@GodieMurithi @mutethia_karuma @cenas_j @SurveyorOfKenya @giswqs @GathogoBMwangi @RoadsHub @Moses__Mwania @Marvii_gis @CyrusKips @GeoserverO My god, this is nice. 👌 congrats

[Celestino(e) M. K @_celestino127]

Love seeing Kenyan builders on my TL, very underrated, this work is very important. Won't even try using Google's products. Better support a Kenyan startup.

[Juma, Lawrence @lalloyce]

@moneyacademyKE Good progress. If Co-op bank limited will do all banking, where does this leave Kingdom Bank?

[I am Chege @_James041]

This clip is only one and a half minutes long.

It will save your life.