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Freelance journalist, Joe Myles was full of dreams, talent, and hope. He picked up a call for work and never returned home.
His life was brutally stolen, and his killers are still free.
We cannot stay silent. We demand justice for Joe.
I saw it with my own eyes, an elderly woman, trembling bila nguvu, clutching her granddaughter’s hand. Aliambiwa cost ya treatment. She looked at her with quiet despair and whispered: “Wacha nikakufie kwa nyumba”.
I hope when anyone defends SHA or the Ministry for not equipping hospitals, they remember this: lives are being lost.
This isn’t a conversation of what SHA is or isn't. It is a choice between life and death forced by a broken system.
If systems and structures are valued more than the people they were built to serve, then the system itself has failed and must be scrapped.
We cannot let a system kill the very citizens it was meant to protect.
Yesterday I saw an advert on Citizen TV promoting a herbicide called SRASHER to farmers in Kenya.
Before people rush to buy it, please share this message in your WhatsApp groups, especially those with farmers.
This herbicide contains chemicals such as Atrazine and Acetochlor. Studies have linked these two long-term exposures to serious health concerns, including:
• Endocrine (hormone) disruption affecting estrogen & testosterone balance
• Reproductive effects like reduced sperm quality & menstrual cycle disruption, irregular periods, etc
• Possible birth defects in heavily exposed populations
• Cancer concerns studied in relation to breast, ovarian, liver, lung, thyroid cancers, and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
• Nervous system effects such as headaches, dizziness, nausea & weakness
• Liver toxicity, including enlargement and enzyme changes
• Possible kidney stress
• Skin & eye irritation from direct contact
A police officer was caught on CCTV firing inside an M-Pesa shop to force the attendant to open the door. The officers, who were fully covered in balaclavas, did not identify themselves or explain why they were attempting to force entry into the shop at night.
Today I was alerted to another disturbing incident involving SHA.
A patient, Lucy Wanjiru, went to a public Hospital expecting to use SHA.
Her details were entered, and the system said she was already admitted to another hospital.
Yet she has never been there. She hasn't been sick recently. (evidence on left pic)
And this isn’t the first time I’m hearing this.
In North Eastern and other parts of Kenya, there are people whose IDs show they had surgeries under SHA and admissions that never happened. In some cases, people are finding out that their IDs show they underwent procedures that in reality never happened.
This is how public health funds are being stolen.
And notice this: when we started raising questions about SHA, the Ministry of Health stopped publishing payment data.
CS Duale and the PS Health release the SHA payment data.
Without transparency, we can’t know how much has been looted.
Release SHA payment Data Now
Yesterday I watched this report on Citizen TV that really disturbed me.
While CS Migos & PS Bitok continue to say school fees are affordable, this is what the CBC/CBE transition looks like on the ground.
Where are such parents expected to find KSh 50,000 per year when some cannot even afford basic necessities?
About 800,000 students have not joined Grade 10, not because they failed, but because their families simply can’t afford it.
Under 8-4-4, most Kenyans at least had a fair chance to sit KCSE. Today, many bright students are being locked out early purely because of cost.
This is a serious issue, and the people responsible for education need to see it.
If you believe in equal opportunity, tag the CS for Education, MPs, and the President so they see what’s happening on the ground.
If CBC/CBE is here to stay, then education must be truly free so no child is left behind.
Funding is about priorities, not excuses.
I’ll keep speaking up for these students.
Here is the video.
UPDATE: Uganda Police Arrested and Expeled Sky News Reporter, Yousra Elbagir for filming them in trigger ‘action’
Bullet-proof clad Sky News African Correspondent Yousra Elbagir and her entire crew were arrested for filming Uganda police and military forces caught on camera beating up Bobi Wine Supporters.
Yousra recently interviwed dictator Museveni, and has been reporting on the atrocities being inflicted on Bobi Wines supporters in the aftermath of disputed Elections in Uganda which have been won by 81 year old Museveni since 1996.
As at press time, reports indicated that they were forced out of Uganda for their own safety.
When confronted with crumbling schools, an MP doesn’t respond with audits, budgets, timelines, or explanations, he responds with Uganda jokes. That alone tells us everything.
You can’t bench-press accountability. You can’t deadlift failing schools. No amount of protein shakes will fix broken classrooms.
Leadership is not a fitness challenge.
Parliament is not a gym.
Governance is not about looking strong while institutions weaken.
You claim there are 250 schools in Alego.
The official record shows 169.
So where are the missing 81?
Are these ghost schools the kind that only appear when bursaries are being shared, reports are being written, and numbers need inflating?
From DM
Please help highlight the story of Dec Muniko. He died at the hands of police on Thursday afternoon, in Makongeni Thika. The police broke into his apartment on suspicion of cannabis possession. There were 3 young men in the apartment. Next thing Dec is dead. Initially the police claimed he jumped from the fifth floor apartment but now they're saying they found his body on the ground. They broke the door to his apartment and a few minutes later he was dead. The family is pained to lose their beloved young man under very suspicious circumstances.
These are patients washing clothes at Longisa Hospital. The only referral hospital in Bomet County na hakuna maji - mgonjwa anakuja na maji yake kwa kibuyu. Hillary Barchok and Isaac Ruto want this to continue beyond 2027.
I conducted a review of every shilling spent by @WilliamsRuto and his Government of Thieves, by Thieves and for Thieves during 2022-2023 and 2023-2024.
The numbers speak for themselves.
Incompetence piled up on top of corruption.
KSH 688 billion in stalled projects in just one year.
OVER KSH 30 billion in totally waste ‘interest charges’. Bills are somehow never paid until billions are charged in interest.
KSH 59 billion in illegal contract variations. For example, in response to a tender request, we get four bids between KSH 5.0 and KSH 5.5 billion. We pick the lowest pursuant to the law.
Two months later, that contract is revised to KSH 7 billion!
KSH 2.5 trillion in money owed to the government, but the government is not interested in collecting. Go figure!
KSH 231 billion in projects that show no value for money. Inflated contracts, or, projects are completed but nobody is using them, years later.
KSH Billion in cash that got legs and walked off the set!
Today, January 18th, marks exactly one year since Brian Odhiambo was seen arrested, beaten senselessly and thrown into a waiting @KWSKenya vehicle at Lake Nakuru National Park, never to be seen again.
When the 6 rangers who were present during this incident were arrested and presented in court, @KWSKenya gave out their lawyer to defend the suspects meaning they chose to stand with the suspects instead of the victim’s family.
To date Brian Odhiambo and his family have not received justice despite a prolonged court case in which witnesses testified seeing the body of Brian in a KWS truck with one of the officers saying Brian was dead after checking his pulse.
Justice has remained elusive, the family continues to struggle. The children are orphaned and the wife widowed. The cabinet secretary in charge of KWS remains @rebecca_miano. What has she done to ensure justice is done?
#JusticeForBrianOdhiambo
Good morning natives! Today Marks 1 year since the imperial homeguards at @KWSKenya took Brian Odhiambo, never to be seen again. May the curses of our ancestors continue visiting them. Take a moment to pray for independence to come to Kenya. Viva la revolucion! ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿