Baba Yenu

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[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

Remember the rush to swap old thousand-shilling notes?

30 September 2019 was the last day the old KSh1,000 notes were valid. @CBKKenya said 7.4 million of 217 million notes never came back, leaving KSh7.39 billion worthless.

#TodayInKenyanHistory #Money

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

@BettieWaShiro @MwangiHub Hapo tuko pamoja... Sugoi bright and early!

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

Compliance requirements sound good, but listing them doesn’t prove patients are getting care. Are claims paid, medicines available, and services affordable? Questioning delivery si kuchukia serikali. Na “this is my field” si evidence boss.. Jus show results, skip the lecture. @Hilla_Cheru

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

Tunataka maendeleo, but support sio blank cheque inapeanwa rahisi hivyo... Asking about land, compensation and local benefits isn’t rejecting investment. “Haijatumika for years” doesn’t answer who owns it. A good project should withstand scrutiny, regardless of who launches it. @cynthiaZion1

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

@MwangiHub Wananchi si soldiers to follow one script. You say politics must go beyond personal beefs, then centre everything on Uhuru. Condemn ethnic profiling consistently, including from allies. Katiba si revenge document. @GyanWahome

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

Health and education must work now, agreed. But that doesn’t mean longterm investment is a joke...... we need both. Swali ni, which projects deserve funding, at what cost, and with what benefit? Serikali haiwezi kuonyesha wananchi picha ya hospitali ya kesho wakati dawa hakuna leo. @munene_jayden .

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

‘Dangote wouldn’t return if Ruto had sabotaged him’ is an assumption, not proof. Businesspeople can revisit opportunities because conditions or expected profits have changed. Kurudi kufanya biashara si certificate of innocence 😂. It neither proves nor disproves the allegation,....... we need evidence.

And asking why a president tolerated a deputy is fair, but tolerating someone doesn’t establish their innocence either. Political alliances can survive serious disagreements because they serve mutual interests.

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

Very true.... kubadilisha dereva pekee haitoshi kama gari bado haina brakes 😂. Changing leadership matters, but we also need institutions that work and accountability between elections. Na accountability si chuki ya tribe, it’s asking, ‘Uliahidi nini, umetimiza nini?’ Kenya ni yetu wote, and loving your country includes questioning its leaders, even the ones you voted for.. Well said....

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

@mcpipita https://t.co/zzF7JX9spA

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[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

Kenya changed how it pays for health care.

On 1 October 2024 the Social Health Authority (@_SHAKenya) began operating, replacing the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) under the new Social Health Insurance Fund.

#TodayInKenyanHistory #Health

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

From Nairobi to a US state cabinet.

On 1 October 2019 Nairobi-born Hodgen Mainda took office as Tennessee's Commissioner of Commerce and Insurance (@TNCommerceInsur). He came to Tennessee in 1997 as a student.

#TodayInKenyanHistory #KenyansAbroad

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

Moi University began with 83 students in a hotel.

On 1 October 1984 its first students, moved from the University of Nairobi's forestry department, arrived at Kaptagat Hotel, where they lived and studied while the campus was built.

@moiunikenya #TodayInKenyanHistory #Education

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

Born in Kabete, he helped show that humanity began in Africa.

Louis Leakey died in London on 1 October 1972. From 1945 to 1961 he was curator of the museum that is now @museumsofkenya.

#TodayInKenyanHistory #Archaeology

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

From Kisii to the head of Minnesota's doctors.

On 1 October 2024 Kenyan-born Dr Edwin Bogonko began his term as the 158th president of the Minnesota Medical Association (@mnmed). He studied medicine at the University of Nairobi.

#TodayInKenyanHistory #KenyansAbroad

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

@MwangiHub Total reported increase from June 2022 to June 2025: 2,969 km, or 13.2%.

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

@MwangiHub If the estimated losses of nearly $6 billion a year to corruption are accurate, three corruption-free years could fund a refinery owned by us, the people and without borrowing. Angalia hizo estimates, Kenya pesa iko, shida ni mikono inaipitia.

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

Kenya’s SGR timeline:

2009 — Kibaki: Government signed an agreement with CRBC for feasibility studies and preliminary design.

July and October 2012 — Kibaki: Mombasa–Nairobi construction and equipment contracts signed.

November 2013–May 2014 — Uhuru: Groundbreaking held, followed by financing agreements with China Exim Bank.

31 May 2017 — Uhuru: Mombasa–Nairobi line inaugurated.

2015–2019 — Uhuru: Nairobi–Naivasha extension contracted in 2015, construction launched in October 2016, and the line opened on 16 October 2019.

March–July 2026 — Ruto: Naivasha–Kisumu–Malaba extension launched in March; construction commencement reported in July.

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

@MwangiHub Wadau, take it easy kwa Space.. 😆 Smile, kula apple, check on a friend. Thank God uko na bundles za kushare thoughts. Hatutamaliza shida za Kenya leo. Msikasirike mpaka mnasahau kesho bado taxes zinakungoja.

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

@mcpipita Hiyo ya Dangote pia itaishia kuwa storage facility ya ku back up ile ya Changamwe.

[Baba Yenu @MasenoG]

People are entitled to different political, religious and other views. Lakini hii serikali ina-underperform. Na report card haiandikwi na feelings, hata mtu akiwa diehard. Na Dangote amekuja kufanya biashara, sio harambee. Faida yake ndio agenda, kazi yetu tuhakikishe we agree and follow blindly. 😂