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[Topnottingham @TopNottingham]

KQ256 TO TNR is just circling around what's happening? @KenyaAirways embraer E190

[Topnottingham @TopNottingham]

KQ256 going round near Athi river

[Okong' Okuna @XivTroy]

I don't even know why, in this e-commerce era, banks still admit cheques.

If both drawer & I get penalized for uncleared cheques, what's my protection against criminals?

Should scammers issue 10 bad cheques, I'll be penalized 23,400 KES by @KeEquityBank.

@Coopbankenya will penalize me 5,000 for the same.

@NCBA will charge me 8,500/=

@Absa bank will penalize me a whooping 65,000/=

Why should we be punished for being targeted by criminals? What exactly am I being penalised for?

Isn't the entire process of clearance intended to validate the transaction? If it is established to be invalid, why must I suffer double tragedy?

Not only did I not receive the funds, but now I also have to pay the bank a penalty, FOR NOT RECEIVING THE MONEY!

It's ridiculous!

[Abdul Aziz @mfalme]

@XivTroy That shield avatar is to make it look official

[Abdul Aziz @mfalme]

@SokoAnalyst Or build a 4 lane Nairobi to mombasa road

[Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist @mohammedhersi]

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Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish: Kenya's Insurance Tax on Tourists Will Cost Us the 5 Million Dream.

Kenya has just done something no serious tourism destination in the world does. From 5th October 2026, every non-Kenyan arriving in this country must buy a travel health insurance policy through eCitizen, issued by a Kenyan-licensed insurer, before they board their flight. Every adult. Every child. Every grandmother on a once-in-a-lifetime safari. And airlines have now been asked to police it at check-in.

❗️Let me be blunt. This is a tax wearing a stethoscope, and it is aimed squarely at the industry that earns this country more foreign exchange than almost anything else.

The tourist was never the problem. The international leisure tourist is the best-insured person who will ever walk into a Kenyan hospital. The German couple in Diani, the American family in the Mara, the British retirees in Watamu they arrive with comprehensive cover from Allianz, AXA, Bupa or their credit card provider, cover that includes medical evacuation and repatriation, which no eCitizen policy will match. Tour operators already insist on it. Their own governments tell them to buy it.

These visitors do not queue at Coast General or Kenyatta National Hospital. When they fall ill, they go to Aga Khan, Nairobi Hospital or Mombasa Hospital, pay with a card, and claim later. They have never been a burden on our public health system.

Not once in my 30 years in this industry have I heard a hospital administrator complain that safari tourists were bankrupting the wards so what problem is this solving?

Nowhere in the circular does the government make any provision for a visitor's existing policy. The question is not whether the visitor is insured. The question is whether the visitor has paid us.
Nobody else does this.

The government will point to Schengen. That comparison collapses on contact. Europe asks visa applicants to show cover from any compliant insurer. Georgia, which brought in its rule this year, accepts Georgian or international policies. Even Cuba accepts foreign insurance and only sells local cover to those who arrive without it.
Kenya does none of this. Kenya says: whatever you have, buy ours as well.

The only real precedent is Zanzibar, a single island and look at who has quietly walked away from mandatory visitor insurance? the United States, Aruba, Costa Rica. They learned what we are about to learn the expensive way.

Count the damage. The double payment a family of four from Frankfurt already insured now pays four extra premiums. Not one. Four, because the rule says every traveller, "including a minor", must be individually covered. Families are the backbone of our beach business. We just made them pay a penalty for bringing their children.

The 90-day trap. Each policy runs for 90 days to match the eTA. Fine for a safari but what about the long-stay European winter visitor in Malindi and Kilifi, the snowbirds who fill our coast for four months and keep entire villages employed through the low season? More paperwork, more cost, more reasons to choose other destinations.

The airline gatekeeper. Airlines are being asked to verify compliance at check-in for every non-exempt passenger. Every airline station manager in Doha, Dubai, Istanbul, Addis Ababa and Amsterdam now carries the risk of fines for carrying an "inadmissible" passenger. What do airlines do with risk? They deny boarding. A tourist turned away at Heathrow does not reschedule. He goes to Cape Town and they will forever hate Kenya .

The retroactive sting. The requirement applies to all arrivals "irrespective of the date on which tickets were issued". Tour operators in Europe sold Kenya packages for this winter at prices that did not include this cost. Who absorbs it? Our DMCs, our hotels, or the client who now feels ambushed. Every one of those outcomes damages trust in Brand Kenya.

[MATT GRAY @matt_gray_]

looking for 2 really good people right now:

1. a photographer who wants to come hang with us in the Dolomites Oct 9–13 and shoot our Founders Summit.

beautiful mountains, ~30 founders, lots of good stuff to capture.

2. a killer sales ops person who actually knows HubSpot, dashboards, reporting + making the whole sales machine run cleanly behind the scenes.

if you’re world-class at either (or know someone who is), DM me + send me your stuff

[Alfayaz 11 @Alfayaz11]

Woke up this morning with no plan of donating blood. I was going about my work, actually in a meeting, when a city hospital called asking if I could urgently donate AB+, my blood group as I am a regular donor. I somehow decided to leave and go.

While filling in the form, I asked the nurse what to put under the patient’s name since I didn’t know who it was. She simply said, “Don’t worry, we’ll fill that in. It’s for a little baby who urgently needs the blood.”

What a blessing to start the week this way.

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

I have been suspended from the @Senate_KE for three sitting days for REFUSING to withdraw the word “yapping” in describing the President’s ROADSIDE declaration on undocumented immigrants.

I respect the Chair, but I will not surrender the constitutional duty to speak truth to power.

Article 135 requires PRESIDENTIAL decisions made under the Constitution to be in WRITING , SEALED and SIGNED. A roadside utterance cannot acquire the force of law simply because it comes from the President.

If calling out UNCONSTITUTIONAL governance is punishable, then the greater danger is not the word “yapping”. It is the growing intolerance for accountability.

Three days outside the Chamber will not silence me. I will continue to defend the Constitution and the Kenyan people. https://t.co/PkvYwrBgq5

[² Chris ⁵ Mars ⁴ @Chris69Mars]

@baroswahjr Punda to it's fellow Donkeys,

- Mimi ndio Sifuna.

😂😂😂😂😂

[Ⓝⓖ'ⓞⓡⓞⓡⓘⓔⓣ🐐🇰🇪 @baroswahjr]

Sifuna got me off guard😂

[Abdul Aziz @mfalme]

@FauzKhalid What you said is true. But was it related to the conversation? Why did the journalist look shocked?

[Barbara F Walter @bfwalter]

I have an update on my gardener who was taken by ICE.

Three big things have happened since then.

1. The neighbors have all come together to help.

We hired a good immigration lawyer for him. We also found someone willing to serve as his financial sponsor. That matters because one of the things the government will consider is whether he’s likely to show up for future hearings. Having someone willing to vouch for him, and having deep ties to his family and community, can help.

2. We’ve raised enough money to post a bond if he’s granted one.

We think he has a strong case for being released from detention while his case proceeds.

He has lived in the United States since he was 16. (He is now 44.) He runs his own business. He has a wife and two young children. He owns his home. And he has many, many people willing to write letters saying that he’s an important part of this community and is not going anywhere.

We’ll have to wait to see if it’s granted. Fingers crossed.

3. His lawyer is asking to postpone his court date, which is currently scheduled for next week.

This is really important. The Trump administration is trying to move people through the immigration system quickly so it can deport them as fast as possible. His lawyer wants time to gather evidence and build the best possible case for letting him stay. Again, fingers crossed.

But this is what really broke my heart.

My gardener was finally able to get a call through to his wife two days ago. This strong, confident, capable man was terrified. He didn’t know what to do.

Then his wife told him what everyone was doing behind the scenes.

He sobbed.

I don't know if we are going to get him home. I wish I could tell you that we will.

But I do know that we are seeing both the best and worst of American in real time.

The worst is a system that can take a man away from his wife and kids and leave him sitting in detention, terrified.

The best is a group of people who heard what happened and immediately asked: What can we do? And then they did it.

I’m betting on that America.

[JoeK @Joelep6]

@mfalme @SokoAnalyst Depends on the agreement between TATA and the govt, but we can assume they were given exclusive rights, like the way Base Titanium was granted in Kwale. We dont know.

[Government of East Africa. @EastAfricaGov]

The Embassy of Burundi 🇧🇮 in Kenya 🇰🇪 is with Much Concerns on how Burundians🇧🇮 are being mistreated, harassed and being thrown out like Chicken. We call upon the Chairperson of East African Heads of State H.E. @KagutaMuseveni to Immediately call for Summit to tame @WilliamsRuto

[NextGenMind @MutuaJK]

Here in Kenya, we reject Xenophobia. Africa is for all of us as Africans. Let Africans trade anywhere in the continent.

President @WilliamsRuto errored.

[Abdul Aziz @mfalme]

@Sirzollo @Lee_ming_sun The shops branding is very good

[Abdul Aziz @mfalme]

@SokoAnalyst why can't other firms open in the same region and be allowed to process the mined soda ash while tata continues to mine

[𝓛𝓸𝓻𝓭 𝓓𝓻𝓮𝔂 👑 @lorddrey]

Elon Musk has not said anything about this because the criminals are white.

None of them is brown, yellow, black, or an African immigrant.

[Ahmednasir Abdullahi SC @ahmednasirlaw]

The goonism we saw in Homa Bay can only mean one thing. It is time for a radical change to the political leadership in the internal security ministry. I think the time for PS Dr. Raymond Omollo is up and CS MURKOMEN needs serious reflection and new strategy as we approach 2027.