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[Ben @mr_maina]

The incompetence of the security orgs in Kenya is in for a real awakening soon. There aren't enough officers to handle the numbers of angry youth. Worse still the officers available are grossly unequipped.

[Kingpin of Kenya @ClintonObonyo]

Huko malindi ilikuwa mbaya... ilibidi watoroke

[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.

[Edwin H. Dande @ehdande]

There is very little to no room to bring down fuel prices… Gava already borrowed and spent kes. 300 bn against future fuel levy. And VAT is already reduced to 8%.

The expert has no room to deal.

Unfortunately, the dangers of spending future taxes thru securitization will now come out clearly and painfully.

[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

What sort of logic is this really? Fuel pricing is a predictable monthly event! Every single month we know the price will be reviewed! Shouldn’t you “protect Kenyans” when conducting the review in the first instance? We are seeing a pattern here where Kasongo throws us pain first then “reconvenes” to give us Panadol.

[Ciru Muriuki 🇰🇪🪬 @CiruMuriuki]

My thoughts would never fit on here, and doing a thread was too much work. 😅
https://t.co/E4IeyeSbWv

[Ben @mr_maina]

Possible reason for increased throat cancer cases in Kenya

[William A. Wallace, Ph.D. @WilliamWallace]

Drinking beverages above 65°C is a Group 2A carcinogen. The mechanism is thermal injury to the esophageal lining, repeated over years, driving chronic inflammation and cell turnover.

Islami 2019 prospectively followed 50,045 adults in Iran for 10 years and measured tea drinking temperature objectively. People who drank tea at 60°C or higher had 41% higher risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. People who preferred "very hot" tea had 141% higher risk. People who drank within 2 minutes of pouring had 51% higher risk than people who waited 6+ minutes.

A separate cohort in Kenya (Middleton 2019) found 3.7 times the risk for "very hot" drinkers vs warm.

Tea cools below 65°C in roughly 4 to 5 minutes in a standard mug. The threshold is the temperature, not the drink.

Islami, Int J Cancer 2019: https://t.co/EATANIFVdl
Middleton, Int J Cancer 2019: https://t.co/zqCaq0nQOf

[dany @danywander]

me and @claudeai

[goma @soigomaa]

My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away

[ConquerMindsetMoney | Self Mastery @TheConquerMM]

Your parents stopped buying things for themselves years ago. Not because they couldn't afford it. But because every time they had extra money, they thought of you first. They wear the same clothes. Use the same phone. Eat simpler meals. While making sure you never felt like you went without. Most of us noticed too late. Some of us never noticed at all.

[SkyVector @TangoFox_]

Frustrating to witness Ethiopia’s transformation,knowing that the same designer who authored their street manual also developed one for Kenya.While Ethiopia is turning these designs into reality,Nairobi’s ambitious restoration plans remain trapped on paper @chriskost @EricKigada

[Toby @TomolaGroup]

The New York Times just profiled Aliko Dangote and the story is wild.

A man worth over $30 billion who once had homes in multiple countries, drove Ferraris and Rolls-Royces, threw fancy parties, then sold everything and said “Some of us need to rescue the country.”

He poured $20 billion into building the world’s largest single-train refinery near Lagos. 650,000 barrels of crude oil processed daily. He imported thousands of trucks from China. Built roads. Constructed a jetty. All with private capital.

Think about what he was trying to solve.

Nigeria is one of the world’s largest crude oil producers. Yet for decades, we exported raw crude and imported refined fuel at a premium. We were literally selling the ingredient and buying back the finished product. The economics of dependency at its finest.

That refinery doesn’t just change fuel supply. It changes the foreign exchange equation. It changes the trade balance. It shifts the entire conversation about what African capital can do when it’s deployed at home instead of consumed abroad.

Critics will point to his privileged start, the cement monopoly accusations, and question whether this is polished PR. Fair enough. No story is one sided.

But here’s what nobody can argue:

Dangote bet his fortune on production, not consumption. On building, not buying. On solving a structural problem that governments failed to fix for 60 years.

That’s not just a business decision. That’s a blueprint.

[Ben @mr_maina]

@JuliusOnStocks @frank_mwiti It allows for stock manipulation IFKYK

[Iris Seraphina  @iris_seraphina]

90s games vs. today's games: How they shaped our brains differently. The impact is wild. 🎮🕹️👾🧠

#Gaming #90sGames #RetroGaming #BrainFacts #VideoGames

[pastor micheal @dexxe]

all these concrete buildings in nairobi are going to act as sand batteries.

they are going to soak up all the thermal heat from the sun during the day and release it mdogo mdogo at night so that it's hot 24/7

[Somto Okonkwo @General_Somto]

So Morocco Didn’t Just Start This Today 🤦🏾‍♂️

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Fun fact.

When the Norwegian Red Cross to refill their critically low blood banks, instead of reaching out to previous blood donors, they instead focused on soccer rivalries

[📹 dougiesharpe]
https://t.co/I8QawVgEYB

[Bankelele @bankelele]

@blackorwa White Cap and Pilsner were Allsopps brands.

[Ben @mr_maina]

Given today's accident on the Southern bypass let me bring up this thread

[Wallace Kantai @wgkantai]

We’re sleepwalking towards disaster: This morning, on the eastbound lanes of Nairobi’s Southern Bypass (heading down from Kikuyu towards Mombasa Road), a fuel tanker had a mishap. Either a crash, or a mechanical breakdown that rendered it immobile.

ka-UZI