Yesterday, Huawei marked a significant milestone in advancing digital inclusion with the graduation of 250 learners through the DigiTruck mobile classroom in Tharaka Nithi County.
The training, conducted across Maara, Chuka, and Marimanti constituencies, equipped youth and community members with essential digital skills needed to participate and thrive in today’s digital economy.
The event brought together key leaders and stakeholders, including Hillary Ole Koome from the Ministry of Blue Economy and Mining; Leng Yujie, Public Affairs Director, Huawei Kenya Khadija Mohammed, Media and Government Relations Director, Huawei Kenya & Timothy Ombega, CSR Coordinator, huawei Kenya together with other distinguished guests from the county. Their presence underscored the power of strategic partnerships in building a digitally empowered society.
I later led the Kenyan TVET delegation in an engagement with GIZ Vietnam, where a comprehensive briefing was delivered on Vietnam’s TVET system and GIZ’s catalytic role in strengthening skills development.
The session, delivered by Bach Hung Truong, Component Manager – TVET Programme III, demonstrated a model where industry is fully embedded—co-designing training, driving skills forecasting, supporting internships and directly shaping employment pathways. Through structured cooperative training and strong enterprise participation, training is tightly aligned to labour market demand.
For Kenya, this reinforces the direction under CBET of deepening dual training, strengthening industry advisory structures and aligning training directly to jobs, enterprise needs and emerging sectors.
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In Murang’a, there is a program called the Murang’a Youth Service. Yesterday there was a recruitment exercise across the whole of Murang’a. This program takes 30 youths per ward, and so far they have taken more than 8,000 youths. The youths are selected through balloting, if you pick “yes,” you get a chance. No educational qualifications are required.
If you are selected, you work in cleaning the towns in Murang’a for two months and you are paid Ksh 400 per day. You receive Ksh 300, while Ksh 100 is sent to your parent.
After finishing the cleaning work, you are taken to a polytechnic to study a course of your choice such as plumbing, hair and beauty, etc., for three months, and the program pays for your NITA exam.
After completing the exams, there is a graduation, and you are given Ksh 15,000 to start a business. If you start your business in Murang’a, you do not pay a business license fee for one year.
Murang'a is making other Kenyans feel like they were born in Mogadishu. Now that is empowerment, silent, focused and impacful, not what we are currently seeing in other areas. Other leaders are milking the country dry while telling their mumu voters that all development is taken to Murima bcoz of entitlement.🤡
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A young man from Busia County, identified as Edwin, is supplying electricity to his village. The power is generated from a pit latrine, and villagers are now enjoying affordable electricity thanks to this innovative Kenyan.
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Black History Month is a time to recognize the lived, shared experience of all Black folks who have fundamentally shaped, challenged, and ultimately strengthened America. It’s about taking an unvarnished look at the past so that we can create a better future. As we mark 100 years of celebrating Black history, let’s honor the sacrifices of the leaders who came before us, and recommit ourselves to continuing their work.
Today, I joined the AIC Cheptebo community in a worship service marking 40 years of impact by the AIC Cheptebo Rural Development Centre, alongside Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration, Hon. Kipchumba Murkomen, my counterpart PS National Treasury, Dr. Chris Kiptoo, the Governor of Elgeyo Marakwet County,Hon Wisley Kipyegon Rotich and other national and county leaders. The occasion also included a fundraising drive towards the construction of hostels.
For four decades, this faith-founded institution has transformed lives by expanding access to skills training in this remote part of Elgeyo Marakwet County, empowering young people with practical skills for meaningful employment, enterprise and self-reliance. I was encouraged to note that the Church has further strengthened this legacy through the establishment of the Cheptebo Training and Conference Centre, a TVET institution already changing the trajectory of youth through skills development.
I reaffirmed the Government’s position that skills are the most reliable pathway to opportunity, including access to global labour markets. Through a partnership between the State Department for TVET and HOPS Labour Solutions (UK), over 3,000 TVET graduates trained in agriculture have already benefited from labour-mobility opportunities in the United Kingdom. I encouraged trainees to skill to global standards, as competence, discipline and productivity open doors both locally and internationally.
I’ve just seen this distressing video from Hulugho Primary School in Garissa.
Non-local teachers are pleading with TSC to transfer them after the killing of their colleague, Stephen Musili.
Let’s speak honestly.
For years now, the pattern has been painfully clear: it is almost always non-local teachers who are targeted.
That is not coincidence. That is policy failure.
If Garissa, Mandera and other NE counties have trained local teachers, and they do, then deploy them to serve their own communities.
Education should not be built on preventable sacrifice.
Right now, TSC is effectively exposing non-local teachers to danger while safer alternatives exist.
That is unacceptable.
And maybe TSC leadership should spend real time in these regions, not just manage them from Nairobi.
Policies feel different when you are closer to the risk.
Protect teachers. Respect communities. Fix the system.
In 2017, the good people of Kirinyaga lined up like obedient sheep and voted Hannah “Minji Minji” Waiguru into the governor’s seat for one brain-dead reason: she was Uhuru Kenyatta’s mpango wa kando.
Their genius logic? “If the president is sleeping with her, he’ll be sleeping in the county - and boom, development will rain down like manna.”
Fast-forward and the irony slaps harder than a wet leso: Uhuru never bothered to develop even his own backyard in Gatundu South. To this day it remains a textbook poverty pocket; jigger-infested roads, collapsing schools, zero meaningful infrastructure.
The man who couldn’t fix his own village was somehow expected to turn Kirinyaga into Singapore because of bedroom politics.
Newsflash for Kirinyaga residents: development is not sexually transmitted. It doesn’t spread through pillow talk, side-chicks, or presidential conjugal visits. It happens when citizens stop being gullible idiots and start voting wisely - based on track records, not tribal loyalty or bedroom gossip.
You got yourselves into this hole by swallowing every lie fed to you by Kameme FM, Inooro FM, gospel musicians turned political cheerleaders, and that entire generation of boomers who think reflector jackets and 2-kg bags of unga are valid campaign promises.
And now - here we go again - you’re handing massive airtime and undeserved sympathy to conman Rigathi Gachagua, letting him play the victim while he recycles the same empty Mt. Kenya kingpin script.
If you keep voting like illiterate, easily-swayed morons, this is your guaranteed future: more recycled thieves, more fake “our people” rhetoric, more looting disguised as “representation,” and more headlines about your county lagging behind while the same old faces keep eating.
Wake up.
Stop outsourcing your future to bedroom rumors, tribal radio stations, and washed-up hustlers.
Vote like your children deserve better than jiggers, tree-trunk bridges and broken promises.
Fagia Wote.
No more sexual-transmitted development fantasies. No more Gachagua reruns. No more excuses.
The bursary system has reduced education to a handout. Parents and children are forced to queue, sing and wait before leaders, just to access education. Education should be free, accessible, and guaranteed for every child.
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