A key legislative milestone for our sister, Kirinyaga Woman Rep Njeri Maina!
The National Assembly has passed her Health (Amendment) Bill 2024, which seeks to prohibit public hospitals from demanding payment before providing emergency treatment, detaining patients and withholding bodies over unpaid medical bills.
Today, I condoled with H.E. @rigathi on the passing of his beloved firstborn sister, Eunice Nyangari Gachagua.
Losing a firstborn sibling who stepped in as a mother figure is a profound loss.
May God grant you comfort, strength, and peace as you celebrate her life and may you find comfort in the word of God in 2 Timothy, 4:7.
"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."
Public discontent with presidents shows up across multiple African countries in 2026, according to protest tracking and election reports. Kenya leads in recorded protest events, while South Africa, Tanzania, Togo and others have seen demonstrations over service delivery, term limits or election outcomes. Levels vary by local conditions rather than one standout case.
INCIDENT ALERT
Incident: Armed Ambush | Suspected Terrorist Attack
ID: 20261110 | 09:18 EAT
Loc: Hagarsu area, Arabia Road (Mandera–Arabia, Lafey corridor), Mandera County, Kenya
Incident Level: HIGH (Level 3) – Fatal ambush on construction workers and security escorts
INCIDENT SUMMARY
At least eight people are reported killed in a deadly ambush targeting workers on the Arabia–Lafey Road construction project in the Hagarsu area along Arabia Road, Mandera County.
Two Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs) who were escorting and providing security for the workers are among the dead. The remaining fatalities are construction workers.
No group has formally claimed responsibility at this stage; the pattern is consistent with previous Al-Shabaab attacks in the area.
DETAILS: https://t.co/7T6H7GsNT7
FYI
Lydia Sitienei Chelagat, nominated today as Kenya's Data Commissioner, was the Director of Legal Services & Corporation Secretary at the Communications Authority when, on June 25, 2025, the regulator ordered television & radio stations to stop live coverage of demonstrations:
Phase 1 of the EPZA side at Makenji is now finished and ready for uptake.
This means jobs for our youth, and value addition for our farmers' produce for the export market. No more selling raw produce cheaply - we process, package and export from Murang'a.
Jaindi Kisero
I have come across a letter from the National Treasury directing the state department of roads to immediately cancel all project-related commitments; including contracts procurement processes; consulting arrangements; and any other obligations on the multi billion Japanese funded Likoni Bridge project.
This development is a statement of the increasing political influence of Chinese contractors and the strong links with incumbent elites.
It is a big anti climax. First, the project has been running since 2019. Secondly- designs were done and consultants are already in place. The first tranche of the loan was disbursed. Advance payments flowed to consultants. A procurement competition was run to its conclusion. A winner emerged. And then — nothing. For nearly two years.
I am inclined to agree with a cynical opinion of an insider who has been following the shenanigans around the Likoni Bridge project for a long time who says ‘when they are unable to get a good cut or backhander on a project, they turn to the Chinese”.
For sometime now and to set the stage for cancellation of the deal with the Japanese; a new narrative was floated within government circles: that the project is too expensive and the financing model should be rethought. That Kenya could instead mobilise domestic resources—pension funds and institutional investors—through an infrastructure fund model. That a securitisation structure, possibly involving a Chinese contractor, could deliver the same project more cheaply.
Each argument is very controversial. Pension fund money carries market return expectations — a far higher cost of capital than 0.1 percent interest, the 12-year grace period, a 30-year repayment window, and an outright grant element worth Sh 6 billion which the Japanese had committed.
Yes, a securitisation transaction with a Chinese contractor may be an option. But it embeds financing costs inside the construction price, making it opaque and almost always more expensive in aggregate. Do we really want to hand back the Sh 6 billion grant element on the Japanese loan?
Then there is the diplomatic cost, which is being ignored. Whem the Jpanase foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Toshimitsu Mogei visited Kewnya in May,the Likoni brifdge wasa top agenda item. Japan helped author the Mombasa master plan. Japan is funding the ongoing rehabilitation of Mombasa Port. Japan designed the Dongo Kundu Special Economic Zone as the flagship of Kenya's entire SEZ programme — the first domino in a sequence intended to include Naivasha and Kisumu.
Cancel this credit, pivot to a Chinese deal, and we must look Tokyo in the eye and explain ourselves. We must be prepared for the consequences at the port, at Dongo Kundu, and in every future ODA conversation with an ally cultivated over decades — all to spare someone the inconvenience of a transparent procurement outcome they did not control.
Grand corruption does not always arrive with a smoking gun. Sometimes it arrives as a memo recommending delay. Sometimes it wears the language of fiscal prudence and alternative financing mechanisms. Sometimes it sits in a procurement committee and does absolutely nothing.
Halafu please usidanganywe! All information relating to the Movement and its activities will be shared through our official channels. Usipoiona kwa hizi channels jua ni jaba!
Linda Mwananchi Movement Party has the best Secretary General. Caroli Omondi is not loud and full of empty hubris. He is well-informed and can sit at any table in any conversation. The only other consequential party SGs, but who come a distant 2nd & 3rd, are John Methu & Joakim Simiyu.
Many people don't know that, to bypass the normal Procurement process, Ruto decided that the KDF would build the 105-kilometer water pipeline supplying water from Turkwel Dam to the T6 and T7 oil blocks. Even auditing that construction is almost impossible. KDF has become a procurement corruption caliphate.
Kenya has a software problem not a hardware problem. Fix the software and create the environment for investment and jobs. World Bank wameshika, tunangoja yule wa shiny things aelewe agenda ni Katiba.
#LindaKatiba