Dar Es Salaam thread.!
Last week, my chaps @Anto_mbuguaa and @njeru_ndwigah had different assignments in Dar. They are 3sgte experts and im a starlet expert. So we decided to heed to calls and go sort guys in Dar.
Kwenda ni by bus, sijawai skia makanika amelipiwa ndege.!
Senator Okiya Omtatah has taken the battle to the High Court with a petition that could change Kenya’s history.
Omtatah argues that of the Sh9.11 trillion borrowed between 2014 and 2024, only Sh2.57 trillion was legally approved by Parliament through Appropriation Acts. He alleges the remaining Sh6.54 trillion is "odious debt" money borrowed unconstitutionally, never appearing in any budget, and never benefiting the people.
The petition specifically targets USD 7.1 billion in Eurobond debt, asking the court to declare it null and void.
In recent sessions, the IMF has attempted to plead diplomatic immunity, seeking to be struck from the case. Omtatah’s team has countered this, arguing that an international organization cannot commit "economic terrorism" by funding illegal processes and then hide behind immunity to avoid accountability.
The Chief Justice has assigned a multi-judge bench to determine this case, acknowledging that the question of whether a nation can repudiate "illegal" sovereign debt is a matter of supreme public interest.
A simple query on @claudeai shows how Ruto’s argument collapses under basic economic scrutiny on multiple fronts.
The income classification sleight of hand
Kenya’s “middle-income” status refers to GDP per capita crossing a World Bank threshold, not to the purchasing power of ordinary citizens. Median Kenyan household income remains well below $5/day. The relevant comparison for fuel affordability is not national income classification but the fuel price-to-wage ratio, and by that measure, Kenyans pay far more relative to earnings than citizens of many so-called middle-income peers.
The real drivers are well-documented: heavy taxation through stacked levies including fuel levy, excise duty, VAT, and the road maintenance levy, compounded by the Petroleum Development Levy and chronic import infrastructure inefficiencies at Mombasa. These are policy choices, not the inevitable consequence of national income status.
The comparison is self-serving and selective
By his own logic, Kenya should have cheaper fuel than Tanzania, Uganda, and Ethiopia. It doesn’t. Those countries import fuel under similar logistics constraints, yet prices are lower. The “low-income neighbour” framing explains nothing about the price gap. Tax and levy policy does.
The middle-income peer comparison also fails him
South Africa, Namibia, Botswana are all middle-income countries with lower or comparable fuel prices, stronger refinery infrastructure, and more transparent pricing mechanisms.
The core intellectual dishonesty
He answered why Kenyans complain by reframing who they should compare to, without once addressing the actual question: why does the government collect so much in fuel levies while infrastructure remains poor? Look at the quality of roads @KeNHAKenya is busy building.
Mat Armstrong is the luckiest gambler alive! He bought this repossessed broken Bugatti Veyron with a non-shifting gearbox and got it drivable again with a replacement fuse which cost less than $50, This is his best deal ever!!!😂😂😂
I hate when elected leaders report on issues as if they are journalists . Like you are a member of parliament si you table this unaniambia sasa Mimi nifanye nini???
Ian Wright: ‘His arm has come up. I’m baffled at what they’re looking for. ‘Decs is actually holding him. His arm’s up there and now it moves up. When I saw that I thought they’re going to give a pen.
‘But then you don’t know what they’re going to do up there. You look at the pen that Man United got today, I’m thinking that’s definitely a penalty [against Arsenal].’
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@Maggiee_Sasha@rjkariuki Is there a way Best Athletic can open a store for Jerseys designed by them and the proceeds from those sales can also reach the clubs....because these jerseys are fire
Mombasa United have officially unveiled their new jerseys designed by Kenyan kitmaker Beest Athletic
🔵 Home: Blue
⚪ Away: White
⚫ Third: Black
The Dockers sit top of theNSL as they push for promotion to Kenya’s top flight.
#FootballKE
A statue of the great Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, murdered by Belgium with complicity from Britain and the USA.
.Unlike most African countries where leaders are easily corrupted by American/European companies and countries, Lumumba was a strong Pan African, immensely talented and wanted remnants of the brutal Belgian colonial apparatus (probably the cruelest colonial nation on earth) dismantled and have Congo at the centre of a strong and vibrant Africa.
So of course the Belgians, Americans and British wanted him dead.
PCS @MusaliaMudavadi recently proposed that in 2027 we hold a general election and a referendum. The political elite are still hungering for the NADCO Prime Minister, 2 DPMs, Assistant Ministers to solidify ethnic politics. Citizens and even Prezo said NO to BBI #jobsForBoys.
Btw I just discovered after being fired from KEMSA for scandals he was quietly appointed to NASCOP and was involved in the Health agreement that was signed yesterday. Now you know why he was barking the loudest.