When I was a young, romantic, newly wedded man, just like I still am, I was always looking for ways to smooth things over with my young bride. She wasn't yet the chairlady we all know and love. Back then I operated like the UDA government: false promises, corruption, constant travel, and opulence. I had to work very hard to get back on her good graces. It's hard work being Jonasi.
Anyway, one time I had disappeared after a good cabbage brokerage deal and was on my way back home in the early morning of the next day. I met some young men selling rabbits. Back then a rabbit was going for 50 bob. How it's now 1k should be studied.
Anyway, I got home. It was on a Sunday, she was in church. I slaughtered the rabbit and cooked it as an offering to appease her. When she got home she went straight to the kitchen and all I heard was violent throwing up. Apparently rabbit looks very similar to cat when undressed. She even forgot about my escape and begged me to throw it away, including the sufuria. I had to go eat it with a neighbor. She vomited for the next 3 days.
From then on, rabbit meat is banned from my house. When my boys wanted to eat it, we had to go and cook it in the shamba like the Hazabe .We had to use one sufuria and eat from it . Turns out this is the best memory my boys have of me . Not the trips I took with them to Nairobi ,not the bikes I bought them ,no cooking in the middle of a maize plantation and eating like thieves the keeping it a secret . Children are weird little people .They made good memories while Rumors of how nimekaliwa went around the village . Am yet to beat this rumors.
Why did I do this, you ask? It would have been very easy for me to veto her decision, but like I always say: consideration is the best expression of love.
Today I want to challenge you to consider those you love, consider how they feel .I promise you ,you will not have to say anything else.
I think Lee Kuan Yew’s greatest insight to me was that corruption is not merely a moral failure but the OS upon which every other national failure runs.
If you cannot keep the government clean, or at the very least wage an uncompromising war against corruption and the misappropriation of public funds starting from the very top, the rot will inevitably spread through every layer of society. Policemen will demand bribes, immigration staff at the airport harassing travellers for bribes, businesses will budget for kickbacks, and citizens will come to believe that honesty is for fools. Corruption stops being an exception and becomes the culture.
Kenya is living proof of this. The disorder in the matatu industry is largely a corruption problem. The breakdown of public transport, chaotic urban planning, poor service delivery, stalled projects, inflated procurement contracts, and even the daily bribes paid on our roads are all branches of the same poisoned tree.
Keeping a clean government is not just about punishing a few dishonest officials. It is about reshaping the incentives of an entire nation. When people see ministers jailed, permanent secretaries dismissed, and the law applied without fear or favour, integrity begins to pay. Honesty becomes rational. Institutions become trusted. Citizens begin to emulate the standards set at the top.
That is why Singapore did not become clean because its people were somehow genetically more honest(infact Lee recounts them being just like any other third world population). Its people became more honest because the state made corruption expensive and integrity rewarding.
You cannot build a first-world country on third-world governance. Clean government is indeed the road that leads to every other transformation.
Millennials, it's time to choose your midife crisis
1. Date a 23 year old
2. Quit drinking and become insufferable about it
3. Double down on drinking
4. Train for a marathon nobody asked about
5. Have a panic baby (with wife you hate)
6. "We're opening the relationship" (she bangs)
7. Get divorced
8. Get diagnosed with adult ADHD/autism
9. Niche side quests like rock climbing, hyrox, gardening, handstands
Ruto: Shoot on the legs
Nelson KOECH: Shoot to kill
Maalim: I could have killed all Gen Z
All these not considered Treason
Bob Njagi: Come out on 25th June
Charged with treason
Mnyonge Hana aki
Nelson, let’s keep the chronology straight.
Purple Saturn held 1,183 acres. Its controlling shareholder was Galba Mining—the Mauritius vehicle on the Rendeavour/Kofinaf side.
10 Dec 2014: Galba agreed to sell all 1,000 Purple Saturn shares to Daykio for KES 4.095bn. Daykio paid KES 430.5m.
27 Feb–3 Mar 2015: control was changed. Nara, linked to Nyagah’s sister, received the controlling block. Other shares went to his sister-in-law, cousin, cook, cook’s daughter, driver and church members.
Investigators found no proof they paid for those shares.
The DCI concluded that Nyagah and five associates were criminally responsible for conspiracy to defraud—and said the registry changes were organised with YOUR legal assistance.
Now you are presenting Muya and Jennings as the fraudsters? That is not a buried exposé.
It is your former clients’ defence brief with a new headline.
A candidate asked for KSh 52,000.
HR offered KSh 30,000.
He took it. He needed the job.
A month later he found out colleagues in the exact same role were earning KSh 65,000 to 60,000.
Week one he noticed. Said nothing. Kept working.
Week three his effort quietly dropped.
Month two he stopped raising ideas in meetings.
Month three he was actively job hunting on company time.
Month four he resigned. The company was back to square one. Job posting. Interviews. Onboarding. Training. Lost productivity during the gap. All over again.
There is a disturbing trend of young lawyers trying to be concise.
A 2nd-year drafted an executive summary for a banking client using bullet points and plain English.
She proudly stated that she reduced a 50-page compliance memo into a 2-page brief.
I asked her if she thought the client was paying $950 an hour for brevity.
She muttered something about respecting the CEO's time.
I explained that clients don't pay us to solve their problems quickly.
They pay us to make their problems look so incomprehensible that only we can solve them.
I made her rewrite the summary using dense, impenetrable legalese.
It took her 12 hours to bury the conclusion on page 42.
The client called me the next morning to thank us for our incredibly thorough analysis.
Clarity is a customer service concept.
We are in the business of intellectual intimidation.