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[Ng'ang'a Muigai @NgangamuigaiCoK]

DEFINITIONS THAT MATTER

With Ng'ang'a Muigai

Today, we shall take a look at the term DEVELOPMENT.

Development is the management of the common good at a sustainable equilibrium, ensuring that everyone can equally and equitably advance their aspirations.

The common good includes, but is not limited to, roads, healthcare, education, security and the cost of credit.

Economics can be understood as the study of common sense; better yet, the study of how society makes decisions in times of scarcity.

It goes further to be divided into two broad concepts: economic growth and economic development, where the former is measured by figures while the latter is measured by feeling.

Economic growth can be attained without economic development because, at the centre of economic growth, we have THINGS, while at the centre of economic development, we have PEOPLE.

It is possible to say, "I have built this, this and that," but if the ability of the common man to afford a decent livelihood is still wanting, then there is no meaningful national progress.

To advance our discourse, let us introduce PEACEFUL DEVELOPMENT.

This is where a nation focuses on attaining economic growth and development while placing the well-being of its people at the centre of its pursuits.

Examples include leaders agreeing to disagree with the people on emotive issues and arriving at solutions without losing lives through the erratic management of law and order, among many other considerations.

This is captured in the Fifth Paragraph of the Preamble to the Constitution of Kenya, 2010.

Conclusively, the performance of a regime is determined not merely by the economic growth and development it achieves, but also by how peacefully it manages the journey towards attaining them.

Being a constitutional republic, we must be cognisant of the fact that economic growth and development should, and can only, be pursued in accordance with the dictates of the supreme law.

Every aspirant can have dreams for this country, but those dreams can only be pursued and attained the constitutional way.

And that is the Daily Dose.

See you on the next!

[Fan(Anoxutd)🔱 @Halvinebukachi]

You have taken this Manchester United banter too far😭😂

[vicky_steve @mwaura_vicky]

One day

[I am Chege @_James041]

Anne Waiguru bought a house in Kitusuru at Ksh 150M in cash shortly after looting NYS.

The same people who killed Jacob Juma are the ones still running the country.

[I am Chege @_James041]

Anne Waiguru bought a house in Kitusuru at Ksh 150M in cash shortly after looting NYS.

The same people who killed Jacob Juma are the ones still running the country.

[Yoko @Kibet_bull]

Such a sad thing. The son of Jacob Juma eulogizing his dad

[Yoko @Kibet_bull]

Kenyans are supporting the payment of 723M to Bayern and Ajax and not this schools.

[Ng'ang'a Muigai @NgangamuigaiCoK]

THE PLACE OF RANDOM WISDOM

With Ng'ang'a Muigai

A MAN MUST LOVE IT FOR A WOMAN TO HAVE IT.

The mathematics of life, to me, is very simple, especially when it comes to relationships.

Before a woman thinks about what she wants in her marriage on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis, she must first ask herself whether the man she intends to marry loves those things, both in words and in practice.

If a man loves travelling, his woman will have opportunities to tour the world with him. If he loves working, she is more likely to enjoy the benefits of his commitment to providing. If he loves kindness, she will experience kindness. If he loves responsibility, she will have an easier time building a home, spending time with him and raising children together.

The converse is equally true.

If a woman wants all these things without considering what the man loves, then it is imperative that she develops the capacity to provide them for herself.

The same principle applies to political choices.

Citizens can only consistently have what their leaders love.

If a leader loves shortcuts, what you will get is a government that compromises efficiency and the seamless delivery of services.

If a leader loves corruption, suffering is what you will get.

If a leader loves killing, death is what you will get.

If a leader loves progress, then progress is what you are more likely to experience.

Men and women can lie, but their patterns seldom do.

It is therefore easy to examine the political histories of those parading themselves as candidates for elective positions and establish what they truly love by looking at their actions, decisions and conduct over time.

When people ask me whom they should vote for, I tell them to look at the people who have stepped forward to seek their votes. Examine what they love, what they have consistently demonstrated a commitment to, and whether those things align with what they want for themselves and their country. If they are satisfied, they should vote for them.

We are a democratic country, after all.

However, the freedom to choose does not automatically mean that the winner is the right choice. That is precisely why we must interrogate our methodology of selecting the people entrusted with managing our collective resources.

And since no one is going to do this for us, we must become like that woman who refuses to have her possibilities limited by what a man loves. We must develop the capacity to do things for ourselves.

We must read the Constitution and examine the goodwill, character and actions of every candidate, particularly at defining moments when constitutionalism was put to the test.

Otherwise, we will forever remain at the mercy of their limitations.

We must understand that the world is entering an era in which happiness and economic freedom are increasingly important aspirations. You and I deserve to partake in that promise.

By the grace of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, which was born out of the blood, sacrifices and struggles of men and women who wanted nothing but the best for us, I pray that you become one of the people who will light up our country by making the right political choices next year.

And by the way, how many chapters does the Constitution of Kenya have?

If you cannot name them off the top of your head, then you are letting yourself and your entire generation down.

And I mean that.

See you next week.

ABOUT THE WRITER

Ng’ang’a Muigai is a law student, constitutionalist and civic educator championing the inclusion of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, as a full, mandatory and examinable subject in the basic education curriculum.

Email: [email protected]

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[Lamine Yamal 💙❤️ @LamineYamaba]

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[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

SHARP BOY MUDAVADI AND THE CEMETERY SAGA THAT GEN Z DON'T KNOW ABOUT!

Many Gen Z Kenyans probably have no idea that Musalia Mudavadi, the man who today presents himself as one of the experienced and sober voices in government, once found himself at the centre of one of Kenya's most extraordinary corruption controversies.

Let me take you back to 2008 and 2009, when the defunct Nairobi City Council decided to purchase land in Athi River for a new public cemetery because the existing burial grounds were running out of space.

The council ended up paying KSh283.2 million for land that government valuers had estimated at approximately KSh24 million, and investigations later established that the property was unsuitable for the intended burial purposes.

Imagine a country where even the dead could not be guaranteed a decent resting place without public money becoming the subject of a massive corruption investigation!

At the time, Mudavadi was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government, the ministry under which the Nairobi City Council operated, and his name featured prominently in investigations and parliamentary disagreements surrounding the transaction.

Mudavadi denied receiving any money from the deal and maintained that he had pushed for investigations after discovering irregularities, arguing that political opponents were attempting to damage his reputation.

But the scandal itself was real, and investigators established that only KSh110 million reached the original landowner, with substantial amounts ending up in the hands of individuals involved in the transaction including Musalia Mudavadi.

And here is something younger Kenyans may find particularly interesting.

The cemetery scandal has refused to die, because on October 27, 2026, a Nairobi court ruled that eleven accused persons, including former Local Government Permanent Secretary Sammy Kirui, had a case to answer over the controversial transaction.

What fascinates me about Kenyan politics is how politicians can remain prominent for decades, moving between administrations, political alliances and powerful government offices, while entire generations grow up knowing almost nothing about the controversies that shaped their earlier careers.

Gen Z should study Kenya's political history carefully, because many of the people now presenting themselves as the country's experienced leaders were already occupying powerful offices when some of the most notorious public finance scandals were unfolding.

The cemetery saga is a remarkable reminder that Kenya's political memory is often much shorter than the careers of the politicians who govern it.

[irumbi woshy @irumbib]

Imagine your kids are starving with no clothes, and as a father you buy a 65-inch TV so they can watch Cocomelon in HD.
That's exactly what this government is doing.

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Let politicians do their usual work of ethnic mobilisation, regional alliances and political negotiations, but Kenyans who spend their time online should understand that there is an entire intellectual side of elections that is being neglected.

For example, instead of discussing Kalonzo, Rigathi or Ruto every morning, why aren't we asking what would make a filmmaker wake up at 5 AM on election day believing that participating in the democratic process actually matters?

Does that filmmaker understand what the competing political programmes say about copyright protection, taxation, creative industry funding, filming permits and the economic opportunities available to Kenyan artists?

The same questions apply to cleaners, university students, small business owners, farmers and unemployed graduates, whose daily problems deserve serious public discussion regardless of their ethnicity or preferred politicians.

There is enough organic energy online to examine hundreds of national issues simultaneously, but we keep wasting that intellectual capacity on personalities, political insults and repeating the same slogans.

The deeper question is not how loudly someone can shout at a political rally, but whether an ordinary Kenyan understands what is at stake in an election and can independently identify which candidate deserves their vote.

Politicians can compete for political power, but citizens should be busy examining what that power will actually be used to do.

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Kenya Is Too Rotten for Any Politician to Save It

I have reached a point where I genuinely believe Kenya is too rotten for any single politician to save it, regardless of their political party, popularity or promises. We have spent decades listening to politicians promising heaven on earth, only to discover after every election that the same rotten system remains intact, with a different group of people taking turns to milk it.

Look at the ridiculous duplication of government institutions that we continue financing through taxes and borrowing, even as the country struggles to meet its obligations. We have the Kenya Water Towers Agency, the Ministry responsible for Water, Water Works Development Agencies and numerous other bodies, while our roads are divided among KURA, KeRRA, KeNHA and a Ministry of Transport, each with its own bureaucracy, budgets and officials. Some of these institutions have different mandates, but who has seriously examined whether Kenya needs all these expensive layers of administration, and how does the next president intend to finance this entire machinery without continuing to borrow?

I can never join the One Term chorus because I believe Kenyans are missing the bigger picture, which is that removing a rotten president does not automatically remove the rotten system that produced him.

Ruto has completely failed in my assessment and should even resign as soon as now, but what exactly is the alternative being offered by an opposition where someone like Rigathi Gachagua appears more interested in securing votes for his DCP party than presenting a serious plan to reconstruct the Kenyan state? How will the next president service the debts, finance the bloated government, eliminate duplication and provide services without returning to the same lenders that have kept successive administrations borrowing?

Perhaps Kenyans need to take back ownership of their country and consider a credible, constitutionally grounded transition council with a clear mandate to investigate the national debt, review government institutions, audit questionable expenditure and propose a complete restructuring of the state. I am increasingly convinced that the problems we face cannot be solved simply by electing another politician, because the next president will inherit the same expensive machinery, the same financial obligations and the same incentives to borrow, reward political allies and perpetuate the cycle.

Kenya has become like a political malaya, passed from one political suitor to another every election cycle, with each promising her heaven on earth before leaving her more desperate than he found her.

We are the political malayas in this arrangement, getting fucked over repeatedly by politicians who understand that our desperation makes us vulnerable to the next beautiful campaign speech. Kenya is completely broken, and unless its owners, the Kenyan people, confront the system itself and rebuild the country from the foundations, 2027 will merely produce another politician promising heaven on earth while inheriting a machine that continues destroying us.

[vicky_steve @mwaura_vicky]

@kamauwaruhiu You'll guys are just misunderstanding everything he's saying

[Eric @amerix]

Nowadays, each household has a parent, a sibling, a child, or a relative with a chronic ailment:

• Hypertension

• Diabetes

• Thyroid diseases

• Chronic tonsilitis

• Endometriosis

• Osteoarthritis

• Stomach and intestinal inflammation

• Haemorrhoids

They are swallowing tens of drugs in the hope they will be healed.

Drugs don't cure chronic metabolic diseases.

No human being was born to live on drugs forever.

Do them a favour,

Send them an X link and bring them here.

I will unplug them from the mainstream lies by the food and pharma industries.

We must free them from the functional illiterates who mislead and misinform.

Our families are suffering.

We must restore dignity to our people.

Bring them,

X is the library of mental liberation.

#FoodFriday

[WARÚHIÚ @kamauwaruhiu]

I have been doing a study of how a people's way of life, beliefs, and their ability to assimilate affect the development of their native counties.

Before 2007, Rongai, Kitengela, Ngong, and Mai Mahiu were largely undeveloped for one simple reason: the Maasai were absolutely inhospitable to anybody that settled near them.

Something incredible happened after 2008. They changed their way of thinking almost instantly. Today you can live right in the heart of Narok County and invest there.
In sipili where I was born land still goes for 100k an acre because of one simple reason, a people that embedded cattle rustling as a way of life ,peace and development will be a distant as a rational thought in Issac mwaura to this people . I have 20 acres of absolutely useless land there .

Part of the reason Kiambu and other counties surrounding Nairobi seem to develop faster is that the people are absolutely hospitable. The same applies to Kisumu, Homa Bay, and Kakamega.

No amount of investment or infrastructure will change the destiny of a place if the people don't learn to live with other communities.

If we ever hope to see development in the Northeastern region and other places that seem to be lagging behind, the people must first change. We have to do away with fatal tribalism and embrace change.
The people factor in development cannot be wished away.

[WARÚHIÚ @kamauwaruhiu]

There is a reason why farming is under attack , there is nobody that is more free than a farmer . Anybody that can go behind his house and come back with an entire meal everyday for a month without buying anything . Anybody that can survive outside the banking system, anybody that can liquidate his investment at a moments notice without signing all those source of funds things . Anybody that can drink herbs instead of buying pharmacy medicine. This is someone the gorvement cannot control.
Think back afew years when corona came , whose quality of life wasn't affected as much. If you want to know true freedom ,plant your own food and medicine , nothing will scare you . They can t even turn off your water unless they bribe the sky .
The IMF is fully aware of this and keeps pushing the gorvement to cripple the agricultural industry by having people concentrate on the economic aspect planting and raising animals that you can only sell then buying things you can produce . Why would you plant coffee ,sell the coffee and buy food 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣?.
Why not plant food sell what you dnt need for money you can use for other things.
To hoodwink you into thinking everything is still ok , politicians will farm as a hobby ,think about it who is the biggest "farmer" you know ? Probably your local politician ,putting tiles and sleeping mattresses for his girirando cows.
When you decide to farm ,plant things you eat , my wise Kikuyu elders say . Wealth is what remains after your stomach is full.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

France vs Spain highlights

[Eric @amerix]

Every morning,

You meet men crawling from prison.

Their shirts look like they were pulled from a bottle.

Their pair of trousers are worn out,

Their faces are long and sad,

Their masculine energy is fading. They walk tired, gazing into an emptiness.

These are men stuck in houses where their wives terrorize them.

They sit in these houses because they are afraid to leave.

They built nothing that belongs to them. They own nothing. Just children who have been strategically weaponized against him.

When they retire from civil service or as teachers or as employees in Indian-owned companies, they resign themselves to fate, enduring insults and mistreatment from their domineering wives.

Their only hope is to sit at the bus terminus, betting and gambling, hoping to undo their years of financial losses.

But it gets worse, they suffer hypertension, diabetes and prostate enlargement.

They become a burden to their families, and they are abandoned in the corner of the house to nurse a chronic ailment.

Their years of sacrifice get swept away by comments from their children,

"Our father spent years drinking and entertaining hoodrats. It is our mother who took us to school."

Or their wives,

"When other men were building wealth, what were you doing? I can't continue living with you."

Yet, his productive years were spent on providing for the family without fail.

Pain and agony, as he counts his last breaths.

Then, one day, the sun will rise without him.

The main door of the house will open without his cough.

His chair at the corner will wait for his warmth, but it won't come.

His legacy gets buried deep with his regrets.

Forgotten.

In the ruins of his sunk-cost fallacy.

If you are a man reading this, start building your fallback architecture now.

Remember,

You can lie down for people to walk on you, and they will still complain that you aren't flat enough.

Your independence, in old age, is your wealth.

WAKE UP!

[WARÚHIÚ @kamauwaruhiu]

Imagine using your rent to buy your children pizzas and new clothes , they may be happy for a day but when the landlord comes to lock the door their joy will disappear.
This is exactly how voter bribery works , politicians will steal money from let's say the health sector and give it out as tokens. After the elections you will then dig into your pockets for private hospitals.
After the elections the people of olkarau will be back to hustling.

[Eric @amerix]

Commercial activists have moved from #RutoMustGo to #DangoteMustGo.

Useless climate rent-seekers.

Scammers.