Kenya has at least 5.37 million registered vehicle and motorcycle entries.
At KSh2,000–3,000 each, mandatory annual inspections could impose a gross burden of between KSh10.7 BILLION and KSh16.1 BILLION on motorists every year.
That is the scale of money NTSA must publicly account for.
Roadworthy vehicles matter. But forcing owners of every vehicle older than four years to pay for an inspection annually—without publishing the exact number of active vehicles affected, projected collections, inspection capacity, accident-causation evidence and safeguards against corruption—looks less like road safety and more like another compulsory extraction from exhausted Kenyans.
We must challenge them lawfully and completely: demand parliamentary scrutiny, transparent costing, independent audits, affordable fees, reasonable inspection intervals and proof that this policy will save lives—not merely create another multibillion-shilling collection pipeline.
Kenyans are not walking ATMs. Reject punitive vehicle-inspection charges.
As a man, after you cross 30, sit down and study the patterns in your family. Look at what distracted, delayed, or derailed the men before you. Look at what destroyed them. Your father, his brothers, your uncles, older cousins etc... is it booze, is it gambling, is it women, is it recklessly siring everywhere, is it poor financial decisions, did they struggle with deep anger issues, domestic terrorists, did they practice witchcraft and all that.
Sit down and study those patterns,, then make intentional decisions to break those cycles. Remember some of these things are normal vices. Look for a recurring or deep recognizable patterns that are plastered all over men in your family. What brought them down. Do you see a pattern? Now that!
As Joshua Selman always says “As a man, number one thing that will help you live to your potential is knowing what can bring you down”. And you may not run away from your family tree. Refuse to be a victim of repeated patterns. Because they are there.
Whether you know it or not. Whether you recognize them or you don’t. They exist. They didn’t have the knowledge and resources we now have. Honor your progeny. Break out of them. Be made of Gold.
The Ebola issue has exposed President Ruto in the clearest way possible. It has revealed a leader who appears dangerously detached from the fears, safety, and dignity of the Kenyan people.
When citizens raise genuine concerns about a deadly disease and the government responds with secrecy, arrogance, and silence, the message is painful: our lives do not seem to matter to those in power.
If Kenyans suffer, they move on. If Kenyans die, they issue statements. If Kenyans demand answers, they are dismissed. That is why this matter is bigger than Ebola. It is about a government that has lost the moral authority to be trusted with the lives of its own citizens.
Yesterday President Ruto and CS Duale were at State House launching the so-called "Every Woman Every Newborn" initiative and talking about reducing maternal and newborn deaths.
But isn't this another PR exercise?
It reminds me of the Beyond Zero and Linda Mama programmes by Margaret Kenyatta. Whatever their shortcomings, they had a clear structure behind them.
If you're going to copy a successful model, at least copy the details that made it work.
Under Linda Mama, a mother could pay as little as KSh200 during pregnancy and then have free access to antenatal clinics, routine check-ups, delivery services, emergency Caesarean sections when complications arose, and even treatment for the newborn for the first year.
The idea was simple: remove financial barriers so that mothers and babies could get care when they needed it most.
Now compare that to what many mothers are experiencing today.
A mother must first register for SHA. Yet many women are reporting being asked to pay KSh10,000 to KSh12,000 or more out of pocket during pregnancy and delivery to register. And even after paying, there is often no guarantee that every service related to the delivery will be fully covered. Many mothers in rural Kenya can't afford even 6,000ksh
So when government officials stand before cameras and launch another maternal health initiative, the question is simple:
What exactly is new here?
A system where a mother pays KSh200 and gets comprehensive maternal care is very different from one where she is being asked for KSh12,000 and still faces uncertainty about what will be covered.
Reducing maternal and newborn deaths will not happen through speeches, slogans, hashtags, logos, and State House launches.
It will happen when every pregnant woman can walk into a health facility, receive quality care, deliver safely, and take her baby home without worrying about a KSh12,000 bill.
Stop the PR. Fix the system.
The USA has vowed not to allow anyone exposed to EBOLA to the USA soil.
They are free to take their citizens exposed to EBOLA and quarantine them in Space Ships, or to the USA territory.
If the USA doesn’t want them, they can stay in the DRC.
If the EBOLA exposed people are not safe for the USA, they are not safe for Kenyans.
@WilliamsRuto must be deposed if he brings EBOLA to Kenya using infected USA citizens.
The Ruto government is hitting back with tougher taxes in Finance Bill 2026 after losing key court cases to businesses.
After Absa won at the Supreme Court, where interchange fees were ruled not subject to withholding tax, the latest finance bill now expands the definition of “management and professional fees” to pull such payments back into the tax net.
After High Court rulings exempted payment platforms like M-Pesa and Pesapal from certain VAT obligations, the bill now proposes 16% VAT on merchant fees.
After cases like Githima frustrated attempts to tax undistributed profits, the bill now allows KRA to treat 60% of unexplained retained earnings as taxable dividends.
After courts blocked KRA from freely freezing bank accounts during tax disputes in cases like Katahira & Engineers, the bill now weakens those protections to make agency notices easier.
The pattern is hard to ignore.
Lose in court.
Rewrite the law.
Expand taxes.
Increase enforcement powers.
Instead of reducing corruption, cutting wasteful spending or sealing state leakages, the solution is once again more taxes, more pressure on businesses and a higher cost of living for ordinary Kenyans.
This Finance Bill is not just about revenue collection. It is also about the government clawing back powers it lost in court and revenging. And the costs will be passed to the people .
Fuel prices in Kenya have spiked 164% since 2020, yet the government is still blowing billions to make the State House look like a drug dealer’s den.
The Ministry of Housing has just asked Parliament for an extra KSh 150 billion to fund its avoidable housing programme.
Those billions could have been used to reduce taxes on fuel and to repair Kenyatta Hospital’s linear accelerator, the cancer treatment machine that has broken down, leaving thousands of patients facing imminent death if they don’t get treatment. Education is also underfunded and in shambles. The Ministry of Education has allocated just Ksh 95.25 per pupil for essential learning materials this term instead of Sh7,952.04. Basically, millions of children aren’t getting access to education. Ruto isn’t only stealing from us, but he is destroying millions of children’s lives.
This is exactly why extravagant expenditure, unnecessary foreign travel, lavish renovations, useless delegation hosting at State House, and bribery to buy support must stop.
This is why Ruto must go. #RutoMustGo
I live in Lukenya, Machakos County, less than 40 kilometres from Nairobi. Directly across from my home lies Kilili village — a place politicians flood every election season to beg for votes.
The village has about 500 residents, including over 300 school-going children. It boasts more than 20 unlicensed bars, 15 churches, and just six police officers stationed at the nearby Lukenya Police Post.
When it rains, a seasonal river floods and completely cuts off access to Mountainview Primary School, which sits on the opposite side of the village. The Kilili village is densely populated, with families renting houses while working at stone quarries and cement factories. Fewer than 20 people, including me, live on my side of the river.
During the rains, I stay put because even vehicles cannot cross the flooded river. Meanwhile, young children are forced to miss classes, while others risk their lives trying to wade through the dangerous waters. The school also lacks running water, so pupils must carry their own for drinking and handwashing.
Cement giants like @BamburiCement and @MombasaCement extract raw materials from our area, reap billions in profits, and contribute millions in levies to the county. Yet those levies come from the very parents whose children must wade through a river just to reach school — and who study without access to clean drinking water.
This is not merely a weather problem. It is a glaring failure of leadership and service delivery.
Machakos County’s budget for 2025/26 stands at KSh 10 billion. I am confident that Governor @Wavinya_Ndeti can resolve this issue in a single day — before a child drowns — just as Governor Sakaja swiftly fixed some roads in Nairobi ahead of French President Macron’s visit.
A family in Kariobangi South is desperately searching for their two young children who went missing on Wednesday at around 5:00pm.
The boy is 4 years old, while the girl is only 2. They were last seen holding hands near Kwa Chief in Kariobangi South. Their loved ones are pleading with anyone around Kwa Chief, Civo, Buruburu, 56 or nearby areas who may have seen them to report to the nearest police station or contact the family immediately via 0711569605 / 0742829805.
Every share could help bring these little ones back home safely. Please keep an eye out, share widely, and keep the family in your prayers. 🙏
Photo: Verah Owiti (Original)
We are kindly Fund raising for Ernest Parsali, a Player in Diani Sharks Basketball team. He was injured during a Game in December 2025.
We are raising money for his second leg surgery. The first one was not succesful.
Target is 120k.
Mpesa Number 0116959824 - Talash Kimojino.
Thika road cost Ksh. 32 Billion and the ripple effect can be felt after all these years, Ruto has borrowed close to Ksh. 5 trillion since he came in office, show me projects worth 5 trillion since Ruto came in office?
This is the sorry state of Kimalel Health Centre, Baringo South, Baringo County.
MCA: Nixon Lemlem, UDA
MP: Charles Kamuren, UDA
Woman Rep: Florence Jematia, UDA
Senator: Vincent Chemitei, UDA
Governor: Benjamin Cheboi, UDA
Shame on you all!
This is Nyeri level 5 pharmacy. A few months ago during my internship. The pharmacy is so big but you'll find very few drugs in the pharmacy. Then you hear the governor now wants to be elected as the senator to do oversight of the same things he was unable to do. Very shameless.