Kaminja Kanyari 🇰🇪

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[Kaminja Kanyari 🇰🇪 @nyariz]

@TheAbojani Issued shares?

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[Constant Cap @ConstantCap]

On collapsing buildings, @TimKipchumba can tell you that a few years ago his colleague wrote a PhD Thesis at Carnegie Mellon University on 'Strategies to Reduce the Risk of Building Collapse in Developing Countries' (2014). The study was based in Nairobi.
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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Mongolia: 64 million livestock. Sheep, goats, cattle, horses, camels.

For a country of only 3 million people, that seems excessive.

Environmental consultants from Europe and America regularly arrive to explain that Mongolia is overstocked and heading for ecological collapse.

The Mongolian herders listen politely. Then continue doing what they've done for thousands of years.

The steppes remain healthy.

How? The herders never asked for advice because they already solved this problem about 3,000 years ago.

The key is movement. Mongolian herders are fully nomadic. They move their livestock constantly, following ancient patterns that align with grass growth cycles and water availability.

A section of steppe gets hit with intense grazing from a large herd. Looks devastating. Grass trampled. Soil disturbed. Dung everywhere.

Then the herd moves on. And doesn't return to that section for months.

The grass explodes back. Faster and thicker than if it hadn't been grazed.

Why? Grazing stimulates tillering in grasses. One plant becomes five. The trampling breaks up soil crust and incorporates organic matter. The dung feeds soil microbes.

But this only works with movement. Stay too long and you destroy the grass. Keep moving and you stimulate it.

The Mongolian steppes are a carbon sink. The soil organic carbon levels are among the highest for any grassland on Earth.

This is being built by 64 million livestock doing exactly what environmental consultants say causes desertification.

Western researchers finally started studying this seriously in the 2000s. The data is clear: Nomadic grazing at high stocking densities maintains healthier grassland than low-intensity grazing on fixed ranges.

The Mongols have been right for 3,000 years. The modern range science was wrong.

There's a reason Mongolia's grasslands are still intact while American and Australian rangelands show degradation. Mongolia never adopted the Western model of splitting the range into paddocks and grazing each continuously at low density.

They kept the high-density, high-mobility system that evolved with the landscape.

Climate researchers studying carbon sequestration are now very interested in Mongolian grasslands. The carbon storage potential is enormous.

And it's being maintained by the exact thing climate activists want to eliminate: Large numbers of livestock.

The environmental movement doesn't publicize Mongolia's success because it contradicts the core message that livestock numbers must be reduced.

Mongolia's response: They'll reduce their livestock when the steppes start failing. That hasn't happened in 3,000 years of herding, so they're not worried.

The grassland knows what it needs. And what it needs is exactly what it's getting.

[Alex Vacca @itsalexvacca]

Facebook once bought a VPN app for $120M and turned it into a surveillance tool that spied on 33M+ users' entire phones for years.

This app helped Zuck buy WhatsApp for a whopping $19B and break Snapchat's encryption.

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#DropDavidMokayaCharges

[Amazing @kijanayamwingii]

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[K. Kimuyu @wakimuyu]

He is your Dad, he is sixty and on the board of a few companies. He parks a guzzler outside your home. His phone rings often. When it’s work he shouts into it, other times he looks at it and says, “Who is this disturbing me in the morning?” Later when he’s at The Mirage for his meeting he will call the disturbance and a sweet voice will be on the other end complaining that he never picks her calls and maybe he will Mpesa her twenty thousand bob to shut her up.

The sweet voice might be your age mate. Hell! She might be your classmate. She’s stunning. You hit on her but you know she’s out of your league; what with the jewelry, trendy clothes, and the Volkswagen Golf she drives but you still shoot your shot because what is a man without an ego?

He has rented her an apartment in Adams, or Yaya. Somewhere people will readily pass for official business. Most are the times she misses morning classes and you sign the attendance on her behalf. Those very mornings that your dad claims he has an early meeting and skips your mom’s cooking.

The sweet voice comes to class in the afternoon, and in an effort to start a conversation, you start telling her that you signed the class attendance for her. She doesn’t know what it is but you resemble someone she knows, and that’s how you end up talking, and that’s how you end up in Adams watching her 55-inch Samsung curve wondering if her father is the prince of Swaziland.

Drinks are drained, clothes fall off and you spend the night. Her phone rings in the morning. “Not this morning, we have a cat,” she says, and you wonder what the cat is about, or is it the one you did last night? You tell her you need to get going and she offers to drop you, partly because she’s afraid Mzee might drop by like he usually does.

You get home and your mom is the one who opens the gate. “Ulilala wapi wewe,” she barks. “And who is this?” She’s smiling now after she sees her. “Come in and have tea,” she demands. You follow her as you wonder why the color has drained from the sweet voice’s face. You look around and see your Dad's guzzler still parked in the compound and wonder what he will make of your new friend.

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[Clayson Monyela @ClaysonMonyela]

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[BRAVIN YURI @BravinYuri]

Many homes stand strong today because of the silent sacrifices of women—sacrifices that often go unnoticed, unspoken, yet hold entire families together.

There are households where tragedy struck, rendering the man unable to provide. Whether through job loss, illness, or other hardships, the burden shifted, and it was the woman who took charge, ensuring the home remained intact until the man could get back on his feet.

In some of these homes, bills are paid by the mother, but through the father. Not because it’s a secret, but because she understands what is at stake. She has the emotional intelligence to see the bigger picture. Society is quick to judge, and the unfortunate reality is that when people realize a woman is footing the bills, the respect for the man of the house begins to erode. And once the head is disrespected, the entire family structure weakens. Even when a woman genuinely steps up out of love and duty, the narrative shifts—“Anaweka mbaba vizuri ndio ampende.” They don’t care about the truth; they just want a scandal. Drama.

But men remember. In bars, in quiet conversations among friends, they speak of it. “Mama T alinisaidia kulipa bill hii mwezi. Mambo ilikuwa noma sana. Wacha nitafute pesa nimnunulie hata A, B & C.” They never forget the woman who stood in the gap when things got tough.

Some wonder why women sometimes discreetly pass money under the table for the man to pay the bill. It’s not because she can’t pay, and it’s not because she isn’t allowed. Some just prefer it that way because they understand the reality of how the world works. This isn’t to say women should hide their contributions, but it provides perspective—sometimes, it’s not just about money, but about maintaining dignity and balance.

There are families where children have been educated entirely by the mother’s hard work, yet it is the father who gets the praise. Not out of arrogance, but because that’s the way the world sees things. The sacrifices of these women remain uncelebrated, but they are the glue that holds homes together.

At the heart of it all, marriages and families are about sacrifice. And to those who make these sacrifices, often in silence, may you live long to see the fruits of your selflessness.

[Kaminja Kanyari 🇰🇪 @nyariz]

@wanjikuallan @BravinYuri Amen

[Lennox Omondi @_lennoxomondi]

What are you guys up to?

[BRAVIN YURI @BravinYuri]

This is a great piece on SHIF/SHA by @therapcaster.

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

We've done a deeper analysis on NSSF contributions and beyond for those who haven't fully understood the upcoming changes starting Feb 1, 2025, and continuing into 2026.

This includes how payslips will look after deductions.

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[Abdullahi Khalif @A_Khalif01]

As a lawyer passionate about practising law in a corruption-free judiciary, I would love to join Senior Counsel Ahmednasir’s fight against Jurispesa. @ahmednasirlaw

However, Ahmednasir’s approach risks overshadowing the real issues facing Kenya’s judiciary, and here is why I do not agree with his approach;

1. Ahmednasir’s Jurispesa doctrine appears to be less about genuine judicial reform and more about a personal feud with Chief Justice Martha Koome. His criticisms are personal and do not address systemic issues or the broader aspects of judicial reform that are necessary.

2. Ahmednasir has failed to substantiate his claims with convincing evidence. He hasn’t filed any petitions for the removal of CJ Koome or any other judge. Supreme Court Justice Isaac Lenaola has even challenged him to present a paper detailing any criticisms or grievances he has against the court, but nothing has been presented to date. Many of us would have joined his cause had he presented credible data and thoughtful critique of the court or any judge.

3. Ironically, Ahmednasir himself may be guilty of JurisTisha ( intimidation of judges.) His accusations against CJ Koome, such as alleging she instructed a judge to issue conservatory orders in favor of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, border on recklessness. These claims came at a time when the judiciary’s independence was under severe scrutiny, yet the conservatory orders were not issued up until when Gachagua was impeached.

4. Moreover, Ahmednasir’s selective focus and outrage on judicial corruption ignores the more significant problem of systemic corruption across. Judicial corruption, while real, is often fueled by external actors, primarily lawyers who bribe judges to influence rulings. Judges do not bribe themselves; they are corrupted by those who engage them. Why not address corruption in all its forms and across all stakeholders?

5. True judicial reforms should be led by the younger, untainted generation of legal professionals. The senior bar, having participated in the existing rot, lacks the credibility to lead this effort. A comprehensive approach to judicial accountability must be led by the LSK through young lawyers.

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[Kaminja Kanyari 🇰🇪 @nyariz]

@DavidNdii @kong8900 4.8b of 24b offered. Was the largest composition of what was accepted made up of non competitive retail applicants?

[China Science @ChinaScience]

New water evidence on #Mars: Scientists have found evidence of a nearshore zone in southern Utopia Planitia, suggesting an ocean that may have resulted from a flood-related event on the Red Planet about 3.5 billion years ago, based on data from China's Mars rover Zhurong and orbital remote sensing data.

[Duma Gideon Boko @duma_boko]

Vice President with a Portfolio. Mr Ndaba Nkosinathi Gaolathe will be the Minister of Finance.

#botswanacabinet
#unitedandproudnation

[Karwaay @Karwaay]

Ruto, you might as well sho•ot-to-ki•ll patients. I got my 8th Phesgo injection yesterday. It costs Ksh 168,000 per injection. The first injection cost Ksh 250,000. SHA is sh!t on sh!t because my limit is Ksh 300,000 for this treatment. Fck supporters of this gov of criminals!

[Facts East Africa @east_facts]

FACT: The IMF is sending officials to Kenya to audit government corruption cases.