BREAKING: The Budget & Appropriations Committee, chaired by Sam Atandi, has proposed adding an extra Sh345 million to the Office of President William Ruto in its report to Parliament, which MPs will now vote on.
The same report also proposes adding Sh408.7 million to the National Police.
At the same time, it recommends cutting Sh240 million from funds meant for social protection programmes and support for older citizens.
Think about that for a moment.
More money for the Presidency.
More money for security agencies.
Less money for vulnerable Kenyans and senior citizens.
We were told there is no money. But when you follow the budget, you quickly realize the issue is not that money is unavailable. The issue is where the government chooses to spend it.
And what happened to the austerity promises by Ruto?
Yes, the Committee also proposes reducing the State House budget by Sh200 million. But even after that cut, the Office of the President still comes out ahead by about Sh145 million overall.
Budgets reveal priorities better than speeches ever can.
This is Arteta’s moment.
Yes, the squad’s been amazing.
Yes, the fans have been incredible.
Yes, the club’s owners stepped up big time last summer.
But it was this man’s vision, intensity, intelligence, courage and decisions that won us the League. Thankyou @m8arteta 🙏
A quiet but biting fuel shortage crept across Kenya’s filling stations from Saturday, catching motorists off-guard. Behind the scenes, Gulf Energy is eyeing an opportunity — insiders say the company is keen to ramp up supply to fill the widening gap
But the shortage is only half the story. Multiple oil marketers are now treading carefully around individual complaints from motorists, rattled by the One Petroleum dirty fuel debacle — particularly the damning revelation that the contaminated PMS was released into the market neat, without co-mingling, almost immediately after Trade CS Davis Kinyanjui waved away the quality threshold. The waiver, it turns out, didn’t clean the fuel — it just cleared the paperwork
Meanwhile, Energy CS Opiyo Wandayi appears to have discovered the virtue of silence. Having realised that every public utterance deepens his credibility hole, Wandayi has gone conspicuously quiet — a tacit acknowledgement that in this scandal, the less he says, the less damage he does @EPRA_KE@EnergyMinK@GovLeeKinyanjui@OpiyoWandayi
Lakini William Ruto is a political genius.
In the last few weeks, Oburu Odinga has been telling Luos that they will take nothing less than the Deputy President position.
Later, he sends Kithure Kindiki and Oburu to a political rally in Suba, Homa Bay County.
Ruto understands that power is not always asserted through rebuttal; sometimes it is affirmed through positioning. By placing Kindiki at the centre of the moment, in the very region where demands were being amplified, the President reframed the narrative without uttering a word of protest.
Oburu is then forced to praise Kindiki and quietly drop the demands tied to his position.🤣Eloi!
Hivi ndivyo alituwin over 2022,, he knew we yearned for good governance, akatupromise, na sisi tukaanguka kwa mtego kama makondoo 🤣. Eloi!
He must go, buana.