Jack Ombuoro

Luke 9:23

[Son Of Anarchy @__QlintDwayne]

Tunalipa 100 billion for an open source system surely hii ni wizi ya madharau. Ni kama sisi ni mbuzi hata si watu. Ffs we need to beat these people mercilessly

[Jack Ombuoro @StakusN]

What a perspective!?

[Pan-African Review @PanAfricanRev]

Why the West will never allow the #DRC to cooperate with a Kagame-led #Rwanda

@LonzenRugira ✍🏽

https://t.co/HwWBzM3gJ2

[Bonnie Mwangi, CPA, LLM, MBA @MwangiBonnie]

Kenyans, we need to have a serious discussion around our system of government.

Our system of government is totally unsustainable. It will not work. We have too many politicians, and they are eating up virtually all resources.

When you see a post like what you see in the first picture from @AnneWaiguru who is the head honcho of @KenyaGovernors , you may get the impression that counties are making progress when it comes to fiscal discipline.

Nothing could be farther from the truth.

As I like to say all the time, when evaluating our government and how our money is epent, the key question has to always be, who is the government serving. Citizens, or politicians?

What @AnneWaiguru and @KenyaGovernors won't tell you is the following, which can be seen clearly using 2022-2023 data:

1) All of our counties are indigent. The are panhandlers.

2) With devolution, we aimed at devolving services, development, and accountability. By and large, we are not accomplishing these goals, and in fact what is happening is that we devolved corruption and incompetence.

Consider this: (I highlight the ten counties that Mrs. Waiguru holds here as models of financial management).

1) Across all our 47 counties, the average county can only keep its lights on for only 21 days out of the 365 days in a year.

2) Some counties like @_GarissaCounty and @WajirKE only raise 0.9% and 0.4% respectively, of their annual budget from within the county. They have an annual budget of KSH 9.2 and 11 billion, but they can only raise KSH 81 and KSH 46 million respectively, locally.

3) The money these counties spend on cars and mortgages for politicians, who are generally 50 people or so, FAR EXCEEDS what they raise in own source revenue. Compare the second column from the left, and the second column from the right. This is no different than you employing a matatu crew to run your matatu, and then finding that while they earned KSH 20,000 in revenue for the day, they spent KSH 60,000 eating and drinking. It's just not smart. In fact, an imbecilic behavior.

4) The idea behind the kind of model of government we have is that, these "semi-autonomous" jurisdictions need to find a way to support themselves. 100% of the counties cannot be dependent on handouts. But that is the reality in our country. How is it that we allow a county to come up with a budget of KSH 11 billion when these politicians can only raise KSH 46 million within the county? What the heck is wring with us?

These counties have absolutely NO INCENTIVE to be disciplined. NONE. That is why Turkana, which in 2022-2023 could only raise KSH 178 million in own service revenue, came up with a budget of KSH 18 billion, and went ahead and spent KSH 39 million in foreign travel, KSH 1.1 billion (this is not a typo) in domestic travel, KSH 50 million in Governor's cars, KSH 98 milliin in MCAs cars, and KSH 6 million in MCAs' allowances.

And, as though that is not enought, they spent KSH 162 million eating and drinking.

And then they spent KSH 386 million on bursaries to be shared across a county with close to a million people. What a damn shame!

5) On average, your Local Assemblies eat up 10% of the County Budget. 10% of the money goes to MCAs who average 47 across the country. 47 people in each of our counties are eating 10% of the budget.

Question - are you ok with that?

@EricLatiff @KenyaGovernors @EAukot @ericomondi_ @HillaryGondi @MoGAbdi @AnneWaiguru @aliiroba @Kirinyagabunge @County_20 @OkiyaOmtatah @MigunaMiguna @LavaniMila

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

“We’re not doubting that God will do the best for us; we’re wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” - C.S. Lewis

[Darwin to Jesus @darwintojesus]

You mean… besides all this?

1. The evidence for the resurrection of Christ is incredibly compelling, historically grounded, and well documented.

2. The Bible has many prophecies that have been fulfilled and are* being fulfilled before our very eyes.

3. The “three in one” nature of God solves “the problem of the one and the many,” which is a huge philosophical problem for every other worldview.

4. The God of Christianity accounts for ALL the preconditions of intelligibility that we need in order to make sense of the world such as logic… reasoning… uniformity of nature… etc.

5. The teachings of Jesus Christ are too profound to have come from a mortal man. Even Nicodemus, a wisened and high level Pharisee, met privately with Jesus and called Jesus (a young man in his 30s) “Rabbi” which means teacher.

6. My study of demonic processions and occultism has led me to believe that demons are real and the only thing that has any power over them is appealing to the name and authority of Jesus Christ.

7. Many near death experiences indicate that Christianity is true, even some atheists, after seeing the after life, have come back and been saved immediately because of what they saw.

8. The radically transformed lives of people who were totally changed by Jesus. Drug addicts… abusers… narcissists like me… totally changed by Christ from the inside out.

9. I have personally interacted with and experienced God one time… and I will never forget it.

10. Christianity is fundamentally and radically different than every other religion. Every other religion says “do.”

Christianity says it was “done” by Jesus Christ, for us, on the cross.

[Sideways for attention,long way for results @Dialmaterialist]

You shouldn't be applying for a scholarship from the government for university education, which will be paid from taxpayer money.

Fund universities and subsidize education. It's that simple.

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

REMINDER: Exactly 2 months ago today, we watched Kenyan police shoot unarmed protesters outside Parliament.

No single officer has been held accountable. None has been fired or suspended

[Jack Ombuoro @StakusN]

Brutal honesty.

[Dr. Miguna Miguna @MigunaMiguna]

Zakayo is tone deaf, intellectually mediocre, morally impervious and politically bankrupt. Our children’s education isn’t a place for imperialist experiments. #RutoMustGo #RutoNaRailaMustGo https://t.co/eiiednqUkz

[Voice of One TV @voiceofonetv]

The counselling line will be shorter if everyone of us learns how to search into God - Apostle Arome Osayi

[Dipl. Ing MkenyaDaima | Bongani | Mamba | @MkenyaMzi]

There are 3 videos, if you can translate them in your local language DM me, I swear I don't mind throwing 130 fuliza and the 70 bob in my mshwari to make sure these videos are Translated into all the 55 languages in Kenya. I already have the team that will handle the animation

[Jack Ombuoro @StakusN]

Dead on arrival.

[Korir Sing'Oei @SingoeiAKorir]

All-Set-Go!

[James Orengo @orengo_james]

Let's stand firm on the principles that we have always fought for. I fully support the Gen z in their quest for a better Kenya.

It will be absolute treachery and an act of political cannibalism to ignore the cry of our youth at this critical time in this country.

[Jack Ombuoro @StakusN]

A broken system = broken dreams!

[Nonini 🇰🇪🇺🇲 @Noninimgenge2ru]

Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪 is a crime scene! Let nobody convince you otherwise! This System needs a restart 🤯😬😳

[Nelson Amenya @amenya_nelson]

A company that pays Indian tabloids to publish statements for them is what the GoK wants to enter into 30 year concession with? While in Kenya @MusaliaMudavadi is busy lying there is no such deal ongoing yet Adani admits it is in its final stages and only disputes our understanding of the terms and its legality. @KenyaAirports @ckositany still waiting for you to make these public as it’s a matter of National importance.

[Nelson Amenya @amenya_nelson]

I’ve just discovered Adani Group released a statement days ago on the JKIA lease. I’m posting it shortly huyo maDVD atuambie ni bangi gani anavuta akisema hakuna kitu kaa hiyo.

[BRAVIN YURI @BravinYuri]

They said they wanted Kenya to be like Singapore. They should all listen to this.

[Idhrissou @edhrisou]

Kasmuel ameongea hadi nimekuwa re-energized to keep on fighting this bad governance!! ✊🏽🇰🇪 Vivaaaaa! @_KasKazini

[Kimuzi @Kimuzi_]

I bet everyone should go through this.

#RutoMustGo

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

Senator Onyonka: The road maintenace levy was passed the same time we were trying to pass the Finance Bill. Even if the Finance Bill passed, this gave the President an avenue to increase how much he's going to collect. Money for roads is where money is stolen #CitizenDayBreak

[Jack Ombuoro @StakusN]

@EduUdechukwu Thank you.