A General Constitutional Test for the IMF Treaty
A treaty, statute, or international agreement amounts to a de facto constitutional amendment if it:
(a) removes a constitutional power from a constitutional organ;
(b) transfers that power to an entity not established by the Constitution;
(c) immunises the exercise of that power from constitutional scrutiny or judicial oversight; or
(d) fundamentally alters the relationship between the people and the institutions through which they exercise sovereign power.
Where any of these effects arises, the court must ask one question. Were the constitutional amendment procedures under Articles 255, 256, or 257 followed?
If the answer is no, then the measure is unconstitutional and invalid to the extent that it purports to alter the Constitution.
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I have been following the Ogolla divorce drama, and a few things stand out to me.
First, the claim that he married a close relative (cousin) of his late wife.
Second, he reportedly lost his job.
Personally, I think the first decision planted the seed. The second one revealed everything else.
My dad used to tell my brothers something I'll never forget:
"A man doesn't truly know the woman beside him until the money disappears."
The day you lose your job, your business collapses, or you go broke is often the day you discover whether she loved you or the lifestyle you provided.
And this is also why I have never believed it's wise for a man to marry a close relative of his late or former wife.
Why?
Because comparisons never end. Some relatives quietly admire how you treated their own. They see the financial comfort, the gifts, the vacations, the lifestyle, the security. Some even wish they were in that position. Those feelings don't always disappear; they sometimes become expectations.
When you eventually marry one of them, you've already walked into a relationship carrying emotional baggage, family pressure, comparisons, and expectations that existed long before the marriage began.
For the men reading this, there are generally two kinds of wives.
The first is the woman who sees you lose everything and says, "We'll rebuild together." She becomes creative, sacrifices with you, starts a business if she has to, cuts expenses, encourages you, and protects your dignity.
The second is the woman who only loved your paycheck. The moment the salary stops, respect disappears. She starts insulting you, comparing you to other men, withholding affection, or walking away altogether. Some won't even wait for the divorce before finding your replacement.
Money doesn't change people.
Money exposes people.
It's easy to say "I love you" when the rent is paid, the shopping is done, and holidays are flowing. Real love is tested when the bank account is empty.
That's why I always tell men: before you commit your whole life to someone, pay attention to how they behave during difficult seasons. You don't have to fake being broke, but don't ignore the lessons hardship teaches you. Those lessons can save you years of pain.
As for him, I genuinely hope he rises again. Jobs come and go. Businesses fail and recover. Money can be made again.
But the biggest lesson here isn't about divorce.
It's this: Never choose someone who is in love with your money more than they are in love with you.
Do you agree that financial hardship reveals a person's true character? Anyway, I feel sorry for the kids involved.
Titus Njari Ndei, 41, led Kitengela landlords to build their own private sewer line after years of sanitation problems in the fast-growing town.
With the population ballooning, property owners had relied on expensive septic tanks that often overflowed and posed health risks.
Frustrated by the Kajiado County Government’s failure to provide a lasting solution, the landlords decided to take action.
The push started in 2013 when the county sued 22 plot owners for discharging raw sewage, contrary to the Public Health Act. They were released on bonds of KSh 180,000–200,000.
Two months later, the accused landlords mobilized under Engineer Ndei and registered the Kitengela EPZ Neighbouring Community Sewer Project. They secured approvals from EPZA, NEMA, and other authorities, then funded a KSh 85 million, 45-kilometre, 2-foot-wide sewer line running to the Athi River EPZ trunk sewer.
The project was funded by hundreds of landlords contributing KSh 250,000 each plus a KSh 1,000 registration fee, and paying EPZA tariff fees ranging from KSh 7,500 to KSh 74,000.
The completed sewer now serves 818 landlords and has eased the burden of paying KSh 200,000 every 2-3 weeks to the county for waste disposal. Ndei says the community initiative gives residents a chance to manage sanitation sustainably.
Education is entering a very brutal phase and many parents are not ready for the cost that is coming.
The old system where a child is given homework, disappears to the house, copies answers from ChatGPT, submits neat work the next morning and everyone pretends learning has happened is slowly becoming useless.
Schools must now become very practical.
A serious school of the future will not just ask a child to write an essay about coding or submit an assignment that was clearly done by AI, it will put that child in front of a teacher and ask them to solve the problem live, explain the thinking, make mistakes in public, correct the mistakes and prove that the skill is inside their head.
That means live coding, live presentations, live debates, live experiments, live business pitching, live writing, live mathematics, live problem solving and teachers who are sharp enough to know when a child understands something and when a child is just carrying polished nonsense from the internet.
This kind of education will be expensive because it needs better teachers, smaller classes, proper labs, real equipment, serious internet, project rooms, cameras, computers and teachers who are not just marking papers but watching children perform actual skills.
Personally, I would rather take my child to a school where they do fewer fake assignments and more real work, because the world is no longer rewarding children who can copy answers, it is rewarding people who can stand somewhere under pressure and actually do the thing.
Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."
Farmer: "Where did they get it?"
Activist: "What?"
Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."
Activist: "From... eating?"
Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."
Activist: "The soil?"
Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."
Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."
Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."
Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."
Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."
Activist: "It's not that simple."
Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."
Someone has shared a site that helps you compare prices across different supermarket outlets
You just search the product and it gives you the different rates across
You people didn't tell us about this earlier on
90% of what religious people pray for is something a functional government should already provide. But instead of telling you to hold government accountable, religious leaders tell you to pray.
I have been doing a lot of soul searching , trying to understand what the issue with Kenya is. After a 5 year thought process , I have a conclusion that Kenya’s problem is not the government, but the people.
Nobody prepares you for the amount of pain and grief you experience when you have to forgive yourself for believing someone was actually a genuine person.
The hardest part isn't just their betrayal, it's the shame you actually carry for ignoring your instincts.
We always work for a better tomorrow. But when tomorrow comes, instead of enjoying it, we start thinking about another better tomorrow. Let’s choose to have a better today.
I will never understand that level of tribalism where as an average citizen you actively defend corrupt politicians just because they’re from your tribe. It’s beyond my comprehension and honestly insane to me
One of Einstein’s students asked him: “What does logic mean?”
Einstein said: “I will answer you with a question.”
“Suppose two workers enter a chimney to clean it. One comes out with a dirty face and the other with a clean face. Who will go wash their face?”
The student immediately and without hesitation replied, “Of course, the one with the dirty face.”
Einstein said: “Your answer is incorrect. The one who will wash their face is the one with the clean face, because he looked at his colleague’s face and assumed that his own face was as dirty as his colleague’s. The one with the dirty face will not wash his face, thinking it is clean like his colleague’s.”
The student said: “That is correct and logical.”
Einstein replied: “No, it is not correct, because the question itself is illogical. It is not logical for two men to enter the same chimney at the same time and for one to come out clean and the other dirty.”
In a few words, logic itself can collapse, so sometimes the problem is not in the answer but in the flawed question itself.
Dear ladies, If a man tells you he loves you, he does not automatically become your provider. Love is not an employment letter, and it does not mean your bills should now be paid. Your responsibilities remain yours; love is not a financial agreement.
HR: Why do you want to leave your current job?
Candidate: I'm looking for growth and better learning opportunities.
HR: But you've changed jobs twice in three years. That doesn't look stable.
Candidate: May I clarify something?
HR: Go ahead.
Candidate: How long does your company usually take to promote high performers?
HR: Around 3-4 years.
Candidate: And if growth stalls before that?
HR: People are expected to wait.
Candidate: Then is loyalty about time or about opportunity?
Employees are often judged for seeking growth, while organizations normalize slow progression.
Retention doesn't come from labeling people "unstable", it comes from creating real pathways to learn, grow, and advance.
🚨 The biggest discovery about "consciousness" didn't come from neuroscientists.
It came from a bored CIA agent with a polygraph machine and a houseplant.
What he found in 1966 still puzzles materialist scientists today.
The experiment and the evidence will change how you see reality:🧵
THE BIBLE IS AN ALLEGORY
The Bible was never meant to be read as history alone.
It is an allegory of human consciousness.
Its characters are states of mind.
Its wars are inner conflicts.
Its miracles are psychological and spiritual awakenings.
Adam is not a man.
He is unconscious humanity.
Eve is not a woman.
She is desire, curiosity, and perception.
The serpent is not evil.
It is awareness awakening instinct.
Egypt is not a place.
It is bondage of the mind.
Pharaoh is not a ruler.
He is the ego that refuses to release control.
Moses is not a magician.
He is law, discipline, and inner order leading consciousness out of chaos.
Jesus is not a mythological exception.
He is the model of awakened humanity.
He says, “The Kingdom of God is within you,”
yet religion moved it outside—into buildings, hierarchies, and fear.
Heaven is not a destination.
It is a state of alignment.
Hell is not fire.
It is psychological fragmentation.
Sin is not disobedience.
It is missing the mark of awareness.
Salvation is not belief.
It is integration.
When the Bible is taken literally,
it produces fear, obedience, and dependence.
When it is read symbolically,
it produces understanding, responsibility, and awakening.
The tragedy is not that people read the Bible.
The tragedy is that they are taught not to understand it.
~ Benjamin Richie
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