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[Eric Latiff @EricLatiff]

When we say Engineers in Kenya are a big problem, such are the instances we have in mind. This section of the highway has a Resident Engineer In-Charge. But they let a contractor pile a death trap on the road and feel nothing about it! @KeNHAKenya @TheIEK @EngineersBoard @davis_chirchir

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You mean men, men who claim to be women. You are a national broadcaster that consistently obfuscates facts around sex because you’ve taken an ideological position the public overwhelmingly rejects. This isn’t news, it’s propaganda.

[Pulse Nigeria @PulseNigeria247]

Nigerian graduate Nnabuike Chisom goes viral after delivering his Master’s graduation speech in fluent Chinese while representing international students at the Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. 🇳🇬🇨🇳👏

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

Taming goons in Kisumu:

Private security in political rallies outlawed in Kisumu

Security committee says move aims at weeding out goons

#CitizenBriefs

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I have just finished reading Justice Clarence Thomas's 91-page dissent in the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down Trump’s birthright citizenship order.

It's incredible.

Here's everything you need to know: 🧵

[Prof Makau Mutua @makaumutua]

WHY are boda boda riding against traffic EVERYWHERE in Nairobi? Why? Don’t we have traffic police in this country? We cannot NORMALIZE such illegal, abnormal, and UNCIVILIZED conduct and still call ourselves a world class city. We CANNOT! Those responsible must act. NOW @IG_NPS @DCI_Kenya @ODPP_KE @AGOfficeKenya

[Chisom Agbafor @ChisomAgbafor]

One thing poverty stole from a lot of people is the ability to make mistakes.

Every decision has to work.

[Okong' Okuna @XivTroy]

I will never stop recommending this essay by Albert Camus. One of the most poignant reads of our generation and those yet to come.

Albert Camus' "The Human Crisis". Feels like a reflection on the lost art of being human. What it really means to be alive. Link below.

[Kiprotich Lang'at @iamkipro]

Kenyan bad manners/bad culture that has zero respect for public spaces and public infrastructure is already showing up on the newly commissioned ngong road flyover. @amenya_nelson As I say the problem is the Kenyan society-the kenyans themselves, as much as you blame leaders but things that require use of common sense and brains seems difficult for many kenyans. @KURAroads @MuriraKinoti you need to be serious and punitive with law enforcement to deter such kind of habits otherwise this entire place will turn into another parking lot and car wash and render the road useless

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

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[ROBA & ASSOCIATES LLP @AssociatesRoba]

🚨🚨 BREAKING: YOUR EMPLOYER'S CASHFLOW PROBLEMS DO NOT SUSPEND YOUR RIGHT TO A SALARY.

The Employment and Labour Relations Court at Kisumu has delivered an important decision clarifying a question that affects thousands of Kenyan workers: what happens when an employer simply stops paying salaries because business is struggling? In Pride King Services Ltd v Innocent Onyango [2026], a security guard resigned after going four consecutive months without receiving his salary. The employer admitted that it had experienced financial difficulties, explained that employees had been informed of the situation, and argued that the Respondent should have waited for the company to stabilize because the outstanding salaries would eventually be paid. The Court rejected that reasoning. In one of the most striking passages of the judgment, Justice Nzioki wa Makau reasoned that it is not the responsibility of a worker to figure out how the employer will pay his wages. The Court held that by failing to pay wages for months, the employer had created the very circumstances that led to the termination of employment and therefore upheld the finding that the employee had been constructively dismissed.

The Court's reasoning is significant. A salary is not a discretionary benefit that an employer may postpone until business improves; it is the primary consideration for an employee's labor and one of the employer's most fundamental contractual obligations. While the employer pleaded financial hardship, the Court found that such hardship could not be shifted onto an employee who continued reporting to work without pay. At the same time, the Court carefully distinguished liability from quantum. Although it upheld the findings on unlawful termination, salary arrears, notice pay, service pay and compensation, it reduced the awards for underpayments, house allowance and accrued leave because those claims were subject to the statutory limitation period under the Employment Act.

The jurisprudential importance of this decision lies in its reaffirmation that the risk of running a business belongs to the employer, not the employee. Courts will not readily accept financial difficulties as a legal justification for withholding wages while expecting employees to continue working. Equally, employees who seek relief must be alive to the limitation periods governing employment claims, as even a successful claim may be substantially reduced if brought outside the periods prescribed by law. The judgment therefore strengthens two important principles of Kenyan employment law: wages remain a fundamental contractual obligation despite economic hardship, and statutory employment rights must be enforced within the timelines established by Parliament.

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[Kenyan Wall Street @kenyanwalstreet]

The Government of Japan confirmed on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, that construction of the KSh 85 billion Mombasa Gate Bridge is set to begin, financed under Japan’s Official Development Assistance programme, according to Chargé d’Affaires ad interim Hori Tomonobu. 

The cable-stayed bridge will span approximately 1.4 kilometres across the Likoni Channel, with the full project covering around 13 kilometres including approach roads and interchanges, providing a permanent four-lane road link between Mombasa Island and the South Coast as an alternative to the Likoni Ferry. 

The project follows years of delays linked to land acquisition, compensation and environmental impact requirements. 

Japan has previously financed the Mombasa Southern Bypass, Nyali Bridge and Kilifi Bridge in Kenya.

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

First They Came: A Lament Under the Shadow of the Crocodile
In the red dust of our ancestral soil,
where the ancient oak once whispered freedom
and the drums carried the heartbeat of the people,
a great darkness fell.
First they came for the Northerners,
and I did not speak out
because I was an Easterner.
Then they came for the Opposition,
and I did not speak because I was a ruling party stalwart, clutching my party card like a charm,
my belly full while my conscience starved.
Then they went for the students, extinguishing their dreams with batons and bullets.
And I did not speak
because I was no longer young,
my books were closed.
Then they went after the gay people,
and I did not speak – because their love was not mine.
Then they came for the civil society activists,
and I did not speak out – because I was not an activist;
I had a family to feed.
Then they came for the journalists,
and I did not speak out –
because I was not a journalist.
Then they came for me.
In the dead of night, boots on the veranda,
a knock like thunder from an angry sky.
My children hid under the bed,
trembling like leaves in the kaskazi wind.
And there was no one left to speak for me.
The neighbours drew their curtains.
The market women lowered their voices.
My friend turned off his phone.
The whole land cowered in silence – a nation of bowed heads, too terrified even to whisper a prayer.
The drums fell quiet.
Only the wind carried our shame across the savannah.
The Crocodile had won.
(Thanks for the inspiration, Martin Niemöller.
May we find the courage before the darkness takes us all.)

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Kenya Pipeline Company will now handle Rwanda's fuel imports after Kenya and Rwanda signed a new deal.

The agreement is expected to increase fuel volumes through Kenya from 42,000 to over 500,000 cubic metres a year.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

BREAKING: President Trump signs a presidential memo to make it easier for Americans to repair their own cars by protecting the right to fix vehicles and opening up more options for approving aftermarket parts.

"It came to my attention because I noticed they were arresting people for fixing their car."

"We rule by common sense."

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Memorable quotes from the sharp-penned Ugandan journalist, commentator, and photographer Timothy Kalyegira .@TimKalyegira who went missing for four days before he was charged on Monday, June 29:
-"In this day and age, ruling people for 40 years is a mark of shame, not genius."
-Ultimately we all die poor. Nobody takes their six-bedroom house to the grave."
-On Uganda's economy: "Primitive accumulation of primitive wealth, by primitive people, for primitive reasons."
-"The only profitable economic activity left is praising the First Family, praising government projects, praising Big Men, [or] running for MP."
-"The people with money don't have brains and the people with brains don't have money."

[Architect Mwangi @ArchitectMwangi]

Rwanda is bold!
This is just a coffee shop but looks like a whole public pavivlion!🥰

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Ford rehires more than 300 veteran human engineers after it says AI failed to deliver the same level of expertise.

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Kenya's counties added 199 unauthorised bank accounts in just three months, bringing the total to 6,585.

Makueni opened the most new accounts, while Kitui has the highest total number of unauthorised accounts.

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Doctors in Ontario recently used an experimental treatment to help treat a burn victim’s face. Instead of skin grafts, which can cause disfiguring scars, the doctors obtained a compassionate-use authorisation to treat her face with exosomes, microscopic particles released by cells that carry repair signals to damaged tissues. After two treatments, her facial burns healed without grafting.
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