Charles Prince Midamba✊🏾

Impact Communicator at Yara Africa & Asia. ‘In the end we all become stories - might as well make it an interesting read…’

[George Njoroge @georgenjoroge_]

Hon. Duale,

I build information systems for a living, so let me speak to you not as a politician but as the technical man in the room because the defence you have mounted is legally tidy and technically hollow.

You have answered the wrong question.

The country did not ask whether the two per cent fee is legal.

Everyone can see it is gazetted.

The country asked whether it should exist and who was positioned to collect it before the ink dried.

“Parliament approved it” is not a rebuttal to that, it is a confession that the charge was written into law rather than won in a tender.

Let me put it in terms my clients understand.

When an organisation buys an ERP, it pays once to build it and a maintenance fee to keep it running.

It does not then pay a toll every time a clerk writes a record into a database it already owns.

You have built the health rail with public money and then legislated a turnstile on it and pegged the turnstile to two per cent of the value passing through.

That is not “a capped fee for the use of a system,” as you put it.

The KES 5,000 cap limits a single claim; it does nothing to the aggregate.

As enrolment grows and claim volumes rise, that revenue line grows with them, automatically, forever.

You have not priced a service.

You have indexed a private income to the size of the national health budget.

Call that what it is.

You defend the arrangement by noting the law “permits sub-contracting.”

When a man reaches for the sub-contract to justify the deal, he is protecting whoever sits beneath the consortium and earns the percentage.

You told us where to look.

Here is the technical truth beneath the legal language: when you write the revenue model a fixed percentage, a named “Data Exchange Component,” a specific architecture into a regulation, you have not run a procurement.

Any of us who has sat on the other side of a Microsoft or Oracle negotiation knows exactly what a vendor lock written into law looks like and this is it, only worse, because the customer here cannot walk away.

Every Kenyan is the captive user.

I will grant you the one thing you are right about.

UHC cannot run on paper, and digitisation is not the enemy I would be the last man to argue it.

But that is not the fight, and you know it.

The fight is whether a public health system, once built with public money, should carry a private, volume-linked toll written into the law itself, and whether the hand collecting it earned that place on merit or was simply named in advance.

You closed by saying every shilling under Taifa Care belongs to the Kenyan patient.

You wrote that one paragraph after explaining the two per cent that does not.

Yours, in candour,

Njoroge from Kingeero.

[Ali Al Hussein @AliBinAlHussein]

There is no shortage of issues regarding FIFA. Let me start by clarifying what some of these are from an FA perspective, in particular that of Jordan going into a World Cup for the first time.
We are a small country with a minimal budget for our FA and had to deal with enormous hurdles. First, getting our fans into the USA: not all were granted VISAS, even though they had tickets -which we also know were sold at exorbitant prices. Secondly, we are being taxed by the US govt through FIFA for our participation. Money that should go to players and staff. This was not the case for those who played and set up camp in Canada and Mexico. But we happened to be in the USA so now we face these huge costs in taxes for having participated.
Thirdly we have been waiting for reward money for our players since December for the Arab cup in Qatar, which is a FIFA event. The money our team should receive for having reached the final has not been delivered yet, while at the same time FIFA brags about how many billions they have in reserve.
It is clear the problem really is with leadership. For months, FIFA has been refusing to help us on any of these or other matters- until it was verbally communicated to me during the World Cup that if I endorsed Infantino it would go a long way to helping our FA out.
We pride ourselves in Jordan in upholding ethical values. We did not endorse him before and certainly will not now. But the whole situation amounts to blackmail and we refuse to give in to that.

[SAMMY WASILWA @samuelwasilwa5]

Bado mnauza manifesto yake ni gani?

[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

Kenyans hawachelewi…mliskia nimetumwa Agriculture/fisheries committee mshajaza intray kabla hata nijjue kamati hukaa wapi. Ata sikua najua Kasongo aliweka fish landing levy…si rice, si sukari, si vitunguu eish! shida ziko hii kenya si ni mingi! Ndio tunasema kasongo na hizi “plan” zake akule tam moja!

[Charles Prince Midamba✊🏾 @ThCharlesPrince]

@BruceOnduru @SingwaIvan 😂😂😂 correct!
And Monday morning they were back at work like nothing happened

[Micere Nyaga @ThunderKaat]

For us parents raising children with disabilities, @edwinsifuna called us for a meeting in his office with @CrystalAsige after I tweeted him explaining all the challenges we face. They listened to us
A week later amendments to the PWD bill were done
It's now an Act of Parliament.

[LazooJ @Lazooj]

The North remembers and so do Kenyans. Edwin Sifuna stood up to defend Kenyans as bullets flew in the Air. 2027 elections was won and lost on 25th June 2024.

[mlks @maliks_88]

Ok the whole of Central Police station and Murkomen needs to answer this

“You arrested Albert Ojwang, you put him in custody, forget killing him, why do you even beat someone in custody”

Murkomen afunge mdomo ajibu

[Mwango Capital @MwangoCapital]

Interviewer: Tell us a bit about yourself

Me:

[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

Ku argue na mimi mambo ya kuku ni kama ku argue na Methu mambo ya Waru.

[ཊལབསརངཧ @David_Rudnick]

In that split second Enzo Fernandez has only one choice. Yes, he can lose his nation the World Cup. But then he would miss the chance to commit an amazing, amazing, incredible foul. And if you understand Enzo Fernandez, you would understand he never even had a choice to make

[Billie @Billie_T]

Not seen a Macallister struggle in America this much since Home Alone 2

[Charles Prince Midamba✊🏾 @ThCharlesPrince]

@KatheuNzyimi ‘Hawana pahali ya kulala, sasa penye wanawekwa ndio wanaweka hizi nguo’
😂

[WARÚHIÚ @kamauwaruhiu]

Ukinunua Prado tu hivi ,watu wa Prado Wana kushika unatolewa akili unawekwa mbegu ya maembe .

[SIR AHMED @midopido21]

مهما كانت الإمكانيات محدودة، مهما كانت الفوارق الفنية ضخمة بينه وبين خصمه، كارلوس كيروش يدخل الملعب دائمًا بهدف واحد واضح تمامًا: لا أحد سيمارس كرة القدم هنا اليوم.

[Mungai Kihanya @mungaikihanya]

STOP IT! Stop making excuses for your cowardice.

Your primary duty is legislation. The Finance Bill is the most important business of Parliament. It's not an emergency motion. It is tabled annually every June.

What was this more important business you were doing?

Shame on you!

[Charles Prince Midamba✊🏾 @ThCharlesPrince]

This Egyptian team is good. Really good.

[Charles Prince Midamba✊🏾 @ThCharlesPrince]

No Yamal in the game so far and I still can’t see our family members
This World Cup just gets more disappointing at every turn 😢

[Sxnti @PeakSxnti]

To whoever is behind the Camera today for the Spain game, if you are seeing this. Please if you're if it's not Yamal on the ball, show us more of the audience.. We have family members in the Cape Verde section we need to keep eyes on. Thank you ❤️

[Charles Prince Midamba✊🏾 @ThCharlesPrince]

@osumo_brad Yaani hata ‘single’ haijakukasirisha
It’s the ‘ugly’ that’s the problem?
😂😂😂

[Juja_Finnest💥 @JUJA_KOT]

Huku In-laws hawaamini vitu waliitisha nimeleta zote