Simon Wanjue

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[Simon Wanjue @wanjue5]

I just completed Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies with @edXOnline! https://t.co/2Q9GRrk8qZ

[-Dennis Itumbi, CBS @OleItumbi]

Some people who should know better have abandoned facts and embraced fake news. Instead of informing Kenyans, they are deliberately misleading them.

Take the claims about the NTSA fines payment. The viral narrative was that the money was paid to someone called Cherono. That is simply not true.

The receipt clearly shows that the biller was NTSA FINES. The payment was made through a KCB Bank Agent.

As with any bank transaction, the receipt displays the name of the agent who processed the payment. In this case, that agent was Catherine Jerono Tomno.

She did not receive the money. She only facilitated the transaction on behalf of KCB.

To make the false story believable, those spreading it shared only part of the receipt and left out the section that clearly identifies the biller as NTSA FINES.

I have attached the complete receipt, which speaks for itself.

Before believing or sharing sensational claims, take a moment to check the facts. A full receipt tells the truth. A cropped one can be used to tell almost any story.

Sina mengi ya kusema kwa sasa

#SystemYaFacts

[William Samoei Ruto, PhD @WilliamsRuto]

African industrialists and entrepreneurs are key drivers of economic growth and innovation in various sectors, including manufacturing, industrialisation, banking and technology.

As a result, they are crucial partners with governments in transforming our countries, especially in investment and employment creation.

Met Mr @AlikoDangote, founder of the Dangote Group and Africa's leading industrialist with interests in cement and sugar manufacturing, and oil refining, on the sidelines of the Africa We Build Summit, Nairobi.

We welcome his announcement at the summit that he was ready to partner with Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in building an oil refinery in Tanga, Tanzania.

We thank Mr Dangote for believing in Africa and are committed to working with him to make this very important regional project a reality.

[David Ndii @DavidNdii]

It’s a deal 🙏🏾

[David Ndii @DavidNdii]

We seem to have either a fiscal literacy problem or political agenda in this office. Spending 40% of tax and 1/3 of total revenue on debt service is not healthy, but it should be obvious that 80% is simply not plausible.

[Femi Ote$ @realFemiOtedola]

I congratulate my friend and brother, @AlikoDangote, on the remarkable achievement of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery reaching its full 650,000 barrels per day capacity.

More importantly, it is transformational for Nigeria and Africa. Supplying up to 75 million litres of PMS daily changes our energy narrative and conserving foreign exchangez

With domestic refining now firmly underway after decades of reliance on imports, pressure on the foreign exchange market should ease significantly. I am optimistic that the naira will strengthen meaningfully, and trading below ₦1,000/$1 before year-end is increasingly within reach.

Aliko is not stopping here. He has embarked on an additional $12 billion expansion to increase refining capacity to 1.4 million barrels per day, alongside 2.4 million tons of polypropylene and 400,000 metric tons of Linear Alkyl Benzene for detergent production. Work has already commenced in earnest.

Congratulations once again, my brother. Nigeria is proud of you 🏭🙌🏾… F.Ote💲

[Hussein Mohamed, MBS. @HusseinMohamedg]

Chaired by President Ruto, today’s Cabinet meeting yielded the following key outcomes:

[Hussein Mohamed, MBS. @HusseinMohamedg]

To the sloganeers saying ‘Ruto must go,’ ‘Kasongo,’ ‘Wantam,’ or whatever today’s chant happens to be, the President isn’t losing sleep& just like his predecessors, his time will come. That’s a given.

So now let’s talk substance & here’s the real challenge:

Beyond sloganeering, what’s your plan?

[Simon Wanjue @wanjue5]

@SizweLo Happening to a lot of African countries sadly.

[Simon Wanjue @wanjue5]

@ArdhiSasa_Ke I am not able to upload my photo

[Anti-Counterfeit Authority @ACA_Kenya]

@ACA_Kenya has released the 2025 Consumer & Firm-Level Survey Reports!

Access the full reports through the link below ⬇️

https://t.co/urIaxsSx1C

Learn how counterfeits impact consumers, businesses & the digital space in Kenya.

[Dr Jumoke Oduwole @joduwole]

Big Win for Nigerian Trade!
At the AfCFTA Council of Ministers meeting in Kinshasa, Nigeria officially signed and submitted the ECOWAS Tariff Offer—establishing zero duties on 90% of goods traded within Africa.

[Simon Wanjue @wanjue5]

@DavidNdii @DavidNdii Keen to learn lessons from this meeting. It would be interesting.

[Simon Wanjue @wanjue5]

@alexmwanzo had I seen you post electric folk lifts? Do you have any leads? I'am in need of one. 1.5 to 2 tonne.

[African Stream @african_stream]

SHOWDOWN: NIGERIA’S DANGOTE VS GLOBAL OIL GIANTS

There is a straight line from colonial exploitation to modern-day neocolonialism. Most African countries don’t process their raw materials. Instead, value is added abroad, and finished products are reimported, benefiting foreign companies. Multinational corporations dominate African economies, carrying forward a neocolonial legacy of low royalties, tax avoidance, illicit capital flight, minimal local employment and the collapse of local industries.

When Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, announced that Nigeria would be moving up the value chain and that he would be building a 20-billion dollar, 650,000-barrels-a-day refinery that would meet domestic needs and export to the rest of Africa, ending the country’s age-old reliance on global oil giants, local importers and state regulators - who for decades have lived comfortably in those giants’ pockets - lost it.

Efforts to sabotage the project, the largest single-train refinery in the world, which began operations in January of 2023, got underway. The Dangote refinery, which represents a threat to the West’s lucrative refinery-products market share, has been struggling to acquire enough feedstock of Nigerian crude. Some of Europe’s largest refineries, including Shell and TotalEnergies, have for decades had a stranglehold on Nigeria’s oil industry. They essentially refused to sell crude to the Dangote refinery, insisting on a $6 premium above market price - forcing it to source crude from Brazil and the United States at a higher price.

However, the tides are shifting. A new OPEC report reveals that the Dangote refinery has begun impacting European refiners, whose margins are being squeezed. The refinery has surpassed the capacity of Europe’s largest facilities, reducing Nigeria’s dependence on petroleum-product imports from Europe. According to OPEC, gasoline production in Nigeria is freeing up significant volumes in international markets, requiring Europe to find new buyers and adjust trade flows. Experts warn that the Dangote refinery could end the $17-billion-per-year gasoline trade from Europe to Africa, dealing a major blow to European refiners.

African Stream’s Erick Gavala takes a deep dive into this high-stakes showdown. Your reactions in the comments are appreciated.

[Simon Wanjue @wanjue5]

@SamGichuru Happy new year Sam!

[Simon Wanjue @wanjue5]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Simon Wanjue @wanjue5]

@JulianiKenya Hii itaweza sana bro!