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Uni students are worried about delays in sitting for exams ... but, two clubs will play in January - RELEASE THE CONFETTI
This is nice but bado ni WANTAM!
𝗘𝗶𝗻𝘄𝗲𝗶𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗮 🏟️
Ein besonderes Spiel zum Start ins neue Jahr: Der FC Bayern reist am 5. Januar 2027 nach Nairobi und trifft dort im Rahmen der feierlichen Eröffnung des neuen Nationalstadions „Raila Odinga International Stadium at Talanta Sports City“ auf Ajax Amsterdam.
🔗 Alle Infos: fcbayern.com/2zB4o
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Dear civic institutions (including religious institutions, chamas, sports clubs, running clubs, clubs 😅), you don’t need some big donor funding programme to raise awareness on ongoing continuous voter registration.
Why is this work being left to politicos?
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Sad to see Yvonne Okwara leave Citizen TV. I recognised her in Beyond the Ballot for good reason. She represents journalism at its finest: professional, intelligent, courageous and unafraid to question power. Kenya needs voices like hers. Wishing her every success. #beyondtheballot
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A government for hustlers…
But their main critique of Edwin Sifuna is that he is poor.
How shameful!
An incumbent government
But has no track record to boast about. Their only basis for re-election is that they have money to campaign.
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In 2022, the 18-24 cohort represented the third largest “voting bloc” at 8 m eligible voters. Only 2.3 m registered, most didn’t vote.
Eligible numbers even higher now, and registered has improved but not marginally enough to tilt outcomes, even though they could…bigly
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I have come across a National Treasury approval letter showing that, in February 2025, the government approved a $550 million electricity and fertilizer plant in Olkaria through "specially permitted procurement."
The decision is significant. It allowed a Chinese investor to enter a strategic public-resource value chain—geothermal steam, power generation, green ammonia, and fertilizer—without the competitive process ordinarily used to test price, technical capacity, and value for money.
The letter does not prove corruption; it proves discretion.
It shows that Kenya’s Treasury used an exceptional procurement route to admit Kaishan into a value chain built on publicly owned steam and prospective public purchases. The question for Parliament, the Auditor-General is simple: if this project was so exceptional that competition was unnecessary, why was that conclusion not tested openly before the state committed its steam, its purchasing power, and its fiscal credibility?
Kaishan’s journey in Kenya is notable:
Initial Foothold: Entered as the EPC contractor to Gideon Moi-owned Sosian Energy for its 35 MW Menengai plant ($65M EPC + $18.05M O&M contract). Sosian was one of three IPPs competitively selected by GDC in 2013, with the plant synchronized to the grid in 2023. (Control of Sosian briefly shifted to Devki Raval before reverting to the Moi family).
Direct Ownership: Kaishan then acquired OrPower22—the American-linked IPP that was developing Menengai III. This transformed Kaishan from a equipment vendor into an asset owner with long-term interests in Kenyan geothermal generation.
Downstream Integration: Through its subsidiary, Kaishan Terra Green Ammonia Ltd, the firm signed a 30-year steam-supply agreement with KenGen for a planned 165.4 MW plant using steam from 18 existing wells.
According to disclosures, the plant will produce green ammonia for fertilizer, with Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture expected to buy the output under Treasury payment support.
This represents a major political-economy shift: a private Chinese investor gaining direct access to a public natural resource while securing a long-term public purchasing commitment and fiscal backing.
Specially permitted procurement is legally reserved for truly exceptional cases where competition is infeasible. Using it here makes governance the central issue: was competition genuinely impossible, or was an exceptional route used to bypass public scrutiny?
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Even people who have no ethical or moral authority to advise Sifuna are pretending to advise him on how to lead Kenya. How would you know how to lead Kenya when all you have been doing in your entire public service is stealing and killing?
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Sifuna has not said what Kang'ata is saying is not critrical, he has said that the 2 should go hand in hand, not one at the expense of the other
Sifuna and Kang'ata on paper seem like such a dream pairing. Ideologically, though, they are quite different. If they ever became president and deputy, they would need a concrete priority plan on nation building.
If you read Kangata's articles, there is an emphasis on capital accumulation, productivity, manufacturing and building large Kenyan corporations capable of competing globally. Very Kibaki-esque. He also has rather socially conservative views.
Sifuna, on the other hand, emphasis is on constitutionalism, the rule of law, accountability, reducing government wastage and relieving the economic burden on ordinary citizens. If you listen closely, infrastructure and economic development mean little if citizens cannot enjoy their constitutional rights, afford basic necessities or access functioning public services. Like a young James Orengo.
Kang’ata seems to be more interested in how the country creates wealth. Sifuna is more interested in how the state wields its power, manages public resources and serves its citizens.
I think both men mean well for the country, but those differences become important when you move from political philosophy to actual governance. They have a priority problem. A nation needs both the capacity to create wealth and institutions that prevent that wealth from being captured by a few.
Agreeing on what kind of Kenya you want is the easy part. The kizungumkuti is agreeing on what must be sacrificed, funded or postponed to build it.
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Week 3 of asking for the latest update on the kits we will use for voting. There are many ways to undermine a process. Has procurement resumed or @IEBCKenya ?
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How had I never run into this.
And my goodness if you teach rhetoric, public speaking or persuasion this must go into your curriculum immediately.
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Guys, guys, guys. The Kenya-Serbia parallels are too too many. And they removed their Ruto over the weekend. MUSTGO
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Serbia’s students went to the streets then organised into a political party and have kicked out the dictator. Kenya’s youth were shot and killed and they retreated to restrategise. However, they will need to find a political vehicle to complete the unfinished job of June 2024
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They DID the work! Local organizing, civics, turning up at the polls etc. Not just a miracle.
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Exactly why the Serbia strategy is interesting, and in contrast why all candidates in 🇰🇪push for 6 piece charlatans notwithstanding. We get so fixated on Presidential vote & then cry immediately after electing joker legislators. Pressure should be on parties for improved slates.
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As a small example of the work needed for a Serbia moment, for those voting in Nairobi county is there a progressive (or even a basic not a lazy thieving type) candidate/ aspirant you would vote for in your constituency? Name them and the constituency.
