samson odero @odesh1

I’ve reported on Ebola for over a decade (& health for over 20 yrs) so I’m not usually surprised to hear disparate theories about disease outbreaks. But recent posts by a number of Kenyan thought leaders have left me dumbfounded. Here’s Dr Wandia Njoya, a university lecturer:

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya

4 days ago

Let's be clear: Ebola did not "spread" to Kenya. The US and Kenya governments BROUGHT Ebola to Kenya, the US out of racist contempt for Africans, and Kenya out of twisted desire to prove to massa that it can meet "international standards" of disease response, and out of its evil

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This propaganda story doesn’t survive contact with the numbers. Let’s straight do the math on the 4.5bn shares: Bought: KES 9.00 per share Sold (implied): ~KES 9.44 per share Capital gain: +KES 0.44 → ~KES 1.98bn Missed dividend: –KES 0.32 → –KES 1.44bn Net before fees: +KES 0.12 → ~KES 540m NSE-listed share gains are tax-exempt. So the price premium already more than covers the dividend the sellers gave up. Rock Investment Bank (sell side) let’s assume earned a negotiated commission. On a block this size, realistic rates are 0.5–0.75%. At 0.5% that’s ~KES 212m. After that the funds are roughly flat to slightly positive. Either way, a few hundred million either side of zero on a KES 40bn+ position held for ~7 months. That is time-value and transaction cost. It is NOT a material loss. It is NOT a soft loan. It is not evidence that a Ruto-linked vehicle extracted value from pensioners. Public institutions and pension funds bought into the KPC IPO at KES 9. That gave the listing size and confidence. This to me was crucial for the markets. Months later, after the Lamu refinery deal advanced, Dangote’s company bought ~25% in one block. The funds sold. Dangote got the pipeline stake he needs for product distribution. Straight commercial sequence. The legitimate questions are transparency (exact Dangote entity, full seller list, whether sales were directed) and governance of public funds. Those are real. The “sold at a loss so someone connected to the President could profit” version is not supported by the arithmetic or the public record. You are stupid and stupidity is your business… As always, DYOR.

Ndindi Nyoro @NdindiNyoro

5 days ago

KPC SHARES AND THE MYSTERY INVESTOR: The other week, I was suspended from Parliament for stating the obvious. That the Kenya Pipeline IPO was a failure, subscription being below 3% at the last day of the IPO. And that President William Ruto called the CEOs of NSSF, PSSF,

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@Maryian96 Kuchanganya battery mpya na mzee....

Four of Kenya's eight Ebola cases worked in the Nairobi hospital that treated Patient Zero, including a patient attendant who cleaned linens. Containment is working, but protection has to cover every worker in the building, not just clinicians. Also, keep in mind: All new cases were already in quarantine. No community transmission reported. Contact tracing appears to be working. The strain is Bundibugyo which has no approved vaccine, so infection control is the main tool. Cleaners, laundry staff and attendants face real exposure. They need the same equipment and training as medics. If you have fever, tiredness, muscle pain, vomiting and diarrhoea, call authorities at once.

I think we are too obsessed with non-issues. There is no public interest in Oburu. He doesnt hold any vital public role. Let him be sick or healthy or whatever in peace. Its not Kenyans' problem

𝙋𝘼𝙐𝙇 𝐍𝐄𝐊𝐎 @ouma_neko

3 weeks ago

They will come with Photoshop and AI-generated videos to convince you that Siaya Senator & ODM youth leader is strong, energetic and in good spirits. They will show you carefully manufactured images and staged videos. But they won't tell you the truth. They won't tell you

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#DangoteAfrica

Happy birthday, @TamauPogi ! 🎈🥳 We miss having you around and can’t wait to see you back, stronger than ever❤️ #WeAreUAE

@YaaMaragoliBa Alienda nayo? I keep asking myself.

@KenyaAirports @spnjoroge Good Vibes as usual.

👑🦅 Thank you Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪❤️

Isaac del Toro🇲🇽 por el maillot arcoiris 🌈 Con la confirmación de la baja de Tadej Pogacar🇸🇮 del Campeonato Mundial de Ruta, se abre completamente la contienda y se coronará a un nuevo campeón mundial. Los nombres más relevantes ya confirmados son: Isaac del Toro🇲🇽 Remco Evenepoel🇧🇪 Wout van Aert🇧🇪 Ben Healy🇮🇪 Paul Seixas🇫🇷 Matthieu van der Poel🇳🇱 Juan Ayuso🇪🇸 El trazado de la carrera ayuda a los perfiles de corredor como Isaac del Toro y este año llegará con un equipo de 5 ciclistas más que darán todo para que el país tenga su primer campeón mundial en ruta. 📅 Contrarreloj - 20/09 10:45am TCM 📅 Ruta - 27/09 7:00am TCM Isaac buscará mejor sus resultados de 2025, los cuales son los mejores en la historia del país: 5to en contrarreloj y séptimo en ruta.

Today, a Rwandan trader in Mwiki was robbed of his bucket of mandazi, two thermos flasks of black coffee, and the money he had made selling to honest people. The thieves were chang’aa addicts who thought they had found an easy target. Unfortunately for them, they found the wrong neighbourhood. I responded immediately from Maji Mazuri. One robber left the encounter with fewer teeth than he arrived with; another went home with a head injury. Meanwhile, we raised KSh 3,500 for our fellow African trader to help him get back on his feet. Let me be very clear: we are not going to stand by while criminals prey on hardworking Africans trying to survive. A man wakes up, makes mandazi and coffee, carries his little business on his back and comes to Kenya to earn an honest living. The least we can give him is security and dignity. To the mugukaa, miraa, & chang’aa gang: mandazi is not your inheritance, coffee is not your birthright, and Mwiki is not a free-for-all buffet. We are Africans before we are anything else. We welcome our brothers and sisters from across this continent, and we will defend their right to work peacefully. Kenya must never become another South Africa where fellow Africans are attacked simply because they crossed a border looking for a better life. We can be tough on criminals without becoming cruel to foreigners. Leave hardworking traders alone. Let them hustle. Let them eat. Let them go home safely. My cousin Grace Nga'nga hapa mimi utanisamehea.

If you’re easily incited to hate on fellow Africans, you also can be easily turned against your own neighbors, communities and tribes. Politics of division doesn’t start and end with tribalism.

🚨🇨🇩🇰🇪We have nowhere to belong. President Ruto, we, the Banyamulenge, are refugees in Kenya. These small jobs feed our children and keep us alive. We ask only for rights, safety, and peace. Say our name. Share this. #Banyamulenge #NoWhereToBelong #RefugeesInKenya

Kenyans are not south africa kenyans ask other kenyans not to harasss Burudians and other africans seeking refuge in kenya!!

A few months after leaving the University of Nairobi, I was homeless. What rescued me was not the Kenyan economy. It was a South Sudanese friend from college who took me to Juba to help start a newspaper while he ran a bakery. We rode a Kampala Express bus out of River Road, and I fell in love with Uganda on the way, a country where a man with no money can still have a good evening. That is not true of Nairobi, where the venue is the velvet rope. The bakery worked. The newspaper did not. Within months I was back in Nairobi, homeless again. Again, a South Sudanese friend picked me up and took me to Northern Bahr el Ghazal, where he employed me for a year alongside many other Kenyans. I earned enough to come home, resume journalism, hijack a girl and start a family. One foreigner's favour to another paid for the next ten years of my life. On Wednesday at State House, President William Ruto told small-scale traders that foreigners running small businesses should close them within the week. He promised legislation barring foreigners from certain trades. Kenya wants investors who create jobs, he said, not hawkers. The deadline falls today. I am not neutral on this. I have a career, a marriage and the best decade of my working life because other African countries let a broke Kenyan walk in and work. The man the president wants to shut down is me, twelve years ago, in somebody else's capital. Four to five million Kenyans work outside Kenya, by the government's own estimate, more than half of them in other African countries. They are nurses, teachers, hairdressers and hawkers, running precisely the businesses a Ugandan president could close on a Wednesday if he spoke the way ours did. In the twelve months to May 2025, Kenyans abroad sent home Sh931.8 billion, according to a joint KNBS, Central Bank and FSD Kenya household survey. The Central Bank's own 2025 figure, measured differently, is USD 5.04 billion. Either number beats tea, coffee, horticulture and tourism combined. That is his claim, not mine. He has praised the diaspora at State House for exactly the behaviour he criminalised on Wednesday when other Africans do it here. The answer to his argument sits twenty minutes from his office. Somalis fleeing the collapse of Siad Barre's state after 1991 ended up in Garissa Lodge, where tenants turned their beds into stalls by day. That is hawking with a mattress. It now holds more than seventy malls and some 25,000 shops, and is estimated to generate between thirty and forty per cent of the tax the Kenya Revenue Authority collects in Nairobi. Governor Johnson Sakaja once told this president, in public, that Eastleigh's economy is larger than Rwanda's. Every part of it began as what he announced he would close on Monday. Foreigners. Small businesses. No permits. The state's contribution was to raid it and deny it building approvals. We have also measured this properly, on Kenyans. The World Bank and UNHCR study of Kakuma found the camp raised the host region's economic output by 3.4 per cent and local employment by 2.9 per cent, and modelled that letting refugees work and move freely would lift Turkana income per head by around 6 per cent. Not refugee income. Turkana income, in one of the poorest counties in Africa. The World Bank returned this May with the corollary: when aid was cut, host livelihoods fell with refugee incomes, because Turkana and Garissa traders sell into the camp economy. None of which means the anger is invented. Kenyan traders are being destroyed, and a man losing his corner does not want a lecture. But look at what is destroying him. Credit that costs more than his margin. Cess collected three times on one crate of tomatoes. Cartels controlling imports and market access. A tax net that catches the mama mboga and misses the importer. Close every foreign-owned kiosk in Nairobi on Monday and every one of those is still standing on Tuesday. The giveaway is Eastleigh's own last trade war. It was Somali shopkeepers shutting their malls in protest at Kenyan hawkers outside, who paid no rent and no licence and undercut them. The real fight in our informal economy is between people carrying overheads and people avoiding them. It has nothing to do with passports. Nationality is simply the version a politician can win without spending money. Fixing credit is slow and makes enemies with lawyers. A crackdown on foreigners is free and makes enemies only of people who cannot vote, ten months before an election. It also contradicts his own policy. In March 2025 this administration launched the Shirika Plan at this same State House: the end of encampment, identity documents, tax numbers, bank accounts, business permits, and the right to live anywhere in Kenya without a movement pass. Eighteen months later the same president has ordered the people it was designed to bring into the economy to shut their shops. You cannot integrate people on Tuesday and evict them on Wednesday. He cannot hide behind the public either. Stanford researchers put the question to more than 3,300 Kenyans. Sixty-seven per cent supported refugee work permits and financial inclusion, 69 per cent access to government services, 57 per cent freedom of movement. In July, when a Kenyan man was filmed accusing a Burundian trader of stealing his opportunity, the dominant public reaction was embarrassment. Not that the government cares about public opinion. I did not arrive at this position cleanly. Those traders bothered me for most of a decade, and what I felt was not an economic judgement. Reporting changed it. The reason so many of them hawk on the streets all over is that we made every legal route impassable. A refugee has the right to work on paper and needs a Class M permit in practice, obtained through a process so slow and costly that law and reality have stopped speaking to each other. That question is before the High Court. Judgment is expected on Tuesday, the day after the president's deadline expires. We forced people into the informal economy and now propose to punish them for being in it. So make the Class M permit fast and cheap, and informal trading becomes taxed trading. Implement Shirika on its own timetable. Enforce licensing against everyone equally, which is compliance, not nationality. Fix the credit, the cess and the cartels. And in the East African Community, whose free movement protocol we signed, behave as though we meant it. None of this is charity. We have spent twenty years arguing that Kenyans should be welcome everywhere, and collecting nearly a trillion shillings a year on that argument. We do not get to make it in Doha and Atlanta and then unmake it on River Road because an election is coming. Somebody's brother in Juba decided that a broke Kenyan with nowhere to sleep was worth a job. Everything I own descends from that decision. On Monday, this country proposes to make the opposite decision, thousands of times over, against people who are exactly who I was. Eastleigh settled this argument thirty years ago. That we are still having it tells you it was never about economics.

Hii script ya Yues na SA imefikaje Nairobi?! We are not boarding. Afrika ni nyumbani. #RutoMustGo

MAGNUS @the_monadd

2 months ago

Rwandans, Burundis and Congolese are NOT taking your job. STOP THE XENOPHOBIA

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No black person is a foreigner in Africa soil, william ruto and Cyril Ramaphosa. must know this Africa belongs to Africans

Tukupate unafukuza Burundi huku kwetu tunakutandika vibaya.

President Ruto @WilliamsRuto has repeatedly claimed that his Kazi Majuu program has helped more than 540,000 Kenyans secure employment abroad. He has celebrated overseas employment as an opportunity for Kenyans to seek a better life. When a Burundian does it, he calls it a problem. Why the double standard? #SayNoToXenophobia #IStandWithBurundians