James Last

This, for me is the working formula for change of Government. Let Edwin Sifuna run for President and be deputized by Irungu Kangata or John Methu. Fred Matiangi, Martha Karua, Eugene Wamalwa and any other presidential aspirant in the United Opposition should run for Senate and secure votes for Edwin Sifuna from their respective Counties. H E Rigathi Gachagua and H E Kalonzo Musyoka should be “supreme leaders” in charge of the presidential campaign and the Government to be formed.

KENYA 🇰🇪 HAS SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION. But WHO is involved systemically? Kenya’s corruption bill is bigger than its national health and basic education department budgets combined. The World Bank launched its 34th Kenya Economic Update on 4 November 2026. It calls corruption systemic and estimates that corruption and collusion widen the annual deficit by 2 percentage points of GDP. At Kenya’s 2025 GDP, that’s roughly KSh352 BILLION in annual fiscal pressure from higher public costs and lost revenue. Put that next to what Kenya approved for FY2025/26: 🏥 National health sector - KSh138.1 billion 📚 State Department for Basic Education - KSh127.9 billion Together: KSh266 billion The system works through closed tenders, preferential licences and deals for politically connected firms. The cost reaches people who never see those contracts. About 36% of surveyed firms reported a bribe request. Some informal workers can lose up to a fifth of a day’s earnings to bribes. Employment grew 4% in 2025, but 83.8% of jobs remained informal. Banking controls matter too. In a separate 2018 case, the Central Bank assessed a KSh149.5 million penalty against KCB Bank Kenya after reviewing compliance on NYS-related transactions. It was one of five banks penalized. Kenya remains on FATF’s grey list, with more money-laundering investigations and prosecutions still called for. Why do people put up with it? Nearly 79% of surveyed Kenyans believe reporting corruption risks retaliation. If refusing a bribe can cost you a day’s work and reporting it could bring trouble, keeping quiet can feel like the safest choice. That’s how a system can survive even when people oppose it. What could Kenya look like if that changed? In the World Bank’s ambitious reform scenario, by 2035 the economy could be 22.3% larger and household consumption up to 27% higher than under the no-reform baseline, with more and better jobs for up to 7.7 million people. Imagine what those changes would mean in daily life. A clinic gets the supplies it paid for. A business can compete for a public contract on merit. A rider keeps more of the money earned that day. And people can report a bribe without having to weigh the risk to their livelihood. KSh6,500 for every person in Kenya. About KSh26,000 for a family of four. That’s the per-person scale of the World Bank’s estimated annual fiscal hit from corruption and collusion. At Kenya’s 2025 GDP, it comes to roughly KSh352 BILLION. Nearly KSh1 billion a day. Put that same amount toward any ONE of these: 🛣️ About 6,100 km of paved road upgrades 🏠 About 106,000 affordable flats 🩺 One year of basic pay for about 447,000 medical officers 👩‍⚕️ One year of basic pay for about 544,000 registered nurses Those comparisons use Kenyan project costs and published public-sector basic pay estimates. The next time someone says “billions lost,” picture the road to your market, the staff at your clinic and what KSh26,000 would mean to a family of four. World Bank report documents1.worldbank.org/cur… But some people are involved on bank levels. And according to thomas ogutu it is @KCBInKenya ‘s dennis volemi, he also mentioned something with weapons and war in Sudan but I don’t remember correctly. Volemi’s C level position as Director of Technology could definitely help systemically. But ogutu lied in sworn affidavits in court, so I don’t trust his words. Can journalists and investigators find out more?

.@KICDKenya when you have such a major policy called pathways determining how our children advance in school, the least one expects is a document rationalizing how the pathways are NAMED, what subjects they include, and on what criteria they were decided. Because as far as Kenyans know, subjects like geography and literature are the "arts," and schools consider them useless to teach. Then, I hear there's a "Social science" pathway, and the humanities are in that pathway, yet the humanities are normally grouped with the performing arts. Also, you need to tell your praise singers in mainstream media who haven't hit the campaign trail, if the despised pathway of the arts is called "Arts and Sports," or "Arts and Sports Science," or "Talent." I can't find the document clarifying the pathways on the website, so maybe you can point me to it. I accept #CBCisherestay. That's why I'm asking.

We see this with roads, water, sewerage etc . Why not let taxpayers enjoy these services without additional charges, collecting only reasonable maintenance fees where necessary, while recovering other operational and infrastructure costs from commercial and industrial users?

I have never understood why governments tax citizens to build public infrastructure and provide essential services, only to charge those same citizens again to use them.

Why can't the government provide clean, treated water to households for free and charge industries and commercial users for the water they consume? Water is a natural resource. Why then should citizens pay taxes to fund water treatment and distribution, only to be charged again?

Perhaps Dr @MigunaMiguna should head KRA Board and drain the swamp. There's so much tax evasion in Kenya, especially by the wealthy individuals and multinationals facilitated by wheeler dealers in government, particularly KRA. We have all we need, we are just greedy and wasteful

Kenya’s government has rejected Sh402 billion in pending bills after reviewing claims worth Sh637.6 billion. Only 29,885 of the 91,911 claims, worth Sh235.6 billion, were recommended for payment.

KRA has collected Sh1 trillion in taxes in the first four months of FY2026/27 (July to October 2026). This was up 37% from Sh736 billion in the same period last financial year, driven by stronger domestic tax and Customs collections. [KRA still targets Sh3.2 trillion for the full financial year]

Even our understanding of time and education changed as colonial systems replaced or displaced indigenous ways of organising society.

Yet much of this history has been marginalised or presented as though it began with European arrival. We have been taught in schools that we worshipped mountains and our ancestors. What a lie.

Christianity existed in Africa long before European colonialism. Ethiopia itself is a powerful example. Africa had indigenous systems of knowledge, writing, timekeeping, architecture, governance and spirituality.

In the process, some of that history was misrepresented, rewritten, appropriated or deliberately distorted to create a new African identity that placed Europe at the centre of our civilisation.

I have increasingly come to question this narrative. What if many of the early European "explorers" were not discovering Africa but documenting societies, institutions, knowledge and traditions that already existed?

Yet, somehow, we have been conditioned to believe that the rest of Africa had nothing before the arrival of Europeans: no churches, no written languages, no sophisticated systems of governance, no calendars, no history and no civilisation.

Ethiopia has its own calendar, a clear biblical tradition, and churches whose history stretches back centuries. It has preserved a distinct Christian heritage and traditions that are deeply rooted in African history.

Ethiopia was never colonized, and it retained cultural, religious and historical traditions that other African societies were forced to abandon or adapt under colonial rule. Clearly, God preserved it as a living reminder of what Africa was long before colonial influence.

Amharic is a language spoken by nearly 60 million people. It serves as the official working language of Ethiopia. Written from left to right, it uses the Ethiopic script (Fidel) with 33 basic characters that morph into seven vowel forms Hello: ሰላም (Selam)

Non Revenue Water is crippling the Water Service Providers - Capacity building, Trainings, Deployment of Water Police Unit, network modeling and smart metering are some of the measures to control the losses