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Joined March 2013
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Kabiru πŸ’€ retweeted
"Personally, I’ve come to the conclusion that in Kenya, and probably in a lot of emerging markets, if you want to scale a SaaS business, your customer has to be the government. One tender can cover your whole year. The private market just isn’t there yet." Thoughts on this?
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Replying to @Kenyans
Even if you claim to be using your own money, this raises even more serious questions. How did you, Mr. President, who officially earns Ksh 1.4 million per month (about Ksh 17 million a year), accumulate Ksh 1.2 billion in personal disposable cash to build a private church on public property? It does not add up by any reasonable standard of income vs expenditure. Unless you can show audited personal business records or asset declarations proving legitimate sources of such immense wealth, the public is right to suspect misuse of office, kickbacks, or proceeds of corruption. Additionally, why would you build a personal church inside State House, which is public property, even if you paid for construction out of pocket? That amounts to using a public institution for personal or sectarian benefit it still violates the principle of separation between church and state, and it misuses state facilities for private religious purposes. In fact, using your personal money to build a church on public grounds is even more troubling: it suggests you see State House as your private domain to decorate as you wish, instead of respecting it as a neutral national institution that belongs to all Kenyans. Let’s also not forget that you are the same president whose administration has faced multiple allegations of corruption inflated tenders, unaccounted borrowing, suspicious procurement deals. So it is not unreasonable for Kenyans to question whether this β€˜personal money’ is truly clean, or simply laundered through state contracts and kickbacks.
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22 Feb 2024
Excited to be in Vancouver for #AAAI24!😊 Presentation 1 of 2 done at the Doctoral Consortium. Presentation 2 of 2 will be at the Health Intelligence Workshop on Tuesday, where I have an accepted paper.
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Kabiru πŸ’€ retweeted
We’ve been working at Westlands school to help equip the teachers to apply the CBC music curriculum. Our director Moses Watatua led a training with teachers. This is something we’d love to do in other schools, support government schools in implementing the CBC music curriculum
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Kabiru πŸ’€ retweeted
we are celebrating @cynthiawandia today because she founded @getkwara, an online and mobile banking platform for financial cooperatives, credit unions and community banks. #IWD2023 #InternationalWomensDay
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To celebrate #IWD2023, FintechPad recognises some of the few African women redefining & redesigning the masculine tag of innovation in the fintech industry. Women are the real architects of society. - Harriet Stowe #fintech #womeninfintech #WomenInTech #InternationalWomensDay
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8 Jul 2022
Myself alongside @CharityKith will be hosting a new series of Twitter Spaces around the tech community in Africa. Our first episode hosts @kaka_ruto who will be speaking on how he grew his career and finally got a job abroad. Save the date below! x.com/i/spaces/1yNGaYYlbwRGj
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Power outages in Vihiga, Uasin Gishu and Nandi counties tomorrow
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No more installating browser extensions or apps from App Store to help you acquire the color codes from a graphic or photo that you just can’t stop admiring πŸŽ‰ Not a macOS devπŸ§‘πŸΎβ€πŸ’»? Well, it’s easy to make a custom macOS Color Picker in 3️⃣ steps & with just one line of text πŸ™ŒπŸΎ
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26 Feb 2022
two different realities
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8 Feb 2022
I managed and grew many Engineers into leaders in Startups and Big Tech. Tech Leads, Team Lead, Staff "Architects," Managers of Managers, etc. I've also reported up to EVPs, CTOs, and CEOs. Eleven hard truths about engineering leadership πŸ‘‡
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Fantastic work by the @getkwara team and our amazing cooperators in this #membersfirst movement.
9 Dec 2021
Kenya's fintech Kwara lands $4 Million in seed round from Breega, SoftBank to build neobank for credit unions tcrn.ch/3rLFKGY by @annienjanja
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Kabiru πŸ’€ retweeted
9 Dec 2021
Kwara is happy to share our $4m seed round, led by Breega πŸŽ‰ Excited to scale our digital credit union experience! Check out bit.ly/3IJuRvs

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#Kenyan #fintech @getkwara lands $4 Mn #Seed from Breega, SoftBank to build #neobank for credit unions. Launched in 2019 they help credit unions #SACCOs shift to digital platforms by providing a proprietary Back-end-as-a-service value added atop a @Mambu_com core
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