Happening Now!! 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚’𝐬 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥-𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 🔗teams.microsoft.com/meet/312…

The idea of a @IEAKenya Public Debt Clock was born years ago - a brainchild of @IEAKwame.⏱️ Today, Noah Wamalwa unveils the Public Debt Counter, a real-time tool to track Kenya’s debt, spending & transparency. 💸 @OkoaUchumi_KE

12th Dec 2024, i am marking 10 yrs as a Spoken Word Artist In a Live Ochestra Band Music & Poetry Showcase Join me as we re-rewrite Kenya’s history As we celebrate the true heroes since June 1st 1963 Its only in Kenya where those who’ve fought for freedom have never enjoyed it

Immediate former National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung’u opened the lid on the rot in President William Ruto’s government as he handed over to his successor John Mbadi. He said the government was riddled with ghost workers, false pensioners and a broken education model that requires urgent repair. So broken is the funding model, according to the former CS, that non-existent schools still receive taxpayers’ money. If this doesn’t make you rage with anger and weep for our Nation I don’t know what will. peopledaily.digital/cs-ndung…

We need to relook on the matter of immediate former Governors running for senate seat where they will go and analyze their auditor’s reports of the period they were governors.

Crazy Kennar for Ballon d'Or.

Kasmuel McOure with the Mic drop moment!🎤🔥🔥🔥 BOOM!!! @_KasKazini

Exactly three years ago (9th July 2021), I was shortlisted and interviewed for the position of IEBC Commissioner. Today, the President signed into law, the IEBC (Amendment) Bill 2024 that will, amongst others, provide for a revamped selection panel. Almost 20 years of #elections observations, elections assistance leadership and immersion training was tested in the hour and a half of lights, cameras and questions on national TV. The run up to the interview was an interesting period I must say. Got great support from my family, my colleagues and my friends. A panel of friends with elections expertise got together and prepped me up including carrying out a mock interviews. The political lobbying - calls you get and calls you make - that happened is for my memoirs. One lesson you learn is that political “fence sitters” don’t get appointed. It’s a high stakes job that politicians take seriously because you determine their fate. Unsurprisingly the selection panel will now draw 5 out of its 9 members from political party formations. As the nation prepares for the next steps of getting the selection panel in place and thereafter the recruitment of the Chair and Commissioners of the electoral commission, may the wave of accountability sweeping across our country ensure that this important Constitutional Commission is transparently and meritoriously put in place and is allowed to operate independently and without intimidation.

It was a great occasion delivering closing remarks on behalf of @ismail_wais, IGAD Special Envoy to South Sudan, alongside the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, in the @theICTJ Sensitization and Training Workshop of journalists on Transitional Justice. @DrWorkneh

We join with the people of #SouthSudan in celebrating the launch of the 𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐥 today A key #milestone in ➡️Advancing women & girls’ rights ➡️Preventing & responding to gender-based & conflict-related sexual violence #SouthSudan4MaputoProtocol #MaputoAt20

David Sadera Munyakei: Portrait of the patriot David Sadera Munyakei was only 23 when he joined the Central Bank of Kenya as a clerk in 1991. He initially wanted to be a military officer but shelved that ambition when the opportunity at CBK beckoned. His soldiery instinct, however, would serve him well when he was called upon to defend his country and the integrity of his work. Munyakei’s work at CBK mainly involved authorising transactions. He noticed that one particular company, Goldenberg International, was receiving large sums of money for the alleged export of gold and diamonds. Such exporters were to receive a government subsidy to help them compete on the international market. But in a country with no known commercially viable gold mines worth talking about, Munyakei smelt a rat. Yet, the CBK continued to pay Goldenberg International compensation for exporting non-existent gold. It soon emerged that to keep up with their charade, the Goldenberg merchants, smuggled gold from Congo and then pretended to export it at the higher price. In his submission to the Goldenberg Commission in 2003, Munyakei described the events that eventually pushed him to speak up: “After 1992 elections this thing became very rampant and became open theft.” In total, the Goldenberg was paid more than Sh60 billion, one fifth of the country’s GDP at the time. In 1993, Munyakei approached two opposition MPs with concrete evidence of the illegal payments made by CBK to Goldenberg International. The MPs used the dossier in Parliament, blowing the lid on the worst financial scandal and most blatant act of corruption at the time. For his bravery, Munyakei was arrested and charged under the Official Secrets Act. Munyakei’s plight broke his mother’s heart and two days after he was charged in court, she suffered a stroke. She then sunk into depression and died two months later. He was eventually released only to find he had been fired from his job. His act of courage cost him his dream job and made him an enemy of the state. Fearing for his life, he fled to Mombasa. Ostracized but resilient, Munyakei appeared before the Goldenberg Commission, the most comprehensive attempt at finally getting justice for the scandal, in 2003. He was vilified and his family cursed him for risking his life for nothing. John Munyakei died a poor, bitter man in 2006. Kenya failed him. #SemaUkweli #RevealingTruth #UkweliShujaa

Concluding meetings at the African Union headquarters, the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan calls for urgent action on the peace agreement for South Sudan See press release 👉 ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…

@TawazaP is a platform that gives you power to speak. It gives you an opportunity to make your voice count! Please report any electoral concerns & incidences to the toll free number 0800721528 or SMS 108. @USAIDKenya @tendasasa @mercycorps @Uwiano_Peace @NCIC_Kenya @InteriorKE

OMANYALA!🕺🏿 Arriving minutes off a plane but boy oh boy, we’re into the Semi-Finals tomorrow!🇰🇪 #Omanyala #Oregon2022

Save the date: June 8, We'll be launching a new music video #UWAGA Featuring @JulianiKenya @tembekali @FlawlessKonya @Murureness @AnthemRepubliq 2PM at the Kenya National Theatre Nairobi #IrresistibleVoices #FreeEntry

An absolute honor to sit on a panel. With Dr Mukwege and indefatigable Angelou from Colombia..Congratulations SEMA!!@utu_wetu @PHRKenya @theICTJ @equalitynow @wawaheire @OHCHRKENYA @JFJustice @thekhrc @wavegambia @MulliKasiva @KenyanReg @glsurvivorsfund

“If trauma remains untreated, history will keep on repeating itself and the present will continue to mimic the past.” – Dr Sandra L. Bloom

Linet Chepkorir Toto runs a multi-ethnic school in the Borabu/Chebilat area. Here, she is held in high esteem by the community and has a reputation for treating all people well irrespective of their ethnicity. In this young woman, Kenyan politics may have found a genuine article.