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The World Bank confirms what Kenyans already know: CORRUPTION is a major brake on economic growth.
EVERY shilling STOLEN is a shilling denied to schools, hospitals, jobs and development. Kenyans PAY through taxes, debt and poor services.
Kenya does not lack laws. It lacks the POLITICAL will to enforce them.
We cannot borrow our way to prosperity while corruption bleeds the economy. Accountability is a constitutional obligation, not a favour.
The potential economic & social payoffs from anti-corruption reforms are substantial & attainable. If Kenya improved its control of corruption, its economy could be over 13% points larger by 2035 compared to maintaining the status quo. #KenyaEconomicUpdate
Alvin Abdullah retweeted
The World Bank says corruption concerns and misuse of public funds have been documented in several Kenyan projects and sectors.
They include:
— New stadium construction
— New health insurance system, involving fictitious entities
— SGR construction
— Pipeline projects
— Dam projects
— Road construction
— Education construction projects
— Public water utilities
— Power utilities
— County government projects
Alvin Abdullah retweeted
Kenya allegedly spent $900 million more than it should have for a Chinese-built railway because of rampant corruption, fraud and graft bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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🇰🇪🥇 CHAMPIONS! KENYA WIN GOLD! 🦁🏉
HISTORY MADE IN DAKAR! The Kenya Junior Lionesses defeat Australia 17–12 in a thrilling final to claim GOLD in the Rugby Sevens at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games! 🔥🏆
From Africa to the top of the Olympic podium! What a moment for Kenyan rugby and the continent! 🌍🇰🇪🙌
CONGRATULATIONS, KENYA! 👏🥇
#Dakar2026 #YouthOlympics
Alvin Abdullah retweeted
The countdown is over! 🏆
Applications are officially open for Imagine Cup 2027, Microsoft's competition for early-stage startups, presented by Microsoft for Startups: msft.it/6011aNm2c
Here's what founders need to know. 🧵
#MicrosoftForStartups #ImagineCup
Alvin Abdullah retweeted
This is so intelligent, I want to cry: The 140 seats won by the student opposition against Serbia's nationalist government party will be taken up not by students, but by academics, professors & public figures from pre-chosen pool of 250 experts, selected by student plenums.
Alvin Abdullah retweeted
Tribeless, leaderless students mobilised and brought down the Serbian Government at the ballot box in spite of state machinery and intimidation.
Kenya, msiambiwe hamwezi. Ati oh, pesa, experience.
You can reset this country, including the standards by which elections are won.
Serbia's Vučić concedes election defeat to student-led protest movement bbc.in/4sst0lV
Alvin Abdullah retweeted
JULS & PROJEXX FT MINZ - POSITION (LYRICS VIDEO)
youtu.be/yz1zS3f45DA
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This Ebola sounds so clever. Besides identifying countries having elections soon, it turns out it is also a matchmaker.
Nigeria and Kenya Ebola patients may have crossed paths at Uganda airport, officials say bbc.in/3W3ldyP
Alvin Abdullah retweeted
Millennials really went from spending hours picking the perfect ringtone and customizing every inch of their phones to keeping them permanently on silent and ignoring every call like their life depends on it.
They went from partying until sunrise with people whose last names they didn't even know to canceling plans because staying home sounds better, then experiencing social anxiety when they actually have to leave the house.
They went from posting every detail of their lives online to wanting absolutely nobody to perceive them.
From surviving on three hours of sleep to needing eight hours, a specific pillow, complete darkness, and zero responsibilities just to function.
From saying “YOLO” to saying “I don't have the energy for this.”
Honestly, millennials have one of the most impressive character arcs of any generation.
We have experienced both extremes of almost everything. We can be completely unhinged on Friday and cancel every plan for the next six months by Saturday.
You can't overestimate us, and you can't underestimate us.
We contain multitudes. Mostly anxiety, nostalgia, and a desperate need to be left alone. 😂
Alvin Abdullah retweeted
When you pull off a KSh 6.2 billion payroll trick, the public service rewards you with 30 days of paid leave to think about what you’ve done.
Is this a genuine payroll cleanup or just another classic rehearsal where only the evidence disappears?
@justinewanda explains it all.
Alvin Abdullah retweeted
I always like reminding GoK folks that this is the same nonsense that they did with Finance Bill 2023 that messed packaging, after an investor had already set up a factory.
Just pata potea nonsense.
Alvin Abdullah retweeted
Our President surprises even his friends. It’s difficult to know when he’s head of government and when he’s an aspiring candidate. Speaks from both sides of the mouth. When objections were raised on phone taxes. He supported & instructed his parliamentary minions to approve. And now he’s looking for votes, it’s suddenly politically convenient to discredit his own tax initiatives
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"Ruto asked us not to be activists, we should hike fare," Sec Gen of the Mass Mobility Operators Association, Wilfred Bosire explains
Video by Fatma Chidagaya
Alvin Abdullah retweeted
I was so naive when I came to Kenya 🇰🇪 years ago. I saw ruto smiling & promising great things. Only to see on the ground from all Kenyans on the streets the opposite: they hated him, I saw an oppression to speak freely & live safely, poverty, corruption & complete mistrust in the system & leadership.
RUTO AT 4Y: FALSE CLAIMS, BROKEN PROMISES & HUMAN-RIGHTS RECORD
FALSE OR MISLEADING CLAIMS
• Just yesterday, Ruto said maize production rose to 71m bags in 2025. KNBS reports 45.8m 90kg bags — a 25.2m-bag gap.
• In May 2025, he said there were “no missing persons” and every abducted Kenyan had returned home. HRW later reported that KNCHR still counted 26 people missing from the 2024 protests and 15 from 2025.
• Africa Check tested 10 claims in his Nov 2025 State of the Nation speech: 6 were incorrect, 1 exaggerated, 1 mostly correct and only 2 correct.
BROKEN OR UNFULFILLED PROMISES
• Mzalendo’d independent tracker, updated 30 Aug 2026: 254 Kenya Kwanza pledges; 25 completed, 41 broken, 15 stalled, 19 not started and 150 ongoing. Didn’t he claim he just needed a year?
Mzalendo rates these major promises as broken:
• reducing fuel and unga prices in the first 100 days
• giving women 50% of Cabinet and implementing the two-thirds gender rule
• ending extrajudicial executions
• ratifying the convention against enforced disappearances
• creating a special tribunal for gross human-rights violations
• enabling mortgages of KSh10k or less and expanding mortgages from 30k to 1 million
• Housing was promised at 250k new units a year. By Aug 2026, government reported about 8,807 completed, although more than 270k were under construction…with delays and money missing. Announcements and construction starts are not completed homes.
HUMAN-RIGHTS RECORD
• 2023 protests: HRW and Amnesty documented at least 31 killings and said no police officer or government official had been prosecuted.
• 2024 anti-Finance Bill protests: KNCHR documented at least 60 deaths, 610 injuries, 1,376 arbitrary arrests and 74 enforced disappearances; 26 remained missing.
• 2025: KNCHR recorded 19 deaths, 531 injuries, 15 disappearances and 179 arrests on 25 June. Another 31 people died and more than 500 were arrested during Saba Saba. Blogger Albert Ojwang died in police custody; autopsy findings cited by HRW pointed to torture.
• Authorities ordered an end to live protest coverage and switched off KTN, NTV and K24; the High Court ruled the ban illegal.
• 2026: KNCHR documented seven disappearances and 361 arrests after the 25 June protests, including 18 human-rights defenders and two journalists. Six protesters were later found injured after alleged torture.
• The government denies directing abductions. But denial is not accountability.
Where are the independent investigations, prosecutions, public case files and justice for victims?
Sources: KNBS, KNCHR, HRW, Amnesty International, Africa Check and Mzalendo.
