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THE ULTIMATE "SET IT AND FORGET IT" CSR: WHY STANCHART’S "SEEING IS BELIEVING" IS A PR BLACK HOLE. ☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆● Word on the corporate street is that Standard Chartered picked the laziest CSR vanity project in the game. One with ACCOUNTABILITY PARAMETERS SO DELIGHTFULLY VAGUE they belong in the fiction section. The cynics are pointing out a brutal PR loophole: ●○●○●○●○●○●○●○ A blind person you "help" this year will almost certainly still be blind next year. And the year after. It’s the ultimate unaccountable metric. ●○●○●○●○●○●○●○ Because society already expects a blind person to remain blind, nobody bats an eyelid when your "beneficiary" shows up next year with the exact same struggle. FAILURE AND SUCCESS LOOK IDENTICAL. It’s a corporate dream. You can literally do nothing and no one will ever be able to prove the aid didn't work. Let’s look at the cold, hard WHO numbers to see if this massive global CSR Echo Chamber has actually moved the needle: [-1-] >>: THE PRODUCTIVITY LOSS: Global losses from vision impairment climbed from US$ 268B (2007) to US$ 410B (2018) and are sitting at a staggering US$ 411B (2026). [-2-] >>: THE "BENEFICIARY" PIPELINE: The global blind population grew from 32M (2010) to 36M (2015), and is sitting at 44M (2020–2026). Meanwhile, look at the sheer scale of the "CSR worthy competition" over that same 2020–2026 period: ●○●○●○●○●○●○●○ Autism spectrum disorders are at 61M people, Diabetes is at a staggering 830M, and reversible mental disorders are at 1B. ●○●○●○●○●○●○●○ The data is damning: The situation is deteriorating, and decades of global CSR have fallen flat on their face. Blind people are actually fewer in number compared to these other massive health crises. The psychiatrists and mental health patients? They are drowning. Perhaps it’s time @StanChart picks a CSR lane where they can make an identifiable difference, instead of throwing money at a problem they can't even measure. Honestly, "Seeing is Believing" might as well be rebranded to "They Will Never Believe", because they will never see, and based on these numbers, the program is just enthusiastically recruiting new people into the dark. But hey, let's give @StanChartKE their flowers: ●○●○●○●○●○●○●○ Long before modern marathons became the equivalent of well-organized, sweat-soaked physical Tinder dating sites, infiltrated by dating crooks and fitness influencers, Stanchart was doing genuine marathon runs. They were pioneering the game before it was soiled. ●○●○●○●○●○●○●○ SO YES, THEY MIGHT BE BLIND TO THEIR OWN CSR METRICS, BUT AT LEAST THEY KNEW HOW TO RUN A RACE. #stanchartmarathon

Subirbhai, The unfortunate thing about your statement is that it presupposes that you are indispensable. That, in itself, is a deeply troubling position to take when humanity is concerned. The mathematics is as simple as DOUBLE-ENTRY ACCOUNTING: ☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆● Anyone CREDITING your head is treating you as UNNECESSARY. Anyone DEBITING your head is treating you as NECESSARY. ☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆● But here is the irony: Every day you remain alive, someone, somewhere, is carrying a debit on your behalf. You are benefiting from someone's labour, knowledge, sacrifice or contribution, whether you acknowledge it or not. If those people collectively decided to write you off as unnecessary, you might soon discover just how dependent your world is on the very people you consider dispensable. ☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆● Nobody is indispensable. But nobody is so insignificant that the world can function without their contributions. ☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆● Perhaps that realisation would inspire a little more humility and a little less certainty about your own importance.

🔥THE BRUTAL TRUTH: ONLY FAILING BUSINESSES GET SOLD TO THE PUBLIC — PROFITABLE ONES NEVER LEAVE FAMILY HANDS 🔥 ☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆●☆● IF A BUSINESS IS TRULY GOOD, THE FOUNDERS WILL NEVER GIVE IT AWAY. Look at the evidence: 1>>: MSC Shipping — family-owned. 2>>: Cargill — family-owned. 3>>: Koch Industries — family-owned. 4>>: Mars — family-owned. 5>>: Louis Dreyfus — family-owned. These are MASSIVELY PROFITABLE companies. NOT ONE OF THEM IS ON THE STOCK MARKET BEGGING FOR YOUR MONEY. Why? BECAUSE THEY MAKE MONEY. THEY DON'T NEED YOU. THE ONLY REASON A FOUNDER SELLS SHARES TO THE PUBLIC IS BECAUSE THE BUSINESS IS A LOSS-MAKING BURDEN HE WANTS TO DUMP ON FOOLS. THEY DON'T WANT IT. WHY SHOULD YOU? Let me paint you a picture: ●○●○●○●○●○●○●○ A man drinks away his entire NGO salary in pubs for years. Donald Trump cuts the funding. Suddenly he's "offloaded." He now believes, because he's been drinking like a goat, that running a pub is profitable. He SELLS ANCESTRAL LAND he never bought (because he was too busy drinking), uses the money to open a pub, and surprise, surprise, starts making losses like every pub on earth does unless it's a MONEY-LAUNDERING FRONT. Now broke, he approaches his equally stupid friends and says: "I've already invested in the infrastructure. I'm only looking for investors to buy shares because my own stake is………... gone. To what? Don't ask." 1>>: A REAL AND SOLIDLY STOIC FRIEND tells him: “Go Die with Your Alcohol Business”. 2>>: A EQ COWARD says: "Mimi biashara ilinikataa." 3>>: A FELLOW COCONUT invests, and just expands the number of losers. ●○●○●○●○●○●○●○ THAT IS THE STORY OF A KENYAN SUPERMARKET OFFLOADING A DEAD INVESTMENT TO KENYANS THROUGH AN IPO AT 7 BOB. And to spice it up? They claimed the WORLD BANK was interested in those shares. KWANI WORLD BANK SIKU HIZI INAENDESHWA NA SUBSTANDARDS? WHAT DOES A SUPERMARKET ACTUALLY OWN? NOTHING. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. 1>>: Stocks/Inventory? Owned by SUPPLIERS who are paid after 60 days after goods are sold, and even unsold goods GRN’d back to suppliers. 2>>: The Warehouses they call "supermarkets"? Owned by LANDLORDS and rented at thin anchor-tenant rates, with the real rental burden on auxiliary shops against dead footfall narrative. 3>>: The Shelves? Owned by LESSORS at 100% asset leasing arrangements. 4>>: The Staff? 90% are MERCHANDISERS employed by SUPPLIERS. 5>>: Promotions & Marketing? Ruthlessly DEDUCTED FROM SUPPLIER INVOICES. 6>>: Rebates? OUTRIGHT THEFT FROM SUPPLIERS defying the doctrine of fair treatment and fair practice. ●○●○●○●○●○●○●○ THE SUPPLIERS ACTUALLY OWN THE SUPERMARKET. NOT THOSE CONMEN. ●○●○●○●○●○●○●○ AND HERE'S THE FINAL INSULT: ●○●○●○●○●○●○●○ Once they've sold their stake, ALL THE MONEY IS MOVED TO THE United Kingdom for "other important investments." Because, even to them, a SUPERMARKET is a BAD INVESTMENT. ●○●○●○●○●○●○●○ CONCLUSION: ●○●○●○●○●○●○●○ YOU MUST BE THE ORIGINAL FOOL TO BUY SUPERMARKET SHARES. The founders know it's dead. THE SUPPLIERS OWN EVERYTHING. The World Bank claim must be a lie. The money leaves the country the moment they cash out. WHAT ARE YOU BUYING? A logo. A name. A rented warehouse full of other people's goods? THEY ARE COUNTING ON YOUR STUPIDITY. PROVE THEM WRONG or RIGHT. ●○●○●○●○●○●○●○ ⚡ WAKE UP! ⚡ OR WE FORCE YOU UPSTAIRS LIKE SIFUNA'S CHICKENS.

Continue Resting in Peace LEGEND @RailaOdinga Jowi....

Fact No. 109 ●☆○☆●☆○☆●☆○☆●☆○☆● FACT: Most men aren’t doing DNA tests because they’re thirsty for truth. They’re doing them because they’re praying for a negative result, a golden ticket to do what men do best: RUN AWAY. ●☆○☆●☆○☆●☆○☆●☆○☆● Kenya has very few accredited paternity DNA testing centres. In those accredited centres, you can’t sneak in with a child or a contaminated sample alone. The mother and the father must both be present during sample collection for results to be realistically admissible . The UNACCREDITED ones? They give over 60% wrong results and wrong advice. It’s like going to a village quack who gives you painkillers until you die of the underlying infection. There is no one who understands the conception process better than a woman, because she is the recipient. It's like arguing with a child about bottled milk. The child knows type of milk came, when it came, and from which bottle it came from. ●☆○☆●☆○☆●☆○☆●☆○☆● Pipes feeding houses with water don’t know which house failed to receive water. But the individual house with piped infrastructure knows when the water came, when it didn’t, and from which pipe it came from. ●☆○☆●☆○☆●☆○☆●☆○☆● Unless a woman is malicious, which is very rare, she knows the father with 99.9% certainty. And most of the time, she’s telling the truth. A male animal’s natural instinct is to flee from his children. If it weren’t for the rule of law governing humans, men, just like their male animal counterparts in the jungle, would take off and go make other children elsewhere. Men are allergic to children, they’d rather sprint than stand still. The only thing stopping them from turning fatherhood into a safari is the law. But because we have the law, if you want a DNA paternity test that is admissible, the mother needs to consent, either voluntarily or through a court order, and you’ll use an accredited centre. No shortcuts. No sneaking. No running. #FactsOfLife #FactsOfLifeKE

Fact No. 108 ●☆○☆●☆○☆●☆○☆●☆○☆● <1>: WITHOUT BRIBERY and corruption, most people would have LITTLE MOTIVATION to join the POLICE service. Indeed, some police officers might find themselves sympathising with or even JOINING DEMONSTRATORS on the streets. The question, therefore, is: ▪︎●▪︎●▪︎●▪︎ "Who wouldn't want police to join demonstrators? That person is the strongest advocate for police corruption" ▪︎●▪︎●▪︎●▪︎ <2>: WITHOUT SCHOOL UNREST, there would be no incentives to teach. Who wants to die before CBAs are honored 1,000 years later? It is a whispered fact that SCHOOL UNREST, including serious incidents of ARSON is organised or facilitated by teachers through there principals. ▪︎●▪︎●▪︎●▪︎ If parents were required to send students back with KES 20,000 each, a school with 500 students would represent KES 10 million. The arithmetic is straightforward and mouth watering, at least at a school level. ▪︎●▪︎●▪︎●▪︎ <3>: WITHOUT CORRUPTION, ELECTIVE POLITICS would not be attractive. ▪︎●▪︎●▪︎●▪︎ Why would someone willingly manage a constituency of perpetual “toa chai” demands on an official gross monthly salary of approximately KES 700,000, if public office offered no opportunity for behind the tent enrichment? ▪︎●▪︎●▪︎●▪︎ <4>: WITHOUT CORRUPTION, MOST of our judges would NOT be MOTIVATED to seek judicial office. ▪︎●▪︎●▪︎●▪︎ Who would be encouraged to preside over criminals such as Kenyans 24 hours without sleep and without a side amusement? ▪︎●▪︎●▪︎●▪︎ #FactsOfLife #FactsOfLifeKE

Fact No. 107 ●☆○☆●☆○☆●☆○☆●☆○☆● LESS than 1% of people globally who trade in SHARES successfully make a consistent full-time living from it, and an even smaller fraction actually get rich. Of that tiny fraction who do get rich, VIRTUALLY ALL of THEM had INSIDER INFORMATION. Trading on insider information is illegal, yet it is precisely what those who "MAKE IT" do. They possess information that you do not have. If share trading were a GENUINE PATH to ECONOMIC PROSPERITY, then the long-suffering shareholders who attend AGMs of blue-chip companies would have seen their fortunes transformed. Instead, they remain IMPOVERISHED, receiving a mere KES 120 in annual dividends sent to their M-PESA. ●☆○☆●☆○☆●☆○☆●☆○☆● HINT: Look for INSIDER INFORMATION, then trade. Otherwise, you will simply be one of the shares being traded, a COMMODITY, NOT an INVESTOR. #FactsOfLife #FactsOfLifeKE