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Bringing these stories to light thru the lens not only reavolutionalises how data & M&E stories are told, but also allows more audiences to engage more with #science & #conservation, & this assignment was one I enjoyed producing.
📖more here: explore.blueventures.org/rev…
#scicomm
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Huyu tena ni nani mmeleta @citizentv ?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It has been building season and the lessons are invaluable. From patience, to connections and being audacious enough to keep going 💯
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Wanaharakati wa mazingira wapinga ujenzi wa miundombinu katika hifadhi ya taifa ya Nairobi
#Yanayojiri
Watched this and could help feel a sense of sadness, fright even! Reflect… do it… do it scared. In the end, it’ll only matter that you took that step
Well… we have a long way towards sustainability and environmental care but a great start to raise awareness.
#PlasticFree #Nairobi 🇰🇪
Many Kenyans have been stunned by a striking billboard along University Way in Nairobi filled with actual trash. The installation contains nearly two tonnes of plastic waste collected from the city's streets, aiming to highlight the growing plastic pollution crisis and encourage better waste disposal habits.
So today, I met @Kalasinga_ and let’s just say @Nyandia_G has the evidence 😂. To my few followers, please follow @itsgearhaus if you harbor an inch of love for anything cars!
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I've been questioning the sanity of a certain individual for a long time and even asked what constitutes treasonable, impeachable offence. Allowing a foreign state to build a quarantine facility of a highly infectious disease inside your main fighter air base is exactly that!
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🧵Folks, I see a direct line between today’s boycotts and the 2024 protests on Finance Bill. The 2024 movement set a clear political boundary, proving that there is a hard public limit on how much the government can tax Kenyans. 1/5
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Cancer patients at KNH left without access to advanced radiotherapy after the facility's LINAC machine broke down due to a lack of spare parts.
It has cut the KNH’s oncology capacity in half. But let’s focus on a private medical facility up the road shall we? #KNHlivesmatter.
Aye, with the floods exposing bespoke drainage facilities & choices made in the built environ - concreting par excellence with disregard of zoning etc., Nairobi’s blue economy strategy seems to be working perfectly!
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Short story from something I read not so long ago.
Around 2012, Sameer as Yana tyres were doing about 4 billion in revenue. Manufactured being over 80% and the rest imported. Then Operation costs, cheaper imports affected market dynamics. These factors pushed revenue lower each year. Ministry officials and KRA cared less. There was robust, brisk business from imports. By 2016, they were closing down NBO and also focusing on importing cheaper tyres from China and India. By this time they were doing about 1.6b which further plummeted to less than 200 mil by 2020.
In 8 years they had gone from a multi billion giant to barely paying salaries. Job cuts were massive. Then they decided to focus on real estate which grew revenue to around 400 mil. When they were manufacturing, their real estate wing was previously classified as supplemental income. Kitambo, that would be their pesa ya chai na mandas. 😂 And even then, they still downsized staff to just property management. Sold about 4 Acres, Cleared a 500 mil facility and posted 250 mil in profit. The highest in 11 years. What I'm saying is, when you see manufacturers closing shop for real estate ventures you will know this country has a policy issue. Think installed capacity, supply and reliability, cost of electricity, haphazard tax policies, directives from Ministries etc. While all these are happening, the taxman is clapping for himself for surpassing collection targets and govt is proud to spend on more lavish items.
We went from Firestone to selling buroti maguta maguta.
Kenya has a policy problem. Not a manufacturing, agroprocessing, industrialization problem.
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"Your Wife is not your Junior, she is your equal, she is a partner. "
This is how civilized men reason.
RIP @RailaOdinga🙏🙏