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Linus Gitahi retweeted
With GDP rebasing , Ethiopia has become the biggest economy in Eastern Africa and the third largest in sub Sahara Africa after South Africa and Nigeria .
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When a thief moves into the national Treasury, he doesn’t become a banker. The Treasury becomes a getaway car. - Inspired by a Turkish proverb.
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**50yrs of China - longterm strategy**
CHINA
“The year is 1975.”
> You have 924 million people.
> Your entire economy is worth $164 billion.
> Barely $180 of GDP per person.
> More than 80% of your people live in villages.
> Life expectancy is just 61 years.
> Millions struggle to afford basic necessities.
> Much of the countryside lacks reliable electricity.
> You don't even have a modern expressway network.
> You have a problem.
> Nearly a billion people need a better life.
“1978 arrives.”
> Start reforming agriculture.
> Let farming families keep more of what they produce.
> Productivity improves.
> Open your doors to foreign investment.
> Turn a small border town called Shenzhen into an economic experiment.
> Start making clothes, shoes, toys and cheap household goods.
> Foreign companies bring orders, machinery and expertise.
> Millions begin leaving farms for factory jobs.
> Your economy crosses $300 billion in 1985.
> Growth reaches 15% in a single year.
“Strength, Weakness & Opportunities; followed by serious Execution”
There's another problem.
> Factories need electricity.
> Build coal mines and power stations.
> They need steel, cement and machinery.
> Start producing those too.
> Goods need to reach the rest of the world.
> Build ports, roads and container terminals.
> In 1988, you have just 147 km of expressways.
> By 2000, you have over 11,000 km.
> Join the World Trade Organization in 2001.
> Export orders pour in.
> Your economy crosses $2 trillion in 2005.
But assembling cheap products can only take you so far.
> Start manufacturing more components yourself.
> Move into electronics, automobiles and industrial machinery.
> Learn to make the equipment that makes other equipment.
> Keep the clothing factories running anyway.
> Keep the toy factories too.
> Why abandon industries you already know how to run?
> Your economy crosses $6 trillion in 2010.
> Become the world's largest manufacturing economy.
> Open your first modern dedicated high-speed railway in 2008.
> Then build another line.
> And another.
> Your cities keep growing.
> So do your electricity needs.
> Expand steelworks, power grids, highways and entire industrial districts.
> Move into batteries, solar panels, electric vehicles and advanced materials.
> Your industrial system now stretches from raw-material refining to finished products.
“The year is 2025.”
> Your population is 1.4 billion.
> Your economy is worth roughly $19.5 trillion.
> GDP per person has climbed to nearly $13,900.
> Life expectancy has reached around 78 years.
> Nearly 68% of your people now live in cities.
> You have almost 200,000 km of expressways.
> More than 50,000 km of high-speed railway.
> Your railways carry roughly 12.6 million passenger journeys a day.
> You produce more than half the world's steel.
> Build more than half its commercial ships.
> Manufacture nearly three-quarters of its electric cars.
> And remain a major producer of the clothes and toys you started exporting decades ago.
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Remember 1975?
> Your entire economy was worth $164 billion.
> In 2024 alone, you invested $7.4 trillion in new fixed assets.
> Around 45 times your entire economy of fifty years earlier.
> Nothing about this happened by accident.
This is China, a civilizational nation that locked the F in for fifty years.
And the results speak for themselves.
#BorrowedWisdom
#Courtesy
Linus Gitahi retweeted
Bikes outnumbered cars on Scottish rush hour route for the first time ever. This world, decades ago you would read about how Africa was so "poor" what most people could afford was bikes, and today bike dominance is a sign of progress and enlightnment!
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There’s only one African nation in the global top 50 most innovative economies, with Mauritius snagging the 50th, with a score roughly half that of 1st-placed Switzerland (66.7). Rwanda is the only low-income economy in the African top 10, edging out Kenya by 0.3 points 1/2
Linus Gitahi retweeted
…Saturday night at Cobblestone Creek Country Club - Lawrenceville, NJ was lit with DJ Teackles on the decks.
It was good to see you @LinusGitahi . #JeddysNight #NewJersey #Kenyans
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The first Monday in October and Africa is at work with skills and enthusiasm:
*Barbering in Ghana
*Maintaining aircraft in Uganda
*Making pots in Burkina Faso
*Picking dates in Egypt
Whatever your work this week, may it bring you rewards and the satisfaction of a job well done!
Linus Gitahi retweeted
Every fool in the village is asking a foolish question with regard to the Dangote Refinery in Lamu...yet they all think it is a brilliant question that should elicit a response from Government. Under Article 35 of the constitution, the government has no obligation to answer foolish questions...public resources must be used wisely and for the common good.
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Wachana upusi...people are tired of this nonsense. What information do you want? And what will u do with it? Bure kabisa!
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Explosions rocked Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, overnight on 1 October 2026. An opposition alliance that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says is backed by neighbouring Eritrea claimed drone strikes, including one on military headquarters. None of the latter has been independently confirmed. Ethiopia closed its embassy in Asmara, Eritrea's capital, and expelled ten Eritrean diplomats; Eritrea severed all ties. Ethiopian federal forces have also advanced in southern Tigray, to within about 40 km of the regional capital, Mekelle. In short, and tragically, we are back to factory settings.
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On today's World Coffee Day, humankind thanks Ethiopia for having first cultivated the coffee bean 500 years ago, and creating the energizing drink with health benefits (e.g. coffee lowers risk of diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's). Since last year Ethiopia and Uganda have gone back and forth producing the most amount of coffee in Africa.
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1/2....Lamu Was Not Born in Lagos it is Half a Century of Kenyan Planning
Some Kenyans are frothing at the mouth about the Dangote refinery in Lamu. Some call it a white elephant others say it was dreamt up last month on a flight to Lagos. Before we break ground on Wednesday, let us go back into history. Let us read the plan.
Half a century in the making, The Lamu idea is older than most of the people shouting about it. The LAPSSET Corridor Development Authority's own record sets out the timeline:
✅️• 1975: The Government of Kenya, with the assistance of the Government of Japan, carried out a feasibility study on a port at Lamu.
✅️• 2003/04: While drafting the Integrated National Transport Policy, Government proposed a second transport corridor with a deep-sea port at Lamu and road and rail links to Ethiopia, South Sudan and Uganda.
✅️• 2006: Cabinet directed that LAPSSET be studied as a wider regional project.
✅️• 2008: Vision 2030 made LAPSSET a flagship project, and a full corridor study was commissioned covering the port, road and rail, a crude oil pipeline from South Sudan, Uganda and Kenya, a refinery and a product pipeline, three international airports, three resort cities and special economic zones.
✅️• November 2011: The studies were completed.
✅️• 2 March 2012: President Kibaki broke ground at Lamu alongside Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir.
The African Union then admitted LAPSSET into its Presidential Infrastructure Champion Initiative, the first project in East Africa to earn that recognition. The refinery was on the list from the day the corridor was designed. It is not a Ruto idea, and it is not a Dangote idea. It is a Kenyan idea, half a century in the making, whose time has finally come.
✅️The 2017 master plan reserved the land
In April 2017, the LAPSSET Corridor Development Authority launched the Preliminary Master Plan for Lamu Port City and Investment Framework. It was prepared by WS Atkins, one of the world's leading engineering consultancies, funded by the UK government, and endorsed in Nairobi by more than 100 government, private sector and civil society stakeholders.
That document did not merely mention a refinery. It reserved 53 hectares at Lamu for oil tank storage and a refinery, and described its components: crude and product tank farms, primary and secondary processing units, and service areas. It placed the refinery firmly in the medium-term development phase, right beside the port. It also noted that earlier studies by Toyota Tsusho and Japan Port Consultants had already identified the opportunity.
So when someone tells you this project was cooked up in a hurry, ask them one question: have you read the master plan? The planners answered "Kenya has no oil" nine years ago.
The loudest objection today is that Kenya does not produce enough crude to feed a refinery. The master plan dealt with this in one sentence. Demand for a refinery, it observed, is normally driven by end-user demand, in Kenya and across the wider East African market.
The planners never built the case on Turkana oil. They built it on the millions of East Africans who buy petrol, diesel, jet fuel and gas every day. The plan envisaged products moving to Kenyan and Ethiopian markets, and noted that Kenya and Ethiopia had already signed a bilateral agreement to develop a product pipeline. It foresaw exports by sea, by rail, and by pipeline.
Linus Gitahi retweeted
Today I attended service at a Catholic church, and I’m seriously considering joining the Pope’s people. Hawa watu hawana mambo mingi. 😂
You criticise their religion, they listen until you finish. Nobody is rolling up their sleeves to defend Rome. You came with your mouth, finish talking and go home.
They attend Mass, receive Communion, say Hail Mary, then some pass by their local for a cold beer.
From “peace be with you” to “weka moja baridi” without quarrelling with anybody. 😂
Nobody is inspecting your clothes. Wear the same shirt every Sunday until the collar gives up.
You came to see God, and God already knows that shirt.
No loudspeaker facing somebody’s cows, announcing that the devil has refused to leave the village. The church bell rings, and those who are going start walking.
And they’re not begging you to join. The church has been beside the road since your grandfather was a boy. You know the entrance. Ukijiskia, ingia.
What pleased me most was not being asked to stand up, introduce myself, say who invited me and explain whether I’m visiting or looking for a spiritual home. Yaani I can come and pray without giving the village my CV? 😂
By the time I left, nobody had recruited me into a committee or asked why my wife hadn’t come.
Very disciplined people. Somebody tell the Pope there is a man from Kingeero coming and I already know where the church is. 😂
Linus Gitahi retweeted
Egypt completely dominates the sport of squash on a global level; South Africa’s Springboks are a force in rugby; Ethiopia and Kenya rule global marathons. Kenya and Morocco dominate the steeplechase, Ghana and Nigeria lead U-17 football, and Senegal is a global beach soccer powerhouse. Now Africa needs to figure out how to lead the world in science, agricultural technology, economic growth, good politics, and curbing the theft of taxpayers' money.
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A business is built on the back of ambition and drive.
A business is supported by oversight and structure.
A business is destroyed by greed and complacency.
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Nairobi is between a hard place,a hard rock and a black hole.
All those vying for Nairobi leadership are people with questionable characters that are hard to ignore
Frame one we have Gathufu Tony soprano also known as Gakuya,very big crook,still fighting corruption scandals in court even now,and a very down to earth person when it comes to pillaging mwananchi money.
Frame 2 we have crook Babu,very charismatic,has his virtues but his vices surpass his virtues unfortunately. His track record is very unclean,and hard to ignore
Frame 3 Karori,current Mp,Flamboyant billionare still fighting homosexing allegations while his constituents suffer the stench of sewage line in kasarani. He was recently seen bribing goons on the expressway which he later come to say it was misinterpreted. But we know what he is,him and kasongo.
What will Nairobians do,Perhaps its time we summoned Polycarp Igathe and apologize to him. He is the only one i see worthy of carrying the keys to this city
