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Emmanuel Manyasa retweeted
Below are two images of sharp contrast, they are both going to jail;
one Paul Mackenzie is going to jail for murder for 200 years while Tundu Lissu is going to jail for four years on charges of incitemenet.
One deserves rightfully deserves to go to jail for Shakahola crimes while one needs to be applaud and celebrated for standing for truth, justice and equality.
It is painful to see Tundu Lissu going to jail because of his stand. Free Tundu Lissu!
I have experienced this pain. But we have to do something about @KenyaAirways rather than be done with them. Only God knows the pain we will endure on other airlines when they are not there. I have cancelled important trips due to flight cancellation by other airlines too.
My travels this year have all come mostly squeezed in October and November. And for some reason those who have invited me and are paying for the tickets have all conspired to book my flights on @KenyaAirways! This is the first time in 3 years I have flown #KQ since they deliberately left my checked-in suitcase in Nairobi on a trip to Accra apparently because I had only one bag yet Nigerians and Ghanaians who pay for space travel with multiple luggage. I discovered that KQ then had a silent policy of transporting unpaid for luggage 3 days later. So I stopped taking their flights.
And sometimes it was very inconvenient because of long layovers when taking other airlines, but we can't eat patriotism in the midst of incompetence. Lately I have heard positive reports that KQ had sorted their issues so I never protested being booked on their flights.
But let me tell you Maina!
My first flight early in early October was an hour late, the return flight half an hour late. Not too bad, I told myself. My second flight was rescheduled to 4 hours later but actually left 6 hours late, with the return flight 2 hours late on the schedule but ending up being 4 hours late. My third flight juzi was delayed for 2 hours, while the return was rescheduled to 4 hours later!
Today I'm taking my fourth KQ flight in a month. It's again five hours late. Oh, and the return flight? It's been cancelled and pushed a day later. No explanation, no recourse apparently. Tujidishi!
Well, clearly KQ is the shame of Africa! I'm done with them!
#UshenziKE!
Emmanuel Manyasa retweeted
BREAKING: BLUE TSUNAMI! Pope Leo XIV casts his vote in the midterm elections, making him the first pontiff in history to do so!
And it gets even better...
“The Holy Father expresses his belief in the right and the duty of citizens to participate in democratic processes,” stated the Vatican, adding that Leo “has exercised his right to vote as a United States citizen, whenever he was eligible to do so," including during his time as a missionary in Peru.
The pope — the first American to hold the Chair of Saint Peter — was registered to vote under his birth name Robert Prevost and cast a mail-in ballot, citing an address in New Lenox, Illinois.
Leo has voted in Republican primaries in the past as well as in Democratic ones. While the Church's stance on abortion is presumably what tilted him Republican in the past, the relatively sane conservative party of the pre-MAGA days is long gone. It seems exceedingly unlikely that he's voting red this time around.
Leo has become one of the Trump administration's fiercest, most prominent critics. He has repeatedly slammed the White House's brutal and cruel treatment of migrants as well as its illegal Iran War.
“I’m not a big fan of Pope Leo,” Trump previously said. He absurdly accused the Vicar of Christ of being "WEAK on crime" and "terrible for foreign policy" while simultaneously claiming personal responsibility for his papacy.
While we will likely never find out for certain who Leo voted for (we'd put good money on JB Pritzker given his bold opposition to the fascist MAGA movement), the pope's example of civic engagement should be an inspiration to us all. If he can find the time to vote while running the oldest and largest religious institution in the world, the rest of us can carve out some time to cast our ballots.
Please ❤️ and share to thank Pope Leo!
These turncoats are the reason many people get disillusioned by democracy. People who believe in nothing but their private interests should live off their private sweat and not purport to represent others. Kenya has enough public-interested men and women to serve the public!
Seeing Mohammed Ali actually brings horrible memories and reality 🥲 my brain understands the concept of united opposition but my heart can’t take the fact that we need to work together with the same people that voted for the finance bill 2024 and said this as well. People who have blood on their hands 😔
None of those setting up these so-called universities has their child enrolled there. In their own mind, they are trapping poor people's children in these dark tunnels to nowhere to clear the way for their children. But in reality, they are darkening the country's future. SAD!!!
SEKU spent over KSh 256 million building its Wote campus, but Makueni’s political class could not wait for it to become fully operational. They pushed for its elevation to Makueni University College, with SEKU transferring 490 students to the new institution. Today, those students are on strike, facing uncertainty after discovering the lack of long-term planning and losing access to SEKU lecturers following the withdrawal of teaching support. This is what happens when political ambition takes precedence over educational planning. Politicians secured their university; students were left paying the price.
As President Moi would put it, "wacha tuone vile hiyo itaongeza sufuria za ugali na vikombe vya chai kwa nyumba zenu"!
Emmanuel Manyasa retweeted
If Ruto can increase PAYE taxes in an election year when he's pleading for your votes, just imagine what will happen when he doesn't need your votes anymore in his 2nd term!
Emmanuel Manyasa retweeted
I have come across a National Treasury approval letter showing that, in February 2025, the government approved a $550 million electricity and fertilizer plant in Olkaria through "specially permitted procurement."
The decision is significant. It allowed a Chinese investor to enter a strategic public-resource value chain—geothermal steam, power generation, green ammonia, and fertilizer—without the competitive process ordinarily used to test price, technical capacity, and value for money.
The letter does not prove corruption; it proves discretion.
It shows that Kenya’s Treasury used an exceptional procurement route to admit Kaishan into a value chain built on publicly owned steam and prospective public purchases. The question for Parliament, the Auditor-General is simple: if this project was so exceptional that competition was unnecessary, why was that conclusion not tested openly before the state committed its steam, its purchasing power, and its fiscal credibility?
Kaishan’s journey in Kenya is notable:
Initial Foothold: Entered as the EPC contractor to Gideon Moi-owned Sosian Energy for its 35 MW Menengai plant ($65M EPC + $18.05M O&M contract). Sosian was one of three IPPs competitively selected by GDC in 2013, with the plant synchronized to the grid in 2023. (Control of Sosian briefly shifted to Devki Raval before reverting to the Moi family).
Direct Ownership: Kaishan then acquired OrPower22—the American-linked IPP that was developing Menengai III. This transformed Kaishan from a equipment vendor into an asset owner with long-term interests in Kenyan geothermal generation.
Downstream Integration: Through its subsidiary, Kaishan Terra Green Ammonia Ltd, the firm signed a 30-year steam-supply agreement with KenGen for a planned 165.4 MW plant using steam from 18 existing wells.
According to disclosures, the plant will produce green ammonia for fertilizer, with Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture expected to buy the output under Treasury payment support.
This represents a major political-economy shift: a private Chinese investor gaining direct access to a public natural resource while securing a long-term public purchasing commitment and fiscal backing.
Specially permitted procurement is legally reserved for truly exceptional cases where competition is infeasible. Using it here makes governance the central issue: was competition genuinely impossible, or was an exceptional route used to bypass public scrutiny?
Emmanuel Manyasa retweeted
🗣️ Petr Čech on the Ballon d’Or organisers naming Unai Simón Goalkeeper of the Year over David Raya:
“I honestly can't believe what the Ballon d'Or has become. Is this a football awards ceremony or a FIFA World Cup winners' celebration? Are we really judging an entire season by a seven-game tournament?
It's embarrassing. David Raya has won THREE consecutive Premier League Golden Gloves, kept 19 clean sheets in the league and nine more in the Champions League. Yet somehow, that's not enough to make him the best goalkeeper of the year?
Unai Simón deserves credit for his World Cup performances, but individual awards should recognise consistency across an entire season, not just international tournament success.
Raya has proved himself week after week at the highest level. If we're going to ignore that kind of consistency because another goalkeeper won the World Cup, then what exactly are these awards meant to recognise?
The Ballon d'Or organisers need to explain their criteria because decisions like this make a mockery of the entire process.
#BallonDor
Emmanuel Manyasa retweeted
🚨🗣️ Zinedine Zidane Proposes Separate Awards for Club and International Football
“The Ballon d’Or organisers need to be more consistent with their decisions.
They used La Liga performances to award Lamine Yamal the Kopa Trophy over Pau Cubarsí, relied on World Cup performances to award Unai Simón the Yashin Trophy over David Raya, ignoring a whole season of club football and used Bundesliga performances to award Harry Kane the Gerd Müller Trophy over Kylian Mbappé, despite Mbappé's incredible scoring record.
They also prioritised Champions League success when selecting Club of the Year, yet placed greater emphasis on international tournament success when choosing Coach of the Year over managers who delivered outstanding results at club level.
So, which criteria actually matter: domestic league performances, Champions League success or international tournaments?
If the organisers cannot apply consistent standards across every category, they should separate club football awards from international football awards.
Players and managers deserve recognition based on clear, fair criteria, not standards that appear to change from one award to another. The Ballon d’Or needs reform.
#BallonDor
The universal laws of human stupidity apply!
CS Mbadi telling Luos (in Dholuo) of the unconstitutional power Ruto and he enjoy over our national resources!!!
"...Here in Kenya, it is only the president who has power to allocate resources. The only other person, after the president, who has power to allocate resources is me. The rest of your leaders are beggars..." ~ Mbadi
You will not hear many of the current presidential candidates condemn this because they are dying to get there to enjoy similar powers.
@_James041 @Dr_Buchu @dkmaraga @OkiyaOmtatah @edwinsifuna @skmusyoka @MarthaKarua @EugeneLWamalwa @rigathi
Emmanuel Manyasa retweeted
She went to the election office to find out whether she could run for mayor.
A probation officer checked, signed a form, and told Pamela Moses she was eligible.
He was wrong. She got SIX YEARS for his mistake.
Memphis, Tennessee, 2019. Pamela Moses is a Black Lives Matter activist who had been in repeated conflict with local officials. She wanted to run for mayor.
To do it she needed her voting rights restored. She went to the probation office. An officer checked her file, completed and signed the certificate saying her probation was complete, and she took that signed document to the election commission.
The document was wrong. Her probation had not expired. The officer had made an error.
She was prosecuted for illegally registering to vote and, in January 2022, sentenced to six years and one day.
She was sent to prison on the strength of a mistake made by a state employee, on a state form, which she had asked that employee to check.
The sentence drew national attention. Then a reporter obtained internal correspondence showing the Tennessee Department of Correction had conducted its own review and concluded the officer had erred.
In February 2022 a judge granted her a new trial, finding the state had withheld that document. Shortly afterwards, the district attorney dropped the case entirely.
She spent eighty-two days in prison.
The officer who filled in the form faced no charges.
Now put this next to the post at seven this morning. Crystal Mason in Texas. Pamela Moses in Tennessee. Two Black women, two states, two prosecutions, nine years between them in sentences handed down — for ballots that were never counted and registrations that never took effect.
Ask yourself how many hours of prison time have been handed to the people who actually administered those forms.
peopledaily.digital/news/kar… I will just leave this one here!
Emmanuel Manyasa retweeted
As national examinations begin today, Usawa Agenda wishes all candidates across Kenya the very best.
May you approach your exams with confidence, focus and determination. We are rooting for you.
#KenyaNationalExaminations #EducationJustice4ALL
