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Sep 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Tales of Ol Jogi and the lifestyle of socialite Jocelyne Wildenstein

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 "Locals, as Kenyan conservationist Mordecai Oganda recently found out, are not supposed to photograph wildlife near the 58,000-acre conservancy or what Oganda calls ‘Laikipia Colony’

nation.africa/kenya/nation-p…
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 She spent unbelievable amounts of money

"Jocelyne says Alec didn’t blink when she bought a $350,000 Chanel dress (designed by her and Karl Lagerfeld) and $10mn worth of jewelry

For Diane’s 17th birthday, they built her a $3mn mansion at Ol Jogi."

vanityfair.com/news/1998/03/j…
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 And got a massive divorce settlement

The Swiss-born socialite was awarded $2.5 billion (£1.7 billion) from her former elite art dealer and horse-racing husband, Alec, in the late 1990s in one of the biggest divorce settlements in history.

independent.co.uk/news/people/cr…
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 She later filed for bankruptcy

"Former socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein has filed for federal Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The former socialite shockingly lists her Citibank account balance as "$0".

meaww.com/jocelyn-wilden…

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Dec 6, 2020
Nelson Mandela once declared that Ethiopia held a special place in his imagination.

Indeed, the land of coffee, ancient architecture and a resilient people does carry a certain mystique… and a very long, torturous history.

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 --Long Thread--

[Pic: Children of the Omo Valley]
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 See, Mandela spent two weeks in July 1962 in Ethiopia where he learned the tricks of guerilla warfare from Col Fekadu Wakene, a corporal in the riot battalion of the Ethiopian police force at the time.

Mandela was in Ethiopia by invitation of Emperor Haile Selassie I.
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 At 1.1mn km², a population of 110mn & 80 ethnic groups, Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in the world, having come into existence circa 980 BCE.

Most intriguing is the nation’s ancient links to Islam, and Christianity, which was declared a state religion in 330 CE.
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Oct 25, 2020
In 1899, Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness, described events in the Congo as “the vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience”

Little did he know.

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 The story of the Congo is one of untold suffering and spectacular plunder.

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 Home to the 2ⁿᵈ largest rainforest (65% forest cover) & 2ⁿᵈ largest river in the world, the DRC is roughly the size of Western Europe with a pop'n of 84mn and a GDP of $50bn.

The value of Congo’s natural resources is estimated at $24tn, greater than the US’ $20tn GDP.
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 Africa’s 2ⁿᵈ largest country has 10% of the world’s copper, 30% of diamonds, 80% of Coltan, 50% of Cobalt and 12% of hydro-electric capacity.

Mining ($11.6bn) accounted for 95% of exports, 28% of revenue, 20% of GDP & 11% of the workforce in 2016.

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Oct 11, 2020
The story of Col John Ainsworth

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 When Nairobi started under Ainsworth, the first municipal budget was 7,161 rupees (± Sh150K), which only paid for the uniforms and salaries of 6 Swahili and 8 Indian policemen, 2 sweepers, and oil for street lights.

nation.africa/kenya/news/pol…
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 Called from Machakos to serve as a top civil servant at the swampy town populated more by wild animals than by European settlers, Ainsworth arrived in Nairobi in 1899 at age 25.

Born in 1864 in the UK he died in 1964, at 100 years old.

[Nairobi in 1898]
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 Prior to his arrival, British land surveyors had already come to Kenya and identified much of the fertile land as “unpopulated” and ripe for colonial settlement.

There was no knowledge among the Europeans of African land ownership, such as the Kikuyu system of gethaka
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Sep 30, 2020
First, it was decided the project will be initiated as a public-private partnership (PPP) to escape procurement scrutiny that comes with open tenders.

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 A short thread on organised crime in government

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 As soon as the project was approved, they quickly abandoned the PPP and started an international open tender.

The tenders were then crafted in such a way that a select number of local companies were looped in through the backdoor as subcontractors of original manufacturers.
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 Cabinet Secretary James Macharia, who was in charge of the health docket when the contracts were awarded, and Dr Muraguri, disowned an inflated price list submitted by his successor Sicily Kariuki, according to the parliamentary report. The two gave their own price lists
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Sep 23, 2020
The Postal Corporation of Kenya, PCK or Posta, is the oldest parastatal in Kenya having been founded in 1901 as the Postal Services of British EA (PSBEA).

Over the years however, Posta has faced unending troubles due to corruption and mismanagement.

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 In 1910, PSBEA offered savings accounts and later evolved into Postbank Credit.

In 1994, the bank collapsed with Sh3.8bn in deposits and Sh3.6bn in loans, due to bad debts owed by connected individuals like Cyrus Jirongo.

businessdailyafrica.com/news/Jirongo-s….
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 By 1930 PSBEA was earning revenues of £222,115 against expenses of £181,267 - i.e. it was profitable.

There were even efforts to grow African customers for the Post Office Savings bank. They numbered 1,187 at the time.

libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/ilharvest/Afri…

[GPO Mombasa built 1890]
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Sep 21, 2020
In the 1977/78 fiscal year, Dr Nataverbhai Patel's Anpi Pharma and related outfits were awarded tenders for Sh80mn of MoH’s Sh150mn budget for drugs.

They either undersupplied or billed without supplying.

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 Of cartels, drugs and elections...

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 Anpi Pharma would under-quote to win the tender then after winning, would come back and state:

“freight charges and cost of materials have gone up. I want to vary the tender.”
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 Before Kemsa, there was the Central Medical Stores ran by a Zachariah Shimechero, a Deputy Commissioner of Police at independence and later the Commissioner of Settlement of Squatters.

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