Nyali MP, Mohamed Ali, an independent MP is now championing UDA's agenda, including opening offices. Laikipia governor, Nderitu Murithi, an independent, is opening PNU offices. Most MPs & governors are advancing interests of rival parties. They've violated the law. No one cares.
This calls into question the operation of rule of law in this country. Registrar of political parties, being an appointee of executive & who serve at his Mercy, wouldn't dare raise a finger.
No party has complied with law on elections & financial mgt. ORP is conveniently mute.
Former CJ, David Maraga, advised the president to dissolve parliament for failure to pass the gender law, under article 261(7). Further, courts have ruled that parliament, as presently constituted, is illegal.
President ignored the advise (yet no discretion is allowed).
These actions has rendered sections of the Constitution, esp those meant to ensure nation's political hygiene, mute & irrelevant.
Without constitutionalism, rule of law & respect for judiciary's mandate to interpret the law, our political landscape shall remain a jungle. Lawless.

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The story, as promised.
A THREAD
My friend had a very successful retail business in Meru. Equity bank recruited him as one of their agents. In no time, he was best agent in Meru county & was invited for a seminar in Thika, to enhance the 'partnership'. That's where trouble began.
A brief background:
In 2000, he was baking cakes in Meru's Kooje slums & distributed them in his bicycle. Thro sheer hardwork, he transitioned into retail business & relocated. By 2005, he had established a successful retail business. That's when he hired me as shop assistant.
I worked for him for 7 months as I waited to join university. He was a shrewd & diligent businessman. A committed Christian. During my stay, we made sales of ksh100k/day. Business was good. By 2009, he was making ksh200K/day in sales. Banks courted him for loans. He was reluctant
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Sanna Mirella Marin. Born 16 Nov 1985. Became Prime Minister of Finland on 10 Dec 2019, aged 34.
BTW,
She isn't from a rich, politically connected family. Her family faced serious financial problems. Parents separated. Father struggled with alcoholism.
BUT: system works. Image
Just like with Kenyan young politicians, her tenure & conduct has been plagued by controversies. ....using house allowances for groceries, clubbing during COVID-19 pandemic, appearing semi-nude in magazine photos...
But her being PM at 34 is a testament of functioning system.
Austria is another example.
Sebastian Kurz (born 1986) became Austria's Chancellor at 31. A law school dropout. Image
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GoK contracted Estama, owned by Uhuru's relatives, to supply, install, commission & handover 100 mobile clinics @ Sh1B. They imported each @ ksh1.4M & sold to GoK @ Sh10M, got Sh800M & left them at Miritini, in 2015. GoK paid extra Sh1B for transport, in 2020.
Where are they now?
In 2019, Cecily Kariuki admitted clinics 4yr stay at Miritini NYS camp was due to lack of funds for transport to various counties. She suggested recipient counties foot transport cost & invited MPs to help via NGCDF!
She didn't demand Estama discharge its contractual obligation!
This far, taxpayers have paid ksh20M for each CONTAINER. But where are those mobile clinics? How on Earth did a container cost ksh20M & still remain unavailable 6yrs after being procured?
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Evolution of Kenya's public debt...

(Compare Kibaki Vs UhuRuto)

1. Debt to GDP ratio. Image
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3. External debt service to revenue ratio. Image
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Local sugar firms need a ban on imports to sell.
Reason: imported sugar is cheaper.
So, Consumers pay more & still, are forced to bailout them out!🤷
They won't sell at competitive prices & won't be profitable!
Why can't they produce competitively?
The answer is the solution.
These firms need neither protection from imports nor bailouts.
Consumers shouldn't be forced to buy sugar at higher prices, when alternative lower prices exist, just to enable inefficient domestic firms sell.
Bailouts, by same consumers, is an abominable injustice.
Consumers can't be locked into higher sugar prices to sustain inefficiency into eternity & still be forced to pay for the same inefficiency. Sugar politics must be put to death.
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