Regional Aviation Logistics.
'Sometimes a conformist: twice a deviant' - Gathigi, 2023 A.D
Feb 17 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Kenya's, or rather Ruto's, support to RSF (an org whose leaders have been sanctioned) isn't just limited to innocent gestures like venues for meetings.
Over the past two or so years, Mombasa International Airport has served as an important refuelling point for aircraft suspected
to be carrying munitions of war to resupply the RSF. These flights are suspected to originate from the UAE with their route typically being a refuelling stop in Mombasa, crossing into Tanzanian airspace at Taveta/Moshi then over Uganda, CAR/South Sudan and into Eastern Chad.
Feb 17 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Since the war in Ukraine broke out, we kept having robust conversations with @IanECox and I kept telling him "nothing good ever came out of listening to the US, particularly with war". Once again, the US is living up to its reputation.
2. This confirms the rumours that Ukraine and Russia could have settled this through talks in Belarus and Istanbul were it not for European interference in both cases. I mean, why is an election in Ukraine that bad?
Let's correct a few misconceptions with these online prices.
Wikipedia prices are what we call "Flyaway price/cost". This is basically the production cost of the aircraft.
Then there's the "Acquisition cost" which is the ‘Fly Away Cost+initial spares+induction cost (training of pilots, mechanics and base handling)’.
Then there's the “Total Ownership/Life Cycle Cost” which is the ‘Fly Away Cost+Acquisition Cost+Operations & logistics support costs’
Jul 23, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
When @NjeriBt says she's surprised by my "anti-state rhetoric" it is because of things like these. This country is being broken down and sold off in small portions. The energy grid has been sold off, the airport would have been gone.. and you haven't heard about the port yet.
Ten years of Ruto and I promise we will be in an inextricable mess! Forests gone, JKIA on its way out, roads being sold off one by one, the port is already being compromised by his patrons, unextracted minerals already auctioned, citizens pawned off.
Hatuna kiongozi, ni msaliti.
Jul 15, 2024 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
The more you think about this Kware shit job the more comical it becomes.
So 1. Dude dumped his first body, his wife, in 2022 and no one saw him. Was the wife reported missing? 2. Emboldened by that, he subsequently dumped 13 more (with the latest 14 body count) bodies.
All this time no one saw him.
Nov 12, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. KDF has just deployed to the Congo, our experience in DRC spans well over 25 years. For some you may just be discovering Eastern DRC but for the DoD they know the smell of the soil.
2. Congo in some respects will not be like Somalia. Tighter regional mandate and length of the resupply corridors means things we've grown accustomed to (and love) like airstrikes from our fighter-bombers won't happen, at least in the near term.
Nov 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Even as we talk about @WilliamsRuto's deployment of KDF to DRC, an even more monumental action on KDF awaits him. Whether he likes it or not, whether we like it or not, this administration is going to embark on the most expensive military armament program in our nation's history.
Under @HonAdenDuale, the @kdfinfo has an onerous task of replacing almost every single weapons system in its inventory due to old age. Entire fighter fleet, armoured fleet, IFV fleet, Utility helicopter fleet, air defence systems, surveillance radars, OPV/IPV landing ship fleet..
Apr 23, 2018 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
Dear Kenyans,
I know we are oblivious to what goes on in our region and how this affects our economy. I know our TV stations (@KBCChannel1 @KTNNews @NTVnewsroom @K24Tv @citizentvkenya ) would rather report what Chiloba had for breakfast than tell us what's going on in our.. #KoT
Neighborhood. So kindly allow me to take this opportunity to bring you up to speed on something that potentially has serious ramifications for our region.
Earlier this month, Somalia Government confiscated $9million in cash at Aden Abdulle airport in Mogadishu. The cash was #KOT
