global health & climate journalist . @ICFJ Winner 2021, 2022, @QHKAwards Winner 2023, AJEA Winner 2022,2023 . @AfricaREACH1 leadership council member.
Feb 2 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Today journalisming has been so painful . 😭
I spoke to over 30 victims .
I established the following which broke my heart ...😩 #Thread
1. A security guard informed his 'bosses' of a gas leak as early as 5 PM but no one listened / came to sort it .
2. At Mama Lucy Hospital , facility did not have the medication needed to treat victims . All if not most were given painkiller injections & a prescription of meds which they are expected to buy .
With what money ? They have lost EVERYTHING in a fire you FOOLs !!
Dec 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
A Kenyan pilot was granted Xmas leave on 23rd & decided to surprise his girlfriend of 10 years who lives along Mirema Drive yesterday at midday, where he pays rent every month . 🤭
Tells me he knocked on the door & a man ( in the pilot's towel /) approached to open it.😭
" Hello , how may I help you ? Mr Towel posed to the Pilot who just stood there like a statue ... speechless and in disbelief..😭 The Pilot introduced himself to Mr Towel as a cousin to his own girlfriend.😭😂. Mr Towel opened the door & welcomed the Pilot into his own house.
Aug 22, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
For those who have been treated and recovered from COVID-19 , WHO’s Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan says that you can take the vaccine only after you've FULLY recovered . #Thread
"You can take the vaccine actually, once you've recovered from COVID. So waiting for a few weeks is recommended.
You should have no symptoms at all and you should feel perfectly well when you take your vaccination.
Aug 22, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
880,000 Moderna doses landing at JKIA tomorrow morning, the 1st batch of 1.8 million doses that the US is donating to us as we await for the 330,000 doses of J & J this week ( remember GOK bought 10 million J &J doses but we are getting 13 million coz price per dose reduced).
The rate at which J & J will be shipped to Kenya depends with how fast Aspen Pharmacare in South Africa produces them . They have a ' fill and finish ' deal with J & J but are yet to get full WHO approval to resume full capacity production .
Apr 7, 2019 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
Dear parents , when you send your kids ABROAD to study , please check up on them and find out EXACTLY what they are doing , who they are relating with , demand to see transcripts , fee receipts e.t.c and be in constant contact with the institution / teachers . Here is why #Thread
Today , a mother to one of my Ugandan friends who studies around here called me . She was in so much pain , she cried on the phone for hours , she told me she hasn't eaten for days because she has not been in contact with her son.
