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|Managing Editor- Newsroom production @NationAfrica| MA International journalism| @cardiffuni |Reagan-Fascell fellow| Chevening scholar
Aug 25, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
Voters have increased the number of Mps in 13th Parliament who are being accused of murders, fraud, corruption, rape and many other politically correct term "personal challenges" here's #WADR take on this. 1/2
Here's a brief on new MP DANIEL MANDUKU (ODM) Nyaribari Masaba By our count there are 68 Mps facing chapter 6 challenges, but here we are now. How about, the new Senator of Trans Nzoia, Allan Chesang (UDA) you ask, here is his profile. He is in court over FAKE LAP TOP tender (2018).
Jul 4, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
That, UHURU KENYATTA was ready to leave office in 2017 after SUPREME COURT cancelled the elections is significant. He was forced to rethinking his position by his deputy WILLIAM RUTO who this morning has followed recounting the events saying, there's no mistake in him forcing UHURU back to presidency.

"Kwani sisi ni wajinga tutafute kiti alafu tuachie mtu wa kitendawili"
May 17, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
Really fascinated by the ART OF REINVENTION (feeding on ignorance) by KENYAN Political class.

A very short thread. 🧵 Andrew SUNKULI was chosen Monday as Kalonzo Musyoka's running mate. He was referred to us a publisher and a businessman. That's it. He seems to have come from nowhere.
Jul 15, 2021 30 tweets 4 min read
I think I have just found the BIBLE's most scandalous story.

You cant sanitize this. I have never heard this story anywhere.

"The Righteous" Prostitute. TAMAR.

**********A THREAD******** The first out-of-place ornament Matthew includes in Jesus’ family tree is Tamar, the mother of Perez (Matthew 1:3). If you’ve never heard of Tamar before, you’re not alone.
May 23, 2020 29 tweets 10 min read
About 1 month ago the government announced a 'welfare package' that would cushion vulnerable Kenyans as CV-19 crisis deepened.

The Media reports suggested the money was JUST ABOUT TO BE RELEASED.

There's a WORLD of difference btn announcing and DOING

*******THREAD******* The welfare package as announced by the government was supposed to be effected through a cash transfer.

The elderly, poor, and persons living with disabilities were supposed to receive somewhere between 2,000 and 8,000.
Apr 15, 2020 20 tweets 9 min read
There's somewhat an evolving picture of the DISRUPTION in lives, businesses, and way of life caused by COVID-19.

In KENYA, the food-chain is going through a METAMOPHORSIS, the CHANGES brought about by the PANDEMIC could be longlasting.

A THREAD on the MARKETS OF NAIROBI. It's been a record low FOUR weeks on sales of CHINESE fish in the markets.

Traders say customers are SCARED of the fish and they are preferring fish from LAKE VICTORIA, in its absence, fish farms from KENYA.
Apr 5, 2020 21 tweets 10 min read
The world is a different place than it was a few weeks ago. We’ve all had to make radical adjustments to our lives, livelihoods, and priorities. 

Here's how communities without a SAFETY NET a grappling with COVID-19 pandemic.

******THREAT***** Location: Korogocho.

Home to about 160,000 people, houses are usually very small one-room shanties made from pieces of old iron or plastic and mud. The floors are made of mud and there’s no running water or electricity.
Mar 28, 2020 25 tweets 11 min read
Kenya has embarked on a dusk to dawn curfew to curb the spread of deadly coronavirus.

This particular restriction on normal life is abnormal for a particular group of people, we seldom think about.

This is a THREAD on what happens to STREET FAMILIES during this COVID-19 times First, the basics. In normal times, the question of STREET CHILDREN is a gigantic 'problem' for Kenyan society, largely ignored, mistreated, and misunderstood. It's clear we don't know what to do with our STREET FAMILIES.
Mar 20, 2020 11 tweets 6 min read
The spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) is the most serious global health security threat in decades.

With restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the virus, how will communities without a SAFETY net navigate these times?

****THREAD**** Joyce Omondi, 42, Hotel Owner. With a business that has 8 workers, serving 600 people in a day, she says her customers have reduced to 150. Her income has plummeted from 15K to 3K.
"We hope this ends quickly and that GOK people know what they are doing in handling this crisis."