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Compatriots, please notice what actually happened a few years ago... The courts struck down the recall law in 2017 as unusable (as it had been designed) after @katibainstitute challenged it. Parliament then rewrote it for MCAs and quietly left themselves out. They restored the kiboko for everyone below them and not for themselves. That tells you everything. So yes, recall your MCA. That one is possible in law today. But here is the deeper point for us... An employer can only discipline a worker because they hold a job description, a record of performance, a standing forum for review, and a list of consequences that the worker signed on to. As citizens and voters, #WeThePeopleKE hold only the last one, once every five years. The Recall Clause. That is why we are seriously building #ThePeoplesManifesto. It writes the job description before the election, in your own ward, constituency, county and country and in your own words. We get the candidates to sign on BEFORE the interview and hiring process. And it keeps the record AFTER. Then it builds the village assembly that meets in the years between, when nobody is campaigning and nobody is watching, with a scorecard. After which then we can go for a recall... makes sense? #Utu inatuambia Mtu ni Watu. A leader is supposed to be accountable to the people who made him/her, his/her employers, not to the party that ticketed him/her. Kujeni (everyone here is invited) tuandike hii job description pamoja. 😁👊🏾
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Friends and colleagues, my name is Bonface Njoroge. I am in urgent need of my blood pressure and heart disease medication. My number is 0727709562. I lost my job 2 months ago a phone call to verify my story. @BravinYuri @zablonorina1 @Kibet_bull
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Kitutu Masaba MP Clive Gisairo alleges that the refinery being fronted by President William Ruto and Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote in Lamu could end up as a family business. Could this be the reason why the details of the refinery deal are being kept from the public? #WeThePeopleKE
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Uhuru Kenyatta and Edwin Sifuna met at the burial of Mwalimu Jackson Karua in Kirinyaga County. The government: The sponyo met his project 😂😂 #WeThePeopleKE
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133 Lamu Families are protesting demanding compensation before the Dangote Oil Refinery ground breaking commences. The killer regime has decided to encounter the calls using guns.
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Thanks for seeing it. I am the biggest source of information in the field of human rights and sociopolitical injustices. This is the 60th time my tweets are featured in the mainstream media. Here, we don't filter, we don't sugarcoat and we don't buy fear.
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Nmeona hii tweet kwa news za ktn
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The Registra of Political Parties has approved the The Linda Mwananchi Movement LLM name. Onto to the next move. #WeThePeopleKE
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How is rape settled out of court? What message does that send to survivors and to society? Rape is a serious crime that should not be reduced to a private dispute that can simply be resolved through compensation. If an out-of-court settlement can lead to acquittal in a rape case, it raises serious questions about accountability and the protection of survivors. Sexual violence is not a debt that can be paid off. @ODPP_KE we demand answers.
Court acquits two police officers and two civilians accused of rape and robbery with violence, cites out-of-court settlement; DPP says suspects compensated victims.
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The fact that this was foreseen tells more about this government. Health Cs Aden Duale now says we're migrating from SHA to HIMS. Is there something fishy happening? If you're not taking us back to NHIF, then #WeThePeopleKE don't expect anything new.
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The project is variously described as a Sh2.2 trillion or roughly $16 billion investment. Dangote has previously revised the estimate down from about $17 billion to roughly $16 billion, citing lessons from construction of the Nigerian refinery. But what exactly does that number represent? Is it the projected construction cost or the value of the completed refinery, or the value of the entire integrated complex? Is it the enterprise value, the equity value or simply the total investment envelope? The public figures for Kenya's proposed 10 per cent stake do not appear to be settled. What exactly determines the price? If the government cannot tell us the price of 10 per cent, how can Kenyans determine whether the offered stake represents value for money? If the price is only an initial contribution, what comes next? Will there be additional equity contributions and future capital calls? Are debt obligations and guarantees involved? 3. If Kenya is making land available to the project, what is its independently assessed value? More than 7,000 acres have been identified for the refinery site. The Lands Cabinet Secretary has also referred to additional State-owned land. President Ruto has said concerns over the land will be dealt with fairly and according to the law. What is the land’s worth? If any of the land is being contributed to the project as part of Kenya's economic participation, its independently assessed value should be known. Take a purely illustrative figure of Sh1 million per acre. Seven thousand acres would be worth Sh7 billion. At Sh3 million an acre, it becomes Sh21 billion. At Sh4 million, Sh28 billion. 4. If Kenya commits to buying substantial volumes of the refinery's products, for how long will it be locked in and at what price? What happens if the refinery cannot supply? What happens if imported fuel becomes cheaper? 5. Have Kenyans actually been shown the valuation? There is a headline investment figure. There is a proposed 10 per cent stake with different publicly reported figures for what that stake might cost. More than 7,000 acres of land have been identified. Dangote says the project will be financed through a mixture of equity and debt, with a proposed 30 per cent equity and 70 per cent debt structure. But the public has not yet been shown the complete economic model that connects these numbers. Because when public money, public land and the Kenyan market are being assembled around a private investment of this magnitude, “trust us” is not a business case.
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EXCUSE ME, TEACHER ... Journalists are trained to be jacks of all trades and masters of none. They can go from reporting on the Kenya Society for the Protection and Care of Animals in the morning to crunching debt numbers in the afternoon. It comes from asking the right questions. Before that, it needs to be stated that if the refinery investment works, Lamu may prove to be the most consequential strategic infrastructure decision Kenya has made. Strategic infrastructure can create returns that do not immediately appear on a balance sheet. Lamu now has the potential to become an energy and industrial hub. Only months ago, Kenya appeared to have lost another regional energy contest. Uganda had chosen the Tanzania route for its crude export pipeline, giving Tanga a major strategic advantage. Then, in April 2026, President William Ruto publicly announced discussions about a regional refinery in Tanga involving Kenya, Uganda and other countries. Four months later, Kenya was breaking ground on a proposed $16 billion, 700,000-barrel-a-day refinery in Lamu. At the launch, Yoweri Museveni was not sounding very happy that he was not in Tanga... Dangote matters because he has demonstrated the capacity to undertake infrastructure on a scale few African private investors can contemplate. He wants access to the landlocked markets of East Africa, particularly Ethiopia. Kenya wants to anchor more of the regional energy economy on its territory. But strategic importance is not a substitute for due diligence. The greater the prize, the higher the obligation to get the terms right. So, here goes. 1. When was the Lamu refinery EIA application submitted to NEMA? When were the Terms of Reference approved? When did the baseline studies commence? When and where were the statutory public consultations held? When was the EIA study submitted? Which lead agencies reviewed it? And on what date did NEMA issue the EIA licence? NEMA's own rules say oil refineries and petrochemical works require environmental impact assessments. The EIA is supposed to precede implementation, affected people are to be consulted and the proponent must obtain an EIA licence before commencement. NEMA says its standard review period for a duly completed application is 45–90 days and advises proponents to apply at least three months before they intend to start. In April, the project was being discussed with Tanga in Tanzania. Then the conversation moved to Mombasa. Then Lamu. The project is now officially described as a Sh2.2 trillion, $16 billion investment, incorporating a 1,000MW power plant and associated petrochemical and chemical facilities. Seeing the dates when the application for the Lamu site was made, reviewed and approved would settle this question easily. Maybe applications were submitted for Tanga, Mombasa and Lamu. Maybe parallel baseline studies were under way simultaneously. Maybe statutory public consultations were held at each site, community objections were received and addressed, lead agencies reviewed the assessment and all conditions were met before NEMA issued the necessary licence. Searches of publicly accessible NEMA and EPRA material have not identified a project-specific EIA licence for the refinery. That is not proof that no licence exists. It is a reason for NEMA to put the document on the table. 2. What exactly has Kenya agreed to buy? Kenya has been offered a 10 per cent stake in the refinery. But Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi says the ownership structure has not yet been finalised, and Kenya could increase its stake if other regional governments do not take up their allocations. Regional governments have been offered up to 30 per cent collectively. So what exactly has Kenya agreed to buy? At what price?
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Someone explain to us how sharing the Aliko Dangote Refinery Agreement can lead to extortion? Are there monkey businesses that Kenyans shouldn't know about. Why would President William Ruto not make the agreement public? #WeThePeopleKE
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"Serikali ni ya Ruto, wewe kama ni mwanaume jaribu zuia watu, mwili inapatikana River Suam na kichwa kwingine."~Endebess MP Robert Pukose strongly warns those planning to stop Ugandans from voting in Kenya in 2027.
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The sacrifices made for this country are immense. Game recognises game Edwin Sifuna at All saint Cathedral.
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"Chini ya Miezi Kumi na Mbili, yote yalio liwa na Nzige nitarejeshewa!!!!"
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We had over 400 people in the virtual court today waiting for the rulling of the Linda Mwananchi movement name. The public interest in this case shows how much people want a Sifuna presidency. Sifuna is a movement and your next president!
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Most iconic introduction! Sisi Ndio Sifuna is a national clarion call for change. Kenyans all over the country resonate. Our politics changed forever. Mnione vizuri, hatuwaogopi, We will keep pushing for change
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