Kenya’s largest data leak reveals Empire Kenyatta
Enterprise Kenyatta or ENKE, is the known Kenyatta business sitting at the tip of the empire, and owns at least 30 companies straddling agriculture, banking, real estate, and education.
Private sector, “blink twice if you need help”; Part 2
The motorcycle riders often take a quarter to half a litre for short trips, at times funded by their customers before setting out. The boda boda who had shouted Hustler loudest are now angriest against President William Ruto’s regime.
Private sector, “blink twice if you need help”; Part 1
President Uhuru Kenyatta had been adamant about going after the private sector openly. But his successor President William Ruto was not beholden to this private sector; and seen as a political outsider, he gave the IMF the most realistic opportunity to change
Married in Namalo Part II
Most people in the group go along with the idea that they are not actually in agreement with, because they incorrectly believe that most people in the group agree with it.
Married at Namalo Part 1
I had to break out of the chant of repeated prayers and it was difficult to decide whether I was part of the proceedings or outside it as an observer.
Part III Crime and cycle of poverty
Given that five out of ten motorcycles in Kenya have been financed by Watu credit, there is almost a fifty percent chance that a stolen motorcycle was acquired through them.
Part II: Laundering blood money in Bulanda
The mob justice is usually to vent anger, the motorcycle is lost, maybe someone has been killed but it does not reduce the frequency of the theft. The thieves are so many and some of them are hiding amongst us so it
Part 1: The motorcycle boom spluttering blood
Mr Oscar Khalende the Chief Township location in Busia says they have been handling up to ten cases a month over the last couple of months some which have involved very gruesome murders.
Kenyan Wordsmith who spoke Pan African scrabble into existence: Part IV
You check your wardrobe and some clothes you have never seen for years. If you do not achieve the environment that encourages you to give, you just keep accumulating.
Kenyan Wordsmith who spoke Pan African scrabble into existence: Part III
As the government takes up at least 20 percent of payslips in deductions, and tax induced inflation takes up the rest, the disposable income that would go to savings is narrowing. It does not help when young Kenyans see that it does
Kenyan Wordsmith who spoke Pan African scrabble into existence: Part II
I do not get rid of the bad ones to pick the good ones, but with three or so moves the arrangement will come by itself, my rack will just blend and I score