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@_SpannerBOY @moneyacademyKE @kalex254 It's good now

@moneyacademyKE @kalex254 We've already given up on it.. no way back

Safaricom has updated its My OneApp to support Airtel and roaming users, allowing customers to stay logged in when switching between networks. The update also applies to diaspora users who previously faced login and reactivation issues.

@moneyacademyKE Kuna Early adaptors, and early commentors

President William Ruto has announced that the first 100,000 electric vehicles imported into Kenya will be exempt from import duty. The tax waiver will apply to both public service and privately imported electric vehicles.

@Maryian96 Is that opinion constitutional?

Some Kenyans are just fools, why would you risk driving your car in a day like today? You think your job is more important than what every Kenyan is going through? Kenyans have decided that today there is a total economy shut down wewe na kadudu yako ya Loan unatokea kwa barabara?? Can we have some emotional intelligence ikiwakishwa Moto who will you blaim?

@mohammedhersi The Barriers limiting Kenya are; 1. Rights based Constitution in values deprived citizenry & leadership 2. Politics is the leading Agenda and entertainment; a reality TV show. 3. Corruptible pple, ready to defend corruption 4. Greed 5. Claims capitalism & expect socialist govt

Warning long read ...if you are allergic to reading please feel free to go back to TikTok 1/3 The China of Africa Is Rising — And Kenya we are busy politicking at funerals. I have not been to Ethiopia recently, but I have not needed to. The evidence of what is happening north of our border is everywhere in news bulletins, in industry reports, in the testimonies of business people and diplomats who return from Addis Ababa struggling to describe what they have seen. When the African Union's own Special Envoy, Liberata Mulamula, tells the Ethiopian News Agency that "two years ago, no one would have imagined Addis Ababa looking like this," you pay attention. When you watch the concrete developments unfold not promises, not feasibility studies, but inaugurations, factory openings, and groundbreakings you are then forced to ask a painful question: what exactly are we doing in Kenya? Let me lay out what I have been observing. In Hawassa, a city of roughly 300,000 people in southern Ethiopia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has built one of the most ambitious industrial ecosystems on the African continent. The Hawassa Industrial Park is up and running. It now hosts dozens of factories, employs tens of thousands of young Ethiopians — the majority of them women — and is equipped with Africa's largest Zero-Liquid Discharge wastewater treatment system that recycles ninety percent of its sewage water. This is not a PowerPoint presentation at a Nairobi hotel conference. This is steel, concrete, and humming production lines. PM Abiy is not resting. In April 2026, he inaugurated three new solar panel manufacturing factories at Hawassa — Toyo Phase 2, Origin, and Lumintech — alongside an industrial gas plant. Together, these solar facilities will produce an annual capacity of 11.3 gigawatts of clean energy components. The story behind this is instructive and worth dwelling on. Abiy visited Vietnam, toured a Toyo solar panel factory, met the company's president, and within 3 months the first facility was operational in Ethiopia. Now this is EXECUTION. The irony is that the investment required to set up these factories is not even astronomical — it is the kind of money that routinely vanishes in Kenya through corruption, inflated tenders, and deals that exist only in whispered conversations. The Dangote partnership tells the same story of decisive action. In August 2025, Aliko Dangote and the Ethiopian government signed a $2.5 billion agreement to construct a fertiliser plant in Gode, in Ethiopia's Somali Region. Today Dangote himself with PM Abiy Ahmed were on site for the groundbreaking ceremony. The facility will produce up to three million metric tonnes of urea annually, potentially placing Ethiopia among the world's top five producers. Think about that. The country that was Africa's largest fertiliser importer is positioning itself to become a regional exporter. The ownership structure 60 % Dangote, 40 % Ethiopian Investment Holdings which ensures the state retains a meaningful stake in its own transformation. This is not charity. This is strategy. Now consider the energy picture that underpins all of this. Ethiopia had commissioned the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a $5 billion megaproject built without a single dollar of foreign financing funded entirely through domestic bonds, salary deductions, and public contributions. With a capacity of 5,150 megawatts, the GERD has effectively doubled Ethiopia's generation capacity. The result is decisive: Ethiopia now has the lowest electricity prices in Africa.

@Billionair1w @moneyacademyKE But am moderating the verified folks

@karugakevin @moneyacademyKE If you were verified I would have reasoned with you, but since you are not, it's okay

Kenya has given Elon Musk’s X platform (formerly Twitter) a 3-month deadline to open a Nairobi office. The government says it could suspend X if the directive is not met.

@Billionair1w @moneyacademyKE It really worries them, they get a lot of money where people live on X like Kenya

@moneyacademyKE Suspending X from an African country is the least of his worries. He has nothing to lose

@janetmachuka_ @moneyacademyKE @LawrenceHQ_ This post is not complete

@moneyacademyKE @LawrenceHQ_ This will actually coz better civic education strategies as we near election

@OptometristKE @moneyacademyKE Read, read read

@moneyacademyKE Why always Uganda?

WHO has declared Ebola outbreaks in DR Congo and Uganda a global health emergency.

@OptometristKE @moneyacademyKE The word 'literally'...No

@moneyacademyKE This's impressive cause literally there's no money circulation in the economy

Kenya Bankers Association says a 5% PAYE cut could release about Sh28 billion yearly into households. They say it could also create about 36,000 jobs and unlock up to Sh140 billion in lending.

@moneyacademyKE What is the ideal percentage for taxes per liter of fuel?

Landed cost and taxes still take the biggest share of fuel prices in the latest review: Petrol — Sh118 (landed) + Sh74 (taxes) per litre Diesel — Sh167 (landed) + Sh68 (taxes) per litre Kerosene — Sh172 (landed) + Sh49 (taxes) per litre

@Kama36378Kamau @moneyacademyKE No useless

@moneyacademyKE The biggest components of fuel in Kenya is taxes , about 40% at the pump price goes to the taxes - some useless taxes like Railway levy are still there;

@Maskani254 @kawive @nisisikenya @thekhrc @TIKenya @TISAKenya @Pawa254 @OkoaUchumi_KE Families are cutting meals, schools lack funding, and hospitals have shortages. Public spending must protect citizens first before financing luxury benefits for state officers. Priorities matter. #CostOfJusticeKE @srckenya @Maskani254 @anticorruption @nisisikenya @karugakevin

@Maskani254 @kawive @nisisikenya @thekhrc @TIKenya @TISAKenya @Pawa254 @OkoaUchumi_KE State benefits cannot grow while citizens sink deeper into debt and unemployment. Public money should target health, jobs, food security, and education before elite privileges. #CostOfJusticeKE @srckenya @Maskani254 @anticorruption @nisisikenya @karugakevin

@Maskani254 @kawive @nisisikenya @thekhrc @TIKenya @TISAKenya @Pawa254 @OkoaUchumi_KE In a fiscal crisis, every shilling must show public value. Expensive perks for officials send the wrong message when millions cannot afford rent, transport, or medicine. #CostOfJusticeKE @srckenya @Maskani254 @anticorruption @nisisikenya @karugakevin

@Maskani254 @kawive @nisisikenya @thekhrc @TIKenya @TISAKenya @Pawa254 @OkoaUchumi_KE A government budget is a moral document. If ordinary Kenyans are sacrificing daily, leaders must also show restraint in how taxpayer money is spent. #CostOfJusticeKE @srckenya @Maskani254 @anticorruption @nisisikenya @karugakevin

@moneyacademyKE I don't think there's a single company in the world that manufacturer's an machines without outsourcing some parts in various countries.

@Heitinga14 @Kama36378Kamau @moneyacademyKE Some parts are made in Kenya

@Kama36378Kamau @moneyacademyKE If you import all parts then you ain’t manufacturing but assembling. That should be “assembled in Kenya”.

President William Ruto says Kenya now manufactures phones and computers locally during the Africa Forward Summit 2026. Fact check: Kenya currently only assembles smartphones, not full manufacturing. Plants like EADAK in Athi River and M-KOPA in Nairobi use imported parts to assemble phones.

@Its_Debunked @bibe_habib @moneyacademyKE It does

@bibe_habib @moneyacademyKE Assembling is one of the last steps USA has never claimed manufacturing of iPhones

@moneyacademyKE @paul_gitari Which country manufactures phones apart from China and Korea?

@moneyacademyKE Wajuaji kwa comments

FBI is set to expand its Nairobi office under a new deal with DCI. The plan includes more cooperation on corruption, cybercrime, terrorism, and other cross-border crimes through training, intelligence sharing, and technical support.