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Somali police officers opened fire with live ammunition on civilians participating in a peaceful protest, according to eyewitness accounts and video footage circulating on social media.

This is a monument to policy failure. The people of Nandi will not leave their farms to become hermits in tenth-floor bedsitters. The serenity of Nandi, the land of champions cannot be traded for concrete caves that nobody wants to inhabit. The State Department for Housing boasts a 96.3% budget absorption rate. But what has been absorbed? Public money into empty walls. Meanwhile, the government has mobilized over KSh 518 billion for this programme, collected over KSh 110 billion in housing levies from hardworking Kenyans, and allocated another KSh 50.6 billion for the coming fiscal year. THE REAL CRISIS: OUR SCHOOLS ARE CRUMBLING. While billions sit idle in unoccupied apartments, Kenya's 24,566 public primary schools across 47 counties are falling apart. The government's own data reveals a KSh 117 billion funding shortfall for education over the past four years. Primary schools alone face a KSh 14 billion deficit. Children are learning under trees. Classrooms built for 40 pupils now hold 100. The Competency-Based Curriculum requires laboratories, libraries, and adequate spaces , yet a majority of schools lack even basic mathematics materials and proper sanitation. Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba admitted before Parliament that "as a country we do not know how much it costs to educate a child." This is not governance. This is abdication. THE NUMBERS DO NOT LIE. If the government redirected the KSh 518 billion already mobilized for housing, plus ongoing levy collections, toward school infrastructure at the current standard NG-CDF construction rate of KSh 70 million per two-story school building, we could immediately upgrade over 9,600 schools; nearly 40% of all public primary schools in Kenya. Within three years, EVERY single public primary school in Kenya could have proper classrooms, offices, sanitation, and learning materials. We call upon the National Assembly, the Executive, and every Kenyan of conscience to reject the politics of concrete and embrace the politics of human capital. Let us PRIORITIZE to build schools. For the record you don’t need the Housing Levy tax to achieve this. The budget has a lot of misplaced priorities that can be realigned, leakages and theft stopped and we make this happen. Let us educate a generation, not warehouse them in empty promises.

Apostle Femi Lazarus has officially relocated to Kenya with his family to continue his ministry work. According to the cleric, the decision to move was based on divine instruction. “God instructed me to relocate to Kenya,” he says.