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@georgenjoroge_ We've all been waiting for your story @georgenjoroge_ One day will come when you will easily brush off to the pain and then you'll thank uncle njoroge for building you the catapult and stretching it so far back, all you could see was the sky. Blessings

I am not looking to embarrass my uncle Kimundu Njoroge But he has just made a series of decisions that have earned him this story. He’s the kind of person the Kikuyu’s call Múndú Bloody fucking Uncle Njoroge has three sons. He decided very early which one was the investment and which ones were the overhead. Gitau the firstborn got everything. School fees. Connections. Sunday dinner conversations. Prayers by name at harambees. The full portfolio of parental confidence. Mwangi the lastborn got the leftover attention and a father who once said at a family gathering with full confidence: "We invest where it makes sense." Lastborn Mwangi was sitting at that table. He said nothing. He went home and wrote it down somewhere in his chest and carried it quietly. For reasons that God alone understands, Uncle Njoroge decided very early that firstborn Gitau was the chosen one. firstborn Gitau went to study business in the UK. firstborn Gitau came back with an accent and a certificate and very little else. firstborn Gitau is currently between opportunities. He has been between opportunities for four years. Meanwhile Lastborn Mwangi. When Lastborn Mwangi came to Uncle Njoroge asking for 50,000 shillings to build a small software solution Uncle Njoroge told him he did not have it. This was true. He had just sent firstborn Gitau rent money for his Westlands apartment. Lastborn Mwangi said nothing again. He moved to a single room in Kingeero. No investors. No family support. No connections. Just a second hand laptop, a problem he had identified, and a level of quiet anger that only men who have been underestimated by their own fathers fully understand. He built a software solution for integrating business systems directly to commercial banks. Quietly. Without announcement. Without his father's blessing. Without firstborn Gitau's knowledge. That software is now the base integration code running underneath most of the ERP systems in East Africa. Not some of them. Most of them. When your company's ERP talks to your bank, when the payment goes through, when the reconciliation happens, when the system confirms, there is a very high chance it is running on code that Lastborn Mwangi wrote in a single room in Kingeero on a laptop he bought in installments. Banks are using it. Corporations are using it. Governments are using it. Lastborn Mwangi did not go to the UK. Lastborn Mwangi did not get the 50,000. Lastborn Mwangi did not get the Sunday dinner conversations or the prayers by name. Lastborn Mwangi got the leftover attention and turned it into infrastructure. Uncle Njoroge is currently broke. Not struggling. Broke. The assets are gone. The land has been sold quietly. The Westlands apartment firstborn Gitau was living in has been vacated. The man who decided where the investment made sense is now watching the son he did not invest in become the most consequential tech builder this family has ever produced. Last month at a regional tech conference Lastborn Mwangi was introduced as a keynote speaker. Uncle Njoroge watched it on YouTube. On someone else's phone. I am not looking to embarrass my uncle. But when a man tells his own son that he is not worth investing in and that son goes on to build the pipes through which East African banking flows; The embarrassment was always going to find its own way home. We invest where it makes sense. It made sense Lastborn Mwangi. 😐

The marketing excecution - top notch The end goal - God help us abeg

@RoseDanielsM Forgive me, but what is thugging out...

We slept together,showered skin to skin, created soul ties,said I love you,kissed with morning breath,talked about our past,present,future,our dreams,cried in each others arms,so NO I can not thug this out💔.

@patmu7 @Gatimu Actually, this should be the thought process. Between rent and mortgage, there's no wrong or right strategy. As long as your long game is equity growth. Equaling eventually income stability.

Rent is not a loss — it’s a consumption cost for shelter. So the real comparison isn’t rent vs mortgage, It’s rent vs equity. Same monthly outflow can be converted into an asset(stocks, bonds, special funds) and compare the long term output. Hard to find morgage payments =rent unless those you pay crazy rents in exclusive areas The risk isn’t the mortgage. The risk is paying rent for decades and owning nothing at the end.

People fear mortgages for nothing. Just ensure your monthly mortgage payment is equal or close to your monthly rent you are already paying now. If things go bad and you lose the mortgage house, you’ve lost what you would still have been losing in rent anyway. No risk!

@LarryMadowo .Good job DJT. Finally it Looks like we have to visit each other. By force by fire. Looking forward to hanging out with some Zimbabweans and Senegalese soon.

NEW: More than 60% of African nationals now face travel bans, visa restrictions, or have to pay large deposits to visit the U.S. The Trump administration just added 20 more African nations to its visa bond program that requires applicants to pay up to $15,000 deposit for a visa

Am reposting this just in case it gets traction

@Ohta_Ryota Most real questions that I couldn't put together.

What is with politicians and these uncomfortable 'sofas'???

What a surprise? But we always knew US and SA need our foreign intervention to help them bring peace and "democracy"

Kasongress.

@MihrThakar Okay. Good breakdown. I'll pray on it.

And finally, you’re financially mature (or on your way there) when you don’t let a chance to attend a financial and investment forum like the 5th Abojani Economic Empowerment Conference pass you by. Tickets Abojani Alumni: KES 8,000 Non-Alumni: KES 10,000 M-Pesa Paybill: 469345 Account: Conf2025

Being financially informed and mature is more about habits than reading mountains of financial reports. Here’s how simple it is; 1. You no longer lend money casually. Anyone asking for 'just 2k till Friday' gets a polite, 'Let me pray about it.' ...🧵

@PropesaTV 😂😂😂😂😭

This is not the president's convoy. This is Education CS Julius MIGOS Ogamba's motorcade, as he went to do a tree planting exercise yesterday. 1,2,3,4...29 fuel guzzlers escorting a single man to plant 2 trees...

Let’s go!

He is probably somewhere hoping we are fighting for him, please let's amplify this until he is found, kindly...

Here's a terrible attempt on correction. I have scratched. Ningurutïte or ningururïte

I thought bad office furniture was just an inconvenience—until my chair broke and I found a note: ‘Good furniture, good work. Bad furniture, bad everything.’ Upgrading changed my life—and my productivity. Don’t wait for a sign. Upgrade your workspace today #Ergonomics #OfficeLife

@WaruiJohn2 If you accomplish number 7 only you've made it a good 2025.

My to-do list for 2025 1 Marry my lovely gf Azziad 2 Go on Vacation abroad 3 Buy a car 4 Buy a plot 5 Start a family 6 Quit taking loans 7 Learn something new

The train has left the station! President Okiya Omtata THE 6TH🫡

And today’s word is….

BTW, hizi abductions zimekuwa mob hata afadhali za moi. Za moi we knew you're been tortured at nyati house basement but za siku hizi, maze ata border ya tz utapatikana. I don't know which campaign we should have #returntonyatihouse or #stopabduction #FreeAoko #freejuliuskamau