Good morning,
Our President is in the UK for a diplomatic tour.
As usual, we expect him to return home with a bag full of goodies in terms of grants and loans.
It is important to note that Kenya seems to be held in very high esteem by Western nations in matters of creditworthiness.
Just a few months back, social media battalions attempted to badmouth our government to our favorite lender, the IMF, but their efforts bore no fruits, if anything, the organization awarded the government another loan!
For a country so lucrative to lenders, we ought to be very advanced in terms of development across all sectors, not just in infrastructure.
Remember that these trillions of money lent to us are also complemented by the depressing amounts of taxes that citizens pay to the government, which is a story for another day.
The bottom line here is, as we approach 2022, we need to be very sober-minded.
Let us not vote to punish a certain individual or to please another. Instead, we should unite our votes to make a complete overhaul of the system and see if our motherland can become a tolerable place to live in, once again.
Here are the stories making headlines on Opera News today:
Mt Kenya top guns endorse Raila for 2022
Opposition chief Raila Odinga has embarked on his forays into President Uhuru Kenyatta’s backyard with a number of high profile Central Kenya politicians promising to back his candidature.
For the first time, Raila’s Mt Kenya line-up began to cristalise with Kiambu Governor James Nyoro revealing that they have been consolidating the region for the former Prime Minister.
“We had a meeting in Meru on Saturday. We agreed that all our votes will be put in one basket. We will not divide them. But some people started attacking us. Today we are saying all those votes, former Prime Minister, will come to you,” Nyoro declared.
Ruto set for two-day visit to Mt Kenya East
Deputy President William Ruto is set to tour Mt Kenya East as the 2022 election campaigns gather momentum.
The DP is expected to market the bottom-up economic model he is promising to use to transform the lives of Kenyans if he forms the next government, during the weekend visit to the region that comprises of Meru, Embu and Tharaka Nithi.
On Saturday, he will begin his campaign blitz in the expansive Tharaka Nithi county where he has lined up a series of activities that will see him traverse several constituencies.
Innocent Kalio: MKU Student Arrested for Killing Lover Rushed to Mourn Her on Facebook
A university student arrested by homicide detectives for being implicated in the killing of Christine Ambani rushed to Facebook to mourn her.
Innocent Kalio, a Mount Kenya University student, took to the social network on Friday, July 16, sorrowfully saying the demise of Ambani had hit him hard.
He further rebuked the killers of his suspected lover, saying they would never have peace in life.
Do you think the fourth wave of coronavirus is here with us, owing to the rising cases, of the infection in the country, including popular figures?