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Where are the election pledges from elected officials? When politicians were campaigning for elective seats they promised heaven but not hell. They promised jobs for the youth,pay fees for everyone (free education), no maternity fees,good roads, piped water and any more. But  now Kenyans are experiencing hell as recently there has been a trend in some counties where there has been demolitions of traders kiosks. In Mombasa they started with kongowea,where they evicted hawkers, then mtongwe where they demolished a storey building to pave way for a bridge to be completed in the year 2020.Why not give time to the owners? But there were allegations that some houses were spared. Since demolition was done in kongowea nothing has been going on so far. ln Nairobi county,this is where there was mother of all demolitions. Traders just wake up one morning and everything is gone. No business and no stock.They have been very frequent and the latest  is the curio Triangle market. Owners did not g

NUMBER TWO CANDIDATE IN KENYA'S ELECTIONS SHOULD BE THE VICE-PRESIDENT Let this handshake cascade upto 2022 general elections. President Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga met and shook hands in public on march 9th. Previously they had animosity which led to constant acrimony. Months before elections in Kenya there is always a movement of people generally towards their rural homes to avoid ethnic violence. There is an air of despair as companies close business,people lose jobs and there is tension all over. With the advent of handshake let us propose that whoever is number 2 becomes the vice president or prime minister. That way handshake will continue and in Kenya there will be no tribal violence. The violence associated with elections of 1992, 1997 and the 2007 have had impacts on the political stability, economic and social development of the country. For example, there has been loss of lives, displacement of people and destruction of property. One way of managing de

The profit made by Safaricom is equal to the money stolen in National Youth Service Safaricom’s record-breaking Sh48 billion profit announced is overwhelming and inspiring. For the richest company in East Africa, money has been coming in from all directions, day and night. Safaricom offers efficient, trusted and competitive services unlike NYS which is government controlled and has strings of losses each year. Safaricom offers solid performance and has diversified its revenue streams, investments and strategies put in place are yielding results. Safaricom has remained resilient despite the macroeconomic headwinds of a prolonged election period, drought, low credit growth, uncertain regulatory environment and enhanced competitor activity. The employees at Safaricom give all their efforts and time to make safaricom attain the said profit and work for the future of Safaricom. But employees who are mandated to run NYS work with aims of getting as much profit  out of NYS for themselv