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Conscious World Citizen |Recovering Human Rights Defender | Liberation | Utu Heritage.

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@alaminkimathi
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Let's give her all our 45 million salutes! Kongoi Faith Kipyegon🫡🫡🫡👏👏👏👏👏
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Do you know the international "Help Me!" sign? I found this video very helpful and worth sharing. Please retweet if you also do.
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Tell me this isn't Jomo
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These commissioners have been part of every phase until they realized, after 3pm, that they didn't like the outcome...
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Exactly one year today... #Justice4KianjokomaBrothers
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4 years
I hear Babu Owino has dazzled y'all with his mathematics prowess. Now can someone ask him to calculate how much shooting DJ Evolve has cost the poor man and his family? Let him break it down to blood, pain and material.
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Congratulations People's Defender @OkiyaOmtatah Senator-Elect for Busia County. The people have honoured your distinguished service. We,your friends and comrades in the struggle for good governance and transparency are happy that in you we have a great compatriot in the Senate.
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2 years
Funny how the pensions for Kenya's top political jobs work. Right now Kalonzo is going for an interview for the job he's earning a pension for.
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@alaminkimathi
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2 years
I'm surprised that Kenyans are surprised that Tanzanians dislike them so.
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2 years
I have visited many countries. There is NO COUNTRY that serves foreigners before locals. Except Kenya. NONE. NOT IN AFRICA. NOT IN EUROPE. NOT IN ASIA. But in Kenya you will find 5 counters for foreigners and one for Kenyans. It is completely abnormal. - @KagemaFrancis
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2 years
That clip with youth in Kibra saying no one will make them burn things is to me the best post-election statement I've heard so far. Puts to shame some politicians who were mobilizing on Sunday.
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@alaminkimathi
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How come Kenyatta University medical students are barred from using KU Training and Referral Hospital as their teaching hospital? KU is forced to bus students and staff all the way to Kiambu, Machakos and Thika. Yet KUTRH was established precisely for this purpose. Strange!
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Salaried folk don't know how it feels to the non-salaried to have these many public holidays.
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Dr Stephen Mogusu Dr Robert Ayisi Dr Doreen Adisa Dr Said Omar Dr Ndambuki Mboloi Dr Faith Kanjiru Dr Jackline Njoroge Dr Daniel Alushala Dr Hudson Inyangala Dr Vladimir Schuckin Dr Emaram Ashraf Proj AJO Were Dr Adisa Lugalika Say their names.
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4 years
After rerouting Nairobi water to his family's private city he has launched water trucks for the rest of you.
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3 years
Those Ndichu twins are really something else...
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3 years
It never stops to amaze me that when I was loitering in Nairobi in the mid 80’s, Kalonzo was an MP. And the chap is now on telly talking about the future. Wazimu.
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Kidero: "You're interviewing us like your heart is not here. Why are you doing it in the first place. I don't like your attitude. I don't want you to interview me."
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Only under democracy...
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5 years
Killed today during the #RiversideAttack , Abdallah Dahir. He was having lunch with a friend when the attackers sprayed their table with bullets. Wajir-born Abdallah worked with an NGO Adam Smith. Inalillahi waina illehi rajeoon.
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Does Kenyatta know what it is to lose 8 doctors, and in one week? Damn you!
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3 years
Maximum respect!! Ladies and gentlemen, please let's all be upstanding for the integrity champion @WaihigaMwaura ! 👏👏👏👏👏.
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2 years
If you're voting inside a dilapidated classroom isn't it one powerful reminder why you should vote out the guy who never used the CDF to renovate that school?
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Dr Julia Ojiambo is a woman of firsts: 1st African female student at the Royal Technical College (now UoN) 1st Kenyan woman to enroll to Harvard 1st Kenyan woman PhD 1st black African Woman lecturer at UON 1st woman minister She's immediate former chair of UoN council.
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Prof. Julia Ojiambo, once Kalonzo's running mate, turns 87.
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2 years
An uncomfortable truth: Both Kibaki and Raila rigged the 2007 elections that it was difficult to tell who won, according to the Kriegler Report.
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I can't understand you Kenyans. Graduation ceremonies for toddlers from kindergarten? What itches you? Jumaah Mubarak y'all.
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3 years
Even as we mull over the sentencing of Mukuria Ngamau to 27 years in jail for defrauding the Youth Fund of Sh 180 million let's not forget that 3 people - former CEO Catherine Namuye, her lawyer Eva Ayiera and the fund's driver Simon Mwangi Gathika - were murdered over the case.
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"Kenyatta was not a Mau Mau and knew nothing about Mau Mau. "He was a beneficiary of circumstances, a sellout who denounced Mau Mau." - Bildad Kaggia and Fred Kubai, members of the Mau Mau Central Committee.
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2 years
Traveling from Panama to Turkey for a Venezuelan citizen requires a Schengen visa. ABSOLUTELY NOT POSSIBLE WITH AN EXPIRED PASSPORT. That claim by DCI that the Venezuelans were traveling on expired passports falls flat on its face!
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Just call it what it is. @UKenyatta 's government is the most elaborate and audacious CRIMINAL NETWORK ever to emerge in the country.
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4 years
"Corona is finished!" Pombe Magufuli declares. No more masks, no social distancing. Muaminini Mungu Watanzania, he tells his people.
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2 years
Ruto told us Sh100bn was spent without parliamentary approval. Sh.15bn was spent on Uhuru Gardens Museum alone. But we will never interrogate this because it was said at the height and heat of the campaigns.
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Guys who lease planes to KQ are making mega profits while the carrier is making record losses. You know why.
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One day we may want to find out what demons she's always running from that she forces the whole country into religious crusades.
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To export raw coffee beans, you pay no tax. For processed coffee though, you incur 600% tax. You're as good as banned from processing coffee. Tragedy of Africa. And you know what? Someone will actually write a wordy explanation of how this benefits us! - Kipruto Kertiony
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2 years
When @MarthaKarua secured the Azimio running mate position I personally assured her of my continued support but pointed out my trepidation about Uhuru's role and intentions with the coalition. She reassured me it was "going to be a Raila presidency so join us". Finally convinced.
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Two prominent and wealthy politicians have passed on recently. Stanley Munga Githunguri( The owner of Lilian Towers/ Nairobi Safari Club) and Matu Wamae ( the owner of Ngong Hills Hotel), among other property scattered across the country. There has been no sense of national 1/5
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2 years
So will Uhuru Highway be renamed Uhuru Lowway?
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4 years
If KDF and NYS can rehabilitate the 177 km Thika-Nanyuki railway line in 6 months why did we pay the Chinese over KShs 500 billion for the SGR? - Ephraim Njega
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3 years
Dear Kanze Dena, @KanzeDena , @StateHouseKenya which month has a 35th day?
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2 years
See how mentally conditioned and numbed this society is that all the extrajudicial killings, disappearances and macabre finds of bodies floating in rivers are not the hot topic but the antics of the politicians are?
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Companies have no souls. Do not fall in love with your employer.
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4 years
I love this photoshop that did the rounds yesterday during #DedanKimathiAt100 . Field Marshall Dedan Kimathi, seated, with his towering deputy Field Marshall Musa Mwariama. Yesterday was the liberation icon's 100th birthday.
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Those are Mobutu Seseseko suits, not Kaunda suits. And that's the statement. Foreboding.
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2 years
Igathe can go cook and wash cars at Northlands. He proved he can do that very well too.
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11 months
Dear WaKenya, We are happy that @OkiyaOmtatah has got us temporary reprieve from the pain of the Finance Act 2023 Let us show our Asante and support to him. To show solidarity, please 1. Join Mtetezi Omtata in court on 5th July 2. Send any amount to his mpesa no 0722684777.
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2 years
Are the ads @Kiss100kenya is running on Ukraine paid for or its their CSR? Interested to know why they think a fundraising for Ukraine would be more important than for the 2million Kenyans under threat of hunger or 4million in Tigray Ethiopia, or a similar number in South Sudan.
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Has any media house interviewed Mary Wambui, arguably the one person alive who knew Mwai Kibaki better than anyone else?
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I've tried so really hard, terribly hard, to wrap my head around this Azimio thing. I'm unable. My conscience won't let me. Me and chairman Bonge and his co-oligarchs in one outfit? I can't. I'm out. cc @MarthaKarua @ReubenKigame
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The revamped Nanyuki Railway line only serves one purpose - transportation of oil belonging to just one firm owned by you know who. State capture. Right.
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2 years
Shout out to Bonge from Satafrika. "What do South Africans know about Kenya?"
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6 years
Good morning Dobi @KoinangeJeff . Who's next in your laundry?
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You tax everything and everyone. Then use the taxes to fund religious crusades?
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10 months
"Who cursed us? Must be the spirit of Kiambaa church victims."
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I'm still stuck on that comment by a Tanzanian, about Kenya being "shamba la familia moja" and the more I think about it I can't help agreeing with him. Look around you and see if you're not regarded as a squatter on the land in every respect. Question is for how much longer?
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My Muslim brethren, building grand mosques at a time our people are ravaged by drought, famine and disease then turning to the church for help is utterly thoughtless. We must rethink our priorities.
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These last 6 days that I've been indisposed have made me realize that if I die in the house it might take forever for anyone to notice that I'm gone. Such is my world where no one checks on me; no calls, no texts. If I don't do the calling it's just silence. #BabusDarkMusings
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. @UKenyatta this is all in your name? #StopEthnicCleansing
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Prof Michere Githae Mugo, revolutionary playwright, author, literary critic and outstanding thinker has rested. A trailblazing feminist and Pan Africanist who inspired millions around the world Michere walked her talk to her last day. Go well, rest in glory great revolutionary✊🏾
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4 years
Ghana is paying a special tribute to #DedanKimathiAt100 on the centennial birthday anniversary of the Kenya Land and Freedom Army liberation icon. Also honouring the mercurial Field Marshall Mama Muthoni wa Kirima on the African Ancestral Wall Join in #CelebratingKimathiAt100
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3 years
If you're not the inspirational Rev Timothy Njoya and 81, don't talk about what old people can't do. Skip, skip @timothynjoya !
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2 years
In the last 3 years Kenya Airways has gobbled up Ksh 150 billion. Imagine what that money would have done to healthcare, putting up two cancer hospitals for instance.
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3 years
Blocking @MigunaMiguna from coming back to Kenya is a travesty of justice, a violation of human rights and most criminal disobedience of court orders. GoK has no leg to stand on to justify it's actions since forcefully exiling him in 2018 and ought to man up and let him back now.
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6 years
Go on grabbing William. Grab and grab some more. Grab til you outdo Kamau and his grabbing clan. But the day is coming when we'll take it all back. It is coming. Yes, the revolution is coming.
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4 years
All loans lead to Naivasha.
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2 years
The mind games the fuel queues have done on us left us so numbed that no one sees the ten bob increase as anything to protest about. Perhaps by design?
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3 years
Kenyan farmers should just stop growing maize. It's not worth all the trouble, costs and acreage it takes. Maize is just needless pain. We have more profitable crops requiring less. We can import all the maize we need at cheaper costs. Wachaneni na mahindi. Happy I've said it
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2 years
Kenya has collapsed. Everyone has gone dark. No room for morality, now, just brawn and steel. Welcome to the age of the brute.
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2 years
Hatupangwingwi is easily the silliest adaptation into our political lexicon for a people who have long been pangwad.
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2 years
I was slow to ask yesterday so please let me ask now: Which are the figures Azimio is disputing? Or put differently, can Azimio share their totals of how they won and how they differ from the declared results?
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4 years
In April 1994 when the 100 days of genocide began in Rwanda, guess who was a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council? Yes, Rwanda.
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3 years
If these pictures of these revered Kenyan historical figures didn't have captions very few people would tell who's in them, no?
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3 years
44 million salutes Faith Kipyegon!
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4 years
Nothing can be worse than having the Kenyattas deciding the direction this country takes at this point in world history. Entitlement, greed and plunder is their currency. The only direction they can give is that which leads to themselves.The worst enemy is the one who aids them.
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2 years
Okoa Mombasa.
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3 years
Where did the courage to question things go? Why do parents accept to send their 6y/o to school at 5 am in rickety buses? What is it that makes a toddler wake up earlier than their parents to go to school? Why do parents accept this for their children?
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Very impressive how Shakeel Shabir and Rahim Dawood, both Muslims of Asian extraction, have retained their parliamentary seats as independents in Kisumu and Meru respectively.
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4 years
The family of public defender @OkiyaOmtatah is in need of your assistance at this moment. Any amount counts.
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2 years
Re Githongo Affidavit: Form 34A is normally hand-filled. I wonder why you would need computer whiz kids to change figures on such forms. You just need master forgers and guys who know some mathematics. But this would be a herculean task,near impossible under the circumstances.
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3 years
Sonko is innocent. It's Nairobi's collective intelligence that is guilty. Nairobians took an immature clown who has no idea what it means to head a multilayered metropolis of 7 million people and made him their governor. I'm sure Sonko does not understand where he went wrong /2
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6 years
Without a doubt @MigunaMiguna has all the attributes of a leader of a liberation movement; courageous, astutely intellectual,thorough, workaholic, networked, independent minded and articulate. But his major drawback -what he lacks- is what is needed most, teammanship and loyalty.
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2 years
In Laikipia the failed first governor, who earned himself the nickname "Wamagui" (the dogman), for his most notable act of importing two German shepherds from the entire county security budget, is poised to replace the performing incumbent "sababu hatoi"(he doesn't dish out).
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2 years
Seeing Amos Kimunya thank his constituents and civilly concede as opposed to the vitriol he poured on them when he lost another time bespeaks a man gone through rare political maturity.
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Man Atwoli must be cursing Corona for denying him his now traditional limelight, the Labour Day celebrations, where he is usually the main feature with all his clowning gyrations and sychophantic speeches.
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4 years
Very very sad news. The people's defender Ndugu @OkiyaOmtatah this morning lost his 21 year old daughter to Malaria. Oh Ndugu Okiya Omtatah, this is very saddening. We deeply feel his loss. Very tough to deal with, a parent losing a child and such a young one at that.
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"I protest because you're killing us in our communities" A defiant Juliet Wanjira, @MathareSJustice co-founder, boldly shakes off the police and tells onlookers: "People Power! When we lose our fear they lose their power!" Raw courage. #FreeSabaSabaPoliticalPrisoners #SabaSaba
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3 years
Marijuana in Kenya is a preserve of the elite. They grow, sell and smoke it freely. Lesser people get stiff jail sentences.
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6 months
In just one year the looters are vomiting all over our shoes.
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2 years
Those hackers could only manage that thin difference between Ruto and Raila? Why didn't they give their man a more decisive margin?
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🇯🇴BABU
2 years
Just be prepared to have an extension of Uhuru's presidency for at least 6 more months if the election is annulled. Chebukati will not be the returning officer for any other election and IEBC as is won't oversee any other either. A new chair will have to be recruited.
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I must confess I was quite pivotal in lobbying for Hassan Omar's nomination to KNCHR. I've felt each blow on his way to Jubilee. I'm numbed
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2 years
Is there a bigger scandal than that of the Sh 7 Trillion borrowed in 10 years with basically nothing to show for it? Can we be shown at least five to ten huge nationally transformative projects the trillions were spent on? 7 Trillion!
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3 years
As you hurl rocks on Twitter; Today in History. @WMutunga
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4 years
Northlands, we shall come for you, however long it takes, hata kama miaka mia moja; oh yes we shall. Almighty God hear us.
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4 years
Apart from the Vivo Energy Deport at Mwisho wa Reli I've counted quite a number of Brookside milk cooling plants along the revamped railway line from Ruiru to Nanyuki. Sisemi kitu.
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This is legendary. So legends come here. I've been thinking about you. >>>2
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