In the dailies: Fuel price shocker: Diesel hits record Sh242 as pump prices jump

Added: 2026-05-15

[00:00:00]This is KTN.

[00:00:08]for diesel and you shall pay an extra 20 shillings from 196 to 214 shillings for petrol.

[00:00:14]>> Oh.

[00:00:15]Yes, this is at least until the 20 until the 14th of June.

[00:00:19]>> June. So, when you woken up this morning, you will wake up to a number of things that maybe you know, I don't know what the regulatory authority was thinking or why this had to be. You have to look at the landed cost of these of these levies that are being applied here and there.

[00:00:32]>> Yep. The G2G deal has there some numbers has failed.

[00:00:36]>> [laughter and gasps] >> Yeah, that didn't quite work out.

[00:00:40]>> Nope. The Strait of Hormuz still remains a an iffy situation. So, where you getting fuel from?

[00:00:45]>> Remains an excuse. Remains an excuse.

[00:00:47]>> Yeah. As to why you can't get affordable fuel. Mhm.

[00:00:51]There has never been such a high increase of petrol and diesel or fuel rather in the country ever.

[00:00:59]>> Diesel was like what? 20% increase.

[00:01:02]>> Petrol was 10% plus.

[00:01:05]And so, Kenyans, when your conductor asks you for extra bus fare, if they were charging you 100 and they charge you 120 today, this is why.

[00:01:15]They're not hiking the prices for no reason. This is why the fuel cost has gone high.

[00:01:22]Has spiked, has skyrocketed.

[00:01:24]Uh >> [clears throat] >> you will look at the numbers uh but that's what we started with the morning in numbers and it doesn't look too exciting. Because we know for a fact that as a result of this, the cost of living at least in the next couple of weeks is going to rise.

[00:01:37]Everything you do short of taking a breath then will be more expensive. How you buy the basic commodities that you will need, how you um get from one place to the next using uh transport, you put in fuel in your vehicle, you're taking a a bus, a matatu, the train. Yep. Flying. Mhm. It doesn't really matter save using your legs Save using our legs and walking from point A to point B. And the advantage there is that you could be a tad bit healthier. However, it looks like it's going to change quite some. And you know what the two most expensive commodities are today in Kenya?

[00:02:11]Tomatoes and fuel.

[00:02:12]>> And fuel. Tomatoes and fuel. Yeah.

[00:02:17]Okay.

[00:02:17]>> That's how we started our morning. We are still going to afford a smile at some point or other because even if is the thing that you don't really have to pay much for, you can afford a smile this morning. And that there are some things that we can continually be grateful for. So, very good morning to you. We're smack dab in the middle of the month of May and even as we get into things, have you read about the little red engine that could?

[00:02:44]That's what E V E looks like today cuz she's all in red.

[00:02:48]Damn. [snorts] Sino, in most places, she's got the coolest of shoes. I wish you Even if she were to stand on the table, I don't know that you would see her. But the fact I know you wouldn't.

[00:02:56]>> [laughter] >> I'm just saying.

[00:02:57]>> Take it from me. She looks really good today. So, good morning, E V E. Hope you're well. Can't see you. Even if you're shouting at me or frowning, I can't see you.

[00:03:05]So, you just take me as I am. Joey, good morning. Mutanu we has taught us some Kikamba. I think I speak better Kamba than Mutanu.

[00:03:12]I would agree. Sino. Yes.

[00:03:14]>> Thank you very much.

[00:03:14]>> Yes. Given the session we just had.

[00:03:17]>> [laughter] >> Given what we've just had, you agree.

[00:03:19]Thank you. Mutanu, you can take that to the bank. Take it to Matatu.

[00:03:23]All right. A very good morning to everybody and thank you for joining us in the room today. It is Friday, but that doesn't stop us from having conversations in the situation room this morning. I'll let you know what we'll be talking about in just a bit. Also, yeah, that fuel shock is going to be one that we need to look into. So, let me tell you what the conversations will be in just a minute.

[00:03:44]We'll start off Wait a minute. Wait a minute. If my phone will just agree to cooperate with me.

[00:03:52]Um >> [sighs] [clears throat] >> Yes, I must remind you that our live streams are up on YouTube, Facebook, and on Xbox. So, wondering if we're doing that. And a very good morning to our audience on KTN today. Karibu sana. Uh we're glad that you've been able to join us this morning from wherever it is that we're having these conversations here in Nairobi through the nation, the region, and the world on the internet. And allows us to have these conversations right here and across the world. Thank you for joining us every morning as you do. We definitely don't take it for granted and that we need to have this discourse is very important. Joe Kamau is here just in case you didn't notice, but he's here. We start off our conversations this morning the youth perspective, France-Kenya ties. What does it actually mean? We know that there was very youth-centric conversation during the Africa Ford Summit. What does that actually mean?

[00:04:39]And do Kenyans do does the young population really feel as though this is the direction that we're going to go? Angela Buzia is a national chairperson of the Jubilee Youth League. Kasim Well Mu Kore is the ODM youth leader. Both of them will join us at 7:00. We'll have a conversation around that. A forward-facing conversation. Knock on wood.

[00:05:00]8:00, the game of numbers. Wachira Kegoro is a national youth leader DCP.

[00:05:06]Advice Mundalo is a leadership and communication specialist. The game of numbers, by-elections and state house expenditure. That's what we'll be looking at 8:00. And yeah, quite something because the by-election we saw winner yesterday and what exactly this all means moving forward. Finally, emergency health is a conversation that emergency medicine is our healthy Friday conversation today.

[00:05:28]Dr. Sheila Sheikh is an emergency medicine physician at the Aga Khan University Hospital. What does it actually mean? Christina had a question yesterday and says, "Okay, emergency care. What if somebody has an issue just next to a hospital? What do you do? What does that all mean?" And let's talk about what emergency care means.

[00:05:44]Unfortunately, there have been people who have died because the proper emergency care was not applied. Nobody's saying everybody run away and be a a first aid responder or, you know, something like that. But, are there things that you we can all know um in case something happens uh where we are before, you know, um you can get to a medical facility. We'll be talking all around those issues with Dr. Sheik at 9:00. It's 20 past 6:00. Thank you for being here this morning and um getting into our conversations proper.

[00:06:15]Um it's our last day in the Kingdom of Eswatini.

[00:06:20]And you might want to know this. Mhm. This proverb, I really like it. Okay. I still have I'm still trying to figure out how I would um interpret it. So, this is why I'm going to cheat Sounds good. and allow you >> [laughter] >> Is something dangerous? Yes, when you like things. And Very dangerous. When Ndu likes things or when humans generally like things?

[00:06:40]>> [laughter] >> Yes. Are you trying to say something?

[00:06:43]When you >> being cryptic? do like things.

[00:06:46]And it can be dangerous. Yes. And this is true.

[00:06:49]I wouldn't even deny. Okay.

[00:06:51]Wait, if you you didn't say good morning to us, I'm not liking this story. You didn't say hi. Can you say hi yet? No.

[00:06:56]Say hi even wave.

[00:06:58]I've seen her. Ah. Yeah. See now She's even smiling. I have my temper has cooled. She's good. She's good.

[00:07:03]>> [snorts] >> Thank you.

[00:07:04]The proverb today a person whose heart is not content is like a snake who tries to swallow an elephant.

[00:07:13]Oh.

[00:07:16]You see, I said can be dangerous.

[00:07:18]>> [laughter] >> A person whose heart is not content is like a snake who tries to swallow an elephant.

[00:07:25]You know peace like a river Mhm. Comes from within.

[00:07:31]Yep.

[00:07:32]Uh it says like the mouth there the heart speaketh through the mouth or something. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. The mouth speaketh. Yeah. So, if your heart is not content, I mean if you as a person you're not composed, you're not at peace with yourself, you're not yet experiencing serenity in your existence, chances are there'll be disquiet in your relations.

[00:07:55]How you come out, you know, you struggle to settle because there's disquiet there's a storm within you.

[00:08:03]So, how you come out is very it's always called that it's disquiet. That's how you'd call it. Cuz there's no congruence in that space. That's how we'd call it.

[00:08:12]There's no there's no agreement between your internal locus and your external locus.

[00:08:19]God, I beg. Yes. Wow. So, your inner world dictates how you come out to this outer world. Yes. That's why you hear the struggle of not trying to take much more than you can swallow the snake trying to Yeah.

[00:08:31]So, the things that you will attempt to do will be ultimately impossible if there's a war within.

[00:08:36]>> Yeah.

[00:08:37]So, let's try to be grounded. Let's find congruence. Let's try to settle internal locus of existence. Not locust. Not locust, Evelyn.

[00:08:47]>> [laughter] >> No.

[00:08:49]Locus.

[00:08:52]Your inner world. Yeah. Yes. Wow. Okay.

[00:08:55]Mhm. Oh, I see. That's why that's why I cheated. I had to give it to you first.

[00:09:00]>> Mhm.

[00:09:01]But absolutely makes sense. And I think you can we can actually think about those moments when, you know, inside is just a mess and everything that you try to do just fails miserably because you've not reached that place of congruence. Yes.

[00:09:16]Yebo.

[00:09:18]Yeah. It's a journey. It is. Yes. And we all strive and I hope that we can, you know, at least get to the place where we're, you know, attaining that. Indeed.

[00:09:26]Indeed.

[00:09:27]Yebo.

[00:09:28]Yes. Right. Audience on KTN, good morning to you. Thank you for joining us as you see us and those who hear us and then those who get into the spaces with us, thank you very much. Joe Khamani and Indiroko with you this morning into the situation room. And as we continue, let me take a minute to say hello to you. Um just a very good morning. We can say I don't know in how many languages can we say it. Habari ya subuhi.

[00:09:52]>> [laughter] >> In Akwa Ibom, those are the three languages in the main ones in Nigeria.

[00:09:57]Um >> [clears throat] >> how do you I know how to say good morning in Kikuyu. Wait, wait, wait.

[00:10:02]I've even forgotten. Oh my goodness.

[00:10:05]What to say?

[00:10:08]I don't know again.

[00:10:09]>> [laughter] >> I've forgotten. Uh-huh.

[00:10:14]Um in one word.

[00:10:18]What?

[00:10:19]It doesn't have to be one word. That's the beautiful thing about language. That language describes a situation. Isn't it?

[00:10:23]>> [clears throat] >> You'd say Okay, you can say wemwega. Wemwega.

[00:10:28]>> That's like yes. Hi, how are you? It's like how are you? Wemwega. Yeah. Okay.

[00:10:33]We keep adding. Yes. Bonjour. Bonjour.

[00:10:37]Comment ça va? Buenos días. Buenos días.

[00:10:39]Cómo está?

[00:10:41]Bonjour. Bonjourno. Bonjourno. Yes.

[00:10:43]Okay.

[00:10:44]>> [laughter] >> How is it? How is How is it? How far now? How far? How body?

[00:10:49]Very good.

[00:10:51]Okay. So you see now we have said to which where did we not go? We didn't go to the far east. Um ni hao. Ni hao.

[00:11:01]Okay.

[00:11:02]>> [laughter] >> And the Japanese.

[00:11:05]Um Konnichiwa. Konnichiwa. Konnichiwa.

[00:11:09]Okay. Yes.

[00:11:10]>> [clears throat] >> Karibu sana everybody.

[00:11:13]And we say good morning to you. And let us know what it is that you're thinking this morning. Tell us where you're tuned in from. And as we get into the conversations today, it's such a pleasure to be here with you. Bonjour les amis. Tuned is Laban Mataroki.

[00:11:24]Good morning to you. I hope you're doing well. Agutu Gambo says good morning tuning in from Embakasi. Peter Kiarie is tuning from Mombasa and says be thankful for what you have, trust what's coming and let positivity shape your path because um forward a heart because treat your path forward because a a grateful heart attracts endless blessings. Okay, it does.

[00:11:47]Kymiyak mayday mayday have you seen the price of diesel?

[00:11:51]This is you saying, eh? Have you seen the price? It is not a good morning and nothing good will come out of the KK administration.

[00:11:58]Uh unfortunately Kymiyak you guys keep giving Kymiyak uh something every morning to prove his point and he's gotten something else to prove his point this morning.

[00:12:06]Uh so yeah, this is where we are. He said nothing, you should expect nothing.

[00:12:10]>> good would ever come. He says it every day and then they keep giving him something to tee up with and he keeps knocking it out of the park.

[00:12:16]>> That's a real prophet right there.

[00:12:18]>> I'm telling you Kymiyak you're up to something.

[00:12:20]Um Ramtullah says good morning from Nairobi crazy fuel prices. Robert Emboko is tuned in from Mombasa. Simon Kibirou says good morning people rearing to go this morning Joking Dung says the ICC and then boom. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Well, what are you thinking?

[00:12:34]Do tell. Do tell us what you're thinking.

[00:12:38]Nick Bala says good morning.

[00:12:40]Is it time to encourage town dwellers to turn to bicycles? We could have a healthier population and reduce economic pressure or the government will tax cyclists to bridge the shortfall. That would be interesting. Wouldn't it be interesting if the people said you know what we're going to walk?

[00:12:54]We're going to ride bicycles, we're going to jog, we're going to carpool, we're going to tell our bosses allow us to start our day at 10:00 so that we can walk to work and then freshen up before we start the day because this is ridiculous.

[00:13:05]Good morning Jennifer. Good morning it's Kamau ya. Uh Deno is probably sleeping at this point uh but we greet him otherwise. Hope you're doing well. Uh the math of fuel is not mathing my lord indeed. Steve Mogaka says good morning Spice FM team a very good morning to you Isaac Ale.

[00:13:22]Every morning Kenya feels like opening a government audit report with a blood pressure monitor nearby. We wake up asking, "What exactly was looted while we were asleep and who called it development?"

[00:13:34]Man.

[00:13:36]It's the question. I'm telling you.

[00:13:39]My prince, what's up family?

[00:13:41]And so Smokey Smokey MC Bandit is agreeing with Yukimiaki says 100% nada, nothing, no thing, the nada, il n'y a pas de choses. Nothing is what you're telling us this morning.

[00:13:53]Diesel is selling at 243 shillings 43 shillings 64. Oh, rather you're saying 264 in Mandera, my prince. This is economic injustice. Why would poor people pay more? 264 in Mandera? We'll verify that, but if that is it's absolutely crazy.

[00:14:10]Sasa, somebody has is dying. It's because of you, Joe.

[00:14:14]Because of me? Yes.

[00:14:15]Can I resuscitate them?

[00:14:16]>> I don't know how you would do that. One thinks that that might not be done in this room, but Jennifer says, "Woo, Joe, you're killing us softly."

[00:14:25]Strumming my pain with his fingers.

[00:14:29]>> [crying] [laughter] >> If you >> [gasps] >> Where where where where Killing me softly with his [clears throat] Song song song song Okay, let's move because clearly if you actually know the meaning behind that song.

[00:14:51]>> Ah. Yeah.

[00:14:53]Okay. [clears throat] >> [snorts] >> First chorus, that's good morning, guys.

[00:14:57]You know you're strategically placed also. If EV has put you in a particular position for a particular reason.

[00:15:02]But I'm moving on.

[00:15:02]>> Do I want to know the reason?

[00:15:04]>> on swiftly. I'm moving on.

[00:15:07]>> [laughter] >> I'm just going to say thanks for bringing Joe. EV is here.

[00:15:11]We have EV to thank.

[00:15:13]>> [clears throat] >> Happy to be here and to And we hope to see him again on Monday. It is It's not me saying. Oh, are you sure you're not misquoting? Well, I ask Evelyn. Even she can see.

[00:15:25]Mtu funny says good morning to the princess Joe and the squad. We show up and we show out. Always a blessing. Kabisa. Carol Nyambura says good morning everybody. Nawapenda sana.

[00:15:34]Tunakupenda pia my sister. Have a blessed day ahead. Good morning to you.

[00:15:37]Smokey MC Bandits says good morning to all who observe. Who observe what? The day? Just fat and his scarf included.

[00:15:44]Mhm. And his green sweater. Someone of significance has loudly declared we are the problem and I've wondered if they caught some French this week because who is we?

[00:15:56]Those who voted for Ruto and those who refused to protest against him are lumping those who didn't along with them. We are not the problem. The problem is clear and the solution is clearer. Wow.

[00:16:06]Bernard Nyaberi says the government should increase the price of fuel to 500. As in just kiss since you're going.

[00:16:11]Just go. Just do 500 shillings. I remember CT said I remember a while ago CT said this thing is going to reach 200 bob. In fact, why don't they just make it 200 so that we can know where we are going. We move on. And truly truly are we not living in those times? Yes, we are living in those times.

[00:16:29]So he said just make it 500. As in why are you waiting? So you just compound the suffering today so that we know where we are going. And then it's going to hit 290 by August. For God's sake.

[00:16:39]Shukri Nassor says good morning everybody. Very good morning to you. If issue come we see her. Sasa unaona sasa mimi si mimi nimesema ni watu wengine wanataka kukuona my sister.

[00:16:48]Leo says hello princess and Joe. The KK regime will have a long day finding a narrative for the 46 shilling increase in diesel. Is the G2G still working to cushion citizenry or we stopping to pay in shillings? That's a good question.

[00:17:01]But this one they're going to have to have they're going to have a hard time convincing Kenyans that this is the way to go. They'll give you a reduction of 7 shillings. Oh yeah. Yeah. Thank you so much.

[00:17:10]>> last month. Reduced by 10 shillings and then Up by what? Was it 20 something? Up and then reduced by 10.

[00:17:16]>> So now it may get up.

[00:17:18]>> Uh-huh. Then reduce by seven. Yes.

[00:17:20]>> Thank you so much. Mhm.

[00:17:22]Good morning, team [clears throat] Spice, says Young Jerry. It's Friday, indeed it is. Patrick Mzomo says, "Hello, Spice. And do happy birthday to me." Well, happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Mzomo. Hope you have a wonderful, wonderful day. Wangi Juma says, "Good morning, Spice FM. How are you all this blessed Friday?" Doing okay. For all the hustlers, fuel prices are Thank you for the go from the government. Asante ya punda mini mateke.

[00:17:47]Steve Ah, amana sama Asante ya punda mini?

[00:17:51]Fuel prices high. Yes. Asante ya punda mini 46 bob. 46 [laughter] bob, yes.

[00:17:55]Yes.

[00:17:56]>> [gasps] >> Ni 46 bob.

[00:17:57]>> Yeah. Hello from Roy for about the fuel shortage, says Steve.

[00:18:01]I see you. Good morning, Christina. We need more conversations on teen pregnancy. Invite women rep dis woman rep discuss sanitary pads. Some of us parents are strict, but we got pregnant the first day not with older men, but schoolmates. Yes, one of the things that came up yesterday, Christina. Truly.

[00:18:15]>> right.

[00:18:16]From Wangi Juma is Mohammed Noor. A very good morning to you. Rashid says, "Juma Karim to all team Spice uh tuned in from Nyahururu." Rose Grace, good morning.

[00:18:26]And enjoy tuned in from Menara. Good morning to you. Um Uhuru wa Rusheni.

[00:18:33]What does that mean? Kimani. That Kimani saying that maybe I've said it wrong.

[00:18:38]Uh probably cuz I've seen accents and stuff over the U.

[00:18:42]Margaret Wanjohi >> Oh, he's saying >> Uh-huh.

[00:18:45]In In Kikuyu you say good morning uh I mean to say good morning you say "Uhuru wa Rusheni." Oh, see how I butchered that?

[00:18:55]Okay, Rusheni. Yes. Okay.

[00:18:58]Margaret Wanjohi says, "Good morning.

[00:18:59]Great to be here for the great conversation. Wishing all a great weekend. Thank you so much." Barry Juma says, "Guten Morgen." Oyare and others.

[00:19:05]Indeed. Evans Tanui, good morning. I'm I'm in this morning. Karibu, Evans. Good to have you here.

[00:19:11]Jamil, good morning, team Spice. Juma Mubarak to you, too. Enoch Kazi now tuning in from India. Namaste. Kabisa.

[00:19:17]>> Namaste, my dear. Exactly.

[00:19:20]>> [laughter] >> Intro says, "Someone constantly chasing more inner peace becomes dangerously restless. Their greed overwhelms them, stretching them beyond reason until desire itself makes them suffering."

[00:19:30]Huh, interesting.

[00:19:32]Um Amaya Okello says, "Good morning tuning in from Great Rift Valley." Good morning to you. Uh yes, that's uh Ohoro wa Huruse. I'm still butchering it, but I've tried, isn't it? Mhm.

[00:19:43]Um Kennedy Anyona says, "Good morning tuning in and nothing good can come from this country." Woiy.

[00:19:48]>> [sighs] >> Uh it's unfortunate that's how we woken up this morning, but let's see what it then all kind of looks like when we bring it together. Sawa sawa. All right.

[00:19:56]Karibu sana. Thank you, everybody, for joining and even as you join, just know that you are brought in with the sweetest of our welcomes. And thank you for having this conversation with us.

[00:20:03]We're going to take a quick break. Look what's happening in the skies and on the road and then we'll come back and look into the stories making headlines. Good morning.

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[00:24:23]what they're going to do with the toggling of that Um but that it means that it's the highest price. It's a significantly higher. Mhm. Somebody just said a liter of petrol a liter of diesel is the same as a bottle of beer. Uh right? So, decide which one you're going to consume and which one will take you further. I agree.

[00:24:40]Um well not that I agree with beer. Mhm. But also there's an interesting dynamic happening last night. I did a survey.

[00:24:48]Uh from around 9:00 p.m. Mhm.

[00:24:50]Most of the gas stations or petrol stations decided not to do any more sales.

[00:24:55]You couldn't buy fuel.

[00:24:56]>> Mhm.

[00:24:57]Uh most of them, people can confirm. Yeah.

[00:25:01]Because they were expecting, you know, it was known and there's always a leakage. Yeah, I'm a Kenya on how the prices are going to to tilt.

[00:25:08]So, from around 9:00 9:30 past 9:00 p.m.

[00:25:12]you couldn't buy. So, they were holding waiting for >> midnight. So, 2 hours later they changed the pricing.

[00:25:20]And now Kenyans have to pay more. Yes.

[00:25:23]So, also we [clears throat] need to talk about consumer protection.

[00:25:26]You know, how how right is that for them to do? Yeah. Because the prices run until the midnight of the 14th.

[00:25:32]>> Yes. Not until 9:00 p.m. or 10:00 p.m.

[00:25:35]>> No. Do you know? So, >> How are you going to protect people around that?

[00:25:39]What are we likely to see today? And it's there's no regulation for that, unfortunately. Is it we're likely to see that as we get into a matatu or a bus today or you know, you get on to this is the weekend and I really didn't know how many people leave Nairobi over the weekend. I didn't really go out and a lot of people do.

[00:25:58]And so, what we will see as of this morning is that those who took a trip last week on Friday for a particular price, there will be an increase of that this morning. There will be people who will charge for the buses, the inter-county links and all of this.

[00:26:12]Anybody who puts a drop of fuel in their vehicle today, doesn't matter if it's petrol or diesel, there will be an increase in price. There will. It's not >> [snorts] >> because they have to add they have to Pass it on? They have to pass it on to the end user. And that's what is going to happen. So, short of breathing, everything that you will do for easily the next two to three weeks is going to be more expensive. Do we brace for that? Yes, because that's what's going to happen. And we can hear from people we'll probably hear from people today. Yes.

[00:26:44]>> You're leaving the city or even within the city or you're wherever you are, it's going to cost you a little bit more to move around. Yeah. And it's going to affect everything else. So, the person who is taking that tomato for 20 shillings in a vehicle that is going to cost more, are we going to be paying more for that tomato? It's imagery, but the principle is what we're talking about here. Right. NACADA report reveals surge of synthetic drugs. Unfortunately, we see a lot of things like methamphetamine get into the country.

[00:27:12]The substances are more potent and difficult to detect than traditional drugs such as cannabis and heroin.

[00:27:17]Investigations disclose evidence of small-scale laboratory activity linked to local production of synthetic stimulants. And so, folks are putting this stuff in booze. Folks are injecting it. It doesn't look good at all and it's turning people into zombies. NACADA is saying, "This is here and it's bad."

[00:27:35]United opposition projected to crush Ruto in 2027 with 20 with 76% of total votes.

[00:27:42]There's this big survey that was done. It was released by Tifa.

[00:27:46]Yeah. At the Institute of um At the what again? I remember it's a research uh firm. Mhm. So, of course, we're looking at numbers in terms of what that looks like. It's a Friday for numbers. Was it before the fuel spike? Higher prices?

[00:28:00]That's a good question. It probably was because they they revealed them yesterday. So, probably did some time before that.

[00:28:06]Okay. Kindiki says, "I was elected, not appointed by Parliament." Who? Sorry. Do you know that the Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya is called Kithure Kindiki? I've heard that. You've heard him? Okay, he said yesterday that he was not elected, but he was appointed.

[00:28:22]Sorry. He was elected and not appointed by Parliament. Just in case you forgot, he was reminding people that I was elected. I thought he was a lawyer.

[00:28:30]Yeah.

[00:28:32]So, he should understand what elected means, especially in the Kenyan context.

[00:28:37]When you are elected, people choose you.

[00:28:38]They say, "Of the others, I want this one."

[00:28:40]>> Allow me to remind him. Yes. Even the impeached former Deputy President was not elected. He runs around saying million voters who voted for me. He was not.

[00:28:51]The constitution allows us to vote for a president.

[00:28:54]And as a mitigation measure, because things can happen, we don't want there to be a vacuum in power, he must have a running mate.

[00:29:01]If a deputy [clears throat] president position was elective, we would have had to go for an election to vote in a deputy president after the impeachment. So please, the current and the former impeached president, none of you are elected by Kenyans. That's why you can be fired or hired by your employer.

[00:29:23]By by your senior, not your Kenyans are your employer, but your senior is your is a president.

[00:29:29]So please, point of correction, uh dear Mr. Deputy President, you are not elected by anyone.

[00:29:37]>> [clears throat] >> My throat is dry.

[00:29:41]Yes. It's interesting because there's a whole submissions of this case in court concerning the impeachment of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua and what exactly this all means. So he's just reminding people, excuse me, but as you said, no, you won't.

[00:29:59]Fury as Jubal and troops set base in Kenya amid rising insecurity.

[00:30:03]Sorry.

[00:30:05]How are they just here?

[00:30:07]Why is it's [clears throat] nobody? We just had the French.

[00:30:10]So I mean, free for all.

[00:30:12]Anybody Anybody else?

[00:30:14]You just come, no problem. You can come.

[00:30:16]Yeah, anybody else, you know, come.

[00:30:18]And Muranga clear mini poll marred by chaos amid rival groups clash. We saw that yesterday. I think that we saw the DCP candidate Sorry, the UDA candidate win.

[00:30:28]Public health officers murder sparks outrage as wife is detained. People who are being killed anyhow, I don't understand.

[00:30:35]The Kenya Environmental Health and Public Health Practitioners Union has condemned the killing of a public health practitioner in Bungoma County, describing it as a cold-blooded murder and called for urgent investigations.

[00:30:46]That people are taking to death as an option to solve problems, it's very worrying to me.

[00:30:52]I watched a documentary sometimes I normally do. Right.

[00:30:55]And they talked about the difficulty in taking life. It's not an easy thing to do.

[00:31:03]Like what it does to your your brain.

[00:31:06]And that's why they say somebody who can go to the point whereby the option is not for us to have a conversation, not for me to walk away, but that to take life.

[00:31:17]This seismic shift that has happened in the mental space, seismic. And that for that to be the solution where you need to take life as in I don't need you to be alive anymore, whether it is in a position of anger, spur of the moment, whatever it is, violence, there's a shift that has happened in the brain.

[00:31:37]It is not a normal affair, whether it is an intimate partner relationship, whether it is war, whether it is conflict, whether it is a police officer taking down somebody in the middle of the street, it is not normal. It's not normal behavior.

[00:31:51]And that we see more and more people life being taken, whether you push somebody off a building in South B, whether you shoot somebody, whether you strangle somebody to death, whether you slice somebody, it's not normal.

[00:32:03]And it is becoming so normalized that we almost say, "Yeah, somebody killed the housemate because she was sleeping with her husband." Excuse me, leave with the husband. Yeah. What are you doing?

[00:32:12]>> I mean, he already left you. He already left you, so leave him. You don't have to It doesn't stop that he might want somebody else because you've killed this one. Do you see what I'm saying?

[00:32:20]Something is wrong.

[00:32:22]There's a problem.

[00:32:22]>> And I do agree. I mean, you realize [clears throat] what you're talking about in a peace and congruence because that shift is the power of emotions, you know, to the extent they blind your rational approach to life. Logical course of action >> Yeah. becomes duped, you know? And then you find yourself doing something now in that zone because the emotions have levels. There are levels you get into that can be very dangerous, not just to yourself, but also to other people. And then also remember anger is a form of energy. Yes. So how you dispel it, you know, determines the extent of damage you can cause because it is always destructive. Always destructive.

[00:33:04]So uh we need to find the balance because again, we can disagree. There can be war, right? I agree. Uh but that can be maybe that's a different scale of engagement, but especially in the domestic personal relations, we need to keep tabs on how we are lashing out and how we are coming out.

[00:33:23]There's a reason and it's um um I also the Lost Boys of Sudan, but there's a reason why also the boys of Sierra Leone had to be given drugs >> Yeah.

[00:33:32]to then go and fight to kill people because they knew that in your normal state of being You wouldn't.

[00:33:38]>> you wouldn't do it. This is what I'm saying. So they numb you either with chemicals, but also that's why I'm saying anger is also another numbing factor.

[00:33:46]>> Yeah. Yeah. They have to numb a part of They kind of kill a part of you first.

[00:33:50]>> Yeah. Actually, this is what happens.

[00:33:52]Psychology will prove it that a part of you has to die for you to kill someone.

[00:33:57]Very true. So it's very dangerous.

[00:33:59]>> There's something going on and it doesn't make sense to me.

[00:34:02]>> No. And I said I'm going to look through it. Every day since Thursday last week.

[00:34:06]>> Yeah. Every day there has been a story of somebody who has died at the hands of another for something that could have been avoided.

[00:34:14]Every day >> Unfortunately, yeah. since Thursday last week. Today is day seven. Mhm. And we I was like, maybe I won't find one today, but no, here's another one in Bungoma.

[00:34:23]No, there's something wrong and if you don't admit it and start to deal with it, we're just seeping deeper and deeper into the problem. This one doesn't have anything to do with government and fuel prices. No, no, no.

[00:34:33]It may. Oh, it may. But there's disease.

[00:34:36]>> Yes. There is disease.

[00:34:38]State plans single funding model for primary and junior schools. Well, hallelujah.

[00:34:43]Somebody's been listening. Maybe that's going to be a thing. We don't know.

[00:34:47]Single funding model. One pot, one place. That's the thing that you've been talking about whereby you have publicly funded education.

[00:34:58]That all these many, many funds, bursaries, whatever, you need one pot. Make it a federal system, fund education. I hope that that is what they're saying and that I've not just preempted something that's not okay.

[00:35:10]Yeah.

[00:35:11]Yeah, I know. I was trying to be hopeful. No, coming here already told you. Yes.

[00:35:17]But that's the ideal situation.

[00:35:19]>> It is. There should be a publicly funded education system. There should.

[00:35:23]>> You know, so that these shenanigans of delayed payment actually there should be no payment for whatever. No. From Kenyans. They shouldn't. The tax should take care of that.

[00:35:33]Senators pressure Shah to explain criteria for rejecting 16 billion shillings claims. We had some of those conversations yesterday.

[00:35:39]And still looking to that. That's the Standard. Get a copy of the Standard today or subscribe to the e-paper and have the Standard in your pocket. All right. To you, sir.

[00:35:48]The Daily Nation.

[00:35:51]Do you know the price of the newspaper?

[00:35:53]Of the Daily Nation? Or the other one?

[00:35:55]You know, it's right here. I know the Standard. 60 shillings. Uh The Standard is 60 shillings.

[00:36:01]And in T shillings? In T shillings, the Standard is 1,700.

[00:36:06]>> And U? In U shillings, the Standard is 2,700. Okay. Yes.

[00:36:11]>> That's about the strength of our currency. Is it funny? If only we forecast.

[00:36:15]Life would be good.

[00:36:16]>> Yeah. Political thunder. It says uh >> [clears throat and cough] >> There was a showdown. Officials projected a 65% voter turnout in the election to replace Johanna Ng'eno who passed on February. So, this is in Emurua Dikirr by-election.

[00:36:32]Where he says the political consequences of the Emurua Dikirr by-election were always bound to be profound, whatever the outcome. Despite apparent hostility by the electorate, UDA could not contemplate failing to defend the parliamentary seat in a region perceived as the president's turf. The prospect of the area becoming the coronation stage for former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua as DCP to secure its first elected MP raised the stakes even higher. So, that was There's a context as we all know, happened yesterday. Do we officially have a winner? Are we waiting to >> we're waiting to hear official um announcements >> Okay, we can wait for that. So, it's there. It's 2027.

[00:37:15]Sifuna headache for Ruto and then the United Opposition. This is the growing political influence of ODM SG Edwin Sifuna is having implications on both government information, a new poll shows. The Nairobi senator is emerging as a key contender for the joint opposition presidential ticket, even leapfrogging some United Opposition principles, according to the TIFA survey.

[00:37:39]Mr. Sifuna's ODM faction is the most popular among party members compared to the rival group that is supporting President William Ruto. Further complicating the head of state's re-election game plan, even as his approval rating rose to 24% up from 19%.

[00:37:58]Interesting story continues on page six.

[00:38:01]Page two of the Daily Nation.

[00:38:03]You are speaking of the one-stop shop for education.

[00:38:07]>> [laughter] >> Those moments I should leave.

[00:38:10]56.3 billion funding shortfall threatens free education for 6 million learners.

[00:38:17]>> 60 Yes. Good lord. It says around 6 million pupils in public primary and secondary schools are facing an uncertain future unless parliament allocate 56.3 billion for free education in the 2026-2027 financial year. It's too late for that, man. In recent years, the free primary education and free day secondary education programs have faced funding challenges that have seen schools accumulate debts and others turning to charging parents to cover deficits.

[00:38:49]That is your CS as it was confirmed by the majority leader, he has no clue.

[00:38:54]None other but Julius Bitok, CS education.

[00:38:58]Story continues, political turn on page four.

[00:39:01]Uh Sifuna headache, page six. Page seven of the Daily Nation. Mhm. It has the uh unaudited account of the DTB.

[00:39:10]>> [laughter] >> Diamond Trust Bank. Uh-huh. You see what serious accountants do in serious companies do. Yes. So, please, if you see CS Baldi somewhere, tell him he owes us a duty to to publish our audited account. Or unaudited, however, just publish, especially our public debt. We need to know how we are doing as the shareholders of this great country.

[00:39:31]>> [laughter] >> Well, consumers hit as diesel prices rise to 242 per liter.

[00:39:40]Pump prices have hit a historic high with a liter of diesel rising by 246.29 to retail at 242.92 effective yesterday midnight. A liter of petrol will jump to 214.25, a rise of Kenya shillings 16.63, while that of kerosene remains unchanged at 152.

[00:40:05]Well, we see how that plays out. But, today we have an interesting story in the Daily Nation.

[00:40:10]>> Okay.

[00:40:10]Uh and that will be on It's like a special.

[00:40:16]Yeah. They're saying born to teens. Mhm.

[00:40:19]Speaking about motherhood.

[00:40:20]>> Yeah. Uh where three children born to teenage mothers reflect on lives shaped by stigma, sacrifice, absence, resilience, and the difficult choices their mothers made while still growing up themselves. So, it's talking about teenage motherhood.

[00:40:37]Well, kind of like what we spoke about yesterday. So, you can imagine it's just a female having a baby, but it's a lot more than that.

[00:40:43]>> Babies having babies.

[00:40:44]>> Babies having babies.

[00:40:44]>> talking about what happens of those babies that are born by babies. Because both of them are still growing up. It's a conversation worth having uh so that we can uh ventilate. I think so. Yeah.

[00:40:55]Definitely necessary. More stories? Mhm.

[00:40:58]Grab your copy.

[00:40:59]Yeah, definitely get a copy of that. Um also, if you're looking into the star, uh real quick on the front page, uh Ruto's tops 27 polls as Safina surges to four spots. That's again, um this by Tifa. UDA shines in Murua to Kia by-election.

[00:41:18]A woman found dead at boss's home, died of heart failure.

[00:41:21]Uh Rachel Brendel Pia, the woman uh who was found dead at her employee's home in Shemanzi, Mombasa, died from a heart attack caused by thyroid complications, in case you're wondering what that was about. Siasa, how Kenya turned the summit into a statement of power.

[00:41:36]And there was there were some sessions which we didn't see then we just started to see it over socials where folks were essentially telling France what they really thought. Um Health uh is looking at the story of heart failure caused woman's death at her employer's home. Many questions arise, but healthcare costs continue to rise in Kenya. Insurers are increasingly being forced to rethink how medical cover is designed and distributed. An emerging trend, I just want to look at this, is the shift towards community-based insurance models and the making healthcare more affordable through collective participation and pooled risk. This all comes as Shah comes under fire over delayed payments and system failures.

[00:42:15]Um, there are many um, insurers. I mean, just think about them across board from Britam to Jubilee to all of them and they're thinking about how they've partnered with folks to launch a medical cover targeting members of a particular community, the Sikhs for example, their families and businesses, industry players, organizing groups such as faith-based organizations, circles and professional associations helping important channels for reaching more Kenyans with structured health care support and improving access to quality care across different communities. So, just looking at the different things that they they can do in little spots and pockets to ensure that, you know, medical health or insurance is reached by everybody.

[00:42:57]5.3 billion shilling budget blow, TSC faces new year without injury cover.

[00:43:04]>> [gasps] >> I'm trying to breathe.

[00:43:09]Is the tea levy burden or boost? Farmers watching keenly, they're also waiting.

[00:43:14]Um, also farmers in Laikipia reap big from climate smart farming and I guess that's the way you kind of have to go for some of these things.

[00:43:25]The Nairobian today is talking about the cartel queen Akina.

[00:43:29]I thought this story was over. We're not done with this?

[00:43:32]But apparently it's still a thing.

[00:43:34]Dangerous desire, former club owner Joyce Akinyi's lovers fell.

[00:43:39]They fell.

[00:43:41]Her business empire crumbled and was written off and the life sentence she's serving vanished. After years of narcotics claims, explosive arrests and a 5.6 million shilling heroin case that nearly buried her forever, the woman once branded a drug queen has walked free again. She's out, guys.

[00:43:56]Leaving behind furious investigators, shattered reputations and one hunting question, who really is Joyce Akinyi?

[00:44:01]So, she's no longer behind bars. She was supposed to be serving life in prison and for some of these things. I guess not. So, anymore.

[00:44:08]>> [clears throat] >> Well, the courts have pronounced themselves. As they have. We wait and see. We will wait and see. And >> If there's one institution I hope we can have faith in is the judiciary. I know we have complaints and reservations, but I hope that in time we can feel comfortable in knowing that the courts are always acting in the interest of Kenyans and in the law. So, that these questions of, you know, investigators because that does I mean, don't arise.

[00:44:34]Some cases when they are resolved uh in manners that cannot be explained, remember they also put other people at risk. True. You know, cuz they they investigative agency, they're arresting officers, they're the witnesses, you know? Mhm. So, if the person goes scot-free uh outside the law, that can raise complications.

[00:44:53]>> It definitely can.

[00:44:54]>> Yeah, but also if the law has deemed it that she needs to be free, she's a Kenyan. Everyone has their rights. Okay.

[00:45:00]Yeah.

[00:45:00]>> So, we'll wait and see. We'll wait and see. We're also getting into a sporting weekend where the Diamond League is taking place in the East today, and Ferdinand Omanyala will be in fine form from all indications. And we also know that Manchester City is praying that Arsenal loses to Crystal Palace to keep themselves in the running. They don't they don't need to pray.

[00:45:20]We just need to pray. Arsenal is Arsenal.

[00:45:23]Okay, looks like it's going to be a really good >> but always too far.

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