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Rank: Member Joined: 8/15/2015 Posts: 817
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My dear Kenyan middle class;
If you weren't at the table when Gulf Energy & Centum negotiated the Kshs 170B Lamu coal power plant project in an area they have absolutely no experience in.
If you weren't there when Transcentury sold its stake to Egyptian Citadel making 5B from literally nothing with the Kenya Railways deal.
If you weren't signing on the paper when newly formed and acquired Civicon won the $38M deal at Turkana wind energy project.
If you don't sit on the Board of Twiga, Amboseli, Jetspace or Samburu in Dubai that are beneficiaries of Kshs 1.5B/Annum leasing contracts for your beloved KQ with Boeing and Embraer.
If you aren't the owner of the unknown shareholding 6.7% of PANG that has the sole digital distribution rights and access to 50B hijacked media advertising revenue.
If you aren't the secret local partner of Chinese shareholder of the shorehandling services in privatization of berth 11 - 14 at the port of Mombasa.
If you don't own any of the $6B (Kshs 600B) in building approvals in Nairobi county approved since its inception in 2013....
Then you simply don't belong. You may think you do but you don't. You think that if you read the business daily, or listen to bloomberg news or watch CNBC Africa that somehow you are "participating". That if you are a friend to a friend to a billionaire that somehow you are networked, or if you drink at the same bar or have him on your phonebook that somehow you are part of it as well.
You marvel at these deals and believe that they are somehow from financial ingenuity or extraordinary entrepreneurship completely ignoring state proximity and decades of patronage. You are an outsider, "my guy". You don't belong. You are the kid not invited to the party and are standing on a stool at the window trying peek in.
You look at the teachers striking with disdain, you view KNUT and opposition rallies as a "disruption" to your "pay-check to pay-check" life. You accept arguments from state formed billionaires that somehow 288,000 teachers requesting an extra kshs 5000 is completely and utterly unreasonable.
You may feel your fortunes are tied and shared, but trust me they aren't, you are the KYM that brings the coffee to the table while state patronage in its most resplendent occurs in the conference room. With all due respect, you are stupid.
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Rank: Member Joined: 1/22/2007 Posts: 336
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Cornelius Vanderbilt wrote: My dear Kenyan middle class;
If you weren't at the table when Gulf Energy & Centum negotiated the Kshs 170B Lamu coal power plant project in an area they have absolutely no experience in.
If you weren't there when Transcentury sold its stake to Egyptian Citadel making 5B from literally nothing with the Kenya Railways deal.
If you weren't signing on the paper when newly formed and acquired Civicon won the $38M deal at Turkana wind energy project.
If you don't sit on the Board of Twiga, Amboseli, Jetspace or Samburu in Dubai that are beneficiaries of Kshs 1.5B/Annum leasing contracts for your beloved KQ with Boeing and Embraer.
If you aren't the owner of the unknown shareholding 6.7% of PANG that has the sole digital distribution rights and access to 50B hijacked media advertising revenue.
If you aren't the secret local partner of Chinese shareholder of the shorehandling services in privatization of berth 11 - 14 at the port of Mombasa.
If you don't own any of the $6B (Kshs 600B) in building approvals in Nairobi county approved since its inception in 2013....
Then you simply don't belong. You may think you do but you don't. You think that if you read the business daily, or listen to bloomberg news or watch CNBC Africa that somehow you are "participating". That if you are a friend to a friend to a billionaire that somehow you are networked, or if you drink at the same bar or have him on your phonebook that somehow you are part of it as well.
You marvel at these deals and believe that they are somehow from financial ingenuity or extraordinary entrepreneurship completely ignoring state proximity and decades of patronage. You are an outsider, "my guy". You don't belong. You are the kid not invited to the party and are standing on a stool at the window trying peek in.
You look at the teachers striking with disdain, you view KNUT and opposition rallies as a "disruption" to your "pay-check to pay-check" life. You accept arguments from state formed billionaires that somehow 288,000 teachers requesting an extra kshs 5000 is completely and utterly unreasonable.
You may feel your fortunes are tied and shared, but trust me they aren't, you are the KYM that brings the coffee to the table while state patronage in its most resplendent occurs in the conference room. With all due respect, you are stupid. KAI UKURUMANAGA? Advice is like snow.The softer it lands the harder is sticks.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/26/2012 Posts: 15,980
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House keeping please.....Green section "There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 9/19/2011 Posts: 1,694
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Critics of capitalism would best explain how we got here.
“People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.” ― Walter C. Langer
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 9/19/2011 Posts: 1,694
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At least give the real author a mention....lest you be accused of plagiarism.
“People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.” ― Walter C. Langer
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/27/2012 Posts: 2,256 Location: Bandalungwa
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Quote:Then you simply don't belong. You may think you do but you don't. You think that if you read the business daily, or listen to bloomberg news or watch CNBC Africa that somehow you are "participating". That if you are a friend to a friend to a billionaire that somehow you are networked, or if you drink at the same bar or have him on your phonebook that somehow you are part of it as well. Kenyan middle class is satisfied so long as it is someone from their tribe who is eating.
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Rank: Member Joined: 12/2/2009 Posts: 299 Location: kenya
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This is very true.At least these well healed characters were good at their game.We can not all be at the cake table.Tommorow the story may be different now that we know.
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Rank: Member Joined: 7/17/2011 Posts: 627 Location: Mbui-Nzau, Kikumbulyu
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/23/2008 Posts: 3,966
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During a visit to the NASA space center in 1962, President John F. Kennedy noticed a janitor carrying a broom. He interrupted his tour, walked over to the man and said, "Hi, I'm Jack Kennedy. What are you doing?" "Well, Mr. President," the janitor responded, "I'm helping put a man on the moon." Luck is when Preparation meets Opportunity. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,821 Location: Nairobi
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Cornelius Vanderbilt wrote: My dear Kenyan middle class;
If you weren't at the table when Gulf Energy & Centum negotiated the Kshs 170B Lamu coal power plant project in an area they have absolutely no experience in.
If you weren't there when Transcentury sold its stake to Egyptian Citadel making 5B from literally nothing with the Kenya Railways deal.
If you weren't signing on the paper when newly formed and acquired Civicon won the $38M deal at Turkana wind energy project.
If you don't sit on the Board of Twiga, Amboseli, Jetspace or Samburu in Dubai that are beneficiaries of Kshs 1.5B/Annum leasing contracts for your beloved KQ with Boeing and Embraer.
If you aren't the owner of the unknown shareholding 6.7% of PANG that has the sole digital distribution rights and access to 50B hijacked media advertising revenue.
If you aren't the secret local partner of Chinese shareholder of the shorehandling services in privatization of berth 11 - 14 at the port of Mombasa.
If you don't own any of the $6B (Kshs 600B) in building approvals in Nairobi county approved since its inception in 2013....
Then you simply don't belong. You may think you do but you don't. You think that if you read the business daily, or listen to bloomberg news or watch CNBC Africa that somehow you are "participating". That if you are a friend to a friend to a billionaire that somehow you are networked, or if you drink at the same bar or have him on your phonebook that somehow you are part of it as well.
You marvel at these deals and believe that they are somehow from financial ingenuity or extraordinary entrepreneurship completely ignoring state proximity and decades of patronage. You are an outsider, "my guy". You don't belong. You are the kid not invited to the party and are standing on a stool at the window trying peek in.
You look at the teachers striking with disdain, you view KNUT and opposition rallies as a "disruption" to your "pay-check to pay-check" life. You accept arguments from state formed billionaires that somehow 288,000 teachers requesting an extra kshs 5000 is completely and utterly unreasonable.
You may feel your fortunes are tied and shared, but trust me they aren't, you are the KYM that brings the coffee to the table while state patronage in its most resplendent occurs in the conference room. With all due respect, you are stupid. hahaha.... wewe uko upande gani? coz ni tatu... Masikini Middle Class Hao umeonge juu yao! Kila mwamba ngoma, ngozi huivutia kwake.... ni nini ilikuleta Nairobi? All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/23/2009 Posts: 13,568 Location: nairobi
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corruption and sucess in Kenya are closely related. one wld be hard pressed to show me any succesful individual or firm in Kenya that isnt corrupt. its a shame, we celebrate the wrong people. i'd rather die poor than gain at the expense of the poor
COOP 70,000 ABP 15.20; KQ 414,100 ABP 7.92; MTN 23,800 ABP 6.45
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,821 Location: Nairobi
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obiero wrote:corruption and sucess in Kenya are closely related. one wld be hard pressed to show me any succesful individual or firm in Kenya that isnt corrupt. its a shame, we celebrate the wrong people. i'd rather die poor than gain at the expense of the poor  choose for yourself not for others... kila mtu alijileta nairobi All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: Member Joined: 3/23/2011 Posts: 503
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obiero wrote:corruption and sucess in Kenya are closely related. one wld be hard pressed to show me any succesful individual or firm in Kenya that isnt corrupt. its a shame, we celebrate the wrong people. i'd rather die poor than gain at the expense of the poor Says the man who trades on insider information Even a BrOKeN clock is right twice a day
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Rank: Chief Joined: 5/9/2007 Posts: 13,095
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Na huyu ako which class? 
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 3/27/2009 Posts: 1,437
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washiku wrote:Na huyu ako which class? Special guests from Ethiopia FOR VIP's? Ok. Huyu kweli ni mwanafunzi!
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Rank: User Joined: 8/15/2013 Posts: 13,237 Location: Vacuum
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Iganamagana wrote:washiku wrote:Na huyu ako which class? Special guests from Ethiopia FOR VIP's? Ok. Huyu kweli ni mwanafunzi! And Ouru is part of the VIP guests,will he ponyaka with a special guest? If Obiero did it, Who Am I?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/23/2009 Posts: 13,568 Location: nairobi
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Rollins wrote:obiero wrote:corruption and sucess in Kenya are closely related. one wld be hard pressed to show me any succesful individual or firm in Kenya that isnt corrupt. its a shame, we celebrate the wrong people. i'd rather die poor than gain at the expense of the poor Says the man who trades on insider information My trades are not corrupt since the information gained by myself is shared, hence symmetrical. Asymmetry of information is what can be termed corrupt
COOP 70,000 ABP 15.20; KQ 414,100 ABP 7.92; MTN 23,800 ABP 6.45
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/27/2010 Posts: 951 Location: Nyumbani
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/27/2010 Posts: 951 Location: Nyumbani
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Cornelius Vanderbilt wrote: My dear Kenyan middle class;
If you weren't at the table when Gulf Energy & Centum negotiated the Kshs 170B Lamu coal power plant project in an area they have absolutely no experience in.
If you weren't there when Transcentury sold its stake to Egyptian Citadel making 5B from literally nothing with the Kenya Railways deal.
If you weren't signing on the paper when newly formed and acquired Civicon won the $38M deal at Turkana wind energy project.
If you don't sit on the Board of Twiga, Amboseli, Jetspace or Samburu in Dubai that are beneficiaries of Kshs 1.5B/Annum leasing contracts for your beloved KQ with Boeing and Embraer.
If you aren't the owner of the unknown shareholding 6.7% of PANG that has the sole digital distribution rights and access to 50B hijacked media advertising revenue.
If you aren't the secret local partner of Chinese shareholder of the shorehandling services in privatization of berth 11 - 14 at the port of Mombasa.
If you don't own any of the $6B (Kshs 600B) in building approvals in Nairobi county approved since its inception in 2013....
Then you simply don't belong. You may think you do but you don't. You think that if you read the business daily, or listen to bloomberg news or watch CNBC Africa that somehow you are "participating". That if you are a friend to a friend to a billionaire that somehow you are networked, or if you drink at the same bar or have him on your phonebook that somehow you are part of it as well.
You marvel at these deals and believe that they are somehow from financial ingenuity or extraordinary entrepreneurship completely ignoring state proximity and decades of patronage. You are an outsider, "my guy". You don't belong. You are the kid not invited to the party and are standing on a stool at the window trying peek in.
You look at the teachers striking with disdain, you view KNUT and opposition rallies as a "disruption" to your "pay-check to pay-check" life. You accept arguments from state formed billionaires that somehow 288,000 teachers requesting an extra kshs 5000 is completely and utterly unreasonable.
You may feel your fortunes are tied and shared, but trust me they aren't, you are the KYM that brings the coffee to the table while state patronage in its most resplendent occurs in the conference room. With all due respect, you are stupid. Do not worry @Cornelius Vanderbilt if at all you are the one who wrote the original thing.Some wazuans will insult you others congratulte you others will laugh and others will just say who do you think you are , this is how we live . Just be prepared to answer back
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