Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist
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#MROPTIMIST . Past chairman. Kenya Tourism Federation. 🇰🇪 Hotelier. John Maxwell certified Speaker, Trainer ,Coach . NB:👇 VIEWS MY OWN
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Africa is full of surpsises Ugandan police arrested a man for witchcraft, took him to court, and he responded by inviting bees to the court. Everyone was attacked by the bees. He didn’t get a single sting. Interesting to see a man running around with a fire 🔥 extinguisher. Earth is hard , best such guys are left in peace.
Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist568,102 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
As we play hit & miss , our northern neighbours are laserjet FOCUSED. We cannot be moving from one controversy to another. I have no idea what stake this man from Zimbabwe has in the new airport project but what is hard in playing it open and transparent. Why not work with institutions that are beyond reproach. Its tiring , I am just being honest its tiring. Kenyans we deserve better.
Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist19,647 просмотров • 6 дней назад
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To Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah Kimani Ichung’wah I have watched this clip over and over again, and I am afraid to tell you that you have missed the nature of the current protest. The fact that young, smart, educated Kenyans, armed with iPhones, expensive sneakers, designer jeans, and leather jackets, have well-kept dread and are willing to come out to picket and face off with police should worry any politician in Kenya. Be very afraid Mheshimiwa. It means they are ready to step out of their comfort zones. Hon. Ichungwa, you should be busy burning the midnight oil on how to handle these young, agitated youth. These are not your ordinary youth, Mheshimiwa. ✅️1. These individuals have dismantled the tribal barriers that had previously separated them. When they speak, their intelligence and sophistication are evident. They are not as stupid and ignorant as previously assumed. You cannot tell them by their accent or how they speak. ✅️2. These individuals possess no political affiliation; their freedom is akin to that of a bird. They are everywhere, from Meru to Kisumu, from Eldoret to Mombasa, from Kwale to Kiambu, from Garissa to Kisii, and the list goes on. Did I hear you say it's only NBI? Then you need to update yourself. ✅️3. These individuals don't require any mobilization fees, which is why, as you just mentioned, they collaborate to use Uber. There is nothing wrong with taking an Uber; if anything, the Uber driver would most likely be their tribe, Gen Z. ✅️4. These guys don't need handouts; as you state, they joined together to enjoy a decent meal after their protest. This would certainly piss off any politician. Most likely, Gen Z would be serving them. ✅️5. These guys have amazing good will from Kenyans. When you see a Somali restaurant providing them with free food water, Jamia mosque providing a safe haven for their tear-gassed comrades, it's important to remember that these are not normal times. When was the last time you saw a hijabi-clad lady in sneakers facing off with a cop? ✅️7. These guys look out for each other; did you see the many young Gen Z doctors and lawyers who came out to help their own? Did you see young photojournalists and cameramen protecting their fellow Gen Z protesters from police who are trying to use force . ✅️8. These individuals don't light up tires to obstruct roads, they don't smash windows to steal from shops, and they don't destroy cars by burning them. These guys are too sophisticated for that. ✅️9. These guys are gainfully employed, and some run their own hustles. ✅️10. These guys are leveraging technology; they are ahead of everyone else. These guys turned their mobile phones into walkie-talkies for ease of coordination. These guys are even ready for the internet shutdown, as they have equipped themselves with Starlink. Hon. Ichungwa, we are in uncharted waters; you should be burning midnight oil to explore how to reach out to this youth. Well to reach out is also easier said than done , It's a challenge because it's hard to figure out who is their leader and who is a follower. People have long accused these young Kenyans from middle-class families of neglecting matters of national concern. Now that the finance bill has brought them to the forefront, it is crucial to engage them, as they are well-prepared for the long haul. I hope you noticed even Baba is shocked, or rather, pleasantly surprised. Mheshimiwa, let this serve as a thought-provoking topic for the weekend, as these individuals are the true shareholders, and they aspire to reclaim their nation. As always, I choose to remain an optimist. I wish you good luck Mheshimiwa
Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist556,029 просмотров • 2 лет назад
Your Excellency William Samoei Ruto William Samoei Ruto, PhD Today I want you to address the opulence of your office, not that your predecessors were any better. I must, however, give credit to Kibaki; even when he came to Msa, you hardly noticed he was around at the state house. Hangabouts were very disappointed. Mama Lucy was clear: Mzee anapumzika, may their souls rest in peace. As you relax this Sunday, think hard about the sheer waste generated by your motorcade in a country where the majority live on less than a dollar a day. While some in this convoy are not necessarily part of the OP, they are the hangabouts, including CS's and even parastatal heads who want to tag along. This is what is upsetting Kenyans and is akin to vomiting on their bare feet, not even their shoes. Your excellency, you still have time to bring this to an immediate stop, and in the process, you will help in achieving the much-sought-after austerity measures. Some would say, Wait a minute, our President must have protection. Yes, 100%, but more is not necessarily better protection. I don't think you face a higher risk than your counterpart in SA or, even worse, Rwanda, surrounded by unfriendly neighbours. Look at UK PM Entrouge. We are always at their doorstep with a begging bowl, but we are busy zooming around in top-end full-guzzlers. Your excellency You need to do things differently, and Gen Zs would love you, but you are using the same old template. Get rid of this opulence, and you'll be shocked by the budget surplus that will come your way. Think hard about this and get lean on how you run this country. Enjoy your weekend, and as always, I choose to remain an optimist.
Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist385,489 просмотров • 1 год назад
Nairobi Arsenal fans.....painting the city red. Piers Morgan
Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist23,018 просмотров • 29 дней назад
What is your take on this ? Kenya , how did we get here ?
Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist177,315 просмотров • 1 год назад
1/2 Wajir Was Never the Edge of Kenya. Today We Stop Pretending It Was. For sixty-three years, a quiet lie sat at the heart of our national story that Kenya had a centre and a margin, a place that mattered and a place that merely existed. The centre got the flags, the stadiums, the presidents and the cameras. The margin the old Northern Frontier District got soldiers, suspicion, and silence. Today, on the first of June 2026, that lie is being buried in the red soil of Wajir, and not a moment too soon. Madaraka Day means self-rule. Power belonging to the people. It is therefore the most fitting holiday imaginable to bring, for the very first time since independence, to a region that has spent six decades being ruled rather than included. President Uhuru Kenyatta began the practice of carrying our national days beyond Nairobi. President Ruto continued it, Embu, Kericho, Bungoma, Kwale, Homa Bay, Kitui and now, on the seventh occasion away from the capital, he has done the thing that no government before dared to do. He has brought the Republic to Wajir. Start with the history, because it demolishes the central myth the notion that Wajir is some remote, forgotten edge of the country. Wajir was founded in 1912 by the British colonial administration, which built a fortified outpost, a boma, to guard the strategically vital shallow wells and to assert control over the Northern Frontier District. That makes it one of the oldest towns in the entire country older than almost anywhere outside the coast. Nobody plants a garrison in a place that does not matter. Then, during the Second World War, this same town was invaded and occupied by the Italian army and became a point of bitter conflict for more than six months. African, Indian and European soldiers fought and bled here, side by side, as part of the global struggle that decided the fate of nations. Empires did not battle for half a year over an irrelevant patch of desert. They fought over Wajir because Wajir was worth fighting for. Soldiers of three continents understood its value generations ago. It is long past time the rest of us caught up. Let us be honest about what Wajir has carried. This is a county where, in February 1984, security forces of the state herded thousands of men onto an airstrip and left them to die in the sun. By some accounts close to five thousand sons of this land never walked home from Wagalla. For decades the country looked away so when a president flies in, when the national anthem is sung at a brand-new stadium on Wajir's own ground, understand what is actually happening: the same state that once arrived here with rifles is arriving with a flag, a parade, and a promise. That is not symbolism. That is repair. Consider what this county did not have within living memory. Not a single inch of tarmac. Men and women were born, lived full lives, and were buried having never once seen a tarmacked road, never turned a tap and watched clean water run. To this day Wajir, Mandera and Marsabit are not even wired into the national electricity grid. The same grid that lights Nairobi's billboards and Mombasa's hotels. You cannot lecture a region about patriotism while leaving it in the dark. Belonging is not a speech. Belonging is a road, a hospital, a light bulb, a reason for your children to stay. To the critics who say the stadium is misplaced. I hear them, and I reject them. A 10,000-seat stadium has risen here in record time, built by the Kenya Defence Forces, alongside an upgraded airport, new town roads, street lighting that has changed the very face of Wajir at night, and the launch of a fully equipped Level 5 hospital.
Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist15,171 просмотров • 21 дней назад
To my fellow Africans please don't bother to migrate and reside in South Africa unless you are part of a multinational or you are residing there in upmarket neighborhood as a second or even third home. I would like to enlighten some of these young Sat Africans. Kenya we are home to very many refugees be it Congo DRC, Somalia , South Sudan, Ethiopia if anything at one time we were surrounded by unstable countries except Tanzania. Never have we ever attacked anyone based on their nationality. These young black South Africans suffer from a serious scarcity mentality. I want to tell them , the Ethiopian or Nigerian will be gone but I want to assure them that they will still be hungry and even worse angry. Just because they are gone does not mean that their life will change for the better or own the business they run. Uganda under dictator Idi Amin expelled all Asians and we know what happened. Well they all moved on to UK, Canada and some crossed to Kenya where they all started afresh. I only came to know recently that one of my favorite authors Robin Sharma is originally from Uganda when his parents were forced to leave Uganda. What a gem Uganda lost but again everything happens for a reason. Rest of the world welcome refugees and give them a second chance in life. Many Somalis and Ethiopians including many South Sudanese who have made it in USA, UK, Canada , EU , Australia et al at one time called Kenya home and even now they still come back to visit holding passports of their adopted countries. My fellow Kenyans one thing for certain we are NOT selfish and we are always welcoming and that is one virtue that separates us from the rest of Africa. Please hold your head high as a proud Kenyan. I also challenge leadership of all these countries, please fix your nation so that your young men and women can see hope and vision. Give them a reason to stay at home and spare them such humiliation like in SA. Many have paid the ultimate price and the man in this video has made it clear you must leave by January 2024. Please don't wait to be a statistic. In business news we are always told about the double digit of economic growth of these very countries with highest number of young men and women who all want to exit , as Africans we must hang our head in shame when young men and women risk it all to cross the Sahara desert and Libya including the Mediterranean seas searching for a better life in Europe. I am challenging Ethiopia who suffer the highest brunt in South Africa. Why are young men and women from Ethiopia insisting to travel to South Africa? We see them everyday trying to cross Moyale border and they claim they are headed to South Africa. Of what use is your double digit growth if you cannot retain your young people who end up getting humiliated like what you see in this video? Let me call out our northern neighbour , Ethiopia you run the most successful airline in Africa, you run some of the most successful export processing zones , amazing leather industry, great athletes competing alongside Kenyans for honors in leading cities around the world .I ask why are your young men women risking it all in down south ? I recently watched a documentary how these young men and women are traveling all the way to Guatemala in South America then attempting to cross to USA. It saddens me a great as an African when I see such. For south Africa Nelson Mandela a man with a big heart must be turning in his grave. I weep for Sat Africa😭😭😭 The immigrants will one day go away but you need to work to improve your life. There is never free things in life . It is said you cannot talk about the weather if you remain in bed. As always I choose to remain an optimist
Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist345,981 просмотров • 2 лет назад
Trucks making nonsense of the new bypass in Mombasa. Let me make it clear .....we will never have enough roads to accommodate all trucks at one go. Era of technology, go to the port only when your cargo is ready. Cargo for Uganda , Sudan +++ ought to be collected from Naivasha . 1. It will decongest Mombasa 2. It will decongest already narrow Mombasa Nairobi highway in turn accident reduction Its good news that South Sudan are going to use Naivasha same should apply to Uganda , Rwanda, DRC. Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir Davis Chirchir, EGH Mombasa County Kenya Revenue Authority Mustafa Ramadhan
Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist56,622 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
Bro we did this with ease in Taita without breaking the bank. Northern Kenya Governors can easily set-up such simple dams across seasonal rivers . Forget about the useless water pans. If we could do it in our small way what about when you have billions at your disposal . Ahmednasir Abdullahi SC FCPA Billow Kerrow we must demand accountability from these leaders .
Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist49,119 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
Warning long read ...if you are allergic to reading please feel free to go back to TikTok 1/3 The China of Africa Is Rising — And Kenya we are busy politicking at funerals. I have not been to Ethiopia recently, but I have not needed to. The evidence of what is happening north of our border is everywhere in news bulletins, in industry reports, in the testimonies of business people and diplomats who return from Addis Ababa struggling to describe what they have seen. When the African Union's own Special Envoy, Liberata Mulamula, tells the Ethiopian News Agency that "two years ago, no one would have imagined Addis Ababa looking like this," you pay attention. When you watch the concrete developments unfold not promises, not feasibility studies, but inaugurations, factory openings, and groundbreakings you are then forced to ask a painful question: what exactly are we doing in Kenya? Let me lay out what I have been observing. In Hawassa, a city of roughly 300,000 people in southern Ethiopia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has built one of the most ambitious industrial ecosystems on the African continent. The Hawassa Industrial Park is up and running. It now hosts dozens of factories, employs tens of thousands of young Ethiopians — the majority of them women — and is equipped with Africa's largest Zero-Liquid Discharge wastewater treatment system that recycles ninety percent of its sewage water. This is not a PowerPoint presentation at a Nairobi hotel conference. This is steel, concrete, and humming production lines. PM Abiy is not resting. In April 2026, he inaugurated three new solar panel manufacturing factories at Hawassa — Toyo Phase 2, Origin, and Lumintech — alongside an industrial gas plant. Together, these solar facilities will produce an annual capacity of 11.3 gigawatts of clean energy components. The story behind this is instructive and worth dwelling on. Abiy visited Vietnam, toured a Toyo solar panel factory, met the company's president, and within 3 months the first facility was operational in Ethiopia. Now this is EXECUTION. The irony is that the investment required to set up these factories is not even astronomical — it is the kind of money that routinely vanishes in Kenya through corruption, inflated tenders, and deals that exist only in whispered conversations. The Dangote partnership tells the same story of decisive action. In August 2025, Aliko Dangote and the Ethiopian government signed a $2.5 billion agreement to construct a fertiliser plant in Gode, in Ethiopia's Somali Region. Today Dangote himself with PM Abiy Ahmed were on site for the groundbreaking ceremony. The facility will produce up to three million metric tonnes of urea annually, potentially placing Ethiopia among the world's top five producers. Think about that. The country that was Africa's largest fertiliser importer is positioning itself to become a regional exporter. The ownership structure 60 % Dangote, 40 % Ethiopian Investment Holdings which ensures the state retains a meaningful stake in its own transformation. This is not charity. This is strategy. Now consider the energy picture that underpins all of this. Ethiopia had commissioned the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a $5 billion megaproject built without a single dollar of foreign financing funded entirely through domestic bonds, salary deductions, and public contributions. With a capacity of 5,150 megawatts, the GERD has effectively doubled Ethiopia's generation capacity. The result is decisive: Ethiopia now has the lowest electricity prices in Africa.
Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist16,443 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
Someone can sit in a boardroom and approve such a plan on an already narrow busy road serving Nyali , Bamburi and onwards even Mtwapa Vipingo +++ Links Road is already too narrow for all the traffic due to all the new apartment blocks. A plot that used to house one residence suddenly has 80 apartments which means 100+ cars . Who needs a flower bed on a major road busy commercial street, links Road is now a commercial road. There is already a pedestrian lane then someone in his wisdom decides to place concrete flower beds ostensibly they think they are beutyfing the place. Kenya Urban Roads Authority Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) its not too late fix the mess and stop wasting tax payers money. Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) Kenya National Highways Authority . Bw CS Hon. Davis Chirchir. Davis Chirchir, EGH please bring some sanity here. Governor Abdulswamad Shariff Nassir. Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir your team. Mombasa County also need to push for the right thing to be done . Unbelievable but we are not giving up Mustafa Ramadhan NCRRA
Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist40,221 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
Tanzania, just like Kenya, is a sovereign state. They decide who can be allowed entry; even Kenya does that . You have no business to force yourself if you ain't wanted . We apply for a visa, be it for the USA , the UK, Schengen, et al and the majority of us get rejected, and you walk away silently to lick your wounds. Tanzanians are wired differently, and that is who they are. Please dont get me wrong opposition leader Tundu Lisu deserves a fair hearing; if anything, there is even no case in the first place. To be fair to President Samia Suluhu, she asked him to return from exile, including many others who had taken off during JPM's leadership. Tundu Lissu is a special man; this man was shot 17 times, and he survived, so his current tribulation is nothing. He will get over it. As Kenyans, do we have any right to bully or even harass the leadership of Tanzania? We have no business doing that. Tanzanians are at liberty to speak up for themselves, so going to jam their courts will not add any value to Tundu Lissu's case. The fact that we can do or say anything we want in Kenya does not mean that we can export that activism across the border. Aha we care so much about democracy at our neighbours? 🤔How about heading to Juba and fighting for Riek Machar as well ? 🤔What about heading to Addis to advocate for the Amharas, Tigreys or Oromos? 🤔What about going to face M7? My fellow Kenyans, we have enough on our plate. We should mind our business as time ticks towards 2027. Yetu enyewe imetushinda .....but Mama Suluhu has no business to say that we have destroyed our Kenya. Hapo amekuja sana.
Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist99,790 просмотров • 1 год назад