Okiya Omtatah Okoiti
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Senator of Kenya - Busia County | Human-rights Activist | Executive Director ~ Kenyans for Justice and Development (KEJUDE)Trust. | Mobile +254722684777 | #REKE
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The debt question Kenyans must ask is simple: Why does the debt keep growing every year despite billions already being paid? How do we borrow, repay, borrow again, and still sink deeper into debt? This is why the conversation on odious debt can no longer be avoided. One dangerous issue that must be addressed is the amendment to the Public Finance Management Act, which allowed the National Treasury to borrow outside the Consolidated Fund framework. Public borrowing must remain transparent, accountable, and subject to full constitutional oversight. Kenyans deserve to know: Who borrowed? How much? For what purpose? Who benefited? And why are ordinary citizens carrying the burden while public services continue to collapse? A country cannot survive permanently on secrecy, debt, and taxation without accountability. #odiousdebt #DeniBandia
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Long before it became fashionable, we were already raising our voices for change.
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Out of the KSh 7.1 billion allocated to Busia County in the 2022/23 financial year, KSh 5.2 billion vanished in plain sight. Nothing to show. No services delivered. Just opulence for a few and suffering for the people. This is theft. This is injustice. This must end.
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An MCA’s primary role as clearly defined under Article 185 of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 and Section 9 of the County Governments Act 2012 is to legislate, represent the people, and provide oversight in the ward. Actual development funds and project implementation rest with the County Executive, per the separation of powers in the Constitution and the County Governments Act. Blaming MCAs alone for every unfinished project is dishonest and misleading. However, MCAs must account to wananchi: Which Bills or Motions they have sponsored and successfully passed in the County Assembly that have directly benefited the people. This is the real civic awakening we need. Busia County, Marachi West Ward MCA engaging his electorate #CountyAccountability #DevolutionWorks
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I am deeply disturbed and outraged by this video from Busia County Referral Hospital. If it is true that the hospital has detained these young mothers and their newborns as alleged simply because they cannot pay cash for maternal services then it is illegal, unconstitutional and inhumane. This amounts to unlawful confinement and a gross violation of the dignity of our mothers. The following county officials MUST urgently investigate this matter and act immediately: • H.E. Dr. Paul Nyongesa Otuoma, Governor of Busia County • The County Executive Committee Member for Health & Sanitation, H.E Hon. Arthur Papa Odera who is also the Deputy Governor of Busia I will personally follow up on this. No mother in Busia should give birth in fear of being imprisoned at a public hospital jameni.
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We’re at KNH with Jonah Kariuki whose son Boniface Mwangi Kariuki was brutally shot by a rogue police force at close range yesterday while hawking face masks along Moi Avenue during the #JusticeForAlbertOjwang protest. Boniface Mwangi Kariuki is alive but fighting for his life in the Intensive Care Unit at the KNH. We pray for a speedy recovery for Boniface and all the other Kenyans who were injured yesterday and regret the damage to property that was occasioned by the lawlessness sanctioned and sponsored by rogue state agents. Justice be our shield and defender.
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Yesterday in the Senate, I also submitted a Statement seeking answers on an unexplained withdrawal of KSH 19.7 BILLION from the consolidated fund in January 2025, under the vote item “State Officers’ Salaries, Allowances and Miscellaneous.” The budget for that entire item was KSH 4.2 BILLION for the whole year, yet over KSH 19 BILLION was moved in a single month. This figure far exceeds the monthly average of 287 MILLION, and no lawful justification has been provided. I’ve demanded full disclosure of who received the funds, who approved the excess withdrawal, whether due process was followed under the Constitution and Public Finance Management Act and what corrective action has been taken. Public finance must be sacred. The Kenyan people deserve honesty, transparency, discipline, and truth in the handling of every coin. Accountability without fear or favour. #REKE
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Affordable houses are being built on public land and therefore it is ILLEGAL to sell them to private individuals. When power changes, we will RECOVER those houses and give them back to the public. No Kenyan should waste his money buying those houses.
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The Republic of Kenya is sovereign, IMF is hellbent to destroy it
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Today, I officially submitted a Request for a Statement in the Senate seeking urgent answers on why a key KPC gas facility was handed over to a Nigerian firm, Asharami Synergy. This 30,000-tonne LPG project was meant to lower gas for Kenyans; yet KPC was sidelined after spending KSh 192 million in public funds. Who approved this deal? Was due process followed? We demand transparency and protection of our public assets.
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Yesterday, I presented a petition to the Senate to protect a groundbreaking Kenyan innovation: the New Generation Muthea Antivenom, developed in Wamunyu, Machakos. This life-saving remedy, which uses no animal plasma, has successfully treated snake bites for over a century, with zero recorded fatalities. Yet, instead of receiving support, its local developers are facing harassment, intimidation, and attempts to hijack their intellectual property. They’ve endured coercive demands to surrender their patent and formula, threats and legal intimidation from shadowy figures with vested interests, delays and sabotage by public officials using red tape to stall approvals, smear campaigns to discredit their work and deny them support and the financial exclusion from grants and recognition meant for innovators. The petition seeks to ensure the innovators’ rights are protected, investigate misconduct by public officials, suspend any officials found to be obstructing justice and establish national protections and policy for indigenous innovation. This isn’t just about one product. It’s about how we treat innovation in Kenya. Kenya must be a country where bold ideas are nurtured; not stifled. Where innovators are empowered; not extorted. A country that stifles its innovators is one that kills its own future. Let’s build a Kenya where innovation, justice, and integrity win, every time.
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Removing Ruto is not enough. We must offer Kenya a way out, and a way up. That’s why I speak with clarity and conviction. Not just to oppose, but to restore. I’ve seen no agenda that matches the depth, scale, and urgency of what I’m building. This is about laying the Republic’s foundation anew. We are here to begin again; and begin right. #REKE
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