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Jamila Mohamed

Jamila Mohamed

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JAMILA'S MEMO: Value of human life - Have we become numb to death?
June 18, 2026 11:57 (EAT) • 5 days ago

JAMILA'S MEMO: Value of human life - Have we become numb to death?

When I look around, I increasingly find myself asking whether we have become numb to death. Whether we have become so accustomed to tragedy that what should shock us no longer does.If a society truly values human life, the loss of even one life should matter.

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JAMILA'S MEMO: No trust, then what
June 04, 2026 11:40 (EAT) • 2 weeks ago

JAMILA'S MEMO: No trust, then what

The uproar over the proposed Ebola quarantine facility in Laikipia is perhaps the latest and clearest example of the widening trust deficit between government and the people it governs.

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JAMILA'S MEMO: Siasa bila break
May 28, 2026 11:51 (EAT) • 3 weeks ago

JAMILA'S MEMO: Siasa bila break

Fuel prices go up? Politics. Cost of living crisis? Politics. Public anger? Politics. Transport paralysis? Politics. Every single day there is a rally somewhere. Every weekend there are several. Convoys moving. Microphones screaming. Leaders sweating on top of cars promising a better future....

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JAMILA'S MEMO: Budget numbers vs reality
May 15, 2026 12:10 (EAT) • 1 month ago

JAMILA'S MEMO: Budget numbers vs reality

This week, the Finance Bill 2026 was published, and almost immediately, questions began emerging from the public.

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JAMILA'S MEMO: Don’t lie to children
May 07, 2026 11:58 (EAT) • 1 month ago

JAMILA'S MEMO: Don’t lie to children

Parents were told: take your children to school. No fees? No problem. No uniforms? Still no problem. Government, they said, would handle the rest.Schools are saying they never received any government funding. No commitment. No arrangement. Not even a follow-up call.

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JAMILA'S MEMO: Of misplaced energies and priorities
April 30, 2026 11:56 (EAT) • 1 month ago

JAMILA'S MEMO: Of misplaced energies and priorities

Take a look at our key sectors. Education is under pressure. Healthcare is stretched, and the cost of living continues to weigh heavily on wananchi.So when those in power begin to operate in campaign mode this early, it raises a deeper concern: at what point is the governing going to happen? Because...

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JAMILA'S MEMO: Are we being treated like kondoo again?
April 23, 2026 11:33 (EAT) • 2 months ago

JAMILA'S MEMO: Are we being treated like kondoo again?

Because if arrests are made, resignations follow, cameras roll, statements are issued, and yet investigators still have not submitted a file to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, then what are we looking at?

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JAMILA'S MEMO: Oh zone, my tribe!
April 09, 2026 11:44 (EAT) • 2 months ago

JAMILA'S MEMO: Oh zone, my tribe!

Democracy is supposed to be about choice, allowing wananchi to decide who leads them and not politicians in boardrooms deciding in advance who gets which seat; and not party elites dividing up the country like a chessboard.

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JAMILA'S MEMO: April Fools extended
April 02, 2026 11:48 (EAT) • 2 months ago

JAMILA'S MEMO: April Fools extended

Someone forwarded that to me and it made me think of a few things. The 1st of April is, for many, known as April Fools’ Day; a day for pranks and jokes.

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JAMILA'S MEMO: 33 lives and lies
March 26, 2026 11:33 (EAT) • 2 months ago

JAMILA'S MEMO: 33 lives and lies

And to this moment, we still do not fully know how they got there. Were they unclaimed, undocumented? Were procedures followed? Or were they simply disposed of?

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