Hello, I'm Tony O'Rourke, Consultant for Strategic Alliances within Argo and I'm here today with Charlie Rappel who's co-founder as well as Sales and Marketing Director of QDOS. Charlie is also Associate Theatre Editor of Learned Publishing, which is the Journal of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers and that journals published together with the Society of Psychology Publishing. QDOS is a web-based service that helps researchers and their institutions and funders to maximise the visibility and impact of their published articles and research. QDOS provides a platform for assembling and creating information to help search filtering, for sharing information to drive discovery and for measuring and monitoring the effects of these activities. In today's interview, we'll be discussing the need for services like QDOS as well as their impact for both early stage researchers as well as experience researchers in countries such as Japan, Korea and China. Charlie will be sharing the importance and relevance of QDOS in today's publishing industry and the advantages of using it for researchers. She'll be sharing how QDOS has had an impact for researchers globally and some of the highlights of QDOS over the last few years. The interview, this interview, is a continuation of an interview series called Connecting Scholarly Publishing Experts and Researchers. So Charlie, hello. Hello. Can you share the initial idea behind QDOS? Yeah, there were a number of different themes that seemed to come together at the time when we set up QDOS. My co-founders and I had all been working in the scholarly communications industry and tackling a lot of the same issues, much more research being published and the challenges for researchers themselves in making sure that their works were finding an audience, but also as readers trying to digest growing amounts of literature and keep up with the important developments in your space. We were also at a time when metrics were really taking off in new ways. So the digital publishing mechanisms had enabled metrics to be calculated at article level and there was a growing interest, not only in article of a metric such as downloads, but also the growth in alternative metrics that looked at the attention being paid to work in social media and in government policy and Wikipedia and so on. So there were lots of different aspects of change in our community that inspired us to think about how could we help researchers perform better against these metrics, ensure that their work was finding an audience and ultimately that it was having the impact required to help them in their constant pursuit for funding. And I guess that was the final aspect of it, that funding has become such a more competitive space over the last few years. There's been less funding, more people looking to get at it. So we were trying to help people ensure that they and their work were performing in a way that would help them stand out and help them gain more funding. So QDOS is free for the research community? Yeah, absolutely. So what are the primary benefits for researchers to use QDOS? Lots really. I mean, as you say, it's free and it doesn't take long. It's a very easy service to use because a big part of what we as specialists in marketing and product development wanted to do was make a service that would be very simple, a workflow that really cut out a lot of different aspects and focused on what would really help improve the performance of your work. And it really does work. There was an independent study earlier this year of the first couple of years worth of data that we'd build up that showed that when researchers use QDOS to explain and share their work, they can achieve something in the order of 23 percent more downloads for their work. And of course, downloads are at the heart of any other kind of impact. You know, before you can have citations, people need to read your work before there can be online discussion and other kinds of impact. People need to read it. So growing readership is the main focus of what we're trying to help people do. OK. So what are the prerequisites in for a researcher before they start using QDOS? Very little, really. One aspect of the system is that it's currently based around CrossRef DOIs. Now, five thousand publishers assign CrossRef DOIs. Many of the most of the outlets in which researchers will be publishing will be assigning a CrossRef DOI. So that's the only real prerequisite. And for most people, that's not going to be a problem. And as soon as there's a CrossRef DOI, you can find your work in our system and you can take our three simple steps to increasing its readership. So, Charlie, can you give me some examples of where QDOS has made a difference? Yeah, absolutely. So in addition to the study that I mentioned that shows on an aggregate level, people's use of QDOS is correlated to 23 percent higher downloads. We get some fabulous stories of actually what that's meant for individuals. Couple that spring to mind. One is a geological researcher who had not published very much. So I think this was her second paper that had come out of her PhD. And she had recently published it. She explained it on QDOS in fantastic, simple plain language explanation that even helped a layperson like me understand the nature of her research. And then she posted a tweet out. In fact, she posted three or four tweets over a series of time. She's now achieved over a thousand views of her work on QDOS. And this has really excited her. She's tweeted since then, saying what a great insight that's given her into the fact that there are people out there reading her work, even her at the early stage of her career. And my favorite comment that she said was that this is getting her excited about her research again, because she can see there's this wider audience rather than feeling a little bit alone in a vacuum with it. And another really interesting story was somebody who was using a feature on QDOS that enables you to add links to related works that in many cases have come into existence after publication. And so there's no other way in which they're connected to your publication. In his case, he was trawling the web, looking for a couple of things that he wanted to link in that way and discovered something, somebody else using his data in a really interesting way, building on his work that he hadn't known about previously. So the process of explaining and sharing his work by QDOS actually caused him to come across a new collaborator who he's then gone on and done some more work with. So there's all sorts of really interesting stories like that. And people are very excited in telling us about their successes and about their experiences with the service. So there's been some pretty exciting benefits for researchers. What about the stakeholders like universities, journal, publishers, funders? Yeah, I mean, the wonder of what we're doing is that by encouraging researchers to do their explaining and sharing it through a central system, we're then building up a massive data set that can then be interrogated and used by institutions, publishers, funders, societies, anybody else with an interest in the success of that work and who can then support the researcher and collaborate through QDOS with the researcher in building up the impact of that work. We work with 70 publishers and they're doing all sorts of exciting things in terms of tapping into these plain language explanations, reusing those on publisher websites to increase discoverability there, acknowledging and interacting with the researchers' communications around their work and helping those to reach a broader audience. So it's a wonderful way to make sure that everybody's efforts in pursuit of this common goal are all managed through a central system so you can build on each of those efforts. And where publishers and institutions might separately have been doing press releases and things before. Now they can all work together and see whose effects are gaining traction. They can also, at that publisher and institutional level, look at the aggregate level of across all the authors or researchers that I'm affiliated with, which channels are proving most effective, who's having most impact and start to understand a lot more in an evidence based way about how best to communicate around research which can shape their own activities and ensure that they save time and do things in a more effective way, but also critically shape the guidance that they give to researchers. And of course they can do that kind of analysis at a regional level as well so they can look at what's working better for our authors in China or what's working better for our authors in Russia and provide different kinds of guidance based on evidence rather than the world that existed previously where people were experimenting with different kinds of communications but didn't really have the detailed insight or the way of joining the dots between communications activities and publications metrics. So it was very difficult previously to know what was actually working. QDOS solves that problem for everybody. So where has QDOS established itself? Which regions has it established itself? And we're both marketing professionals. I'd be interested to know how you've reached those target audiences. Around the world very much. So we now have over 100,000 researchers using the service and I think about 23% of those are in Asia, for example, 8% in India, 5% in China. So there's a lot of audiences around the world who recognise this common need to build the impact of their work. We've mostly reached them in the first instance through our publisher partnerships. So I mentioned we're working with 70 publishers and they are inviting all of their authors at the point of publication or indeed often inviting authors of backfile content to come and explain and share that work. But we're also now starting to run our own campaigns directly to researchers. Now that we have good evidence for why the system is worth using and a little bit more brand visibility, we can start to engage directly with researchers. We're running a fantastic campaign at the moment called Mobilise Research, which is designed to encourage researchers to embrace this idea of broadening the audience, encouraging them to support the idea that their work deserves that broader audience. And encouraging them to share via QDOS or even just to tweet using that hashtag Mobilise Research. And that's already proven to be very successful at increasing awareness and uptake of our service. So we'll be doing a lot more of that work directly with researchers as well as continuing our work through publishers and institutions. And so I'm interested to find out more about this broader audience. How has QDOS helped with global visibility researchers and their work? I think there's a lot of different ways in which we're trying to help with that challenge. One is that in encouraging people to explain their work in plain language, that just by itself is making that work more accessible in a linguistic sense to more people. So whether it's people outside your specialist area of work or whether it's speakers of other languages, you're helping simplify your explanation of the work so that more people can understand it. And of course, those plain language explanations also lend themselves more readily to auto translation so that if anybody does find them and still can't quite understand them, it's much easier to put that into an online search engine and get a meaningful result than if you were to put perhaps the original abstract in, which might be too dense and technical to really work well in a translation mode. But of course, these plain language explanations also in using a different language are also just actually making that work more discoverable through search engines and things because now a different range of search terms will find that work than the original abstract, which will again have discipline specific language that may not be the language that everybody is using to search for it. Thank you. The last 10 years in publishing has been really interesting and we've almost seen this kind of parallel industry being created, publishing services industry being created. I'm interested to know from your perspective, how long do you think it's going to be before researchers start to embrace resources such as Kudos? I think when you look back exactly as you say over the last few years, researchers have been really quick to embrace a lot of aspects of these new developments. So they were very quick to start using online journals, for example, very quick to embrace reference linking and things like that. In certain communities, you already see quite a lot of uptake. I think probably actually all kids, for example, the the identifier for researchers that helps disambiguate between authors with the same name. That has obviously taken off, particularly in some countries, where the issue of people having the same name is more common. So I think there are already pockets of widespread uptake. I think it will be perhaps only five years before everybody's using orchid. Everybody's aware of Altmetric and looking at that. Everybody's trying to take an active approach to increasing the impact of their work with a toolkit like Kudos. Is there a geographic bias that you see more take up in some countries compared to others? I think based on our data, it would be hard to make that judgment because obviously the nature of how we've rolled the service out means that we would obviously have a bias in some countries where we've worked with more publishers in the UK and US. So obviously we've got higher levels of sign up among authors in those countries. I think the fact that our usage outside of those countries, like, for example, Asia, which has just overtaken the US as in terms of the numbers of people signed up for Kudos, I think that demonstrates that there is enormous appetite for what we're doing and we just need to work more closely and approach more directly people in those countries to tell them about what we're doing. And once they learn about us, they typically do sign up quite quickly. I mean, Kudos is still a relatively young product, young service, I should say. And what have been the highlights of Kudos since you launched? You're right. I mean, we've really only been around for two, two and a half years. And exactly. And in that time, so much has happened. A massive highlight for us actually was about this time last year, we won the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing, which was a huge testimonial, a huge endorsement of the need for something like Kudos and that we had got the model right in terms of what we were doing and that it was making a difference. So that that was a fantastic sense of endorsement by our peers and people who really are qualified to judge whether what we're doing is worthwhile. But there have been lots of other exciting moments along the way. A little bit before that, we'd won some government funding from the UK government, which was again a real, really difficult process, actually, to go through. And there was no guarantee at all that we would be successful. So that was a real highlight when we were successful in that respect. And then more recently, actually, one of the big highlights for this year for me has been a piece about us in nature when we were added to the Nature Toolbox, which looks at tools that are available to help researchers of all types. And they took a very close and rigorous look at what we were doing and the ways in which it was helping and spoke to lots of different people and some really great supportive comments came from the people that they spoke to. It was very exciting to be talked about in such a prestigious publication. That's fantastic. Well, what about research funders and research institutions? How is Kudos being used by that sector to track the impact of the research that they're funding? Obviously, they're very interested in watching very closely what we're doing. We've begun working with institutions already. We've just actually in the last few weeks signed an agreement with JISC, which manages the procurement of content mostly, but also increasingly services like ours in the UK. And that is exciting in that it again shows that there is an institutional recognition of what we're doing and the need for what we're doing. And so we're looking forward to rolling out our institutional services more widely. And as part of the process of gaining that JISC agreement, it encouraged us to totally rethink the way we were pricing our service for institutions around the world as well. So actually, although that's a new case specific deal, the benefits of that will be felt by institutions around the world. And on the funding side as well, we have a lot of conversations on the go. A lot of people watching very closely what we're doing and very interested everybody benefits if you can centralise and manage and surface in a central way, researchers, communications about their work. There is so much to be gained from that intelligence. And that's a data set that just hasn't existed previously. Everybody can benefit from that. For funders, it's really interesting to just be able to see which of the people you fund are actually taking active steps to do undertake outreach around their work and what effect is that having and how does that influence the metrics and so on. So that's really important intelligence. And we do see a lot of interest from funders and universities. Very interesting. What new features do you see coming up in Kudos over the coming months and years? We have such a full roadmap for development, as you can imagine. It would take us through many years, but lots of really exciting things there. I mean, it ranges from some quite high end things like taking the product or the idea of the product that we developed for publishers and institutions and starting to repurpose that for societies, for example, who can then start to use the intelligence in Kudos to help them with everything from kind of supporting current members to actually seeking out potential new members. We're also working with people in the corporate sector who are very interested to track how research that might refer to their products is being discussed in the literature. So there's a lot of kind of big, big developments like that. But all the time we're undertaking kind of incremental improvements of how we do things. And a big theme for us in that respect at the moment is what we're calling actionable insights, which is taking us from a quite report based system at the moment. Where all the intelligence is there, you can download it, you can pivot it a little bit and manipulate it a little bit. But ultimately, you've got to then join the dots in terms of what that means for you. We're starting to do some of that thinking for people and heading towards being able to give people what we call action cards so that you could log into the site and it will present you with a series of five or six things that with a couple of clicks you can act on those. So we're telling you what this intelligence means for you and what you need to do with it to improve the engagement with your work or the impact of your work. And that will be across all the different customer groups that we serve, that kind of approach to boiling down that intelligence to make it even quicker, even easier for people to take advantage of it and act on it rather than requiring people to have to figure out what to do with it for themselves. In a relatively short period of time, Kudos in less than three years you say Kudos has established itself as a cool brand within the scholarly communication industry. What are your future plans? We've certainly achieved a lot in a small amount of time with that. But we're not oblivious to the fact that there's a lot more to do. So I think one thing I'd really like to see us doing is extending the reach of that brand in the research community. I think we're very well known in the publishing world and increasingly so in the institutional and funder and society world. But the research world is obviously much bigger and there's many more individuals that we would like to be able to connect with. And I think particularly we'd like to be able to expand our connection with researchers in Asia and in some of the other countries that have less developed research infrastructures and where people are struggling much harder to achieve impact with their work. They're doing great research, but they're struggling to gain the visibility that that deserves on the international stage. And I see that we could have a really big role in helping them to take ownership of that, have simple tools to help them work their way through simple processes to increase the visibility of their work and therefore gain the recognition that they deserve. Excellent. So my last question you'll be pleased to hear. In today's environment is a real drive amongst publishers and journals to promote research through a variety of different platforms. But researchers themselves are often reluctant or reticent to use or to adopt these new platforms and trends. What's Kudos doing to come to the rescue of these researchers? That was certainly something we were really conscious of from the very beginnings of our discussions around this toolkit was it's got to be easy and it's got to show people that their efforts are worthwhile and it's got there's got to be hardly any distance between those two things. They need to move quickly from undertaking an action to seeing the results of that action. And that really drove so many aspects of the development of the product and the interfaces and the data sources that we sought for it and the processes that we developed within it. And I think that has been the secret to a lot of our success so far and the speed with which we've been able to gain traction is because we brought together data that previously was really time consuming for people to go and look for it, even to know that it existed and to pull it all together and try and make sense of. And we now have a really simple graph that just shows you this is the point at which you sent out a social media posting about your work and this is what happened to the readership of your work or to the discussion of your work online or to the citations around your work and taking out a lot of the noise, taking out a lot of the effort involved creating a really simple workflow so that people could quickly in five minutes explain their work, get them the trackable link for sharing it and then come back only hours later and see the results that they'd achieved and all the mechanisms we've wrapped around that in terms of emailing them and encouraging them to be able to see that. I think that's what's made it work for us and that's the way in which we're different to a lot of the other systems that people are being asked to use which don't have such a clear benefit for researchers or even if there is a clear benefit, they haven't been able to demonstrate it so demonstrably, that's been a focus from us from the outset and I think that's why so many people have adopted the service that we've created. Charlie Repel, thank you very much. Tony O'Rourke, thank you very much. Well, thank you to the Inago Academy for asking me some questions today about QDOS. I've really enjoyed thinking through some of the aspects of what we've discussed and I really hope that we can soon help a lot of the researchers and authors who are in Japan, South Korea, China and many of the other countries who are seeking to increase the impact of your work. So in summary, if you're a researcher based in any country but particularly markets, big research economies such as China or Japan, South Korea, and you're interested in giving your research the best possible chance of global visibility, then I would urge you to look at QDOS as a service for yourself and for your organisation.


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Welcome to Monday news number 45, the October Halloween edition from a very scary, nah it's not scary. So this month we released our Beyond Plastic video series, which is basically three videos. The first one is all about understanding bioplastics, by degradable plastics, what does it all mean. The second one we're going to show you how to make a bowl that you can actually eat and the third video Janne is going to show you how to build the machine to make the bowl. So it goes already quite in-depth but I would either way recommend to watch the first video to just understand the basic principles of bioplastic by degradable plastics and also just to have a glimpse at the future of plastic. But before we're going to talk about the future let's go back to the past a little bit, one year ago because that's when we developed pressure plastic version four and meanwhile doing this we realized well we also learned a lot about how to structure teams, how do you bring people together, how do they sleep, how do they eat. It's almost like setting up our own little community. So it's been a great research for Project Kamp, so we also released a video about this this month where you can see back how we did it one year ago. It's kind of messy but we learned a lot so in a bit more backwards into the past in 1974 Enzo Mari shared his blueprints on how to build his furniture that he designed online so people could just build it themselves. Which just kind of seems as one of the first gestures of open source where you just share your information. So this guy seen around the world is one of the early starters of open source, respect. But he passed away this month he became 88 years old and another old man from 93 David Attenborough released a documentary this month Alive on our Planet which is the same man that made all these beautiful Planet Earth documentaries and he's been doing that his whole life capturing wildlife and exploring the animal kingdom and putting that on video so other people can see that. But he's also seen a lot of changes throughout his life going the wild slowly getting extinct species are dying and humans taking over. So this documentary is kind of about that showing the things that changed in his lifetime and it really ends with that like realizing how much influence mankind has on this planet and how much we've changed and how much we are still changing and the complexity behind it. And stuff like this really makes you think like wow that's a lot of big problems in the world like you need a lot of force to fix those you must need like a massive army to do that. Talking about an army we've actually been working on that for a while now and we're going to release it on the 4th of December. I'm not going to talk about it too much but it basically tries to do that to bring all these people and all these solutions together to actually try to make the change in the world we want to see to really come together as one army. So make sure to visit onearmy.ert not much there now. 4th of December it will be but subscribe to our mailing list to stay updated because that's also going to be our main source of communication no social media. For this we've actually also been looking into our Patreon supporters and how to include this in here and we've been kind of lazy with Patreon I would say we share our updates but we don't really give anything back besides all our drawings that are open source anyway. But we're looking into what could we give our supporters like do you guys want a bag, t-shirt, necklace, sunglasses, no stuff, maybe a live stream. I was going to let us know in the comments below could be this injection molded t-shirt from this lego guy. I don't know I just wanted to show this picture thought it was kind of cool they actually also built our injection machine from lego but yeah talking about lego here's some duplo it's a stop motion video made by Johanna Plastik where he shows how he makes his lamp from recycled bottle caps and he sells the lamps on the bazaar you can also buy the machine on the bazaar so it's good to see machines being built and this month we also saw pressure plastic in iceland building a shredder pro one of the early builds make sure to share feedback if you have and these guys actually work very structured it's super nice what they do actually beyond this guy helped out in version three with pressure plastic I'll make sure to not put attention on your hair but you're sorry but they have this nice inventory of molds and products they make and they also made this product which is kind of boring but I really like it it's for the supermarket where you split the products on this conveyor belt and this boring thing always made from new plastic could easily be recycled plastic and I always get really excited by boring products like this so yeah nice I always end up talking a lot about plastic so let's talk about ceramics a few years ago I made my own mox with lique and I would make the mox and she would make the drawings on it so people could order them custom we made about a hundred I made a video about how these things are being made but at some point I got interested in plastic so we stopped doing that but now I found one on the second hand website where you could buy one for 20 euro so if you want a collector's item link is below yeah let's just go back to plastic so this month the team went to Italy to do a workshop with children here's a little clip of Mattia live showing what's going on so this month we also came to Milan to do a little exhibition and workshop and together with Adrian Caro and Jan we come over here we did a little exhibition with doing workshop with kids and we're having a lot of fun to show people how to recycle plastic and how to transform plastic waste into much more valuable material and finally there's one very important message from the precious plastic team because they have to move again hi Katja and this is Joseph from the precious plastic team and as you might probably know we are developing open source machines techniques and digital tools to enable everyone to start recycling plastic so over the years we've been growing growing quite a lot to over 400 workspaces worldwide using these machines and methodologies and with the team here we are managing those digital tools we are doing international projects and we are also further developing and improving the machines and processes we share so how did we even get to this point Joseph will give a very quick recap so it all started with Dave welcome to a new precious plastic video this workspace in a small town in the Netherlands where him and just a handful of volunteers developed the first couple versions of precious plastic but as the project grew and developed this caught the attention of the city of Eindhoven and they ended up donating an old warehouse the city center for us to develop precious plastic version four and that's when over a hundred people came from around the world to help out and at the end of that year they decided to invite us to stay because they really liked what we brought for the community but after just a few short months this year they discovered some toxic paint in the building and we had to leave the premises luckily one of our colleagues Jan he had a workspace in France that he invited us to come continue our work however we are quickly outgoing this space we really need to find a lot more long-term solution for the precious plastic headquarters over the next few years ideally a space where we can run the sheet press and boil water at the same time yeah so would you also be able to tell a little bit more about the requirements for what we need sure so primarily we need a workspace to continue our research and development work as well as kind of be the base camp for our international projects and this works workspace should be around 500 to a thousand square meters it should have three phase power so we can run the machines some natural light an office space and we have a full list of requirements you can find below the location should ideally have good transportation connections so connected to the rail network in europe close to an international airport to get to our international projects around the world we are primarily looking at the Netherlands because that's where we're based legally right now in portugal so we could stay connected to project camp but honestly we are pretty open for other spaces around europe so we're open to other alternatives as well yeah so in case you don't already know here are some benefits of having precious plastic around first of all we will provide a functional space where people can bring their plastic waste and see firsthand how it's being transformed into a new product and with this plastic we do our research and development but also the international projects so that should then also generate some economic activity and we also do like to make workshops and workshops and events with the people from the local community to demonstrate educate and inspire about better solutions for our plastic waste and our team is a very passionate team of creative people who really like sharing their culture and their vision to work towards a better future and everywhere we go we really try to build up good relationships with the local surrounding like buying as local as possible and really supporting and engaging with the local initiatives and people so here's where you come in if you know of an organization or a space that'd be willing to host us please share the briefing document that you can find below with them and encourage them to get in touch with us thanks so 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We have no room for neutrality when it comes to service delivery to the people of Nairobi. Everybody in Nairobi agreed that Sanko was doing a bad job and he had to go but not your senator. So for me as ifuna and I have told even the team that we are campaigning with here that in the event that Polikapi Gaze and Professor Philip Kalloki do not perform for the people of Nairobi, the impeachment motion will be drawn in my office mimi as the senator of Nairobi because that's what people are electing you to do. We are supposed to oversight the county to ensure that people get the services they get. So for him I wish him well and you have seen what has happened including all the lies that he has come to tell us about whether he went to school or not. I mean it is a question of credibility. It's a question of credibility. At this particular point in time it really doesn't matter whether I went to school or not. It is that you are lying to us. If you can be able to tell us that you graduated me, I graduated from the University of Nairobi. I know my classmates, I married one of them for good measure. So you cannot come and if you challenge me I'll just show you my wife. We were in class together, she remembers me. What's up guys and a very warm welcome to SPM Buzz. My name is Miskifinchi and today I am honored to sit with a staff. Now before I introduce my guest for today, please make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel because we are on the road to 100k subscribers. And it's only just 1000 subscribers before we get there. So make sure you hit that subscribe button. Now my guest for today is a lawyer and an aspirant of the Nairobi senator. And his name is Edwin Osifuna. He is also the secretary general for ODM. Hi, how are you? It's the first time anyone has ever called me a star. I didn't know that. You are? Really? Oh, that is a criteria. Then I guess I am one. Asante sana for coming. To have this conversation. Asante sana for having us. Now, Osifuna, you have been the talk of town lately. Let's start with, why should the people of Nairobi put you in Aga as the senator? That's a very interesting question. There is a constitution we passed in 2010. It has three criteria for determining who should be a leader. So it is personal integrity, it is competence to do the job that you are going to do and its suitability.  Is this person competent to do the job that they are looking for? We have a history here in Nairobi of actually having people who are not competent to do the job. So if we just set those three criteria and we follow them in August, then you will not hear people crying that we have forgotten about chapter 6 in leadership. So I actually believe that I possess personal integrity. So if you look at Google, you can see the case here in Chif. Now, there are people who are not convinced that they are going to do the job. But they are not. So it is competence. I am the SGO of ODM. This is my fifth year as a SGO of ODM. People have a reference point to see whether actually you can be able to do a job at a certain capacity. ODM is a very large organization.  Am I suitable for the job? You know you can be competent and you have personal integrity but not suitable. It just doesn't suit you as a person. You don't have the necessary skills to be able to do the job. So if you are not expressive enough, you can't speak, you are very competent. But there are certain skills that you require to do a particular job. So mimi na mini, those three things work in Yuliza. If I am measured against those three things, there is actually nobody who can do the job of Nairobi senator better than myself. Okay. What have you done different from the last time that you've died and now? Well, I think the thing that has happened is that I have now had the opportunity to demonstrate my capacity to actually lead in a position such as the SGO of ODM. This is one of the most challenging roles I think I will ever get. Really? As SGO of ODM, I am telling you, it is very, very tough. Because this is a party that is in the hearts of people. The expectations are very high. The standards are extremely high. People love this party and they want to see the party succeeding. So everything that has contributed to the party not doing as well in previous elections, people want you to fix those things. It is not easy. And we are very passionate supporters who will not shy away from telling you if you are going the wrong direction. So we have had very serious challenges in the past four years. We have lost many members of parliament. We lost our brother in Kibira, Honorable Koth. It was one of the most challenging by-elections. We lost our brother from Sabweni, the late Suleyman Dori. We also had a by-elections. They were very challenging by-elections. But one of the things that I always remind members of ODM is that when we lose, there is a constant figure leading the troops in those battles. It is Edwin Sifuna, the SGO of the party. So from Kibira to Mbakasi South, which we lost, to Kenya, which we lost, to Msambweni, which was a very difficult loss to take to Matungu, which was a proper war. It was not an election, I mean it was a proper war. Until we finished in Boncharie with a win, which was also a very serious battle, I can assure you that win or lose, the constant factor has been Sifuna at the front leading the troops of the party. And I am very proud of what we have done. When people say ODM is the most organized political party in the country right now, we take credit because we have continued together with the other leadership of the party to making the party as great as it is right now. So, yeah, I think what on Nairobi wami pata opportunity kukuna in a certain role. Nawa na unavile you articulate your issues, the way you debate. And you see there is no other job in the Senate. It is for you to be able to represent your county, to be able to push for the further location or more location of resources to explain to people why Nairobi is different from, say, Kericho. If we want more money than Kericho, why? You have counties that have one line of streetlights, the entire county, like we have come from in Mungoma. There is just one line of streetlights. And then you have Nairobi with a power bill of half the county allocation of Buzia. So you explain to the country and the Senate that Nairobi is unique. We need this, we need this, we have a badging urban population, we need to house them, we have slums. The counties that don't have slums, they have never seen what a slum looks like. So we need somebody to be able to explain our uniqueness in a way that will result in more location for resources for the county and then be able to follow up with the execution, with the teams at the county government to ensure that every single penny is accounted for. Okay, that's good to hear now. Looking at what the current Senator Honrabu Sakhaja has been doing, I'm sure you have evaluated his work. There are projects you probably might wish to continue with and there are other things that you feel he really didn't work on it as it was supposed to. What are some of those projects you'd wish to come to? Actually, you know he doesn't have any projects because Senators, ordinarily we don't have a budget. Yes, you don't have a budget to build anything. But what you're supposed to do is to be the protector of your county in the Senate and you go after every single penny you can get for the sake of your county. One of the things that people know me for is that I am never neutral on anything. Okay. Ya. You know, kuna watu wadabenda kujifanya hati waw niwa Kristosana waw nasibama katikati wuna jwa, aju kama e ni indege ama ni munyama. Yes. Yuna jwa waw zing kwa kanisa, wewa ni popo e ni indege ama munyama. Yes. As leaders, people want you to take a position. One of the greatest criticism in our current Senator is that he is a person who likes to please everybody. Okay. You know leadership requires you at the moments of great controversy to take a position. So, for instance, his greatest criticism, I can tell you, when there was an opportunity for Nairobi to be allocated more money, he is one of those senators who was singing in Kenya, Kwanzao, what will Kericho get? Every single county gets to elect a senator, you know? Ya. So, you cannot be the senator of Nairobi and also the senator of Mandera and the senator of Kericho and the senator of Bungoma. You call yourself super senator.  Ya. I am just a senator of Nairobi. If the people of Kericho elect somebody who cannot push the agenda of Kericho, that's their own problem. Ya. So, there will never be a day when the issue of, say, resource allocation is on the table and then Sifuna says, wait, let's think about what the people of Wajia will get. Wajia have their senator. Ya. I am the senator of Nairobi. Number two, the greatest crisis in Nairobi. Ya. You know leadership at the point of crisis, not when things are noisy and we are all just chilling. No. It is when things are sick, the greatest controversy in Nairobi over the past five years has been the performance of a governor who was elected in 2017, Mike Sonko. Ya. So when the question of his impeachment came to the floor, ya, your senator said he is not going to cast a vote. He is going to be neutral. There is no room for neutrality when it comes to service delivery to the people of Nairobi. Ya. Everybody in Nairobi agreed that Sonko was doing a bad job and he had to go, but not your senator. So for me, as ifuna, and I've told even the team that we're campaigning with here that in the event that Policapigade and Professor Philip Kaloki do not perform for the people of Nairobi, the impeachment motion will be drawn in my office, mimi, as a senator of Nairobi, because that's what people are electing you to do. You're supposed to oversight the county to ensure that people get the services they get. So for him, I wish him well. Ya. And you have seen what has happened including all the lies and he has come to tell us about whether he went to school or not. Ya know, I mean it is a question of credibility. Ya know, it's a question of credibility. At this particular point in time, it really doesn't matter whether he went to school or not. It is that you are lying to us, ya know. If you can be able to tell us that you graduated B, I graduated from the University of Nairobi, I know my classmates, I married one of them for good measure. Ya know, so you cannot come and if you challenge me, I'll just show you my wife. Ya. We were in class together, she remembers me. Ya. So this entire thing is not about saying oh, you need a degree to be a leader, no. We are just saying that if you know the requirements for you to run for a specific office at X and Y, can you please send yourself to be able to achieve those qualifications, then come and run. Even Sanko with all his problems, he went to school. He actually went to St. Paul's, a university we've all had about you can visit the university, he has photographs of his graduation. But when you start giving us stories about a university, some remote university in Uganda that nobody has ever heard about, you are doing what we don't want to see in this country, we want credible leaders, people will just tell the truth. Ya. You as a lawyer, how hard is it to actually prove that you went to school? It's not hard, it is very easy. It's very easy to actually prove that you attended a course. Because everywhere you go, everything you do, you leave a footprint. There is a digital footprint now, for instance, of me being the SG of ODIM. All these things we have been talking to you about, the bi-election in Musambueno was way back in 2019, before COVID. All these things we have done, the first bi-election actually in Kuala County was in a ward called Kinondo. In 2018, I think, just a few months of April of 2018, after I had just been appointed the Secretary General of ODIM, I can show you photos, I was there. If you talk to the people of Kinondo, they'll tell you yes, they know the food and they saw me here. I'm telling you, we remember the names of our caretakers at the university, the people who cater us. I mean, sure. If you went to a place, there's going to be a footprint of your being there. So this culture, we used to go to school to acquire knowledge, not to acquire qualifications to run for elections. Ya. So it is something we must condemn. I am hoping that Nairobians and Kenyans generally, you don't need the court to stop somebody from running.  Una angali atu jina, una najo ueni wa wash-wash, na tunami jua. Una angusya. Una angali atu ui, una sema wu mutuni mukora na tu danganana degree na tunadi degree na tunadiwa ana. Una muangusya. Mwacha kwa angali atu, ODIM should bar so and so, so you need the court should stop so and so, IBC should remove him. No. Ni ni kama wa Kenya. Your primary responsibility is to protect the inch kutukana na iwa kora. Aki kuja kwa balot, wacha kwa kwa balot. Mwaha kia pichi ya ke clear sana mumwone, na una muangusya apu. Mwacha kwa atu ueni wa krendi mubana. Apart from now credibility, Jisipuna, I would like to know how important is it to have a degree to vibe for a certain position in government? Actually, you know, there is this debate where people say leadership does not require this. There is a very different school of thought about ability to lead. You can lead even as a person who has never gone to school and you see, elective position is not the only way to lead. There are leaders even in church, there are leaders in our communities, people who hold more influence even than me as a sector agenda of ODIM, but it doesn't mean you have to be elected. But what we are saying is there are certain roles, like now you are going to be the CEO of a county that is receiving here close to 40 billion shillings. You need to manage it. At the very basic level you have to have something called aptitude. Can you read the document and understand what the document is saying? That's all we are asking. We are not saying that you are a philosopher. You don't need a PhD. Just basic aptitude. Are you able to follow basic financing for instance, muntua kikuja me umeleta sii wako ama sii wakaunti mwenye niwa finance, ye ni professor of finance, aki kuleze e lempango enyanataka, uta elewa kitu anasemba. You can be an expert on everything. Then you surround yourself with people who can help you do the job. But at the very minimum you should be able to comprehend what these people of yours are telling you. So if you don't, you can imagine if you are a governor and you are unable to read. That's what I'm telling you. So the debate is where should we put this threshold? If that is the debate, I am happy to have it. But we cannot say let's not have a threshold. That education doesn't matter in leadership. If we are saying muntua me fika primary school aneza suma, tukubali ane ba sii kwe apu. Na kila mtu aishimu, kila mtu ane primary school. Sii wende kunuwa certificate ya primary, apana. Kama ita seme kana ni secondary, ama wa semeni university, bas. Wa e kei yo bas. And it is only actually for currently as a low standard, it's only for governors. These members of parliament they don't need a degree. Many of them are not degree holders many of them have done a fantastic job. But look at what we have been socialized and how it's been brought up. We have been told education is the greatest equalizer.  No. I didn't know that I was even going to go into politics when I was in primary school. You go to school to be able to acquire knowledge, to expand your horizons and your possibilities. With that basic degree, that basic knowledge, actually the world is at your disposal. You can then decide this is not something I want to do. There are classmates of mine who are doing law with us. But these days they run queries. Ya. Ya. If they are making more money than us, don't laugh. They are making more money than us who decided to pursue the legal profession. So it just opens your and every parent I don't know if you are a parent. No, not yet. Ya. I am a parent. Yes. I want my daughter to go to school to be able to acquire knowledge so that whatever she decides to do in future, she can become anything she wants to become. But at the very minimum, give her that basic education. It will help her. Ya. Talking about leadership skills, now we've had artists, comedians, people in the art industry come into politics. Ya. Now I would like to hear your thoughts. Is it an area that you actually advise them to venture into? You see, politics is available for everyone. It is not that there is a specific profession that we have to, it's the pool from which we get politicians, no. It is your ability to comprehend the issues of the day, the issues that face your people, your ability to articulate those issues in a manner that will result in a solution to those problems. Ya. So you could come from any particular background. You could be a farmer, you could be a host like yourself, you could be a musician, you could be any form of artist. The challenge is this, wunaeza elewa assignment, can you understand the assignment of being a member of a county assembly and MCA? Do you understand what it is, what their roles are? How uniquely able are you, uniquely gifted you are to be able to actually do the job? Then, once you are able to do this, na watu waku wana ku you, wunaeza people understand, people think Kenyans are fools. Ya. Kenyans know every single one of us who's buying. They know what we can do and what we cannot do. Kuna wana wana jwa wana jipende geza kwa positions en ya watu wanaeza. Kuna wana. So, put yourself in that position. It doesn't matter your background, understand the assignment, I think people will vote for you. Ya. Do you feel like having a great following on social media translates to the words on ground? It does because you know social media gives you an opportunity to speak to people. And all people want is to know what you are about. Like, wuna wana fiki reyanga aje what are some of the ideas he has.  Who are you as an individual? And I'm telling people that in fact, the character of the person running is more important than even the knowledge that is in his head. A promise is only as good as a person making that promise. Kama mutu tunimuongo. Ya ni, wana juli kana unimutunimuongo.  He said he'd just get to know his story. So he texted me if he had any ideas on the way to go to prison he wouldn't even show food. He'd go to jail. But he didn't want to. My friend. What you do is to tell you what happened in the SD in 8 years. So you need all the outlets. You need to appear on TV. You need to appear on shows social media to have a presence.   We saw it even in Samboeni, kuna bribery is on do uchafuza siyasa, mutu munya kuna pesa na kuja na mwaga pesa square election, ama naika wana kuna wana wato meji uchanyu mai amiti karibuna polling station, ana kudunga so unenda wana vote, wana waza fiyu chayaka na fiyu chayaka, mtoto wako juya so. So, waki sema politics is dirty, kuna iso vitu watu panya zene, they actually illegal it is in crimes.  I am going through this entire campaign without mentioning any of my opponents who sent it. I don't talk about them because I know I am not running against anybody, I am just running against the problems of the people of Nairobi. See that this guy is the one who is proposing the best solutions for our problems of housing, our problems of infrastructure, our problems of unemployment and high cost of living, they will vote for you. You don't need to attack whoever else is running. I don't know, I have 14 opponents. I don't know many of them, I don't even know. So, people choose to make politics dirty, but we can also make an informed decision to just make clean politics. But what I know is that you also have to be very tough. You have to be made of, like... I mean, ya, because you have all that skin. Because people will always come at you. Like, for the past five years, if you look at my social media, people have always come after me, you know? Because it is the nature of things. People will attack you.   Then they come again. So, it is the way it is. Yes. Okay, now, Sifuna, I have to ask you. We have Anthony Alwotchi. Alwotchi. Alwotchi, yes. Alwotchi, yes. Of course, Kevin Kiyoko. Hati, as we all know him. The Matare Paliamentali political seat. I would want to know, why do you feel Anthony is a better aspirant than Kevin Kiyoko? Actually, I have never said that anyone is better than the other. We are in a coalition of political parties and there is a very basic reality that in fact you have 26 political parties in Azimio. If each one of those political parties is running a candidate, I wish I had my phone, I wanted to show you some numbers. If all those political parties are running a candidate, they all support Raila Odinga. So, they are all drawing also some votes from his support and you have one UDA candidate. It is common sense that you will all lose. It is common sense. And if I had my phone, I would show you the number of constituencies we have actually mapped out that if we don't speak to those people, to be able to support one of them, we are going to have a minority in the Senate and we are going to have a minority in the National Assembly. It is common sense. It is not something that is personal, you know. So, you can run your mouth as much as you want, but I have been in this position, I have seen it. I have told you this is my 50 years, this is your podium. I have had candidates come to my office in some of these previous by-elections and you speak to them and you tell them we can see that you probably have a better chance than so and so because of this and this and we have run separate polls and these are the issues that are rising. Please kindly support this guy. When no politician will ever accept that they actually don't have support, you know. We have seen this even in 2017. We had then the NASA coalition, two candidates for Langata member of parliament. One of them was the ODM candidate who was way stronger and then we had a wiper candidate and then Nixon Corir of Jubilee one with 980 votes in Langata. Yet the ODM candidate got maybe 35,000 votes. The wiper candidate had 5000 votes which if they had just agreed to support the ODM candidate today Nixon Corir would not be the member of parliament for Langata. So it is my responsibility as the secretary general of the party to make sure that my political party wins as many seats as possible and you have foresight as a leader because we have seen this thing before. Me, I don't cry tears. You know, we are very pragmatic people. I just show you the numbers. I show you what you are up against. If you want to insult me, you will insult me but me, I cannot be blackmailed.  Which supporters do you have? And me, even if something is going to cost me I am a student of Rila. Rila lost votes in 2013 because he stood to defend the Mount Forest which we are now all enjoying because it's a water tower that supplies all of us with water.  I am already in the water. So what we want is people to understand that in the absence of a concerted effort to solidify and consolidate our votes all those candidates running under us will lose. It's that simple. But is there a sit down that has been done between ODIM and Chubilu? A dozen. I can remember almost a thousand meetings with these characters. They don't listen. So we have gotten to a place where we are saying you do you, you do what you want to do. But for us as a party and as a coalition that knows we need numbers in parliament we are going to go forward with the strongest candidate in each of those constituencies. By the way, just the day before we came to Madare we had stepped down our candidate, ODIM candidate in Mbakasi North. Yes, a lady who's way stronger than this Waena in Madare. Way stronger. But we stepped her down because we understand that if we do not consolidate that vote the UDA candidate will win in Mbakasi North. And you see, we only have less than a month. All this truth will emerge. It is just basic arithmetic. It is just basic common sense. You have four candidates under Azimiu one candidate in UDA. You will split your vote this person at a pitekatikati. Yeah. Is that simple? So he's still going to be in the ballot? We don't care. Sisi, we are operating from the assumption that we have one candidate in Madare and it's Antonio Luch. Yeah. Atuna time ya kube besit. What? Eh, unali ali upangulu nadani. Eh, akuna ya wakati? Is it even stepped down? It's okay. It's okay. Sisi, the decision was already communicated to the membership of Jubilee and it was done by the Jubilee people. It was not me. Eh? So he just came after me for club. Oh, but he said he was actually not told about it and he would have thought I am telling you it was the Jubilee chair man in Nairobi who made that announcement. Me only thank him. But he came after me for clout because if he attacks the Jubilee county chair nobody knows him. See, I'm not after likes. So I'm not after Sifuna. Yeah. Eh? Me clout chasing. Is it even stepped down? Wasababu. Sini, muna muitanga mototuwa? Oh mama. Mototuwa daya? Idio? Mimili kwa mototuwa. Mototuwa angusu kumoja liyandika kwa gari manifesto yake liyandika kwa gari enjiraniyangu. Uhum. Liyandika manifesto yake yote na musumari. Eh? Wali uliza weyumototuwa apoloji. Sunenda kwa babayake. Eh? Oh, that's what you meant. Sidi yo. Sini muna muitanga mototuwa dayana. Mimili tenda ni uliza dayana kwa nii. Kwa Zabuia lii alikuja kasema atini mihungwa Sivi 6 million.  Why was he attacking me? Eh? So ni kasema mii ni me shamsa meya Eh? It's that simple. All right. He said he has been, someone approached him to give him 50 million for him to sell. Ya ni kama kuna motuwa kuna 50 million mahali ati aniza jukuwa peba ati umutu kichuwa kini mahali. Afa nii ni? Ya nii ni? Apu aniza jukuwa miyambili 200 shillings nii mahi hand kachif. Lii baki naiyo pesa ingile, wazabuia machosi. Alafuni milipiesa alo nii makamoja niu liyaki. Aguna gidwingi nii agumpatia Ala? Okay, stawa. We will wait and see how that unfolds. So?  The fifth. Ya, wajakwaia the fifth. The presidential aspirant. You know, his manifesto is quite interesting. And he says we are going to plant weed in Kenya so that we can pay the bill that we have. Do you think that's achievable? Well, you know, the biggest tragedy is first of all as a young person. Somebody who understands where the world is when it comes to the potential of hemp as a product. You know, all the science that has been done on the value of medicinal marijuana. My big regret is that this debate is being had or spearheaded by the wrong people. You know, societies change very slowly. They are very serious traditional notions against marijuana. And we don't need that debate being spearheaded by someone who reinforces the traditional you know, prejudices against marijuana. Where we mamiako ake kwa mbiya wuyo mototwa jirani anabutanga bangi. Enakwa ngani. You see, there is a mental image. There is a mental image of the person who smokes bang.  And those people are the same in their minds. So when you want an advocate or someone to explain that there is a difference between marijuana that gets you high and the hemp that can be used to produce even clothes or the cannabinoids that can actually be used to treat cancer and to reduce pain in chronic illnesses, you don't need somebody who looks like how your mother thinks that person who smokes bang looks. That's what I'm saying. So there is a space for that discussion. Yeah, the commercial aspect. Yes. But you see, the way he is even, I don't know if it's the way he's selling it, but the way it's being understood is that watu watakwa na pewa bangiku. And that's not what he has said, but he's allowing this permit that it is about smoking bang left, right and center. Yes. So may I wish that there would be a positive and proper conversation. Even the places that weed has been legalized, it has been through explaining to the public the benefits, the data, the science behind it. It's not something that you just joke around or throw around. So I am hoping that that conversation will be had at some point with some level of seriousness. I wish him well, may I don't have a problem with him. So let everybody's manifesto be you know, be looked at if Kenyans think that we can run this economy on weed and steak venom, let them vote. But if you know this office of president is not it's not also a joke. We can have a few giggles and laughs, but at the end of the day, taking the life of 50 million of us and putting it in the hands of someone, you need that someone to be someone who's fairly serious, somebody who has the experience, somebody who makes sense to you, somebody who has well thought out ideas. So when you look at the manifesto of Raila Odinga and you can just oppose it with any other manifesto and compare. Somebody who's talking about returning this country to manufacturing, they think that we used to see when we were kids that they used to be caught on growing here in places like Nyanza and that there's an entire supply chain by the time on a vahi jacket serious and well thought out policies. So we don't begrudge anyone for coming up with their manifesto. We just say allow us to talk about hours and let Kenyans make their decision. And he also said he was to become president on the 8th of August. He says that he's going to make his solo the capital city and if you are to get this and become the Nairobi senator then do you think what are your thoughts about that? Well you know it's one thing to say for me it's very escapist to just transfer your capital city instead of solving the real problems that medieval city. If you are talking about the problem of congestion Nairobi has a potential to still grow as much as it can. It is questions about our land tenure system that makes prime property to end up in the hands of private individuals who then don't use it for public good. We have a problem of abalzing urban population they need housing. We have a plan for instance to upgrade the old estates. We have a plan to upgrade the old estates so that they can come up to Kibira there is a place called Woodley in Kibira. Yes, yes. We have a plan to build a 3 bedroom in almost half an acre of land. Yes. So the plan is you can remove that family there for a period of time or a kemahali then that one half acre will just be up to 150 units and the land will be on the ground floor and the land will be on the ground floor while the land will be on the ground floor. Then you free up more land and then you do it. Other cities have done it. So it is about sustainability of our city making sure we have enough water supply making sure we have good services for our people you actually don't need to move the capital and even if you move the capital you are just transferring the problem you will just move there. What we need is serious planning in people who can look at problems critically and offer solutions. Yes, not just here in Tuhame. Yes, yes. Okay, so... Ukundiyo kwe tu by the way you know like where we kia mbiwa sasa wuhame kwen wuhame Kenya Yes. Next we need to have Misha to Kenya to implement it. Because this is our country this is our city if there are issues in this city or in our country it is upon us to solve those issues. Yeah. Okay, let's mention kidongo on the Azimiyo's Honrabu Railawdinga Manifesto Pacha mi Tumba. You know that really brought a lot of reactions where by the time mi Tumba tundue to Tengeneze our textile industry. That just proves to you how first propaganda travels. That's it. So people... We say that a lie travels faster than the truth. Yeah. Do you know that Raila in fact did not say that? Yes. He never said that. I was at that launch. I was at that launch. Uh huh. Yeah. He never said he's going to ban mi Tumba. Uh huh. It is William Ruto who said he's going to ban mi Tumba and I will play for you those clips. He did not mention the word mi Tumba. He mentioned the word mi Tumba. He did not say he's going to ban mi Tumba. Alisema he would like this country to go back to a place where we also manufacture things for ourselves. Okay. Because there is an entire value chain like I was explaining to you there is a cotton farmer, there are the generis, there are the workers who work in those factories and the others. Uh huh. And then there's a finished product, there are the shops. You look at many of these mamazia. They like to... Like Kenyans generally like to wear kitenges to weddings, nini. Where do they get those materials? You know? Most of them want to go to Uganda or to a place ngini. If we had that material for us and we are saying it there's potential for us to have that. And then he said the people selling Tumba now will be given first priority to market Kenyan things. So we were mimi na endaga toisa ngini kuna vituze wezi pata kwa duka ya kwaida like when my daughter was born nili ambiwa kuna kitina itua wanzi. Na juh wanzi wewe? Eh, wanzi. Kutapuji agu kutana na yo. Wanzi is there. Kutapu lota kwa mu zazi. Nii, jua. So, yo wanzi atofanya nini wezi konvins wafiyangu anu nuiu kitu kwa nuka. Anasimaza umtumba ndi upo. Alafu umtui anu growing yarakasa anu. So, kitu mibayi this week ay umtushi next week. Anu outcubing. So, akuna ajiwe investor tita umbili kwa kitu eni umtuta. So, unenda unanda tofta wanzi za so-so. Yes. Sidio? So, uki enda toi market konfano utakuta umtua na uza umtumba, by the way piawa na kwa nga nangu umpia po kandozime Yes. Tukweli. Hey. And they give you the choice. So, what Baba is saying can we have those umpia be our original Kenyan products so that you as a seller if the umtumba moves more than the Kenyan product is fine. You just reduce your stock of Kenyan. Yeah. Yeah, but please let us not frown upon things that are made in Kenya to support our own industries and to be able to take this come to the next level. Yeah. I mean I know we are past this already because Ruto has already you know suffered on a deputy but I would like to know what are your thoughts about him choosing a shagwa instead of kundiki? I think they say birds of a feather float together but you only want to mukonatabi asem ngeraisu kuskizana. Yes. Yani atasisi we need to manju liza which interview questions are this then your professor kundiki anezahanguka alafuri gadi apite kuna ona. So, this is it today gali atutu dazeba ay, ii chaba ii kuna baneno. The criteria for leadership in UDA appears to be something totally different from what we know because what we have told people is that the history of a leader is important. Yes. The history of a leader is important his character is important. So, when you're asking somebody to tell you what he was doing when the rest of the country was fighting for these freedoms that we are talking about ununa kama ii chanelienu times amoia unge kuna fani zivi. Kulekua na station moja. KBC. KBC na funguliwa na funguliwa watu genakulala. Ununa. Yes. Sasa ni ambi do you know that to get this freedom to record these things like this and to broadcast people died for you to be able to do this and the people who are killing those people trying to stop this movement are the same ones now coming to tell you that they want you to give them leadership positions. Rigati rashago was a DO in the 90s he was helping the Moistates to round up people and to send them to detention. Yo lo kazi kwa na fanya. Yes. Wilia Muluto was running YK92 kazi yake li kwa kubraib votas yo siya sachafu eki unasema. Walu kwa na print pesa uko na kina jirongo wana kuji kuga uko votas wa wa wasa ide kano. So those are the characters you are dealing with. So me, me personally niki angaliyo ticket mi na oma tumungu tadiwa wakensya sa zingini watu nasema owa na piga kura tiku panish mutuflani. Yes. Kutu na piga kura ni usifuna nde nyumbani. Aguna nyumbani mutua na nda. Siya ta 2017 wali sumwa na tumara ila bondo. Walu wali tumara ila bondo wana kuja status wana mkuta meka na uru. Yes. So don't vote at the out of anger or spite to panish somebody or to send them home. Please vote for somebody who is going to better your life because of the policies and the character you know him. Yes. He has a history of if you have ever made a promise to you and have broken that promise I have no right making another promise to you without accounting for that broken promises. Yes. So that pair of rigadi and ruto I think is the worst ticket of the four and he is the only one by the way who refused to pick a woman candidate even wajakoya was decent enough to do the right thing because we also need to demonstrate that there is no office that is too high for women in this country.  Now I would also like to know as we wind up why Mata Karua why is she fit for that post of a deputy president? Yes because of who she is. Okay.  Okay. You know look at her history her credibility people know what she is about she takes a position and she defends her truth that is what you want you need conviction in public office you know not people who will just fall willy-nilly on anything you know. So she has a very strong character she has very strong liberation credentials during the second liberation of course she has fought for these things that we are talking about this is our ability to just sit here and chat and for you to be able to broadcast. We don't want a government that dictates every single day what you do what you eat, how you wake up lini, how you make money your government like this one now has never understood that you can actually make money from what you are doing here. But the moment you start making money they will send you an invoice for tax. So you want a government that understands that the role of government is to be able to create an atmosphere a facilitative atmosphere make it easy for you young people to be able to afford your equipment here to make air time you know and data accessible for everyone first speed internet if we didn't have 4G and 5G in Kenya these things were not possible in just 20 years when I was joining university you couldn't view a video so you need a government that sees far and is able to appreciate the potential of technology and what young people can be able to do with that technology not a government that does not help you in any way but immediately you help yourself and start making some money they knock on your door for tax okay is there a policy that you cannot wait to look into when you get to parliament? no no no by the way let me tell you mimi na kwa mbeni melewa assignment I have understood the assignment ok tmba ikenya and you see the good thing with being SGO of ODM is you get the privilege to go everywhere in this country the campaigns take you everywhere people want solutions out of the story mingi people want solutions wanata ka chakule ru di chini beya chakule ru di chini kaki mepana okipewa 1000 iwi inge kwa supermarket nivi tunga puneza no no mili aya watu enye hawa na kazi wanata ka gavai wa tafti e kazi na lazima vijana welewa e kazi na tokanga wa api how do you create one job wana wana how do you raise money for the government na peya gato example kukue tukulu kwa na company na ito mumias mumias used to support an entire town ya ni ilu kwa town muzima ila julikana kazi ya apani sukhari they were business they were business people they were restaurants they were bars they were schools they were sports facilities it was the whole shebang then you shut down that one company and you see like mumias when it was still profitable it was the largest taxpayer one company the largest taxpayer in western kenya was mumias shuga right now one of the largest taxpayers in kenya is safariko so there is a group kinarigati telling you they will split up safariko malafuwa gawi mahaslas and there's another group there is a team telling you we need if we can be able in the next 10 years to just create another safariko just one mozimi ambe watu wi tu mingi how many jobs that safariko crew support from the CEO to the guys who do empesa down there how many people are in the supply chain value chain quite a lot all right sifuna asante sana for this moment we do you're very busy but you've had the chance to talk to us we're so grateful asante now no, we have no time we're gonna let you go all right guys that was Eddie sifuna the ODM secretary general And also, the Nairobi senator aspirant. Thank you so much for watching. Make sure you leave a comment down below on how you found this conversation. What do you want to tell us? What do you want to tell senator in coming, senator Edwin Tipona? That was it from SPM Buzz. My name is Miskitinji. Until next time, keep it SPM Buzz.


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What's up everybody? JC here for jaskiescasebrakes.com. We just filled up 2019-20, Panini current right off basketball. It is a three box break random teams number one and Again, I'm gonna show you guys the item description page. As you can see, this is number two It's already been posted to the website of breaking number one right now and again 30 total spots Everybody gets a random team in the NBA, of course chase to Kobe autos on Jon Marant, Kabooms and much more So again, this is a three box break. There are 16 boxes total in the break on the case So we're gonna see which three we choose here Throw a little dice roll or something So let's roll the dice first and randomize because we're names of teams four and a two six times. Good luck one two three four and six Matthew down to Tim Pelicans at the top down to the T wools after six times roll to six, right? Yeah Matthew the pelican Nancy with the jazz Matthew the Rockets Nancy with the Kings we're still with the Wizards Nancy with the heat Renee with the Ruggizies chat with the Pacers Russell the Warriors Renee with the Knicks Jeff with the Raptors Joe with the Spurs Brian with the Clips Ron with the Thunder Zach G with the Blazers Jeff at the Bugs Gary press with the Horn and Zach Paul with the Nets Jeff of the Magic Nancy with the Bulls Zach Paul with the 76ers Brian with the cow Zach with the Lakers Matthew the Nuggets Ron with the Mavericks Kenton with the Suns Rick with the Celtics Renee with the Pistons Nancy with the Hawks and Tim with the T wools Go up in this case for now You guys can see it and again I'll give you guys a quick 30 second trade when it looks like Russell wants to trade the Golden State Warriors potentially You know no trade activity no trade talk, then I'm just gonna close it quickly All right, and then here's a crime royale case guys All right, Russell. I'm just gonna close it man. All right guys It means you can see I just opened up the case on the cam there's 16 total boxes So one through eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen We're just gonna randomize generate three numbers and See which three numbers are generated from one through sixteen And then we'll just grab them at random as we do for prison breaks So the generator number really quick first one is nine So it'd be one through eight nine right up here And let's get another box as this is a three box break Correct. Yeah, three box break another number Nine again. No, we just did that. Let's do it again two one two Right here and let's turn it one more box number One All right, these three here will be for the break the rest of them in the back will be for more random teams breaks All right, here you go. Good luck. Hello Cameron Johnson rookie and malice bridges All right, oh Paula and a young it's up to the combo relic and then we got a goga 3375 Indiana Pacers going to Chad next one Jackson Hayes rookie and Jason Tatum and this is a lords of the court five out of ten Luka Donchis die cut Dallas Mavericks went around you got yandere hunter relic night to the round table Lana Hawks And Quendari weather school to 49. All right last box guys. Good luck after this, I think we're switching over to person retail and then Take a quick break to eat some food to refuel and then I'm gonna end the night off with some jumbo Pikachu number eight and mixer number eight That'll be it for us guys And we back tomorrow and again, like I said, not many Not many Bowman breaks as much as today tomorrow only a couple RJ Barrett number 299 and Oh, look at that guys a little Zion Williamson rookie What is that royalty?  I don't know what these sell for but it's awesome and Pelican's going to Matthew very nice Dylan winner and we have a redemption. I believe Zion is a redemption in this too Wow, we have a Zion autograph already. Let's take a look guys. Good luck crown autographs rookies red card number 34 No, it's Tyler hero Miami heats Nancy with that one. There you go. I don't know what rookies red is but There you go And there you go guys not a bad three boxer here crown Royale Basketball round in teams number one again number two's in the store halfway there a little break tomorrow Appreciate you guys. Jasper's case breaks.com