My bro locked in
When Kemmy Banda joined the U.S. Embassy in February 1992, the whole team was about 15 to 20 people. Today it is hundreds, and he has been here for every step of that growth. A Warehouse Worker in our General Services Office, Kemmy looks after everything from appliances to furniture across the Mission. After more than 34 years, he says the biggest challenge is still handling customers well: “You have to be straight, explain to the client, then understand what is needed.”
He has also helped host high-level U.S. delegations, and he credits one thing for making even VIP visits work: “When you have good communication and when you find out exactly what needed to be done, you achieve your goals.” His hope for what comes next is simple: “My hope is just to work, finish on a good note and retire.”
All November, we are celebrating our Locally Employed Staff, the Zambian professionals behind every Embassy program. Who has been the steady hand at your workplace? Tag them and say thank you. 👇
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Alwan Hassan, a member of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, spoke about the availability of Nigeria’s 112 emergency number, which was immediately put to the test.
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Rubio: "Ultimately our job is to execute on the president's orders ... in the end, the decision is the president's"
I think PG’s obsession with storage units is tied to trauma for not being as fly as the chocolate city 😭😭
DC gets the transplants. PG gets their belongings
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Same as Frederick County & they’re also about to generate close to $215m in <10yrs from the Quantum campus. PG’s broke ass has a moratorium on data centers but not on storage units 😭😭😭
JUST IN: Memphis Mayor reveals SpaceX data center taxes more than doubled to $54 million, after $25 million last year made it Shelby County’s second largest taxpayer
Paul Young was asked about Elon Musk’s claim that data centers have Memphis booming:
Q: “Recently, just speaking on the revenues the data centers are creating for Memphis. Elon Musk recently tweeted that Memphis is 'booming' because of the data centers. He said that hotels and restaurants are full and called, tax revenue in Memphis tremendous right now. Do you just have any thoughts on that?”
YOUNG: “Well, we’ve talked a lot about the financial aspects of the project. I think that as we talk about data centers in our city, we want to talk about it in a balanced way. Of course there’s an economic side. We want to make sure that we are articulating what protections and guardrails we’re putting in place for the environmental sides that, people are concerned about, the quality of life, noise, traffic, all of those aspects."
"But, there there is tax revenue. I think this year it was $54,000,000 in taxes that have been generated. And I know last year when they generated about $25,000,000 in tax revenue, it was the second largest tax paying property in Shelby County. I don’t know where $54,000,000 puts it, but it is significant taxes."
"And so as we look at, the tax revenue, we also wanna look at how do we ensure that there are proper protections. That’s what this ninety day executive order has been about, and, it’s the conversation that we’ll continue to have with the community.”
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It is far too rare a thing to send a working person to the halls of power, so I’m bringing all of you back home in Montana along for the ride ✊
