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[alchemy ken @AlchemyKen]

@nziokamul1 J

[Timothy Turunga @timothyturunga]

UNTOUCHABLE MEN ALWAYS MEET UNTOUCHABLE POLITICS...
...That evening, they found him at the parking area, hands planted firmly on his hips, flanked by two perfectly disciplined Alsatian hounds. The kind of dogs that don’t bark, don’t blink, and don’t ask questions. Their eyes were locked on the visitors with the professional focus of animals trained not to scare, but to finish. James's posture alone promised violence.

“Who are you, and what brings you to my compound uninvited?” he roared from ten metres away.

“We are journalists"..one of them attempted, bravely and foolishly....... unfortunately that was the wrong answer.

“You have one minute to leave this place, or I let my dogs help you get out!”

They fled abandoning everything in favour of oxygen and life.That was James Mungai. The legend, the menace and the Law.

In his early years, James was anticipated. Children stopped playing when he appeared, Shopkeepers straightened their counters while drunkards sobered up. He was already terrifying. A tough, rough police who patrolled Nakuru on horseback, whip in hand, dispensing justice. Fail to give him way on the road or Commit a traffic offence? You were corrected administratively. Appeals were not encouraged. He was feared because he was the uniform. At his private farm near Nakuru, Uniformed policemen were reassigned from crime prevention to milking his cows, feeding his dogs, and grooming his horses.

They say there existed The Rift Valley Operation Team .. a personal force of over 200 officers, fiercely loyal, answerable only to Mungai. In reality, they were a private army, operated by men who knew consequences were for other people. Mungai’s arrogance respected no hierarchy .

One night, in a move that still sounds fictional, he ordered his men to take over security at Nakuru State House while the President was in residence. The official presidential guard was sidelined, displaced by Mungai’s loyalists. The response was volcanic.

An enraged guard commander later declared that if Mungai’s men ever attempted such a stunt again, they were to be shot on sight. The incident was quietly described in official circles as borderline coup behaviour the sort of phrase governments use when they want to avoid saying, “This man has gone completely mad with power.” And yet, nothing happened to him..

James Mungai had a particular talent for reminding everyone that no matter how high their office, how polished their shoes, or how heavily armed their convoy , fear was democratic. One afternoon, his men flagged down the motorcade of Vice President Daniel arap Moi on a Nakuru road, the way one stops a suspicious matatu. Windows were lowered. Questions were asked. Luggage was inspected. And properly marinating the humiliation by extending the exercise to Moi’s private home in Nakuru.

Shaken Moi drove through darkness to Nyeri to see Central Provincial Commissioner Simeon Nyachae, one of the few people who still spoke to him in complete sentences.

“At this rate, these people will go ahead and kill me,” Moi whispered, Nyachae listened, nodded, and delivered the kind of wisdom ..

“You are in the middle of a bridge,” he said. “Going forward is as risky as going backwards. So why not go forward?”
Moi went forward.

Mungai once impounded the vehicle of the Rift Valley Provincial Commissioner’s wife and detained her driver. In a particularly cinematic stunt, he locked senior army officers from Lanet Barracks in a local police cell, releasing them only when he learned their colleagues were armed and marching on the station.

But perhaps his most elegant insult to authority occurred inside Parliament during a parliamentary inquiry into the murder of legislator JM Kariuki. Before a solemn committee, Mungai walked in wearing his cap, chewing authority like gum.1/2

For best Kenyan History & Investigative stories follow @timothyturunga.I love telling Kenyan Stories

[alchemy ken @AlchemyKen]

@KinyuaMwangi10 @BoardLotSultan @kinyuamwangi10...DM

[alchemy ken @AlchemyKen]

@KinyuaMwangi10 @BoardLotSultan Can you kindly DM..?!
THANKS

[alchemy ken @AlchemyKen]

@ptaahm007 @BoardLotSultan When was this?

[alchemy ken @AlchemyKen]

@Undefinabl @bennetowuonda What book be this?

[sesquipedalian. @JaneIwedike]

@bennetowuonda "the punishment we suffer if we refuse to take an Interest in the the activities of government is to suffer under the government of worst men"

-plato

I cried. 😭

[alchemy ken @AlchemyKen]

@_gak1o @bennetowuonda This is such a philosophical take/view/conclusion

[Hieroglyphics @KiptooWx]

@bennetowuonda It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife…..Pride & Prejudice

[living @gachokiliving01]

@bennetowuonda It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen...

[Kok Adv. 💚☘️ @KokiTabbie]

@bennetowuonda Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy

[alchemy ken @AlchemyKen]

@ghaacliff @bennetowuonda Hehehe....Which book be this.?

[Cliff Ghaa @ghaacliff]

@bennetowuonda "To understand how I, Ishola Alao, became the father of seven and the husband of four, you must first understand the architecture of my home. It is a fortress, built to withstand the winds of envy and the torrential rains of malice."

[WARÚHIÚ @kamauwaruhiu]

The last time I visited banana was in 2012, i had led peace and reconciliation mission of a friend and his then wife ,The guy had given vague details of the reasons for their falling out. When we got to a hotel which credible intelligence had led us to believe the woman had found employment they locked eyes and the woman led out a piercing scream like the one omwami wetangula made when his wife was disciplining him in 2019. Ave always had a run and ask questions later motto ever since the gachie incidence ,I saw him a week later and he told me they had parted ways amicably .He however had a black eye which am sure was not related to the incidence.

[alchemy ken @AlchemyKen]

@Muriuki96058957 @WillyAbuga You spitting facts

[KAHALA @KAHALA123Y]

Bro to bro: Don’t ever think you’re untouchable. Life can humble anyone-sickness, death, a job gone. In the blink of an eye, everything can change. Tables turn. That’s how crazy life gets. Always pray, stay humble, be thankful.

[STUNNER @Cr7Godbrand]

The men you deal with today are not the men from 500 years ago. We are not responsible for actions, systems, or norms from centuries before we were born.

None of you lived in that time, yet you keep dragging up history to justify double standards and avoid accountability in the present. That’s not equality…that’s using the past as leverage.

So when you talk about “independence” or claim men can’t handle successful or independent women, it doesn’t land. We grew up going to school with girls, being taught by female teachers, raised by working mothers, and surrounded by women with careers and ambition. Female success isn’t intimidating or new…it’s normal life.

Stop acting like modern men are threatened by something we’ve seen our entire lives. Most of us don’t have an issue with successful women…we have an issue with excuses, entitlement, and lack of accountability being dressed up as empowerment.

You can’t demand equality while also expecting special treatment. You can’t preach independence while shifting blame and responsibility onto others. Adults are responsible for their own choices, regardless of history.

[alchemy ken @AlchemyKen]

@joanne_wangui @_Ndunge_ Hehe .... Delivery at midnight.... ??? That must have been redflag numre uno .....

[SwiftieLee 🖤 @SwiftieLee1]

I read a quote that said, “You can be the prettiest shade of green, but you’ll never be enough for someone whose favorite color is blue,” and it really stuck with me.

[alchemy ken @AlchemyKen]

@antonietor @MativoMJohn This is very pertinent...this is the question that should be asked....