Amanda Gicharu ✊🏾🇰🇪

🥁 Drums of Freedom 🇰🇪 • Writer • Filmmaker • Netflix/Realness Episodic Lab Fellow • Serial Eyes Fellow • AFLI/Oxford Uni Tutu Fellow • ex-Google • ex-UN

[Amanda Gicharu ✊🏾🇰🇪 @AmandaGicharu]

Never forget the kind of monster we are dealing with.

We won’t relent!

#RutoMustGo

[LEE @authenttick]

Al Jazeera is leaving no detail behind about President Ruto. Rongai and Githurai murders got out of hand. Gen Z we're up. The Butcher of Sugoi must go home. Share Widely.
#RutoMustGo

[David Maina Ndung'u @DMainaNdungu]

Before Ruto came into office..

✅ A student pursuing medicine in public university was paying ksh.30,000 annually.

☑️ After Mtoto ya maskini came to office, student pursuing medicine in public university is now paying ksh.612,000 annually.

✅ A student pursuing engineering in public university was paying ksh.30K annually.

☑️ After Mtoto ya maskini came to office, student pursuing engineering in public university is now paying ksh.336,000 annually.

✅ A student pursuing law in public university was paying ksh.30K annually.

☑️ After Mtoto ya maskini came to office, student pursuing law in public university is now paying ksh.275,000 annually.

It's not that the government has no money to subsidize university education. Far from it..

❌ Ruto would rather host 10,000 private security guards at State House and bribe each with 5K, thats a total of ksh.50M inside two hours.

❌ Ruto would rather host 10,000 pastors at State House and bribe each with 5K, thats a total of ksh.50M inside two hours.

❌ Ruto would rather host 5,000 shekhs at State House and bribe each with 10K, thats a total of ksh.50M inside two hours.

❌ Ruto would rather host 10,000 chiefs at State House and bribe each with 10K, thats a total of ksh.100M inside two hours.

❌ Ruto would rather host 10,000 Nyumba kumi elders at State House and bribe each with 5K, thats a total of ksh.50M inside two hours.

❌ Ruto's State House is consuming over ksh.20B annually, the same State House was consuming ksh.4B four years ago. Ksh.20B is enough to subsidize public university education in 6 months.

❌ The less we talk about looting in Ecitizen, SHA, Housing levy, NSSF etc, the better

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#RutoMustGo

[Amanda Gicharu ✊🏾🇰🇪 @AmandaGicharu]

Couldn't agree more. Everyday Kenyans backed fresh leadership, not the same old compromises in a new coat of paint.

Credibility isn't transferable, but it will be diluted if you let bad actors hide behind you.

[ONJOLO KENYA🇰🇪 @onjolo_kenya]

Open Letter to Edwin “Wakenya” Sifuna: We See What’s Happening

Sifuna, we need to talk…

Not about your politics. Not about your platform. About the company you’re starting to keep.

There’s a pattern forming, and we Kenyans are watching.

People who spent years switching sides, dodging accountability, and rebranding every election cycle are suddenly finding their way into your circle. Not because they believe in what you stand for but because proximity to you is useful cover.

Let’s call it what it is: integrity laundering.

When someone with a track record of scandal, betrayal, or convenient amnesia starts showing up next to you, smiling for the cameras, nodding along at your rallies, they’re not endorsing your vision. They’re borrowing your credibility.

And here’s the thing: credibility doesn’t transfer. It gets diluted.

Every recycled politician who gets a seat at your table is a signal to the people who trusted you first. It says: maybe principles are negotiable after all. Maybe this was never different from the rest.

We didn’t back you because you were the safest bet. We backed you because you weren’t supposed to need the same old faces to survive politically.

So here’s our ask, plainly:

Choose your circle like your legacy depends on it, because it does.

The people who stood with you when it cost them something are worth more than the ones showing up now that it’s convenient.

Kenya doesn’t need another leader surrounded by yesterday’s compromises wearing today’s rhetoric.

We’re watching who you let in. Choose wisely.

[Amanda Gicharu ✊🏾🇰🇪 @AmandaGicharu]

💯 💯 💯 “You cannot want Singapore’s results while opposing Singapore’s methods.”

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

There are many Africans who cite Singapore as proof that colonialism cannot explain African poverty. What they consistently fail to mention is how Singapore actually built itself. Because Singapore did not develop through deregulation and laissez faire capitalism. It developed through aggressive state intervention, strategic nationalisation, public housing programmes that housed over 80% of its population, a government that planned its economy with surgical interventionism and refused to leave development to the invisible hand of the market.

So it is genuinely amusing to watch people invoke Singapore in the same breath as they argue against land reform, against nationalisation, against any meaningful state intervention in the economy, while promoting the very neoliberal policies that Singapore deliberately rejected on its path to development.

You cannot want Singapore’s results while opposing Singapore’s methods. That is a contradiction. You are attempting to achieve the outcomes of socialist politics with laissez faire capitalist policies, and calling anyone who points out the inconsistency an ideologue.

[Amanda Gicharu ✊🏾🇰🇪 @AmandaGicharu]

Spot on. Political clout isn't an exemption from accountability. Stand on principle every single time. May the record reflect!

[Writer | Climber | Mother of Dragons | Kas Ka Gan @Wordslinger__]

Look, I don't care how many votes Jumwa eventually brings on board. My objection is for the record. May the record reflect. Hiyo tu.

{And no, her case and that of Babu Owino are not the same - and yes, I have critiqued Babu previously - but they are not the same}.

[Amanda Gicharu ✊🏾🇰🇪 @AmandaGicharu]

Exactly this! Different election, same recycled leaders. Rebranding career politicians doesn't equal a fresh start. Time to break the cycle and demand actual integrity.

[FantaBariidi 𓈒 𓇼 @MeranSays]

Every election cycle the "opposition" of the day sings change change oh a new dawn....change of guard. Meanwhile it's the same fat honchos who've defected months prior to the election and have been in government forever. Career politicians playing musical chairs.

[Amanda Gicharu ✊🏾🇰🇪 @AmandaGicharu]

Since when is demanding leaders with integrity considered naive? We deserve better than settling for corrupt thieves just because they claim to bring political clout.

Linda Mwananchi must reject corruption and uphold higher standards if we want a transformed Kenya. Values first!

[Amanda Gicharu ✊🏾🇰🇪 @AmandaGicharu]

The timeline is up in arms: Linda Mwananchi must address the backlash over Aisha Jumwa. A movement for ordinary citizens can't ignore red flags or work with someone who carries a corrupt track record if we want a better Kenya. Time for leadership to speak up!

[Jomba @mwabilimwagodi2]

Between now and 10th August 2027 we are going to witness an assault on Constitutional institutions and attempts at disruptive legislation by President Ruto and his allies. The idea is to antagonise Kenyans, stoke ANARCHY, push the country to the brink to cancel the election.

[Wanjira Wanjiru🇰🇪🇵🇸 @wanjirunjira]

Yani after we've paid taxes through the nose, 71% of all revenue goes to debt servicing (IMF & World bank, China, France, AfDB )only 29% is left for essential services and development! Itabidi Hao creditors wajidishi.We won't pay odious debts! #RutoMustGo

[ephraimnjegafan @ephraimnjegafan]

As a country, you know you are in a lot of trouble when the president's obese chief economic adviser thinks that a balanced diet is a luxury. Protein consumption is one of the most basic indicators of economic development.

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

A new Bill seeks to stop the IEBC from livestreaming election results from polling stations. That means the first point of public verification is gone. The people will be told to wait quietly for the final tally and simply accept it.

Why fear transparency unless you intend to benefit from opacity?

Free and fair elections do not happen behind closed doors. Every dictatorship begins by weakening oversight, silencing scrutiny, and asking citizens to "trust the process."

If you cannot win under full public view, you have no business changing the rules to hide the game.

[Politician's Hangman KE @kiarie_KNK]

That resounding defeat for the enemy yesterday has put a battery pack on the back of Kenyans , we now have belief, we have hope , you can even feel that the air is lighter , now we know we WILL do it next year

[Pipita @mcpipita]

Last time I was this happy MPs were scampering from parliament in ambulances

[Dr Rowena @footsoldierRow]

Add Ol Kalau to your road trips destination we be supporting those businesses and buying their produce. They have fought for their land!

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

The biggest lesson Ruto should pick from the Ol Kalou by-election is that the will of the people will always prevail.

You started losing the moment you thought you were bigger than the people. The moment you believed no one could question how you’re spending our taxes. The moment you surrounded yourself with yes men instead of listening to Kenyans. The moment you thought appointments and political games would divide people who are united by one thing: they’re tired.

The bribes didn’t work. The intimidation didn’t work. The goons didn’t work. Nothing worked😂😂

The moment you see Kenyans escorting ballot boxes to the tallying centre, they are simply telling you, “Come on, we’re not fools.”

No amount of money, threats or state power can defeat a people who have already made up their minds. WANTAM

[Salim M Ishmael, M.D 🇰🇪 @salimishmael_]

Maybe Rutó is the one underestimating us come 2027. Hizo kura tutalinda vilivyo

[James @MrJamesKe]

This country belongs to its citizens, not a handful of politicians who believe money, power, and intimidation can override the voice of the people. The will of Kenyans must always come first!

[monka @MsMacharia]

The way we talk about Kenyan elected representatives like they are some geniuses while majority of them are just crooks who, without using taxes to bribe the electorate and the Police Goon Service to intimidate them, have zero other cards up their sleeves.

[Salim M Ishmael, M.D 🇰🇪 @salimishmael_]

This is the man that the whole country is entrusting to give a free and fair election

[Anyamah Wa Anyamah @Wa_Anyamah]

Ol Kalou had to be smart.
When the armed goons started raiding polling centres, voters of Kihoto Polling Station decided to act fast and secure their votes by erecting barriers, and this tree was one of it.

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