Laura Atieno Wendo

Gods Beloved Child!!

[Roy T. Bennett @InspiringThinkn]

What's done is done. What's gone is gone. One of life's lessons is always moving on. It’s okay to look back to see how far you’ve come but keep moving forward.
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

“We the People” are the 3 most powerful words of the Constitution of Kenya 2010.

Article 1 vests all Sovereign power in the People of Kenya

[Prof. Alfred Omenya @aomenya]

Kenyans, let's get serious:
6% to NSSF by Jan.
4% to pension.
2.75% to SHIF.
1.5 % to Housing.
35% to PAYE.
Total deductions = 49.25%.
Then it all gets stolen! 🤬

[Central Bank of Kenya @CBKKenya]

The Bank Supervision Annual Report 2023 has been published, and is available at https://t.co/7HrwCxQTGt

[Derenic Byrd @DerenicByrd]

Sonya Massey should be alive today.

[K24TV @K24Tv]

What next for Kenya?

Kasmuel McOure: You cannot ask me what next if I don't have a now. We are inviting the entire nation to rethink what a future looks like. We cannot have the political class hijack our movement.
#NewDawn

[Mugambi Nandi @MugambiNandi]

Unless I am mistaken, Gen Zs want good governance, accountability, leadership with integrity, transparency, prudent use of resources, and rule of law. These can be achieved by gov resigning and having fresh elections. No dialogue needed. No ‘Gen Z leaders’ needed. Just IEBC.

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

You guys cannot convince me that youve not been hiding talent? This is a masterpiece of a poem bana!!!

[Joel Osteen @JoelOsteen]

When you’re running from your giants, you’re running from your destiny. But when you’re running to your giants, to what you know you need to confront, what you need to deal with, you’re running to your purpose.

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

Joint Word:

The Memo, Take, Sense and Kicker wrapped into one

@JamilaMohamed @YvonneOkwara @SamGituku @LinusKaikai

[Hon. Mbithe Mulinge @Mbithe_Mulinge]

Young men and Gen Z women, strive diligently so that your mothers won't have to plead with corrupt and arrogant politicians like this. This photo is the most heartbreaking thing I've seen today.

[dennis ombachi OLY @ombachi13]

We the people have power if we set our differences aside and unite for a good cause.

Done ✅ 🎤
#LetNamwambaWank

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

We, the people of Kenya

[Gabriel Oguda @gabrieloguda]

Here is the withering speech by Kisii Senator Richard Onyonka that could boil my grandmother's yams.

[Sun Tzu @ItsChanzu]

Pastor Ng'ang'a lazima awakumbushe nyinyi ni mafala😂😂😂

[Wakanyoni Nyaga Obat @JanoNyaga]

This gave me goose bumps! Kenyans love hard! One tribe called Kenya! 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪

These are the Kenyans that the Kenyan police are opening fire on? What a shame! How evil of this government #RutoMustGo 🇰🇪✊

[Hamo The Proffesor @HamoProf]

Is this true!!!!!!! @ndegwanjiru

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Deadly protests have gripped Kenya where demonstrators are demanding the removal of new tax hikes.

Here’s a quick look at what’s caused the unrest ⤵️

[Kipkalya Kones @MrKipkalya]

After the post-election violence of 2008, retired Vice Chief of Staff, Lt Gen Humphrey Njoroge, wrote a piece heavily critical of the military high command, stating that all of them should have faced a court martial for dereliction of duty and complicity in instability. According to the celebrated infantry General, a top intellectual who has authored a book, once there was clear breakdown in law and order, the military should have intervened to save lives and properly.

By this time, regional leaders and military Generals across the East African zone, led by Rwandese President @PaulKagame, had also pointed out that the Kenyan military was shirking responsibility by watching Kenyans die at the hands of militias. For them, the problem was two-fold; one, the economic implications of deterioration of order in Kenya, which had the major port and the North Corridor that fed the region, and two, the national security risks in their countries of the region's largest economy fell to militias. In subsequent command councils, the General ranks lay down a threshold for future interventions.

The unwritten rule is that once 200 civilians are killed in confrontations with police in peacetime, the police have lost the technical ability and the command credibility to contain the population. The military intervenes. Often, this threshold also includes the breaching of of symbols of state authority and democracy, like State House and/or Parliament respectively. The military does not come to the streets to fight the people, but as the only credible institution left at that time, which the people would rely on for a possible transition. This is why militaries entering the streets during crisis are universally welcome with flags and flowers.

I have noticed since yesterday that a clever narrative is being run in the country, that paints the anticipated deployment of Kenyan military to the streets as a preparation for a massacre. Obviously, this is being done in the belief that the Gen Z protestors do not understand the military well enough to know the lie. Indeed, I have heard it said that the Githurai Massacre happened last night because "they blocked the military from reaching town". There was no military trying to reach town at that time, and military hardware comes prepared for war and offroad conditions; they don't need a tarmacked road to go somewhere. There is no military hand in the Githurai matter.

It is important for me to say this; the military does not and will not shoot civilians. When they are deployed, you should come out in large numbers with flowers, flags and water to greet them. They will be the first sign that you have defeated the civilian regime and its police. Next, you should keep vigil with them in the streets and remind them that you won't leave..so that you can tempt them to go all the way to State House. Militaries not only frown on shooting unarmed civilians, but when serving in joint task forces with the police, where the official command is the military one, do not allow policemen to kill civilians.

For comfort, let me repeat that the tribal makeup of the Kenyan military is so balanced today that even Ruto knows he can't use them to do his bidding. Kikuyus have had 20 years to shore up their numbers, while the other tribes are so tired of Ruto that their kinsmen in the military will not join the Ruto games. I can declare that if the army is seen on the streets, it will be evidence of the shaky ground on which this regime stands and a victory for the young demonstrators. Now that he has been forced to void the Finance Bill 2024, I don't think he has any stable ground to stand on should the people refuse to budge.