Walubengo Barasa

Executive Director at MiRight

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

When you hear politicians suddenly uniting to tell you who the “enemy” is, pause and ask yourself one question:

Who benefits when citizens are divided and distracted?

Too often, the political class closes ranks not to defend the people, but to defend the system that feeds them. They want Kenyans fighting each other while corruption, impunity, unemployment, and economic injustice continue unchecked.

The moment someone begins questioning the structure of exploitation, the wardens of the prison quickly unite and point at a new “enemy” to keep the prisoners distracted.

Kenyans must stop worshipping political camps and start defending principles. Accountability is not tribal. Justice is not regional. Truth is not partisan.

The real struggle is not between ordinary citizens. The real struggle is between a corrupt system and the people paying the price for it every day.

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

Nearly half of Kenya’s projected FY 2026/2027 budget will go to debt servicing instead of development.

Out of the Ksh 4.82 trillion budget, taxpayers will pay approximately Ksh 2.3 trillion toward debt obligations, including Ksh 1.3 trillion consumed purely by loan interest payments before meaningful development spending even begins.

Under Kenyan law, debt repayment is a “first charge” on national revenue. Creditors are paid first, before hospitals, schools, counties, agriculture, or public services.

At the same time, Kenya continues borrowing heavily to repay maturing loans and cover budget deficits. The public debt has now risen to approximately Ksh 12.4 trillion, while ordinary citizens continue facing unemployment, high taxation, failing services, and rising economic hardship.

Kenyans must ask:
Who borrowed this money?
Were all these loans borrowed procedurally as per the constitution?
Who benefited?
Why should citizens repay debts arising from corruption, secrecy, inflated contracts, and mismanagement?

An odious debt is not a people’s debt. It is a regime debt.

This constitutional and economic battle continues in court.

The matter comes up on 25th June 2026 at the Milimani Law Courts.

Kenyans must remain vigilant. This fight is about economic justice, accountability, and the future of our Republic. #DeniBandia #OdiousDebt #ReKe

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

To those dismissing odious debt as theory, history says otherwise.

Mozambique challenged hidden loans in court. Ecuador audited and repudiated illegitimate debt. Iraq secured massive debt cancellation after Saddam. Cuba rejected colonial debt imposed without consent. South Africa resisted apartheid-era obligations tied to oppression.

Odious debt is not fiction. It is a principle backed by precedent, law, and the sovereign right of people not to finance corruption, repression, and theft.

Kenyans cannot be forced to repay debts they neither approved nor benefited from.

[Somoina Kapeen @SomoinaKapeen]

Drugs are prohibited yet the greatest drug is RELIGION! Opium of the Masses! Amkeni nani!

[Mulinge Muteti @mulinge_muteti_]

The reason why some Kenyans are reluctant when it comes to the revolution is because they've been fed some hope that tomorrow they might get rich and join the oppressor's class. Truth is,they will never. Let's revolt and reorganize the society to favor everyone. It's a class war and the majority oppressed class will win. Prepare.

[Nzioka Muli @nziokamul1]

Mineral exploration in Kiserian, Kajiado County, Kenya.
France is here.

[Ndung'u Wainaina @NdunguWainaina]

Kenya is a Debt colony. We are under severe debt colonialism. We have economic slavery due to debt.

The structural, financial, and political mechanisms of debt have been used to trap us in a permanent state of dependency, extracting wealth and limiting our sovereignty.

[Nzioka Muli @nziokamul1]

@RoyalFamily @Ojayy031 She oversaw the death of over 2 million Kenyans between 1951-1960.
You genocided a generation and looted our land into oblivion.
We remember Elizabeth and her reign of terror, we always shall.

[African @ali_naka]

Unfortunately we have made working for a US or British Media platform the “pinnacle” of Journalism. It’s a tragedy!!

[Nzioka Muli @nziokamul1]

I want the treasonous thugs in government and state to know I have declared war on their corruption and disregard for my sovereignty and dignity, and that am ready to fight for my freedom and liberty.
Homeland Or Death.
#RutoMustGo

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They will teach you that colonialism was wrong.

Past tense.

Was.

A historical wrong that has been acknowledged and overcome and we have all moved on.

They will not teach you that the wealth transferred during colonialism continues to compound in the same institutions and countries that transferred it.

They will not teach you that the borders colonialism drew continue to produce the conflicts colonialism designed.

They will not teach you that the legal structures, the debt instruments, the intellectual property systems, the currency arrangements colonialism's successor institutions built, these are not a new order.

They are colonialism that learned to wear a suit.

Teaching you that colonialism was wrong is safe.

Teaching you that colonialism is ongoing requires a different verb tense and a completely different conclusion.

They teach colonialism in the past tense because the present tense would indict them.

[Dusty Sahara @NoCountryHere]

Vernacular outlets on social media are all extensions of mainstream githeri media degeneracy. They exist to dumb down & keep GoK propaganda in constant circulation.
Wean yourselves off such stale content, find alternative independent voices, they're few, v few, but they're there.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Patrice Lumumba gave his independence speech on June 30, 1960.

He said, in front of the Belgian king:

"We are no longer your monkeys."

He was killed on January 17, 1961.

Less than seven months later.

The CIA was involved. Belgian intelligence was involved. The operation was approved at the highest levels of the Eisenhower administration.

He was replaced by Mobutu, who called himself Mobutu Sese Seko, who renamed the country Zaire, who looted it systematically for thirty-two years with the full support of Western governments who needed a stable pro-Western regime in Central Africa.

Stable meaning: the minerals kept moving. The people stayed poor. The elections didn't happen. The sovereignty was cosmetic.

Now imagine Lumumba had lived.

Imagine the Congo got what Vietnam got:

A liberation government that survived long enough to actually govern.

The counter-history is not fantasy.

It is what was deliberately prevented.

And the prevention has a paper trail.

The documents are declassified.

The names are known.

People see the Congo today and diagnoses African failure.

They are looking at a crime scene and calling it a character flaw.

[Majuu Alone 🇰🇪 @jaokojohnmark]

This is how The people of Nepal Occupied and razed homes and businesses belonging to Rogue politicians. Door to Door kwanza.

I hope we all are seeing the importance of numbers na pia kuenda maandamano na molotovs, viberiti, ?

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

Sudan has gold. Congo has cobalt. Haiti has limestone. Afghanistan has copper. West Papua has crude oil. Every nation suffering from some form of genocide or intense suffering is attractive in the eyes of the western imperial machine of consumer capitalism. 💔💔

[Nzioka Muli @nziokamul1]

We bring in 2.5 trillion.
We spend 4.6 trillion.
We borrow the difference from the IMF and World Bank to cover it.
That's inflation.
And inflation is making you poorer.
Get up off your knees, let's get free.
#RutoMustGo

[Nzioka Muli @nziokamul1]

Patriots at the helm;
Restore sovereignty.
Land redistribution.
Nationalise mining.
Nationalise CBK.
Gold as the treasury reserve.
Recoup stolen funds/ land.
Publicly execute perpe-traitors.
Invest in energy and industrialization.
Support startups.
Irrigation & indigenous seeds.

[The Elephant @theelephantinfo]

Kenya’s crisis isn’t just political—it’s a disconnect between our leaders and the heartbeat of our society. Imported neoliberal models, foreign debt traps, and IMF pressures have sidelined real, people-driven solutions. The result? Rising inequality, broken trust, and a loss of true African agency. In our latest episode, @wmnjoya challenges us: Are our elites truly representing us, or are they shaped by Western systems that ignore our lived realities?
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