There is no Kenyan middle class, just paycheck-to-paycheck survivors. We are a paycheck or an illness away from poverty. Wear the Kenyan flag at #OccupyStanchart. No one will arrest you for having the flag as part of your running kit. A harmless act of resistance against tyranny.
Are Kenyans aware that Mp nyikal has told kimani ichung'wah this and exposed parliament? He has exposed what has been happening there and why courts have won regularly .🚨 Gideon moi millie odhiambo
NTV doing the Lord's work again! Let's make this video go viral! The whole world must know who Ruto and Raila are! We will never forget our fallen heroes! #NaneNane
James Otieno and his son Denzel
Omondi had a shared belief: The hope for a brighter future.
His son was abducted. Tortured. His body had bruises on his knees and at the back of his head and that he died from drowning. Denzel was thrown into the water while unconscious. #RutoMustGo
What brought Kenya to this point was a desecration of ethics and values in society.
It has become normal to bribe for top civil service positions, churches valuing money from corrupt individuals more than society, old men in national and county public service boards demanding sex in exchange for simple things like internship, unscrupulous businessmen purchasing tenders and payment for genuine work done made impossible without 10/20% kickback.
Professionalism has been thrown out of the window and what matters is your last name, who you know and how much you can part with. So we have a law as important as Social Health Insurance being drafted with theft in mind.
Our country has become so vain that if you are normal, you sound insane. You are maligned for being normal. For walking the righteous path.
But eventually a people cannot live always purchasing belonging, education, existence, jobs, businesses and human rights from lords of impunity.
There is a time enough becomes enough. A time when all that matters should be that you profess the Kenyan anthem and carry the flag, want to do right by everyone. That we can be our brothers and sisters’ minders. Kind and Compassionate. Competent and Confident in all aspects of public and private work.
And our individual pursuits don’t become a zero-sum game where your success is only possible when I fail. This is the new order we must invite in our homes, organizations and country.
That time is now!
Kenyan Philosopher Says Gen-Z Protestors Went Hunting For a Rabbit, And Caught a Buffalo
I am having this conversation with a good Kenyan man, a deep thinker, and he tells me, "President Ruto's govt, tax, and corruption were the target of the recent Gen Z protests, but like most protests, the changes it has been made won't be the most significant or enduring."
"Strange thing to say. What will be then?", I ask.
"Two things. First, the Elite Political Settlement that has governed Kenya for 60 years of independence, about how the riches of this land and power are distributed, is the main casualty. That is over. The young people went against a two-year-old govt, they brought down a 60-year-old Order instead", he said.
"Second, the political authority of the wider Christian church, which was important for fuelling the 1990s democracy wave, is shredded, so they must reset. The mosques have emerged much better. That also tells you that the real fightback will not come from the Ruto govt", he argued.
"Surely, any response has to be political, ideological even. The state is the state, it will deploy its power", I say.
"Maybe in the short-term, but in the long-term, 10 to 20 years, the critical response will be philosophical, spiritual, and economic. There will be no guns. It will be fought on the idea of what Kenya is; there will be big attempt to redefine it.
It will play out even in what is taught in school. Watch for the subtle change in church sermons. The Establishment will reallocate their money, so they are seen to spend it on, for example, saving forests, even building museums, instead of rehabilitating golf courses. The popular music of this country has already changed in three weeks, and expect the books of fiction written by Kenyans that come out from next year to read very different from anything we've seen in the past. That's where the exciting stuff is going to be. The kids went hunting for a rabbit, and caught a buffalo."
I guess that was not entirely unexpected when you have had one too many vanilla lattes.
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I have asked the Senate to investigate why Government is allegedly being given Ksh.156 billion from the World Bank with the condition of integrating 400,000 refugees into Kenya. We want to know the reasons, The details of this agreement and why now