Gladys Kangi

Lifetime learner | Feminist | Fun auntie | Navigating life with an open heart and childlike awe

[Shoba Gatimu @shobanes]

Good. They are exercising their Democratic rights. Same as the people on the streets. Or you think rights should only apply as long they are not painting govt in bad light?

[Gladys Kangi @GKangi]

@InteriorKE @NPSOfficial_KE @PoliceKE @APSKenya @DCI_Kenya @IPOA_KE And then you set up roadblocks, flood the streets with riot police, harass protesters…
Move from merely recognizing rights to actively protecting them.
Our young people didn’t "lose their lives". Your officers killed them. The government killed them.

[Gladys Kangi @GKangi]

They were killed by @NPSOfficial_KE
The phrase "lives were lost" obscures agency, shifting attention away from those responsible and onto the outcome.

[Gladys Kangi @GKangi]

The things that happen at @KNH_hospital are unbelievable. Blood transfusions are a real nightmare.
The patient has to find blood donors, buy leukocytes filters, then fight the system to receive the blood. Buy the damn filters and bill the patient. What a sickening system!

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

If you don't fear Ebola you are not brave you just don't know what it is

[Gladys Kangi @GKangi]

Could this be tied to campaign financing or some other political bargain?
The government talks about preparedness and capacity building, but the facility is not for Kenyans.
So what exactly is this about?

There’s more cooking in that pot than we’re being served.

[Kenya West @KinyanBoy]

“No Kenyan will be allowed inside the American treatment unit. Kenya's own isolation infrastructure, which amounts to a single purpose-built viral haemorrhagic fever isolation unit at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, will handle any Kenyan Ebola cases independently, without cross-pollination with the American facility or its staff.”-Washington Post

[Dr.Bosire Wairimu MD, MSc, MBA,LLB. @Lasterbosire]

Public Health 101:

We treat and quarantine at source.

The proposed facility should be built and maintained at source, in the DRC, where the outbreak risk exists and where response capacity is most urgently needed.

Outbreaks are managed at source using tried and tested public health measures: surveillance, isolation, contact tracing, diagnostics, PPE, trained personnel, community engagement, safe transport systems, and accountable emergency coordination.

Preparedness is not the importation of confirmed, infected, or exposed patients into a population that has not consented to carry that risk.

Preparedness is building capacity where the threat exists, protecting affected communities, and ensuring that neighbouring countries are not turned into holding grounds for geopolitical convenience.

America is trying to rewrite international infectious disease preparedness by pretending that importing exposed patients into Kenya is the same as strengthening preparedness.

#EbolaVirus

[Gladys Kangi @GKangi]

@SirAlexas @k_ophelia We can never forget this one. I bet it was the happiest day of his life.

[Aleckie Ronald @SirAlexas]

America's errand boy

Tuma police Haiti...yes sir
Chukua watu wa Ebola..yes sir
President wa kutumwa Jacket kwa gari

[Gladys Kangi @GKangi]

@Kajjomma @MarthaKarua It’s time Africans stop with this "God in control" mentality. It has made us too complacent. Helpless even. Yet that same God has given us all the resources to do lots for ourselves. We have a human responsibility which we cannot relegate to the divine.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

I think that we Kenyans need to draw a red line for our civil service and tell them this: we are going to accept nothing, NOTHING, that you justify as global standards or collaboration with wazungu. If you don't have a Kenyan reason for doing something, shut up, resign and get someone who can do it. This business of civil servants being flattered when western countries come to dump diseases and bad education policies on us needs to stop. The message is for both @MOH_Kenya and @EduMinKenya.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

The problem with our civil servants is that they create a small, tightly controlled space where wazungu can get all that they would have got in their home countries. Then the wazungu pat civil servants on the head and say "Kenya has great health infrastructure," and the civil servants get so flattered.

The civil servants then rant at Kenyans: "look at what wazungu said about us. Why are you not flattered?" They go round international conferences saying that "wazungu said we are the best" like it's a certificate.

[Gladys Kangi @GKangi]

@wmnjoya In my HS in the early 2000s, dorm entrance doors were never locked. We could sneak in and out at any time. It was against the rules after lights out, but it happened. The real deterrents were the watchmen and dogs.
The windows had no grills, and every dorm had an emergency exit.

[Gladys Kangi @GKangi]

Beyond the fire itself, what is disturbing is how poorly we handle disasters: delayed responses, chaotic communication, lack of coordination, and parents left in the dark.
We have to collectively demand and expect better. All of us. I am so sorry for the affected families.

[Gladys Kangi @GKangi]

What is most frustrating is the contradiction. Schools are supposed to be centres of learning, critical thinking, and problem-solving, yet ours often seem unable to think through obvious risks.
How come they fail to apply the very principles they teach to their own operations?

[Gladys Kangi @GKangi]

The Utumishi tragedy would have been avoidable. Those children should never have died 💔
Security is not just about keeping students in or intruders out. It also includes adequate capacity, fire safety, emergency evacuation, and ensuring children can escape when disaster strikes.

[MOgada @m_ogada]

The prostitute country. No standards, no principles, no vision. In a few weeks, those of us who need to travel will face ebola-based restrictions from the very people who set it up here. The intellectual collapse of Kenya is probably the most painful thing in my lifetime

[Gladys Kangi @GKangi]

@sun_and_climate @kalu_lepariyo The rise is multi-causal, with changing rainfall patterns and climate variability, being major factors. Upstream land-use changes, catchment degradation causing increased sedimentation, and possible tectonic activity within the RV have also been linked to the rising lake levels.

[Gladys Kangi @GKangi]

Years later, with more lives lost and endless advice on “how not to get killed as a woman,” victim-blaming remains the default. Why? The myth of a “perfect victim” that doesn’t exist.
Until the focus is on the crime and the perpetrators, more women will continue to be at risk.

[Gladys Kangi @GKangi]

@PetesMurithi @mwende_kyalo_ @Gregraphics I didn’t say any of that. My point is that it’s easier to spot a minor in uniform is in an odd situation.
Let’s nuance it. Younger children are usually helped regardless. But for teenagers who can pass as adults in regular clothes, a uniform adds an extra layer of protection.