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9 days ago

Many Kenyans either suffer from collective memory loss, or from dangerous collective gullibility, naïveté and stupidity. Have you forgotten how rogue, obtuse, violent and corrupt Natembeya as county commissioner, Matiang’i as CS Interior and Uhuru Kenyatta as president were between 2013 and 2022? Have you forgotten how Babu Patel shot DJ Evolve in the neck, maimed him and left him to die? The video is still there for idiots to watch. How can you claim that Edwin Sifuna is different when his closest confidants and funders are known criminals, thugs, looters, torturers and murderers who have abused power for more than 10 years? Edwin Sifuna supported despot Uhuru Kenyatta and Fred Matiang’i during the worst period of tyranny and plunder when bodies of Kenyans were dumped in River Yala and court orders were routinely defied and treated worse than toilet paper. He supported the BBI which Uhuru Kenyatta wanted to use to remove presidential term limits and institutionalize impunity. Don’t tell me of “lesser evils” and other fake stories. Yes, I supported Ruto in 2022 in order for us to defeat Uhuru Kenyatta, Raila Odinga and other merchants of impunity who had destroyed my house with explosives, abducted me, detained me incommunicado, tortured, sedated and forced me into exile for 5 years. If you were me, would you have supported those who violated your rights, tortured you and blocked you from returning to the country for 5 years? No. But I did that because we needed to prove to Uhuru Kenyatta that Kenya belongs to all of us—the poor, the weak and the powerful. We wanted to prove that a president—any president— is not above the law. We needed to show the president that power belongs to the people. When Ruto started betraying his oath of office, his pre-election promises, failed to deliver services to the people, started looting, abducting, torturing and murdering the people, I was the first to publicly oppose him. I did so when Sifuna was in bed with Ruto, together with Rigathi, Kalonzo and Raila Odinga. If you have memory, you will remember how we exposed Ruto, mobilized and organized the people against the Finance Bill 2023. Many accused me of being ungrateful because I criticized and publicly called for his removal from power. But I stated, as I have done consistently since I was a teenager, that no one is above the law and power belongs to the people. That having voted for someone doesn’t make the voter a slave of the one s/he voted for. That I never signed a contract with anyone that I would support them even when they subvert the constitution, disobey court orders, abuse power, steal public resources and infringe on the rights of the people. So, I am making a stand as I have always done: that Edwin Sifuna’s record at the Senate is checkered. He has not properly and consistently oversighted the counties, especially the Nairobi City County, which is his primary responsibility. He has zero record on legislation, which is also one of his primary duties. He signed the UDA/ODM coalition agreement and has never published the document for Kenyans to see. And more egregiously, he is actively working with and for known Merchants of Impunity such as Uhuru Kenyatta, Fred Matiang’i, Natembeya and Babu Patel. These people represent the worst attributes of our society. They encapsulate the culture of impunity, abuse of public office, looting and tyranny. That’s why Sifuna and company are only talking about Ruto and one term but they will never articulate their ideology, vision, programs and platforms. They want to inherit the rotten system so that they can continue abusing power like Ruto. Supporting any of these people and their cohorts means the continuation of the same rotten system which has abused Kenyans for the last 63 or so years. We must overhaul the system, the colonial state and institutions and create a merit based, equitable society governed by the rule of law and lock up all merchants of impunity.

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