Me is me

Don't expect a good life, just expect to be good in life.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

What a disgusting, repellent, racist pig. We all stand with you @KMbappe against this shameful woman who I sincerely hope is hounded out of her job asap. How the hell is she an elected senator in Paraguay?

[Me is me @KenyanNzinga]

@TerryGiant97 It is a terrible app, when it acts up I have to completely delete the app then download it again. They really have a cheap app

[Me is me @KenyanNzinga]

@jwkhasndi Cheap

[Me is me @KenyanNzinga]

@kot_people @bonifacemwangi Uganda has a long way to go…

[Me is me @KenyanNzinga]

@RobaPatanisho @bonifacemwangi 2024 was organic and yes Kenyans were angry! All the protests are there for a reason! When it will be your turn or your kin’s turn to be victims of police brutality, then you will know why brave activists lead the protests! Stop being ok with this mediocre government!

[Me is me @KenyanNzinga]

@lynn_ngugi1 “The moment your standards change depending on who you’re standing next to, you’re no longer fighting for accountability, you’re simply participating in selective outrage”
I like this

[Me is me @KenyanNzinga]

@sholard_mancity Go to Surgoi or go to jail!!

[Me is me @KenyanNzinga]

@lilieslovlely1 @DStv It is the worst thing ever, why have DStv stream and you can’t manage it! Very useless

[Me is me @KenyanNzinga]

@Wanjiru2027 Puppet tu

[Me is me @KenyanNzinga]

@NahashonKimemia @HonAdenDuale Exactly, we will not be placed in the same category or citizenship with such terrorists as above👆🏾

[EUGENE @reggaeholic_]

If we don't speak out against police brutality, Ruto's rogue police will kill us all before 2027 elections.

[Humble African. @AzimOscar]

William Ruto spends over KSh 25 billion on travels looking for loans worth KSh 12 billion. Who is fooling whom now?

[The People’s President @bonifacemwangi]

@GovLeeKinyanjui Fundamentals of murder, and zero value for human life!
https://t.co/Hmp95qiioq

[Heltn @HeltonGeo]

@Kenyans "If Ruto gets a second term, you will hear talk of a third term. We are dealing with a very dangerous man."

- Ahmed Hashi

[Me is me @KenyanNzinga]

@Kenyans Which 7, dude you are going home next year!

[Me is me @KenyanNzinga]

@citizentvkenya Always flying and… just smh

[The People’s President @bonifacemwangi]

On 18 May 2026, Kenyan police shot dead 20 people for protesting against the fuel price hike. Here are their names:

#RutoStopKillingUs #HakiSasa #JusticeNow

1.⁠ ⁠Macmillan Mukuru Mwangi, 17 years old, killed in Thika, Kiambu County.
 2.⁠ ⁠Kelvin Muriri Mutie, 18 years old, killed in Githurai, Kiambu County
 3.⁠ ⁠Allan Odhiambo, 19 years old, killed in Busia, Busia County
 4.⁠ ⁠Prudence Imali, 20 years old, killed in Marurui, Nairobi County.
 5.⁠ ⁠Shadrack Onyango, 20 years old, killed in Busia, Busia County.
 6.⁠ ⁠Githinji Wambui, 21 years old, killed in Thika, Kiambu County
 7.⁠ ⁠Joseph Mwangi Kariuki, 26 years old, killed in Nyeri, Nyeri County.
 8.⁠ ⁠Joseph Kiarie, 28 years old, killed in Kasarani, Nairobi County.
 9.⁠ ⁠Tifas Wanjala, 29 years old, killed in Kiambu, Kiambu County.
10.⁠ ⁠John Kangethe, 30 years old, killed in Thika, Kiambu County.
11.⁠ ⁠Frederick Odhiambo, 30 years old, killed in Busia, Busia County.
12.⁠ ⁠Martin Rigii, 32 years old, killed in Kiambu, Kiambu County.
13.⁠ ⁠George Njuguna Kamau, 32 years old, killed in Dagoretti South, Nairobi County.
14.⁠ ⁠James Osambo Okhelo, 40, Busia, Busia County.
15.⁠ ⁠John Paul, Age Unknown, killed in Nairobi, Nairobi County
16.⁠ ⁠Harrison Karanja Njeri Age Uknown, Killed in Naivasha, Nakuru County
17.⁠ ⁠David Chege Wanyoike, Age Unknown- Killed in Naivasha, Nakuru County
18.⁠ ⁠Derrick Peter Machanja, Age Unknown, Kakamega, Kakamega
19.⁠ ⁠Unknown male killed in Naivasha, Nakuru County.
20.⁠ ⁠Unknown male Nakuru, Nakuru County

[Me is me @KenyanNzinga]

@raphael_aduda @m_ogada https://t.co/MjDkTuBe72

[The People’s President @bonifacemwangi]

Kenyan police only respect a particular skin colour, or a person’s status based on their proximity to power or wealth. They would rush to arrest a black man (a retired Chief Justice), rather than touch a white person or an Indian. Yesterday’s protest had white, Indian, and black people - all citizens of this country. Yet, when the police decided to arrest the protestors, they went for the kind of people the Kenyan police is trained to beat, shoot, and sometimes arrest. Black people. The Indian and white people were allowed to return peacefully back to their homes.

One of my mentees, who is Indian, had been working for weeks to mobilise for yesterday’s protest. He went to the people who frequently visit Nairobi National Park daily - the ones who own lodges, hotels and tour vans, the ones who have published photography books with beautiful images of the park and sell prints of the photos they take - but they refused to stand against the destruction of Nairobi National Park.

Even without building the controversial parking lot, Nairobi National Park is already dying. Uhuru ignored all reason and built a railway through the park. The unchecked urban encroachment and the loss of crucial wildlife migration corridors, driven by human settlements and industries in areas such as Kitengela, Athi River, and Rongai, have been slowly killing the park.

And not only are they building a parking lot, but they also want to build a new state-of-the-art orphanage in the park, which they cite as justification for the parking lot. They want to take away healthy, pristine, and wild land to put up buildings and enclosures to hold wild animals for people to come and gape at. Orphanages are meant to rehabilitate and rewild animals. Not to commercialise wildlife viewing in a country with numerous parks. Roughly 11% to 16% of Kenya's total land area - roughly 9 million hectares – comprises parks and wildlife conservancies. In addition, the current Nairobi orphanage is so badly run and neglected. People who can’t manage a bird cage want to build a big zoo.

No sane architect would design a KSh 30 billion convention centre without considering parking spaces, but that’s what Bomas International Convention Complex has done, so that Ruto can use that excuse to grab a bit of Nairobi National Park. But I digress. I am writing this with complete sincerity as someone who has friends and supporters from all races and communities in Kenya and around the world.

Yesterday’s arrest of only black people at the march also speaks to the huge racial divide that exists in the minds of the officers on the ground and those above them about arresting brown and white people.

The trade union in Kenya was started by an Indian, Makhan Singh, who was imprisoned by the British colonial government. Makhan Singh served 11 years in political detention, the longest in Kenya's pre-independence history. There is the Vidyarthi family, who used their printing press to advocate for black and Indian rights during the colonial days, and supported pro-democracy movements during the Moi dictatorship days. There is Eruch Nowrojee, a lawyer who represented the Mau Mau fighters, and his son Senior Counsel Pheroze Nowrojee, who fought for democracy, justice and represented political dissidents. His daughter Binaifer Nowrojee is in the trenches promoting democracy and human rights globally.

Tired of corruption and bad governance, a white Kenyan, Dr Richard Leakey, founded the Safina Party in 1995 alongside Senior Counsel Paul Muite. The name, which means "Ark" in Swahili, was intended to symbolize a rescue mission for Kenya’s political and economic systems. It was a medical doctor and Human Rights activist Ling Kituyi, a Norwegian-Kenyan, who founded the Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU), an organisation that was founded to treat Kenyans who were brutalised, shot or tortured during the Moi days. They were dedicated then, and to date, to preventing and responding to torture, extrajudicial killings, and related human rights violations. It’s IMLU who provided the experts and forensic doctors to document my torture injuries from Tanzania.

However, the majority of the grandchildren of the Kenyan Indians and white Kenyan settlers who have the wealth and power to support change, cover their eyes and ears and remain quiet when injustice happens. Where has that spirit gone? Have comfort, privilege and resources diluted the courageous blood that ran through the veins of their forefathers? If we're in this mess, aren't we all supposed to be in it together?

Some of them own and run sweatshops in industrial area, where most of their employees are casual labourers, a workforce that forms the majority of slum dwellers. They’re the ones running flower farms that pay employees peanuts, while earning billions and living lavishly, while their employees are getting miscarriages and other complications.

They control the luxury hotel industry, owning lodges and conservancies that charge thousands of dollars, while the local communities lack clean water or school libraries. They’re not willing to work with local communities to fight the bad governance which causes abject poverty but, instead, give politicians and their cronies company shares for “political protection.”

In 2022, a leading presidential candidate collected Ksh 2 billion in a single day from the Indian business community. People were lining up at his office carrying duffel bags full of cash. They would meet with the candidate for 2-5 minutes, say which company they represented and how much was in the bag, and the candidate would note the amount and company so he would know whom he owed favours in the future, and the size of that favour.

Like in all communities, I understand that there are people who contribute tirelessly from behind the scenes to the progress of our country. I am sure there are many who prefer to work in the safety of silence but, unfortunately, we live in a country where silence is deemed as weakness and that weakness is then exploited.

The reason I bring this out is that the silence of the wealthy minority - the black Kenyans who have made it, the Indian and white community - will not save them. You can get private security, private schools, and afford the best lawyers, but when a government goes rogue, no amount of money will save you. When billionaires can be abducted, and board members get charged on flimsy grounds for refusing a hostile takeover, you’re not safe. It’s only a matter of time before someone in power decides they want to take what you have by force, and they will even have you murdered, if it comes to that.

Four of the top five richest people in Kenya are Kenyan Indians, according to a 2022 Oxfam report. It’s time they, together with white Kenyans, joined the frontline in fighting for our rights. Going by the shameful police behaviour yesterday, they will not get arrested if they lead a protest or two. June 25th 2026, is a day of remembrance for the Gen Z heroes that we lost, and we would like to see the two races that are minorities in Kenya - but have more wealth, power, and influence - take part in the protest.

At the end of the day, yesterday's protest was not about colour or status, even though the actions of the police stated so. The protest was about protecting the Nairobi National Park. A National Park belongs to the people! All people, of all colours. Just like our country does. So, let's act like it and stand side by side when it comes to fighting those who would break us, rather than build us.

[Me is me @KenyanNzinga]

@bakhita_esther Paid government bloggers who have sold their souls to defend an oppressive regime!

[Me is me @KenyanNzinga]

@ntvkenya DCI will easily trace innocent protesters and anyone challenging the government but such things is where they draw the line.