Kinasse Muruka

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The most useful political statement I have ever read was this simple quote from Chairman Mao: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun".

Everything else is just a series of fantasies and illusions that people sell themselves so they can sleep well at night. Whatever style of government you pretend to have, it is always underwritten by men with guns, and its stability always ultimately comes down to what the men with guns choose to do.

Your "democracy" is a children's fairy tale you tell yourself to make the world more palatable - it is men with guns that enforce and implement decisions, and it is men with guns that will escort you into a police car, a courtroom or a prison if you choose not to obey whatever instruction you have received.

Your "theocracy" is a lie because God has no power to make you do anything without the men with guns making you carry out his will. Mecca and Jerusalem are the 2 allegedly holiest in the world, and they're both filled with men with guns, purportedly carrying out the will of God.

Every type of human society is held together by men with guns. A good society is one where the interests of the men with guns align with those of the people without guns, and a bad society is one where the men with guns live parasitically off the people without guns.

ALL societies are dictatorships of men who control the guns. Some just include a whole lot of extra steps to obfuscate that basic fact. I personally prefer the societies where the men with the guns do not hide their control and their interests align with those who do not have guns.

Growing up is realising that "democracy" is like Santa Claus. It's a story told for 5 year-olds to feel involved in the world's decision making. You didn't put Tinubu, Trump or Macron in power with your "vote" you fucking peasant.

[Kinasse Muruka @KinasseMuruka]

@reelwithnusrat Is this giant Kwale snail a different species from the one which is a delicacy in West Africa, especially Nigeria? In Nigeria these giant snails which they collect freely in forests sell at higher prices than beef.

[Claire Nasike Akello @MissNasike]

When I advocate for seed sovereignty in Kenya, this example from Nigeria illustrates it perfectly.

Communities must always control,breed,share,sell and exchange their indigenous seeds.

Indigenous seeds have been tested and tried through generations and our climate.

[SokoAnalyst @SokoAnalyst]

I have been talking about this for the last 5 years and it's gotten worse. Over 200 kids are getting lost daily and we are silent. There is organised crime targeting kids. Let us be very careful with our kids.

[Kinasse Muruka @KinasseMuruka]

@Childish_MD @_mpekethu_ DM me and I can connect you to the analyst (Nabukwangwa) who did this, she is top notch: https://t.co/g7qhSvuSaA

[Kinasse Muruka @KinasseMuruka]

@_mpekethu_ DM me and I can connect you to the analyst (Nabukwangwa) who did this, she is top notch: https://t.co/g7qhSvuSaA

[Andrew Githiria MD @DrGithiria]

The confusion continues.
At Mount Kenya University, both MBChB holders and BSc Clinical Medicine graduates can enroll for the same Master of Clinical Medicine (with option of Forensic Medicine, Emergency Care, Family Health).
What exactly is the distinct role or gap being filled here? If both pathways converge at the same level, it only reinforces that there’s no clearly defined, unique niche for Clinical Medicine.
This overlap isn’t innovation — it’s confusion.
Bold, decisive steps are needed to streamline training, roles and scope. @fnoluga @MiskellahMD

[Celestino (can/do) @_celestino127]

China is downloading more research from Kenyan universities than Kenya itself is using. Meanwhile, barely a single policy in Parliament is grounded in local research.

That’s not just ironic - it’s embarrassing.

If knowledge isn’t shaping our laws, what exactly is?

[Kinasse Muruka @KinasseMuruka]

Congratulations 🎉 @Chetuyachinago.
Your analysis is 1
💯 spot on.
For other examples of Local Comprador Classes acting as Colonial Fifth Columns, kindly check the rhetoric and actions of key Figures running the Lebanese State.
@Marwa__Osman

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

You cannot fight colonialism with a colonial army.

And this is a fatal flaw common among African nations and the rest of the Global South that was once a colonial project.

We keep trying to apply cosmetic make-up to an existing colonial system instead of doing what is necessary and which is burning that system to the ground.

The delusion of merely "improving" the military or shuffling government officials ignores a glaring reality: there will always be sell-outs, a deadly Fifth Column, in any colonial project.

The colonial masters don't just extract the wealth of their victim nations.
They meticulously engineer a local comprador class within the host nation.
These are people who, by virtue of their Western education, psychological conditioning, inherited societal privileges, and foreign-funded endowments, are sympathetic to this colonial system by default.
They will fight with their very lives to defend the machinery that subjugates their own people.

Most of these traitors have kids in foreign boarding schools, offshore bank accounts, and fat real estate investments to protect in the West.
They thrive on the corruption and bribes that allow colonial extraction to continue with absolute impunity.
They enjoy the privilege of private jet holidays in Western capitals, premium foreign healthcare, and dual citizenships to flee to just in case the nation erupts in flames.

These people are the ultimate Fifth Column in our society. They are, quite literally, white imperialists wearing black masks. They are the lingering, parasitic ghosts of the colonial masters.

When Sani Abacha came to power in Nigeria in 1993, the enemy was not just Western sanctions, the IMF and World Bank economic hitmen, or the hostile global media apparatus. He also had to battle the Fifth Column within Nigeria. These elites set up NADECO under the fraudulent pretense of fighting for the restoration of democratic governance, when in reality, they were actively lobbying for foreign interventions and economic strangulation to bring their own nation to its knees on behalf of their Western masters.

The recent Saturday terror attacks in Mali happened mainly due to this exact Fifth Column, and this is an internal rot that Russian troops cannot defend against.
It doesn't matter if Mali develops the technology to bypass Starlink, blind the terrorists' drones, or sever foreign supply chains.
They will always have these traitors deeply embedded in the military architecture of the state, who will gladly lend their services to the CIA and French intelligence.
And this vicious reality is universally true for all countries once under colonial rule.

When Iran purged the Western-backed Shah who was a puppet that was basically extracting Iranian oil and minerals to funnel into Western capitals, the West did not retreat, instead they regrouped and backed the Saddam Hussein government.
And just a year later, Saddam was raining missiles on Iran and flattening cities across the country.

Yet, even while Iran was at the war front fighting Iraqi troops, their domestic Fifth Column developed a local mujahideen (the MEK) within Iran to sabotage the Iranian military (the Artesh).

The Iranian army would be at the battlefield, while another sect loyal to the West was staging violent protests and attacking soldiers from behind. They were literally selling out the locations of top Iranian government officials, resulting in targeted assassinations that threatened to cripple the entire Regime.
It was in this crucible of betrayal that Iran came to terms with a brutal truth that African nations today must painfully acknowledge.

The conventional army set up by the colonial masters may look tough and well-trained on paper, but in reality, their true expertise is protecting mineral sites for multinational corporations, brutally policing the state, crushing domestic dissent, and executing military coups whenever Paris or Washington demands it.

The Supreme Leader of Iran recognized that the local Artesh was docile and built solely for conventional warfare. The fatal flaw with a regular army is that these men are only loyal to their sterile military doctrines and chain of command, not to the ideological leadership or the survival of the State.

Even if you decapitate the government today and install a new head, they would simply switch allegiances. Their salaries will still be paid, their illicit commissions and bonuses will still clear, regardless of whether the man occupying the highest seat in the country is French-backed, American-backed, or backed by Lucifer in Hell.

It doesn't matter who wins the next election; the Nigerian military officials will still retain their unchecked powers. They will still have private armies running illicit errands for them, they will still enjoy subsidized foreign healthcare, and lucrative kickbacks from defense contracts. In fact, they are far more likely to prosper under a compliant, Western-backed stooge than under any genuinely patriotic leader who thinks the West has no right to freely loot Nigerian wealth and threatens to cut the bloated cost of governance in the name of actual nation-building.

It was exactly this brutal realization that drove the Islamic Republic of Iran to set up the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)

Now Iran operates two distinct military units in the same country: the normal, inherited military (the Artesh) whose job is strictly conventional border defense.
The IRGC, on the other hand, was forged specifically to defend the Revolution.

The IRGC receives massive funding, dwarfing the regular military. They have their own proprietary weapons, armored tank divisions, elite intelligence networks, and cutting-edge aerospace capabilities entirely independent of the regular state bureaucracy.

Now, this may look like an unnecessary duplication until you realize they operate under entirely different doctrines. The regular army fights on standard military orders; they will lay down their arms if a new boss rides into town. The IRGC, however, fights for the absolute survival of the state.

Their salaries, their societal benefits, their loans, and practically the air they breathe depend entirely upon the survival of the anti-imperialist structure. They will fight invaders and traitors to the absolute death because they are fighting for their own existential survival.

This is why I keep saying that you cannot improve upon a colonial system. It must be aggressively dismantled or replaced.

Colonialism is an inherently predatory beast, and its basic apparatus was meticulously designed for two purposes only: to extract resources and to protect the comprador class that facilitates it.
Mali and the rest of our brothers in the Sahel desperately need to unite and become a single, impenetrable sovereign state. More importantly, they must set up a completely different, ideologically driven army to ruthlessly defend their Revolution, just like Iran did.

[Kinasse Muruka @KinasseMuruka]

Policymaking dynamics

[EDGAR @edgarwabwire_]

William Ruto moved quickly to implement changes such as replacing NHIF with SHA, altering the education funding model, privatizing public institutions, introducing the housing levy, and launching the Hustler Fund with high interest rates because he benefits from these initiatives directly.

Someone Said Ruto does not push for policies unless there is something in it for him personally. A clear example is the animal vaccination program. He actively supported it when funding was available, but after Bill Gates withdrew the billions that had been allocated to it, the issue disappeared and is no longer discussed on top of vehicles.

[Kinasse Muruka @KinasseMuruka]

For arguments sake, these installations have "valid" environmental compliance licences.
Why, then, should they be (reactively) ordered to relocate from residential areas?
Either, environmental mngt law is "hot air kama ile ya Martha" or "corners were cut".

[Ndung'u Wainaina @NdunguWainaina]

All petrol stations and LPG gas plants located near residential estates in Nairobi have been ordered to relocate with immediate effect following the fire at the Total Fourways Petrol Station.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[Mia♡ @luxemiaa]

I saw someone say “forget age gap, have you ever been in an intelligence gap relationship?”

[Senator Shehu Sani @ShehuSani]

How did a nation under sanctions for 47 years achieved over 90% literacy rate;How did they achieved 98% literacy rate for their female citizens? How were they able to build an advanced health care system? How were they able to build a formidable military force? How were they able produce top class scientists and build a strong scientific base? How were they able to provide their people with uninterrupted electricity despite sanctions? How were they able to build and run refineries despite sanctions? Which country on Earth can achieve this under wars and sanctions?
Why are those nations not under sanctions unable to achieve their feats?

[Jean M.🇮🇪 @JeanM963]

If we don't educate children in history, culture, languages, religion, traditions, ethics and critical thinking preferring instead to limit them to STEM subjects, then we are raising a generation of easy to manipulate morons. This is becoming ever more obvious today.

[Dr. Najat Abdul-Aziz @theafroaussie]

Emiratis are angry at the region not defending them against Iran, while their colonisation of East Africa is an inconvenient afterthought

[Deadly Law @DeadlyLaw]

Moved the International Law book to the fiction section in the library.

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

As this war continues and the death toll rises, some companies see their stocks soar. War kills. Markets profit. In this twisted system, suffering becomes business.
“They sell the righteous for silver.” — Amos 2:6
“Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed.” — Hab. 2:12

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

The world, Europe, and Spain have faced this critical moment before. In 2003, a few irresponsible leaders dragged us into an illegal war in the Middle East that brought nothing but insecurity and pain.

Our response then must be our response now:

NO to violations of international law.

NO to the illusion that we can solve the world’s problems with bombs.

NO to repeating the mistakes of the past.

NO TO WAR.
https://t.co/KpRjBfwY4B