Watching the whole Osama–Wekesa muoshano saga reminded me of something Elisha Ogoya said about the basic principles of life:
You cannot make good deals with bad people.
If you knowingly choose to do business with rats, don't be shocked when you eventually get bitten. 😂hio kesi wangoje Baba yao jioni akitoka kutuibia atasuluhisha.
The irony of this is watching Sifuna supporters reproduce the very politics that made Raila untouchable to his die-hards.Raila was always clean. Always right. Always the smartest man in the room. Anyone questioning him was a traitor. Yet the presidency remained elusive.
Now we’re seeing the same God-complex forming around Sifuna. Babu is suddenly the devil, Sakaja is being rehabilitated, and yesterday’s enemies are becoming today’s allies.
Political cults have no fixed destination. If the trajectory continues, you can eventually find yourself defending Ruto.
I don't have a problem with warning Kenyans about contaminated maize flour. Aflatoxin contamination is a genuine food safety problem and is associated with liver cancer.
What I find questionable is the leap from that legitimate concern to singling out Kerugoya,Kirinyaga as though maize milling there is inherently suspicious.
Kirinyaga is an agricultural county.Kerugoya is a major regional agricultural trading hub. Maize is a traded commodity; a mill does not need to source every grain from the immediate neighbourhood.
Given the broader political environment, I'm also uncomfortable with narratives that repeatedly attach wrongdoing to specific Kikuyu/Central Kenya locations without establishing the actual supply chain or laboratory evidence.
But don't turn a genuine food safety problem into another ethnic geography story.
The Mumia analogy sounds clever, but it doesn't answer the question I raised.
Mumias being synonymous with sugar doesn't mean every other industry operating there is suspicious. Likewise, Kirinyaga being an agricultural region makes the existence of maize milling neither surprising nor inherently suspicious.
My question is much simpler,where is the evidence for your specific claim that Kirinyaga has some inexplicable maize flour industry because the area supposedly produces no maize for industrial milling?
Objectivity means separating what we know from what we are implying.
This is why political optics matter.
Sometimes the biggest story isn't what politicians actually say to each other. It is what their movements, timing and proximity allow the public to believe.
Kuria may have said too much too early or he may have simply planted a seed that has now grown into the biggest political question surrounding this US trip.
Either way, September in America has become politically interesting.
Sifuna wanted to pull a Charlie Kirk University stunt apo JKUAT but he has been denied access.Universities nowadays zimekua kama secondary schools,they used to be beacons of radical youth movement.
I feel like Luos are the biggest losers heading into 2027. Years of Odigaism and the cult-like following of Baba will finally cost them. They never won the presidency, yet Raila always found a way to arm-twist the government and force himself and his “tribe” into the next government.
This time, they are backing an already losing side, with no clear Luo to rally behind, but William Ruto. There won’t be Baba to drag them into the next government. They don’t have the numbers to make a difference on their own, and for years they have relied on Luhya numbers and smaller communities to propel Luo interests.
Now Sifuna has emerged, and that old arrangement may no longer work. And ironically, the man they should have been grooming as their kingpin, Babu Owino, is the very person they are fighting.
2027 could expose just how much of Luo political power was actually Baba’s.
You cannot build a movement around Linda Mwananchi with ordinary citizens owning the political process and then publicly make one of your strongest civilian supporters feel threatened or humiliated for expressing a political opinion.
If Abbie said something Babu disagreed with, the stronger political response would have been to disagree with her publicly and explain why, rather than appearing to issue a personal warning.
Because now the conversation has shifted from,What is the best political structure for Linda Mwananchi to who is allowed to speak, and who isn't?
That is dangerous for a movement claiming to be different from the traditional political establishment.
You knew Osama was a government apologist and, in my opinion, just like his masters, a thief. No normal person should be doing business with rats anyway. You saw the red flags and still went ahead so honestly, you had it coming.
Barely weeks after Ngũgĩ returned to Kenya following 22 years in exile, armed men attacked them at Norfolk Towers Apartments in Nairobi on the night of August 11–12, 2004.
Ngũgĩ was beaten, tortured and burned with cigarettes. His wife, Njeri, was brutally sexually assaulted and raped.
And this was not some ordinary, unguarded house. Norfolk Towers was considered a highly secure apartment complex, with guards, guard dogs, an electric fence and CCTV.
The investigation that followed would later raise disturbing questions. According to a later DCI account of the investigation, the CCTV cameras had been switched off that night, the guard dogs had been muzzled, and detectives concluded that the alleged point of entry had likely been staged from inside.
George Kinoti, then an investigator on the case, eventually investigated the guards and others. Three guards were convicted over the attack, while Ngũgĩ's nephew, who had also been charged, was acquitted.
Ngũgĩ himself said he did not believe it was an ordinary robbery and suspected that he and his wife had been deliberately targeted. However, the broader question of whether there were political masterminds behind the attack has never been conclusively established in the public record.
My hope is that the truth will come up someday.