Nurses have been on strike for 38 days today. 89 women and children already dead. Nobody is talking. The President is talking about stadiums and Burundians hawking tea. We are not doing well as a country. We are not doing well. Khabusie!
I knew it was a matter of time this anti-immigrant politics would come to Kenya. Kenya never misses to copy the bad habits of other countries. But what non-Kenyans need to know is that it's a popularity stunt after smale scale traders led a huge demonstration against taxation hike last week. He's also hiking the opportunities for police to extort bribes, because with the coming elections, corruption needs to continue without annoying Kenyans. It's a distraction. He's playing the same identity politics among the lower income traders. Ask the @WorldBankGroup. They understand how this works.
#GoKmimicry
Magadi was under the British until 2005 when Tata bought it. So saying Tata had it for 100 years is not true. I suspect the guy got into a deal with some mzungus who want it and will give him a cut. He's trying to justify the eviction of Tata by giving some Abdourahmane Tchiani vibes, implying that this is about resource sovereignty. But American and British troops are in Nanyuki, and at the coast with the French. There's no sovereignty in the deal.
I gotta give it up to Standard Group for continuing the work even when their finances don't look good. We should all be subscribing to their platform to keep them in business. Literally the only media house that's not afraid of this regime.
A few things if Ruto gets the second term.
1. Term limits will be removed. No brainer. Obviously.
2. Some nondescript MP from Sabaot or Taveta will start some serious charge to amend the constitution calling for a referendum to change our constitution. Armed with “good intentions”, a lot of noise about the need to tame the wage bill and overrepresentation, Kenyans will be duped to think that another amending of the constitution will fix our problems. There will be no discussion about the real culprits: corruption and bad governance. Sadder is that the most marginalised people for whom devolution may have been the best shot at fixing the multi-generational inequality will be at the foremost at defending the new consistution that will hoodwink many people but whose sole aim is consilidate more power and resources in Nairobi.
Ruto will not hesistate for a second to mutilate the constitution. When the whole country embraced it, he was the only one opposed to it for no reason at all other than that he hates all that can be good for Kenya.
We forget so easily.
3. It is foolish to think that Ruto remodelled State House so that he can leave power prematurely. Naah. Man’s never played like that. Ever. All that remodelling and building of the chapel are for the long haul.
Remember, regionally Kagame and Museveni inspire him. Suluhu also can teach him a thing or two. So does the Ethiopian guy. South Sudan, Somalia and Burundi don’t inspire much.
4. We have seen the institutionalization of the goon culture. It is a signal of the coming clashes between Gen Zs and Goon Z. Two young people of disparate backgrounds. Goon Z will win the day.
5. In his first term, Ruto survived the Gen Z protests, impeached his deputy with brutal efficiency. Can you imagine what kind of a man he will be when nothing stands out of his way?
6. Ruto swallowed and effectively neutered and neutralised ODM. He will have zero resistance from any quarters. He has quashed and vanquished anything that can stand on his way. Only Richard Onyonka and Edwin Sifuna have some cojones to speak truth to power. Two men against his brutal machinery, tough lucky baby.
7. Mass abductions, cruelty such as never witnessed, and serious crackdown at dissenting voices will be the norm.
8. Kenyans will ever regret laughing at Uganda, Tanzania or those countries ruled by dictators.
We will realise we are not above the program.
9. Current government bloggers will be the most surprised later in 2028. One just hopes they are making enough to prop up this regime. No sensible Kenya I know vouches for this government kabisa. And we all can’t be mad and only six government bloggers be right. And now content creators running low on cash are about to rescue their reputation appearing on popular podcast with very lame talking points. Do people in government read the mood of the country?
10. I have seen that Zimbwabwean dude around State House. And I have watched the company the president keeps. The level of corruption you will witness will leave you poorer than you are now, sadder than you will ever be and super hungry.
Again, all of the above are derived from the observable facts.
In 2030 let no one act surprised.
Mr Ruto has turned Kenya into Haiti! The main reason Alex Kiprotich was released a few hours after his abduction is that the dash cam captured the violent, armed police officers who grabbed him and were likely going to torture and kill him, like many other victims. Kenyan police have killed three people every day since Ruto became president.