Machira

Mfugaji wa kuhamahama

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

After an Egyptian Christian player crossed himself following a goal, Christian players were subsequently prohibited from representing Egypt in the national team and in clubs representing the country.

- @egyptian_yousif

[George Njoroge @georgenjoroge_]

THE QUIET FUNERAL OF CENTRAL KENYA

We have a big problem and nobody is talking about it.

Not in church. Not in the county assembly.

Not at the barber shop. Nowhere.

Let me tell you how I found out.

This year I needed to hire people.
A driver. A shamba boy. A gardener. A farmhand for my goats in Kingeero.

Simple jobs. Honest jobs. Jobs our fathers did with pride.

I am now on my TENTH driver. Tenth.

And it is barely August.

I am not quoting a government survey. I am not quoting NACADA.

I am quoting my own payroll.

Driver number one disappeared on a Tuesday. Found Thursday.

Driver number four came to work smelling like a distillery with a birth certificate.

Driver number seven asked for an advance on Monday and a funeral on Friday, his own liver was writing the eulogy in advance.

As I write this, my current driver is sitting in a police station.

Arrested for drunk driving.

From a MORNING assignment. Not a night out. Not a wedding. A morning assignment I sent him.

The sun had barely cleared Ngong Hills and this man was already gone.😕

Walk through any shopping centre in Central Kenya at 6am and count the men leaning on verandas waiting for the den to open.

Men aged 25 to 45.

The exact men who should be marrying, building, planting, carrying coffins of the OLD, not filling them.

These are working alcoholics.

They show up.

They function. Barely.

They drive your matatu.

They wire your house.

They handle your goats.

And every shilling they touch goes through a keg tap before it reaches home.

And here is the part that breaks me.

Go to the villages.

The shambas are being run by women.

The chamas are women.

The church is women.

The funerals committee is women.

The boys are at the base.

An entire generation of Kikuyu men is quietly drinking itself out of history, and we are watching it happen through our car windows on the way to work.

Who will marry the girls?

I am serious.

Our daughters are graduating, working, buying plots and looking around at a marriage market of men who cannot pass a breathalyser at 8am.

We keep asking why our girls are single at 35.

The answer is staggering home right now from a den in Wangige.

Who will cry for the boy child?

Everyone laughed when that phrase started.

Nobody is laughing in Central Kenya.

We buried the boy child a long time ago.

We just haven’t held the funeral, because the men who should carry the casket are drunk.

And the funerals themselves, have you noticed?

A 34-year-old dies and the eulogy says “after a short illness.”

No. Name the illness.

The illness is sold in a 300ml bottle for fifty bob behind the market.

The illness has a distributor, a supply chain, and protection.

We are the region of coffee. Of tea. Of hustle.

Of men who walked from Kingeero to Nairobi barefoot and built empires.

And their grandsons cannot walk from the den to the gate.

So I am asking, honestly, painfully, with ten drivers worth of evidence:

Who will talk about this?

The politicians won’t the dens are voters.

The church whispers about it once a year.

The families hide it out of shame.

We have a problem.

It is not coming.

It is here.

It has a police OB number and it is sitting in a cell wearing my company’s uniform.

Central Kenya is not dying of poverty.

Central Kenya is dying of thirst and it keeps drinking the wrong thing.

[I am Chege @_James041]

Every legal practitioner, every Forester, every active citizen, every Kenyan,

Must come out and speak for Esther Wairimu Keige.

Esther Wairimu was a 54 year old senior Legal Officer , Kenya Forest Service, stationed at Karura Forest

Esther was abducted three weeks ago and she has been found dead.

We cannot normalize abductions and murder in this country.

Enough is Enough!

If this post appears on your TL, reply with the hashtag #JusticeForEstherWairimu #EndAbductionsKe

[I am Chege @_James041]

They killed Albert Ojwang' and now they have killed Cecil Otieno.

Not in a police cell, but inside the vehicle of a PS.

It's time we make the lives of these oppressors uncomfortable.

#JusticeForCecilOtieno

[Revolutionary Mankuyio @RevoltMankuyio]

This is Erick Shieni lying at the Parliament gate.

Do not shame him , he is watching.

We will never forget.

Do not stay silent out of fear.

[Kingpin of Kenya @ClintonObonyo]

From dm lost car...
PLEASE HELP US FIND IT

On Monday, 15th June at around 7:30 PM, our brother Freddie Who is a Uber Driver was carjacked after picking up two men along Eastern Bypass, Kamakis. The men claimed they were going to Thika Girls High School to pick up their sick daughter.

Upon reaching the murram road leading to the school, the man seated behind Freddie tied him up with a rope while the other suspect took control of the vehicle. They drove him into a nearby forest, tied him up, and escaped with the car.

🚗 Vehicle: Silver Toyota Vitz
🔢 Registration Number: KDJ 706L

📍 Last Seen: Thika area, near Thika Girls High School

If you have seen this vehicle or have any information that may help us recover it, please contact us immediately or report it to the nearest police station.

📞 Contact: [phone]

Please share this post widely. Every share increases the chances of recovering the vehicle and bringing those responsible to justice.

[PropesaTv @PropesaTv]

This is Maara MP pushing a girl with Down syndrome. Such actions are heartbreaking and Very inhuman

[Peris @Wambuib4sky]

What did we do as a country to deserve this kind of MPs?Where did we go wrong?This MP is pushing a disabled girl, almost causing her to fall, simply because she was clinging to him 😭

[Boniface @kilundeezy]

Ukiona image frame 2 hasira inapanda btw fvck this gafament kumamae

[professor .X. @Seyatra888]

@Ian_Wafula @KWSKenya Hii ndo wanaficha. Close to 100 acres of forest land cleared to that kasongo can have a fancy "animal orphanage/zoo" next to his bomas convention center .
They intentionally left the tree lining by the roadside ndo watu wasijue nini inaendelea ndani

[Mhe. Litundunya @litundunya]

I HAVE REPOSTED THIS.
This beautiful girl vanished yesterday around 9:30 AM around TASSIA. Next to Summit Hospital,
Kindly, if you hear any info about her or a lost 4 year old girl in a Grey sweat pant
Call: 0722137283
0728975614.

The least you can do is simply SHARE

[Great Ole Laikipian 🇰🇼🇵🇸 @waweru_pius]

Naamkia news waliangusha mech huniundia bikes za job hapo Bemwaki for saying we don't want Ebola quarantines in Nanyuki. Rest in peace Charlo.

[~~Tapkili Manerech🇦🇺🇰🇪💪💪~~ @tapkili_]

Asis Eldoret garage area should be declared active crime scene 😤😤 took car for engine repair went for quick snack kufika manongwe washaa ng'oa exhaust wanataka kuiba muffler 😤😤 up on inquiry and complains the dudes gang up aty piga simu "penye unataka " mafala sana

[Mumbi 🎀 @mumbi_wathika]

📍 Giakanja, Nyeri County.
Growing up, my dad would bring me here every Sunday for the best choma/kienyeji chicken....safe to say that that's still the case all these years later. 🤌🏾

[Soccer Kingdom @SoccerKingdom_1]

If algorithm brings this to your timeline, kindly Repost🙏

[wanjiru @Wanjiru2027]

Wako site wako site, clearing hapa na pale despite court orders that halt kenya from hosting ebola quarantine facilities.

Hii nchi manze, do we even rule

[Kenya West @KinyanBoy]

Jumping from a 4th-story balcony breaking his leg, a fraud suspect who wired millions to buy property in Nairobi has been charged. FBI is tightening the noose and things getting rough for them over there.

[Sigh more @Saimoh_1]

Hawa wako Kangemi police post wansema wametoka Kayole Nyamavilla spread the message, maybe the parent ata ona kwa timeline yako.

[Alinur Mohamed @AlinurMohamed_]

Don't say anything. Just repost.

10K reposts will create enough awareness.

Let's bring Precious and Zennel home.