Martin Gathu

EX-sinner SAVED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH Ephesians 2:8 | Stickler for JUSTICE {Isa 1:17} | Sociopolitical Reformationist
#KenyaComeAlive

[Martin Gathu @Martinskey]

"Whenever any of us is degraded and humiliated, even a child, we are all humiliated and degraded because it's got to do with human beings."

[The Standard Digital @StandardKenya]

Public anger boils

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[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

Program ya Sunday ni fupi sana…kwanza maombi ndio Mungu aongezee mahasidi na wale wa roho mbaya confusion… alafu tuingie kiwanja pale Jacaranda. Excuse yako ni gani?

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

#China says it sent #Kenya goods worth Sh1.3 TRILLION in 2025. @KRACorporate @KRACare recorded imports of only Sh672 billion. That leaves a Sh629 BILLION gap that DOES NOT appear in our books.

Over five years, the gap has grown to Sh2.76 TRILLION.

This cannot be brushed aside as a minor difference in paperwork. Kenya’s import figures should generally be higher than China’s export figures because imports are recorded on a cost, insurance and freight basis. Yet our recorded value is almost half.

That raises serious questions about UNDER-DECLARATION, mis-invoicing, customs valuation and POSSIBLE revenue leakage.

Customs is one of government’s BIGGEST revenue sources. If imports from our largest trading partner can fall through such a huge gap year after year, then Kenya DOES NOT simply have a revenue problem. We have a revenue LEAKAGE problem.

@KRACorporate and the @KeTreasury MUST explain this.

We need a full public reconciliation of China’s export records and KRA’s import records for 2021 to 2025. We need effective data-sharing with Chinese customs, targeted audits of high-risk imports, and accountability for the systems and officials responsible for closing these gaps.

Kenyans are being told that the country needs more taxes because government has no money. But before taxing Kenyans more, close the holes through which their money is already escaping.

Kenyans are not poor. We are being taxed in a system that may be failing to collect what is already owed.

That is the issue. #GetitDone #ReKe

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[The People’s President @bonifacemwangi]

Davis Lichuma was arrested on Gen Z Mashujaa Day, removed from a gazetted police station by Ruto’s rogue police squad who drive Subarus, mask their faces, and shoot innocent Kenyans and has since disappeared.

We demand his immediate release. It is also very unfortunate that abductions and torture are back.
#FreeDavisLichuma

[Adémọ́lá. @OgbeniDemola]

We don’t have Presidents in Africa. We have supervisors of slave plantations.

[Dr. Fred Matiang'i @RealMatiangi]

THE PROPOSED MANDATORY ANNUAL VEHICLE INSPECTION CHARGES ARE INSENSITIVE & UNFAIR!!

Fellow Kenyans,

The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has announced that, effective July 1, private vehicles older than four years will be subjected to mandatory annual inspections at a cost of KSh2,000 per vehicle, while motorcycles will also attract compulsory inspection charges.

Road safety is a legitimate national objective. Every Kenyan wants safer roads, fewer accidents and vehicles that meet acceptable safety standards. However, public policy must be evidence-based, proportionate, transparent and sensitive to the economic realities facing citizens.

The proposed inspection regime fails that test.

Kenyans are already burdened by high fuel prices, multiple taxes and levies, rising insurance premiums, expensive spare parts, parking charges, licensing fees and an increasing cost of living. Introducing another compulsory annual payment without demonstrating its necessity places yet another financial burden on households and businesses that are already under immense pressure.

We therefore call upon the Government to immediately suspend the implementation of this directive and subject it to comprehensive public review.

Specifically, Kenyans deserve clear answers to the following questions:

How many active private vehicles will be affected by this policy?

How much revenue does the Government expect to collect annually?

What evidence demonstrates that annual inspections for vehicles older than four years will significantly reduce road accidents?

What proportion of road crashes in Kenya is attributable to mechanical defects, compared with human error, poor road engineering and traffic congestion?

Does NTSA currently have sufficient inspection capacity to serve millions of motorists efficiently without creating long delays and opportunities for corruption?

What safeguards have been put in place to ensure that this programme does not become another avenue for rent-seeking and harassment of motorists?

Road safety cannot be reduced to the collection of inspection fees.

If Government is genuinely committed to saving lives, it must address the major causes of road accidents comprehensively. These include reckless driving, speeding, drunk driving, poor road design, inadequate road maintenance, weak enforcement of existing traffic laws and traffic congestion. Vehicle condition is only one part of a much larger road safety strategy.

Good governance requires transparency.

Before imposing mandatory costs on citizens, Government must publish the data, the policy analysis, the cost-benefit assessment and the implementation plan that justify such a far-reaching decision.

This is also a constitutional issue. Public power must always be exercised reasonably, proportionately and in the public interest. Citizens should never be treated merely as sources of revenue.

We therefore urge Parliament to subject this policy to immediate scrutiny and require NTSA to table all supporting evidence before implementation proceeds.

Jubilee Party stands firmly with Kenyan motorists, transport operators, small businesses and ordinary families who continue to shoulder an ever-growing burden of taxes, fees and levies.

Kenya's economic recovery will not be achieved by continually imposing new charges on already struggling citizens. It will be achieved by growing the economy, creating jobs, fighting corruption, improving public services and restoring confidence between citizens and the State.

We call upon all Kenyans to reject this policy in its current form and to demand a transparent, evidence-based and affordable road safety framework that protects both lives and livelihoods.

Road safety is essential. Excessive financial extraction is not.

Dr. Fred Matiang'i
Deputy Party Leader Jubilee Party

[K24TV @K24Tv]

Dear President William Ruto,
At a time when Kenya is marking two years since the deaths of young Gen Z protesters, your public attack on Standard Media Group is deeply worrying.The media is not your enemy. A free press is not a favour from State House. It is a right protected by the Constitution. Its work is to ask questions, report facts, expose failure and hold power to account.
READ MORE: https://t.co/rNJhcmws8y

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

"When the citizens of a Nation deem their most accomplished thieves as the most electable then they lose the right to complain when theft becomes their national creed." ~ Modibo Keita. Pan-Africanist leader and first President of Mali. (1915-1977)

[The Standard Digital @StandardKenya]

Exactly two years ago, a generation rose. They were young Kenyans armed not with weapons but smartphones, the national flag, and the Constitution. They were the Gen-Zs pushing for better governance and accountability.
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[Saddique Shaban @SaddiqueShaban]

Kenyan President William Ruto's "Singapore Dream" for Kenya: it could well be a cry for help or an undiagnosed episode of schizophrenia or bipolar mania.

Obsession with "Singapore" is a manifest hallucination, a detachment from the devastating economic and social hardships of a local Kenyan.
"Singapore" lives rent-free in William Ruto's mind because he has presided over and benefited from corruption and theft of public funds in Kenya.

Let's be clear: any comparisons and references to "Singapore" whilst speaking about Kenya is a Psychotic disorder.

[Njambi @A_Njambi]

GM KENYANS!

IM LOOKING FOR THE NAMES OF COMPANIES WHO HAVE BEEN CONTRACTED TO MAINTAIN THIKA ROAD, OUTERING ROAD, WAIYAKI WAY, EASTERN BYPASS & KIAMBU ROAD

THOSE COMPANIES ARE GIVEN HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF TAXPAYERS MONEY TO MAINTAIN THOSE ROADS BUT THEY OPT TO LOOT & LEAVE DRIVERS STRUGGLING TO SEE AT NIGHT BECAUSE OF NO STREET LIGHTING.

YOU WILL NOT RISK THE LIVES OF KENYANS & GET AWAY WITH IT.

I AM COMING FOR YOUR RAGGEDY THUGGERY SELVES

PLEASE DM ME, YOUR IDENTITY WILL NEVER BE EXPOSED!

[Mwalimu Mūtemi wa Kīama @MutemiWaKiama]

Grace Akinyi on #CBC again...

After my last post on CBC, Kenyans rushed to remind me on the comments that,

"...the west is doing better because their students specialise early, get skills early and become productive"

.....sounds convincing...but also largely nonsense...!

Because some of us have had the privilege of schooling both in Kenya and abroad, it might be important to interrupt that fantasy with some uncomfortable truths.

I did my Masters at the best University in Scotland. Elite by standard.

In my entire class, I did not see a single Scottish national.

Ask your friends studying across the UK and they'll report the same pattern.

Classrooms in western countries are overwhelmingly international. Locals? Not so many.

And no... this is not because British students are fully skilled by their teenage years.

It is because British youth do not need more education to survive.

In the UK, you can decide to take an apprenticeship, opt out of undergraduate degree, switch careers, or simply work with little experience and no education.

Failure is survivable because the system cushions it.

In this context, early specialisation works because it sits on top of functioning institutions, real labour markets, and a system that forgives mistakes.

.... the early skills arguments gets worse here....

Even in sectors that literally keep people alive like healthcare, the UK does not rely on skills produced solely by its own education system.

According to a recent General Medical Council Workforce report, around 42% of doctors working in the UK were trained outside the country.

Yaani, almost half the experts keeping people alive in the UK were taught in curricular that resemble something like 8-4-4

What does that mean?

It means that even with early specialisation, even with elite universities, the UK cannot meet its own critical skill needs domestically.

If early specialisation was the secret ingredient, the UK would not need a Pakistani, Indian or Nigerian doctors to keep its health systems functioning. It would simply produce locally.

Now let's get back home.

Kenya.

I was told that we ain't doing well because we lack skills.

And honestly that would be a very funny joke if it wasn't insulting.

I read it felt hot in my stomach. That Kenyans lack skills because of 8-4-4 curriculum ?

The joke...or the nonsense... or the nonsense on the joke?

Why are we afraid of saying the truth....

That we are not doing well because our skills are trapped in a broken political economy....

Why do you keep on insisting that we are suffering because 8-4-4 did not produce enough skills?

And yet and yet and yet.....

Our engineers are riding bodas. Our trained teachers are sitting at home. Our footballers are sleeping hungry?

Why are you insulting us...?

We see what you people are trying to do with this your CBC.

You want to shift responsibility from the state to the child.

If they fail, they will be told that they chose a wrong pathway.

If they are poor, they will be told that they don't have the right competencies.

And just like that, the leadership will walk away untouched.

Yet, our employment crisis as a country is a governance feature.

Shida iko huko juu kwa Githinji. Sio kwa watoto wetu.

We can redesign the curriculum every five years, but until we redesign politics, jobs will remain an elective.

[David Maraga @dkmaraga]

Kenya is a beautiful country with one of the best constitutions in the world.

We are the cradle of humanity

We own the marathon.

We have vibrant, creative, innovative youth.

Let’s #ResetRestoreRebuild our beautiful Kenya.

[𝙋𝘼𝙐𝙇 𝐍𝐄𝐊𝐎 @ouma_neko]

President William Ruto is no longer governing Kenya.
He is protecting himself.

When lies collapse, a clever conman does not apologise he divides.

He has done it before. He is doing it again.

In 2007, he weaponised Kalenjin pain against Kikuyu neighbours.
Today, as president, he is engineering suspicion Luo, Luhya, Kalenjin vs Kikuyu not because tribes hate each other, but because a cornered man needs enemies to survive.

Look closely:

Luhyas are refusing. They say: we won’t be used.

Kisiis are resisting. They say: our struggles are shared.

Ordinary Kenyans are tired. They say: our problem is poverty, not tribes.

So what does Ruto do?

He reaches for the oldest, dirtiest tool in Kenyan politics:
outsourcing tribal venom.

He doesn’t shout it himself.
He uses compromised Luo elites, desperate men with positions but no dignity, to spit poison on his behalf to provoke Kikuyu anger, to trigger fear, to recreate siege politics.

Not because Kikuyus are the problem.
Not because Luos are the problem.
But because unity terrifies him.

Three years in office. Nothing to show.

What remains of the promises?

Bottom–up? A slogan, not a system.

Hustlers? Crushed by taxes, levies, licences, and police harassment.

Cost of living? Worse than ever.

Free healthcare? A lie buried in unpaid SHA bills.

Wi-Fi in markets? A joke.

Uplifting small traders? They’re closing shops.

Pampers for newborns? Insulting theatrics while maternity wards collapse.

Every promise was cheap marketing.
Every rally was a sales pitch.
Every speech was a con.

Now that the lies are exposed, he has switched scripts.

Yesterday it was Hustler Nation.

Today it is Singapore.

Same trick. New costume.

Singapore had discipline, integrity, institutions, and consequences.
Ruto offers none of that only debt, propaganda, and repression.

You cannot build Singapore on:

corruption without shame

taxes without services

debt without production

tribal division without trust

You don’t leapfrog from chaos to miracle by talking harder.

This is the danger.

A president who has failed economically
will always try to survive ethnically.

A leader who cannot deliver prosperity
will manufacture fear.

A man with nothing to show
will always point fingers.

Kenya is not broken because of Kikuyu.
Kenya is not suffering because of Luo, Luhya, Kalenjin, or Kisii.

Kenya is bleeding because it is being ruled by a man
who mistakes manipulation for leadership
and propaganda for vision.

This is not about tribes.
This is about truth vs deception.
Competence vs conmanship.
Unity vs manufactured hatred.

History is watching.
And it never spares leaders who rule by lies and division.

No amount of slogans will save this project.

[I am Chege @_James041]

Tomorrow Thursday 18th December 2025, 11 a.m Lady Justice Muigai is expected to deliver a bail ruling in the ongoing murder trial of Killer Cop Klinzy Masinde Barasa, who shot and killed mask vendor Boniface Mwangi Kariuki during the #JusticeForAlbertOjwang protests.

Murderers like Klinzy Barasa should not be allowed near humans.

We must not tolerate impunity in this country.

We stand in solidarity with Boniface Kariuki.

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

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

One morning in 2009, Malaysian officials decided they could outplay their constitution.

They set up a fund called 1MDB, sold to the public as a “strategic development vehicle” to accelerate infrastructure and national growth. Instead of keeping it tightly inside normal budget controls, they placed it in corporate structures, special-purpose entities, and government-linked companies that looked commercial but carried sovereign backing.

That single design choice broke the firewall.

Once money started moving outside Parliament, outside routine audits, and outside transparent procurement, oversight collapsed. Billions were borrowed in the name of development. Officials and politically connected insiders signed opaque deals, shifted funds through shell companies, and routed money across borders.

By the time the dust settled, over USD 4.5 billion had been stolen or misappropriated. Some of it funded luxury real estate, private jets, jewellery, yachts, and even Hollywood movies. Malaysia’s taxpayers were left with the debt. Senior officials went to prison. The country’s reputation was shredded.

Here’s the lesson that matters for Kenya.

1MDB did not fail because development funds are bad. It failed because public money was deliberately pushed outside constitutional budget discipline and rebranded as “investment capital.” Once that happened, theft was no longer an accident but systematic. Any chokoraa can withdraw the money as they want.

That is why our Katiba is uncompromising on this by the way. Public money belongs in the Consolidated Fund. Spending authority belongs to Parliament. Withdrawals require the Controller of Budget. Audits belong to the Auditor-General. Cabinet has no constitutional role in creating or controlling money vehicles. This must be understood well by the idiots trying to justify this.

So when Kenyans hear about a National Infrastructure Fund structured as a limited liability company and announced by Cabinet nod, history should ring loudly.

1MDB is not ancient history but a clear signal of what that awaits Kenya.

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

I am deeply honoured to receive the 2025 Vanguard Warrior Award.
I accept this recognition with humility and profound gratitude.
May this recognition inspire us all to remain vigilant, courageous, and faithful to the values that bind us as a nation.

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

I thought SHA was the “revolutionary” solution we were all told to embrace? Or is it that SHA is only good for teachers, police officers, and ordinary public servants but suddenly becomes insufficient when it comes to the precious hides of MPs?

How special are they, exactly?

Every time it's the public, the government shoves SHA down their throats. But when it’s MPs, suddenly they rediscover the efficiency of private insurance, comprehensive packages, and VIP care. So SHA works just not for the elite. It’s the usual hypocrisy: one healthcare system for the ruled, another for the rulers.

[Nelson Amenya @amenya_nelson]

URGENT: Kenya's Healthcare Sovereignty Under Siege

President Ruto is about to sign away Kenya's health data sovereignty through a fundamentally unconstitutional agreement with the US Government.

THE SMOKING GUN:
I have obtained three explosive documents:

1. Model Specimen Sharing Agreement
2. PEPFAR Bilateral MOU Template
3. Legal Advisory by Dr. Mugambi Laibuta proving this violates Kenyan law

HERE'S WHAT RUTO IS SIGNING:
REAL-TIME SURVEILLANCE OF ALL KENYANS

US gets 24/7 access to Kenya's ENTIRE national health database
Every HIV test, TB diagnosis, malaria case - accessible to US officials
Your medical records, your children's health data - all exposed
NO anonymization required
NO consent from you
NO restrictions on what they can see

YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS? GONE.
Legal analysis confirms this violates:

Article 31: Your Right to Privacy - VIOLATED
Kenya Data Protection Act - COMPLETELY IGNORED
Health Act confidentiality provisions - BYPASSED
Digital Health Act - RENDERED USELESS

THE MOST DANGEROUS CLAUSE:
"This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with U.S. federal law."
Read that again. US law - not Kenyan law - will govern YOUR health data.
This means:

Office of Data Protection Commissioner: POWERLESS
Kenyan courts: NO JURISDICTION
Your data protection rights: DON'T EXIST
US has weaker privacy laws than Kenya: YOUR DATA LESS PROTECTED

IT GETS WORSE:
25-YEAR PATHOGEN EXTRACTION

Kenya must hand over disease specimens within 5 DAYS of US request
US shares with 10 private American pharmaceutical companies. They develop vaccines and drugs from OUR diseases. Kenya gets NOTHING guaranteed in return. US serves its own needs first. 25 YEARS of this arrangement

COUNTY GOVERNMENTS LOCKED OUT

Health is devolved - counties run these systems
Counties haven't been consulted
This violates Intergovernmental Relations Act

FINANCIAL BLACKMAIL BUILT IN:
"Failure to fulfill commitments could result in changes in planned assistance or discontinuation of this MOU."
Translation: Give us your data or lose funding.

WHAT THEY GET ACCESS TO:
Not just statistics. Not just aggregated data. They get:

Direct system access to query ANY patient record.

Rights to audit 5% of health facilities randomly selected

Access to lab results, treatment records, epidemiological data

Metadata and system architecture

Real-time disease surveillance

All diagnostic and testing data

50+ MILLION KENYANS' MEDICAL PRIVACY - GONE.
DR. MUGAMBI LAIBUTA'S LEGAL VERDICT:

"This Agreement, as drafted, is NOT legally compliant, poses CRITICAL constitutional and sovereignty risks, and must be SIGNIFICANTLY renegotiated before Kenya can lawfully sign or operationalize it."

THE BOTTOM LINE:
This is not cooperation. This is:

Data extraction disguised as aid.
Biopiracy of our pathogens for pharmaceutical profit.
Surveillance infrastructure embedded in our health systems.
Constitutional rights traded for donor dollars.
25 years of compromised sovereignty.

OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES ARE SAYING NO

The template shows this is being pushed across Africa. Reasonable countries are rejecting these terms. But Ruto, desperate for any "investment" narrative, is ready to sign away our most sensitive data.

WHAT MUST HAPPEN NOW:
This cannot be signed as drafted. The Constitution doesn't allow it. The law doesn't permit it. Our dignity as a sovereign nation demands better.
We need:

IMMEDIATE PUBLIC DISCLOSURE - Full text published

COUNTY CONSULTATION - Governors must weigh in

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE - MPs must approve or reject

ODPC REVIEW - Data Protection Commissioner must audit for compliance

COMPLETE RENEGOTIATION - Fair terms or no deal

You cannot sign agreements that violate the Constitution. This is not about being anti-partnership. This is about protecting Kenyan citizens' rights and maintaining our sovereignty.