Mercy Phillips

[Willis Evans Otieno @otienowill]

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Tumesema...
Tumeweka mikakati...
Tutafanya....
Tumeahidi...
Tutapunguza...
Tutateremsha...
Tutahakikisha...
Mwaka huu...
Chini ya miezi sita...
Kufikia mwezi wa Tisa...
Tumeongea na waziri...
Kuanzia mwezi ujao...
Vile vile Tumetenga....
Sijui Kama tunaelewana?"

Good morning fellow Kenyans

[Mercy Phillips @MercyPhill99787]

@lynn_ngugi1 Lyn , you nailed it! My exact thoughts when I saw him speak yesterday! Suddenly someone is very clever! No freeking way! After you have eaten to your satisfaction then, wewe ni mweupe kama pamba! Then Suddenly you have a wheelbarrow chama! It gives eeeh....vote splitting!

[Mercy Phillips @MercyPhill99787]

@lynn_ngugi1 Lyn , you nailed it! My exact thoughts when I saw him speak yesterday! Suddenly someone is very clever! No freeking way! After you have eaten to your satisfaction then, wewe ni mweupe kama pamba! Then Suddenly you have a wheelbarrow chama! It gives eeeh....vote splitting!

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

It’s very hard to trust someone who can’t stand for anything. Ndindi Nyoro’s timing on launching his party is perfect. Typical politician move. Dine with the beneficiaries of a rotten system when it is convenient, then suddenly switch lanes when you sense defeat, when you need to reinvent yourself, or worse, when your job is to become a mole and split votes. Because where exactly was Ndindi Nyoro when Kenyans needed him the most?

Finance Bill 2024,voted YES.
Finance Bill 2026 ,ABSENT during the decisive vote. He later acknowledged that he was out of the country and the vote happened while he was away😂😂😂

These were not ordinary moments. These were moments when Kenyans needed their elected leaders to actually stand for something, whether popular or unpopular, and have their position recorded. Now suddenly we are hearing about everything that is wrong with this country and everything that needs to change.

But here is where I struggle…
Ndindi, you have been in Parliament. Why didn’t you use your position to push the policies you are now telling Kenyans you believe in? What exactly have you done with the power you already have to bring some of these solutions TODAY, not in 2027?

You cannot disappear when the vote matters, then reappear when the political winds change and ask Kenyans to believe that you are suddenly the alternative!!

WANTAM!

[Hammer Hammer Ke @HammerHamm026]

Mbadi ni mjinga si mjinga, Gladys ni musherati si musherati, Harambeeeeee...Babu Owino destroys Ruto’s sycophants in Homabay

[𝙋𝘼𝙐𝙇. 𝐎. 𝐍𝐄𝐊𝐎 @ouma_neko]

Today, Homa Bay witnessed scenes that should horrify every Kenyan.

Convoys were ambushed. Roads were barricaded with stones before dawn. Political leaders were attacked. Vehicles were vandalized. Journalists were beaten and their equipment stolen.

James Orengo's convoy was attacked in Ndhiwa.

Wycliffe Wangamati's vehicle was vandalized at Asumbi Junction.

Journalists were attacked simply for doing their jobs.

And where was the police?

Watching.

Arriving late.

Then coming out with explanations after the damage had already been done.

Seventeen suspects may have been arrested, but arrests after violence do not erase what happened.

They do not repair destroyed vehicles.

They do not heal injured journalists.

They do not restore public confidence.

Kenya must stop normalizing political violence.

If people can organize road blockades before sunrise, mobilize goons and attack peaceful political convoys while the police stand by, then Kenyans have every right to ask a simple question:

WHO ORGANIZED THIS? WHO FUNDED IT?
WHO GAVE THE ORDERS?

We do not want scapegoats.

We know the masterminds.

We know the financiers.

We know the commanders.

We know everyone who planned, facilitated or participated in the violence.

And the Inspector General of Police we dont want you answers.

Why were roads allowed to remain barricaded?

Why were political convoys allowed to be attacked?

Why were journalists beaten?

Why did intervention come after the violence instead of before it?

This country cannot become a place where political disagreement is settled by stones, goons and fear.

Our counties are not battlefields.

Kenya is not a private property.

Kenyan citizens do not need permission from anyone to assemble, speak, campaign or disagree with the government.

Those who believe violence can silence Kenyans are making a catastrophic mistake.

You can block a road.

You can attack a convoy.

You can smash a vehicle.

You can steal a journalist's camera.

But you cannot smash the democratic spirit of millions of Kenyans.

We will remember.

We will document.

We will defend ourselves & our leaders

And we will not be driven from the political arena by men carrying stones and acting with impunity.

August 10th 2027 is coming.

The ballot box will speak louder than every goon.

Kenya belongs to its people, not to those who believe fear is a political strategy.

[Mercy Phillips @MercyPhill99787]

@ceokulgroup @edwinsifuna LOA

[Festus Kiprotich @ceokulgroup]

@edwinsifuna Mkuu tulisema muende Homabay, Sa mnafanya nini Yemen 😂😂

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

Wueh… I just sat down and read this Tertiary Education Bill 2026 from top to bottom, and it'snot what was mostly sold.🚨

Ruto stood on that podium and looked us dead in the eye, promising every child full funding for university.(free university)

“Background will not matter,” he said. “Every qualified student will get full support.”

Kenyans clapped. Parents sighed in relief. Students celebrated.

Then you open the actual Bill…

Clause 44 says the whole Fund is mainly for loans which we can say ok.

Clause 49(1) forces you to start paying principal + interest within one year of finishing.

Clause 49(4) allows them to take up to 25% of your salary. If you add other deductions like nssf etc you are finished.

Clause 30(d) lets them set any interest rate they want - no limit. And this is bad. It means the CS can increase interest rates to any amount.

Clause 60 makes the debt last forever. They can chase your grandchildren. They intend to remove something important using this clause

Clause 30(k) gives them power to walk into private companies and inspect like police. They are to have Quasi police type of powers

This is not free education. This is HELB on steroids, with sharper teeth.

TEFA is just HELB rebranded (Clauses 64–67).

They sold us a dream and wrote a debt sentence.

Where exactly in this Bill is education free? Show me the clause. I’m waiting. Also its not a guarantee all students will even qualify.

Parents, students, wake up.

[Mercy Phillips @MercyPhill99787]

@lynn_ngugi1 How much were all these loosers paid to write these negative comments!! Bwana mko wengi! But the fact is, Lynn Ngugi has a legitimate question! How many of you loosers would dine with anyone who killed your brother/sister? Pretenders are worse than murderers!! Useless brains!

[Mercy Phillips @MercyPhill99787]

@dukemtambo @lynn_ngugi1 👌

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

Kaende sana🙌🏾🙌🏾

[Mercy Phillips @MercyPhill99787]

@lynn_ngugi1 What is even more painful Lynn is knowing that the Gen z's who were brutally murdered will never celebrate an engagement party, their parents were denied a chance to walk them on the aisle or see their children's children! It sickens my stomach!!

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

I think the most painful part about fighting for change is watching people you genuinely believed were part of the movement slowly water it down, shake hands with murderers, laugh with them, sit comfortably around the very oppressors they once condemned, then come back with all sorts of explanations and excuses for why they were there, why it was necessary and why we shouldn’t read too much into it. And you’re left wondering, was any of this ever real, or were some of these people simply well calculated psyops from the very beginning?

And then you find yourself asking an even harder question, are the lives we lost not personal to you? Because for some of us, they are. We remember the young people who lost their lives fighting for a better country, the families that had to bury their children, the blood that was spilled, and maybe that’s why it’s so difficult to understand how someone who stood beside you through all of that can suddenly sit comfortably, laugh and shake hands with the very people we were fighting against 🥹

And somewhere along the way, you begin to understand why people like Patrice Lumumba, Dedan Kimathi, Thomas Sankara and so many other African heroes were killed so brutally. It wasn’t always because they didn’t have people around them. Many did. The problem was that some of the very people they believed they were fighting alongside had already sold out long before the fight was over.

Perhaps that is one of the hardest truths about fighting for change, eventually you realise that people really do have a price. Politics is indeed a dirty game, and I have a feeling 2027 will expose even more about people’s character.

But I really hope the few who genuinely believe in change don’t give up. Is it easy? Absolutely not. But I believe there is something deeply fulfilling about knowing that even if you died today, you never sold out, never shook hands with murderers and never became comfortable with people who have blood on their hands simply because they offered you money, access or power. Does that make you a hero? Absolutely not. It simply means you remained honest about what you stood for.

And eventually, when money no longer matters, when power no longer matters and when all the noise has died down, I think being able to live with yourself knowing you never betrayed what you believed in is what will matter most.

WANTAM!

[Mercy Phillips @MercyPhill99787]

@lynn_ngugi1 I couldn't have put it better. Lynn. You took the words directly out of my mouth. I saw the laughter and the smiles from someone I really believed was in this fighting for change, and my heart dropped! Literally! I suddenly realized that, its true, everyone has a price! Damn!!!

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[The Alkebulan🇰🇪 @missjuli167]

@HusseinMohamedg Shugli ni hii bado!

[Wariithi @wariithi]

@HusseinMohamedg A story is told by two sides of the mouth...
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[Maina Munyeria @MainaMunyeria]

Don’t you think tokenism looks bad on this administration and is what people are tired about. This is how tokenism and appointments that are riddled with incompetence and lack of merit, are ruining service development and delivery across the country. Then you ask why there seems to be fatigue among the masses