How to protect yourself from the LRAD as a protestor in Kenya:
Long Range Acoustic Devices (pictured below) produce high-frequency sound waves that can cause you permanent hearing loss. The waves travel like light in a straight line, but for the Kenyan version, there are 4 cones to send the sonic wave in all directions.
And since maandamano will end when CoK 2010 ends, the first defense is blocking that line of sight to the machine with thick and heavy materials.
1. DIY Hard Sound Deflector: use wooden doors or thick plywood found in loose building materials, construction site scraps. Hold a thick piece of wood in front of your head to reflect the sound waves away.
2. Use metal cooking pots, sufurias or large metal trays directly over your ears and face. Thick metal acts as a hard barrier as sound waves struggle to pass through. Direct the aluminium side to the waves. It seems Kioni and his sufuria revolution was onto something.
3. Use heavy plastic bins, buckets to create a makeshift shield. They are easily available in the streets.
4. Pack thick books or directories in your backpack. Hold the backpack flat against your head and ears like a helmet.
5. Improvise ear Plugs and muffs using wet cloth or fabric. Tear strips of denim, heavy canvas, or thick cotton from clothing or bags. Wet the fabric with water, roll it into tight, dense cones, and push them firmly into your ear canals. Wetting the fabric packs the fibers closer together, making it much harder for sound to pass through.
6. Use firm rubber, plastic caps, bottle caps or rubber stoppers from juice or soda bottles. Wrap them in a layer of cloth and press them tightly into your ear openings.
7. If you have nothing else, press the palms of your hands completely flat and hard against your ears. Cupping your hands creates an air pocket that can actually amplify the sound; you must press flat and hard to seal the canal completely.
8. Combine with 7 above and turn away. Do not look directly at the LRAD. Turn your back completely to the sound source so your skull, back, and shoulders act as a first wall of tissue to block the sound from hitting your ear canals directly.
9. Get behind others with shields. If someone near you has managed to construct a larger wooden or plastic shield, press tightly behind them. Create a straight human line directly behind the barrier to stay out of the acoustic line.
Contrary to popular belief, dont use noise cancelling headphones. The sonic wave can intefere and create dangerous static right i side your ears, defeating the purpose of protecting yourself.
#RutoMustGo
Call for help.
My mum was hit with a stroke in may 2024.
Since then our lives haven't remained the same. My family have spent all our savings yet her condition hasn't changed.
She has severe BP challenge, she has diabetes. Which has gone on to take a toll on her kidneys.
That boy circled in green is Peter Edung. Fourteen years old. From Sosian Village, Laikipia North. From a family that has very little, except now they have even less. They have a funeral to plan.
Peter went to visit his uncle, a casual worker at Oldonyo Lemora Ranch. The ranch is owned by Ivan Tomlinson, a British - Kenyan dual national. It's the kind of place where tourists pay good money to forget the world exists.
Peter didn't go there as a tourist. He went there to see family.
He never came back.
According to police reports, the incident occurred on the night of April 21, 2026. A firearm was discharged. Peter sustained fatal injuries. The weapon, a Mark Four CZ 527 rifle, was licensed to Ivan Tomlinson. The person police have named in connection with the shooting is Lance Tomlinson; the 15-year-old son of the ranch owner.
One teenager shot another teenager. One is now at Rumuruti Funeral Home. The other is... not in custody. Probably watching Netflix somewhere.
The suspect is unaccounted for. The System is "Moving."
Here's what we know so far, based on publicly available information.
Ivan Tomlinson, the father and firearm owner, reported to the DCI offices in Laikipia West on Thursday. He came with legal representation. He recorded a statement. He was subsequently released on cash bail of KSh 100,000 for the alleged offense of allowing a minor access to a firearm, contrary to the Firearms Act.
Meanwhile, the juvenile suspect; Lance Tomlinson has not yet been formally apprehended. Police have stated that efforts to trace him are ongoing.
I hope we are together up to that point.
A 14-year-old boy is dead. A firearm registered to a British man was involved. The father has been questioned and released on bail.
The son named in connection with the shooting is still at large, and the official word is that the search is at "an advanced stage."
We are not investigators. We are not the court. We simply note the sequence of events and ask: If the roles were reversed, would the pace be the same?
Multiple sources have indicated that the young suspect was taken to Nanyuki Cottage Hospital for what has been described as a mental health assessment.
We do not know the medical history of the individual involved. We do not know the legitimacy or necessity of such an assessment. That is for medical professionals to determine.
But here is what we can observe: When a poor Kenyan teenager is named in connection with a violent crime, the path is generally direct; arrest, cells, court. There is rarely a private hospital visit in between.
Whether this assessment is standard procedure or something else, the public is watching. And the question is fair: Is this healthcare, or is this strategy?
This tragedy did not happen in a vacuum. It happened in Laikipia; a county where land, identity, and justice have been tangled for over a century.
More than half of Laikipia's land mass is occupied by large private ranches and wildlife conservancies. Many of these are owned by families of British descent; descendants of settlers who remained after independence.
Meanwhile, pastoralist communities who once moved freely across this landscape have, over generations, been squeezed into ever-smaller parcels.
Peter Edung was not part of any conflict. He was a 14-year-old boy. He was from an extremely poor family. He was visiting his uncle, a casual laborer, on a ranch his ancestors may once have walked freely.
And now he's dead.
We do not know all the facts of that night. We do not know what led to the discharge of the weapon. We do not know the full story and we may never know it completely.
But we do know the context. And context matters.
Where Are the Leaders?
This is the part that should disturb every resident of Laikipia County.
THE WHOLE VIDEO IS SPOT ON:
“We have movements that feel radical but function safely inside the system. We have protests that express anger but protect capital. We have activism that produces awareness but not redistribution. Nothing changes because nothing is forced to change.”
No Sir, we don't buy that noise. @KWSKenya can your director do something about your killer rangers before assaulting our sensibilities with talk of toxic fish in lake Nakuru? Where is Brian Odhiambo, you degenerates
"You are a disgrace for supporting Ibrahim Traore, a dIctaTor who is rEpreSsiNg his people and violating their yOomAn rIcE. How can a journalist support a dIctAtoR?"
Man my "dIctaToR" doesn't rape babies or eat human flesh.
The next time I hear Ibrahim Traore's name inside your useless mouth, come near me by mistake and I will physically close it for you!
Oloshi people constantly trying to lecture the world while literally EVERYBODY else is far better than them!
@KWSKenya Wetlands like Lake Nakuru are vital to biodiversity and should not be used to hide evidence of extra judicial killings. Where is Brian Odhiambo??
Share this clip widely. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Join hands in saying NO to Police Brutality. Police have turned into bandits in uniform.
#EndPoliceBrutalityKe#RutoMustGoNow
I met Kenya’s failure today at Mwiki, near the railway line and it has nothing to do with laziness, culture, or excuses politicians like to hide behind.
It has everything to do with broken systems and careless gatekeepers.
A 17-year-old girl, Jamila Wanjiku, selling boiled eggs and smokies a few metres from Mwiki Police Station. I wasn’t hungry. I just asked the price. KSh 40 per sausage. The last time I bought one under Uhuru it was 25, maybe 30. Inflation is not an economic debate it’s eating children alive.
We talked. I asked for her WhatsApp number. Then the truth came out, slowly, painfully:
She dropped out of school in January 2025.
Not because she wanted to.
Not because she failed.
Not because she misbehaved.
School fees.
Her donor pulled out and said, “I can’t even feed my own children.” That sentence alone should shame every office holding public power.
Jamila was a student at St. Theresa Ruai.
Her classmates are now in Form Four.
She is standing by a railway line, hawking smokies, inhaling smoke, running from askaris, learning survival instead of chemistry.
This is not leadership failure at the top.
This is failure by people around leadership.
So let me be clear and fair:
Hon. Ronald @KarauriR, MP Kasarani Constituency
I know you value education.
I know your track record.
I know your heart is not hard.
But the people around you are failing you.
Your office has become noisy with politics but deaf to silent suffering.
Your gatekeepers are filtering loyalty instead of need.
Your systems are catching headlines but missing children.
Jamila didn’t fall through the cracks
she was ignored by them.
This girl is not asking for sympathy.
She is asking for what the Constitution already promised her: education.
Hon. Karauri, this is not an attack it’s an appeal.
Cut through the noise.
Bypass the brokers.
Ignore the politics.
Help this child get back to school.
Because every day Jamila sells smokies near that railway line, it’s not your reputation that suffers it’s the reputation of the people you trusted to listen for you.
And if we cannot rescue a single 17-year-old girl from the roadside, then all our speeches about education are just noise.
One person from Mandera has reportedly died due to hunger and starvation. If this news is true it’s extremely heartbreaking. The governor and MCAs of Mandera county are all in the posh neighborhoods in Nairobi. Mahn this truly breaks my heart
VIRAL ALERT – KASARANI
Guys, be alert.
A Samsung S24 was snatched at Kasarani Primary, near Seasons.
This wasn’t a solo act they operate as a gang of about three. One distracts, one grabs, one disappears. Clean, fast, coordinated.
The thief tried unlocking the phone and the device automatically captured images. That tells you two things:
1. These guys are active and reckless.
2. They’re confident because people stay silent.
If you’re in Kasarani, Seasons, Clay City, Hunters, or nearby:
Don’t use your phone casually on the roadside
Avoid stopping when strangers crowd you
Walk like you’re aware, not relaxed
If you recognize anything from the images, don’t play hero report to authorities or tip off the owner privately.
Phone snatching survives on fear and silence.
Share widely. Kill their comfort.
This is not a hospital story.
This is a national calamity.
Fellow Kenyans, Jennifer Lelenguran, a young mother and resident of Nairobi County, is being held hostage by Jacaranda Maternity Hospital over unpaid bills. Not treated. Not discharged with dignity. Detained. Imprisoned. Punished for being poor.
She delivered a child and instead of going home to heal, to bond, to live, she was locked inside a medical facility like a criminal.
Christmas passed.
New Year came and left.
While the country celebrated, Jennifer rotted in detention with her newborn.
This hospital does not accept SHA. Cash or select insurance only. If you don’t have money, you don’t deserve freedom. That is the message.
She cannot afford pampers.
She cannot buy water.
She cannot get food on credit.
Her one-month-old baby an innocent Kenyan citizen is growing up behind hospital walls, watching their mother cry herself to sleep.
This is not healthcare.
This is economic torture.
This is healthcare kidnapping.
When we tried to see her, we were barred.
We were forced to push our way through just to reach her.
And what we found was horrifying: a young mother, isolated, broken, held alone like contraband inside a hospital.
In 2026 Kenya the future Singapore, patients are still being detained.
Women are still being jailed after giving birth.
Babies are still being used as collateral.
This is bigger than Jennifer.
This is a systemic crime.
A nationwide scandal.
A human rights emergency.
Hospitals have turned into debtors’ prisons.
Poverty has been criminalised.
Motherhood has been punished.
I am pleading with you not as activists, not as politicians, but as human beings:
Speak for the child who has no voice.
Speak for the mother whose tears no one wants to see.
Speak because silence is what allows this cruelty to continue.
Jennifer Lelenguran is crying out to Kenyans of goodwill.
Her baby is crying without understanding why freedom is denied.
If this can happen to her, it can happen to anyone.
This must end. Now.