Ruffred

travel writer,social commentator,legal expert

[Nyakundi Report @NyakundiReport]

One government. Two messages. Kenyans are now left guessing who is actually in charge of university funding reforms.

Days after President William Ruto declared that every student admitted to a university or college would receive 100% government funding, Education CS Julius Ogamba has indicated that the changes are still subject to legislation and parliamentary approval. The contradiction has left parents, students and universities wondering whether the President announced a policy—or a proposal still awaiting the law.

[JP @ja_Pwonji]

@edwinsifuna Why is this trending on WhatsApp?

#Standwithsifuna ? 😳🥱

[Ruffred @Njengaking]

@BlenchGitu Hello X

[Ruffred @Njengaking]

#AmorimOut

[COmbeta @OmbetaC]

Health Ministry is a crime scene.
Employees therein are criminals.
PS is an enabler.
The silence smells of conspiracy.
Duale is heading that cartel.
Na Ruto Amenyamaza?
EACC is going for governors to distract.
👇 the department of corruption.

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

#ArrestDuale

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

Edwin Sifuna: I want William Ruto to know that his removal from office is a national priority agenda. This is the worst possible government we would have envisaged. His government is totally opposed to what the Constitution stands for

#CitizenExplainer @YvonneOkwara

[Kenyan Hour @KenyanhourMedia]

Senator Edwin Sifuna Is Who He Thinks He Is.

[Tingiz🅰 Mti☠️🇰🇪 @patriki_KE]

Edwin Sifuna: Kenya's priority right now is to make Ruto WANTAM. There's no other priority right now,even the JKIA terminal can wait.
😂😂💪🏿

[Runi Runi @runikrystal]

@nairobi_man #WeAreAllKikuyus is an organic conversation. The one struggling to be pushed is yours of WeAreAllKenyans. Shame on you.

[DciJuja @dcijuja]

If this poster appears on your timeline repost!
#ArrestEliudLagat

[Bevalyne Kwamboka @bevalynekwambo3]

💪#FreeRoseNjeri

[Cornelius K. Ronoh @itskipronoh]

Kenyans are injecting here and there. Wueh!

[KEN Kimathi @KenMutw98337131]

Naskia the boy has been abducted
Let us not keep quiet.
#FreeMecha

[ilovemaya 🍓🍓 @mamaaellena]

It Costs Nothing to Retweet This.🥹
#FreeKizzaBesigye

[©Kimemia🇰🇪 @TheRealDavimesh]

Another day, another W💪🏿🙏🏿🏃🏿‍♂️

[Joshua Okayo @okayojoshua]

Yesterday (Saturday 16/02/2024), from around 5 p.m. onwards I was all smiles and pacing around in a celebratory mood as I watched the results stream in. I was genuinely happy. I felt that the gen Z spirit was finally vindicated. Indeed, our spirit is vindicated. Every young person in the country is celebrating. Except of course a few diehards from Kondele and the likes. Mothers are still hurt. Fathers are crying. Their tears may not be visible but trust me, they are crying. Burying their children is the last thing they would have wished to do, but they did. It hurts more than anything else. Given a chance to vote now, Kenyans will punish you big time. They would even vote for a non-citizen to punish you, Ruto and all your agents. Read the room. Read the mood. That’s how unpopular you have become. Right now, I would actually beat you in a free and fair election. Just saying. Back to yesterday, so one of my friends asked me why I was so happy. I told them I was celebrating your loss. They were so surprised at how things had completely changed. They would never imagine me celebrating but, well it happened. I couldn’t help it. I just felt this deep, genuine feeling of happiness that I couldn’t explain. That’s when I realized that emancipation is real. I told them I know better now.

Indeed, I know better now.

Yours,

Joshua Okayo

Gen Z.

[Joshua Okayo @okayojoshua]

In short, I still supported you.
I should have taken a little break before diving into this next paragraph but I’m sure you’re too busy to afford the luxury of waiting. I’m talking about 2024. June onwards. When we, the young people of Kenya decided that enough is enough and that we are not going to wait for any messiah from God knows where to liberate us, we took to the streets and marched to remove a repressive regime. We told you to stay at home and let us deal with this. You did for a moment but oh boy did you ultimately have to be the savior! But there was no space for infiltration. So no one gave a damn about your existence because really, we were doing just well, of course, apart from the painful casualties experienced. Many of our friends were killed by your now friend. Many were abducted, tortured and threatened. I am one of those in the latter category. Attached here is a screenshot of my photo from a video during my interview with NTV. I chose it thinking it would maybe make you feel some type of way. Just a little. That is if you are coming across it for the first time.
Gen Zs were killed. Their families buried them with only the support of fellow comrades. The pain of losing loved ones is still felt among those families. They had to foot hospital bills alone apart from some support from fellow comrades. Even their killer, your friend Ruto, never bothered. Others were badly injured but again, they dealt with the bills themselves. Do you know Hanifa? She helped mobilize funds to support those who were hospitalized. Were the funds enough? Of course it can never be enough. Did you do anything about any of these cases? Did you? Well of course you were not obliged to do anything. After all you are just a Kenyan like any of us. You have no office. I mean, you are just a raia, right? Haiya, what did you decide to do after we had weakened Arap Mashamba the Chief Thief from Sugoi? you went and negotiated fo yourself and your minions. Distributed positions that were on offer as you pleased and then showed us the middle finger. You literally told us to fuck off. After all you were on the payroll, and your boys like Mbadi, Joho, Wandayi and Oparanya were already representing you in the bed and bread- based government. Oh, should I talk about how much you earn from Nairobi City County? Are Kenyans aware that you are the employee number one in City Hall? Needless to mention the other counties especially whose governors were elected under the Azimio coalition party. You take home whooping amounts of money every month including from MPs and MCAs. Huna ata aibu! Honestly, there is so much more I can talk about, but I am also tired of venting now. I feel worse every time I write about any of these things so I don’t have the pleasure to continue writing.
Anyway, jakom! From the foregoing, I have lost the trust and admiration I used to have for you, and believe me, most of my peers have also lost the respect for you. You think we celebrated for no reason when you lost the AUC seat? That’s the resounding message. Kenyan youth have decided to take over the leadership of their nation and they are not going to let any individualistic

characters to steal their future. We won’t. As you come back to Kenya, oh sorry you are already here? Get ready to help us remove Ruto then sit back relax and advise us on the positive aspects of leadership as you watch us take over leadership of our country. You fit that role now more than anything else. We still know and acknowledge the positive role you have played in our democracy and we are grateful for that. You have done a lot of active politics. It’s enough. Let us, your children and grandchildren bring in fresh blood and ideas with your help and the help of all the others who fit that category. (2/3)

[Joshua Okayo @okayojoshua]

A LETTER TO THE RT. HON. RAILA AMOLO ODINGA FROM A GEN Z

Dear Hon. Raila,
I am writing to you from my small bedsitter somewhere closer to Nairobi CBD than Karen, but if we both left our houses for CBD, you would get there way faster than me. Needless to say I’d spend some 30 minutes or more for a matatu to fill. So, basically I mean to say the distance between you and I status-wise is probably no less than Addis Ababa to Nairobi.
In 2007, I was in standard 2 in some village school in Okela village, Uyoma Katweng’a (UK). When Kivuitu announced the results, I was at Loyan’s (a classmate and fiend) place. I felt like a part of me left me. I felt bad bad. I felt like my life, those of my family members and Kenyans generally would not change for the better. I felt I had lost greatly. Here’s why; growing up, we were fed with the notion that you were the only person who would liberate the Luo community. Every child my age would talk about you in school. Everyone ‘worshipped’ you. The teachers taught us about you. Some of them actually called you the President of Kenya. For a long time, I knew you were the President of Kenya. For a long time, I knew Kibaki and Kivuitu were criminals who deserved to rot in jail for stealing your win.
That same year, Hon. Raphael Tuju (Tuch mon) was running for a second term in the office of MP for Rarieda constituency. My mother, Margaret Anyango ‘Nyomollo’ (Eternal rest grant unto her Oh Lord...) was part of some women league supporting Tuju. She was so excited about Tuju. Women in my village, and I guess in the whole of Rarieda loved Tuju. They still do. They talk about him to date. But sadly that year, Tuju lost his seat because apparently you decampained him due to his alignment with Kibaki’s party. You wanted every Luo politician to vie with your Party even if they didn’t agree with your policies. Tuju lost to Nicholas Gumbo. My mother, just like many of her fiends was heartbroken. She told me this story and I felt bad for her. I remember there is a day she came home and found me loudly singing this ‘Tuju’ song by Suzannah Owiyo and she was very upset with me. She was concerned that some ‘Raila supporters would hear me and probably attack me or my family.’ I kept wondering ‘who is this Raila yawa?’ So, really, I was confused whether to be your fan or to feel sad about Hon. Tuju’s loss. I was barely 9 years old remember. But this Raila thing was giving me sleepless nights like some ladies giving Kenyan men sleepless nights and vice versa.
In early January, 2008, my cousins Fred (16) and Dave (7) were traveling from Mombasa back home after a long holiday they had both longed for before. Sadly, they were not to get home until after about 1 month. They were victims of the 2007/08 Post election violence. These two young boys had to suffer for 30 straight days because no bus would be allowed to move until Raila is announced President. Remember the “No Raila No Peace”? I heard about it, even though I was so young. When the two finally got home, they were emaciated, darker and bitter. They were infected with the dangerous chicken pox. That was the first time I heard of such an infection in my life. They had these madoadoa, they looked homeless and I remember people cried when they finally got home. Still, everyone was chanting ‘Raila Tosha’ ‘Agwambo Tosha’ ‘Tinga Tosha’ and we believed you were clean. Msafi kama pamba.

In 2013, I was in standard 8. Results of the March election tore us apart. We mourned for some days but life continued. 2017! Same thing. What I failed to insist earlier is that we were always told these guys (the Kikuyus) always stole your votes. It was taught to us both at home and in school. So I grew up knowing you are the only savior Luos are waiting to get to Presidency. In 2022, I supported you but shingo upande. I did it in belief that there was no better candidate, not like you were the one like I used to believe before. Kahongo already had a glaring bad reputation. (1/3)

[Maggie Kigozi @KigoziMaggie]

From the Medical Fraternity. Let us save the life of fellow physician Dr @kizzabesigye1 #releaseKizzaBesigye