If the opposition movement genuinely belongs to Kenyans, then a handful of politicians should not retreat into private meetings and decide who will be the presidential candidate on behalf of millions of people.
You cannot spend months telling Kenyans that they are the owners of a political movement, only to turn around and reduce their role to cheering for a candidate selected through negotiations between political elites.
Let those seeking the presidency present their ideas, defend their records, explain how they intend to fix the economy, investigate public debt, reform healthcare and address the institutional failures that have frustrated Kenyans for years.
Then establish a transparent, credible and inclusive process through which the people supporting the movement can participate meaningfully in choosing the person who will represent them.
The danger of allowing a few politicians to make that decision privately is that the movement risks becoming another arrangement for sharing political positions rather than an expression of the public's desire for change.
If this is a movement of the people, that should happen!
I swear SOMETHING broke in society since 2020 and nobody wants to talk about it.
And I’m not talking about masks, lockdowns, or COVID. I mean the FEELING of life.
Everything reopened. We went back to work. Restaurants filled up. Events came back. But somehow life still feels… different.
Years disappear faster. People feel more disconnected. Everything feels more expensive, stressful & rushed.
And somehow we’re all constantly exhausted. I can’t even explain exactly what we lost. I just know life before 2020 felt more ALIVE.
Tell me I’m not the only one who feels this.
Hello @OfficialFPL
Kindly consider increasing the FPL budget from £100m to £150m especially for managers in Kenya to reflect the high cost of living. If you see #OccupyFPL soon, don't say you were not warned. Viva!
God, what have you not done for us Chelsea fans this season?
We askwd for CB, you gave us Lacroix
We asked for LWB, you gave us Chavarria
We asked for RWB, you gave us Palestra
We asked for ALW you gave us Morgan
We asked for EXPERIENCE, you gave us Henderson and Welbeck
We have been asking for GK and today you answered again by giving us Dubi Martinez, one the best in the League.
What more can we say other than thank you Lord. We are grateful.
What a beautiful season to behold!!!
Hello @OfficialFPL
Kindly consider increasing the FPL budget from £100m to £150m especially for managers in Kenya to reflect the high cost of living. If you see #OccupyFPL soon, don't say you were not warned. Viva!
They posted champions league your is not there
They posted Europa league your team is not there
They posted conference league your is not there
They posted super cup your team is not there
They posted continenta cup your team is not there They posted fifa club world your team is not there
But yeah ,London is red,alright mate 👍
The reaction by the Linda Mwananchi masses to the entry into the movement by Aisha Jumwa reminds me of similar scenarios in 2002 and 2007.
In 2002, when the NARC-Rainbow wave took over and went on to win power, the question of who should NOT be allowed into the movement became an intriguing public discussion. Former VP George Saitoti had resigned from Kanu and wanted in. Everyone went "What, no! The architect of Goldenberg can't be allowed here! We are fumigating the country of Kanu's bad odour! Not Saitoti please!"
Maasai kingpin, William ole Ntimama, he of the "Kikuyus in Rift Valley must lie low like envelopes or we will cut them to size like the Igbos of Nigeria were" also came. Central Kenya NARC adherents were incredulous. 'How dare you admit the mastermind of Enoosupukia here. He has blood on his hand?". No one wanted Joseph Kamotho either. Wasn't that the Kanu SG who had defended every injustice, every wrong, every impunity, under Kanu? No way they were being allowed in.
Quite incredibly, all these Kanu bad apples joined NARC through LDP, the party of Raila Odinga, the undisputed standard bearer of democratic ideals and moral probity. What did Raila see in them that the idealistic NARC public didn't? Incidentally, when the count was done, these former Kanu sharks had played some of the biggest roles in the defeat of the Moi project, Uhuru Kenyatta and their former party. They had mobilised their backyards into a powerful anti-Kanu force. Most were rewarded with prime ministerial appointments in the new NARC administration in 2003.
Raila would be at at it again in 2007, when the entire Kalenjin system moved to his corner for the 2007 presidential run. Kibaki had treated the Kalenjin community like trash for five years, and they were seeking revenge, through the only man they believed would show Kibaki dust. Among the biggest players in the stolen Raila victory would end up being the indomitable Kipkalya Kones, cited in several reports over tribal clashes in the Rift Valley as a Kisigis warlord, William Ruto, a man with a political history darker than midnight, Henry Kosgey, who graced several pages of corruption scandals from the Kasarani Stadium construction, to many living Moi enablers whose tongues and hands wouldn't have qualified for sacrament.
What did Raila see or what did he look past?
In the case of 2002, the answer would have been easy. If the hippo comes out of the water and tells you that the crocodile is unwell, you must believe him. Those fleeing a bad regime are often the best witnesses to the depth of its evil. In common parlance, they know where the bodies are buried. The big shots abandoning Moi in 2002 provided perfect background to just unpopular Kanu had become. Everyone looked past their chequered history onto the potential of what they could offer in helping end Kanu's rule. And they delivered.
Today, the people fleeing the Ruto sinking ship hold the same position the ones in 2002 did. They represent "testimony". Forget Aisha Jumwa even. The most powerful face in this brigade is Rigathi Gachagua. He was number two in that evil cult. He was a heart beat away from the very top. And the catalogue of his sins is way more colourful than Jumwa's. A divisive tribal supremacist with the ability to effortlessly annoy even nuns and holy spirits, Gachagua would be the one people put a NO against his name. Yet conventional wisdom has it that Linda Mwananchi must work with him to win power. Working with Gachagua but not accepting Aisha Jumwa is akin to allowing Satan into a room then locking out Bernice Njeri because she stabbed her boyfriend.
NARC members in 2002 were thoroughly idealistic, just like today's young voters. In pursuit of democratic and moral purism, they have set a high bar for anyone coming in. But by December, everyone who has realised that the Ruto regime is falling, will be at the door. Movements are like floods. They carry rubbish in large amounts. They take everything along.
When you go to the gym,
You will see fat people doing this exercise. It is called Scissors Kicks.
They have been misinformed that this exercise will cut their obese abdomen.
IT WON'T.
First, you can't spot reduce fat. The body doesn't decide where to lose fat.
To lose fat, the body only responds to a metabolic system influenced by hormones and the body's nutritional habits.
Systemically, the body loses fat from the periphery and ends centrally.
The stomach is the last region to lose fat. The face is the first, then the arms.
Second, this exercise targets the hip flexors (Psoas major, Iliacus, and Rectus femoris). It doesn't target abdominal muscles.
Abdominal muscles are targeted when the upper chest flexes to meet the knees, eg hanging raises or cable crunches.
A fat person doing this exercise will end up with an impinged pelvic girdle, also known as Pelvic Girdle Pain (PGD).
A fat person who intends to fix his big stomach must first fix his diet.
Then, build a structure or routine where 10,000 steps of walking must be achieved daily.
Then, after 3 months of consistency in diet and walking, he can start an 8KM morning run once a week, and then functional gym workouts (Push, Press, Pull, Hinge) thrice a week.
Add basic callisthenics movements like dead-bug, bird-dog and Turkish get-ups.
Once there is considerable weight loss, then add isolation workouts in addition to the simple functional workouts and the simple callisthenics movements.
Otherwise, sit-ups, bicycle kicks, and Russian twists are useless.
The aerobics are also useless and will leave you hungrier, with high cortisol and inflamed joints.
I cannot believe Cape Verde actually convinced this guy to play for them via LinkedIn😭. Monster of a defender.
His mother is Irish, his father is from Cape Verde. He was born and raised in Ireland, and currently the captain of Shamrock Rovers.
He represented Ireland at youth level before switching to Cape Verde.
In 2018, Cape Verde were looking for professional footballers with Cape Verdian heritage and the coach came across Pico Lopes.
He messaged him on LinkedIn to play for them, Lopes was working part time as a Mortgage advisor in a bank then and still playing professional football.
He didn’t respond because the message was in Portuguese and he didn’t understand, he thought it was a spam.
A year later (2019), the coach messaged him again, this time he did it in English. Lopes agreed to play for Cape Verde and the rest is history.
A very good addition to the squad, a pure leader. Ladies and Gentlemen, Pico Lopes.
As a man, after you cross 30, sit down and study the patterns in your family. Look at what distracted, delayed, or derailed the men before you. Look at what destroyed them. Your father, his brothers, your uncles, older cousins etc... is it booze, is it gambling, is it women, is it recklessly siring everywhere, is it poor financial decisions, did they struggle with deep anger issues, domestic terrorists, did they practice witchcraft and all that.
Sit down and study those patterns,, then make intentional decisions to break those cycles. Remember some of these things are normal vices. Look for a recurring or deep recognizable patterns that are plastered all over men in your family. What brought them down. Do you see a pattern? Now that!
As Joshua Selman always says “As a man, number one thing that will help you live to your potential is knowing what can bring you down”. And you may not run away from your family tree. Refuse to be a victim of repeated patterns. Because they are there.
Whether you know it or not. Whether you recognize them or you don’t. They exist. They didn’t have the knowledge and resources we now have. Honor your progeny. Break out of them. Be made of Gold.
In 1994, three men represented Norway at a World Cup held in the United States. Alfie Haaland. Goran Sorloth. Erik Thorstvedt.
They went home, built families, and raised sons who grew up kicking a ball in the backyard dreaming of exactly what their fathers had done.
32 years passed.
Then in 2026, Norway returned to a World Cup held in the United States. And who was there wearing the shirt?
✅ Erling Haaland. Son of Alfie.
✅ Alexander Sorloth. Son of Goran.
✅ Kristian Thorstvedt. Son of Erik.
Not one coincidence. Not two. THREE fathers and THREE sons, representing the same country, at the same tournament, on the same soil, a generation apart.
The circle is complete, ladies and gentlemen.
No scriptwriter would dare pitch this. No director would greenlight it. They’d call it too unrealistic.
But football doesn’t care about realistic. Football just delivers.
A child who wets the bed is not testing your authority.
He or she is asking for your leadership.
Do not become the source of your child's shame.
Become the source of their confidence.
One day, your child will remember how their father handled his or her weakness.
Not with anger or humiliation,
But with knowledge, patience, structure, and strength.
That is what fathers do.
They turn childhood struggles into lessons of dignity, resilience, and trust.