A rare honour has been bestowed upon my house. Twins. Two souls entrusted to the future, carrying both the memory of their ancestors and the promise of generations yet unborn. May their names be spoken with respect long after our own voices have fallen silent.
A man who brings home ant-infested firewood should not complain when lizards visit him.
Make your voice sound more energetic and purposeful.
Prevent you from sounding overly available.
Keep the conversation concise and natural.
Help you think more clearly instead of overanalyzing every sentence.
Remind you that your life still has momentum outside the phone call.
The ancient art of not sitting motionless staring at a wall while waiting for a text back. Civilization peaked somewhere around there.
@Davidkmwenda A masterclass in modern governance:
"Yes, the cow is yours.
Yes, it was taken.
Yes, we can see it.
But the paperwork is in order, so the cow stays where it is."
Case closed.
A common mistake in political analysis is to confuse representation with inclusion and inclusion with influence.
Power does not distribute seats according to affection. It distributes them according to strategic necessity.
Those perceived as capable of altering the political equilibrium are engaged. Those perceived as incapable of doing so are merely accommodated.
They ask who remains consequential when loyalty disappears.
That answer often determines the architecture of government far more than ideology, friendship, or campaign rhetoric.
Governments do not accommodate communities out of affection. They accommodate them out of necessity.
The day a political bloc ceases to carry consequences, it also ceases to carry influence.
Those who possess it are consulted. Those who lose it are managed.
Now you know why Ruto wants Luos in his government.
He knows he can play with those other guys the way he wants with no consequences. He can even impeach their tin god and there is NOTHING they can do.
He can not try that with US.
The ruling was never about the cow. Everyone already knew where the cow was.
The ruling was about whether the paperwork surrounding the disappearance of the cow met the required standard.
It did.
The cow remains where it is.
Cheptongei Village Tribunal Judgement:
We agree with you that your neighour cut your fence & stole your cow. We can see the cow in his compound. But we are afraid we can’t return the cow as he has fixed the fence where he had cut. But to compensate you, we will give you a goat!
Case Dismissed.
@DonaldBKipkorir A sophisticated society no longer asks, 'What happened?'
It asks, 'Was the process followed?
Once that question is answered satisfactorily, what happened becomes largely irrelevant.
The cow appreciates the jurisprudence from its new home.
Nothing new here. When the state commits, institutions usually validate process, not power dynamics. The real story is always in the political recalibration that follows, not the ruling itself.
The High court has ruled that there was sufficient public participation in Rigathi Gachagua's impeachment process and found no evidence of bias by the National Assembly.
This outcome doesn’t land as surprise to anyone who has been watching institutional playbooks long enough. When the state commits to a direction, the legal process rarely appears as a question mark it arrives as a confirmation stage after the political arithmetic is already done.
What analysts typically point out in such cycles is simple: once an impeachment process clears the procedural threshold in Parliament, judicial review tends to narrow itself to process compliance rather than political intent. So the court’s focus on (public participation) and ( absence of bias) fits a familiar pattern validating the method, not revisiting the momentum that produced it.
From a strategic reading, the (next moves) are usually predictable too.
consolidation of narrative legitimacy through institutions
re-alignment within the affected political bloc
and a recalibration phase where attention shifts from legality to succession dynamics and coalition survival
In other words, nothing here breaks the pattern. It follows it. The only real variable left is how fast the political ecosystem adapts to the new equilibrium.
@rigathi
@Osama_otero Most political commentators are fundamentally retarded, which goes unnoticed when they deal with the subjectivity of politics but is on full display when they deal with the objectivity of real things like science and engineering.
Most political commentators are fundamentally retarded, which goes unnoticed when they deal with the subjectivity of politics but is on full display when they deal with the objectivity of real things like science and engineering.