Wanjiru Mwangi

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[⋆ @lowkeyalbert]

The craziest thing about being an adult is that you can go through the most traumatic night of your life and still have to go to work the next day.

[𐌕 @fwtimini]

My dream is for WhatsApp to include the option to disable voice note. When someone tries to send one, a message will appear that says, "You can't send voice notes to this user, TYPE."

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

it’s kind of hard to build emergency funds when everyday is an emergency.

[Binti Swahiliya #ForLiberty @bintiswahiliya]

Again, the mandate goes both ways. If KRA says you have till June 30th to file taxes then their system should be working properly until June 30th at 11:59 PM.

Or are we used to accepting mediocrity in this country all the time?

[Kelvin N @NdemoKelvin]

What do you mean he gave you, is it budgeted for?, we want a country of law and order please, fix drainage yes but don't politicize people's taxes

[EUGENE @reggaeholic_]

Drainage utatuma goons wachimbe baadaye ama?

[Crazy Kennar @crazy_kennar]

CLUBBING IN DIFFERENT AFRICAN COUNTRIES 😂😂😂

[Sam Gituku @SamGituku]

Cape Verde progresses to Round of 32 without winning a single game. They also lost none.
Such is life. If you can’t win, don’t lose.

[yimika| @yimikaaaa]

When it comes to Saturdays, I'm either doing a million activities or bedrotting There is no in between.

[Triiad ୭୭ @triiadxx]

I have officially reached the age where I am bothered by lights being on, doors left opened, loud noises, and people.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Do you ever get exhausted by food? Not the food itself, just the endless cycle of deciding what to eat, shopping for it, cooking it, and having to do it all over again every single freaking day.

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Yesterday was a big success and now confirms 25th June will always be a holiday. Sometimes Kenyans should not jump, jump on the roads for maandamano to be successful.

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Judasi

[. @carterdalast]

Africa’s resources is for Africans

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Kenya Is In The Red As Ruto Mistakes A Revolution For A Security Lapse

From June 2024 to where Kenya stands today, the biggest mistake William Ruto has made is treating a political revolution like a police operation, because what began as anger over the Finance Bill quickly became a national rejection of arrogance, waste, corruption, overtaxation, police brutality and a government that talks too much while listening too little.

The people who went to the streets in June 2024 were not complaining because Parliament had weak gates, police had poor formation or intelligence officers had slept on duty, because they were complaining because life had become too expensive, public money looked like private property for connected people and leaders were behaving as if citizens existed only to be taxed, lied to and beaten into silence.

That is why Ruto is very very wrong if he thinks the lesson from June 2024 was that security failed to stop citizens from reaching Parliament, because the real lesson was that the public had reached a point where fear no longer worked as the main tool of control.

The first stage of a revolution is pain that leaders dismiss, and Kenya went through that stage when citizens complained about food prices, taxes, unemployment, corruption, medical costs, school fees, public debt and the daily humiliation of watching leaders live big while ordinary people were told to tighten belts that had already cut into their skin.

The second stage is shared anger, and that came when Kenyans stopped seeing their suffering as private bad luck and started seeing it as a national pattern created by bad leadership, greedy budgeting, tone deaf speeches and a political class that had lost the shame needed to pretend it cared.

The third stage is the trigger, and for Kenya that trigger was the Finance Bill, because the bill became more than a tax document and turned into a symbol of a government that wanted to take more from people who already felt squeezed dry.

The fourth stage is the breaking of fear, and that happened when young Kenyans faced tear gas, live bullets, arrests, intimidation, online threats and still returned to the streets with phones, flags, placards, chants and a stubborn refusal to be treated like children of a lesser God in their own country.

The fifth stage is state panic, and that is where Ruto’s government moved from political response to security obsession, because instead of accepting that citizens had legitimate anger, the system started behaving as if the main problem was protest logistics rather than the pain producing the protests.

That is how we arrived at this strange place where CBDs are closed, roads are blocked, Parliament is barricaded, police are deployed like the country is at war with itself and strange squads appear around protests as if the State is trying to scare citizens back into silence.

The use of acoustic weapons and other aggressive crowd control tools shows how badly the regime has misread the national mood, because a machine that screams at citizens does not answer why they are broke, why they are angry, why families are burying children, why abducted people remain a national wound or why public trust has collapsed.

Ruto thinks stronger policing can stop the wheel, but once the wheel of a revolution starts rotating, it does not stop simply because a government has bought bigger vehicles, louder machines, darker helmets and more officers to flood the streets.

This is where necessity becomes the mother of invention, because when you close the CBD, people begin to think beyond the CBD, when you block one route, people begin to imagine another route, and when you militarize one protest style, the public begins to create new civic languages that the State has not yet learned how to police.

A revolution does not always move in one straight line, and it does not always announce itself through one big crowd in one big city, because sometimes it becomes refusal, silence, boycott, ridicule, underground coordination, public memory, electoral punishment and a slow national agreement that the people in power have lost moral authority.

Kenya is now in the red because the same issues citizens complained about in 2024 have not been fixed in a way that people can feel in their homes, pockets, hospitals, schools, workplaces, police stations and villages.

The anger is still there, the distrust is still there, the cost of living is still there, the debt burden is still there, the corruption anger is still there, the police brutality question is still there and the feeling that government only listens when people rise up is now deeper than it was before Parliament was stormed.

The danger for Ruto is that he has armed and empowered the security sector so heavily that officers may start behaving with the carelessness that comes when a government teaches them that every angry citizen is an enemy to be subdued instead of a Kenyan to be heard.

That kind of overconfidence can spin things out of control, because once security officers believe they are the last wall protecting a collapsing political order, small confrontations become national tragedies and every excessive response creates new anger for the next round.

The political bomb coming to Kenya is not a cartoon bomb carried by protesters, but a pressure bomb created by the State itself every time it refuses to solve the real issues and chooses instead to add more uniforms, more barricades, more arrests and more threats.

Ruto still has not understood that revolutions are not defeated by closing streets, because streets are only the visible part of a deeper public shift that begins inside people’s minds before it appears on roads, timelines, funerals, markets, campuses, churches, workplaces and ballot boxes.

Kenya is now past the complaint stage, past the awakening stage, past the trigger stage and past the first breaking of fear, which means the country is currently in the state panic stage where government responds to a legitimacy crisis with security muscle.

The next stage is adaptation, where citizens stop relying on the old predictable protest patterns and begin finding new ways to express anger, preserve memory, pressure power and punish arrogance without waiting for permission from the same system they are resisting.

After adaptation comes the judgment stage, where the regime either reforms honestly and lowers the national temperature or continues provoking the country until public anger becomes impossible to manage through police deployments and emergency speeches.

That is why Kenya is in the red today, because Ruto is fighting the smoke while feeding the fire, and a government that keeps mistaking citizens’ pain for a security lapse eventually learns that the real breach was not at Parliament, but inside the trust that once held the country together.

[Shoba Gatimu @shobanes]

Good. They are exercising their Democratic rights. Same as the people on the streets. Or you think rights should only apply as long they are not painting govt in bad light?

[Faith Odhiambo @FaithOdhiambo8]

Gen Z did more than reject a Finance Bill, they rewired our politics. From TikTok spaces to court corridors, they disrupted the old script of tribal mobilisation and elite bargains by insisting that public power answer to constitutional principle and economic justice. Their leaderless, tribeless, crowd-sourced organising exposed how quickly informed citizens can fact-check officials, decode bills and turn legalese into rallying cries for accountability. In doing so, they reminded the country that Article 1 is not a slogan but a living reality. All sovereign power belongs to the people, and those who exercise it do so on terms.

Gen Z forced courts to speak faster, MPs to apologise and an Executive that had grown tone-deaf to finally listen. They made institutions feel public pressure in real time and showed that silence in the face of abuse of power is a professional and generational betrayal. Our duty now is to entrench that energy into institutions and not let it fade with the news cycle. If Gen Z could reclaim the streets and the digital public square, the least we can do is ensure that their courage is translated into lasting legal, policy and cultural reform, not another round of cosmetic concessions.

As this moment continues to unfold, let it also be guided by responsibility. Stay safe, remain peaceful and look out for one another. The strength of a movement is not only in its conviction but in its discipline and care for human life. Be each other’s keepers because the future we are demanding must also be one we protect.

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

@WilliamsRuto @Pettikim Uncle, kwani the people who draft your statements have abandoned you? Please don’t lose your mind before 2027. We need you to experience the wrath of the people in your right state of mind!! Vumilia tu kidogo. WANTAM!!!

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

Singing the national anthem over the flag-draped body of a young protester shot dead by Kenyan police outside parliament

[edward buri @edward_buri]

The system is upset that you still remember June 25. It is even more disturbed that your memory is not vague, but graphic —that you remember what happened that day, what followed in its wake, and what has continued to unfold ever since. This was not to be remembered.