Bob the Farmer 🚜

ENTREPRENEUR.

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

"Such operations must be intelligence-led, not just shooting animals at random,"Retired Major Leakono calls out the government after over 700 livestock were shot by government operatives.

[§aruni @GSaruni]

Why do you need RPG for cattle??

[Pabló Escobar @ed_kemboi]

Imagine your people are being made to suffer while you're singing TUTAM while in Ol Kalau it's WANTAM but they're pampered 😂😂

[Conrad Kulo @ConradKulo]

The statement on the killing of livestock in Samburu East (Waso) addresses a very real, horrific tragedy for pastoralists. But let’s look at who is speaking: a regime-aligned Senator who flies with the Executive to UNGA while his electorate suffers under state operations.

[Peter Muhia Njenga゜ @_Goatke]

Imagine finding yourself in a conflict with a police officer who made a conscious decision to do mass shooting of 700 livestock in Samburu County.

These people are mental, and they need annual assessments.

If we fail to do the mental assessment, one day a police officer will turn a gun on the public and carry out a mass shooting just like a terrorist.

[Bevalyne Kwamboka @bevalynekwambo3]

Ian Keya was shot by police during the 2024 Finance Bill protests, leaving him wheelchair-bound with a hospital bill exceeding KSh1.3M. He hasn't received compensation. So who is benefiting from the taxpayers’ money set aside for victims while justice remains elusive?

[Peru Nomad @Perunomad]

Postcard from Mt. Elgon National Park. 📍 Endebess bluff

[Dictator Watch @DictatorWatch]

I see the callous, senseless and uncivilised atrocities wrought by the security forces in Samburu and once again pose this question: 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘀?

[Idris Idahosa 🇰🇪 & 🇲🇹 @ASuruni]

A university lecturer has no business telling students from Mt Kenya or Western that they should stay away if a particular candidate loses. That is not teaching. It is ethnic intimidation dressed up as political https://t.co/4z3n9uik1V of Eldoret is a public institution funded by Kenyans from every region. Students are there to learn, not to be sorted by tribe or threatened with exile because of how the country might vote. No lecturer owns the campus. No president’s fate gives anyone the right to decide who belongs in a lecture hall.Kenya has paid a terrible price before when classrooms and public offices started speaking this language. If NCIC exists for anything, it is for remarks that treat citizens as outsiders in their own country. Students should be able to sit in class without being told their presence depends on an election result.

[L3wi.s @Mnauwoo]

"mkitoa feelings" "mkitoa emotions" typical kasongo bloggers before making their stupid takes.

[Bob the Farmer 🚜 @Tilos_In]

@Commoner_254 @ledamalekina So bad mahn!!

[Bob the Farmer 🚜 @Tilos_In]

@ledamalekina Why must it take u 6 days to do a statement???

[Kenyans.co.ke @Kenyans]

Former First Lady Margaret Kenyatta arrives at the KMTC Headquarters ahead of the 2026 Beyond Zero Nursing Scholarship cohort engagement at the Nairobi campus

[Bob the Farmer 🚜 @Tilos_In]

@Tunu_Tiyyo You're mad!

[𝙋𝘼𝙐𝙇 𝐍𝐄𝐊𝐎 @ouma_neko]

The image of that pregnant cow shot dead in Samburu has broken something inside me.

Its stomach had burst open.

It was carrying twins.

Two unborn calves that never had a chance to see the sun.

A mother that had never committed a crime.

A family’s wealth, food, savings and livelihood reduced to a carcass in the name of a security operation.

I called a cousin of mine who is a police officer and asked him a very simple question:

Why are you shooting innocent cows?

He told me that the operation is meant to make sure there are no cows left for bandits to steal, so that eventually the destruction of livestock becomes so costly that those involved in banditry abandon it.

I understand the security problem.

Bandits have killed people.

Police officers have been killed.

Families have lost their loved ones.

The State has a duty to protect its people and recover stolen livestock.

Indeed, the government has publicly announced intelligence-led operations against banditry and livestock theft in Samburu and neighbouring counties.

But somewhere along the way, we must ask what happens when the punishment destroys the very people we are supposed to protect.

[Dictator Watch @DictatorWatch]

I grew up in a home with cattle. Any injury, sickness or death affected the family as it would've if a human member had suffered the same!

I hence feel the pain of the families in Samburu whose animals were murdered by the Kenya police.

[𝙋𝘼𝙐𝙇 𝐍𝐄𝐊𝐎 @ouma_neko]

A pastoralist's cow is not just a cow.

It is school fees.
It is food.
It is medicine.
It is rent.
It is the family's bank account.
It is the inheritance of children.

It is the emergency fund kept for the day life decides to become cruel.

Now imagine waking up and finding your livestock dead, including a pregnant cow carrying two unborn calves.

What exactly have you secured when you have destroyed the livelihood of the innocent?

There is an old lesson about a mousetrap: the trap does not only threaten the mouse.

It can catch whoever happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

That is what frightens me about this Samburu operation.

The people who steal livestock may be criminals, but the pastoralist whose cow is lying dead in the dust may simply be an ordinary Kenyan who had nothing to do with the crime.

Do not make innocent civilians pay the price for crimes they did not commit.

Security must be firm.

Bandits must be pursued.

Illegal firearms must be recovered.

Stolen livestock must be returned.

But justice must still know the difference between a criminal and a victim.

That pregnant cow?

It did not know about banditry.

It did not know about politics.

It did not know about Ruto, Murkomen, police operations or cattle rustling.

It only knew how to live.
And now two unborn calves are dead with their mother.

That image will stay with me for a very long time.

Kenya is becoming a country where the poor are increasingly asked to absorb the cost of every failure, every crisis and every security problem.

From Nairobi to Samburu, from the capital to the most forgotten village, ordinary Kenyans are carrying burdens they did not create.

Sometimes I honestly wonder whether this presidency has become a punishment visited upon Kenyans.

When I look at that dead mother and her unborn twins, I don't just see three dead animals.

I see a country that has forgotten how to protect the innocent.

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

Samburu professionals and student leaders are demanding an immediate halt to the government security operation in Samburu East.

The group accuses multi-agency forces of intentionally shooting hundreds of livestock, causing massive financial losses to local pastoralists. They are calling for an independent inquiry and compensation for affected families.

[Leshimpiro Cruz @CruzChrispino]

You cannot destroy our livelihood, ignore our suffering, and still expect our loyalty to remain unquestioned.
The middle finger has been seen. The betrayal has been noted. And when the time comes for the people to speak, they will speak without apology @NPSOfficial_KE