Evans Ogada — Lawyer: In terms of our foreign policy, we are shooting blanks. I disagree with the idea that there are things that can only be done at his level because we have a whole ministry. He parades himself as the articulator of Kenya’s foreign policy. The evidence out there shows a president and a policy pivoting towards the West. Look at how we have been voting and acting internationally, an increasingly transactional approach. Today we go this way, tomorrow we go that way. It is all about transactions that are not making tangible, meaningful sense for Kenya. Why is Kenya, for example, at the G7? Because South Africa was sacrificed. Why was South Africa sacrificed? Because South Africa dared to take some people to the ICJ. And so we are, in effect, dancing on the blood of a fellow African country.
Dr Kenneth Ombongi— Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts, UoN: President Ruto's travels appear as though there is something he is trying to run away from at home. At a time when Kenyans are talking about overtaxation, the high cost of living, and a crisis in the education sector, this is not the time to be travelling. It is a time to stay home, address these challenges, and focus on improving the lives of citizens #CitizenDayBreak
Prof. Peter Kagwanja – CEO Africa Policy Institute: The President is allowing us as a country to be used instrumentally by major powers. By 2005, 97% of our budget was financed by us; it was a government of Kenyans, by Kenyans and for Kenyans #CitizenDayBreak
@USForeignAssist Ebola treatment needs exactly the facilities and expertise that your country has built in the past 250 years. What a patriotic way to celebrate 250 years by not letting your own citizens be treated in your own country? You have been to the moon and back why fear little ebola? ⚖️
@chapo255 💯 jifanye hata hutaki kumuuzia, kuwa kuna wengi watakuja na bei ya zaidi yake. Hapo atachukua hata kama si mali kivile, ilimradi ajiliwaze amekuweza.
@sinahisa Jamaa anaye muhoji idol wake ni kibatala? Maana ameenda naye taratibu ila amehakikisha anaiva.
Kwa jinsi jamaa anajibu kama tabularasa Mimi uvumilivu ungenishinda, ningetoa neno zito. Mtu anakuambia unajua kwanini siitwi, ukiwa attention kumsikiliza anakuambia hata mimi sijui😂
Don’t be intimidated by the size of your dream. He’s the one who put it in your heart. Those things God whispered to you that you haven’t told anyone about, it seems so unlikely that you don’t see how it could ever happen. God wouldn’t have spoken that to you if He didn’t have a way to bring it to pass. All He needs is for you to come into agreement. Dare to ask Him.
Morara, even Aristotle warned that democracy is messy, emotional and vulnerable to manipulation, yet he still preferred it over tyranny because bad democracy can be corrected, while unchecked power rarely corrects itself. Africa’s tragedy is not democracy itself, but weak institutions, tribal patronage and leaders who fear accountability. The answer is not abandoning democracy; it is deepening civic education, strengthening institutions and electing leaders with ideas instead of slogans, handouts and manufactured outrage.