THE NAIROBIAN

Husband.
Father of 1.
Kenyan 🇰🇪.

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

KTN News is airing a feature story tonight on President William Ruto and the lies told by the Kenyan government since coming to power in 2022.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇵🇰🇮🇷🇺🇸 The body language from Geneva tells the WHOLE story by itself

Araghchi walks in. Shehbaz goes in for the hug, clearly expecting the agreed script to play out.

Then Araghchi makes clear Iran isn't doing the photo-op or the opening speeches. And you can watch the confidence physically leave the room.

Munir and Shehbaz, 2 men who told Washington everything was arranged, suddenly have to send Mohsin Naqvi scrambling after the Iranian foreign minister to find out what just happened.

Then a second briefing. Then their faces doing the thing faces do when a plan falls apart in public.

And Vance is standing at the back watching all of it. Shehbaz and Munir walk over and brief him... by all accounts apologetically, and only then do the speeches happen.

Pakistan spent months positioning itself as the indispensable mediator for this deal. They got the venue, they got the parties in the room, they got the photo.

And one Trump threat, out of the blue, blew it all up.

Writer: Oliver

[Iam Wa Kimathi @IamKimathiKE]

Number of black players in each World Cup team.

[Morara Kebaso @MoraraKebaso]

Who has ever seen or heard about my MP? The Borabu Constituency seat is vacant we don’t even know whether whoever used to be the MP is alive.

[The Nairobi Times @TheNairobiTimez]

Scottish men singing Kenyan song “Jambo bwana” at the World Cup event in USA

[NTV Kenya @ntvkenya]

Maseneta waibua wasiwasi kuhusu jengo la shilingi milioni 820 alilojenga Gavana Wanga https://t.co/ozkmvskSh6

[KENYA GOSSIP HUB @kenyasgossips]

Heavy security detail at the Vurugu 2 venue, Sarit Centre.

[Nelson Amenya @amenya_nelson]

Emotional retards acting like they know better and can’t even read, I read through the Adani documents I’m reading through the documents in the new masterplan and sharing my thoughts it’s just the beginning and just like with the Adani deal I shared that ALG the transaction advisor was competent just like I’m saying dar is competent. No wonder people like Ndindi Nyoro will come and say what you want to hear and suddenly become your saviors. Your brains are not protected areas, make use of them.

[The ODM Party @TheODMparty]

STATEMENT ON THE PPDT JUDGEMENT

[THE NAIROBIAN @_Davy_KE]

@Osama_otero SI ulikua wa matiangi ivi juzi juzi

[THE NAIROBIAN @_Davy_KE]

You were warned about this Kutenda na Kutenga guy but you didn't listen now see your country how goons and greedy politicians control in the streets

#RutoMustGo

[THE NAIROBIAN @_Davy_KE]

@Kenyans Don't say we have,name the companies we want to go on ground and look for them

[Kenyans.co.ke @Kenyans]

I was not properly invited to this occasion, but I believe it is because Raila is not here - Oburu Odinga

[Bianca™ @BiancaNaom1]

For more than half a century, the IDs in Northern Kenya was not a document of citizenship but an instrument of doubt yet #IDNiHaki. While a birth certificate entitled most Kenyans to an ID upon turning 18, a young person born in Garissa, Wajir, or Mandera inherited a presumption of suspicion and a parallel, extra-vetting process faced by no other citizen. Chiefs, elders, and security committees were convened to interrogate lineage. Parents’ birth certificates, grandparents’ graves, and clan testimony were demanded where a birth notification sufficed elsewhere. The process consumed months, often years, and in that purgatory lives were suspended. The Constitution proclaimed equality, yet administrative practice in the North East enforced segregation, turning a constitutional right into an ordeal.

The discriminatory regime was not a bureaucratic inconvenience. It was a system of structural alienation. Without an ID, one could not sit for KCSE, could not apply for HELB, could not open a bank account, could not register a SIM card, could not vote, could not travel, could not work. Thousands were rendered functionally stateless in the land of their birth. The result was predictable: intergenerational exclusion from education, finance, formal employment, and political representation. Poverty was not an accident of geography. It was the policy outcome of denied paperwork. This was not security. It was collective punishment. Vetting did not dismantle cartels that traded in fraudulent documents. It targeted ordinary students, herders, and traders. The actual criminals were seldom caught by panels sitting under trees. They were caught, when at all, by intelligence, forensics, and policing. Yet the law-abiding majority bore the stigma.

Article 27 of the Constitution declares that every person is equal before the law and has the right to equal protection and equal benefit of the law. Article 12 entitles every citizen to registration documents. For decades, North Eastern Kenya lived outside that covenant. The State, by administrative fiat, created two classes of citizenship: one automatic, the other probationary. That bifurcation was the very definition of segregation. It told a child in Mandera that their Kenyan-ness was conditional, contingent, and revocable. No republic can survive that message.

To dismantle that discriminatory process is not to open the floodgates to non-citizens. It is to close the door on unconstitutional practice. The law does not change who qualifies for an ID. It changes how equally the law is applied. Every applicant is still subjected to due process: birth certificates, parental identification, biometric capture, and inter-agency verification. The difference is that the burden of proof is no longer heavier for one ethnicity than another. Security is not weakened by fairness. It is strengthened. A system anchored in intelligence, digital registries, and coordinated investigations is infinitely more robust than a system anchored in suspicion of surnames. Fraud is a crime to be detected and prosecuted, not a culture to be ascribed. The modern State has the tools to do the former without resorting to the latter.

Equality means treating every 18-year-old as a citizen on their birthday. Equity means recognizing that those historically denied must now be urgently included. Fairness means acknowledging that the son of a herder in Wajir has the same claim to the Republic as the son of a clerk in Nairobi. When registration numbers rise in North Eastern Kenya, it is not evidence of infiltration. It is evidence of inclusion. It means a generation that was invisible to the State is now seen. It means a girl who could not sit her exams can now become a nurse. It means a young man who could not open a bank account can now register a business. It means the ballot box is no longer a privilege of the south.

A country cannot speak of national unity while maintaining an internal border around citizenship.

[THE NAIROBIAN @_Davy_KE]

@edwinsifuna Surely mmeenda break wiki ka mbili mkisema munangoja ramathan iishe muende Mombasa sa sai after inaisha mnaanza na narok sasa what was the need of kuenda break?? Kenya ni kubwa mungeendelea kuenda mahali pengine

[THE NAIROBIAN @_Davy_KE]

@Osman_estate @sholard_mancity There's no Kenyan Somali,in the constitution they say all we're Kenyans,so it's either you're a Kenyan or somali

[THE NAIROBIAN @_Davy_KE]

@Osman_estate @sholard_mancity We're talking about Kenya and Kenyans you're inserting Somali constitution who cares about somalia,if you're Kenyan follow the law and get Kenya documents what we say is we don't need people from Mogadishu accessing our documents

[KENYA GOSSIP HUB @kenyasgossips]

Hundreds of Kenyans attend the Manchester United and Arsenal fans match at Nyayo Stadium.

[THE NAIROBIAN @_Davy_KE]

@Broadbasedgal Hamuoni hii ni AI,manugu ndio wanaeza amini

[THE NAIROBIAN @_Davy_KE]

@jimNjue_ Gachagua cant vie,and even if they allowed him to vie the presidential candidate should be only Sifuna,kama sio hivo basi tupatane kwa debe mwenye atashinda ashinde