We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
People keep talking about how there’s no viable candidate when this man is right here. Legacy media has given you the impression that this is a 2 horse race. He gets next to no airtime while we’re treated to a grotesque theatre of profanity and mudslinging. Refuse.
There are two realities unfolding simultaneously in Kenya. Which couldn't be more disparate.
One reality is the life that 97% of Kenyans live.
I call them the Contributors. They contribute sweat, tears, blood, and taxes. These Kenyans earn KSH 20,000 a month before taxes.
But they live paycheck to paycheck. One illness away from a calamity. A trip to the hospital often involves an informal harambee.
The other reality is the lifestyle of 3% of Kenyans - the Consumers. Those who by virtue of their positions in and around government consume virtually everything in sight until just 5 seconds from vomiting.
At which point they throw up a white flag and ask the Contributors to come eat and then clean up the mess behind them.
Before you think that I am being dramatic, take a look at the attached document. It is an example of a payroll record for the County of @KakamegaBunge
Go down the list of these benefits. And then pull up your own salary slip - if you are lucky to have a job.
Compare them. And tell me if you see:
Basic salary.
Special salary.
Contractual allowance.
Salary market adjustment.
Rental house allowance.
Extra duty/entertainment allowance.
Leave travel allowance.
Commuter allowance.
Acting allowance.
Extreneous duty/domestic allowance.
Responsibility allowance.
Telephone allowance.
Entertainment allowance.
Special house allowance.
Ladies and gentlemen - this is a county with a 40% poverty rate.
Despite a whopping KSH 109 billion in transfers to that county in 10 years of devolution.
A county where the average citizen earns KSH 12,000 a month. Below the national average.
That citizen who is earning KSH 12,000 a month, the one facilitating the insane largesse you see above.
And before that insanity you see above, the county has already spent 48% of the entire budget on salaries for 1% of the population that works in government.
Do you understand what the heck is happening?
Our system of government is an extraction system.
Nothing less.
This county has an annual budget of around KSH 15 billion.
It spends about 48% of it on salaries alone.
Direct salaries. For those in government.
Is no wonder that after KSH 109 billion in 10 years, 40% of the citizens cannot afford two meals a day.
This is the state of our devolution project.
I share this information not because I oppose devolution. I share it because if we want devolution, we have to reject the current perversion it into a tool fir extraction and economic subjugation.
Every Kenyan needs to understand that the changes our country requires are BIG CHANGES.
BIG CHANGES.
How do you teach this 3% that is behaving like this a lesson on compassion and brotherhood?
By sending them home. All of them. We need a brand-new contract with government, and those who govern us.
This economic apartheid cannot stand.
@KakamegaCounty1@KenyaGovernors@MoGAbdi@FlavNasmbu