It is below Standard to imagine, a woman who made her name at KTN could not advise her husband that witchdoctors cannot multiply his money, but now wants to advise the Standard about journalism Standards.
After the police set up roadblocks all over the city to stop any protests today, one smart guy came up with a brilliant plan.
He walked all the way from home with his Bosco. “If the police arrest me or block me,” he thought, “Bosco will still reach the destination and do the job for me.”
He tied a bright flag bandana around Bosco’s neck, gave him clear orders, and commanded, “March to the CBD and do your thing!”
Just now, someone spotted Bosco chilling in Githurai. He’s busy enjoying leftover nyama choma and rice, looking zero percent bothered about the mission.
WILLIAM RUTO’S GOVT OWES STANDARD GROUP SH1.2 BILLION IN UNPAID ADS
Instead of paying, he went on X at 9:49 am to call them extortionists, blackmailers and propagandists — from the highest office in the land.
Standard hit back with four words that buried him: “We have the receipts.”
The real blackmail, they said, is your government withholding Sh1.2 billion to strangle a media house into silence.
Ruto threatened “Do your WORST.”
Standard responded: We will hold the government accountable for any harm to our journalists, directors and shareholders”
A sitting President, angry and exposed, picked a public fight with a newspaper he owes money to.
He didn’t win. He lost. Angered. And conquered …
Ruto attacking Standard Media Group over unpaid workers is not concern for journalists, it is comedy from a President whose own government has helped starve media houses through advertising politics.
When he became President, he wanted media houses to worship him, massage his ego and treat every State House statement like gospel, but when some media houses refused to kneel properly, the government advert tap started being used as punishment.
That is where GAA money enters the story, because government advertising was turned into a political tap, opened for friendly media houses and closed for those that refused to become State House mouthpieces.
The Star got the deal because it became useful to the regime, but even that money is said to pass through hungry State House cartels who eat heavily before the real media business feels anything meaningful.
And let us be honest, The Star lost the public because many Kenyans no longer see it as a serious independent paper, they see it as a Ruto regime mouthpiece that traded trust for access and government favour.
So Ruto should stop pretending he cares about workers at Standard Media Group.
His government is part of the suffering of those employees, because once State advertising money became a loyalty reward, media houses that refused to sing for him were left to struggle while praise singers were fed.
This is not workers’ rights activism from Ruto.
It is a President mocking people who are already suffering from a system he helped weaponize........
Alans Ademba: Just the other day, there was the end femicide march, which was very peaceful. Shops were still open, and no business was affected. If we say that tomorrow we are going to a peaceful protest, what we expect from Kenyans is to come to the protest. We are not going to destroy your properties. All these usually start when the government throws the first tear gas. The electorate loves itself #JKLive
Nakumbuka uyu dem alipewa a very small role in Riggy G's office... Akaanza kuthreaten watu na pistol Cavalli... 😂😂
This is why I don't trust Kenyans with power