Smokie

It is never that serious

[Smokie @bkinini]

@abbiezuena mnaenda kufanya nini huko? Just to create confusion. This is a waste of time

[Uraharastudio @Uraharastudio]

This would be peak ending in the World Cup

[Smokie @bkinini]

@paulinenjoroge Hii nayo hapana. Sifuna is a good candindate sorrounded by political opportunists

[Belgian Red Devils @BelRedDevils]

Overturn this. 🧏‍♂️ #USABEL

[Bosnian Football @BosniaNTBall]

Just end the torunament now. This is disgraceful! #FIFAWorldCup

[Rigathi Gachagua @rigathi]

On 25th June 2024, our dear sons and daughters, and not criminals, exercised their democratic rights, and not an attack on Kenya, their nation.

Unfortunately, many lost their lives due to police brutality and state-sponsored militias. As if human life isn't valued by this government, yet again in June 2025 and the 2025 7/7 Day, we lost more young promising Kenyans under police bullets and state-sponsored goons.

The value of businesses destroyed and property lost remains largely unspoken and unknown.

Quite unfortunate. But there comes a time in life.

To the families who lost their loved ones then and to Kenyans whose property and livelihoods were destroyed, we shall never forget what they did to us. I stand with you and I understand your pain and grief.

Today, 25th June 2026 wasn't just another day in Kenya. We remembered what they did to our children. We shall never forget.

I sincerely thank my dear sons and daughters—the GenZs, for heeding my plea to avoid death and injury. They had planned to harm you in a big magnitude today.

I further extend great thanks to the business people, traders and neighbourhoods for trusting my better judgement and information and shutting down your premises and securing your towns and communities; this deterred the looting and destruction by state-sponsored goons as they had planned.

Sad as it is, that traders had to hire their own security to protect their properties from state-sponsored goons; this must now become the new normal until this careless administration is removed from power through the ballot on 10th August 2027.

Many thanks to the millions of Kenyans for heeding my request to stay at home to avoid death and injury.

Thank you, parents, for accepting my request to keep your children out of harm's way.

To the professional police officers who acted with restraint and refrained from shooting the protesters whose pain was too much to bear and showed up on our streets, towns and cities to express themselves.

Most importantly, I thank the patriotic police officers who tipped me off about the plans by Mr. Murkomen to use goons to harm Kenyans and destroy property.

But to the few police officers who tried to use excessive force and arbitrary arrests, be patriotic; this is your country. We know you are suffering too, just like the 55 million other Kenyans. Do not ever take illegal orders again.

To the patriotic civil servants who tipped me off about the Kshs. 200 million withdrawn to pay goons to wreak havoc, on behalf of the people of Kenya, we thank you most sincerely.

It is this information that helped me guide the GenZs and Kenyans to avoid death, injury and destruction of property which they had plotted.

I am forever indebted to you, gallant officers.

To the GenZs, please know that tactical retreat is not surrender but strategy.

Let them know that caution is not cowardice but wisdom. I am humbled that Kenyans trusted my judgement, believed I am a truthful and honest man and that I do care for their welfare and that I value human life and human dignity.

Dear Kenyans, my solemn promise to you is that I will remain honest and will tell you the truth as it comes to me. I will do this with great courage, patriotism, responsibility and without fear or favour.

I plead with the people of Kenya to stay alive, stay safe and register as voters, for we all have a date with destiny to liberate our country on 10th Aug. 2027 We shall liberate our country through the mechanism provided for by our Constitution; the ballot.

Whenever they plan violence against innocent Kenyans, we must keep away and call them out.

I thank God for the peaceful day today and pray that we shall have peace in the days to come as we prepare for the General Elections.

Today's restraint by the people of Kenya is a vote of no confidence in this regime. It will serve as a lesson to future administrations that the people are supreme and they must be listened to.

God bless and protect Kenyans.

[Smokie @bkinini]

@paulinenjoroge Hii nayo ni uwongo...lakini bado ni wantam

[Smokie @bkinini]

@HonMoses_Kuria mbwa wewe

[Smokie @bkinini]

@KenyaPower_Care Just purchased tokens for acc. no. 92111530751. Kindly assist

[Faith Odhiambo @FaithOdhiambo8]

Yesterday's High Court judgment on the impeachment of H.E. Rigathi Gachagua raises serious and legitimate questions that our constitutional jurisprudence must grapple with honestly. The three-judge bench found that the Senate violated the former Deputy President's right to a fair hearing under Article 50 of the Constitution specifically by declining to grant an adjournment when he was unable to attend the proceedings. The court acknowledged that violation, issued a declaratory order and awarded Ksh.50 million in constitutional damages. Yet the bench ultimately upheld the impeachment itself. I respect the court and the constitutional role it plays. But I believe this outcome calls for serious reflection on the coherence of our remedial framework.

The tension in the judgment lies in this, if the Senate's refusal to adjourn was a constitutional infirmity serious enough to warrant a finding of violation and a Ksh.50 million award, then the question that naturally follows is whether that infirmity was capable of tainting the entire removal process. The right to a fair hearing is not procedural decoration. It is a substantive constitutional guarantee, particularly in proceedings that result in the removal of a person from high public office. Courts must therefore grapple carefully with what it means to vindicate a right while simultaneously affirming the outcome that flowed from its violation. It is a difficult balance and I appreciate that the bench was navigating complicated constitutional terrain.

It is instructive to recall the reasoning of the Supreme Court in the landmark 2017 presidential election petition delivered by the then Chief Justice David Maraga. The court, in a 4-2 majority, nullified the presidential election not on the basis that the outcome was necessarily wrong but on the basis that the process through which it was arrived at did not conform to the Constitution and the law. The court found that irregularities and illegalities in the transmission of results had compromised the integrity of the election and that the constitutional standard required more than a plausible result, it required a process that was itself constitutionally compliant. That principle that a flawed process cannot produce a constitutionally valid outcome remains a pillar of our public law.

When we place that 2017 reasoning alongside yesterday's judgment, a legitimate concern emerges. Both cases involved constitutional violations in the course of a high-stakes removal or electoral process. In 2017, the violation of constitutional standards was sufficient to nullify the result entirely. Yesterday, a violation of the right to a fair hearing was found, remedied in damages but the result was preserved. These are not necessarily irreconcilable positions, courts do have discretion in fashioning remedies but the distinction must be clearly reasoned and transparently justified because the precedent being set will govern how future impeachments are conducted and how future courts respond to violations within those processes.

My concern is about the precedent this decision may establish. If a constitutional violation during impeachment proceedings can be remedied by damages without disturbing the outcome, future Parliaments and Senates may not feel the full weight of their constitutional obligations when handling removal proceedings. The court itself noted the urgent need for Parliament to enact a dedicated statutory framework under Article 150 governing the removal of a Deputy President which is a legislative gap that should never have existed this long. That recommendation must not be ignored. A constitutional democracy is built on the integrity of its processes not merely its outcomes. We must ensure that the right to a fair hearing in Kenya remains substantive and not merely symbolic.

[Pauline Njoroge @paulinenjoroge]

Senior government officials are currently busy trying to bribe some matatu owners to call off the strike. Unfortunately, some may have taken the money and could hold a presser in the next few hours, saying they have accepted the 10 bob reduction in diesel prices for now, and are calling off the strike until Monday to give the government more time to work on other interventions. Lakini hiyo itakuwa tu kipindi ya kupanga watu.

Why use public money to bribe and silence people instead of fixing the problem? When will this administration stop using shortcuts and actually address the issues Kenyans are lamenting about?

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

I have watched Dr Gikonyo under cross examination and what struck me is that some men reach an age where intimidation stops working on them.

There is a certain calmness that comes from having seen governments come and go, presidents rise and fall, ministers behave like small gods, and public storms disappear after a few weeks. You could see a man who was not auditioning for approval from the room, the lawyers, the cameras or the political crowd outside.

That is what made it interesting. Kenya is full of people who tremble the moment power enters the room. They start calculating what to say, who might be offended, which side is watching and how tomorrow’s headlines may read. Dr Gikonyo looked like someone who has outlived that fear.

At some point in life, the most dangerous person in any room is not the loudest one. It is the old man who no longer needs anything from anyone.

[WARÚHIÚ @kamauwaruhiu]

Deep down sugoi seseseko would want to modernize the Nairobi museum, atoe hizo mifupa mzee alete mpya za ngombe.

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

I don’t even blame Macron for telling “ill mannered Africans” to shut up😏
I blame any African that attended that event thinking France can help Africa move “Forward”
Ya’ll deserve to be treated like the idiots you are✌🏾

[Hon. Njeri Maina @Hon_Njeri_Maina]

Highlighting of submissions on the Petitions pertaining the impeachment of @rigathi

[Smokie @bkinini]

@OleItumbi @WilliamsRuto You can't spin this you dufus

[Brian Mbunde ™ @Brianmbunde]

I never thought I would ever meet someone who hates Ruto than me🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.

[Ademba Allans @Ademba_47]

Sorry but @Wakabando wins. I almost rigged.

[Ademba Allans @Ademba_47]

Nobody hates Ruto more than me facts.

[Nyamisa Chelagat @Nyamisa_Chela]

No one thought of boycotting that event, or refusing to host Ruto?
How do you go to get an award for documenting his killings with the killer as guest of honor? How do you plan an event to award people for documenting killings by the state then have the person that ordered the killings as the guest of honor?
Nini inaendelea out here?