Robert O.B

Political Enthusiast.

[Eric Njiru ⚽️ @EricNjiiru]

FIFA president Gianni Infantino on the Somalian referee Omar Artan not making it to the FIFA World Cup:

“We don’t control everything”

[wildclip @wildklip]

An Indian shop owner caught a thief in America and whopped him in the most hilarious way 😭

[Gabriel Oguda @gabrieloguda]

The only public servant who could look you in the eye and tell you as it is. Rest In Power, Prof George Magoha.

[Robert O.B @boyi_robert]

@fortunhassan @FIFAcom That was not fair at all,
Shame on FIFA and whoever made that decision !

[Fortun Hassan @fortunhassan]

The hero has arrived the whole city came out to welcome him, and FIFA was left embarrassed.@FIFAcom

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

BREAKING: Trump administration claims the Somali referee was denied entry because he is a security threat to the US with links to suspected terrorists. He was questioned for 11 hours, including about Al Shabab

Omar Abdulkadir Artan just landed back in Somalia to a hero's welcome

[Ⓝⓖ'ⓞⓡⓞⓡⓘⓔⓣ🐐🇰🇪 @baroswahjr]

His calmness and strategy should be studied 😂

90+ mins winner

[Robert O.B @boyi_robert]

@elonmusk Like which school specifically Mr @elonmusk ?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🇰🇪 Starlink helping schools in Kenya 🇰🇪

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The car that used to be in my garage is currently in an Earth-Mars elliptical orbit and will be there for at least 10 million years

[Hon.Gathoni Wamuchomba, HSC, MP @hon_wamuchomba]

Wamesema Two term ✌️
Aaki siasa wewe 🙈

[Hon.Gathoni Wamuchomba, HSC, MP @hon_wamuchomba]

Ruto hates Kikuyus so much thats why.......

He's dualing Kiambuu road .

He is upgrading Gikomba which benefits traders many of whom are from murima.
Reviving the coffee sector through reforms and paying Debt waivers for societies and funds like the Cherry Advance Revolving Fund and building Eco-pulpers in coffee factories like Gathiru-ini coffee factory.

Hundreds of kilometres of maumau roads almost complete.

He is building markets and student hostels across mount Kenya.

He is building a stadium in Muran'ga,Thika and hostels at MVTI, Githunguri TVC , Juja TVC.

Affordable housing in almost every constituency across Mt Kenya.

Completion of Kennol- Marua carriageway and extension to Nyeri town .

Mwai Kibaki Teaching and referral hospital in Nyeri and
Githunguri Level 5 hospital.

He has finally unlocked trade and exportation of Tea,Coffee, avocadoe,macadamia to China.
And someone is convincing mrima that Ruto is worst President EVER ?
Or he must be a kikuyu to be NICE ?
Call me a Gakunia again ........

[Hon.Gathoni Wamuchomba, HSC, MP @hon_wamuchomba]

When a "presidential" candidate takes one hour live on air telling one community how they are hated,targetted and discriminated against what do you call that if NOT tribalism?
In one hour live interview in Kikuyu language, no mention of how he will change the economy, poverty levels, eliminate Jiggers , promote boychild and eradicate drugs, improve Trade and cash crops or promote health .
What kind of a leader is this?
A tribalist !
Mlima is diving in to deep HOLE lead by a blind chauvinistic fellow full of self entitlement.
Call me names but this is a fact .

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Thomas Sankara drove the cheapest car in the country as President of Burkina Faso. He declined to have his portrait hung in public places, rejected air conditioners in his office, and lowered his monthly salary to $450.

He was the most powerful man in his country yet chose to live like the people. Sankara did not perform humility; he practiced it as policy.

While African presidents collected state mansions, motorcades, and Swiss bank accounts, Sankara drove a Renault 5—the cheapest car on the Burkinabe market. He banned his portrait from public buildings, refused air conditioning in his office, and capped his salary at $450 a month.

This was not symbolism but a sharp political statement that made every other African leader uncomfortable. When one man in power lives without excess, it exposes all who do not.

Sankara understood that the real currency of leadership is moral authority, not material display. He vaccinated 2.5 million children in one week, planted millions of trees to fight desertification, and achieved all this on an embarrassingly small budget.

They assassinated him at 37 and erased him from history.

What does it say about a continent’s future when its most disciplined leaders are always the ones removed?

References: Thomas Sankara Speaks (Pathfinder Press, 1988) | BBC Africa — "Thomas Sankara: The upright man" (2017)

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

"Kenya is not an American colony!" Protesters chanted as they brought an Ebola coffin to the health ministry

[Fox News @FoxNews]

New video released by the Kuwaiti government shows the moment an Iranian drone strike slammed into the country’s major international airport.

The footage captures what looks like a direct impact followed by a massive explosion, sending smoke and debris into the air as part of the airport complex erupts.

Kuwaiti authorities say one person was killed and more than 60 others were injured in the strike.

Wednesday’s attack marks a major escalation as tensions across the region continue to rise.

[Kiambu Tweep @KiambuTweep]

Hii aibu kama ningekua @HEBabuOwino singekubali.
Mbadi is an intellectual.

Can Babu tell us why the world’s largest oil producer (the USA) is facing a sharp rise in fuel prices, yet it doesn't even need the oil from the GCC countries?

[Bianca™ @BiancaNaom1]

Al Jazeera is masquerading as a defender of democracy while running a mercenary hit job on Kenya through its latest documentary. It has no credibility. #BoycottAlJazeera

Since when did a state-funded propaganda apparatus operating from Doha acquire the standing to adjudicate the democratic credentials of sovereign nations?

In Qatar, democracy is a foreign concept. There are no elections for the head of state. The legislature is appointed, not elected, and wields no independent authority. Political parties are proscribed. The press is state-aligned. Criticism of the ruling family invites legal reprisal. This is not a democracy. It is an absolute monarchy that leases the vocabulary of modernity while contracting public relations firms to launder its image abroad.

Yet this same entity now seeks to pass judgment on Kenya. A nation that conducts regular, contested elections. A nation where the press scrutinizes the government daily without fear of closure. A nation with an independent judiciary and an opposition that can mobilize, protest, and contest power openly. Kenya is imperfect, as all living democracies are. The distinction is that these imperfections are litigated in public, in parliament, in the courts, and in the press. Try that in Doha.

Al Jazeera possesses no moral authority to lecture on democracy.

This is a network broadcasting from a state constructed upon the Kafala system. A sponsorship regime that binds millions of migrant workers to their employers, restricts mobility, and has been documented by the ILO and Human Rights Watch as facilitating exploitation and forced labor. Qatar speaks of human rights while institutionalizing a labor architecture that would be unlawful in the jurisdictions it presumes to condemn.

It is also the network that has conferred legitimacy upon Hamas leadership, hosted individuals designated as terrorists by the United States and the European Union, and functioned as the media arm for regimes that export instability across the region. To host and platform those proscribed for terrorism while issuing homilies on the rule of law is not journalism. It is reputational laundering on a transnational scale.

And now it presumes to lecture Kenyans on surveillance and democratic norms through a documentary on Kenya.

Kenyans require no instruction on democracy from a broadcaster financed by a monarchy that has never submitted its leadership to a popular vote. We require no counsel on surveillance from a state that incarcerates citizens for social media posts. If Al Jazeera is genuinely concerned with democratic accountability, it might begin by subjecting its own patrons to scrutiny.

This documentary on Kenya is not an investigation. It is an exercise in manufactured outrage, assembled to conform to a narrative long recycled by European and Qatari media houses. It is propaganda masquerading as investigative reporting.

Kenya’s democratic trajectory will be determined by Kenyans. Not by Al Jazeera. Not by Doha. @AJEnglish @AlJazeera @AJENews