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Just over a year ago, we cautioned the Inspector General of Police, Japheth Koome @IG_NPS, who resigned today, that much as the police commit atrocities against Kenyans under his watch while citing “orders from above”, in the end, it will all fall at his feet. He didn’t listen… https://t.co/SBUNHjnBl3

debunkdotmedia's tweet photo. Just over a year ago, we cautioned the Inspector General of Police, Japheth Koome @IG_NPS, who resigned today, that much as the police commit atrocities against Kenyans under his watch while citing “orders from above”, in the end, it will all fall at his feet. He didn’t listen…

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Looks like the President watched the movie we recommended… Read more: https://t.co/9OfALgjWR7

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1/3🧵 Dear Mr Odinga, As someone who prides themselves as being an avid student of history – at least that’s the impression we get from your perpetual recitation of this or that bit of Kenyan history whenever you get an opportunity to speak, you must beware that across the breadth of history, in Kenya and elsewhere, change in any society is always driven by the youth. Nelson Mandela, one of the men whose history you like to revisit, borrow from and deploy, alongside his comrades such as O.R. Tambo and Walter Sisulu (with whom your comrade James Orengo is posing with on his Twitter/X header), changed the history of the South African anti-apartheid struggle in 1944 when they founded the Youth League of the African National Congress (ANC), against the wishes of seniors within the ANC, who reportedly feared the youth’s militancy. In fact it was Anton Lembede, who was elected leader of the Youth League, who radicalised Mandela, making him embrace militancy as a strategy. It is little wonder that it is out of that Youth League that the Umkhonto we Sizwe, the ANC’s military wing, was founded. To Mandela, Sisulu and others, the old folk, including future Nobel Laureate Chief Albert Luthuli, had made their contribution in the liberation struggle, but it was now time for new tactics and strategies, it was now time to inject new valour and vigour in the struggle, it was now time to organise the youth and simultaneously take up arms. And so whatever strides the ANC and the struggle made thereafter – including building an army that fought the apartheid government, credit has always gone to the 1944 Youth League, which changed the course of history. Yet Mandela, Sisulu and their youthful comrades didn’t have an easy ride making this raft of history-altering changes. The old guard, as is always the case, got jittery (and everyone has been hoping that Gen Z haven’t made you and others jittery) and made various attempts to either subvert or slow down these changes. Winnie Madikizela Mandela (whom you’ve named your own daughter after) tells a story of how ANC president James Sebe Moroka showed up at Mandela’s home one evening in 1949 and angrily told Winnie, “Who does that Nelson think he is? Does he think he owns the ANC?” Moroka then left in a huff, having registered his strong displeasure with the radical path Mandela and the Youth League were taking the ANC. But maybe we don’t even need to travel far and wide to borrow historical lessons, because the part of your own history which you like taking so much pride in, the Young Turks era when yourself and other comrades – in your 20s and early 30s – powered the second liberation while coalescing around a number of old men, including your own father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and his comrade Pius Henry Masinde Muliro. Yourself, Paul Muite, Gitobu Imanyara, James Orengo, Mukhisa Kituyi, Anyang’ Nyong’o, Kiraitu Murungi, and others like Michael Wamalwa Kijana who joined you later in the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy (FORD), and others like Martha Karua and Wangari Maathai who weren’t in FORD, and many others such as George Anyona, literally lay your lives on the line in the push for the return of multipartism (President William Ruto, with whom you are now highly suspected to be working in cahoots with to subvert Gen Z’s historical and generational mission and pacify the will of the people, was on the opposite side of this struggle as part of Youth for KANU 1992, meaning he may not relate to Gen Z’s clamour for change. But will you, as someone who claims to have been on the right side of history in 1992, side with him or Gen Z?).

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Dear Mr Odinga,

As someone who prides themselves as being an avid student of history – at least that’s the impression we get from your perpetual recitation of this or that bit of Kenyan history whenever you get an opportunity to speak, you must beware that across the breadth of history, in Kenya and elsewhere, change in any society is always driven by the youth.

Nelson Mandela, one of the men whose history you like to revisit, borrow from and deploy, alongside his comrades such as O.R. Tambo and Walter Sisulu (with whom your comrade James Orengo is posing with on his Twitter/X header), changed the history of the South African anti-apartheid struggle in 1944 when they founded the Youth League of the African National Congress (ANC), against the wishes of seniors within the ANC, who reportedly feared the youth’s militancy. In fact it was Anton Lembede, who was elected leader of the Youth League, who radicalised Mandela, making him embrace militancy as a strategy. It is little wonder that it is out of that Youth League that the Umkhonto we Sizwe, the ANC’s military wing, was founded.

To Mandela, Sisulu and others, the old folk, including future Nobel Laureate Chief Albert Luthuli, had made their contribution in the liberation struggle, but it was now time for new tactics and strategies, it was now time to inject new valour and vigour in the struggle, it was now time to organise the youth and simultaneously take up arms. And so whatever strides the ANC and the struggle made thereafter – including building an army that fought the apartheid government, credit has always gone to the 1944 Youth League, which changed the course of history.

Yet Mandela, Sisulu and their youthful comrades didn’t have an easy ride making this raft of history-altering changes. The old guard, as is always the case, got jittery (and everyone has been hoping that Gen Z haven’t made you and others jittery) and made various attempts to either subvert or slow down these changes. Winnie Madikizela Mandela (whom you’ve named your own daughter after) tells a story of how ANC president James Sebe Moroka showed up at Mandela’s home one evening in 1949 and angrily told Winnie, “Who does that Nelson think he is? Does he think he owns the ANC?” Moroka then left in a huff, having registered his strong displeasure with the radical path Mandela and the Youth League were taking the ANC.

But maybe we don’t even need to travel far and wide to borrow historical lessons, because the part of your own history which you like taking so much pride in, the Young Turks era when yourself and other comrades – in your 20s and early 30s – powered the second liberation while coalescing around a number of old men, including your own father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and his comrade Pius Henry Masinde Muliro.

Yourself, Paul Muite, Gitobu Imanyara, James Orengo, Mukhisa Kituyi, Anyang’ Nyong’o, Kiraitu Murungi, and others like Michael Wamalwa Kijana who joined you later in the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy (FORD), and others like Martha Karua and Wangari Maathai who weren’t in FORD, and many others such as George Anyona, literally lay your lives on the line in the push for the return of multipartism (President William Ruto, with whom you are now highly suspected to be working in cahoots with to subvert Gen Z’s historical and generational mission and pacify the will of the people, was on the opposite side of this struggle as part of Youth for KANU 1992, meaning he may not relate to Gen Z’s clamour for change. But will you, as someone who claims to have been on the right side of history in 1992, side with him or Gen Z?).

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We agree, @RailaOdinga can do whatever he wishes, but at this particular juncture in our country’s history when his grandchildren’s agemates are seeking to reimagine a new Kenya for themselves, we ask that he avoids the temptation to usurp their moment & movement. It is only fair. Read more: https://t.co/s8SPCDgvlS

debunkdotmedia's tweet photo. We agree, @RailaOdinga can do whatever he wishes, but at this particular juncture in our country’s history when his grandchildren’s agemates are seeking to reimagine a new Kenya for themselves, we ask that he avoids the temptation to usurp their moment & movement. It is only fair.

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1/2🧵 As the #Occupy movement led by Gen Z has risen, floundered and risen again over the last fortnight or so, President William Ruto’s various reactions – first calling the #OccupyParliament brigade treasonous; then doubling down and feigning a call for national dialogue; before quickly enacting a Twitter Space which has resulted in nothing more than backlash for Osama Otero (the erstwhile Gen Z mobiliser turned William Ruto co-host on the Twitter Space); to forming a national debt audit task force which appears dead on arrival following the decline by the Law Society of Kenya and its President to participate in it, deeming it an unconstitutional exercise; among other gaffes – the President is either being hard headed or is completely lost at sea. Whatever it is – whether the President is being a kichwa ngumu or hashiki rada – the truth is that whatever is unfolding in the country cannot and should not be taken lightly, whether by the President or by anyone else. The fact that the hallowed grounds of Parliament were breached, parts of the Supreme Court and office of the Chief Justice were vandalised, and that the promise to #OccupyStateHouse seemed real, must all be seen as microcosms of something bigger. That something bigger, which has resulted in Members of Parliament hiding from their constituents for fear of public reprimands, or Cabinet Secretaries driving without mounted flags on their fuel guzzlers in a bid to be nondescript all speak to the fact that whatever was seen on the national stage as embodied by the #Occupy movement has slowly but surely permeated into the grassroots, if not the other way round – that the volcano started boiling from the grassroots and only erupted on the national stage, soiling the various seats of power before returning to gather even more momentum from the hinterlands. As the Gen Z say, they will not believe. This state of organised chaos – if we may loosely call it that – points to and calls for one thing and one thing only, that President William Ruto needs to move and be seen to be moving with speed. That speed needs to be applied and be seen to be applied in reversing some of his punitive policies; in initiating a raft of reforms that anchor accountability, transparency and real, tangible public participation; in forming a lean, competent and fit for purpose government; in adopting new pro-people policies as regards education, healthcare, cost of living, anti-corruption, youth employment and taxation; and more importantly and urgently in riding himself and his government of all political baggage (could there be some garbage in there to?). If he hasn’t watched it already, maybe it’s time for the President to watch the film Triple Frontier, in which ex-Delta Force teammates attempt to smuggle $3 million drug money on a chopper across the South American mountainside. Weighed down by the weight of the loot, the chopper starts meandering, at which point the crew attempts to throw out as much money as they can to make the chopper lighter. They don’t manage to offload into the wilderness as much money as quickly as they should have, and eventually the chopper crashes under the weight of the money. Much as they eventually make it out with the money after fighting with the locals on the ground and along their way to the beachfront where they catch water transport and elope, the crew has to fight the fights of and for their lives, losing lives and limb and sustaining lifelong scars. It is this exact spot that William Ruto finds himself today, where he either quickly drops off as much baggage (which, like the money in the movie, he thinks he needs) for his chopper to keep flying, or else he keeps offloading the baggage slowly (at the rate at which he is currently doing) and risk the chopper crashing, after which everything will be uncertain.

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As the #Occupy movement led by Gen Z has risen, floundered and risen again over the last fortnight or so, President William Ruto’s various reactions – first calling the #OccupyParliament brigade treasonous; then doubling down and feigning a call for national dialogue; before quickly enacting a Twitter Space which has resulted in nothing more than backlash for Osama Otero (the erstwhile Gen Z mobiliser turned William Ruto co-host on the Twitter Space); to forming a national debt audit task force which appears dead on arrival following the decline by the Law Society of Kenya and its President to participate in it, deeming it an unconstitutional exercise; among other gaffes – the President is either being hard headed or is completely lost at sea.

Whatever it is – whether the President is being a kichwa ngumu or hashiki rada – the truth is that whatever is unfolding in the country cannot and should not be taken lightly, whether by the President or by anyone else. The fact that the hallowed grounds of Parliament were breached, parts of the Supreme Court and office of the Chief Justice were vandalised, and that the promise to #OccupyStateHouse seemed real, must all be seen as microcosms of something bigger. That something bigger, which has resulted in Members of Parliament hiding from their constituents for fear of public reprimands, or Cabinet Secretaries driving without mounted flags on their fuel guzzlers in a bid to be nondescript all speak to the fact that whatever was seen on the national stage as embodied by the #Occupy movement has slowly but surely permeated into the grassroots, if not the other way round – that the volcano started boiling from the grassroots and only erupted on the national stage, soiling the various seats of power before returning to gather even more momentum from the hinterlands. As the Gen Z say, they will not believe.

This state of organised chaos – if we may loosely call it that – points to and calls for one thing and one thing only, that President William Ruto needs to move and be seen to be moving with speed. That speed needs to be applied and be seen to be applied in reversing some of his punitive policies; in initiating a raft of reforms that anchor accountability, transparency and real, tangible public participation; in forming a lean, competent and fit for purpose government; in adopting new pro-people policies as regards education, healthcare, cost of living, anti-corruption, youth employment and taxation; and more importantly and urgently in riding himself and his government of all political baggage (could there be some garbage in there to?).

If he hasn’t watched it already, maybe it’s time for the President to watch the film Triple Frontier, in which ex-Delta Force teammates attempt to smuggle $3 million drug money on a chopper across the South American mountainside. Weighed down by the weight of the loot, the chopper starts meandering, at which point the crew attempts to throw out as much money as they can to make the chopper lighter. They don’t manage to offload into the wilderness as much money as quickly as they should have, and eventually the chopper crashes under the weight of the money.

Much as they eventually make it out with the money after fighting with the locals on the ground and along their way to the beachfront where they catch water transport and elope, the crew has to fight the fights of and for their lives, losing lives and limb and sustaining lifelong scars.

It is this exact spot that William Ruto finds himself today, where he either quickly drops off as much baggage (which, like the money in the movie, he thinks he needs) for his chopper to keep flying, or else he keeps offloading the baggage slowly (at the rate at which he is currently doing) and risk the chopper crashing, after which everything will be uncertain.

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The poet Maya Angelou warned us that if someone shows you who they are, believe them. Time & again @RailaOdinga has shown us who he is. We didn't believe him. Today he's once again shown us who he is - a deal maker moonlighting as a revolutionary. Shall we finally believe him? Read more: https://t.co/wVlFNwlgkL

debunkdotmedia's tweet photo. The poet Maya Angelou warned us that if someone shows you who they are, believe them. Time & again @RailaOdinga has shown us who he is. We didn't believe him. Today he's once again shown us who he is - a deal maker moonlighting as a revolutionary. Shall we finally believe him?

Read more: https://t.co/wVlFNwlgkL

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Can someone please lend President @WilliamsRuto a pair of glasses? Because, it appears, the President doesn't seem to appreciate the magnitude of whatever's in front of him as regards Gen Z's #Occupy movement. But to save him time, we've recommended a movie & a history lesson. Read more: https://t.co/8VEOPfbGVq

debunkdotmedia's tweet photo. Can someone please lend President @WilliamsRuto a pair of glasses? Because, it appears, the President doesn't seem to appreciate the magnitude of whatever's in front of him as regards Gen Z's #Occupy movement. But to save him time, we've recommended a movie & a history lesson.

Read more: https://t.co/8VEOPfbGVq

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