daniel Jones

Being genuine

[daniel Jones @dnieljones]

@EstherPassaris You keep yapping about the president, he's just a phone call away do the necessary let him settle the bill asap, he's spending humongous amount on campaigns, absurd!

[Kipkalya Kones @MrKipkalya]

People are launching parties and renaming others, but everyone is asking "na wapi ya Sifuna?"

The el nino is coming!

The Registrar of Political Parties, his office and their masters, are still stuck in 1981, when Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and George Anyona tried to register a new political party. These fools still think you can save a regime by blocking the registration of popular movements.

But Kenya's multiparty history shows that the party leader is the magnet that sustains it. Ford Kenya practically died with Jaramogi (the current one is smaller than a market-day basket at Lwakhakha market, fit only for Wetangula's personal shopping). Ford Asili died with Matiba. DP was dead the moment Kibaki abandoned it.

Similarly, Raila moved parties, yet the next one he moved to became the national focus. When the LDP faction of NARC lamented in 2003 that Raila had been made Minister for Roads instead of the agreed Prime Minister, John Michuki cheekily reminded them that you could make Raila the Minister for Shoes, and that would become the most visible ministry in the land.

Everyone who joined ODM in the last 20 years was joining Raila, not the party. It could have been called Mbuta Development Party or Sufuria Wearers Movement (SWARM) and it have attracted similar large numbers. It is the leader, his ideals and the hope he represents for the masses, that makes up a political party. Those who join the party actually follow him, not the name of the party.

The Registrar doesn't know it, but if Sifuna and his team attempted to register a name to rhyme with the name of the movement he created in just a few months, that desire does not negate the overall philosophy where Sifuna's name and his ideals are the magnet of the new movement. If what he launches next week is called Nimechoka Party of Kenya, his followers will adjust their tongues from "Linda Mwananchi" and start chanting "Nimechokaaaa, Wantam!" The name of a party here is not bigger than the profile of its leader, thank you very much!

Oh, and @paulinenjoroge and @abbiezuena are absolutely right: the presidential negotiating table can only have presidential candidates, so that you avoid the spectacle of one-legged parties and their hapless owners coming to extract non-existent concessions. All concessions made will be presidential, and the evolution of multiparty democracy must include our refusal to entertain parties with three followers and egos the size of Kimwarer Dam from walking in and demanding a percentage of government, then delivering three and a half votes.

That season passed.

[kemboi @Cfc_Kemboi]

Arsenal in the mud , who did this 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤲🏾

[K24TV @K24Tv]

Margaret Ndege: Sometimes it’s good to give the President his flowers. He has really succeeded in corruption. He has also managed to destabilise the economy to a point where investors have had to run away, all claiming that the cost of operations was too high
#GenZManifesto

[Patrick Osoi @OsoiPatrick]

We cannot be transporting our elderly parents in lorries like herds of cattle. They deserve some honor.

You cannot make us poor and treat us like this for only 200ksh. Hii madharau itaisha!

[daniel Jones @dnieljones]

@KBCChannel1 How many slum dwellers can actually afford to pay for the houses

[daniel Jones @dnieljones]

They will not believe, watachang'anyikiwa hadi Kwa debe

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

“I meant to say one more term” Sotik MP Francis Sigei apologises for saying “One term” in front of President Ruto

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

Mr President you found public debt at Sh8.7 trillion. Today it is Sh13 trillion. That is Sh4.3 trillion added in four years. The Controller of Budget is telling Treasury to stop borrowing because we have smashed the 55 percent debt ceiling. You do not reduce a mountain by standing on it and announcing it is a hill. #DeniBandia #ReKe

[Dr. Miguna Miguna @MigunaMiguna]

To @WilliamsRuto: Stop using fellow Africans—whether Burundians, Rwandese or Tanzanians—as the excuse for your failure to create employment opportunities and economic prosperity for Kenya.

You have addressed a gazillion of international and continental conferences where you have pretended to be a pan-Africanist, while in Kenya you are stoking xenophobic rhetoric against our neighbours. That is reprehensible.

An African should be free to visit, settle and work in any African country of their choice, as long as they are not committing any crime.

Leave Africans in Kenya alone!

[Stephen Mutoro @smutoro]

In instances as what happened in Kitengela, Saturday, when President Ruto seemed to momentarily but completely forget what he wanted to say, specialist doctors investigate the following (In his case, the answer is easy: Fatigue/stress/poor-sleep. He is over-working/thinking about 2027);
♦️ Thought blocking — Speech stops suddenly. Person can’t recall the thought. Linked to psychosis, but also anxiety or fatigue.
♦️ Absence seizures — Brief blank-outs, seconds long. No memory of the gap. More common in kids, but adults too.
♦️ TIA / focal seizure — Sudden speech arrest. May include confusion or weakness.
♦️ Transient global amnesia — Sudden memory loss episode. Lasts hours, not seconds.
♦️ Age-related lapses / brain fog — Just word-finding trouble. Common with stress or poor sleep.

[BRAVIN YURI @BravinYuri]

This is comical. Wantam siku zote.

“Nani ako na track record?”

“Nani aliua watu?”

😂

[daniel Jones @dnieljones]

@DonaldBKipkorir My worry is the cost, must someone eat from somewhere

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

Ruto Orders Gen Z Killings Probe:

Ruto acknowledges legitimacy of Gen-Z demonstrations

Ruto orders probe into killings, arrest of those involved

Ruto: No Kenyan should lose their life for criticizing govt

Ruto: I recognize the pain that remains from the events

#CitizenTonight

[The United Stand @UnitedStandMUFC]

🚨 Here's who Manchester United will face in the UEFA Champions League league phase... #mufc

[Stephen Mutoro @smutoro]

Eric Latiff just showed what world-class journalism looks like — BBC HARDtalk style.
🌻No advance leakage of questions, no soft landing. Just a commanding voice followed by studious silence — and a Head of State left stammering, reduced to promising “I’ll come to your question.” To himself?
🌻This is what real accountability journalism sounds like. #KatibaAt16

[Citizen TV Kenya @citizentvkenya]

“Kenyans understand our agenda except one with a PhD,” Sifuna responds to President Ruto’s challenge on the opposition’s manifesto

[Kivutha Kibwana @ProfKibwana]

HE @PR_Diomaye of Senegal became President at 44. 2027 @edwinsifuna will be 45. True the opposition must democratically choose one presidential candidate. But you mean SIFUNA, BABA’s reincarnation, shielded by a BABU Nairobi governor, cannot lift a Sword, Bible & Constitution?

[Dawood @Dawood_Ide]

@Ruto_tutam2027 @MoraraKebaso @dkmaraga Ruto has realised that his bogus Bottom up Wheelbarrow and Hustler agendas are a total failure.
He now wants SIFUNA'S agenda so that he can copypaste it.
But Sifuna is more clever than Ruto.Ameficha white.

[Nelson Havi SC @NelsonHavi]

Here in Western Kenya everyone: children; teenagers; youths; adults and senior citizens want President Edwin Sifuna. Dr Bonny Khalwale’s little girl insisted to be taken to speak to the President. The three unwise old men will never speak about Luhya unity again.

[Omwamba 🇰🇪 @omwambaKE]

When I grow, I would like to be like Boni Khalwale.

Boni Khalwale built bungalows for each of his four wives, all within the same compound.

He then built a fifth mansion for himself. He stays there alone whenever he needs some private time to reflect on his personal life. No wife is allowed in the mansion; only his children may visit.

When he wants to spend time with one of his wives, he simply walks from his kingly bungalow to the house of whichever wife his heart chooses that particular day.