The danger of a masked unit that operates off authority is that it can be anyone: a dangerous prisoner buying his freedom, a terrorist paying his keep, a rogue officer atoning for his sins, a serial killer practising his art.
Treat them as that. For all we know Kenya has an estimated 88,483 to 101,000 police officers across its national security framework, bringing the ratio to 1:400.
A mask is not recognized anywhere.
As July begins, keep documenting every act of police brutality. Every photo, every video, every witness account, and every signal becomes evidence that survives denial.
Records will always outlive propaganda.
A reminder that human rights defender Davis Lichuma's abduction is part of a record that must be preserved. Davis cannot speak until now. God knows what they did to him.
Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen and President William Ruto's government will one day be judged by the evidence we chose to keep.
video by @Otiende_malik
Muuaji Fikirini Jacobs has joined the long list of political killings executed by politicians such as Didmus Baraza who is walking Scott free to date albeit with all the évidence and witnesses. Kenyans are watching to see if the same treatment will be given to this murder case.
They have charged senior citizen Miria Matembe with sectarianism.
It fits the pattern exactly. They picked sectarianism against a woman who spent her whole life fighting for every Ugandan woman regardless of tribe, and they picked it because the charge was never the point. The charge is the paperwork. It exists to give Luzira a legal sounding reason to swallow her, so that when you ask why a 72-year-old is in a maximum security prison, somebody can wave a file at you and call it due process. This is how the machine works now. We have watched it do this to Besigye, to Lukwago, to Eddie Mutwe and countless others. Matembe is just the latest name fed through it.
She was brought into that courtroom held up by two people, unable to stand on her own. Days ago she sat upright in her own home, clear and strong, telling the truth about this regime out loud. Now she could not walk into a room without being helped, her body showed the signs of torture wherever they have kept her since they took her. Days missing, her family never told where she was. Then she is brought to court like this and a sane magistrate accepts the charges against her and sends her to prison.
She begged. She cried in that courtroom, asking the magistrate for bail so she could simply get to a hospital and have a scan, just to know whether something inside her was broken. She said, plainly, that she would not survive a night in prison without help. This is a woman who sat in the Constituent Assembly and fought for the document that courtroom claims to operate under, reduced to pleading for a scan like a stranger begging at a gate. The magistrate looked at her and looked away, then sent her to Luzira anyway.
That same constitution allows her bail. It does not protect her now, because the people running this country have decided it does not apply to whoever Muhoozi is angry with this week.
So let us not pretend this is a country of laws. A country of laws does not carry a sick 72-year-old into court and remand her to prison in that condition. They abducted Matembe. They tortured her. Then they brought her before a magistrate with a charge sheet already prepared, so the whole thing would look like justice instead of what it actually was. This is the system functioning exactly as it was built to function, and that is precisely the problem.
Get her out. Get her to a hospital. Whoever you support, whatever you usually scroll past, this one should reach you, because they are showing us plainly what they are, and they are doing it to one of the best of us while asking us to call it law.
🎥@Lord_Mutuzo
#FreeMiriaMatembe #FreeAllPoliticalPrisonersInUganda #FreeUganda
The information we have about Halima Ngache upto now is that she was presented in court today, Milimani Magistrates Court and the court has granted Kiambu based criminal enterprise three days to detain her in the name of investigations.
We are trying to follow up on which police station is she being taken.
If this post appears on your TL, reply with the hashtag #FreeHalima #RutoMustGoNow
I remember seeing Lichuma so bravely speaking out when this regime murdered Albert Ojwang. And now the same regime has broken him so badly that he can’t even speak for himself to say what they did to him? As citizens we must make someone answer for this.
Kijana Cecil was asked to gather Tutam Youths for an empowerment event for PS Fikirini Jacobs.
He mobilized about 60 youths. The PS came, took photos for his propaganda and then handed kshs 10,000 for Ouma to share with the youths.
Each youth was to get around kshs 167, compensation for whole day work of singing Tutam and Praising the government.
The youths refused, saying that money wasn’t enough for the whole day’s work. They forced Ouma to go back to the PS and ask for more money.
Ouma entered the PS car, but never made back out alive. The bodyguard of the PS shot him.
Dying for kshs 167 after shouting Tutam for a whole day is very sad. May Cecil rest in peace.
It is completely wrong for the government to hunt down anyone simply because they are believed to be linked to or associated with an account that criticizes the President.
This is deeply troubling.
This account does not insult anyone. It criticizes the government where necessary and applauds it where it deserves credit.
Free Halima Ngache.
That comrade killed by PS Fikirini had gone to ask for more pay after his comrades were paid 167 shillings.
Politicians sacrifices people to maintain power.
There's nothing like an accident.
Stop following that politician, they're draining your energy.
Politicians are not real people, see how they underfund hospitals so that Kenyans can continue suffering.
'Wapendwa Wetu Wako Wapi?'
Hali ya hofu na majonzi imetanda katika mtaa wa Kiamaiko, Mathare, huku familia za wanaharakati wawili waliopotea zikiungana na wakazi kufanya maandamano ya amani.
#NTVJioni@nicholaswambua_
On the glorious day we decide to take back our country FR, Kiamiko will be on the frontlines. Such resilience yani! From 9:00am to 7pm the protests were still on! We are genuinely very tired of the way things are and have been. A revolution is on the horizon. #RutoMustGo
If we normalize these abductions through silence, they will only escalate. Every Kenyan, regardless of political affiliation, has a duty to condemn them in the strongest possible terms.
A government that tolerates enforced disappearances and unlawful abductions is attacking the very foundation of constitutional democracy. Fear must never become an instrument of governance.
They may intimidate individuals, but they cannot silence an entire nation. If we remain united and continue speaking out, the truth will always outlive repression.