AN UNPOPULAR OPINION
Gachagua is not Uhuru or Kibaki. The former presidents were futuristic, thoughtful and strategic! Gachagua is not.
The former DP is definitely bold, a great mobilizer and very good with narratives, but that’s just about it. He is not sophisticated in his thinking and strategically he is not smart. He gets carried away easily, gets caught up in the present moment and acts without thinking of future ramifications of his actions.
When he picks up a fight, he does it aggressively, but instinctively. Remember his inauguration speech at Kasarani and his other schemes that followed like Northlands raids? I can bet that even in his fight with Ruto, he only thought of that present moment and never applied any strategic plan to it.
At present, he will continue fighting aggressively, gatecrush events and cause a lot of excitement for the MOMENT. But if you happen to ask him what the eventual plan is, I am almost certain he would have no answer. Yet, a smart and strategic mind is required even for a kingmaker.
So my dear Mt. Kenya people, get all excited for now as there is a man who is giving Ruto a hard time in the region. But if you are looking for a person who will give the community strategic direction moving into the future, you will have to go back to the drawing board as that person is not Gachagua. Due to the urgency and significance of this matter, we may even need to pray facing the great mountain, and plead with Mwene Nyaga to provide and anoint for us a man who will lead the community into the future, and build great and meaningful collaborations with other Kenyan communities.
HARD QUESTIONS WE MUST ANSWER
—TRUTHFULLY
1. How do you expect to eliminate grand corruption in Kenya when you don’t want to acknowledge that it was Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi who institutionalized it in the country?
2. Why do you pretend to be against land grabbing, smuggling and and moneylaundering when you refuse to acknowledge that Jomo Kenyatta was their chief architect in Kenya?
3. How serious are you when you claim to believe in the rule of law and constitutionalism but instead of genuinely championing for the punishment of ALL the chief perpetrators and repossession of stolen public assets from individuals and families who have looted public resources, you hug them, work with them, take some of the money they stole and call them your friends?
4. How can you shout about democracy and electoral justice when your drinking buddies and sponsors stole previous elections, committed atrocities against civilians and imposed themselves in power by force?
5. Why do you claim to be a discipline of Raila Odinga and yell that Raila’s victories were stolen in 2007, 2013 and 2017 but you embrace and kiss those who stole Raila’s electoral victories?
6. Why do you pretend to care about ongoing incidents of abductions, illegal detentions, torture, defiance of court orders, and extrajudicial killings but say that some of us who were subjected to atrocities, tortured, sedated, had our houses destroyed with explosives and forced out and blocked from returning to our motherland for 5 years should keep quiet because what we were subjected to “are minor since we were not murdered like Pio Pinto Game, Tom Mboya, Rex Masai or Albert Ojwang’?”
7. How can you claim to offer a genuine alternative to the current despotic, tribal, corrupt and incompetent regime when all your close associates, advisors, sponsors and collaborators are either as bad or worse?
8. Why do you pretend that you believe in and is committed to equity, freedom of expression and national tranquility when you work with and you have weaponized tribal bigots, chauvinists, and deploy bots to silence your critics?
9. How can you pretend to be different from the current regime when all you do is to try to better than him in lying, sloganeering, duplicity, making empty promises and you are unable to unveil a real, coherent and pragmatic plan?
10. How do you expect to end all the intractable, structural, institutional and systemic problems without a radical ideology and a vision aimed at the total overhaul and transformation of the neocolonial slave plantation we call Kenya?
Read and comprehend before purporting to comment, critique or respond.
Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
#SocialismIsTheSolution
#RevolutionNow
This is garbage, @LinusKaikai. Jomo Kenyatta used to foam in the mouth, loudly and consistently curse, hurl epithets, threats and vulgarities almost on a daily basis. Kenyatta routinely swore to “swaga Jaramogi and Luos kama unga” and often described what he purportedly did to Ngina in bed.
Daniel Toritich Moi was equally vulgar, violent and threatening on public podiums.
The statement“mavi ya kuku” was elevated from village dens to the sanctum of State House and public discourse by none other than the fake gentleman called Mwai Kibaki.
Despot Uhuru Kenyatta’s public threats and vulgarities, including against members of the judiciary, is well documented.
So are @realDonaldTrump’s daily childish rants, racist threats and vulgarities.
So, stop pretending that @WilliamsRuto is doing something new. As much as Ruto has failed in many things, I don’t believe his lexicon has degenerated to the levels of his predecessors.
Even your newly minted hero, Raila Odinga, often publicly abused our innocent mothers’ private parts unprovoked.
We must critique truthfully and with integrity.
Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
#SocialismIsTheSolution
#RevolutionNow
I HAVE MADE MY CONTRIBUTION;
NOW, LIBERATE YOURSELF
I was detained incommunicado without trial, tortured at Nyayo Torture Chambers, and expelled from the University of Nairobi in 1987 for resisting the KANU-Moi dictatorship and organizing students against one-party rule. I was only 21.
I was forced into exile to Tanzania in December 1987; Swaziland in February 1988; and Canada in June 1988. I traveled on a UN passport!
In 1989, we founded the Committee for Democracy in Kenya (CDK), which I coordinated from exile until Section 2A of the old Constitution was repealed and Kenya became a multi-party state.
Between 1987 to 2009, successive Kenyan regimes refused to issue me with a Kenyan passport, which was my right.
I returned to Kenya in 2007 and continued the struggle for social justice.
On February 2nd, 2018, after founding the NRM-Kenya and organizing the Resist Movement against the Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto regime and their electoral theft, I was abducted, detained incommunicado, tortured for 6 days and forced into exile after Despot Uhuru Kenyatta, Matiang’i & Co. had illegally seized and destroyed my valid Kenyan passport. My house was bombed and destroyed!
The Uhuru Kenyatta regime illegally issued Red Alerts against me, blocked me from returning to Kenya and using electronic money transfer systems. They also defied all court orders which had directed them to issue me with a passport and grant me unfettered entry into the country.
Upon returning to Kenya on March 26th, 2018, after the High Court had ordered that I should be granted entry with my national identity card, I was stopped from entering the country, physically assaulted, detained and tortured in a tiny toilet at the JKIA.
On March 28, 2018, Justice Odunga ordered that I should be released and NOT be removed from Kenya.
On March 29, 2018, I was physically assaulted, injected with noxious substances and sedated. In defiance of the Court Order, the impunity merchants transported me to Dubai while I was unconscious and dumped me at the Dubai international airport without a passport and my personal effects.
On October 20, 2022, I returned to Kenya after five years of forced exile, when the Ruto regime had issued me with a passport, which the Uhuru Kenyatta regime had illegally destroyed.
I found my house in ruins and started the slow and long path of reconstruction and repairs of the damage caused by the bomb-blast.
I have sacrificed and suffered torture, detentions, pain, exile and financial ruin because of my struggle against tyranny and injustice.
Those who have not struggled, sacrificed or suffered for the liberation should not have the temerity to demand that I continue to suffer for them when they do nothing to liberate themselves!
Dear Matt Lawton,
Nairobi won the 2029 bid! Say congratulations, stop whining with your entitled holier than thou attitude. If criminality was the key determinant as to who hosts what, London of the racist British colonial murderers and racist slave traders of peoples across the world should never host anything.
In 2029, instead of running away from your brutal British colonial ancestors, the peoples of the geography your ancestors decided to call Kenya will run to compete against other peoples of the world including British people.
In 2029, instead of sitting inside British slave trading ships as merchandice to be sold in the Americas, black Africans will sit together with peoples of the world cheering freely for whoever they will choose to support.
In 2029, instead of sitting in British built concentration camps as our ancestors did during the atrocious brutal British gulag in Kenya, our peoples will fill stadiums to welcome all peoples of the world.
In 2029, instead of queueing in a line waiting to be castrated by your British colonial ancestors, as they did upon Mau Mau warriors, Kenyans will queue together with all peoples of the world waiting to access beautiful stadiums built by Kenya through China's participation.
The historic Kasarani Stadium where the 4th All Africa Games were held was built with China's assistance and Talanta Stadium is currently under construction by a Chinese multinational, the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC). Yes, that China where your colonial British ancestors took their opium trade and wars thereof.
Britain is yet to apologise to all societies it destroyed and peoples it murdered, followed by payment of reparations. Despite Britain's record of historical criminality against human rights, London already hosted IAAF World Athletics Championships in 2017. London even hosted the Olympics in 1908, 1948 while it was still brutally colonising millions of humans across the world and once during the postcolonial time in 2012.
Yet, you, a British subject of Your Her and His Majesty, are here whining endlessly complaining bitterly about and against Nairobi for this singular opportunity to host the 2029 event.
You say "its too soon to let Nairobi host event - Kenya should be focusing on restoring its integrity. The sport has missed out on a money-spinner in England."
I say to you Mr. Matt Lawton, 1908, 1948, 2012 and 2017 were too soon for London to host any event meant to be attended by humans from across the world. Britain should be focusing on restoring its integrity. The sport has finally come to the world renowned Home of The Champions!
A simple internet search reveals that about 15% of your British athletes have been involved in doping too. Do not attempt to place yourself(ves) and London on a higher pedestal regarding this horrible practice that taints the sport. To wish Nairobi away due to doping issues is to point four fingers at yourself(ves).
And, please, do not even get me started regarding your British troops conduct in Kenya during contemporary times.
Despite all this, in the very welcoming spirit of Kenya and Kenyans, and as confirmed by Kenyan-British anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey as home to some of the first humans, and despite your holier than thou attitude, Mr. Matt Lawton, Karibu nyumbani, which is Kiswahili for welcome home. Welcome home to Kenya. Welcome to Nairobi in 2029! Mr. @Lawton_Times
But, before touchdown in Nairobi, please, read history and decolonize your mind. [😬]. When you arrive, you will find an imperfect place and imperfect people, just as your imperfect London and its imperfect people. But, you will also find a beautiful people. They of the hatupangwingwi times.
We should not trade accusations. We should wish our imperfect selves the best. But whichever way, we shall be there to speak for us and all our Kenyan ancestors. Any time, any day and everywhere. Congratulations Nairobi! Congratulations Kenya! Thaai thathaiya Ngai thaai. ⚖️
It is not by accident that our so-called leading candidates comprise of the following:
—A former KANU youth winger, a certified tribalist, who supported the brutal one party dictatorship from the 1980s to 2002, became a billionaire selling air to Kenyans, a former deputy president who supported abductions, illegal detentions, torture and extrajudicial killings until he was impeached.
—A former KANU organizing secretary who supported the brutal one party dictatorship and detention without trial from the 1980s to 2002, a quintessential coward and hypocrite who became a billionaire selling air to Kenyans, and a man whose first name is Watermelon.
—A former powerful cabinet secretary whose only claim to fame are the number of civilians he abducted, illegally detained, tortured and murdered; the billions he stole by selling public land, military equipment and air; being a Mossad and CIA asset; the number of court orders he disobeyed; and the innumerable abuse of power and constitutional violations he engaged in.
—A former secretary general of a major political party and a legislator who has introduced zero legislation; supported the despotic and barbaric human rights violations of Uhuru Kenyatta; a man who took tens of millions kickbacks in Parliament and openly supported the extrajudicial killings from 2018 to 2024; a man whose signature graces the Blood-based MoU; a man being bankrolled by one of the most brutal and plundering slave owners; and a man with zero ideology, zero vision and 1000 kilograms of empty rhetoric and slogans.
—An alleged business tycoon who made billions selling air to Kenyans and military equipment to Savimbi and other anti-African warlords; a shadowy figure whose name appears in all past financial scandals such as the Goldenberg, Anglo-Leasing, Eurobond and SGR; a man who has never put in one hour of honest labour but is reportedly one of the wealthiest people around.
—A former chief justice who failed to eradicate corruption and incompetence in the judiciary for more than 6 years; a man who spent his entire life during the one party dictatorship quiet like an envelope, and who has zero ideology, zero vision and no ability to articulate even rudimentary ideas on governance.
—A former YK’92 coordinator who made billions of shillings selling air, public land and brutalizing Kenyans during the one party state; a pathological liar who has spent 4 years of his presidency lying, gallivanting abroad, grabbing land, plundering public resources, brutalizing Kenyans and impregnating young women.
And yet you keep yelling about change—something you don’t have the capacity to understand.
ONLY TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE
Central Kenya/Mount Kenya received the Lion’s share of development projects between 1963 to 2013.
Luo Nyanza received ZERO development. It was a national government policy.
ON TOP of that, after 2013, following the introduction of DEVOLUTION, Central Kenya/Mount Kenya region started receiving allocations like all other counties like Homa Bay.
Consequently, one cannot expect Kiambu, Nyeri, Murang’a, Nyandarua and other Mount Kenya counties which received PREFERENTIAL treatment during Jomo Kenyatta’s, Daniel arap Moi’s, Mwai Kibaki’s and Uhuru Kenyatta’s TRIBALISTIC and INEQUITABLE regimes to be at the same level of development as Luo Nyanza counties which had received ZERO development budgets for more than 45 years.
Regarding corruption: Absolutely ALL county and national governments are and have been corrupt. Without exception.
Gladys Wanga is not more corrupt than Susan Kihika or Anne Waiguru, for instance. Wamatang’i is not less corrupt than James Orengo or Anyang’ Nyong’o. The only difference is that Waiguru, Kihika and Wamatang’i are governors of Mount Kenya whose region was developed at the expense of Luo Nyanza region for more than 45 years.
This is like comparing Uhuru Kenyatta’s children with children of peasants in Homa Bay if those children were given Kshs 100,000 to start a livelihood. Anyone who makes such a comparison is both idiotic and dishonest. One set of children start off with TRILLIONS of LOOTED public money while the second set of children start from poverty.
Similarly, William Ruto is corrupt, but he is NOT more corrupt than Jomo Kenyatta, Mwai Kibaki or Uhuru Kenyatta.
IF we want to eradicate corruption, abuse of power, the culture of impunity and the inequities which have ravaged most people in Kenya for the past 60 plus years, we must stop deception, selective amnesia, hypocrisy and historical revisionism. We must tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.
Mocking and laughing at Homa Bay county and its people is insensitive, childish, tribalist and callous.
Linda Bandits has exposed itself to be just another KANU, PNU, Jubilee, ODM and UDA. Its leaders have failed to legislate for the people. They have failed to oversight the national government and county governments. And for governors like Orengo who has been an MP for 50 years; a cabinet minister under the corrupt grand coalition government; and Siaya governor for 4 years, he must show us the high quality infrastructure he has built in Siaya, how he has delivered services and accounted for the tens of billions of shillings Siaya has received since 2022.
The same applies to George Natembeya who was a brutal and thuggish County Commissioner under despot Uhuru Kenyatta and has been governor for Trans-Nzioa for the past 4 years.
I was in Form One when Orengo was an MP. Gladys Wanga was in primary school! Let’s be serious.
If the Linda Bandits were honest, they wouldn’t be wearing Raila Odinga’s images on their t-shirts while mocking a governor he imposed on the Homa Bay people. Caroli Omondi, an ODM MP, whose constituency the dusty road is in, shouldn’t be yelling at Wanga. Orengo himself was imposed by Raila as the Siaya governor. If they are serious, they must renounce Raila Odinga and stop claiming, hypocritically, that they are the embodiment of Raila’s legacy of dust. They must stop playing Raila’s songs at their functions. Let them be honest and distance themselves from Raila’s legacy. And as they do that, let them also resign from ODM and go back for fresh mandates. Only then can they claim to start afresh.
Shouting WANTAM and TUTAM is not vision. It’s not a manifesto. It’s not a transformative program for the people.
Only a revolution (which the Linda Bandits and UDA thugs fear) will liberate Kenya.
We will deconstruct all of you 24/7 whether you wail or crawl back into your shallow intellectual caves.
Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
#SocialismIsTheCure
WHY EDWIN SIFUNA IS WRONG
Kenya is not a failed state and a country where impunity reigns because it has never had a lawyer as president. There are millions of inept, corrupt and brutal lawyers who have occupied positions of power in Kenya, Africa and the rest of the world.
The judiciary has been one of the most corrupt and incompetent institutions despite being controlled and entirely led by lawyers.
Lawyers are behind most fraudulent transactions at the Lands Office, at the AG Chambers, in various ministries, state corporations, universities and the private sector.
What Kenya and other African countries lack isn’t the absence of lawyers or people with particular degrees in leadership positions; what is lacking is leadership with INTEGRITY operating within a transformed state, institutions and systems.
Anyone stuck on “Ruto failed because he studied zoology, so I will succeed because I am a lawyer” is actually far worse than Ruto.
It’s not about what you studied. It’s not about your occupation. And it certainly is not about the “software.”
It is, at the root, about the structurally, architecturally, and institutionally DEFECTIVE colonial STATE, colonial INSTITUTIONS, colonial LAWS and colonial SYSTEMS, which were not designed to serve Africans. They were designed to EXTRACT, EXPLOIT and DEHUMANIZE Africans.
The colonial STATE is inherently inimical to EQUITY, constitutionalism, DIGNITY and SOCIAL JUSTICE, which ought to be our ultimate collective vision for our societies.
It’s also about a transformative and REVOLUTIONARY vision and INTEGRITY.
Unless we focus on these things, the slogans about WANTAM, TUTAM, or any other, will continue to be nothing but clever manipulative propaganda to FORTIFY, entrench and perpetuate the unjust, inequitable and repressive colonial STATE.
I would rather have standard 8 leaders with integrity who are committed revolutionaries rather than corrupt lawyers, engineers, economists, theologians, teachers, accountants, zoologists, anthropologists, politicians, political scientists, physicians or physicists with a PhD.
Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
#SocialismIsTheCure
#SocialismIsTheSolution
#RevolutionNow
@bonifacemwangi Its only in Kenya where, politicians form political parties but share the same ideologies ( if any) and attends each others NDC. The purpose of forming a political party is because your ideas are that same as those in existing political parties.
With the structural, institutional and legal defects in the colonial plantation we call Kenya, even if you elect Jesus Christ, the problems will never be solved, the citizens will never be accorded dignity and both equity and social justice will never be realized.
All your saviours, slave masters and organized bandits know this but they are not interested to address the structural and institutional defects because if they are effectively addressed, organized bandits will not be able to plunder, murder and abuse power with impunity—which are their main motivations.
So, they excite you with empty slogans, beautiful poetry, eloquent speeches, ethnic jingoism and lofty promises they have no intentions of implementing because you are nothing but a cheap, idiotic and gullible slave.
Until you wake up and realize that only a REVOLUTION—the complete and total overhaul of the colonial state and its transformation is the solution—you will keep cheering and chasing after conmen for months and years then spend the rest of your pathetic lives knasing your teeth, or grovelling to your graves.
Don’t ask me “how?” when I have repeatedly told you to organize yourselves and take power. It’s the only tested and effective way.
Revolution is the only means all oppressed peoples in France, Russia, China, Cuba, even the imperialist United States of America, liberated themselves from monarchies and transformed their societies from inhumane and oppressive systems to more improved ones.
Kenya is nothing but a slave plantation controlled by organized monarchical bandits.
Elections mean nothing in a structurally unjust society like Kenya. The injustices were established by design and the bandits whom you are cheering were carefully selected to keep you in bondage. They really don’t care about the slogans they chant or parties they form and pretend to belong to. Those are merely mechanisms of control and manipulation.
That’s why Rigathi Gachagua waxed lyrical about “getting rid of state capture” during the 2022 election but kept quiet immediately he was sworn in and never complained until Ruto orchestrated his impeachment.
The same way Edwin Sifuna took money from Ruto and voted for Gachagua’s impeachment—together with all the Linda Bandits—but he is now pretending to be Gachagua’s “comrade in struggle.”
The less said about Babu Patel’s, Natembeya’s, Matiang’i’s and Uhuru Kenyatta’s thuggery the better.
James Orengo has been an MP for more than 40 years and the Siaya Governor for more than 4 years. He is the CEO of Siaya with tens of billions of public money per year which he cannot account for. How does such a person sing “change” and zombies clap when he hasn’t brought change even to the chicken of Siaya county?
What programs do the Linda Bandits have for creating employment? For eliminating corruption? For eliminating police brutality? Of course,nothing.
Most Kenyans agree that Ruto must go and must be a one term president. But the solution is not to bring in another Ruto clothed in subterfuge. That’s why Ruto must go with all members of the organized bandits including those supporting, funding and owning the Linda Banditry. All bandits must go to jail. Kenya must be liberated of ALL merchants of Impunity—including Ruto, Uhuru Kenyatta, Matiang’i, Gachagua et al. Until then, the excitement is childish, idiotic and retrogressive!
Without a revolution, you will keep recycling eloquent and cunning merchants of impunity and bandits forever!
#RevolutionNow
Kenyans need to understand what populism really means and why it is not the solution to our country’s problems. Populist leaders often thrive on public anger and easy slogans, but rarely offer credible long term solutions. More often than not, they become agents of the status quo, exploiting frustration without addressing the structural change needed to transform the nation.