Armed robbery in a Westlands restaurant is not an isolated crime story but the logical outcome of years of normalising goons and weapons at political rallies. Once you arm young people for politics, those guns and crude weapons don’t remain at the rally. They migrate into our streets, churches, restaurants and estates, turning every space into a potential battlefield for hired violence and organised crime.
Historically, we have seen this cycle. Politicians outsource violence to gangs, the gangs entrench themselves, soon even those not interested in politics are robbed, maimed or killed in their homes and neighbourhoods. This madness is a direct assault on the constitutional right to security of the person and the freedom to participate, or not participate, in politics without fear.
I add my voice to demand that the State decisively dismantle political goonism, disarm militias and hold to account any leaders who mobilise youth for violence instead of ideas. Whether you are political or apolitical, rich or poor, in the CBD or the estates, this wave of armed lawlessness will eventually reach you if we stay silent. Everyone must speak out to reclaim the country from weapons and fear and restore it to a country governed by law, not gangs.
@CarrefourKe What is the need of selecting a delivery window when it is never adhered to. Your scheduled delivery is quite a disappointment. Why are we getting deliveries 4 hours past delivery window. No communication, no apologies. Terrible customer service.
The system is upset that you still remember June 25. It is even more disturbed that your memory is not vague, but graphic —that you remember what happened that day, what followed in its wake, and what has continued to unfold ever since. This was not to be remembered.
Protesters took Ericsson’s body after police ignored him. They draped the flag over him and sang the national anthem.
The brother with the fade and orange shirt held his hand. It broke my heart
📸 @festolang
A lobby group has moved to court to stop the proposed Kenya-US mining deal at Mrima Hill, citing lack of public participation.
The group adds that key details of the Sh9.7 trillion project remain undisclosed.
Erasure of mass killings in Kiambaa;
The Kenya Kwisha regime has resumed in earnest the whitewashing operation that was started by the Jubilee regime in a futile bid to wipe out the very vivid history of a massacre from the collective memory of Kenyans, won't work, can't work.
"When the citizens of a Nation deem their most accomplished thieves as the most electable then they lose the right to complain when theft becomes their national creed." ~ Modibo Keita. Pan-Africanist leader and first President of Mali. (1915-1977)