The cry of our nation on June 25, 2024 was painfully simple.
The young people looked at Raila Odinga and said:
“Baba, you have fought for this country for decades. You have sacrificed enough. Please step aside and allow us to finish what we have started.”
Did Raila listen?
No.
Instead, he walked straight into the very house that the young people were protesting against.
He betrayed the spirit of a generation.
He betrayed the trust of those who had believed in him.
In that political journey, he left behind allies like Kalonzo Musyoka and Martha Karua, people who had stood with him when the political winds were brutal.
The most painful part was watching Raila dine and negotiate with the very establishment that Gen Z had risen against.
The blood of young Kenyans had barely dried on the streets when politics resumed as usual.
A generation had buried its children.
A generation had watched young people beaten, arrested, abducted and killed.
And yet, at the very moment when the country needed moral courage, political convenience prevailed.
Raila did not merely enter State House politics.
He walked there on the broken hopes of a generation that had asked him to stay away.
Then came the painful spectacle of Oburu Odinga suddenly speaking in the language of the youth, as though he had been appointed the spokesperson of Gen Z.
No.
You cannot abandon a generation when it is bleeding, then return when the microphones are switched on and claim to speak for it.
The Odingas wronged this generation.
They did not merely misunderstand Gen Z.
They underestimated them.
History will remember that June 25 was not just a protest against a government.
It was a generation demanding to be heard, to be respected and to take ownership of its country.
They asked the old political class to step aside.
Some listened.
Others did not.
That betrayal will not be forgotten.
@ouma_neko Sometimes I don't like commenting on some post's, but last month, I sawa my payslip and I saw the government took almost 42% of what I earned..😭😭
William Ruto has some nerve lecturing Kenyans about sobriety.
Before the 2022 election, Ruto and his political machine worked relentlessly to paint Uhuru Kenyatta as a drunkard.
We were told that Uhuru made decisions under the influence of alcohol.
We were told that Ruto had even tried to speak to him “as a brother” and caution him against mixing alcohol with the presidency.
Ruto presented himself as the sober alternative.
Humble.
Compassionate.
God fearing.
A man who understood the pain of the hustler.
And Kenyans listened, we believed.
The election came. Ruto won. Uhuru handed over power peacefully.
Now look at Kenya.
Nairobi petrol is currently KSh214.03 per litre.
The cost of living is crushing households.
Education is under enormous pressure.
Healthcare remains a daily struggle for millions.
Even people with payslips are counting every shilling before the end of the month.
So here is the question, Mr President:
If Uhuru's alleged drinking was the problem, why did sobriety not save us?
If Uhuru's whiskey was responsible for Kenya's problems, what exactly should we blame for the mess we are living through today?
Because the bottle did not increase the price of bread.
The bottle did not create unbearable taxes.
The bottle did not make healthcare inaccessible.
The bottle did not make parents struggle to keep children in school.
The bottle did not empty Kenyans' pockets.
Governments make policy.
Governments collect taxes. Governments borrow money.
Governments spend public money.
Governments appoint officials.
Governments are accountable for what happens under their watch.
That is the conversation we should be having.
And now Ruto is back to the same tired politics of alcohol.
After attacking Uhuru over sobriety, he is now dragging Kalonzo Musyoka and Edwin Sifuna into the same gutter, reportedly making remarks about their drinking habits.
Mr President, Kenya elected a President, not a national sobriety inspector.
You promised to transform the lives of hustlers.
You promised bottom up.
You promised a government that would put money in people's pockets.
You cannot spend every political season diagnosing your opponents' drinking habits while Kenyans are diagnosing their own empty pockets.
And let me make this painfully clear:
A Kenyan's choice to drink does not make him less Kenyan.
A politician's sobriety does not automatically make his government competent.
Leadership is not measured by how loudly someone condemns alcohol from a church podium.
It is measured by what happens to the mwananchi when the cameras are gone.
So if @edwinsifuna drinks, let him drink your tea is the reason we are suffering.
If @skmusyoka drinks, that is his business he beer made him reject your blood money while your honey killed our children.
If any Kenyan drinks, that is not a substitute for discussing the Constitution, the economy, corruption, healthcare, education, taxation and the cost of living.
We are not looking for bishops at State House.
We are looking for accountable government.
Mr President, before you call another Kenyan a drunkard, matapeli perhaps pause and look at the country you have been governing.
The question is no longer whether the President is sober.
The question is whether Kenya is better off.
Kenyans are perfectly capable of answering that question for themselves.
Something VERY interesting reportedly happened immediately after Wicknell Chivayo’s helicopter crash.
Zimbabwe’s military reportedly swarmed his mansion, sealed it off, and spent hours inside.
Then came reports of tunnels being dug and claims that sensitive documents, devices, and even assets were removed. But something even dirtier happened that I will highlight.
Members of the Kalenjin community are saying something every Kenyan should listen to.
They are saying: We cannot attack Kikuyus.
Why?
Because Kikuyus helped make Ruto Deputy President and later President.
After the 2007/08 PEV, they chose reconciliation over revenge.
They helped restore dignity to a community that had suffered terribly.
They witnessed William Ruto crying in church and asking for forgiveness.
They helped extinguish a fire that had consumed both communities.
They are saying: we will not be the ones to light that fire again.
That is political maturity.
So I ask Luo leaders & political brokers and every ordinary Luo listening:
Look around you:
Who is using you to attack Kikuyus?
Why you?
Do not follow political beggars blindly simply because they come from your community.
A leader can be Luo and still be wrong. John Mbadi is very wrong.
A leader can speak fluent Dholuo and still be pursuing his own interests.
A leader can wear Luo colours, invoke our history, quote our heroes and still lead us into a political trap.
Your tribe is not your compass.
Your conscience is.
Ask yourself: Who benefits when Kikuyu and Luo are fighting?
Who benefits when ordinary people are busy insulting each other while politicians negotiate their own interests behind closed doors?
We have been here before.
The lesson of our history should not be that we must choose which community to hate.
The lesson should be that ordinary Kenyans must never again allow political leaders to weaponise their communities against one another.
Think for yourself.
Question your leaders.
Challenge their arguments.
Demand evidence.
And never allow anyone, however powerful or popular, to convince you that hating another Kenyan is the price of belonging to your own community.
Blind loyalty is not patriotism.
Independent thinking is.
CS Aden Duale never tires of profiling the Kikuyu community, and I remain relentless in exposing his ethnic bigotry—now seemingly on steroids.
Mr President, H.E @WilliamsRuto are you the one who is telling the CS to do so?
In this video, the CS is saying thus:
"This election isnt like the former elections, the way I think. God willing . This country has had five presidents. Three were from one tribe. Two were from the same tribe. Three were from the stone stone called Kikuyus. Don't fear to say stone stone . Every region has a name. Two were from the Kalenjin who are our relatives from a certain side who are close to the pastoralists. The community from who the three presidents hail from, the only community they look at , in which they say let them not come up, let their business not thrive, their humanity shouldn't rise up, is the community we were born from, the Somalis"
Mr president this incitement of unparalleled proportions . Your silence is consent .
Sifuna is playing suave politics
Finesse at its zenith
Was loyal to mzee till death
Has no felony records. Has kept his family private
Hitler as debater, stellar as an orator
Is assertive, heck combative but not abusive
Balls of Indian steel. Definitely a novel stock our politics and country needs
That Kenyans are now contributing cash to the course is not startling
I mean in mature Democracies, voters and donors fund campaigns. Aids in curbing graft
Just hope you will not pull a Morara on him with the funds
Mnakuanga predictable. Kesho aki change from his monotonous Khaki pants msianze
“Pesa Yetu!” 🫣
If you are a Kenyan,
You must have seen a sustained narrative claiming that your president and his deputy are at loggerheads.
They are NOT.
You must have heard that the president is persecuting his deputy just the same way the former president was at loggerheads with his deputy.
They were not.
Here is the thing,
The system keeps you in a sustained political debate.
This artificial conundrum is designed to distract you and vex your spirits.
This debate is meant to sow divisions among citizens.
The system thrives in confusion, division and distraction.
Listen,
The social stratum has the wealthy, the middle class and the poor.
The poor are busy looking for survival, they have little time for political correctness.
The wealthy are busy looking after their wealth by funding politicians to write legislation that will continue making them wealthier.
The crux of the matter is in the middle class where you and I sit.
These are the pawns of the game. They are educated but are idiots.
They are the ones who go to the queue for voting. (The poor don't vote unless induced by money).
The middle class are the noise decibels.
They are the donkeys that work hard to feed the rich. They are heavily taxed.
They are the fools thrown into a heated circus to hate each other, create divisions and distract themselves.
They claim to be learned but cannot decipher the political con game.
The middle class are the ones with big televisions, smartphones and computers. It is here the rich pay the media to sow seeds of confusion and distraction.
It is only a foolish Kenyan who thinks the political crooks from both ends of the political divide don't meet privately to laugh at how they have divided the masses.
It is only a foolish citizen who thinks politicians serve them.
They don't and will never.
Politicians serve
• The World Bank
• World Economic Forum
• IMF
• USAID
• UKAID
• America
• Britain
Refuse to be drawn into imaginary conflicts.
Focus on your goals.
Mobilize your energies.
Politicians won't save you. They are part of the problem.
#DrainTheSwamp