GROK 3.0 is interesting.
I doubt if this man is aware of GROK 3.0
We are led by fossils operating on Pentium 4 to solve technology use cases that run on 13th Gen Intel Core i9.
Yesterday,I received credible Intel from a reliable source that I am now a marked man. This is so laughable if only it was not so sad.
This came after two of my senior friends told me to tone down my posts on the government or anything touching on abductions. The warnings came from a good place in their hearts, and I know they mean well.
What has our country become? I consider myself one of the mildest critics, yet every time family or friends tell me to tone it down, I am shocked.
I sat there thinking about those young men abducted, some whose bodies are surfacing in various parts of the country, and asked myself, "Is all that necessary?"
How fragile do you have to be as a President to sink so low, as not take criticism for your bad leadership and at least learn a thing or two.
Like they are asking the least from the president, but we have people like Sudi saying that he needs three days to deal with anybody saying bad stuff about the president online. I saw Ichungwa's outburst at Natembeya's remarks, and I felt like the president wouldn't get far with people like Ichungwa and Sudi as his principle advisers
Even sadder are new defenders of the president who are louder than even people who voted for him, who suddenly think that a president automatically deserves respect.
Respect for what?
Running down our education system?
Killing our healthcare system?
All those companies exiting Kenya due to the high cost of doing business.
For being proud of sending young people to slave out of the country and shamelessly taking credit for it?
For abducting our children?
For partnering with a Mungiki leader?
For bringing dynasties his fold?
For lying endlessly even when he doesn't have to?
I respect the presidency and would love to live in a country where leaders and elders are respected. But respect like money is earned and is a two-way street.
I am here thinking about all those Kenyans who were jailed and tortured over the years. Kenyatta 1 jailed folks. Some met worse fates. Moi jailed and tortured folks in the 1980s at the peak of Nyayo Torture chambers. People would be jailed for merely teaching at the university and harbouring Marxist thoughts. May more died. Some we know. Some we don't. There are family that have never healed from the scars Moi left upon their family.
Kibaki jailed and tortured folks. I witnessed the state-sanctioned murder of GPO Oulu and Oscar King'ara outside our hostel. They were shot at, in cold blood, on State House Road, barely 900 metres from the State House gates. We saw men in suits jog away from the scene. Under Uhuru, several young men and women and children were killed over the many years, most of them of Luo extraction. And many bodies have turned up in Yala River that we don't have an explanation.
All those jailed or killed were Kenyans. They didn't have to die. Or get jailed. Or get tortured for merely having a different opinion.
I have travelled and lived in countries with dictators as presidents. You don't want to live under a dictatorship. We lived through such a nightmare for 24 years. It wasn't funny.
When living or visiting such countries and I open my omena mouth to ask a political questions people either leave my table or they tell me, "we don't discuss politics here."
Since 1992, Kenya has been a vibrant democracy with periodic multiparty elections. Even though the elections are far from perfect, we have tasted freedom and we know what it feels like.
We can never go back and any KANU orphan who imagines that they can piss on our constitution, and get away with it, they read the time wrong. Kenya will never go back to the dark days, and the president and his coterie of sycophants are about to find out. Because they think June 25th was a joke.
As the protests resume, may we never lose the big picture, may we not have the in-fighting or get distracted or intimidated.
Let us turn up in big numbers and send the biggest statement yet. To quote an American statesman:
"We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."
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