Julie Gichuru and her husband Tony “Flash” Gichuru operate one of the most sophisticated state propaganda networks ever seen in Kenya.
Tony channels funds to commercial activists and bloggers to advance William Ruto’s agenda, while Julie trains TikTokers and journalists in the use of manipulative pitch and tone variation designed to influence emotions and provoke a sense of revolutionary catharsis in their audiences.
The distinctive, near-shouting delivery employed by Yvonne Okwara and TikToker Zulekha Godana is a direct product of Julie’s training.
Tony is the son of Samuel Gichuru, the former Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) CEO who authorized a series of illegal and highly extortionate agreements with Independent Power Producers.
Those contracts continue to drive up electricity costs, deter investors, and make daily life more expensive for Kenyans. The fuel-adjustment levy and foreign-exchange charges embedded in every bill or token purchase exist largely to sustain these agreements.
To manufacture demand for diesel-generated power, Samuel Gichuru and Nicholas Biwott drained the Seven Forks dams and then used a compliant mainstream media to amplify reports of declining water levels. This engineered crisis triggered emergency legislation pushed through by bribed members of parliament.
Tony has inherited and continues to benefit from that legacy of corruption and primitive accumulation. In Nairobi circles he is often regarded as “old money,” wealth originally extracted through the suffering and deaths of ordinary Kenyans.
He now serves as an operative for the Ruto administration, maintaining key bloggers on his payroll. Each month he meets them at Cedars Hotel in Nairobi to distribute payments funneled through Kipchumba Murkomen.
This predatory couple has been embedded in the system for years. Just as Samuel Gichuru worked with Daniel arap Moi to loot the country to collapse, the son now works with William Ruto, completing a generational heist.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Ruto the Conman stopped using the Church and hustler narrative and is now chameleoning into a Constitutional champion.
Ruto is a Common thief and a Conman.
One thing I loved about the KICC lies chapter about Vision 2060 is when Hiroyuki Hino told Ruto to his face to stop being delusional about Kenya reaching Singapore levels in 30 or even 40 years from now. A government that cant collect garbage can not claim to dream.
This guy is called David Chege. He is one of the protestors shot outside Parliament. He was a maths and computer science graduate from Jkuat and was an entrepreneur and freelance IT personnel. May he RIP.
It’s strange and beautiful to realise that you can be simultaneously proud of how far you have come and aware that you have barely scratched the surface of who you could become.
PUBLIC LAND IS NOT THE PRESIDENT’S PROPERTY
Public land is not government property in the ordinary sense. The State holds it in trust for the people of Kenya. The President is a custodian of that trust, not its owner.
That is why public land cannot be taken, allocated or converted at the President’s discretion. Any change must follow the Constitution and the law, with the required approvals and public accountability.
The argument that land must be taken before someone else grabs it turns the rule of law on its head. We cannot prevent land grabbing by legitimising it.
Kenya has already lost too much public land. What remains must be protected for present and future generations.
Public land belongs to the people. The State holds it in trust. No President has a personal title to it.