Bl@ckman

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

When you talk about reparations, some of the first people who come to oppose them are ignorant Africans whose confidence far exceeds their intellect telling you, “We don’t need reparations.”

Do you people even understand what you are rejecting? Do you think reparations mean a workers’ compensation cheque, that we are all going to queue at the bank and receive $100 or $500 for the suffering inflicted on our ancestors? Or that those our corrupt leaders receiving a $1billion check to acquire their next mansion in Dubai or Monaco? Is that really the extent of your imagination?

Reparations mean repairing structural harms left by the slave trade and its immediate child colonialism and it takes multiple forms.
Economic reparations include changing trade laws and agreements that keep formerly colonised economies supplying cheap raw materials while making it difficult for them to develop industries of their own. They can include preferential access to markets, removing tariffs that penalise processed goods, supporting local manufacturing, and changing procurement rules so African businesses can compete for valuable contracts.

Reparations can include tax advantages for building businesses: tax credits for productive investment, relief for new enterprises, incentives for research and manufacturing, and measures that help businesses owned by affected communities accumulate capital. They can include debt cancelation, investment funds and ownership stakes that help people build lasting wealth.
They can include returning identifiable stolen assets, millions of acres land, mines, confiscated gold reserves ( More than 2/3rd of the French gold reserve was taken from African countries since the colonial era).

Cultural reparations can mean returning looted artworks, sacred objects, royal treasures, manuscripts and human remains ( The German are still holding onto tens of thousands of African skulls they massacred in Namibia for ex), with the resources necessary for their preservation under the authority of the communities to whom they belong. You cannot steal somebody’s heritage, charge admission to see it, and then present a temporary loan as generosity. Repair can also include funding museums, libraries, publishing houses, theatres, film and cultural institutions whose development was obstructed or whose work was treated as inferior.

Historical reparations can mean opening colonial archives, returning records, identifying burial sites, documenting atrocities and supporting research led by the communities concerned to restore the names and lives of people reduced to numbers in those shipping registers.

Linguistic reparations can mean investing in reinstating African languages as languages of education, science, administration and intellectual life. That includes training teachers, producing textbooks, and recovering knowledge that colonial institutions dismissed because it was transmitted in a language they refused to respect.

Our nations have been so tied by debts that the IMF and our western debtors slash our educational budgets leaving our schools underfunded, making such reforms financially impossible. And this was intentional!

Reparation means our Children should be able to learn through their own languages and acquire other languages without being taught to despise the first words through which they understood the world.Reparations means revising our school curriculums, both in formerly colonised countries and in the countries that profited from their subjugation.
These measures require negotiation, enforceable commitments and public accountability.

But listen to how quickly some of you ignoramuses dismiss the entire demand before making the smallest effort to understand it. The ignorance is sickening !

[Bl@ckman @michael_mbai]

@zsoud_ Rubbish maths. 10000/24=416 per minute.

[Bl@ckman @michael_mbai]

@tonykaromo @Jim_Njue_ We, the people, SHALL resist all forms of slavery, until our last breath.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Why the Virtuous Majority Keeps Losing.

Most people are decent. They work, raise their children, pay their taxes, and don’t lie more than they have to. And yet, again and again, the country is run against them.

How?

Turns out the mechanism has a name: Olson’s logic of collective action. An economist named Mancur Olson worked it out in 1965.

The idea is simple. Imagine a subsidy worth millions to a small group of companies. It costs every taxpayer the price of a coffee. Who will organize? The few, for whom it is worth millions – they will hire lobbyists, fund campaigns, show up at every meeting. The many, each losing the price of a coffee, will do nothing. Nobody marches for the price of a coffee.

Concentrated gains organize. Dispersed losses sleep.

Add the free rider: in a large group, everyone hopes someone else will do the work. So nobody does.

That is why the small organized minority beats the large disorganized majority, almost every time. Not because it is right. Because it shows up.

Now look around. The grant-funded NGO, the bureaucracy defending its budget, the activist network with full-time staff, the lobby with an office next to the ministry. Each has a lot to gain from one more rule, one more program, one more subsidy. The families paying for it each lose a little – and they are busy raising children.

Vice organizes itself, because vice pays its organizers. Virtue has to be organized, because its rewards are spread across everyone.

Olson saw the long-run consequence too. In a second book he argued that stable nations slowly fill up with these organized interests, each defending its slice – until the whole country stiffens and growth stalls. Germany and Japan boomed after the war partly because defeat had swept the old coalitions away.

So what do we do? Olson’s own logic gives the answer.

Make the dispersed costs visible. The coffee nobody notices becomes a bill everyone can read. That is what telling the truth does.

Give the virtuous a reason to show up beyond duty: friendship, community, careers, joy. Movements that last give their members something to belong to.

And remember that the majority never needs to organize all at once. A committed minority is enough to start – the long march proved it. The rest follow once they see they are not alone.

And it needs structure. That is what the network of patriots across Western Civilization – and the Council of Western Civilization at its center – are for. Not to give orders. To show the direction, so the energy is not scattered. To give the vocabulary, so people can name what is being done to them. And to coordinate, so no one fights alone. Olson’s lesson in one line: the organized few beat the disorganized many. So become the organized many.

And here is the good news. Olson wrote in 1965, when organizing cost meetings, letters, money and years. Today it costs a post. The math that kept the decent majority asleep is changing.

The majority does not win by being right. It wins by showing up – together.

[Mao Deh @DehMao]

@moneyacademyKE @edwinsifuna , in september 2027 please give @OkiyaOmtatah DARGE

D.epartment of
A.sset
R.ecovery and
G.overnment
E.fficiency

watu wanalia kwa kanisa watalilia kamiti

[Bl@ckman @michael_mbai]

@lynn_ngugi1 Check with the CIA.

[Random World Ψ @randomworldke]

Africa is still being used a guinea pig to test medicine 💊💉 for other countries before they can use them. This is the worst thing a president can allow for his people 😭😞. Even a class 8 would tell you something is off with this contract but he signed it anyway!😑

[FALANA MUYIWA @Muyiwa66]

22 African Presidents Assassinated Since 1963

More than 22 African presidents were assassinated after resisting colonial and neo-colonial control. From Lumumba to Sankara to Gaddafi, their deaths reshaped Africa. This is the hidden history of assassinations and empire.

[Okiya Omtatah Okoiti @OkiyaOmtatah]

PRESS STATEMENT

WHY KENYA'S ELECTORAL SYSTEM MUST PASS THE CONSTITUTIONAL TEST

Fellow Kenyans,

Yesterday, I appeared before the High Court in a constitutional case concerning the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (@IEBCKenya) and the integrity of Kenya's electoral system.

The petition asks the Court to test the entire chain of our elections - how Kenyans register, how they are identified at the polling station, how their votes are cast and counted, and how results are transmitted, verified and declared - against the standards the Constitution itself sets.

That question is simple to state: Does Kenya's electoral system meet the constitutional test?

Article 81 requires that elections be administered in a manner that is impartial, neutral, efficient, accurate and accountable. Article 86 requires that, whatever method is used to cast, count and transmit votes, that method be simple, accurate, verifiable, secure, accountable and transparent. The Elections Act sets the same standard for the technology IEBC deploys.

The Constitution anticipates an electoral process that is not just free and fair, but one that is also tamper-proof. Free and fair speaks to conduct on the day; tamper-proof speaks to the design of the system itself - whether it can withstand interference at any point in the chain, and whether that can be proven, not merely assumed.

To be clear, this case is not just simply about paper versus electronics.

Kenya's system already combines both - paper ballots, electronic voter identification, and electronic transmission of results. Technology, properly designed and independently verifiable, can be a powerful ally of electoral integrity: it can reduce unnecessary human discretion, create reliable audit trails, make results easier, not harder, to verify, and significantly reduce the cost of elections.

But technology is not self-certifying. It does not become trustworthy simply because it is technology. Like every other part of the electoral chain, it must be shown to satisfy the Constitution's own tests of transparency, verifiability, security and accountability - and, ultimately, to be tamper-proof.

That is the real question before the Court: does the entire electoral chain - registration, identification, casting, counting, tallying, transmission, verification and declaration - give Kenyans sufficient safeguards that their vote, once cast, cannot be manipulated, mishandled, or rendered impossible to verify?

This is not a personal quarrel with @IEBCKenya. It is a constitutional and public-interest matter.
Sovereignty in this country belongs to the people, and the vote is the sole instrument by which that sovereignty is exercised. An electoral system that cannot be meaningfully verified is not one the Constitution permits us to accept on faith.

I want to be precise about where this matter stands. The High Court has not ruled on the merits. The parties were heard, and the constitutional questions remain before the Court. I respect that process fully and will abide by whatever directions and determination the Court makes.

My role as a citizen, a public representative, and the petitioner in this matter is to ensure these questions are placed squarely before the Court and answered according to the Constitution and the law, not according to convenience or assumption.

Kenyans should not have to be told their votes were counted correctly. They should be able to verify it. That is the standard the Constitution sets, and it is the standard we are asking the Court to enforce.

The vote belongs to the people. The Constitution protects it. Our electoral system must do the same - free, fair, and tamper-proof.

We proceed, firmly and within the law.

God bless Kenya.

Okiya Omtatah Okoiti

[Ni go Laas @nigolaaas]

We finally Get the Proper caption for this Iconic photo.

"Nairobi Beats London"

Nairobi 2029....

[Mohamed Wehliye, MBS @WehliyeMohamed]

Dear @Lawton_Times
Kenya does not need UK’s permission to host the World Championship - an event that is next to nothing without Kenya. The empire ended decades ago; apparently the colonial mindset didn’t! Pipe down you Pommie!

[George T. Diano @georgediano]

Imagine corrupt police officers showing up at your workplace to arrest you after your father hires them to intimidate you for refusing to sign land and business assets. The Gen Z daughter claims her father forged documents to remove her mother from the family assets, but it seems she isn't surrendering her rightful share.

The father is standing there with his sanpanku eyes regretting ever educating his daughter. I love how she's dealing with the alumni of Kiganjo School of Hard Knocks. Askari wanadhani we are still in the Era of intimidation, this new Generation fears no one. Chesaa!!

[SokoAnalyst @SokoAnalyst]

The painful truth:

Most SMEs don't die because the original idea was terrible.

They die because cash runs out before the business becomes strong enough to survive.

Protect cash. Control debt. Stay compliant. Build systems. Sell relentlessly.Starting a business takes courage.
Keeping it alive takes discipline.

[Bl@ckman @michael_mbai]

@MwangiBonnie As we say in kanairo...huu ni mchezo wa taon.

[Bonnie Mwangi, CPA, LLM, MBA @MwangiBonnie]

My fellow Kenyans,

Today, I want to talk about eCitizen, having spent a lot of time looking at it.

eCitizen was supposed to be one of Kenya's great public-sector reforms: a single digital gateway through which citizens and businesses could access and pay for government services. It was intended to replace fragmented, manual and cash-based systems with something faster, more transparent and more accountable - while closing the revenue leakages that had long plagued government collections.

The platform was initially developed by Webmasters Kenya Ltd (“Webmasters”), contracted by the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) in 2013.

The original pilot covered just 10 government services and reportedly cost only US$76,000 - about KSh7.6 million at the time. What began as a modest digital project has since grown into critical national infrastructure handling thousands of government services and enormous volumes of public money.

But the costs have grown dramatically as well. Based on the figures assembled from audit records, historical commissions and subsequent vendor payments amount to approximately KSh 4.1 billion actually paid or recorded through June 2025. Including approximately KSh1.188 billion in outstanding vendor bills, the amount rises to roughly KSh 5.3 billion.

These amounts should not all be characterized as payments directly to Webmasters - the arrangements involved other entities and consortium members - but they illustrate the enormous financial ecosystem that has developed around a platform whose original development reportedly cost about KSh7.6 million.

And that is where the story becomes deeply troubling.

Before I go into the findings, I want to introduce you to Webmasters.

Webmasters' World Bank debarment

In the last month, Webmasters has been in the news for the worst of reasons.

In the last few weeks, the World Bank Sanctions Board debarred Webmasters Kenya and James Ayugi (founder) for a minimum of five years after finding fraudulent and obstructive practices.

The fraudulent-practice finding concerned a separate World Bank-financed contract. Webmasters presented two individuals as key experts, submitted their CVs and represented that they were available for an assignment. When investigators contacted them, however, both said they had not authorized Webmasters to use their CVs, did not know they had been designated as key personnel and did not participate in the contract.

The Sanctions Board concluded that Ayugi had acted at least recklessly in making the representations. The positions concerned carried US$98,000 in allocated remuneration.

The second finding concerned obstruction. World Bank investigators requested documents to determine, among other things, whether personnel had actually performed the work and how project funds had been used. Despite repeated requests, extensions and discussions with Ayugi, Webmasters provided only limited documentation and failed to provide much of what investigators sought.

The Sanctions Board concluded that this materially impeded the World Bank's inspection and audit rights and constituted an obstructive practice.

That history cannot simply be dismissed as irrelevant to Kenya.

That is the entity that is trusted to not only collect much of the government’s revenue in Kenya, but, also, to audit itself.

I am not joking when I say this. Let me introduce you to my findings.

Finding 1: Government does not fully control its own platform

The Auditor-General found that although eCitizen was handed over to the Government in August 2017, the Government Digital Payments Unit "did not have full control of the system and significantly relied on the vendor for some critical functions."

That dependence makes it difficult for government personnel to perform critical configurations or make changes necessary to support the platform's growth, creating what the Auditor-General describes as a "single point of failure."

In other words, after years of operation and billions of shillings in associated costs, the Government remains substantially dependent upon a private vendor to perform critical functions on infrastructure through which public revenue flows.

My point here is that, if Webmasters tells us that it only collected KSH 1.5 trillion, there is nobody outside of Webmasters who can dispute it. Nobody other than perhaps Mr. Ayugi can tell us for certain how much the government raised.

Yes – the same person who the World Bank has banned for fraud or obstruction.

Finding 2: The Auditor-General could not get the access needed to fully audit the system

The special audit found that the National Treasury refused or was unable to facilitate the level of system access required for auditors to assess security and privacy controls at the application, database and network levels.

Consequently, the effectiveness of important security controls could not be fully verified. The audit material also notes that there was no evidence of independent third-party assurance sufficient to fill that gap.

This is extraordinary on so many levels: a system entrusted with enormous amounts of public money should be more - not less - open to rigorous independent audit.

Finding 3: Billions in reported collections lacked supporting bank statements

For FY2023/24, the eCitizen Revenue Accountability Statement reported collections of approximately KSh100.84 billion, but bank statements provided to the Auditor-General supported only approximately KSh64.30 billion.

The audit material therefore identifies a gap of roughly KSh36.5 billion in supporting bank statements.

That finding says that auditors did not receive the banking evidence necessary to verify a huge portion of the reported collections, KSh 36.5 billion!

In just one year!

Finding 4: KSh2.57 billion in the settlement account could not be matched to invoices

The audit identified approximately KSh2.575 billion of receipts in the settlement account at 30 June 2024 that could not be matched to invoices in the Pesaflow system. The discrepancies were associated with partial, erroneous and duplicate payments.

In street parlance, we would say that KSh 2.6 billion “zilikunywa maji”. KSh 2.6 billion collected through a platform whose central purpose is to make government revenue traceable could not be readily matched back to the underlying transactions.

And here, it makes sense to explain how this entire system works.

Believe it or not, eCitizen is only “digital” as far as collecting money” from you and I.

Once the money is collected, “being digital” ends.
Money is manually transferred to various government units, effectively in bags or boxes, in a process that takes up to 8 days.

But the key is that, it is done manually.

How the heck does that make sense to anybody?
What is the value of the KSH 5.3 billion invested in this?

Finding 5: KSh127.85 million left the government paybill for private entities

The Auditor-General found that collections through Paybill 222222 were supposed to sweep automatically into the government's KCB settlement account. Yet on 25 January 2024, four transactions totaling KSh127,850,950 were instead transferred from the paybill to private entities.

Private bank accounts. Unknown bank accounts.

According to the audit material, supporting approval and documentation for those transfers were not provided.

That demands a simple answer from government: Who received the KSh127.85 million, why was it transferred to them, who authorized it, and where is the documentation?

Finding 6: An undisclosed account appeared in the collection chain

The Auditor-General found approximately KSh 6.33 billion entering Equity Bank eCitizen collection accounts from an account that was not among the collection accounts approved by the National Treasury.

Critically, the bank statement for the underlying account was not provided for audit upon request, meaning auditors could not establish the full value of transactions passing through it.

A public-revenue system should not contain financial pathways that the country's supreme audit institution cannot completely examine.

Finding 7: Government paid private vendors to provide a gateway on a platform government owns

Under the ICT Authority's support-and-maintenance framework involving Webmasters Kenya, Pesaflow and Olive Tree Media, payments had reached KSh492.16 million plus US$414,299.60 by 30 June 2024. Of that amount, approximately KSh142.16 million plus US$414,299.60 related to payment-gateway services.

The Auditor-General considered these payments irregular and illegal because the Government owns the platform and recommended that such payments be stopped and recovered.

In other words, KSH 530 million paid during this period, are illegal payments – that the government paid to use its own platform.

As incredulous as that sounds.

This is a country that is spending over 80% of every single shilling it earns on debt service. And, apparently, it can afford to pay an illegal KSH 530 million for a platform is supposedly owns!

Finding 8: Payments were made to an entity that was not a party to the agreement

There is another disturbing feature of those payments. The framework agreement was with a consortium involving Webmasters Kenya, Pesaflow and Olive Tree Media, yet the approximately KSh492.16 million plus US$414,299.60 was paid to Electronic Citizen Solutions Ltd, which the special audit identified as not being a party to that agreement at the time.

At a minimum, Kenyans deserve a complete explanation of the legal and contractual basis upon which public money was paid to that entity.

Finding 9: Kenyans were irregularly charged billions in convenience fees

The Auditor-General found that the prescribed prorating mechanism for convenience fees was not followed. Instead, citizens were charged a flat KSh50 or US$1 per transaction, resulting in approximately KSh1.808 billion plus US$3.334 million being irregularly and illegally collected before January 2023.

Further irregular and illegal charges between December 2023 and June 2024 added approximately KSh349.8 million, bringing the shilling component identified in the source to roughly KSh2.16 billion, before the dollar amounts.

These were not abstract accounting entries. They were charges imposed directly upon citizens attempting to obtain government services, illegally.

Finding 10: The system still relies on manual settlement

A central justification for eCitizen was automation. Yet the Auditor-General reported that while collections were automated, transfers to Ministries, Departments and Agencies were still conducted through a process involving manual preparation and approval of payment records.

The Auditor-General said this creates delays, operational inefficiencies and greater risk of errors - even though the necessary MDA accounts and services were already mapped within eCitizen to permit automated transfers.

Think about that. The accounts needed to automate disbursements are mapped, and are alive in the platform.

But somehow, those in charge insist on a manual “disbursement”.

Why?

Note that the special audit calculated an average delay of approximately eight days between collection and remittance to government entities.

Finding 11: Even the platform's basic service records were unreliable

The audit identified duplicated services, services without MDA names, missing linked bank accounts and settlement reports containing services for which no account number was mapped. This forced officials to manually enter account numbers using physical correspondence. In some instances, revenue could not be settled because the necessary account information was missing.

This is precisely the sort of manual intervention that a national digital payment platform was supposed to eliminate.

Finding 12: There was no proper helpdesk for a platform serving the entire country

The Auditor-General found that eCitizen lacked an established and structured helpdesk system for managing incidents. Consequently, reported problems could not be systematically tracked to determine whether they had been resolved. The Auditor-General warned that unresolved incidents could delay service delivery and, because payments occur throughout the service process, could result in citizens being denied services altogether.

Finding 13: Government could not clearly demonstrate who was ultimately in charge

The Auditor-General also found a lack of clarity in eCitizen's governance structure. Operations were spread across several government institutions and committees, yet records establishing committee composition, tenure and terms of reference were unavailable.

Isn’t “unavailable” an interesting phrase here?

Remember the World Bank’s complaint?

When the World Bank’s investigators requested documents from Webmasters, they were taken on a goose chase that had no end.

Told what they were asking for was "unavailable".

And that is precisely what happened here as well.
The earlier special audit had similarly found no oversight body mandated to coordinate the participating government departments and provide strategic leadership.

The Auditor-General warned that this exposes eCitizen to system failures, data breaches and compliance risks.

The questions our government must now answer:

Put these findings together:

(1) We have critical national infrastructure handling enormous amounts of public revenue.

(2) Government does not have full control of it.

(3) Government remains significantly dependent upon a private vendor for critical functions.

(4) Auditors were unable to obtain sufficient system access.

(5) Billions in reported collections lacked supporting bank statements.

(6) Billions more could not be matched to invoices.

(7) Money was transferred from a government paybill to private entities without supporting documentation being provided to auditors.

(8) An undisclosed account appeared in the collection chain.

(9) Government paid for gateway services on a platform it owns.

(10) Citizens were irregularly charged convenience fees. And some of the very processes that were supposed to be automated remain manual.

And at the center of this game of musical chairs, is an entity that has now become synonymous with fraud and dishonesty.

These are the musings of Bonnie Mwangi. Not innuendo or conjecture.

They are findings of the Auditor-General.

Again:

The private company at the centre of the platform's development has now been debarred by the World Bank for fraudulent and obstructive practices arising from separate World Bank-financed contracts.

That should change the conversation, if our government has any decency.

If the World Bank will not trust Webmasters with its money, why should Kenya do so without answers?

This is not an allegation that Webmasters stole Kenya's eCitizen revenue. Let me make that clear.

But it is absolutely a reason for Kenya to demand a level of scrutiny commensurate with the importance of the system.

If an institution such as the World Bank concludes that a contractor engaged in fraudulent practices and materially impeded its audit rights, Kenya cannot behave as though that finding is irrelevant while the same company remains associated with infrastructure through which vast amounts of Kenyan public revenue pass.

Webmasters must answer.

It should explain its role in the platform, what functions it continues to control, what it and related entities have been paid, the basis for those payments, and what safeguards exist to ensure that the Government can independently operate and audit eCitizen.

The Government must answer.

(1) Why, years after the platform was supposedly handed over, does government still lack full control?

(2) Why were auditors denied the access necessary to examine critical controls?

(3) Why were billions of shillings of reported collections unsupported by bank statements provided for audit?

(4) Who received the KSh127.85 million transferred to private entities?

(5) What was the other transfer of KSH 2.6 billion for, and to whom?

(6) Why wasn't its bank statement produced? Why was government paying gateway fees to use infrastructure it owns?

I think these are legitimate questions. Don’t you think?

And then there is Parliament.

Parliament receives these Auditor-General reports. Parliament appropriates the money. Parliament summons accounting officers. Parliament has the constitutional machinery to demand documents, interrogate witnesses and establish where public money went.

So where are the consequences?

Folks, oversight without consequence is theatre.
Parliament should demand the contracts, bank statements, system-access records, vendor-payment schedules and beneficial ownership information associated with the entities operating around eCitizen.

It should require a complete reconciliation of the questioned transactions.

And it should demand a credible plan for transferring the technical knowledge and administrative control necessary for government to operate its own critical infrastructure.

Kenyans must demand answers

eCitizen was created, in part, because Kenya needed to stop revenue leakage and make government collections transparent. It would be a bitter irony if the system designed to bring accountability to government revenue itself became a system that citizens could not fully hold accountable.

Kenyans should therefore demand something very simple:

Show us the money. Show us the accounts. Show us the contracts. Show us who controls the system.

And where the Auditor-General has identified irregularities, investigate them. Where money is recoverable, recover it. Where laws were broken, prosecute those responsible. Where vendors cannot satisfy the standards expected of companies entrusted with critical national infrastructure, reconsider whether they should continue to occupy that position.

This is not about politics. It is about whether Kenyans control Kenya's public infrastructure and can account for Kenya's public money.

The World Bank has already decided that Webmasters' conduct on the contracts it examined warranted a minimum five-year debarment.

Kenya should at least be willing to ask the harder question:

If the World Bank does not trust Webmasters with World Bank-financed business, why should Kenyans entrust a company carrying that sanction with critical functions surrounding one of the most important public-revenue platforms in the country without a comprehensive, independent investigation?

The Auditor-General has done the country a service by putting the warning signs on paper.

Now it is Parliament's job to act.

@Senate_KE @NAssemblyKE @FlavNasmbu @MoGAbdi @Paul_Muite @JohnMbadiN @webmasterske_ @WorldBankGroup @IFC_org

[Manifest_Lord @Manifest_Lord]

A cancer surgeon who spent 50 years fighting this disease says 99.9% of oncologists ignore the one cell that actually kills cancer.

He has patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer in complete remission - 5 years out.

Here are 10 things he says everyone needs to understand:

[Emelia @Astridueil]

Africa’s greatest leader was murdered just 10 days before his 36th birthday.
The CIA sent the poison. Belgium sent the firing squad. Then they dissolved his body in acid so there would be no grave, no ashes, no place for his people to mourn. 🇨🇩💔

His name was Patrice Lumumba.
And his only crime was believing that the Congo belonged to the Congolese.

On Independence Day, Lumumba stood before his people and declared:
“We are going to make of the Congo the centre of the sun’s radiance for all of Africa.”

Six months later, he was dead.

Here is how they silenced him:

🔸 In August 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorised the CIA to eliminate Lumumba. CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb personally carried poison to the Congo to place in his food or on his toothbrush.

🔸 His closest ally, Colonel Mobutu Sese Seko, became the CIA’s principal agent — paid to betray the very man who trusted him.

🔸 On January 17, 1961, Lumumba was tortured, beaten, humiliated, and handed over to a Belgian-backed firing squad.

🔸 Belgian officers cut his body into pieces and dissolved his remains in sulphuric acid. Patrice Lumumba has no grave. No tomb. No resting place.

🔸 Before they killed him, they forced him to swallow the paper containing his Independence Day speech — as if they could erase his words by forcing him to eat them.

🔸 The CIA then installed Mobutu, who ruled the Congo for 32 years while foreign powers looted its diamonds, gold, copper, and cobalt as millions suffered in poverty.

🔸 Years later, CIA Director Allen Dulles admitted: “I think we overrated the Soviet danger in the Congo.”
They destroyed a man. They destroyed a nation. And they did it over a lie.

Today, the Congo holds some of the world’s largest reserves of cobalt — the mineral that powers smartphones, laptops, and electric cars across the globe. Yet its people remain among the poorest on Earth.

That is not an accident.
That is exploitation disguised as geopolitics. 🌍

Patrice Lumumba dreamed of an Africa that controlled its own wealth, wrote its own destiny, and bowed to no empire.
They killed the man, but they could not kill the dream.

If Lumumba had lived… what would Africa look like today?

#PatriceLumumba #Congo #AfricanHistory #NeverForget #AfricanLiberation

[Bl@ckman @michael_mbai]

@Nii_Noi @historical_Afr Same way stealth aircraft technology is kept secret.

[Bl@ckman @michael_mbai]

@BeingCharlie @AmbokoJH @KenyaBankers Of the 35B shortfall 10B can be clawed back from State House budget. Another 5B from our useless County governments. It's not rocket science to identify and stop wastage of public resources.

[Bl@ckman @michael_mbai]

@Beno10_MFC 993