Rosie Ngure 🇰🇪💜

Mama T&T | PE/VC, Impact & ESG Consultant |#AngazaAwards | Loving life 1 defining moment @ a time | Hugaholic | Hopeless romantic | Mkenya Daima #Balance4Better

[Rosie Ngure 🇰🇪💜 @rngure]

This!

[True African History @0xChura]

Your fear is justified. And your instinct is correct. There is something bigger at play. But it is not a hidden conspiracy or a secret plan. It is a transition happening in plain sight.

For decades, the Kenyan state has maintained a delicate balance. It has been a violent, extractive machine, but it has always worn the mask of a democratic republic. It ruled through a combination of theft and the illusion of popular consent.

That era is over. The "open recklessness" you see is not a sign of madness. It is the sound of the mask being dropped.

The regime's calculus has changed. The pressure from its foreign creditors has become greater than its fear of its own people. It has concluded that it no longer needs your consent to govern; it only needs your submission. Its power no longer rests on the myth of legitimacy, but on the brute, naked loyalty of its security forces.

The open brutality serves two purposes: to terrorize the public into silence, and to reassure the police that they will be protected, no matter what they do.

So, what you are witnessing is not the prelude to a crisis. It is the crisis. It is the state shedding the final vestiges of its democratic costume and choosing to rule as what it has always been underneath: a simple, brutal machine of coercion, designed to protect the elite and service its debts.

The scary thing is not that there is some secret plot. The scary thing is that there isn't one. This is it. This is the new reality.

[Stephen Mutoro @smutoro]

Madness in Kakamega today: police tear-gassed a busload of Friends School Binyenya kids returning from a music festival in Mumias — mistaken for United Opposition rally supporters. This is what happens when our police are weaponized for politics instead of protecting citizens. Sad.

[Mugambi Nandi @MugambiNandi]

8 months? Are they using Stone Age methods to build roads?

[Mumbi. @miss_mumbzk]

We don’t trust the police with anything - not cars, not protesters - but as soon as it gets to sexual violence it’s “go report”.

:(

[Mwangi Kirubi @mwarv]

Legally flying a drone in Nairobi is an extreme sport. Here's what I had to do last time:

1. Have an insured and registered drone being used by a licensed pilot.
2. Letter from KFCB if filming for a show / series / documentary plus requisite fees.
3. Letter of no objection from property owners if flying above private property.
4. Letter from Vigilance House.
5. Pay requisite fees to KCAA.
6. Inform nearest police station when you're ready to fly.
7. Have a Kenya Airforce officer accompany you as you fly.

Extreme, right?

But we've learnt with patience and planning, you can fly legally.

Fewer restrictions will be very welcome though.

Most of the airspace above Nairobi is controlled by the military by the way. That's why you don't see KQ or other commercial airlines flying above CBD.

[David Maraga @dkmaraga]

Lawful Democratic Expression Met with Violence.

[Green Belt Movement @GreenBeltMovmnt]

#NairobiNationalPark is not a parking lot.
Today, we stood against plans to excise 90 acres of protected park land for a 1,300-car parking facility. Nine unarmed activists were arrested during the peaceful protest.
Protect nature. Defend civic space.

#NationalParkNotCarPark

[DismasWaTabu @DismasWaTabu]

The government has set the minimum wage for domestic workers at Sh18,047 a month. This is good news for house helps who have been among the most underpaid and most exploited workers in Kenya for decades. They deserve this and honestly they deserve more.

But look at the comments.

The reaction from many Kenyans is not celebration. It is panic. Because the same Kenyans who employ house helps are the ones struggling to make ends meet themselves. The person paying a house help Sh8,000 a month is not necessarily wealthy. They are often a "middle class" family held together by two salaries, school fees, rent, food, transport and a list of deductions from a government that keeps finding new things to take from a payslip.

And this reveals something uncomfortable about Kenya's economy that no press release will say directly. The "middle class" is broke. Not struggling. Broke. The gap between what things cost and what people earn has become so wide that families who would traditionally afford domestic help can no longer do so at a living wage.

So what happens now? Some families will let their house helps go. Others will quietly continue paying below the minimum and hope nobody checks. The house help loses either way. Either she loses the job or she keeps it at an illegal wage with no recourse because reporting her employer means unemployment.

A minimum wage without enforcement is just a number. And a government that sets wages for domestic workers while overseeing an economy where both the employer and the employee are drowning has not solved a problem. It has just given it a new figure.

Sh18,047. In a country where half the budget goes to debt repayment. Do the math.

Dismas wa Tabu. Dreaming in installments. Billed in full.

[Dr. C @chao_mbogho]

You are right.

When Ebola hears the opinion of a Kenyan government leader, it will retreat to the hills screaming for its life.

But when the opinion comes from another Kenyan citizen, it will come rushing and cheering, hugging them with its full glycoprotein vigor.

[ICJ Kenya @ICJKenya]

49 people have been killed by police in Kenya between January and May 2026, according to data documented by @MissingVoicesKE.

Nearly half of these deaths (24) occurred in May alone, making it the deadliest month of the year so far.

READ: https://t.co/nrmIqF6wh2

[Kenyans.co.ke @Kenyans]

The U.S. have been an invaluable partner in tackling these endemic diseases. When they ask us to stand in solidarity, it’s not unfounded or in bad faith - Kasmuel

[Ohta Ryota 🇸🇬 @Ohta_Ryota]

Na mmekaa tu bunge mkingoja

[Dan Aceda @danaceda]

They didn't lose anything because it was not their money to begin with.

[Brian K. @Yenyewe]

Inhumane to care for Americans. Normal to kill Kenyans protesting about it.

[Wambui K. Collymore @WambuiKamiru]

Our parents are being conditioned to think young people are unruly. So that the message that we need to tame our youth sits better than our youth are fighting for us.

[millicent bystander @Nyokaffiii]

So you also don't obey the courts? Great start

[Ory Okolloh-Mwangi @kenyanpundit]

Dozens of schools closed, Gen Alpha basically on maandamano mode…have the CS and PS Education said anything?

Or are they still stuck on “lesbianism” as the government talking point regarding the terrible conditions in our public secondary schools?

[Salim M Ishmael, M.D 🇰🇪 @salimishmael_]

"You can work in this regime and make a change"

I told yall it's not possible. You morph into them. See our "respectable" doctor here

[UI/UX Savior @UiSavior]

😂

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The most hilarious alien scenario ever would be if they came to Earth threatening to overthrow our leaders, and we all got excited and offered to help.

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

Please if it doesn't affect the nearby communities ,please set it up in USA!