Sakia Sakia

Researcher|Data analyst| Father|Die hard F1/Mercedes fun|Gooner for life

[Sakia Sakia @sakia_godfrey]

@_DCPTV Rejected

[Sakia Sakia @sakia_godfrey]

@Col_Gaddafi42 😂😂😂😂

[Sakia Sakia @sakia_godfrey]

@BernardKavuli @EugeneMwaganu Won't work

[Rapcha The Sayantist @IAMRAPCHA]

Itumbi's brief to content creators was simple

First, make the constitution look useless

Second, make the deaths by Ruto look normal by claiming every president kills

Third, start making rounds to renovated markets and show Kenyans Singapore

[jork 🍉 @jokosi09]

@SuluhuSamia Presidents are mourning; citizens are celebrating. What a perfect juxtaposition. 🥰

[Sakia Sakia @sakia_godfrey]

@BillowKerrow You are wrong Sir,
Public investment must follow due process, with transparency, scrutiny and accountability. You can’t invest in what you haven’t seen.

[Sakia Sakia @sakia_godfrey]

@BillowKerrow How do we commit roughly 210B of public money to a refinery when the contract and its terms have not been made public, not even to Parliament? Public investment must follow due process, with transparency, scrutiny and accountability. You can’t invest in what you haven’t seen.

[Sakia Sakia @sakia_godfrey]

@BillowKerrow How do we commit roughly 210B of public money to a refinery when the contract and its terms have not been made public, not even to Parliament? Public investment must follow due process, with transparency, scrutiny and accountability. You can’t invest in what you haven’t seen.

[Sakia Sakia @sakia_godfrey]

@ntvkenya How do we commit roughly 210B of public money to a refinery when the contract and its terms have not been made public, not even to Parliament? Public investment must follow due process, with transparency, scrutiny and accountability. You can’t invest in what you haven’t seen.

[𝗩𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲 𝗩𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱 @vinguard254]

Never miss Ng'ang'a Muigai's video 💉💉

[Donald B Kipkorir @DonaldBKipkorir]

What Trevor Ombija said was beyond the pale … it’s truly sad that a young person would want to win votes by concocting falsehoods to whip up Luo hatred of Kikuyu! He even tribalized a media station that gave him a public platform. I have always said you don’t throw your first employer under the bus! In attempting to create Luo-Kikuyu animosity, Ombija sank to the Hades!

[Rapcha The Sayantist @IAMRAPCHA]

Mtu anatuma polisi na mabunduki kwa highway washike mwanahabari kama Osama bin Laden ndio mnataka tuchague

Mko na wazimu

[Kipkalya Kones @MrKipkalya]

Broad-based bloggers are currently running graphics showing that the Ruto regime has killed ONLY 347 people in exta-judicial murders so far.

It's strange for any government to compete with previous regimes on number of people killed. If you want to do that, you can just start competing with Hitler!

Our message to Ruto and his bloggers is that the constitutional threshold for extra judicial killings is ZERO! If you start finding comfort in higher numbers from previous regimes, numbers "estimated" by your own selves, then your time is up!

You can confirm this by going to families of Albert Ojwang and Rez Masai, among others, and telling them that "our government has reached only 347".

Madness.

[Eric @EricyWaren]

H.E Edwin Sifuna said housing is not Kenya’s biggest problem, the real problem is income. They called him “hana akili.”

Then Prof. Hiroyuki Hino, the Japanese economist invited to address UDA/ODM delegates at the Vision 2060 event at KICC, made essentially the same point: Kenya’s fundamental challenge is raising incomes and productivity.

Maybe Sifuna wasn’t the one who lacked understanding. Maybe we simply weren’t ready to hear the truth.

#Sifuna4President
#SifunaInHomabay
#Lindamwananchi

[St.Paul's University @SPUKenya]

By the next 6 months, In 6 months, before the end of 6 months, after 6 months

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

President Ruto must understand that what worked in 2022 will not work in 2027. Attacking Uhuru and the so called dynasties may have stirred emotions and won him votes then, but his latest outbursts about Uhuru funding the opposition and other cock and bull stories will not wash with Kenyans today.

Ruto entered office claiming he was fighting dynasties, yet the people around him now display shocking levels of wealth, including some who could barely afford a cup of tea before they entered government. They have become the very dynasties they once condemned.

Let nobody mistake this for a defence of the Kenyatta family. Their vast wealth, the tax exemptions involving corrupt bank NCBA and using stolen Eurobond money to build Northlands city must still be put through public scrutiny.

But Uhuru is no longer the president. Ruto must tell Kenyans what he has done with the office they gave him. Uhuru, Uhuru, Uhuru will not save him this time.

[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

The near silence in the room when Prof. Hino and Prof Nyong’o spoke of corruption and wastage in government as the biggest impediments to Kenya’s progress confirms the chickens were preaching salvation to the hawks.

[Donald B Kipkorir @DonaldBKipkorir]

Yesterday, I met an influential MP from Nyanza & he told me that pro-Government MPs are awash with money from political brokerage & tenders bribes. But that sadly, nearly all the Billions are hoarded in the MPs or banks with weak regulatory controls. The only silver lining is weekend Harambees now raise millions. None of the MPs is running any company that employs people or generates more wealth. It is a sad indictment of our patronage political system & weak anti-corruption controls. We are building a truly BANANA REPUBLIC like DR Congo, Haiti & Nigeria. Kenya is capable of being a Denmark if we have the political will.

[Macharia Njeru @MachariaNjeru]

I've heard Prof Ndungu's views on Ruto overrunning government institutions. I experienced it firsthand when I was the Chair of IPOA while he was the Deputy President. He called me early one morning, threatening that if IPOA didn't comply, he and Uhuru would treat us as they did the opposition. I told him to proceed. I don't understand why people in institutions fear a single man just because he's President ,but he's not God. We're all mortal. As the Romans would say 'Memento mori'

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Watching Ruto speak about investor confidence, economic recovery and booming opportunities sometimes feels like watching The Truman Show, where one man lives inside a carefully manufactured world and everyone surrounding him helps keep the illusion alive.

Truman wakes up each morning believing his peaceful town is real, never knowing that the houses, roads, weather, news and people around him are all part of a giant television production controlled from behind the scenes.

Ruto appears to wake up inside a similar political production, where advisers arrive with attractive charts, ministers praise economic growth, bloggers celebrate imaginary achievements and officials assure him that Kenyans are finally enjoying the fruits of his policies.

Outside that carefully managed set, businesses are closing, workers are losing jobs, traders are being buried under taxes and people who once supported entire families are now borrowing money for food, rent and school fees.

In Truman’s world, his wife, best friend, neighbours and colleagues are actors who know the truth but continue playing their roles, smiling at him and repeating reassuring lines whenever he begins suspecting that something is wrong.

Ruto has Cabinet Secretaries, economic advisers, governors, MPs and government propagandists doing exactly that, constantly telling him the economy is performing well, even when almost every Kenyan knows someone whose life has collapsed under his government.

Whenever Truman attempts to escape his artificial town, the producers create traffic jams, accidents, storms and frightening warnings meant to push him back into the comfortable lie they have built around him.

Whenever Kenyans challenge Ruto’s economic story, his government produces another excuse involving global conditions, past governments, dishonest traders, lazy young people or citizens who supposedly cannot recognise the opportunities surrounding them.

The illusion begins collapsing when Truman notices a studio light falling from the sky, people repeating the same movements and a radio station accidentally describing his exact location as he drives through town.

Ruto’s falling studio lights are the empty shops, auctioned homes, unpaid salaries, struggling schools, closed businesses and formerly comfortable Kenyans who have suddenly been reduced to begging relatives and friends for survival.

The clearest sign that the set is collapsing is that the economic success Ruto describes cannot be found anywhere outside government speeches, political rallies, State House dinners and businesses owned by people close to his administration.

The only people who appear to recognise this booming economy are Ruto, his friends, government contractors and officials whose salaries, allowances, tenders and lifestyles are protected by the same taxpayers being told to tighten their belts.

In The Truman Show, millions watching from outside understand that Truman’s world is fake, but the man living at the centre of it remains trapped inside the story created for him by people benefiting from the production.

That is Ruto’s Kenya today, a giant political studio where those surrounding the President keep reading from the investor-confidence script, even as the real country outside the cameras becomes poorer, angrier and more desperate.

The question is whether Ruto genuinely believes the production around him, or whether he knows the economy is collapsing for ordinary Kenyans and simply expects everyone to keep acting until the final credits roll.