"Things end. Sometimes despite our best efforts and best intentions, or sometimes because of those efforts and intentions, things end. So something else can begin."
-Red
Sura Za Wahuni Ol Kalou:
Sura za maafisa wa serikali zinaendelea kujitokeza katika video za machafuko ya uchaguzi mdogo wa Ol Kalou juma lililopita.
Sasa darubini ya NTV imemtambua afisa mmoja wa polisi anayeonekana akipanga wananchi katika video hizo...
#NTVJioni@ruga_eval
A video has resurfaced of an OCS running to hide inside the KICC after teargassing wananchi. The Nairobi Senator followed him to ask why he was attacking innocent Kenyans.
Unmasking Ol Kalou Terror Gang
What do a cooking oil company and a trade shipment company have to do with the vehicles seen provoking fear during the by-election at Ol Kalou area in Nyandarua County?
Tonight, NTV has dug beneath the surface to establish just who the vehicles that carried the armed and hooded men are. The results are even more puzzling than the acts that took place on Thursday, including a name that reads similarly to a sitting Member of Parliament.
#NTVWeekendEdition @MichelleNgele_
The Ol Kalou by election has delivered a clear message. Sovereign power belongs to the people.
No amount of intimidation, patronage, or abuse of State power can defeat citizens who choose to defend their vote and their Constitution.
Congratulations to MP-Elect Samuel Douglas Kamau Waweru on your victory. This is a win for democracy and a reminder that Article 1 of the Constitution is not just words. All SOVEREIGN POWER belongs to the PEOPLE.
In a case I filed alongside BERNARD MUCHIRI MUCHERE and NAOMI NYAKERARIO MISATI challenging the constitutionality of privatising the Kenya Pipeline Company @kenyapipeline the High Court has explicitly preserved one substantive question for determination on merit:
"Whether the Privatisation of KPC, being primarily driven by IMF loan conditionalities and not an independent sovereign determination of public interest, violates the sovereignty of the people (Article 1), national values of patriotism (Article 10) and constitutes an unlawful abduction of state authority to an external entity."
The Court also directed the Government to produce, within 21 days, important documents relating to the privatisation. The Court has effectively invited the Petitioners to prove, through documentary evidence, that the privatisation was not a sovereign policy choice but a coerced compliance with IMF conditionalities, hence, a violation of Article 2(6) of the Constitution.
https://t.co/gIabTvB4cU
Congratulations to Sammy Douglas Kamau Ngotho, @rigathi and @DCP_Democracy on your decisive victory in the Ol Kalou by-election that has been marred by the most serious assault on our democracy to date.
Below is my full statement on that election.
The Asymmetry of Rights: There in no Equality Before the Law for the IMF
1. Section 5 of the Bretton Woods Agreements Act of 1963, as read with the Schedule to the Act, creates an impermissible asymmetry before the law. Fund Agreement Article IX, Section 2 gives the IMF full juridical personality, including the capacity “to contract,” “to acquire and dispose of immovable and movable property,” and “to institute legal proceedings.”
2. However, Article IX, Section 3 then provides that the Fund, its property and assets enjoy “immunity from every form of judicial process,” except where the Fund expressly waives immunity.
3. The result is a one-sided legal relationship:
-The IMF can sue Kenyans in Kenyan courts.
-Kenyans cannot sue the IMF.
-The IMF can contract, own property, and enforce rights in Kenya.
-Kenyans cannot enforce rights against the IMF.
4. This asymmetry offends the constitutional principle of equality before the law. Article 27(1) provides that “Every person is equal before the law and has the right to equal protection and equal benefit of the law.”
5. Equality before the law is not satisfied where one legal person may invoke the protection of Kenyan law but is placed, by ordinary legislation, beyond the reach of constitutional scrutiny.
6. A statutory regime that allows an international institution to sue, contract, own property, and enforce rights in Kenya, while denying affected persons and constitutional organs effective access to judicial process, creates a one-sided legal relationship that cannot be justified under the Constitution.
#DeniBandia #OdiousDebt
Man, ama mimi ndio fala?
They created a national infrastructure fund that draws its money from our taxes, has private bank accounts, managed by presidential appointees, has no oversight body, and can borrow in our name.
Aje? Someone explain to me like Karen Nyamu please
Contrary to what we have been told, SGR was fully funded by Kenyans to the tune of Sh900 billion.
SGR did not cost Sh360 billion, and no money came from China. We want to know why we are “repaying” a loan for which no single cent came to Kenya.
Those accused of storming a church and attacking worshippers walked free within a day. Those who peacefully protested found themselves in court just as quickly.
When violence appears to attract more leniency than peaceful dissent, people are bound to question whether justice is being applied consistently.
Justice is supposed to be blind. In Kenya today, many fear it recognizes faces, affiliations, and political convenience before it recognizes facts.
PRESS STATEMENT BY SENATOR OKIYA OMTATAH ON THE PUBLIC DEBT CASE RULING
Fellow Kenyans,
Today, the High Court delivered an important ruling in our public debt case.
The Court upheld the @IMFNews claim of diplomatic immunity and struck it out of this petition. While we respect the Court’s decision, accountability for Kenya’s debt burden cannot end there.
We are preparing a separate legal challenge to the Bretton Woods Agreements Act, 1963, against the Constitution of Kenya 2010 to ensure all actors involved in Kenya’s debt processes are subjected to proper scrutiny.
Most importantly, the Court rejected attempts by the Attorney General and other respondents to have this case dismissed. The judges ruled that our petition will proceed to a full hearing on its merits.
The Court also dismissed applications by the former Auditor General, former Controller of Budget, the current Auditor General, and the current Controller of Budget seeking to shield themselves from these proceedings.
This is a significant victory for transparency, accountability, and the Kenyan people.
We will amend our petition as directed by the Court and return on 22nd July 2026. Our mission remains unchanged: to establish how Kenya accumulated trillions in public debt, how the funds were utilized , whether the public benefited and whether the law was followed at every stage.
This case is about protecting the future of our nation and the interests of every Kenyan taxpayer.
We remain focused, determined, and committed to seeing it through.
God Bless Kenya.
#DeniBandia #OdiousDebt
We have been in an extractive system where people have come to power to steal Kenyans' resources. Where those in government do not want to obey the law. They find it as an inconvenience.
I will not superintend a government that is going to steal from the public.
We must implement the CoK fully.
@dkmaraga
Today in the @Senate_KE, I will substantiate how public money is being hidden and stolen in plain sight through budget lines labelled “Other Operating Expenses.” OVER 90 BILLION!
If salaries, utilities, travel, maintenance, fuel, training, procurable items, and other expenditures already have specific vote heads, what exactly is hidden under this vague and ever-expanding category?
Even more troubling, the Constitution requires parliamentary approval for all public borrowing. Yet billions are spent under opaque budget lines that escape meaningful scrutiny.
Kenyans deserve transparency, not blank cheques for wastage, mismanagement, and theft. Every shilling collected from taxpayers must be traceable, justified, and accounted for.
The era of hiding public funds behind vague budget descriptions must come to an end. STAY TUNED