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[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

KENYA IS STILL PAYING THE PENSIONS OF BRITISH COLONIALISTS

According to Tom Ogada, an economic justice expert, speaking on Spice FM alongside Diana Gichengo of the Institute for Social Accountability (TISA), Kenya allocates approximately KSh39 million annually to pensions for former British colonial civil servants. While we have not independently verified the specific figure through official budget documents, Kenya does continue to pay pensions to some former colonial-era civil servants under its public pension system.

The revelation has sparked criticism on social media, with many Kenyan users expressing outrage that, more than 63 years after so-called independence, public funds are still being used to pay pensions to individuals who served the colonial administration. Some commenters described the continued payments as an absurd legacy of colonial rule.

The conversation highlights the absurdity of the current fiscal situation, with Gichengo pointing out that these payments are hidden in plain sight within the official budget books.

"We are very good," she remarked ironically, noting that while the government pressures citizens to pay more taxes, it continues to prioritise the financial comfort of former colonisers over the needs of the Kenyan people.

This segment serves as a powerful reminder of how imperial structures remain embedded in post-colonial governance, forcing nations like Kenya to continue subsidising their own historical oppressors under the guise of bureaucratic obligation.

It is also a striking example of why decolonisation is an economic necessity.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

If the Kenyan public started having a serious conversation about communism and socialism, you would see how quickly goonism would end and politicians would rally together, under the wings of baba US na mama UK. It's Kenyans' ignorance of the political economy that keeps the country under constant physical and bureaucratic violence.

[Mumbi. @miss_mumbzk]

It’s very shitty that Ruto is capitalising on this. Instead of us acknowledging the way we have normalised long-term discrimination against people ok the periphery - normalisation which paved the way for Ruto’s pandering and exploitation - we default to reactionary xenophobic and ethnonationalist discourses.

It’s a damn shame that people even have to say “Kenyan of Somali origin”.

[Baskin Mobbin$ @showermandan]

@Criminalsimpson Any time I can, I find myself using this masterpiece of a phrase.

[Mumbi. @miss_mumbzk]

No AI poster over here 🥹

[Mumbi. @miss_mumbzk]

The more I think about it, the more I find that comparison between US School shootings and Kenyan boarding school arson is wrong.

One is enabled and shaped by powerful networked, ideologies and actors.

The other, is *often* (notice how I didn’t say all, pls) an act of protest against a system of austerity.

I can see the parallels in as much as they’re both direct reflections of internal societal collapse. But that’s it.

[NEWS LION @NewsLionSA]

Whistleblower John Perkins exposes how the US tricked poor countries into taking massive loans they could never pay back. And leaders who resisted were assassinated by the CIA. The chilling revelations were made in his best-selling book Confessions of an Economic Hitman. Perkins worked for an engineering firm and travelled the world persuading governments to borrow huge sums to fund infrastructure projects.
He explains how the brutal economic plan cheated countries out of trillions of dollars and allowed the US to create the “world’s first truly global empire”.
#Africa #decolonize #colonialism #imperialism #economy #politics #loans #depts #AfricaWakeUp

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

“Ruto, shame on you!"

Activists in Kenya slammed President William Ruto for failing to address the country's femicide crisis.

The activists were part of thousands who marched in Nairobi Monday, demanding governments across the African continent take serious steps to protect women amidst a rise in femicide and child disappearances.

The protest was the largest against gender-based violence in recent weeks. It followed the murder of singer Rachel Wandeto, who was set on fire by three men on May 16 and died two days later.

Advocacy groups gave the government in Kenya a 40-day ultimatum to declare a national crisis or face escalating demonstrations.

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

KENYANS SHOT DEAD PROTESTING US EBOLA CENTRE

Tragically, Kenya has already seen its first victims linked to the controversy surrounding the proposed Ebola quarantine centre in Laikipia County, as local Kenyan media reports that two people have reportedly been shot dead in the town of Nanyuki amid protests against US plans to establish an Ebola isolation facility at Laikipia Air Base.

One of the victims was shot near the airbase where demonstrators had gathered to protest the quarantine facility. He later died after being rushed to hospital by friends.

The second victim was reportedly already dead when soldiers brought his body to the hospital.

The protests erupted after Kenyan President William Ruto publicly confirmed that he had personally authorised the establishment of the US Ebola quarantine centre at the request of President Donald Trump, despite Kenya’s High Court having temporarily suspended the facility just days earlier following public health concerns raised by the Katiba Institute.

Many protesters argue that Kenya should not be used as a quarantine site for foreign citizens exposed to deadly viruses abroad and see the decision as part of a wider pattern of neo-colonial subservience to Western powers.

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

EXPOSED: BRITAIN’S MILITARY GRIP ON KENYA

Sovereign Media’s debut documentary, BATUK: The White Man’s Burden, drops tonight at 9pm East African time.

The documentary investigates allegations of abuse, sexual violence and ecological damage linked to Britain’s military presence in Kenya through the British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK), while exploring the lasting impact of colonialism and Britain’s continued military presence in Kenya after so-called independence.

Our previous YouTube channel was unfairly taken down, so this film will premiere on our brand new channel, which currently has hardly any subscribers. We are going to need your support to help get this documentary seen.

Please subscribe via the link in our Linktree bio and make sure you watch tonight.

Please share, comment, like and help push the algorithm for us.

[Guinness World Records @GWR]

Congratulations to Max Dowman, who has become the youngest person to win the Premier League 🏆

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Good morning from your Premier League champions 👋

[JILL 😊 @JILLKUI]

Look at that road. Full of potholes. What is the use of said road maintenance levy if this is the state of our roads?

[deze gaze @r1cecakess]

bruh🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Adelle Onyango @ADELLEO]

I need all Kenyans to watch: A Very British Way Of Torture: https://t.co/GTSUCroaug

[Baskin Mobbin$ @showermandan]

@stevenadogo @NytoP2PMwangi Yes Tanuki Kim, in the first 29 seconds that Astrol he was at is where I fuel, never had problems https://t.co/Bfucj3w0xQ

[multipolar_enjoyer @black_like_Mao]

when Patrice Lumumba (an African leader) was assassinated by the Belgians and CIA, Serbians (progressive Europeans) organised protests.

I am begging Kenyans to read history, understand internationalism, and stop being proud in ignorance

[Booker Ngesa Omole ☭ @BookerBiro]

French imperialism blocks roads in Nairobi for Macron like Kenya is a colony and Ruto is a colonial chief. Yet Ruto can never block a single street in Paris. This is the reality of neocolonialism. One rules, the other kneels.

Down with French imperialism!
#FranceOutOfAfrica

[Yoko @Kibet_bull]

When French soldiers killed 45000 Algerians.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Macron Lost the Sahel. Ruto Is Helping Him Re-enter Africa

Kenyan President William Ruto stood beside Emmanuel Macron and praised France’s renewed push into Africa as “inclusive” and “mutually beneficial.”

But let’s call it what it is.

France has not suddenly discovered equality. It has been pushed out of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, and now it is looking for a new route back into Africa through leaders willing to help rebrand its influence.

From the CFA franc to Niger’s fight over its own minerals, France’s record on the continent is not a partnership. It is extraction, control, and colonial power dressed up in diplomatic language.

Kenya should know better than to help France launder its image in Africa.