GerrySinga

Toruk Macto B+, A servant of God and a friend to man

[Edwin🇰🇪 @justWailer]

Only Kenyans will talk to a cockroach before killing it "Unaenda wapi....then paaaa! Ghasia hii,,, paah paah ,, Rudi hapa,,,paaah paah😂🙌

[Emirates @emirates]

Some landings are just a slam dunk. 🏀✈️

Our @NBA A380 makes a showstopping landing at LAX.

[Nanyuki Billionaire🇰🇪 @lewis_ngunyi]

I serve as co-chair in David Maraga's political committee, where Shakira served (quite well actually) as the secretary until November last year when she resigned.

I'll do a thread to explain my experience of what transpired.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

At an aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[Dennis Kioko - KeNHA Unmarked Bumps Hitter @denniskioko]

The root of most Kenyan problems is our huge lack of concern for problems that affect other people and believing those problems will never affect us

[W @Wangariiii_]

There is no sane person that will look at this government and say, yea, we need a second term. No sane person!

[BRAVIN YURI @BravinYuri]

We are going to experience a lot of schools closing down due to students’ unrest. It's always in the pattern.

[David Maraga @dkmaraga]

Statement on Kenya’s missing children

[Mary Kathomi @MaryK2022]

Hi I'm lynet from Komarock I lost my kids date 13 may 2026 please 🙏 who ever see them please call me on these number 0726096432 name ,precious and Zennel

[David Maraga @dkmaraga]

Joined faithful at the SDA Lodwar Central Church for worship this morning.

I am grateful for the warm reception accorded to us by the church and for the powerful sermon by Pst. Amos Onduso, who shared profound lessons on leadership from King Solomon.

I was accompanied by @UGMParty national leaders @NetoAgostinhoMP, @kattoloo, @Lizie2016, Caesar Asiyo, and the Turkana branch leadership led by Johnstone Ekamais.

[Aúdrey🖤🇰🇪 @luckyaudreyy]

Tumekuwa a society that looks the other way when things are not happening to us. If it doesn't involve you, hujali. Hatufai kuishi hivi.

[David Maraga @dkmaraga]

After overtaxing you, drowning you in debt and cooking the shadiest fuel deals in our history, this govt now wants applause for ‘negotiating’ a crisis it created.

They hike prices, blame a ‘global crisis’, then compromise a few loud voices into silence and call it leadership.

Kenya doesn’t need photo‑ops and KSh10 gimmicks on diesel. We need the extractive cartel state dismantled.

We must Reset, Restore & Rebuild Kenya #Ukombozi

@UGMParty @Maraga27 @ntvkenya @citizentvkenya @tv47digital @StandardKenya @TheStarKenya @NationAfrica

[BRAVIN YURI @BravinYuri]

We are slowly walking into a dangerous future that many people are refusing to acknowledge.

If things continue the way they are, schools will become more chaotic, communities more unstable, and we will start seeing more teenagers getting involved in crime, violence, drug abuse, and reckless behavior at levels we are not prepared for as a country.

Parenting is collapsing in many homes. Some parents are too absent, too overwhelmed, or have surrendered the role of raising children to phones, schools, and the internet.

At the same time, our education system is struggling to shape character, discipline, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking beyond just exams and grades.

Then add the drug problem into the mix. Drugs are becoming more accessible within estates, neighborhoods, and even around schools. Young people are experimenting earlier, addiction is increasing silently, and many are growing up without proper guidance, mentorship, or emotional support systems.

Now combine that with excessive screentime, social media addiction, exposure to harmful content, short attention spans, online radicalization, and the normalization of aggression and disrespect online.

You end up creating a generation that is emotionally overstimulated, mentally exhausted, easily influenced, and increasingly disconnected from reality.

That combination is a ticking time bomb.

A society cannot survive when children grow up without structure, discipline, purpose, values, or present adults guiding them. If parents do not reclaim their responsibility, if schools continue weakening, if mental health remains ignored, and if drugs continue flooding the streets, then the consequences will not just be felt in homes. They will be felt in classrooms, neighborhoods, workplaces, and across the entire country.

The warning signs are already here. The patterns have already formed. Kenya must stop treating this as a small issue before we raise a generation that is angry, lost, addicted, and difficult to control.

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

In my address titled "The Political Economy of Obedience," delivered last month at the Josef Korbel School of Global Affairs at the University of Denver, I identified five key mechanisms through which African populations have been trained into political compliance. I am sharing a summary here because they explain precisely what we are watching play out in real time every day on this continent.

The first is colonial education. The curriculum inherited from the French, the Brits or the Portugese administration was not designed to produce critical citizens. It was designed to produce a particular kind of political subject. one who understood authority as something to be respected rather than questioned, and who experienced his own political traditions as a source of shame rather than institutional possibility. As I said in Denver, the most effective political prisons are not made of concrete. They are made of curriculum. The Togolese school I attended taught us the genealogy of French kings with more precision than the history of the governance systems that predated French colonial presence on our territory.

The second is the economy of obedience itself. Authoritarian systems endure not primarily through permanent terror but because they structure the relationship between political compliance and material survival so that obedience becomes, for most people most of the time, the rational choice. Access to employment, scholarships, market licenses, import authorizations, health clinic access: none of it politically neutral, all of it conditioned on loyalty. People in these systems do not collaborate with power because they are morally deficient. They collaborate because the scaffolding of their daily lives has been designed to make non-collaboration economically catastrophic.

The third is the family as a site of control. In conditions of economic precarity, the individual who considers a dissident act must calculate not only her own risk but the risk she imposes on her parents, her siblings, her children, her cousins etc. I have watched people of intelligence and moral clarity retreat from political engagement not because they were afraid for themselves but because they could not justify the devastating exposure their activism would bring to their families. The authoritarian state does not need to threaten everyone. It only needs to ensure that the threat to one is visible and comprehensible to all.

The fourth is religion. In many parts of Africa, religious institutions have been deployed, not by their most honest practitioners but by their most politically convenient ones, to transmit a theology of earthly resignation and otherworldly reward that discourages political engagement. The pastoral instruction to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's sits very comfortably with the interests of Caesars who have no intention of rendering anything to anyone. Liberation theology, which in Latin America produced an extraordinary tradition of religiously grounded political resistance, has had a far more contested reception in much of African Christianity and Islam, partly because of the direct entanglement of many religious institutions with state power, which has made spiritual authority and political compliance structurally allied.

The fifth is media. In authoritarian African contexts, state and privately owned media aligned with power do not typically practice crude propaganda. They practice something more subtle and more durable: the selection of what is visible and what is invisible; the framing of social problems as natural phenomena rather than political choices; and the treatment of opposition voices as marginal or foreign-funded. The film industry participates in this discipline in its own way, through the systematic promotion of narratives that depict poverty and wealth as conditions of fate or personal failure, stories in which the distance between the poor and the rich has everything to do with luck, talent or divine favour and nothing to do with power, policy or the deliberate engineering of inequality.

The cumulative effect, over decades, is a population whose political imagination has been narrowed to the point where alternatives are genuinely difficult to conceive, not because the alternatives do not exist, but because the political ecosystem has ensured they remain invisible.

These are the operating manual of authoritarian systems on this continent. And authoritarianism today is not limited to regimes with a known dictator who has held power for decades. It extends equally to regimes that perform a change of leadership through placebo elections conducted every four to five years, producing a new face every eight to ten years while the same system of impunity, patronage and repression remains structurally intact.

I would argue that these are in fact the more dangerous form of authoritarianism because their citizens are deceived into believing they are living under a democracy when they are in reality governed by plutocrats. The citizen under an obvious dictatorship at least knows what he is fighting. The citizen under a rotating plutocracy has been convinced there is nothing to fight at all. He votes, he watches a new face take the oath, and he mistakes the performance of transition for the substance of change. He ends up with no voice, no justice, no agency, and worse, no drive to fight for his own dignity. For one can only fight for liberation after acknowledging one's condition of oppression.

[Rigathi Gachagua @rigathi]

Congratulations Hon. Wandayi on your appointment. You have our full support as you steer the Ministry.

[Lawrence Kinuthia @kinuthia_lan]

Nimefurushwa juu ya rent. Understandable. 12k rent for the month inclusive of arrears za April. I knew it might reach here but kept working and hoping. For the last time naomba if you have a place wanahire speak up my name. I'll share my CV in the replies as a comment...

[GerrySinga @singa_gerry]

@abuyamasta @otugaj ...tuwache double standards kama Wakenya

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

“People have beautiful things to say about you, but you must die first.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Raskin Oyugi @Raskinoyugi]

Missing child

[Ademba Allans @Ademba_47]

Nyamaza tu. Next might be your child, sister, cousin or neighbour #LindaMtoto