@RandySkeete Sorry I only come here when I need prayers and I'm grateful for the prayers. God answers them each time. I'm glad I got to know you. God bless you and may He keep using you mightily
If you think whatever has happened to Albert Ojwang can't happen to you or your family, you're wrong. When a life is lost, we must demand justice and accountability from those responsible irrespective of political affiliation. Some comments from some quarters here baffles me. But I understand that their mouth is full, and they are observing table manners. #Justice4AlbertOjwang
Imagine you are about to eat with your only son, then police officers show up, ask to go with him.
You ask what he has done, and they tell you he shared a newspaper headline on his Twitter page that someone in government found offensive.
They put your son in handcuffs, without letting him even finish eating and ask you to follow them to Nairobi, for more details.
Somewhere in their journey, your son calls you and asks you to speak with the police not to put in a place he can’t have enough oxygen to breathe because of his medical condition.
When you get to Nairobi, the police tell you to go see the lifeless body of your son in the mortuary!
A son they took from you full of life is being given to you lifeless.
You never had the opportunity to eat the last meal with your son, never had the opportunity to hug him one more time, never had an opportunity to kiss him goodbye.
And you then imagine how your son was killed, the pain he endured at the hands of those who should have protected him, you wonder probably if you had gone with him, arrested together, your son would still be alive!
That is the hell Albert’s father must be going through now.
All these because we have a government led by cold hearted and heartless individuals who will give orders for the killings of other people’s children without any thought.
Can’t we just have normal governments that work to fulfill their election manifestos and don’t have to kill anyone?
The death of Albert is painful, very painful. No government should put any parent through such grief!
@kipmurkomen “In war the politicians give ammunition, the rich give the food and the poor give their children… When the war is over the politicians get back the leftover ammunition, the rich grow more food and the poor search for the graves of their children.”
What can be expected from a government made up of clowns and dimwits. All they can afford is to make promises which they can barely keep and hurl insults and threats to anyone calling out their incompetence. Crippling of Healthcare could be a strategy just like killing the youth
I am deeply concerned at the news that the Rural Urban Private Hospitals Association intends to suspend healthcare services to Kenyans due to the failure of government to remit funds for their services.
The failure to remit refunds is unacceptable as the government-run Social Health Authority is responsible for these payments, and Kenyans have been paying into SHA (and before that into NHIF).
It is wrong and morally unacceptable to subject Kenyans to suffering when they need hospital services and medicines. I imagine that some of these cases need urgent medical attention and cannot wait. Lives are at stake. The government must seriously address the crumbling of healthcare institutions. Our Constitution guarantees Kenyans the right to the highest attainable standard of health.
For far too long, providing access to healthcare services has been chocked by poor policies and corrupt practices in government. We cannot be a people who make two steps forward and five steps backward because a few people have found a way to game the industry and enrich themselves.
A country with a sick population cannot advance. We must ensure the best healthcare institutions if we are to realize the aspirations on universal healthcare in our constitution.
@HonOscarSudi Why say you will do, when you can do? What is stopping you guys from doing the things you are promising , now?
That is what the bishop asked you? What is tribal in that statement?
Yenu ni Serikali ya content creators.
I can relate, this is my story too but enough is enough, it's time we fight for what belongs to us and not depend on people who never really care about us. We are the change we need
A LETTER TO THE RT. HON. RAILA AMOLO ODINGA FROM A GEN Z
Dear Hon. Raila,
I am writing to you from my small bedsitter somewhere closer to Nairobi CBD than Karen, but if we both left our houses for CBD, you would get there way faster than me. Needless to say I’d spend some 30 minutes or more for a matatu to fill. So, basically I mean to say the distance between you and I status-wise is probably no less than Addis Ababa to Nairobi.
In 2007, I was in standard 2 in some village school in Okela village, Uyoma Katweng’a (UK). When Kivuitu announced the results, I was at Loyan’s (a classmate and fiend) place. I felt like a part of me left me. I felt bad bad. I felt like my life, those of my family members and Kenyans generally would not change for the better. I felt I had lost greatly. Here’s why; growing up, we were fed with the notion that you were the only person who would liberate the Luo community. Every child my age would talk about you in school. Everyone ‘worshipped’ you. The teachers taught us about you. Some of them actually called you the President of Kenya. For a long time, I knew you were the President of Kenya. For a long time, I knew Kibaki and Kivuitu were criminals who deserved to rot in jail for stealing your win.
That same year, Hon. Raphael Tuju (Tuch mon) was running for a second term in the office of MP for Rarieda constituency. My mother, Margaret Anyango ‘Nyomollo’ (Eternal rest grant unto her Oh Lord...) was part of some women league supporting Tuju. She was so excited about Tuju. Women in my village, and I guess in the whole of Rarieda loved Tuju. They still do. They talk about him to date. But sadly that year, Tuju lost his seat because apparently you decampained him due to his alignment with Kibaki’s party. You wanted every Luo politician to vie with your Party even if they didn’t agree with your policies. Tuju lost to Nicholas Gumbo. My mother, just like many of her fiends was heartbroken. She told me this story and I felt bad for her. I remember there is a day she came home and found me loudly singing this ‘Tuju’ song by Suzannah Owiyo and she was very upset with me. She was concerned that some ‘Raila supporters would hear me and probably attack me or my family.’ I kept wondering ‘who is this Raila yawa?’ So, really, I was confused whether to be your fan or to feel sad about Hon. Tuju’s loss. I was barely 9 years old remember. But this Raila thing was giving me sleepless nights like some ladies giving Kenyan men sleepless nights and vice versa.
In early January, 2008, my cousins Fred (16) and Dave (7) were traveling from Mombasa back home after a long holiday they had both longed for before. Sadly, they were not to get home until after about 1 month. They were victims of the 2007/08 Post election violence. These two young boys had to suffer for 30 straight days because no bus would be allowed to move until Raila is announced President. Remember the “No Raila No Peace”? I heard about it, even though I was so young. When the two finally got home, they were emaciated, darker and bitter. They were infected with the dangerous chicken pox. That was the first time I heard of such an infection in my life. They had these madoadoa, they looked homeless and I remember people cried when they finally got home. Still, everyone was chanting ‘Raila Tosha’ ‘Agwambo Tosha’ ‘Tinga Tosha’ and we believed you were clean. Msafi kama pamba.
In 2013, I was in standard 8. Results of the March election tore us apart. We mourned for some days but life continued. 2017! Same thing. What I failed to insist earlier is that we were always told these guys (the Kikuyus) always stole your votes. It was taught to us both at home and in school. So I grew up knowing you are the only savior Luos are waiting to get to Presidency. In 2022, I supported you but shingo upande. I did it in belief that there was no better candidate, not like you were the one like I used to believe before. Kahongo already had a glaring bad reputation. (1/3)