The latest state intelligence propaganda is becoming too desperate and too obvious because the whole trick is to create the impression that Kikuyus are being isolated, ignored and humiliated by the emerging opposition formation.
The intention is to make Mt Kenya stop thinking about taxes, collapsing businesses, joblessness, broken promises and economic pain, then push them back into a tribal bunker around a besieged regime.
This is 2013 software trying to run on a 2027 machine, yet the country has moved, the economy has changed and Kenyans are no longer consuming propaganda the same way.
The old script was always built around siege mentality, where a community is told that everyone else hates them, everyone else is planning against them and only the incumbent can protect them.
That game worked in a different season because emotions were raw, fear was useful and propaganda could move without serious public interrogation from citizens who now have more information channels.
Today, the mountain is not angry because of who has or has not been given a seat in some imaginary lineup, but because the regime they were told was theirs became one of the harshest governments they have experienced.
People are not closing shops because of coalition gossip, farmers are not crying because of press statements and young people are not jobless because of who attended which political meeting.
The real question is not whether one tribe has been given every position in every arrangement, but whether Kenyans want another five years of taxation, debt, abductions, police violence, lies and broken public services.
The state knows it cannot sell performance, so it is trying to sell isolation.
The problem is that hunger is not tribal, debt is not tribal, overtaxation is not tribal, unemployment is not tribal and bad governance is not tribal.
You cannot frighten a broke trader with tribal arithmetic when his stock is stuck, his taxes are rising and his customers have no money.
You cannot tell a jobless graduate that his real enemy is an opposition lineup when he has been home for years with a degree and no future.
This latest propaganda is not about protecting Kikuyus.
It is about rescuing a regime that has lost the country.
I said it in 2024 when Rigathi Gachagua was impeached by the Senate. The High Court agreed with me today that indeed he was denied a fair trial. A decision that infringe on a litigant's non derogable rights like the right to a fair trial under Article 25(c) can't stand in law.
Funny political operatives should never be able to walk into a national fuel crisis meeting and appear to chair, direct or control it, because once that becomes normal, the country is no longer being governed through constitutional offices but through informal power, proximity to the President and political errands that no Kenyan can audit.
This is not a small matter of optics or personalities. It goes to the heart of how public power is exercised in Kenya.
When a crisis touches fuel prices, transport, schools, police deployment, protests and the daily survival of millions of citizens, the chain of command must be visible, lawful and accountable.
Kenyans must know who called the meeting, who attended, in what official capacity they attended, what decisions were made, who gave instructions and who will carry responsibility if those decisions harm the public.
Parliament foresaw the danger of power being exercised without a record, and that is why parliamentary business leaves behind Hansard, committee minutes, order papers, reports, votes and formal proceedings.
You may dislike MPs, you may disagree with their conduct, and you may even believe Parliament has failed the country many times, but at least there is a public trail that allows citizens to go back and see who said what, who supported what, who opposed what and who must be held responsible.
Government crisis meetings should also leave a formal record, especially when they concern matters as serious as fuel, transport, police action and public unrest.
This does not mean every sensitive security detail must be thrown into the public domain, but there must be official attendance records, minutes, decision notes and lawful authority attached to the people in the room, so that strangers, political handlers, advisers or presidential errand boys do not exercise state power in darkness and then vanish when consequences arrive.
Fuel is not a PR problem. It is an economic crisis that affects food prices, school movement, business costs, transport fares and the general mood of the country. If Cabinet Secretaries, Principal Secretaries, police commanders, energy officials, Treasury officials and transport sector players meet over it, Kenyans deserve to know the official structure of that meeting and the lawful basis of every instruction issued from it.
A country cannot be run through whispers, side rooms, unofficial actors and vague orders from above.
That is how shadow government grows around the formal government, until elected and appointed officials become decorations while unelected men with access become the real machinery of power.
Power without record is dangerous because it cannot be questioned properly, and power without office is even more dangerous because it allows people who carry no constitutional burden to influence decisions that affect millions of lives.
If someone is chairing a public crisis meeting, let their title be known. If they are making decisions, let the law show where that authority comes from. If they are merely advising, let them sit where advisers sit, not where accountable officials sit.
The fuel crisis has exposed something bigger than prices.
It has exposed the informal architecture of power around this government, and unless Kenyans insist on records, titles, minutes and accountability, tomorrow anyone with access to State House can walk into a public crisis, speak with borrowed authority, intimidate officials, direct outcomes and disappear when the country starts burning.
THINGS ANIMALS KNOW THAT HUMANS DON'T:
1. Elephants can detect rain falling 150 miles away through vibrations in the ground, felt through their feet, and will begin walking toward it before any meteorological instrument registers the incoming storm.
2. Dogs can smell cancer, Parkinson's disease, epileptic seizures before they happen, and changes in blood sugar with accuracy rates that consistently outperform early-stage medical testing equipment.
3. Sharks can detect one drop of blood diluted across an Olympic swimming pool worth of water. Their electrosensory system can also detect the heartbeat of a hidden animal through solid sand.
4. Pigeons have magnetite crystals embedded in their beaks,a biological compass that allows them to navigate using the Earth's magnetic field with an accuracy that GPS navigation still cannot consistently match.
5. Crows can recognize and remember individual human faces for years. They hold grudges, pass information about specific humans to their offspring, and have been documented leaving gifts for humans who treated them kindly.
6. Bees make collective decisions democratically. When a hive needs a new home, scouts return and perform dances indicating different locations other bees evaluate and vote, and the option with the most sustained enthusiasm wins.
7. Mantis shrimps can see 16 types of color receptors compared to humans' three. They perceive colors, ultraviolet, and polarized light simultaneously experiencing a visual reality so complex humans have no framework to even imagine it.
8. Migratory birds navigate partly by seeing the Earth's magnetic field as a visual overlay on their normal vision essentially they have a built-in map projected onto their sight that humans are completely blind to.
9. Whales sing in dialects. Different populations have distinct songs that are culturally passed down, evolve over time, and change when populations come into contact with each other exactly like human language evolution.
10. Rats show measurable empathy. In experiments they consistently freed trapped companions even when doing so gave them no reward and would share food with hungry strangers before eating themselves.
11. Octopuses have neurons distributed throughout their arms each arm can taste, feel, problem-solve, and act semi-independently of the brain. They experience the world as eight semi-separate thinking entities simultaneously.
12. Elephants are among the only animals that recognize death as death. They return to the bones of deceased family members years later, handle them carefully, and display behavior that has no practical survival function only what looks like grief.
13. Dolphins have been documented teaching their young to use tools specifically placing sea sponges on their snouts to protect themselves while foraging on sharp ocean floors. This is culturally transmitted knowledge, not instinct.
14. Some species of jellyfish are biologically immortal. When stressed or aging, Turritopsis dohrnii reverts to its juvenile state and restarts its life cycle,it has no known natural lifespan limit.
15. Cats don't meow at other cats in the wild. The meow was developed specifically and exclusively as a communication tool directed at humans,they learned to talk to us in a frequency that mimics an infant's cry because it gets results.
Based on recent reports from Nation Africa, People Daily, and other Kenyan outlets as of Feb 2026, ODM has two main factions post-Raila Odinga's death:
- Old Guard (led by Oburu Oginga): Controls party structures, supports alliance with Ruto's UDA for stability. Holds interim power but faces internal challenges.
- Reformists (led by Edwin Sifuna, Winnie Odinga): Opposes Ruto ties, focuses on opposition role and grassroots issues. Shows stronger public support in polls (e.g., 62% favor independence per Infotrak) and rallies.
Reformists seem to have more people's backing, but the split risks weakening ODM overall.