A country's growth depends on the integrity of its voters, not the leaders. If the voters elect incompetent and/or corrupt individuals, they will loot public funds to bribe voters in the next election & ruin institutions to escape accountability. THE PEOPLE CHOOSE THEIR DESTINY.
@silas_slfc@ErickssonMike@georgediano Lions hunt their prey. It's hyenas that wait to scavenge on other predators' kill. Similarly, in politics, lions and ilk pursue votes while scavengers wait hope to snatch away some meat. Often, scavengers end up with bones.
@jonniemusyoka4 @georgediano That attitude is why Kalonzo was interviewed & dropped for Karua in 2022. No one has ever won the Presidency by the votes of his community alone. Besides, voters are neither historians nor archeologists. A candidate has to market himself to them. There's no strategy in slumber.
@jonniemusyoka4@georgediano No one is asking Kalonzo to be a running mate, everyone is asking him to hit the ground running. Of the most likely candidates to unseat Pres Ruto, only he is not campaigning with seriousness. No one will trust such indolent conduct when the opponent is the incumbent.
@HusseinMohamedg You do not need any other vision when the nation needs liberation. The only true vision for a liberator is to liberate his people. After liberation, the people will sit & agree on priorities. The problem with your regime is acting like the people don't know what we need. We know.
@ahmadsalims The Senate as a whole has been snobbed by several governors & it did little but whine & issue threats. But you want Sifuna, one Senator, to deal with Sakaja! Name one Senator who has singularly done what you want Sifuna to do. Pick a plausible blemish.
Blood cancers have dangerously high mortality rates because their early symptoms are incredibly vague. Patients brush them off until it's detected far too late.
I want you to know the 5 silent red flags you cannot ignore.
1. DRENCHING NIGHT SWEATS
The incumbent pays the people to attend his Rallies in the hope that they will vote for him. But here, the people are fundraising for Sifuna to facilitate his journey to the Presidency. Either Kenya's politics has changed or the people are tired with this regime, likely both.
Something that hasn’t happened before in Kenyan politics! I’m soo emotional right now people of kiminini are literally giving sifuna money live 🔥😭❤️
#SisiNdioSifuna#WesternNiSifuna
I have been a criminal and civil lawyer for more than 31 years. Here are my preliminary observations on the conviction of Okoth Obado. My opinion is intended to raise critical issues which arise from Obado’s conviction. These are my opinions based on the evidence the prosecution tabled and the judgment as read by the judge on July 23, 2026:
The individuals who committed the murder were not arrested and tried. There were no confessions by anyone directly involved linking Obado to the crime. No DNA or any other physical evidence linked Obado to the crime. The electronic evidence adduced by the prosecution and witnesses who testified showed that Obado was in Nairobi when Sharon was murdered in Homa Bay county. In other words, the evidence by the prosecution corroborated Obado’s alibi.
There was absolutely no material evidence adduced in court that Obado gave any instructions to the two co-accused to kidnap, harm or kill Sharon. None. The alleged “funding” and “logistics” linked the co-accused to Sharon but not to Obado.
The Nation Media Group stringer who miraculously “escaped” from the vehicle where Sharon was kidnapped implicated the two accused but not Obado.
Murder is one of the gravest offences in the statute books. Proving it requires meticulously presented evidence which leaves no doubt on the guilt of the perpetrator. One ought to be convicted of it by concrete overwhelming evidence that proves the allegations BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT. Only then can we say justice has been done for the victims.
Therefore question some of us are asking is: where is the circumstantial evidence which proves the crime of murder of Sharon by Obado beyond any reasonable doubt?
Is pregnating Sharon proof of murder? If that were the case, there are perhaps thousands of men in Kenya who would be in jail because some of the women they had impregnated and failed to take responsibility for ended up as victims of crime.
Is refusing to marry Sharon or to support her financially (if proven), proof of murder beyond any reasonable doubt? Again millions of Kenyan men would stand convicted if their failure to support those they had impregnated who ended up being murdered constituted “circumstantial evidence” as to their guilt.
Is avoiding Sharon (if proven), proof of murder beyond any reasonable doubt? No.
Just because Oyamo and Caspal worked for Obado is the proof beyond any reasonable doubt?
Is Obado the only person Caspal and Oyamo worked for or with? Who were the other persons who would have had motive to harm or murder Sharon? Were they investigated? Were they charged and tried? Why not?
In my considered opinion, Obado’s conviction will be overturned on appeal. The judge’s reasoning is incurably, irretrievably and fundamentally faulty—legally and logically. It’s also a material and serious misapprehension of the evidence.
As William Blackstone wrote in 1765, “it’s better to let ten guilty persons go free than to convict one innocent man.” Later, Benjamin Franklin upgraded the number to 100.
My considered view is that the Obado conviction will be set aside by the Court of Appeal.
These are my views. They are founded on reason, analysis, logic, knowledge of the law and the evidence adduced.
@ItsGregy_ Hapo kwa polisi umedanganya. Debt is a civil matter, it has no criminal sanctions. The remedies a court can give are an order for payment, & in case of default, auction of judgment debtor's property or a garneshee order.
@HusseinMohamedg Correct, "... stop criminality." The President admits criminality is going on within the Ministry of Interior. Sacking & arrests would be the best place to begin. A President cannot cry foul. A State agency may only oppress the people with the President's sanctioning or blessing.
@KlementGemini No really. In a by-election, it's easy for the State to concentrate resources in the constituency and overwhelm the opposition. But that cannot be replicated in a general election. It's not possible to successfully deploy violence/intimidation in over 50k polling stations.
A clip has surfaced showing former Interior CS Fred Matiang'i
Commenting on the arrest of 5 goons who disrupted then DP Ruto, who is now the President.
Matiang'i delivered a strong warning, insisting that
Every citizen has the right to travel freely to any part of the country
Someone should tag @kipmurkomen
@ntvkenya IEBC does not have the power to make criminal laws. That's the preserve of Parliament. This is hot air. That law must be passed by parliament and pass the constitutional test.
After SACCOs, Banks And M-Pesa Are Next As Kenyans Become Guarantors For A Debt Crisis They Never Ate
Kenyans must stop asking why Kenya has not defaulted and start asking who is being prepared to carry the default when the music finally stops.
Ghana was here.
Sri Lanka was here.
Zambia was here.
Argentina was here.
Lebanon was here.
The script is always the same, because a broke government borrows until lenders get tired, taxes until citizens are dry, leans on banks until credit disappears, pushes pain into pensions and domestic savings, then tells the public that sacrifice is needed to save the country.
That is why the SACCO story should scare Kenyans more than they currently seem scared, because SACCO savings are not government money, they are the private sweat of teachers, police officers, nurses, farmers, matatu people, boda riders, mama mbogas, small traders and workers who ran there after banks abandoned them.
In every default story, the government does not stand alone at the edge of the cliff, because it drags citizens there as guarantors through inflation, taxes, currency pain, bank losses, pension restructuring, frozen credit and forced patriotic nonsense dressed up as national recovery.
Banks already formed a comfortable debt circle with government, where lending to Treasury became safer and sweeter than lending to SMEs, which slowly choked biashara, starved the real economy and turned ordinary Kenyans into beggars inside their own banking system.
Now the same government that fed banks with public debt is walking into SACCOs, looking at the last pool of money ordinary Kenyans still controlled after taxes, deductions, mobile money charges, fuel prices, school fees and rent had already eaten their pockets.
The anus cannot be stitched to stop diarrhoea.
A debt crisis cannot be solved by raiding SACCOs, squeezing banks, eyeing M-Pesa, selling public assets and pretending that every desperate grab is an infrastructure plan.
Ghana called it domestic debt exchange.
Sri Lanka called it restructuring.
Argentina called it emergency controls.
Lebanon left people staring at bank balances they could not freely touch.
Kenya will give it a cleaner name, maybe national development, domestic resource mobilisation, infrastructure financing or patriotic investment, but the meaning will be the same.
The citizens are being prepared as guarantors for debts they never ate.
Kenyans are not angry enough, because if they understood where this road ends, they would know SACCOs are not the final target, they are the warning shot before banks, M-Pesa and every private pool of money still breathing outside Treasury’s hands.
The money is finished.