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Dear @nationafrica @StandardKenya @TheStarKenya @CapitalFMKenya and other media
If you continue to report the Jubilee nonsense expressed by the president in Central to the exclusion of the rest of Kenya, you lose the right to lecture us about unity and BBI.
Get a conscience.
If you continue to report the Jubilee nonsense expressed by the president in Central to the exclusion of the rest of Kenya, you lose the right to lecture us about unity and BBI.
Get a conscience.
The media needs to speak with one voice and decide tell the president that it is unethical to talk on such important nation issues to the exclusion of everybody else, and then preach that BBI is for inclusion. That's an insult to our dignity and intelligence.
And don't listen to cultural purists with that tired argument about pride in our languages. It's a lazy, argument that doesn't apply here. We have an African language called Kiswahili that is accessible to more Kenyans.
We have to take a stand and stop being cowards.
We have to take a stand and stop being cowards.
I have a theory.
The reason why Kenyans are not rioting about the Nairobi insurrection is because the government of Kenya is as useless as a parasite to most Kenyans. It's like a mosquito. You only notice it because it gives you malaria. If it didn't, you wouldn't notice it.
The reason why Kenyans are not rioting about the Nairobi insurrection is because the government of Kenya is as useless as a parasite to most Kenyans. It's like a mosquito. You only notice it because it gives you malaria. If it didn't, you wouldn't notice it.
Most Kenyans live avoiding GoK as much as they can. The problem of #BBIreport is like the mosquitos and malaria. It doesn't matter if these thugs create and divide positions in BBI. The problem is that it's us who will pay. That's the malaria.
Those of us against BBI have talked so much of the mosquitos, but we haven't shown Kenyans the malaria. Kenyans need to understand what BBI will do to them, not how BBI is beneficial for politicians. Kenya has always benefitted politicians, it's not going to start with #BBIreport
There are parts of the Christmas story that I had never paid attention to until the reign of Tekayo.
During Christmas last year, extra-judicial killings reminded me of King Herod when he ordered the slaughter of baby boys because he was afraid of they would threaten his power.
During Christmas last year, extra-judicial killings reminded me of King Herod when he ordered the slaughter of baby boys because he was afraid of they would threaten his power.
No different from today. Young people, and young men, are the dreamers. They have energy and potential to lead. That's why they are mowed down by the police.
This Christmas, as we head to a forced referendum, I'm reminded of the taboo of counting people that was forced by the Roman empire. Joseph and Mary were forced to make a journey to Jerusalem while Mary was close to her due date
There is social democracy, and liberal democracy.
In social democracy, people actually participate in the decisions that affect them. Liberal democracy is where the people with power and money rule but provide rituals like elections to perform public consent. #Lindakatiba
In social democracy, people actually participate in the decisions that affect them. Liberal democracy is where the people with power and money rule but provide rituals like elections to perform public consent. #Lindakatiba
What is amazing about #BBIreport is the determination to perform public consent even when the public doesn't agree. That's more worrying than the rigging of processes like signatures and referendums. Because what politicians are doing is showing us the finger. #lindakatiba
This #BBIfraud thing isn't just about the law. It's about our soul. It's about crushing us so that we don't have a leg to stand on.
That's why if the elites push this thing through, we should tell them it's theirs and we have no obligation to obey it. #lindakatiba
That's why if the elites push this thing through, we should tell them it's theirs and we have no obligation to obey it. #lindakatiba
I have said all I have to say on #BBIreport, which is:
1. It's a waste of Kenyan's time and precious intellect to spend it on the tantrums of malignant narcissists. We should be working where our talent and skills call us to, but we're doing damage control and #bullshitjobs.
1. It's a waste of Kenyan's time and precious intellect to spend it on the tantrums of malignant narcissists. We should be working where our talent and skills call us to, but we're doing damage control and #bullshitjobs.
We have to have a country where Ndii's talent is used for our economy, not on campaigning to protect Kenya from Muigai's latest tantrums. Or where doctors are employed and working, not doing locums or being jobless while Cuban doctors get cars. #bbireport
2. The political class is useless. It has no talent or skills, and it cant work. It is always looking for ways to make Kenyans work and performing rituals of power and relevance that kill enough of us to truamatize the rest of us. That's all #BBIreport is. fb.watch/2a_uGTulDZ/
THREAD ALERT
1. Historical Background of BBI
2. Key Constitutional proposed amendments
3. Legislative amendments
4. Referendum bells
1. Historical Background of BBI
2. Key Constitutional proposed amendments
3. Legislative amendments
4. Referendum bells
1. After the nullified presidential elections in 2017, the political mood and environment in the country was telling. The mid morning of 9th March 2018 was a new dawn in the political trajectory in Kenya. The famous HANDSHAKE was born.
2. President Uhuru and his political rival Rt Hon Raila Odinga on the historic steps of Harambee house procured this “political settlement/compromise” to ease the escalating political tensions witnessed after 2017 repeat elections.
On Kenya BBI & the gender quota. Am I missing something or does it fail to *guarantee* that no more than two-thirds of Parliament will be of the same gender? I have read the proposals & it is not clear to me that it does 1/5 @MitullahWinnie @karutikk @gathara @Nanjala1 #BBIReport 
BBI mandates parties to have 30% women on their candidate lists. But this doesn’t ensure they win - if they contest against other male candidates many may lose. Only 27 women in the current parliament did not come through the reserved county seats. 2/5 @kopalo #BBIReport
That means that securing the threshold will likely depend on the 70 seats to be appointed by the parties on the basis of their vote share. But reports suggest only 35 of these have to go to women. That’s a *loss* of 12 compared to the 47 county women’s representatives. #bbi 3/5
Kenyans, it's time to talk about the role of the #upperdeckpeopleKE in Kenya's stagnation: the academics, professionals and civil servants.
They are cynically misusing public participation to call a flawed process of #BBIreport the people's agenda.
They've done this before.
They are cynically misusing public participation to call a flawed process of #BBIreport the people's agenda.
They've done this before.
The politicians know that politically, #BBIReport has no case. None at all. Everybody can see through what the dynasties are doing.
So they are getting lawyers, professors and journalists to argue about technical details and refuse to allow questions of context and legitimacy.
So they are getting lawyers, professors and journalists to argue about technical details and refuse to allow questions of context and legitimacy.
The other day the #newsgang on @citizentvkenya even hosted a top GoK bureaucrat to discuss the proposals in BBI and completely evade the socio-political elephants in the room.
What is education for if we're going to train people to talk in the clouds rather than vitu kwa ground?
What is education for if we're going to train people to talk in the clouds rather than vitu kwa ground?
#Dearfarmers So lets talk about careless mistakes people make in farming.
A simple Thread worth your time.
- Lack of proper fencing.
We invest thousands or millions into farming but fail to impose proper security measures around the farm.
#WednesdayWisdom
#BBIReport #farming
A simple Thread worth your time.
- Lack of proper fencing.
We invest thousands or millions into farming but fail to impose proper security measures around the farm.
#WednesdayWisdom
#BBIReport #farming
Frequent theft and farm invading by livestock or wild animals results from simple ignorance or failure to protect your office. (farm)
Fencing is therefore a very important aspect that you should consider before venturing into farming
Fencing is therefore a very important aspect that you should consider before venturing into farming
Lack of financial knowledge and risk management.
Farmers ought to know the estimated profit margin before investment. Don't be so much aggressive on decision making at the start and have less equity left out. Invest only whatever you are capable of.
Farmers ought to know the estimated profit margin before investment. Don't be so much aggressive on decision making at the start and have less equity left out. Invest only whatever you are capable of.
Hustling is a term that was popularized by hip hop. It originally referred to those working in the illegal economy. But with neoliberalism, the meaning changed, as Lester K Spence explains.
Neoliberalism meant the withdrawal of public support for social services like health and education. To cope with the harder times, the idea of hustling changed to make hustling sound like a requirement and a noble thing to do. So it was designed to discourage political questions.
Prof Spence's analysis applies to Kenya. The hustle represents those who are screwed by the economy, but who are not asking how the economy got there. A few years ago, the deepee said that he hustled his way to wealth, and that is equated to the hustle of the mkokoteni pusher.
The argument an MP gave on Citizen TV for BBI is the same argument kumirans gave for voting for the ICC suspects in 2013: we're traumatized and tired of dying. We'll do anything for "peace" and "development."
"And anyone who tries to say that we can't keep on letting politicians lynch us is an insensitive ethnic supremacist who doesn't know what suffering is."
Surely, what kind of a conversation is that, where we are comparing not ideas and dignity, but whose wounds are more painful?
Surely, what kind of a conversation is that, where we are comparing not ideas and dignity, but whose wounds are more painful?
This Kenya is just toxic. Politicians are a lynch mob who hang us every 5 years precisely so that we can say "Stop! Do no more harm." When do we end this cycle of violence, and blackmailing each other with our trauma?
.@JerotichSeii this is a history of the politicians using public participation to sneek in their personal agenda.
The Universities Act was amended by Matiangi by having a party in a hotel.
The Universities Act was amended by Matiangi by having a party in a hotel.
For #hudumanamba, the government performed a joke of public participation where even the members of the public called them out.
And they convened the meeting away from CBD to limit the people who could attend.
And they convened the meeting away from CBD to limit the people who could attend.
The other way in which politicians have bulldozed #bbireport is through intellectual and emotional abuse. They tell us that we don't read, we should not discuss documents before they're released, they limit us to the text and refuse to discuss context, etc wandianjoya.com/blog/ask-no-qu…
As @RasnaWarah says here, the 2013 election was an election of fear. And I would add that this fear is not accidental. Politicians kill us during elections, with help from the US and UK, pricisely so that we can always be afraid.
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Our politicians are a lynch mob. They organize for our bodies to be mutilated so that we face our cultures and our politics with fear and dread, and get blackmailed to support #BBIReport.
Kenyan politicians are terrorists.
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Kenyan politicians are terrorists.
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Tekayo and the US knew they would rig the 2017 elections and knew people would die. They even sent body bags in advance. That's the level of cynicism around our elections. The politicians and their sponsors prepare to kill us and blackmail us to accept what they want.
We are not saying that we intend to vote "no" IN a referendum. We are saying "no" TO a referendum in the first place.
The proposed referendum is
1. selfish and designed to protect the family power and business interests of politicians
2. divisive and polarising and will prepare Kenya for war
3. a dishonest mini-election
#TekelezaKATIBA #KatibaAt10
1. selfish and designed to protect the family power and business interests of politicians
2. divisive and polarising and will prepare Kenya for war
3. a dishonest mini-election
#TekelezaKATIBA #KatibaAt10
The proposed referendum is
4. a waste of taxpayers money. Healthcare has no money. Even if schools were opened, many children still don't have schools. Many Kenyans dont have steady income. The proposed referendum is an "eff you" to Kenyans
#TekelezaKATIBA #BBIReport
4. a waste of taxpayers money. Healthcare has no money. Even if schools were opened, many children still don't have schools. Many Kenyans dont have steady income. The proposed referendum is an "eff you" to Kenyans
#TekelezaKATIBA #BBIReport
It time for those in the arts do take over this topic like Muluka has done. We are the ones to tell Kenyans that election violence isn't about our ethnicity or constitution or whatever politics, law or racism tells us. The violence is a ritual for elites.
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I said recently that election violence is used by the ruling elite to scare us to the ballot box. They are already sounding the drums of war to blackmail us into supporting #BBIReport. We must not accept.
Wasanii wa Kenya, naomba mtusaidie.
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Wasanii wa Kenya, naomba mtusaidie.
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Kenyan artists: we don't need more peace messages. Or more songs telling us there's something wrong with us. We need songs and stories and visual arts to expose the current politicians as the real warlords who will spill our blood to continue making money. #BBIReport
The only thing that makes #BBIReport persist is that GoK is working with Western governments on a racist narrative of "Kenyans always fight tribal wars over elections."
Euro-America needs a simplistic story to keep the GoK going. That's they only thing that is keeping BBI.
Euro-America needs a simplistic story to keep the GoK going. That's they only thing that is keeping BBI.
We have to understand that electoral violence is necessary for politicians. They need it to keep the racist narrative alive for wazungu, and to traumatize us to accept anything they ask for.
If we can break through the self-blame about elections, #BBIReport is dead on arrival.
If we can break through the self-blame about elections, #BBIReport is dead on arrival.
Break through begins with knowing that electoral violence was started in 1957 by the British. With accompanying peace messaging.
The British hated Jaramogi and KANU because it was associated with Mau Mau. So they sent the army to Nyanza during the 1957 elections. True story.
The British hated Jaramogi and KANU because it was associated with Mau Mau. So they sent the army to Nyanza during the 1957 elections. True story.
The war of the Kenyan state and capitalist godfathers against pastoralism is more than a fight to grab land. It's a philosophical fight about demobilizing Africans. Capitalism can't exploit people who are moving. It needs people who are still and in one place.
Demobilized people are are easy to control because politicians can keep forcing people to vote how politicians want, under the threat of being uprooted and displaced people, and they can force people to seek employment at low wages.
With pastoralism, it's difficult to exploit people when they are moving. They are not where you are the last time you saw them, and if you try to fix them to a program, they'll tell you "we'll think about it and whether it fits on our schedule."
Uthamakism is rooted in white pathology and works like fascism. It's European in thinking, no matter how many proverbs, spears, gourds and mutura GEMA elites throw into the picture. Kenyans who can't deconstruct white pathology will find it hard to understand uthamaki fascism.
The first thing to understand about #uthamakifascism is that it is European, not indigenous to Kikuyu or Africa. Second, uthamaki comes from white pathology which crushes diversity and forces people to swear allegiance to one identity. European kingdoms did it in Europe as well.
#uthamakifascism has crushed the complex histories of the former Central province and melted them into one history that makes Kikuyus have a European style king. The ideology is then repeated until it appears like truth. @MutemiWaKiama broke it down here theelephant.info/radio/2017/08/…
If you knew that someone is planning to kill you to prove a point to his friends, what would you do?
Would you go to his friends' meeting to ask for "inclusion" in the game, as a strategy to protect yourself? Or would you smash the game and disempower him?
Would you go to his friends' meeting to ask for "inclusion" in the game, as a strategy to protect yourself? Or would you smash the game and disempower him?
The strategy we wananchi are playing with #bbireport is the same. These politicians negotiate with each other on the basis of how many members of their own tribes they can give up before the Anglo-Americans intervene. And instead of us smashing the BBI game, we ask for inclusion.
Politicians negotiate on how many of us die, not on what we want. Tekayo won in 2013 on nothing else but the Kikuyu bodies of 2008. And because @EUinKenya @UKinKenya @USAmbKenya think Africans are literal and stupid, they support #BBIReport based on its literal claims.
The Kikuyus who want to die for the Tekayos should just register with State House and we finish with that story. Some of us are tired of living under a seige mentality. What this cannibal is doing is preparing an altar for blood sacrifice.
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Tekayo is blackmailing home guards of other ethnic groups with a slice of the unnecessary and overrated Kikuyu vote.
For me, I will probably not vote.
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For me, I will probably not vote.
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I refuse to keep going to polling booths terrorized by strange fruit, swinging on the trees, blood on the leaves, blood at the roots. They killed Msando, mocked him, then we voted like nothing happened.
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For the longest time, the British were frustrated by the Kamba. Like the Giriama, the Kamba didn't enter the cash economy. They used cattle as a medium of exchange for food, dowry and other transactions.
The colonialists came up with a plan. Destocking. #politicaleducationKE
The colonialists came up with a plan. Destocking. #politicaleducationKE
The colonialist claimed that the Kamba had too many cattle. But more than that, in 1938, the colonial governor wrote an order commanding the Kamba to give up their cattle to a slaughter house in Athi River called Liebigs. And the Machakos DC was going to get a cut.
The order was brutal. In places like Kangundo, people were losing up to 90% of their stock. So the Kamba mobilized people to resist the order, and held a six-month sit-in to protest. The British pulled back the order because they were afraid that the struggle would turn violent.
When I raised the flag about the sale of Makini and Riara to foreigners, people rudely told me it's simply business and shouldn't concern me.
Truth is, Kenyans thought they would afford those schools and wanted to give their kids an elite education, so screw the public schools.
Truth is, Kenyans thought they would afford those schools and wanted to give their kids an elite education, so screw the public schools.
But with the pandemic, we saw what happened. You could no longer afford the schools, and the owner showed you the finger.
So why would a British elite school buy another school in Kenya when Kenyans can no longer afford them?
Simple.
The schools are not for Kenyans.
So why would a British elite school buy another school in Kenya when Kenyans can no longer afford them?
Simple.
The schools are not for Kenyans.
The British elite schools are expanding to foreign markets, but the world's global elites cant afford prices in Britain in pounds. They can get British elite education cheaper if the go to a Kenyan satellite campus.
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You know what is annoying about this Nairobi metropolitan project that is responsible for the KDF coup and the #KariobangiEvictions?
It's just concrete. These black colonial settlers think that putting up concrete makes a city. It's a really bizarre way of thinking.
It's just concrete. These black colonial settlers think that putting up concrete makes a city. It's a really bizarre way of thinking.
Concrete and wealth don't make cities. People do. And this Tower of Babel which Muigai wants to construct to make himself a god will fall like other cities before Northlands.
It will have company. theguardian.com/cities/2016/au…
It will have company. theguardian.com/cities/2016/au…
With #KariobangiEvictions and the Nairobi metropolitan project in #BBIReport it is becoming clearer to Kenyans that Nairobi is not for Africans. And CBC is designed to train KYMs to maintain the city.
Muigai is targetting white people to live in his Nairobi Tower of Babel.
Muigai is targetting white people to live in his Nairobi Tower of Babel.
Let me use this tweet about medical training to explain, yet again, how corruption is destroying our education and professional training.
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To understand how the system works, you have to understand some theory. Yes, that word which parasite sector and government have made the devil incarnate of education.
By the time I finish this thread, you'll see why they hate theory so much.
By the time I finish this thread, you'll see why they hate theory so much.
Theory is very simple. It's a narrative about patterns. Theory explains how things are related to one another, and how each event will happen together with another event in whichever sector you go. So this theory applies to health, #CBC, unis, anywhere there is a social service.
