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African. Woman. Wife. Teacher. In the 99%. Love + Revolution. Elimu ya ngumbaru on the Kenyan socio-political context for the price of bundles - Betty Guchu

Sep 4, 2020, 8 tweets

What is key to Tekayo's wealth? Free disclipned labor: KDF, NYS and now he wants prisons for the poor to use their labor.

Kenyans, this is why I have #maishakazini channel on YouTube. Because the key to these cannibals' wealth is more our labor than our cash.

By free, I mean that the labor that produces Tekayo's wealth is labor Tekayo doesn't pay for. He doesn't pay salaries of KDF, NYS, police and prisons. It's the taxes that come from our work that pay the salaries. Prisoners are paid only 20 cents a day.
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The other arm of free workers comes from the county administrators (former provincial administration, former colonial home guards and paramount chiefs). These are the spies and propagandists who keep the people from revolting against the Massah of the Kenya plantation.

When we say #TekelezaKatiba, we also need to include the dismantling of the county administrators. Chiefs and county commissioners need to be transfered to the county or national governments.

The administration was supposed to be disbanded in 2010, but it was kept. Politicians are not mentioning this because they know that the real power of the presidency is not in the vote or parliament: it's in the workers who do what he wants but who are paid by #wethepeople.

Basically, Kenya is operating like a slave plantation. The Massah and his mummy are in State House. The civil service plays the role of racist whites, policing us slaves from revolting, shooting us when they want. That's why the language of Kenya's civil service is racist.

Ordinary Kenyans then do the work which is underpaid or stolen through corruption. Then we are taxed to pay the salaries of the army, police and bureaucrats who serve the president, but we're cheated in staged elections that we have a say. We don't have a say through the vote.

We have a say in withholding our work and taxes. That's why we need a well organized boycott that can starve GoK of our work and taxes to pay those who help him oppress and exploit us. We need ideas how we can do this.

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