Just because #hudumanamba is digital, don't imagine that this is the first time when Western racist capitalism is putting a number to black bodies. They did it when they enslaved Africans in the Americas. They are just changing the mode of data collection.
What makes data necessary is the huge parasitic class that needs to make money from the work of others without working. How do you extract labor from people? By making sure there there is an infrastructure that counts and quantifies everything they do. #hudumanamba
What #hudumanamba aims at is to strangle us to do what the government wants. Refusing means that you can't get services and you will most likely go to jail to give prison labor by force. That is the definition of enslavement.
Africans have always fought against these kinds of numbers. One of the contentious issues that Kenyans fought against during the colonial times was the kipande system, which is now the ID and the precursor to #hudumanamba.
The kipande made people prisoners in their own country. With a kipande you could not quit your job without your mzungu boss signing off on it, or you would be arrested. That made wazungu able to exploit Kenyans without paying them a salary. #hudumanamba
Those days, people could escape from the radar of the colonial govenrment. #hudumanamba seeks to make escape not an option because the government intends to jail us for not having a huduma namba or jail mothers for not marking their babies with the sign of the beast.
By its own admission, the government said during the fake public participation meeting on #hudumanamba that data is the big oil. So this is about commercializing the sale of Kenyans, which is a deal GoK has already entered with Master Card newsroom.mastercard.com/mea/press-rele…
#hudumanamba is also directly related to the private interests of the Tekayo family and his bank. This is their way of making sure that any money earned by Kenyans through small scale enterprises goes through his bank.
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#hudumanamba is about enslavement of Africans for business. It's not about democracy. Instead of the whiplash of the slave master, the rich are using techology. But it won't make the system any less brutal.
#Hudumanamba is the 666.
First beast: Anglo_American corporations
Second Beast: The Kenyatta empire
Causing fire to come from heaven: American fire power to rescue Tekayo in case he needs it
The number of the beast: #Hudumanamba
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