Thread by @wmnjoya

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There are 3 arms of government in Kenya: Muthamaki (a Kikuyu king), surrounding tribal princes, and the civil service. They are all puppets whose stings are controlled by the US and the UK (embassies).

This is how this feudal system works.

The foundation to understanding how the system works is understanding that "uthamaki ti witu." Uthamakistan was created by the British colonial government.
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https://twitter.com/wmnjoya/status/1220982690943569921?s=19

To understand why political parties or ideologies don't work in Kenya, again we have the colonialists to thank.

Colonialism was run on the ideology that it's Britain's job is to bring maendeleo to us savages, and so politics must be discouraged. #BBIInMombasa #BBINonsense

You will notice that this theme separating politics from development has been repeated by Muigai since 2013.

Yep. That's the British colonial ideology.

nation.co.ke/counties/macha…

So the basic idea of "development, not politics," is that our job as WE THE PEOPLE is to shut up and work, let our labor and produce be taken by government/parasite sector who will then will decide what we need and reward us with jobs or "development." #BBIInMombasa #BBINonsense

In this ethic-class system, we Kenyans are not allowed to ask questions or to have a say, because that's "politics."

From colonial times, the civil service's job is to crush the ability of Kenyans to gather politically or to grow political ideas. #BBIInMombasa #BBINonsense

During colonialism, this is how the civil servants crushed politics:
1. Laws on assembly: the colonial government required permits to meet, and Africans almost never got them when they applied
2. Provincial administration's control of the "reserves" #BBIInMombasa #BBINonsense

The network of PCs, DCs and chiefs controlled African rural life, was on the boards for production, attended even weddings and other social events.

Then they also spied on the people and sent reports to Nairobi #BBIInMombasa #BBINonsense

So it was difficult for any political organizing to happen in the "reserves." Anyone who tried was arrested.

It's still that way. Ask yourself: why haven't tea farmers, or famers across Kenya, formed a political party? Remember what happened to MRC?

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Side note: so stop always asking about "how do we help watu mashinani get what you're saying." They actually know what political organizing they need.

It just won't be allowed to happen. Because the system is designed to prevent it.
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Back to how colonialism crushed politics.
3. When Africans applied to have political parties, the colonialists would not register parties that national or pan-African.

Argwings-Kodhek was prevented from registering a party with a pan-African name
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4. When it came to workers' unions in Nairobi and Mombasa, the colonialists first refused refused. But after Mau Mau began, London figured "we can allow unions, but keep ensuring that their leaders are not politically radical."

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So they detained the "radical" union leaders and got a suave young man to instill political moderation in unions. Eventually, COTU was formed to encourage unions not to be independent but to "work within the system" and stick to salaries and benefits.

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5. Another for preventing growth of politics:
Throughout negotiations for independence (c 1959-1961), the British were obsessed with one question: how do we prevent a class-based politics in Kenya?

The royalty were still traumatized by revolutions.
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During the discussions, the British spent that time checking out the politicians, alienating the "radicals" from the discussions, and essentially looking for the guy with a big customer base who would not upset the system.

It's crude like that.

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It's so sad. Now you can see that by the time the African men were heading to Lancaster, they had no ideology or principle to guide the negotiations. They had no party ideology, no political-economic thinking, no philosophy.

The British ran the show.
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That meant that Kenya started on a Kenyatta-Civil service axis. But the powers that be knew that Kenya could not run on only one tribe and the royal family. They had to integrate other tribes into the system.

Tribal negotiating is the 3rd arm of govt.
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Tribal princes have no choice but to worship (or negotiate) with his majesty who art in Kiambu. It's not just that his voters are many (as required by the British), as you Kenyans are conned.

It's because the president controls the civil service.
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Our civil service has two problems:
1. it depends on the UK for everything: ideas, policy and money.
2. it's run on patronage,
3. the initial civil servants were handpicked by the British, and many were loyalists. So dependence on UK is entrenched.
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The president uses the civil service: political party registration, budget and "development," and especially the police to crush any political organization he doesn't like.

Ask MRC, CPK and even the guys at Kasarani protesting about Mwiki road

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And worse, since the Kenyan state is the Anglo-Saxon baby, the US and UK will provide the body bags to crush your supporters, and feed @Dailynation and @NYTimes with statements calling your supporters terrorists or tribalists #BBIInMombasa #BBINonsense

But the liberal UK and US capitalists still need Kenya to have elections every 5 years, to cheat us Kenyans that we have a say in politics, and to cheat their citizens that Kenya is democratic.
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So that is how we've arrived at this #toxicKenya, and at #BBINonsense. Every 5 years there must be ceremonial elections. In between, the tribal princes play around, negotiate, dance on diases to decide how will win the next electoral round or succeed the incumbent
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Remember that these guys dancing at rallies, wearing pink or white and blue are supposed to be at work. But they leave their governments on autopilot to go on national road shows to entertain us. This time it's #BBIInMombasa #BBINonsense. After 2022, it will be a different one.

Now for the solutionists:

We wananchi (not politicians) need to build a culture of politics and political thinking. We need to build political parties based on issues and ideologies, so that it's clear who stands for what.

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2. The colonial arm of the civil service MUST be dismantled, because its the president's private government. County commissioners (former provincial administration) and the Administrative Police (formerly colonial Tribal Police) need to be disbanded #BBIInMombasa #BBINonsense

3. We must insist on public participation, and NAME AND SHAME civil servants who organize sham forums, eg every civil servant involved in the decision on CBC needs to say, publicly, how they chose it. The time for civil service anonymity needs to end. #BBIInMombasa #BBINonsense

Public participation must include the right of counties over resources and decisions on budgeting and management. #BBIInMombasa #BBINonsense is still patronizing and doing too much micro-managing. Either Kenyans participate in their destiny, or they participate in their destiny.

I hope we now realize that there is a problem with our education, information and the arts. We need to resist Ezekiel Mutua's antics. We need new media houses that actually think and not parrot government lines. And we need a human education system #BBIInMombasa #BBINonsense

We need open up the civil service and make their decisions more accountable, because the civil service is what gives the UK and US so much control over our lives.

We need to either build a sane and human political culture, or we dismantle Kenya.
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I'm tired of this racket of politicians between every election.
I'm tired of government being in our private spaces (now #BBIInMombasa #BBINonsense even wants GoK to give us family therapy)
I'm tired of this #toxicKenya passive agression that makes our daily lives so abusive

I'd rather we dismantle Kenya than we continue to live like this. This life is demeaning, annoying, impoverishing, and it's making us kill ourselves and each other.

I'm TAYAD.

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