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According to @MOH_Kenya responses to the National Assembly, nearly 10% of the Sh1 billion GoK got from @WorldBank "for emergency response" was spent on airtime for staff, stationery and tea and snacks, and communication with Sh9m used just to print forms.
scribd.com/document/45894…
Would be great to get a breakdown of the ambulances @MoH leased for Sh42m and where they are given that many counties had already procured "ambulances" and that GoK itself in 2017 said it bought ambulances with cash we got back from the UK for Chickengate. kenyans.co.ke/news/20598-pre…
This might be a good time to recall that GoK peeps have always seen national crises as opportunities to loot. Remember the 2008 maize scandal?
gathara.blogspot.com/2010/03/let-th…
It is unclear how much of the Sh34 million that @MOH_Kenya has asked from @WorldBank to cover "Operations" over the next 3 months is reserved for tea and snacks and printing out forms.
Any idea why we seem to be quarantining healthcare workers for 90 days? @Nanyingih @KinyiO @OndariMogeni @YatichN @VerahOkeyo @DrMercyKorir
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Currently reading Caroline Elkins' "The British Gulag" and wondering how many of the British settlers who committed despicable crimes against Mau Mau suspects as part of the Kenya Police Reserve or Kenya Regiment still live in Kenya and why none have never been held to account.
In fact, why do we not have a comprehensive history of the colonial period? Why do we not name the people, both black and white, who dispossessed, massacred and tortured countless, equally nameless victims? Why do we not exhumed the many mass graves and tell their stories?
Who was the British settler nicknamed Dr Bunny, aka the Joseph Mengele of Kenya, who was known for devising techniques like "burning the skin off live Mau Mau suspects and forcing them to eat their own testicles"? What was his real name? Is he still alive? What became of him?
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Dear Kenyans,
They say you are the problem. They rob you then say you are corrupt. They rig elections then say you vote badly. They pay militia to pillage, murder and rape then say you are tribal. They say all will be well if you just accept and move on. But you know better.
You are not the problem. They are. They and their state. But they work hard to convince you otherwise so you focus on blaming yourself, telling yourself you deserve the abuse; that if only you were better, it would stop. But it wouldn't. Because you are not the problem. They are.
You are abused by your elites using the state they got from the British. But they say you are to blame; they tell you to deny your trauma, to deny the history that brought you here, the century of abuse you have suffered. They give you #BBIReport, tell you to ignore #TJRCreport.
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Did you know that the wives of all four Kenyan presidents have been bestowed the highest national honour available to non-heads of state, the Elder of the Golden Heart of Kenya, three of them by their husbands? @AnneKiguta discussed this with the PS Heritage on #Punchline jana.
In 2014, Parliament passed the Kenya Heroes Act which provides elaborate mechanisms for identifying and caring for mashujaa. GoK has refused to operationalize it as it threatens the President's ability to use national honours as a form of political patronage. #Punchline
Our laws also distinguish between heroes (to be identified via the Kenya Heroes Act) and those whom the President gives state honours. The latter get them at his sole discretion and he is free to ignore the criteria and procedure laid out by the National Honours Act 2013.
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