This is insane. Colonialism happening in the 21st century, right under our noses.
And what is annoying is the secrecy clause. Secret from whom? The community? And the fact that it is a so called contract means that these thieves expect the contract to be enforced by the state which is funded by us tax payers. So we have to know what contact is being enforced.
But as Ogada says, these guys have private militias on Kenyan soil to shoot the Maa people if they trespass.

No wonder the Kenya army is militarizing Nairobi. The partition of Kenya is being done among armies, 1885 style.
And Kenyans need to remember that whoever controls natural resources controls you. Because you can't eat or find alternative work. You have to do what those who "own" natural resources say.

The British are vicious. They go for the jugular.
We must end the idea that people can own what they did not create. If humans did not create land, they cannot own it. Let them work and own the product of their hands.

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20 Dec
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.
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
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16 Dec
Corruption doesn't start at the public purse. It starts at the basic idea that people can be stupidly rich from no work of their own, but of others.

So until we deal with the monstrosity of the title deed, we will not fundamentally address corruption in Kenya.
That system of stealing people's work starts with the title deed.

What is a title deed? It is not the land. It is the legitimacy of her majesty the queen to own and decide what happens with land.
When someone has a title deed, they are saying that the queen has allowed them to use that land mentioned in the deed, and that the queen is committed to using force to validate that deed.

The problem is, who gave the queen the authority to guarantee use of the land?
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14 Dec
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
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
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5 Dec
I will use this thread to explain the concept of "administrative bloat."

Administrative bloat is the employing of so many managers and supervisors, paying them excess salaries, while the people who do the actual work don't get employed or paid.

That is the government of Kenya.
Since the time of GoK's mother the colonial government, and its grandmother the British East Africa company, the role of the state is to control workers, control our work and its produce, and send it up the foodchain through chiefs, paramount chiefs all the way to London.
One of the cultural lies these parasistes have sold to us is that the only work that can be exploited is where there is a tangible product like tea or coffee. No. These exploit EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING. Health, education, faith, religion...EVERTYHING.
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5 Dec
Kenyans have to understand that the real struggle as black people for the last 400 years has been over OUR WORK.

We are fighting elites who cant work, won't work, but looks for all ways to steal our work.

Until we get that, we'll be entertained by squabbles over laws.
As far as this government is concerned, Kenya is a plantation where our work is exported. Whether we're farmers or fundis or doctors, all GoK sees is export.

Believe it or not. Up to TVET, elites see our work for the money the elites can make. soundcloud.com/wmnjoya/profes…
We have to fight for the right to work which gives us dignity and the right to build our expertise and use it. It's not a mistake that doctors train 7 years and can't work. Kenya elites MISUSE EXPERTISE as a way to control us.
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5 Dec
I was very surprised to learn from @MikeMwendaK's book that A levels were a form of limiting education, both in the UK and East Africa.

In the UK, A levels were introduced after WWII to further limit the number of people in high schools seeking HE.
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At independence, the so called nationalist parties like KANU supported colonial ideas of education because they also saw shooling as an elitistist project to limit the number of students attending university. So KANU accepted the introduction of the higher school certificate.
A level added another examination barrier to entrance to university, despite the fact that few Africans had access to education. But as Kithinji explains, the problem at independence was that African elites shared the same ideas as their colonial foreparents.
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