Thread by @wmnjoya

Dear @nationafrica @StandardKenya @TheStarKenya @CapitalFMKenya and other media

If you continue to report the Jubilee nonsense expressed by the president in Central to the exclusion of the rest of Kenya, you lose the right to lecture us about unity and BBI.

Get a conscience.

The media needs to speak with one voice and decide tell the president that it is unethical to talk on such important nation issues to the exclusion of everybody else, and then preach that BBI is for inclusion. That's an insult to our dignity and intelligence.

And don't listen to cultural purists with that tired argument about pride in our languages. It's a lazy, argument that doesn't apply here. We have an African language called Kiswahili that is accessible to more Kenyans.

We have to take a stand and stop being cowards.

Rwanda and Somalia speak only one language and that did not translate to unity at crucial political moments. Leave academic arguments to academic spaces. This is politics. We can't have people using exclusionary tactics to push #bbireport in the name of inclusion.

Did you report that in that Coro FM interview, the president made a distinction between "our people" and the people of Kenya? Or that he justified the one vote one shilling policy? @NationAfrica @citizentvkenya @KBCChannel1 @StandardKenya this reporting is irresponsible.

And this colonial fascination with the Kikuyu vote has to end. Kikuyus are a swing vote, not a deciding vote. They are not compulsory for winning an election. That narrative came from Mutahi Ngunyi, Cambridge Analytica and the president to avoid a run off.

It's time to make our politics join the 21st century. We're still operating on colonial and anti-colonial narratives which we should have updated by the 1970s.