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24 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
So now GoK is taking its frustrations out on refugees after its inability to argue its case at the ICJ? Just as it demonized them for its fiasco at Westgate and used them to pressure the international community over the ICC? It is an inhumane tactic Kamau & Co have perfected.
Not the first time GoK is issuing such ultimatums. @FredMatiangi's predecessor's were also full of similar huffery and puffery.
gathara.blogspot.com/2016/05/poor-r…
Also important to remember that it is not just refugees threatened by such idiocy. Many Kenyans would also be harmed.
xinhuanet.com//english/2017-…
Around 40,000 Kenyans posing as refugees to access services that GoK has failed to provide would be directly affected. Also, UNHCR and other agencies provide services to local communities that will disappear with the refugees. What's the plan for that?
rckkenya.org/dailynation-ke…

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27 Feb
Dear Kenyans,
When Gideon Moi speaks of "a once-in-a-generation break from the past" to "resolve many longstanding national challenges that hold us back from realising a united and prosperous Kenya for all," it's code for impunity and amnesty. He's saying forgive and forget.
This has always been the preferred strategy of the colonial state and its owners. Basically, the demand for justice and restitution is itself transformed into the problem. So we are told that there must be a break from the past rather than a confrontation with it. BBI not TJRC.
Also important to remember that when they speak of a break from the past, they do not mean the era and legacy of colonial oppression and dispossession. The clean break they want is not from the past of stolen elections, for example, but the past of resistance to the thievery.
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22 Feb
Dear Kenyans,
Why isn't @jmueke ever asked about the nearly Sh500m that the Kidero administration spent installing traffic lights and cameras in Nairobi that never worked? He once told @SophiaWanuna the lights were installed sans "synchronisation software" but didn't say why.
The traffic lights also came with 51 cameras that also turned out to be a massive scam. Haven't heard @jmueke asked about those either.
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24 Jan
Must say, US media is treading a dangerous path. Like in Kenya, problems in the US electoral system shouldn't be ignored in an effort to impose legitimacy rather than earn it. There's need to audit it, not just tell those who doubt its efficacy to shut up.
ft.com/content/3d9c42…
The whole point of elections is legitimacy. When a significant portion of the electorate is convinced they've been stolen (regardless of how true that actually is), then to that extent, the system has failed and there should be a serious effort undertaken to address the failure.
In Kenya, we always see authorities (and media) insisting that those who question electoral outcomes and claim fraud are just sore losers. And it keeps us from fixing problems, keeping government fragile, deepens distrust in the system, and opens the door to violent alternatives.
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18 Jan
#BREAKING After collecting millions of shillings from criminals hoping for amnesty, including his own children, far-white US dictator, Donald "Papa Don" Trump, will issue mass pardons in final act of corruption before fleeing barricaded presidential palace on Defenestration Day.
#BREAKfirst Having outgoing rulers subvert justice through corrupt pardons to friends and family in the days before defenestration is an ancient and treasured American tradition, designed to heal national divisions by safeguarding the democratic principle of elite impunity.
#BREAKING The issuing of pardons also traditionally helps the new regime start on a fresh slate, unburdened by having to prosecute corrupt officials from the former regime, which provides grist for propaganda efforts to portray the US as a compassionate, corruption-free state.
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6 Jan
Question: Is it really true, as this claims, that "Africa imports 80% of its food", a third of it from Europe?
dpa-international.com/topic/eu-food-…
reliefweb.int/sites/reliefwe…
This puts the monetary value of the continent's food systems at $313b
africanews.com/2017/04/21/why…
President of the African Development Bank says its import bill is $35b

That sounds closer to 10% than it is to 80%.
There's also this which suggests Africa imports of food and agricultural products are at most third more than its imports.
mckinsey.com/featured-insig…
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Dear Kenyans,
What law establishes the Office if the First Lady? Under what authority does she draw public funds and to whom is she accountable for the expenditure? Does she get a public salary like her predecessor did? Again, under what law?
Oh... And does she still keep ivory in her office?
nation.africa/kenya/news/how…
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