Twitter people don't have as much ballot influence as we'd like. The people who have massive votes only have access to TV and radio. I would have said most of them are on Facebook and that might help - but we all know what happened with Facebook in the last election.
https://twitter.com/mmnjug/status/1383687298311606277
I think I did a thread on this a while ago. That Uhuru stands and says "the economy isn't closed". Tunakuja Twitter tunamuuliza kama anajua economy ni nini. Missing thr whole point of him saying that. Because we aren't the target of those statements.
His target is the people watching TV with no other medium. Or people in Facebook echo chambers like our parents. So when the media doesn't challenge his statements, these people have no way of finding out that he lied. Or that he deliberately misled them.
It's a trend I noticed. That hr has a habit of going on TV and saying outrageous things like "Japan has a high debt to GDP ratio so we can too" or "SGR is profitable" - and we all come here and take his arguments apart at the seams. But we weren't the audience.
Him, the guy in charge of infrastructure etc. The other day the infrastructure guy said "we won't pay for the JKIA-Westlands highway if we don't use it" - and as usual I was super angry. Because *that's a lie* and I know the people watching him won't know that 😑
Another one is the government spokesman. Mans ameivia. Remember when he said "Europe pays higher taxes" - I want you to know that most people in ocha haven't come to Nairobi. Sometimes they haven't even gone to a major town. So how can they picture life in Europe ffs
My uncle asked me what abroad looks like last year - I'm one of a few travelled people on that side... I took time to show him photos and explain, for example, the healthcare system in the UK and my story of paying 700 bob for a procedure in South Korea. He was shocked.
Like the South Koreans were like "Ma'am, you've paid too much. I'd have paid 70bob plus meds". 70 Bob our money! Bus drivers at work liked chatting me up to hear stories of abroad. What life is like? What's different etc. Anyway, let me end this thread here.
Context for the 700 bob - the same procedure at the same level of care at a matching facility, the cost would have been at least 2k for consultation, and another like 1k for the meds. I got one of those flus of that place - I was convinced I was dying 😂 Ending on a lighter note.
This is no way to discourage Twitter discourse. We got GoK to issue an exemption for ARVs the other day. Ah, please keep up the noise. The people telling you you're jumping from one outrage to another - hao si wafanye enye wanafikiria ni effective. Mtu asikushow.
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