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30 Jun, 6 tweets, 4 min read
#DayBreak If experts cannot explain to the common man what they are doing, then they are not experts. It is ridiculous to argue that representatives of the people should not actually reflect the people. @TrevorOmbija
#DayBreak Ukoloni has taught folks like your panelists that they cannot think or reason unless they have a certificate from some institution saying they can. They display a real contempt for the common people without degrees whose interests they claim to defend. @TrevorOmbija
#DayBreak It is the people with degrees and PhDs who have run this country into the ground. The unlettered folks in movements like the KLFA did not need degrees to understand that the colonial system, defended by the educated collaborators, needed to be overthrown. @TrevorOmbija
#DayBreak Seriously, @TrevorOmbija. You cannot let the assertion that politicians with degrees don't give handouts or take bribes pass without challenge. It is a clear falsehood!!
#DayBreak And WTF do your panelists mean when they talk of "primitive" people? Do they understand how they are simply regurgitating colonial garbage? @TrevorOmbija
#DayBreak Odiero said many of the same things your panelist is saying. That the miro was "intellectually incapacitated" and needed to be educated out of his "primitivity". He seems to imagine his education has made him superior to those he calls drop-outs. @TrevorOmbija

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29 Jun
Question: Kamau says GoK has negotiated with @JNJNews to get 13m vaccine doses for delivery in August. A few weeks ago, the director of @AfricaCDC told CNN they already had 220m doses of the same vaccine available for African countries to collect. Why didn't GoK go for that?
Actually, i think it was BBC, not CNN.
devex.com/news/african-u…
The AU had actually secured 400m doses according to this. One would assume we could get a better deal as part of this than on our own.
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25 Jun
Question: When one applies for a replacement document online on @eCitizenKenya and the system says it is ready, why does one need to pay to print out a physical copy of the form in order to collect it? GoK already has the digital copy, no? Seems like a bit of a scam to me.
Also, if the document is ready, why not send you a digital copy that you can print out? This idea of having people spend hours to pick up "original" documents seems most anachronistic for a GoK that used to describe itself as "digital", no?
Presented my form and now waiting in a large crowded hall for someone to call out my name (no one tells you exactly what it is you are waiting for) and I shudder to think of how folks who are deaf or hard of hearing are expected to navigate this.
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19 Jun
Question: How many of the people making the decisions about the terminus actually use mathrees? Seems to me the purpose is to clear mats out of the CBD for the convenience of a tiny, wealthy minority with cars.
Nairobi is still, at heart, a colonial town that believes in segregation and resents the influx of poor miros into its centre. That is why it pines for a mythical glorious past (when the miros were kept out) and hates hawkers and matatus muddying and ruining the colonial fantasy.
We must remember how hard odieros fought to keep miros out. They built Nai without public transport as it was only meant for odieros with cars. They kept miros in slums (which were periodically demolished). Miros needed a kipande to walk its streets. Little of that has changed.
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