THIS!!! What law in Kenya creates the office of the First Lady, and why have we been paying for it since Kibaki's time? (In 2008, the GNU @RailaOdinga and Kamau are attempting to resurrect via BBI tried to include PM's and VP's wives in that deal as well).
gathara.blogspot.com/2008/08/gold-d…

https://twitter.com/SaddiqueShaban/status/1414794311926001666

standardmedia.co.ke/amp/the-counti…
In 2014, then AG Githu Muigai (also of the BBI Brigade) argued that there was no provision in our laws for creating and funding offices of County First Ladies but did not share the law creating one for his boss' wife.

(Notice how reductive the headline is and how it attempts to sensationalise the issue and make it about the relatively trivial distinction about how they should be addressed rather than the much more important question of the prudent use of public funds.)

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gathara

@gathara

10 Jul

As "civilized" Europe, including France which had looted Haiti for a century to compensate former slavers, dissolved into WW1, the US robbed the Haitian National Bank then used the killing of the Haitian President as a pretext for a 19-year occupation.
antillean.org/american-occup…

The US government today describes its holding up the Haitian National Bank on behalf of US's Citibank as a selfless act of "safekeeping".
history.state.gov/milestones/191…

The story of "independent" Haiti, deliberately looted, impoverished and invaded from the start, then blamed for the resulting instability, is the story of colonialism and "independence" in Africa.
aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/…

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gathara

@gathara

30 Jun

@TrevorOmbija

#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

@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

@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

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gathara

@gathara

29 Jun

@JNJNews

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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