Thread by @wmnjoya

I've learned that when GoK says people cannot do A if they don't have B, it's not a declaration of enforcement. It's a license to terror. GoK wants us to walk around afraid of being stopped and asked for B. GoK is giving police the license to harass us. Or worse.

https://twitter.com/citizentvkenya/status/1473638994781085702

The directive is virtual prison and a license to a cops who have been denied annual leave during the festive season (is that even legal?).

https://twitter.com/KiigenKoech/status/1473627361568567296?t=7xY0W2ObWlmkcXhl26l8Gw&s=19

The directive is also for the benefit of Western donors and scholars. If you look at international documents and even published research, everything GoK announces is taken at face value and Kenya is depicted as the sweetest kid on the planet. GoK loves international optics.

That's why what we say on this platform matters, and that's why bots censor us. We interrupt that fabulous Kenya narrative which allows GoK to abuse us with British and American endorsement. We tell the truth that Kenya is not as rosy as the civil servants cheat the world.

Look at how MoH directive is reported.

Flowers! The international press innocently reports them as still in force. They won't come to the ground to verify what "in force" looks like.

Then they do the ceremonial Western human rights comment, which is a wink at the West.

Like I said, these Covid directives are about wazungu. This is the pipeline of information:
1. African governments announce
2. Western media copy pastes government press release
3. Westerners who couldn't be bothered about reality or Africans themselves believe what they read.

I'm tired of living in a country controlled by people who worry more what wazungu say about Kenya than what we Kenyans think, want or need.

Everything that this government does ignores us. It's the politics of madharau.

But we also need to consider what this dishonesty does to the soul. When everything institutions say is dishonest and for optics, we all get used to lying. We never mean what we say or say what we mean. And this is the bs that our kids are calling us out on.