Thread by @wmnjoya

WHITE SUPREMACY AND KENYAN HEALTHCARE - AN ANNOTATED AUDIO-GRAPHY

Now that Mutahi Kagwe is exporting Kenya medical workers abroad, it's good to recap how much madharao GoK has for Kenyan people and sees healthcare as an export industry.

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@MOH_Kenya

In 2017, @DenisGalava had the foresight to publish this article about how GoK sold out public healthcare to deny doctors jobs and force them to work abroad or pay them peanuts at home.

It trended for a few hours. It was during #lipakamatender
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In 2019, I presented a paper at Witz in South Africa about the revolutionary piece by Dr Eunice Sango (RIP) and what the government is doing to health workers.

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In November 2020, @m_ogada remarked that the government had appointed a PR manager in charge of health while the health expert in the cabinet was inspecting litter in schools. The initial tweet with the clip was flagged and removed.

It was in that conversation that Ogada mentioned the internal brain drain, where administrators ensure that people never use their expertise at home.

In January 2021, #MaishaKazini memorialized Dr. Stephen Mogusu and pointed out how poor Kenyans are not expected to join the prestigious career of medicine, while rich ones who do become administrators.

The government's madharau for medical workers, and especially for people like Dr. Mogusu, and the use of PR to cover up the abuse, broke the heart of a young and vibrant medical doctor who wrote that the government is so good at spin that it turns Kenyans against doctors.

In September 2021, I reflected on Mutahi Kagwe's extremely callous response to Dr. Mogusu's death, arguing that the government saw the pandemic as a threat to its control of Kenyans rather than a threat to Kenyans' health.

When Mutahi Kagwe mocked nurses for their poor English test-taking (it's not about communication skills), I pointed at his cruel reduction of nurses to export products. theelephant.info/features/2021/…

I quoted @Mkawasi's view that export of Kenyans by the government comes from a dark place where the government fails to honor its contract with Kenyans and exports them to other places to shut them up (and make a buck while at it).

https://twitter.com/wmnjoya/status/1439657500542967809?s=20&t=Yz2sK1QKDzBTU6inj3MaFA

This view of medical workers is tied to white supremacy because it reduces Kenyans to products to sell when they are educated, and to objects who don't deserve healthcare and therefore are a waste of resources. Why treat Kenyans when a doctor can send dollars from abroad?

Basically what these children of homeguards and former presidents are doing is to ensure that NOBODY is ever able to become good at what they do within Kenya's borders, and they will instead export them so that the rest of us who remain accept political mediocrity.

Stories in #Daringabroad and @Kenyans exist to brainwash Kenyans to accept mediocrity at home and struggle abroad, because Kenyans at home don't deserve to be taught, treated and served by the people whom their money and taxes trained.

In other words, for Mutahi Kagwe and the spoiled aristocrat who appointed him. African excellence can never be for Africans. African excellence is for serving wazungu.

That's what independence means for them. White Supremacy managed by Africans.
@MOH_Kenya