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Kilifi, in its vastness, is one of the poorest places in Kenya. So poor it is that BBI created for it FOUR additional constituencies. That would have meant Ksh 600m annually to those poor households. But the #BBIFraud bandwagon condemned those people into bottomless poverty.
If you opposed BBI, you have blood in your hands.

You aided Paul Mackenzie in murdering all those people.

Because, folks, there's a nexus between poverty and religious cultism!

Kilifi needs more resources to pull people out of extreme poverty.
We provided, YOU sabotaged.
We must do more to get people out of extreme poverty in this country.

Just last week Kenya Kwanza Senators gutted more resource allocation to counties.

Some of those senators will join you in calling for 'action' to be taken in Kilifi.

And you will cheer them as heroes.
Those calling for the prosecution of Mackenzie are justified.

But the more urgent issue here is an economic issue. It is a poverty issue.

Unless the underlying economic problems in some of Kenya's poorest outposts are solved, Shakahola will always recur.

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Apr 26
Between declaration of Pres. Uhuru as 'duly' re-elected after 2017 repeat poll and the handshake in March 2018, there was not a single sentiment of opposition to Uhuru coming from Mt. Kenya. Not from the political class & not from below. Go study media coverage of that period.
My theory has always been that Uhuru embracing Raila was the MAIN reason Mt. Kenya fell out with him. It wasn't due to govt policies. GoK policies post-handshake did not change from what they were pre-handshake. The so called 'Mt. Kenya businesses' were still cushioned by Uhuru.
William Ruto only exploited the fallout but did not create it. Ethno-nationalists and jingoists from Mt. Kenya saw, in Uhuru embracing Raila, a betrayal of the community.
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Apr 26
GOVERNMENTS in Africa which are heavily subsidized by the West are re-entering a new phase of autocracy, akin to the wasted years of the Cold War.

[A short thread...]
As the West (US/UK/France/EU) heighten their war with an ascendant China on who calls the final shot on world affairs, it'll demand extreme subservience from their debt-ridden third world kakistocracies.
Already, political candidates for African presidencies seen to pussyfoot on backing the West against China are losing.

The West just rigs them out.

Dubiously conducted elections in Africa easily pass the West's litmus test for free & fair elections.
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Apr 24
PAY ATTENTION to the things Mt. Kenya people CLAP in support of. That this country of 50+ million people you decide only ONE PERSON must never be engaged in its affairs. What is it that Raila Odinga did to these people?

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This one, by the way, is the Deputy Speaker of the Senate of the Republic of Kenya. What drives these people to hold this much hate in their hearts? What is it that compels them to be this bigoted? How is this society to progress with this level of ethnic narrow-mindedness?
It is a terrible thing to create a permanent enemy out of the existence of your fellow countrymen. Raila Odinga represents me. And millions of others. If Raila Odinga can be kept out, then you and I can be kept out too.
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Jan 21
How Schools Pass National Exams in Kenya:

1) CATEGORY A SCHOOLS.
Get both KCSE question Papers & Marking Scheme in good time. Teachers get time to go through the papers and marking scheme early enough. Principals have direct links to KNEC cartels. All students pass.
2) CATEGORY B SCHOOLS.
Principals are darlings to A Principals. They receive question Papers in fairly good time to revise. They don't get marking schemes from A Principals as marking scheme is the secret weapon and preserve for A schools. Majority students pass.
3. CATEGORY C SCHOOLS.
Get papers a night prior to examination and revise through the and early morning of the examination. Bright students pass.
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Jan 13
VICTORY WITHOUT VICTORY

President Uhuru became unpopular with his Mt. Kenya people because, soon after handshake, he embraced Luo Nyanza, and moved to develop it at the same pace as the rest of the country.
Even though what Uhuru was doing for Luo Nyanza was peanuts compared to his own backyard, which gobbled the most resources annually throughout Uhuru presidency, you could see the bitterness which the post-handshake allocation of those peanuts created in Mt Kenya.
"Uhuru amechukua maji yenu amepeleka Kisumu".

"Mimi na Kuria na Ichungwah tuliweka pesa ya hii barabara kwa budget, mchawi alipoingia serikali hiyo pesa ilitolewa ikapelekwa Nyanza".

"Mbona anawasadia na hawakumpigia kura?"

Blah....

Toxic tribalism.
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