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Social Democrat. Policy Consultant. SONU Chair Emeritus. Pioneer Chair NairobiWater. Former MP & GoK Minister. Optimist. 🇰🇪
Jan 9 4 tweets 1 min read
As constitutionalists believing in rule of law, we easily accepted Ruto's win even though we voted against him. Inevitably, we duly recognise him as 🇰🇪 president. However, it is now a national worry that a massively unpopular Ruto is so dangerously desperate, clutching at straws. Entire Ruto cabinet, influencers + surrogates have stopped doing their work to flood attacks @Kenyajudiciary and to blame Uhuru over anything everything in UDA's rickety leaking capsizing boat. A president gone berserk & so paranoid is a threat to national security & sovereignty!
Aug 30, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
Dear Rais @WilliamsRuto, as you engage in profiling of "mhindi.... "wahame, niwaweke jela, waende binguni", Kikuyus are being slaughtered in Lamu, teachers in Northern Kenya threatened by Al Shabaab terrorists. Pls stop these 2027 campaigns, you're our CiC. You won, sit and work. Rais Ruto, those elected Mt.Kenya leaders kowtowing you are making hay while it's dry as Kikuyus are massacred in LAMU. As Mandera County Governor said, Kenya govt losing most of Northern Kenya to Al Shabaab terrorists. Innocent kids are missing school as TSC teachers flee area.
Mar 29, 2023 28 tweets 11 min read
Invasion of Kenyatta's Northlands, by Kikuyus (majority from Kiambu), should ring a warning bell, a time bomb. It's POLITICAL & ILLEGAL. But underlying this CRIMINAL act is a deep community grievance. I once read Mau Mau's Mzee Gítú Kahengeri notes on Northlands transaction. Holoi poloi, proletariat, peasants in Kiambu, indeed most Kikuyus, community, have no sympathies on Kenyattas on the Land Question. Resentment is deepest in Ichaweri. Unfortunately, Uhuru never used his presidency to mend. Evicting urban poor Ruai, Kariobangi, aggravated it.
May 25, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
I was born, raised adjacent OUR famous Mount Kenya in CentralKenya. Have had the privilege of serving Parliament representing Mukurweini constituency 2007-17. Though proudly Kenyan of Kikuyu descent, I disagree with narrative that we need "one of our own" to prosper or be safe. Those restarting the campaign of siege and fear are simply selfserving cartels who've exploited ethnicity to grab, protect their private interests. What we need in Kenya today is just the right democratic leadership. We deserve a Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew or Botswana's Ian Khama
Apr 15, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
Dr. Kituyi’s vision ideal if NOT allied w/ Uhuru’s rule. Raila’s goal subverted to ‘RE’install Moi. Ruto’s fallout w/ Uhuru gains traction. If DP Ruto stops ‘Moi return’, he gets wide, deserved support! But only if Dr Kituyi falters. #RutoOnCitizenTV
@citizentvkenya @LinusKaikai Uhuru says we’re losing Sh2b to corruption daily, no? And we’ve lost billions to sacred cows even after Ruto left govt. Who are these untouchable thieves of our taxes? Ruto should stop PR, he’s done w/ Uhuru and this is a good thing! He’s now FREE. #RutoOnCitizenTV @LinusKaikai
Jan 21, 2021 16 tweets 4 min read
JM KARIUKI parliamentary ideas (1969-75 Hansard) show a vision for egalitarianism - warned of Kenya of "10 millionaires and 10 million beggers". 1968 he sponsored HIRE PURCHASE ACT that to-date helps many access goods to uplift lives. Enabling proPoor policies, ending graft key. 2007/8 PEV was mutating to class warfare esp in hotbeds. Today, many leafy neighbourhoods are isolating and many kids from these rich estates don't know of "others". Often TV comedies feature these differences firming the contemptuous demarcations. We have a very serious problem.
Dec 30, 2020 21 tweets 11 min read
2020 exits. A year of global losses and distress. Of America Trumpism, of Kenya #BBI - both blindly amok, owners refusing their fault and flop. COVID funds thefts put Kenyan in new gluttony league. Yet thank God for HIS gifts & blessings amidst pains, trials and tribulations. Those of us who initially supported #Handshake but turned against clearly deceptive #BBI were trolled, attacked. I was particularly accused, sadly, of being a Ruto agent or being bitter on ‘missing’ cabinet slot or being envious of another “rival” honcho. Lies. WE LET GOD JUDGE.
Oct 8, 2020 7 tweets 2 min read
Raila, Kalonzo, Wetangula, Mudavadi: “riots” engulfed country 2016 as Cord peacefully protested for Electoral reforms. Our bipartisan parliamentary caucus met to conversed w/ each of you. We also talked to President Uhuru & Ruto. We successfully achieved dialogue, Select Comte. All of you - except Ruto - received us so well, approved our effort. Ruto viciously protested initiative. They’re now eating him ravenously, as did you 2016/17/18. As a citizen privileged to know ‘101‘, asking you defend Ruto’s constitutional rights, Jubilee implosions aside.
Dec 13, 2019 12 tweets 3 min read
Renewed vitriol on Raila by Tangatanga MPs is cowardly. It’s vain, blatant attempt at revising history. 1992 & 1997 so-called land-crashes were politically sponsored by KANU against opposition supporters. Raila was forefront in opposition. FACT. Like many of us he was victim. Kiliku, NCCK, Akiwumi & other reports revealed plotters +perpetrators. Local & foreign media published. YK92 In thick of it. 1997 Urais: Raila, Ngilu, Wamalwa lost. No violence Siaya, Kitui, Bungoma. Kibaki “lost”. Nyeri calm. 1992 Matiba rigged out but Murang’a calm. Villains?
Dec 3, 2019 13 tweets 5 min read
We reluctantly but robustly supported UhuRuto deal
after political propagandists fabricated 07/08 PEV investigations. SOME victims were depicted villains. We JUSTIFIABLY sympathized, defended our own. That’s after quiet efforts by some of us to get Raila-Uhuru alliance failed. 2013-17, Ruto controlled both Houses of Parliament and Executive. Anyone wanting a FIX went to see Ruto. Even governors in trouble with Senate! He fixed all. We still don’t know why Uhuru let it happen. Everyone knows ‘Annex’ became ‘Extortion Palace’. Well-oiled Sky Team ruled.