South Africa: President Cyril Ramaphosa letter to Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen (25.06.2024)

Kenya: Ruto, when is it enough? [with the shooting and killing children…]

Enough is enough.

The bloodshed. The live-bullets. The injured people. The killed unarmed civilians. The usage of military and armed police force. When is it enough?

Is it enough that a baby was shot and a 5 year old got shot 7 times? Are the marbles in your membrane still working, Mr. President?

Are you okay with the extra judicial killings and torture of children? Can you go to sleep at night knowing your orders and your position in office is safeguarded by the ghosts of kids? Is that who you are Mr. President?

What crime did the kids and children do? Was this the right verdict and was you righteous in your quest to take their lives? How will you answer for this?

A kid was riddled with bullets. A baby was shot. I don’t know how many kids who has been shot or killed today. However, are the security organization of the Republic fine with that? Are they proud of their days labour? Is this what the Hustler Nation is all about and the Wheelbarrows of the elections? To carry the bodies in the wheelbarrows, because everything else was filled with bullet-holes?

Seriously, what gives?

Are the any reason or argument for this. Because I can’t find any. Innocent children was captured into this. Their lives was taken way to early. They died on the orders of the state and for the defence of whatever His Excellency deems “holy”.

Who in their right mind aims and shoots at children? Who does that? What purpose and what do you want to gain?

Where is the heart of these men and officers of the state? Does the President have one himself? Or is getting galvanized by the bloodshed like a vampire?

I don’t have the answers, but a government killing its own children isn’t a government fit to govern. They aren’t in it to make things better, but to rule with an iron fist. They are not there to deliver government services or be there in the hour of need. No, the government are there for inner-circle and the elite, which is the high ranking officials or whoever the Executive deems fit. Alas, citizens down to children can be prey of the monopolized violence of the state.

That’s what Ruto and his allies has become. A nation where he can order the butchering of children. Do it in plain sight. Riddle children with bullet-holes…

When people said the State House and the Parliament was places the demonstrators should never trespass. Why can the state do this? How in the world is this acceptable? There is a need of a reckoning and for heads to roll. There is no justification to kill children, innocent civilians like this and think you can get away with it. There is no restraint with the state agencies and they clearly doesn’t value life.

When they can shoot a baby and riddle a five year old with bullet. That’s when you know the state isn’t there for the people. That’s a state that’s there to serve the President and whoever his allied with. Peace.

Kenya: The National Assembly – Notification from the Speaker on President’s Memorandum on the Finance Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 30 of 2024) – (27.06.2024)

South Africa: Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa (24.06.2024)

Opinion: Ruto has lost

This battle is already over.

The Kenyan people are over the regime, the parliament, the senate, the national assembly, and the local assemblies. The people are tired of these leaders, the cabinet, and the whole Parliament.

It is time to dissolve the Parliament, stop this cabinet and re-issue new elections. There is need for new leaders and people who wants to serve their communities. Have leaders who wants to represent and be the custodian of power on their behalf. That’s been missing in the Republic.

The people around and surrounding President Ruto is all wheeler-dealer and eating government tenders as staple food. That’s what they have been doing and it has created nothing good. This government is fallen and Ruto should see his demise.

The gig is over.

The time of Ruto is up.

He is gonzo, but seemingly haven’t been notified yet. The voices of dissent on the streets should say so. The urgent haste to occupy Parliament and State House should be telling. The need for change and fast is rapidly happening.

The need to end corruption and nepotism. The end of man-eats-man society has to be left into history. There is a need to end tribal lines and find a way of leading differently. There is a need for total change.

This isn’t a Nairobi phenomenon, but a national one. As the streets are filled with demonstrators across the Republic. The citizens are relentless, the Gen-Z are out there and not letting go. They must fight for their future and the current leadership isn’t fighting for them. That’s why they are protesting and wanting these people to resign or leave office.

People are being picked up and arrested on the spot for participating in the protests. That is happening. The state is using lethal means and assassins/snipers are put around key routes in Nairobi. The KDF has been deployed without reason or in accordance with law. Therefore, the state is still in disarray regarding this. Nevertheless, the people continue to sing out their grievances and dissent.

The frustration, the rage and the anger that is aimed at the President will persist. The system has been rigged against them. The ones who is the elites have been eating. The others have been suffering and not getting what they need. Being lead by people who rather follow the Head of State than the ones who elected them. The MPs didn’t listen to the citizens and constituents but decided to follow the President instead. That’s where they went wrong, and the public retaliation is natural.

The circumstances aren’t changing. The President is a “former” in a waiting. His a soon ex-President, as he doesn’t listen or pay no respects to the people. He thinks he can get away with murder and he suffers no consequences of it. His soldiers can kill, injure and raise hellfire on civilians who happens to protest for the legitimate cause. That’s who he is and we all see it.

Ruto has lost, but he doesn’t seem to understand that. A fellow without a nation and without a population. A President without a Republic. William Ruto is a individual who isn’t recognized and the legitimized leader of the nation. An occupier and an unwanted overlord of the nation. Peace.

Kenya: Former President Ruto – Tomorrow will not be ready for a “new normal”

Today is a day that could be the final one. Nothing is sacred. Nothing is holy and nothing cannot be touched. Especially, when the people are tired, fatigued and lack any sort of proper results from their government. A government that is preoccupied with eating, living lavish and not delivering sufficient services to the population.

The Kenyan people are tired of years and decades of lacking service delivery from the government. The Executive, the cabinet and the high-ranking officials haven’t delivered. They have found ways of siphoning funds and eating of the plate of others. That’s what they have been preoccupied in doing. It is what the state has become, and the leaders are so accustomed to it.

We can understand the tiredness and anger, the frustration, and the blatant voices of discontent after what they have been through. We have seen no changes and just empty promises. The state has offered and said it would make a difference. However, it never comes and never reforms itself. Only ensures enrichment of the high-ranking officials who are gaining and gaining on end.

The acts of Parliament to push through the Finance Bill of 2024 and the voting of deployment of Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF) on the streets this week. It only shows what the representatives, the MPs and the Cabinet Secretaries are up too. The same with Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetangula. The whole leadership surrounding Ruto is rotten to the core. The system is made to be indifference and be for one elite. That’s why they don’t mind the cost on others. If you look at the he Appropriation Bill 2024, you see more of the same. That’s why the regime needed more taxation to pay for the lavish spending on itself and it’s allies.

Former President Ruto can today show heart and allow the demonstrators to show their emotions. The state should allow the citizens to voice their dissenting voices. They need to be able to go and walk around. Harambee house or anywhere for that matter. They should be allowed to go to State House(s) or State Lodges. They should be able to protest at government buildings and government institutions. Those buildings and entities are there to serve them and be there for them. If they cannot go there or protest around it. Then something is wrong with the state itself. They should allow to enter and be around them. It is theirs to begin with and the former President isn’t the owner of the Harambee house. No, the current custodian of it is there on behalf of the protesting civilians. That is something the former President has to get accustomed with.

Now the protesters can protest against the abduction of citizens, activists and people who has participated in previous demonstrations. The protestors can protest the lives who was taken and remember their sacrifice. The protestors can protest the need for health care and nourishment for all the ones that has been injured in the previous protests. They can protest that the state isn’t a military one and neither a police state. No, they have a right to assemble and protest the state without fear, intimidation and without lethal violence from the state.

Ruto and his cronies has forgotten that fact. The leadership of the security organizations and the monopoly of violence come from the high command. They are the ones that starts and uses brutality to quell protests. That’s orders from the state and from His Excellency himself. A man who wants this to end, but the protesters wants this to be his end.

It is time for Ruto to read the room. The usage of the state as a slush-fund and eating are over. The same should the political elite surrounding him see as well. We have seen this happen again and again. The story is never ending.

The protests now are a sign of change, a sign of that the tide is turning. The people had enough. The lies of Ruto cannot save him nor his government. That ship has sailed. The deaths, the extra judicial killings, the political prisoners, prisoners of conscience and abducted are all victims to the regime that thinks it is above them. This is why Ruto should have let go already, but we know he won’t do that. He hopes he can stand tall and overcome this. But it seems like this time around.

There will be no new normal tomorrow. The pressure is on and it haven’t stopped. Peace.

Opinion: Gen. Moses Ali wants to die in office…

“Anybody can contest with me in 2026. I have no problem. It’s you to make your choice, I still have the energy to serve the people of Adjumani West. Let me repeat myself that I will contest again” – Gen. Moses Ali (26.06.2024).

The former rebel and close ally of the President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Gen. Moses Ali has no plans to retire or stop being a high ranking official. He has been an Member of Parliament since 2011 and a main-stay in the cabinet as a secretive agreement with Museveni of old.

So, we have seen the General always getting appointed and it shows. Gen. Moses Ali have now had several of terms as MP and been in Cabinet. There isn’t a time where the 85-year-old haven’t been part of government. Therefore, he won’t give up his meal ticket anytime soon.

Gen. Moses Ali will continue to be in the cabinet and wanting the additional funds of being an MP. He has gotten that for decades now. President Museveni surely has him close because of the agreement and political framework they made back in the day. That’s why he has always a place for him and he cannot retire the old man.

The General seems to be an everlasting figure in the Republic. He won’t relent or give more youthful people space. No, he wants to eat and live the lavish life. Not that he has the energy or ability as in the past. That is part of life and aging.

The former rebel and token ally of Museveni should consider retirement now. We know he won’t do it himself. Because he knows the NRM Primaries will be easy and after that the system is rigged for him to return. That’s why he don’t have to campaign or act in any other way.

President Museveni likes loyal people like Gen. Moses Ali. A man who is there and who will be there for him. Neither creating drama, scandals or anything else either. Just another old bloke eating of his plate. Peace.

Nigeria: Nigeria Governors’ Forum – Issued at the End of the 7th Meeting of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum held on Wednesday, 26th June 2023 (26.06.2024)

Opinion: Riggy G cannot call of anything

“Please make an announcement this evening and call off the protests so that we can begin honest conversations on how to work in our country. Consider a plan to help families who have lost their livelihoods. This should have never happened” – Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua (26.06.2024)

The Deputy President cannot “kill” or “silence” an idea that is already present. There is no return or no way back. After the actions of his government and fellow allies… the public are right to be in mourning, in sorrow and in anger. Their rights has been violated with lethal means. People have died because they demonstrated and people are hurting as a cause of it. The vindictive and viscousness of the state has been so severe. There is no way back now…

This confrontation will continue now. The goal post has shifted. It is about more than the Finance Bill of 2024. Now its about a rotten system, a core functional body and how that is operating. Which is a part of the cog that the Deputy President is operating in. His involved in the matter and should be a former Deputy President by now. Not only his boss should be a former President. However, they should resign and call for new General Elections. That’s what should be done, but we know they are weathering the storm and hoping the pressures ceases. So things can go back to “normal” after the unique days that has just entered.

“This was a promise that both the President and I made. We want to call the overzealous heads of security agencies not to be tempted to use the criminal justice system to manage politics. Let us manage politics the conventional way through reaching out, consensus and concurrence” (…) “The President and I promised that never again will the criminal justice system be used to manage politics” (Gachagua, 26.06.2024).

The Deputy President can speak his peace and ask for a peaceful route. Nevertheless, the public is the decision makers. The citizens has the final say and they can use their voices to be heard. The political elite didn’t listen and take into account their grievances. The Parliament voted on the bill regardless and pushed it through. Just like it pushed through the agenda of having the soldiers deployed on the streets, which was in violation of the Constitution. This government have no trouble using all means to survive.

Former President Ruto has no trouble using all avenues to succeed and violence follows his name. Violence is part of his ethos and what has given him power. That’s why he goes to it in the hour of need. Uses the brutality, the lethal force and the usage of fear to intimidate in such a fashion that he overcomes any obstacle in his way. This was supposed to go the same, but it doesn’t feel that way.

That’s why Riggy G is trying to sound smart, sophisticated and thoughtful. His trying to forge a narrative and get someone else to be the scapegoat in all of this. Alas, that is the problem. The Whole Kenya Kwanza, the President and everyone in the inner-circle are all in on it. If they weren’t… they wouldn’t have forced the vote and let it happen. However, they did and it shows their “heart” or lack thereof…

The Former Deputy President better resign and bow out with honour. If he has any. He and others should follow after yesterday. Regardless of what happens tomorrow or the day after. The mourning is occurring, but the battle isn’t over. The citizens of Kenya deserves more and better. That isn’t what this leadership is giving them. They think they can dupe and outsmart them.

That’s why Riggy G cannot stop the idea or the ideals of the protest. They will continue until they get their way. Peace.

Kenya: National Intelligence Services (NIS) – Press Release (26.06.2024)