
The ones believing that President William Ruto and the broad-based government wants the citizenry or the citizens knowledgeable about the government. Well, then you are wrong. Neither does it want to be challenged or be tested by digital mechanisms. That’s why it is punishing the citizens who are testing, calling out or using their creativity to show what the government is up to.
That is the case of Rose Njeri Tunguru who made a digital system to send mass-emails to Finance Committee of the Parliament. She did so earlier in May and by the end of May they arrested her. Now three days later they are arraigning her in court on charges of Cyber Crime. For initially putting forward easier ways to write emails to the Parliament. That is the “crime” that she did.
What Rose Njeri Tunguru really did was writing a template of a letter, which the citizens could use to send emails to the Parliament. That was an action of creating a ready-made email to send and easier for the citizens to be addressing the concerns of the up-coming financial bill. That’s why they are targeting her now. So, is writing and publishing email templates in Kenya, criminal conspiracy and a cyber-crime?
Clearly things are jaded in Nairobi and in the Republic of Kenya. When it is becoming illegal to make mass-emails to politicians. That is a part of the Computer Misuse Act and is seen as a criminal conspiracy or a criminal act. Is this the nation that Ruto wants to achieve?
It is really compelling that someone making a template of an email and publishing it online is a criminal offence, even seen as an act of criminal conspiracy, which is stopping the works of the Parliament. If the Parliament and the Financial Committee has a problem with getting the emails. Well, they can delete them and ignore them. Alas, they are instead incriminating a person who happened to write one and share it online.
Why is the government so afraid of their citizens? Are they afraid that she and others would make similar templates of emails and send it their way? Are the Members of Parliament, the Cabinet Secretaries and other dignitaries above the citizens they represent? Alas, why are they doing this?
This must be the fear of Gen Z and how they reacted to the previous Financial Bill. Another rally against the Financial Bill would hurt the government and the perils of the state. Not like the trust between the government and citizens are healed. That’s why the government fear people who are outspoken or able to articulate their grievances. Therefore, they want to silence them…
This here is a signal to the citizens and what the government is willing to do. It is muting citizens and doing it deliberately. Peace.















