Opinion: Kenya doesn’t deserve to bleed…

“53 deaths were recorded from Tuesday’s Anti-Finance Bill protests. 30 were from Githurai 45 night killings and 23 from the daytime demonstrations. 100 more are nursing gunshot wounds, according to the Police Reforms Working Group. PRWG is an alliance of national and grassroots organisations committed to professional and rule-of-law policing” (The Eastleigh Voice, 26.06.2024).

The protests the Finance Bill happened across the Republic yesterday. Lots of county assemblies was breached, businesses of MPs touched, and the Parliament was occupied. The MPs have now held assembly and ordered the Kenya Defence Forces to the streets to stop them from protesting. The representative has forgotten who they represent and who they are representing. As they are trying to force people of the streets and just accept the state are overtaxing them.

That’s what is happening in Kenya. The President and the High-Ranking Officials are busy violating the rights of the people. They want to silence and intimidate the ones who wants to fight for their living. The cost of living is already a heavy burden, and the new taxation is taking blood out of a stone. It is reason why millions went to the streets yesterday.

That the state took over 50 people’s lives yesterday is telling. The number of deaths shows how sinister and grim the realities are. The usage of lethal weapons and live bullet has caused this much damage. The hurt and pain, the suffering and lingering tension will be everlasting.

The actions are already made, and the regime is only making it worse. Instead of taking things to account and trying to salvage something. It is instead using more force and willing to make a warzone to stay in office. The time to reign in and try to find another way out was there; but now he chooses to go somewhere else.

President Ruto and his Kenya Kwanza have forgotten why they are there. The people shouldn’t die on the streets. People shouldn’t be killed by law enforcement. There shouldn’t be the usage of live bullets on unarmed civilians. However, that is a choice that the regime did and what Ruto wanted. This is the Kenya his proud of and what he stands for. Usage of violence, intimidation, and force to be in office. That’s who Ruto is, and he shows it.

We should weep, be sad and be worried. The republic deserves better. The people of Kenya shouldn’t live like this. The Kenyan people deserves a government serving them and listening to their pleas. Not fight on the streets and be victims of violence from it. They should be represented and have a say.

That is something Ruto doesn’t offer them, and he rather order live bullets against them. Then have a conversation and try to appease them. That’s who he is and it’s tragic. Peace.

Ruto should become a “former President” now!

“Wherever there is violence, it seems Ruto’s name features. It began with the infamous YK’92. Then came Kiambaa and Ruto’s trip to The Hague. Soon, witnesses started disappearing or being found murdered. Ruto’s name keeps cropping up in other cases – I won’t name them. And now here he is again, along with his running-mate, making wild accusations and telling implausible stories that can only have an ill intent” (The Elephant – ‘“How Could William Ruto Contain RVP?”: Echoes of 2007 in Kenya Kwanza Rhetoric” 07.08.2022).

Yesterday’s violence and lethal attacks on civilians shouldn’t shock anyone. For decades that’s been the method of His Excellency, Commander-in-Chief and the hustler, William Ruto. This has been done way back to the early 1990s and unto present day.

He has used methods of violence, intimidation and used armed groups to get his way. That was done to serve KANU and former President Daniel Arap Moi. Later he did so to further his cause in the election violence of 2007. As soon as the International Criminal Court (ICC) started to look into that. The Deputy President ensured the witnesses was tampered with or silenced, so the Hague couldn’t build a proper case or be able to validation of criminal actions made by Ruto.

Yesterday we saw it again and he has no trouble causing violence for his personal benefit. Former President Ruto is willing to do so and silence the ones who are in his way. That’s what is personal and important to his ambition. His now on the top and he fought his way there from the KANU days to the Jubilee and now UDA. Every step is one way higher and higher.

That there is blood, victims and innocent lives taken for his personal gains isn’t important. What is important is that Ruto gets power and stays in power. Now he will order the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) on unarmed civilians. The President now wants soldiers on the streets and defend his reign. He wants the army to serve him and be his token mercenaries.

Ruto wants to launch his junta and military state. The military is his henchmen and guards to keep him in power. It is not the will of the people or listening to them. No, the people is just pawns for him. The tyrant and the King of Kenya.

William Ruto is for many the Former President. He shouldn’t be there anymore. Yesterday proves just that. The President should be impeached. The Parliament to be dissolved and fresh elections for new representation in the county assemblies too. Therefore, there is a need for new blood and people who wants to serve the public.

Former President Ruto. Get the memo. Time to retire. Time to resign and go home. William Ruto has done enough. There is enough blood on his hands. There are enough people who has died for him to stay in office. He shouldn’t be there anymore, and his time is up. Peace.

Kenya: Azimio la Umoja – One Kenya Coalition Party – Statement by Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga – Murder of Kenya’s Children over Finance Bill must stop Immediately (25.06.2024)

Kenya: Office of the 4th President of the Republic of Kenya – Statement by H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta, C.G.H, Fourth President of the Republic of Kenya (25.06.2024)

Former President William Ruto has lost the people…

President William Ruto warns perpetrators and financiers of violence and anarchy that security apparatus will be deployed to protect lives. President William Ruto says that criminal elements hijacked peaceful protests. He says he will continue to lead a government that is fully committed to protect the sovereignty of the country and protect lives. Says he will continue to lead the country which all sovereign powers belongs to the people which shall be exercised according to the Constitution. The country shall treat every threat to the state as an existential danger to Kenya’s security. The government will provide a swift, full and effective response to today’s treasonous event” (The Eastleigh Voice, 25.06.2024)

Today on the 25th June 2024, the moment of change and the moment of reckoning was upon us. The Republic of Kenya has forever been changed. The actions of the people and their will on the streets across the Republic has shown their feet, their voice and their dissent.

The Parliament continued the process and voted in majority for the Finance Bill of 2024. A bill that people wanted to reject and stop. They didn’t want more taxes and getting a huger burden on their shoulders. However, the President and his cronies didn’t care about that.

The public prepared and was ready. The citizens had a plan and aimed at the throne. Their anger and resolute ideas was unfolding. They were tired of being taken for granted and accepting more pain. There was too much water under the bridge.

Now the state has attacked them, abducted them, injured them and even killed them. The state is now using military force to silence them. That’s being done without Constitutional Order, but by a Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale taking power unto his own hands. This shows how power corrupts and how they are not willing to listen to the dissent in the Republic.

President William Ruto is already the Former President in plenty people’s eyes. A man who is blind-sided and he cannot return to normal now. He will never be respected or be seen as a honourable. The dead, the detained and the injured are on his hands. The brutality and the lethal usage of live bullets against unarmed civilians is saying enough. The state ordered vicious and vindictive tactics to silence the protests. Therefore, calling the citizens criminal and treasonous. Just shows how he has lost them.

The Former President better resign and retire. The career as the Head of State is over. The whole elite surrounding him should follow suit. They are all losers and no one in the right mind respects any of them. They are illegitimate and insincere people who are now in dire jeopardy. The whole electorate and most of the population is ready to see them gone.

Former President Ruto will forever regret the last acts and the violence used on civilians. Those wounds can never be healed and they will remember that he did it to them. The usage of lethal weapons and military to quell the will of the people. It is only showing how he wants to be the tyrant and the dictator. He wants to bring in a new Moi Era and be the Grand Dictator.

Nevertheless, the people aren’t prepared to be ruled by a dictator or a tyrant. They want representatives that actually represents them. The people wants people who are representing their will. However, Ruto and his kind won’t do that…

When the state is willing to kill and call civilians “criminals” that’s when you know a Head of State is naked. His reign is over and practically it is only a matter of time. Time which Ruto doesn’t have and has totally lost. Maybe he should even consider exile. His a King without a Kingdom. That’s tragic for him, but even more worse for the citizens who currently are ruled by him. Peace.

Kenya: Law Society of Kenya (LSK) – Law Society of Kenya Statement on Killing of Protestors during Finance Bill Demonstrations in Nairobi and Across the Country (25.06.2024)

Kenya: The political elite have nowhere to go…

Today is a day of revolution, an end of era and a new beginning. The Financial Bill of 2024 was the final nail in the coffin. Today the streets have been filled with people. Today the towns and the nation has shown its anger and frustration, as the political elite, the representatives and the ones in office haven’t listened to the pleas and concerns of their citizens.

Today the Kenya Kwanza, the Tanga Tanga and the whole coalition of willing in Nairobi is lost. The ones who was able to gain power and live lavish. They are now running, hiding and disappearing.

They should hide and go because the anger and frustration are everywhere to see. The tear-gas and live bullets don’t stop the protesters. The citizens are going to the gates of power, to offices of the representatives and occupying it.

Today people died on the streets, on the avenues and on the frontlines of the republic. They stood together in solidarity and in harmony over a common purpose. A purpose that the politicians and the electoral elite had forgotten. They have forgotten the toils, the tears and the suffering of its citizens.

That’s why there are snipers on the roof of the Parliament. Why the police used live bullets and extra judicially killed civilians. That’s what the government and the ones in power did. They ordered the bloodshed, the pain, and additional lethal actions, which will be remembered in history. More innocent civilian blood taken over one overtaxed population. That’s what the ones in power decided to do.

President William Ruto and his whole cabinet will be forced now. The burning of the Parliament and the other places around nation. That’s a sign of the tiredness and lack of pity from the ones in power. They forgot who they represent and why they are even there to begin with. The elite and the ones in power forgot the people and that’s why they had to return the National Assembly to prove a point. It has cost and innocent lives has been taken. All for the price of a Financial Bill that doesn’t serve the public.

The President and his cronies never listened. The lies and deception couldn’t take them that far. The losses are now being counted. The verdict is out. This isn’t just about a bill for Parliament. No, this is about the soul of the nation and about the elite who forgot its purpose. They forgot who they represent and who gives them a job in the first place. That’s what has happened, and this is why people are in the streets.

The ones who are in power must fear the people and their will, it is their will that is the command of the representatives. That’s what the Members of Parliament and the Senators have forgotten. This is why the tone-deaf vote of the Financial Bill was acted upon today. The day of organized peaceful assembly, which has turned into violence and brutality from state sponsored law enforcement. They have to answer for the blood, the pain and the suffering. As they have caused more damage and taken lives. We don’t know how many, but rest assure, the numbers will rise across the Republic today. Not only around the Parliament and elsewhere in Nairobi. No, these numbers will be sounding the alarm across the Republic.

These protests are now damning. There are nowhere to go from here. The revolution are now upon us. The state of Kenyan politics is forever altered. The assemblies that are breached in other counties of the Republic will be told too. There will be other protests that will aim and target governing bodies there. Therefore, the ones in office has to fear the people.

The people are now with a voice. The voice of their own feet and with the sounds of their voices. This is the resounding message, that the public is tired and restless for change. Because the current ones are only serving themselves and their own selfish interests. That’s who they are, and they are willing to sacrifice innocent civilians to have it their way. The legitimacy of the government is gone. The people cannot accept their actions and the protest says it all. Peace.

Opinion: Ng’ang’a should regret this single utterance…

Those Gen Z are just a bunch of foolish and ignorant youth who know nothing about politics or governance. Let them continue yapping; they will take some of us nowhere. What can a 19- or even a 25-year-old baby tell us? Let me hear of them attempting to bring that nonsense of theirs into Thika. They will know that we are in government” – Hon Alice Ng’ang’a, Thika Town MP (Mambo Mseto, 23.06.2024).

Do anyone want to remind the Member of Parliament why she is there? Someone is only a Member of Parliament because you represent for others. The MP is there because a constituency needs someone to represent them in the National Assembly or Parliament. Therefore, the MP should listen to the people and their voices.

Alice Ng’ang’a MP needs to listen to the Gen. Z. and the public in general. That’s her job and in her title. Her office only exist because the people votes her in and she gets their support to be there. Ng’ang’a cannot run away from this and shows how arrogant she is.

The MP should be grateful that she has had the ability to voted in office and being a politician. She is there because the people has voted her in. That’s why she needs to use her two ears and not run her mouth. It is about time that she sits down with protesters and activists before she is history.

She is just showing the arrogance and the ignorance of the political elite of Kenya. That an MP is saying this… when she needs their support and their ballots in an election. She desperately needs the Gen. Z in the next election. That’s who she needs and they are her future. However, she is not mindful of their plights, struggles and how this affect their daily life.

Ng’ang’a needs to understand her role and where she is at. She is there for a reason and are blessed for it. Others would easily sought out to replace her and be in her stead. They could easily do it and serve the community better. There are people out there who is willing to listen and address the concerns of the Gen. Z. However, they are blocked or barred from entry.

The MP should be ashamed of herself and no one should pity her. She has made her own bed and now have to sleep in it. This is disgraceful of a representative and shows how oblivious the MPs are to the reality of the public they are serving. Instead of thinking of them or even listening to them. They rather educate and mock them. The ones that is the reason for their role to begin with.

It is obnoxious and outrageous, but nothing new.

Ng’ang’a MP have to beg for mercy and repent fast. Gen. Z will remember this and she can easily be exchanged for someone else in the next election. Peace.

Kenya: Ruto better listen, before it is too late…

Our young people have stepped forward to engage on the affairs of their country. They’ve done their democratic duty, to stand & be recognized. I’m proud of them. We’ll have a conversation with you to identify your issues & work together as a nation” – President William Ruto (23.06.2024)

In Nairobi and elsewhere in the Republic. The Gen Z is demonstrating and protesting with their anger. They are voicing out their discontent and displeased with current state of affairs. The Kenya Kwanza Government is taking them for granted. The Tanga Tanga team of Ruto isn’t saving him now.

Ruto is playing with fire, amidst a cost of living crisis. His adding more taxes and adding more fumes to the fire. While he could have done proper damage control and tried to ease the nation. Instead his been busy with international conferences and meetings with foreign dignitaries. That’s what his been up too. Meanwhile, cities and towns have seen demonstrations and heavy crackdown on the ones participating.

The actions of law enforcement have gotten lethal. They have arrested organizers and activists. People are scorned and hurt. The authorities have used water-canons and tear-gas on the demonstrations. They have used live-bullets too, which shows their readiness to commit murder. That’s not allowing assembly of people or address their discomfort. No, it is a state ready to assault and directly muffle it’s critics.

Ruto is more busy following guidelines and protocol of the World Bank and International Monetary Funds (IMF) than listening to the general public. It is taking the public for granted. Ensuring their plights and suffering continues on the altar of foreign assistance. Foreign Assistance that is needed because of the wastage of public coffers, which has been done in all the years Ruto has been in higher office. Not only now as President, but as Deputy President too. All of the scandals and misuse of power are coming home to roost. The looting and siphoning funds are now coming home and the public has to pay the price for it.

The President has to listen and address it righteously. This is damning to his administration. The ones in power cannot sustain this pressure. They cannot continue like it is. Neither can they keep high profiled people arrested or not show any signs of investigations into the extra judicial killings. They got to act swiftly and with professionalism. These cannot be buried and we know the dead will not be forgotten. That’s why people are retweeting Jacob Juma with his prophecies that is so accurate to this day. The late lawyer saw some things and got taken out early because of it.

Sooner or later, the State House and the people of the Wheelbarrows will learn their lesson. Since this will haunt them. All the arrests, the detained activists and leaders, the ones killed and the ones hurt by all of this. They are the voices that needs to be heard. They got to have a say and shows that the government is on the wrong path.

Ruto is making more enemies and becoming less vibrant as every day goes by. His taking the nation for granted. His taking the next generation for a ride and thinking they will accept it. They are the ones that will pay and will take up his tab. The next up and the future has to pay for his past. That’s distasteful and disrespectful. As we know the wealth of the political elite and how they en-mass has enriched themselves in office.

That is being done while taxing and piling more pressure on the ones who are carrying the future. We all can see that is just wrong. The Kenya Kwanza is failing it’s own narrative, own story and it’s own policies. It cannot even make sense, but only brutal force, which does them no good. Peace.

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