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.

Kenya: Inuka Ni Sisi! – The IGP & IPOA must Produce and Charge Rouge Officers (21.06.2024)

Kenya: Okoa Uchumi Campaign – Condolences for Rex’s Family and Condemnation of Violence (21.06.2024)

Kenya: These demos might be the hurt that the government can’t heal…

“PRESIDENT RUTO calls on MPs to pass Finance Bill 2024 amid nationwide protests against proposed tax measures; asks Parliament to help fund development projects across Kenya” (Nation Africa, 20.06.2024).

The recent demonstrations and riots in Kenya can easily become the nail in the coffin of the Kenya Kwanza Government. The era of President William Ruto is getting a taste of the bitter fruits of power. As his government is overtaxing and finding ways of adding expenditure on the public. While the high-ranking officials and others are living lavish.

The elites are earning profits and getting value for money. However, the cost-of-living crisis and the problems of the citizens are still there. The added taxes and the costs on day-to-day life isn’t bearable. The taxation will only hurt the pockets more… and make things more dire.

All the promises ahead of the polls. The wheelbarrows and being there for the hustlers are all gone away. Now activists and citizens are arrested for participating in the demonstrations. Even some law enforcements have been using violence and it’s been lethal. Those who has been hurt and killed. Need to be investigated and answered for, as well, as the rights to assemble and demonstrate is still viable in the Republic.

The teargas, water-cannons and live-bullets is a sign of a oppressive government that doesn’t want to listen to the dissent. The public isn’t having it and was peacefully demonstrating against the Finance Bill of 2024. They had concerns and meaningful disagreements with it. As they are the ones who will feel the pinch and the punch of the law itself. The taxes and rises of it will be another burden on them. That’s why they are going to the streets to demonstrate against it.

President Ruto and his allies better listen. They cannot act like they are above it or have all the answers. Right here and right now… they can either become disassociated with the public or be totally disconnected. If the government and the political elite gets to far away from the public. It won’t be easily to get their trust or even their support in the next election. The Kenya Kwanza is now dismantling their own future by challenging the ones on the streets.

This was a government for the hustlers and the ones fighting day to day to earn a living. Nevertheless, that was just words and empty promises. Just like the Jubilee would deliver stadiums and laptops. Ruto continues a prolonged line of empty promises and lack of service delivery. Now on top of that, his adding taxes and making life even harder for the citizens. That’s when you are putting more wood on the fire. He is giving the citizens more reasons to demonstrate and cry out loud.

President Ruto has to engage with the public now. Not wear Kaunda suits and be a vagabond. He needs to listen to the dismay and the discontent, because this can be the last straw. The one that breaks the camel’s back. The last water drops in the glass.

These demonstrations are proof of what is wrong in Kenya. The Republic needs a government that serves the public and not the other way around. That’s how it looks like. A government for the hustlers, are actually hustling the citizens. This is absurd, but not a surprise. Knowing how Ruto operate and how he thinks he can be able to run away from the storm. Peace.

Kenya: Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) – Investigations into Police Shooting during the Finance Bill, 2024 Mass Demonstrations (21.06.2024)

Kenya: Police Reforms Working Group – Kenya (PRWG-K) – Immediate Release of #OccupyParliament Protestors and Condemnation of Police Brutality (18.06.2024)

Opinion: Ruto’s getting a taste of his own medicine [with the Riggy G outbursts]

His PAs and bloggers want to tell me what to do. I cannot allow people who hang around him to think they’re my boss. This group criticized me during the pre-election debate, saying I didn’t know English or how to dress. The criticism was so intense that the president called me because he was concerned. I assured him he made the right decision. Nobody suffered more than me while I stood with the president” – Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua (15.06.2024)

What goes around, comes back around. The tides are turning and the wheelbarrows aren’t sufficient. Neither is the stories of supporting and helping the hustlers. The time of friendly fire and tussle within the ranks are beginning to happen.

There is possible cracks in the Kenya Kwanza Government. If not… everything aren’t all shiny around President William Ruto. We know Ruto is busy attending ceremonies, conferences and whatnot abroad. His barely at home and only for the festivities. He isn’t seeing things day-to-day and only getting the cliff-notes. That’s why others are carrying the weight and doing the heavy lifting.

That’s maybe Riggy G who has to cover and takeover power when Ruto is on international and bilateral meetings overseas. Today is the first time other Cabinet Secretaries are speaking of impeaching the DP. The first time another CS calls him a toad.

That happens because of the speeches and the uttering of the DP. He spoke his peace and what he deemed fit. It might not be all in good faith, but he has himself been mocked and ridiculed. So, who can blame him for retaliating back?

Riggy G is the second in command and the next in succession. That’s why Ruto picked him. He maybe thought he would get a mull and silent partner in Gachagua. As Gachagua isn’t as savvy or seasoned politician as Ruto himself. However, as many might say… underestimated and he might sway more than people imagine.

The ones saying he should step down or be more silent. Well, he is a man of higher rank and has the second office of the Republic. The one who knows how lonely and how you can be outsmarted in this office is Ruto. The current President knows the price of loyalty and what it costs to be a poster boy for the government, but with no real power. That’s how he became and was a reason for his change of play in the second term of the Kenyatta/Jubilee government. Therefore, he should make sure Riggy G stays behind the line and is his guy.

We know that Ruto started early to campaign and build his UDA within the Jubilee. That was shown and it was evident ahead of the elections. The DP did this to ensure longevity and become the Head of State himself. Now he hasn’t an official rogue partner, but a man who is tired of being mocked and sidelined. That is something Ruto has to act upon and do the right thing.

Riggy G has the right to speak out about the nonsense. He has the right to call out rank and get people to address him properly. They shouldn’t be there to undermine him. People speak of unity and that his salty. Well, if people where looking down and disrespecting you all the time. You would boil over to in anger. Therefore, the DP is right doing this.

Now it is the vagabond’s turn to act and make a few calls himself. Unless, he wants issues within his camp and get a more hectic return from where-ever his residing at the moment. Peace.