The version of me you created in your mind is not my responsibility.
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Ask me who I am, unless you think you already know, but if you think you know, don't ask me anything at all.
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If you grew up in a family that does lazy weekends, sleeps in, eats breakfast whenever, stays in pyjamas all day and does absolutely nothing, please don’t marry into a family that wakes up at 6AM to deep-clean the house and run errands before 8AM.
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Edwin Sifuna: Mara ya mwishi nilisimama katika uwanja huu nilikuwa SG wa ODM. Lakini baada ya kupoteza Baba, nzige waliingia ndani ya chama cha ODM wakabomoa kila kitu ambacho Baba alijenga. Wakafukuza watoto wa Raila kwenye chama. Sasa wameacha kututusi sisi watoto wake, wameingilia mpaka mjane wa Raila, Mama Ida Odinga
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He speaks like a president, he acts like a president, he speaks rule of law like a president.
HE Edwin Wakenya Sifuna.
#LindaKwale
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Petition to extend Murang'a county boundaries to cover the entire of Kenya
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Launching new wards and outpatient at Muranga Level 5 hospital.
This reduces congestion
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Kenyan President William Ruto lines up to recieve an Ice Cream gift from Russian President Putin.
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The impeachment of Riggy G ,changed the current political situation in the country 😂😂😂
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This might stop Ajax and Bayern Munich from coming to Kenya
#MikeAndKingangi
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@EdwinSifuna's argument is different.
- A President isn't supposed to know everything...
- That is why a Republic has Cabinet Secretaries.
- Principal Secretaries.
- Engineers.
- Economists.
- Doctors.
- Teachers.
- Civil servants.
- Parliament.
- Courts.
- Independent institutions.
The Country should not depend on the genius of one man.
- It should depend on institutions that work.
📍And that leads to perhaps the most interesting argument I have heard him make.
- ✓ No President takes an oath to build a road.
- ✓ Or a market.
- ✓ Or a stadium.
The Presidential oath is to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.
- That doesn't mean roads don't matter.
- It means something much bigger.
𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 G𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬.
- Hospitals should work because the health system works.
- Children should learn because the education system works.
- Opportunities should exist because the economy works.
- Citizens should not require Presidential benevolence to receive ordinary Government.
📍And perhaps this is where Sifuna becomes more interesting to me than simply another opposition candidate.
- He may be beginning to articulate a different idea of the Presidency itself.
Less 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫.
More 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜.
But there is still a very long road between political possibility and State House.
- Sifuna must build an organization.
- He must withstand money.
- He must survive success.
- He must prevent yesterday's political opportunists from capturing tomorrow's movement.
And most importantly, he must turn something incredibly fragile—affection—into machinery.
- ✓ Likability must become identification.
- ✓ Identification must become organisation.
- Organisation must become registration.
- Registration must become turnout.
- And turnout must become protected votes.
That is the test.
- I sometimes think about those two conversations I had in 2022.
- Perhaps my sibling and my friend were right to dismiss me.
- Because if either of them had asked me exactly what I saw in Edwin Sifuna then, I'm not sure I could have explained it.
- I can now.
- I wasn't looking at a finished politician.
- I wasn't even looking at a Presidential candidate.
I think I was watching political gravity beginning to form.
📍Four years later, things are beginning to fall towards it.
- And I am still watching.
