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Wangui Mwangi retweeted
Shida kubwa ndani ya LMM is this mentality of expecting people to vote 6-piece. If we genuinely want good leadership, we must learn to vote for individuals based on their merit and ability to deliver, not blindly follow party affiliations.
You can have an LMM President, a Mwananchi Party Governor, a Wiper MP, an LMM Senator and a DCP Women Representative. What matters is that these leaders are capable of working together with Sifuna to make the country better.
Remember, these positions are entrusted to individuals by the people, and their responsibility is to serve those who elected them. We don't need yes-men who blindly follow party instructions. We need independent-minded leaders who can question, challenge and hold even their own President accountable.
Wangui Mwangi retweeted
A petition has been filed at the High Court seeking to stop the government from spending public money on the planned Bayern Munich vs Ajax friendly match scheduled for January 5, 2027, at Talanta Stadium.
The petitioners also want the government to disclose the full cost of hosting the two clubs and the sponsorship agreements
Wangui Mwangi retweeted
There is a woman confidently holding a mic and warning Luhyas in Nandi area not to say Sifuna or Wantam ama watasfirishwa.
We have a joke National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) board chaired by Bishop Dr. Kepha Omae
Wangui Mwangi retweeted
Good. Flip the script on them until their arrogance comes back to bite them.
They have clearly forgotten what led to the Finance Bill protests that shook the nation.
Wangui Mwangi retweeted
Both David Ndii and Aaron Cheruiyot are living examples of what Kasongoism looks like. One is an Adviser to the President, the other the Majority Leader of the Senate. These are not ordinary voices; they occupy positions of influence and responsibility in government.
Yet, they have become the choir members of the Rutoism/Kasongoism band, singing from the same script.
If this is what they are comfortable putting in writing, imagine what is said, discussed and done behind closed doors. What we see publicly may only be a fraction of what goes on within the corridors of power.
Wangui Mwangi retweeted
6 Things We Learned About African Leaders from the Putin Ice Cream Affair
It happened in Moscow, at the Third Russia–Africa Summit. Our presidents had just been given a tour of Russian gadgets. Then in what was meant as a lighthearted moment, they were led to an ice cream stand, where they lined up with their hands out, like Standard Four pupils on sports day. Social media had a field day.
Won’t join the outrage, but will do the responsible thing and ask what was in the cup. It was plombir, the pride of the Soviet kitchen: cream, milk, egg yolks and sugar, with enough butterfat to grease a bill through Parliament. With the science settled, here’s what we learned.
1. “Strongmen” means strong stomachs: For decades we were told African leaders are strongmen. We thought that meant a strong grip on power and strong immunity to term limits. It turns out it means the stomach. They swallowed full-fat plombir in the Moscow cold, and nobody had to leave the plenary early. Whatever their problems with the constitution, none of the presidents in Moscow had a problem with lactose.
2. They finally met a queue: Back home, queues are for citizens. You queue to vote at 5am, only to be told the kit has “malfunctioned.” You queue for unga, fuel, ID cards and a hospital bed. Presidents only see queues through the tinted glass of a motorcade, usually while the queue is being pushed aside for the motorcade. In Moscow they finally stood in one. Unlike our voter queues, this one had a guaranteed result: everyone who lined up got what they came for, and nobody found their name missing from the register.
3. They survived a food line full of strangers: Many of these leaders run cabinets that look like a family WhatsApp group: the son in Defence, the in-law at the Central Bank, the nephew handling tenders. For them, this was a brave outing. The person in front wasn’t a cousin. The person behind wasn’t from the home village. Amazingly, they all survived. Diversity was tried once, in Moscow, and it killed no one.
4. Somebody had to be fifth: At home, the first slice of the national cake is theirs by divine right: the juicy contracts, the prime land, the best piece of nyama choma before the guests even sit down. In Moscow, someone had to be fifth in line. Someone may have got the cup that had started to melt. Nobody declared a state of emergency.
5. They probably missed the lesson: The whole lesson was right in front of them. There was enough for everyone, each person got one, the line moved and nobody went home empty-handed. That is a public policy manual in a paper cup. Did they absorb it? Unlikely. Expect them to land at home and go straight back to the old formula: one for me, and the rest also for me.
6. But it felt like home: Beneath the cold, there was something warm and familiar about it all: free food, no bill and a host eager to please. It was just like home, where the banquets, per diems and hotel bills are paid by taxpayers who were never invited. But nothing in Moscow is free. The ice cream comes with a cone, and the cone comes with a contract: the grain deals, the mining concessions, and the Africa Corps men who guard shaky regimes for a fee reportedly paid in gold and mineral rights. The plombir melts in minutes. The invoice doesn’t.
Next summit, perhaps they’ll carry their own cooler box. Better still, they could stay home and fix the queues there.
peopledaily.digital/news/put…
Wangui Mwangi retweeted
Every time an African country elects a government that tries to keep more of its own resources, Western media discovers a "democracy deficit."
Every time an Asian nation builds technology that competes with Western products, Western governments discover a "security threat."
Every time a Latin American country charts an economic path outside the Washington Consensus, Western financial institutions discover a "stability risk."
The pattern is precise and it has been precise for two centuries.
The West is not afraid of authoritarian governments.
It has funded dozens of them.
The West is not afraid of economic mismanagement.
It has imposed structural adjustment programs that produced exactly that.
What produces the alarm, the specific, urgent, editorial-board-meeting alarm, is independence.
A poor country making its own choices with its own resources for its own people without asking permission.
That is the danger.
That has always been the danger.
Everything else is the vocabulary chosen to describe it in ways that don’t require honesty.
Wangui Mwangi retweeted
"No one owes you a functioning country" - David Ndii.
Meaning: citizens must stand guard for their country to ensure it is run constitutionally, efficiently and accountably. Citizens must hold officeholders to account by all means to ensure they deliver what they promised. ⚖️👁
Wangui Mwangi retweeted
Brazil welcoming more than 200,000 Haitians who fled Haiti’s crisis and offering them legal residency and healthcare upon arrival is one of the best and most important news stories today that the mainstream won't tell you about.
Wangui Mwangi retweeted
David Ndii anasema no one owes us a functional country.
Siku bado haijaisha, kama bado huna kura, endea sai sai tafadhali.
Wangui Mwangi retweeted
I am drawn to some words in this headline: "in Kayole" and "apology." And to the words that are missing: "the late."
Two years later, and months before an election, Makau came from his house in Karen to a family in Kayole, who might have come out of Kayole, had their son been left alive.
The headline says "the family of Rex Masai," not the late Rex Masai, as if he was waiting at home to receive the guests. He is not. He was shot dead.
And it calls this an "apology." You apologise for stepping on someone's foot. For a killing, there is a word: justice, let’s see what this very apologetic people do about Justice.
And no, I am not grieving more than the bereaved, this life sets precedence on how the state will treat my life and other people’s lives.
