01/07/2025
I hear there will be another maandamano on Saba Saba. I hope it is a lie.
On the 8th of July, Kenya will still be the same, Ruto will be president, and nothing will have changed.
Meanwhile, dozens will be dead, killed by police. Hundreds hospitalized. Dozens gang-raped.
Entrepreneurs will be emotional on TV, unable to control their tears while estimating the millions lost to looters.
Mothers and fathers will be narrating on TV how they got information about their children's shooting. They will also be pointing to the tether of the last cow they sold to pay for the shot children's education.
Landlords will be counting millions destroyed by vandalism and arsonists.
The government will blame it on the opposition. The opposition will blame it on the government. But the dead will remain dead, their wives widowed, children orphaned, and graves as the only indication that they lived.
Do you think the cliché 'wantam' makes sense to a mother with a new grave in her compound? Does it make sense to an entrepreneur servicing a bank loan for a business that has been looted?
Is Ruto so bad that the country has to lose this much to communicate its dislike for him? Aren't elections meant for that purpose?
Kibaki was so hated around the country that he had to steal an election to be re-elected and had to swear himself in at midnight with the CJ in his pyjamas. In these streets, he was buried in a barrage of insults. I can't remember what his crime was.
Uhuru was equally insulted and trolled at every opportunity. Are these presidents that bad? Who elects them? Why can't the country read the constitution and learn to live with the inadequacies of their choices for five years?
I fear Saba Saba. I am certain the only thing the country will achieve is bloodshed. Life is sacred. Now, don't start your comment with 'usituuzie uoga' like you did before the last maandamano.
Try something a little more creative. I hear someone say Gen Z don't fear death, at least their parents are