George Kegoro Brilliant tribute George.👏🏿👏🏿

What lesson will President Ruto learn from the protests today?

For me, the lesson today is the relationship between office, power and mandate. If you take office, it should translate to a mandate and therefore to power. Ruto retains office, and has power but he no longer has a mandate. How to find a mandate is the key question.

Police have rejected Kipchumba Murkomen’s patently illegal order that police should kill protesters secure that he will protect them. Police now say: 1. He will not protect them and is lying. 2. They can’t kill their own people. 3. He is protecting own interests not Kenya.

Nobody EXPLAINS as convincingly as Riggy G. For better or worse, he is now the centerpiece of Kenyan politics and will eventually eclipse all others, starting with Ruto but also the opposition politicians with whom he is working. If you disagree let’s come back here next year.

Consensus is emerging: 1. Kenya needs a national dialogue into its political future. 2. Kenya needs an independent inquiry into political violence, both under Uhuru Kenyatta and now under William Ruto. How to harness the emerging consensus is now the next question.

State House is public land. By investing personal money to build a church there, the President is: 1. Fusing the personal and the public 2: Fusing church and state 3. Doing so without consulting the public.

This is a material fact that requires investigation. W need information on who put up the structure, when and why, what the President hopes to achieve by an enhanced structure, & how this is consistent with public policy. The constitutional requirement is a secular public life.

All that this man did was to restate the law of restitution: he was merely reciting Part VI of the Anti-Corruption Act &Economic Crimes Act. It is not illegal to recite the law of Kenya.

A repost is all we are asking for to amplify this. Her name is Julia Njoki, she lost her life after she was arrested in Nanyuki. #JusticeForJuliaNjoki

Mourning Catherine Nyamato, MP. Gusii elected leaders chickened out when asked for solidarity with the families of 4 women lynched in Marani on suspicion of witchcraft. She, alone, stood with the families, attending a press conference in Nairobi, and later the funerals in Kisii.

Alot of transactions between citizens and the government are digital in nature. This makes the citizen more of a customer than a citizen, therefore limiting rights and powers. This is among the many limitations with #digitaltransformation, eroding trust. George Kegoro

What’s the place of #onlineexpression in Kenya’s constitutional paradigm? George Kegoro establishes that it is the new frontier for #politicalprotests. Unlike past dissidents that used print media and radio, these young activists online often face state backlash. #ARFWebinar

In case you missed my piece in the Sunday Nation. ⁦Daily Nation⁩

Why do I think this is a political hatchet job?

The Kenya Human Rights Commission remains in safe hands after Maina Kiai takes over as the Chair. This is to also to thank Davinder Lamba, the outgoing chair, for his longstanding leadership of the organization and of the human rights movement in Kenya.

Serikali ya Muungano wa Tanzania inapigana kuzima matangazo ya moja kwa moja ya kesi dhidi ya Tundu Lissu. Alivo sema Lissu mwenyewe, Haki Gizani si Haki! Ni lipi wanataka kuficha zaidi ya identity ya wale mashahidi ilivoamriwa pale awali? Demokrasia hufia gizani, na ni jukumu la

Ask them if they import Kenyan tea.

I had no idea! Enjoy.

Faith Odhiambo’s resignation is a reflection, a result, of a fragmentation in public opinion in Kenya, a foretaste of things to come. Few leaders are left who command the respect of all of the country.