That black people fleeing Ukraine are being mistreated speaks to the most consistent themes of whiteness. Even when humanity is called for, there is always room for racism.
Guys, here's the trailer to "Behind closed doors". It was directed by Michael Oswald and Murtaza Mehdi. All this information has been out for over a week.
Was searching for my number on my son’s phone to send something to myself. Searched “dad”, “baba”, even my full name. He was like “gimme the phone I show you”. 😔
Uhuru Kenyatta's reign came to an end today. His regime compares very poorly against all others since 1978 in terms of corruption. Here's a thread that should get you thinking:
#Wizileaks
After telling one of the kids they can't have something, they went on to say "let me ask mom". Was reminded that statement is the equivalent of saying "let me speak to your manager"😣😭😭
Kevin Kangethe, accused of murdering his girlfriend and dumping her body at an airport in Boston escaped from Muthaiga police station yesterday. Walked out of the station and boarded a Matatu.
For the past two years,
@AfUncensored
has been investigating a scheme purportedly hatched to take advantage of the GoK fertilizer subsidy. What we found was staggering. Well connected individuals, in a scheme to sell a product which even in the loosest of definitions cannot be…
To those who have called and messaged to check on me, I am fine and safe. Thank you for your concern. I really do appreciate it. As for those asking for quotes on the story kindly reference my earlier tweets on the same.
Really loved the banter 😂😂😂
There was a joke once , that for the EAC to become even closer Tanzanians need to be taught english, Ugandans need to be taught Kiswahili and Kenyans need to be taught manners!
Raise Samia Hassan alisema wataanza kufunza Wakenya Kiswahili, nikamjibu: "Tunaongelesha waTanzania kwa Kiswahili mbaya, wanatujibu na Kizungu mbaya, tunasonga mbele kama injili." 🤣
Niliua nyumba pale Dar na Rais William Ruto akamalizia
At the airport, saw a long, loooong line of young girls headed to Riyadh for work. Spoke to two of them. Barely out of their teens, leaving behind everyone they know for a country that hasn't treated some of their kin well. God protect them.
🇰🇪 has buried an exceptional man today. A man who, from all the things we have heard about him, did hard things, made hard choices and repeated this all his life. Kenya is currently being reimagined by some people too lazy to want better for it. May they be shamed into waking up…
The question is no longer "Did we know?" e.g . did we know that... COVID-19 funds would be stolen?"/ MPs will make Kenyans give them a raise? The question ought to be "Are you ready to do what it takes for this not to happen any more?" Acting surprised doesn't cut it any more.
As you shop for groceries today, kumbuka: 33% of the pesticides registered in Kenya arent in European markets because of their impact on human and environmental health.
@StateHouseKenya
has a role in correcting this. So does your MP. Mine is
@nixon_korir
.
Currently watching my kids in conclave to discuss who is going to ask me to buy them lunch. They will not match my "there's rice at home" energy today.
Spent some time at the Makueni County Hospital and the Mother and Child Hospital last week. Granted, I am no medic, but seeing what can happen when public hospitals function, It felt as if I have been living a lie in paying for private healthcare.
Let me just ask now; KE media, can we collaborate more often, more openly and with more intention? The next few years hold public interest challenges that will often be too big or complex to handle as lone rangers.
This is quite some investigative work, but an incredibly damning audit of just how desperate the Azimio side seemed to be in the past elections, becoming the monster they once fought:
With contributions from the awesome team at
@FinUncovered
we spent months looking through the
#PandoraPapers
and found companies linked to Mama Ngina Kenyatta, Pres. Uhuru Kenyatta, Muhoho Kenyatta, Kristina Pratt & Nyokabi Muthama. Watch here:
Raphael Tuju: I want Chebukati to explain to me and to Kenyans what the discussion was about when he came to a secret location to meet me in Karen.
I want Prof. Gulliye and Molu to explain what they came to do in my house. I will make the CCTV cameras at my house available.
30 years ago, I first learnt what the word genocide meant when my mother explained to me what was happening in Rwanda, and then Bosnia and Herzegovina. I never forgot that explanation. Today we are explaining the same to our children to help them understand what is happening in…
It has taken 7 years but Mugo Wa Wairimu has been convicted for his heinous crimes. Remember, it began with an investigative report by
@EvelynWambui
. For those journalists who toil not knowing whether their work has impact, be encouraged . Kudos E.V.E & your team!
No coincidence that when the government feels heat over its own mistakes, bots are scapegoating
@bonifacemwangi
and cops arresting
@MutemiWaKiama
. Be very wary, these voices that you think are irritants will be missed when you need them.
Away from dealing with the fake news coming my way around
#ArshadSharif
death, once again my sincere condolences go to his wife & family. It should be clear by now that no journalist should ever have to pay this price for his work, but in this day and age it bears repeating. RIP.
It used to be that a wholesale attack on the media fraternity would cause outrage. I do still think it is wrong but sadly, SADLY, there's a lot of that sentiment that many agree with, and I have to say, so do I. Here's why, beginning with the last election (short thread):
Waited a long time for this, and how nice that it falls on the last day of the month🔥🔥....ahem...🎶 Nine hundred thousand ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall 🍻 Nine hundred thousand ninety-nine bottles of 🍻 If one of those bottles should happen to fall...,🎶
Who else do you know of who has been lost this way? Post their picture, their names and
#DoNotForget
and lets use this Friday to remember them, and the systemic violence that led to their demise.
JUDGEMENT in the murder trial of Lucy Njambi, who was kidnapped, raped, doused in sulphuric acid and left for dead purportedly by her estranged husband, former MCA Samuel Ndung'u and two other suspects is being read as we speak. cc
@AfUncensored
What do the war in Afghanistan, Kenyan genge rap legend JuaCali and this locked septic tank cover have in common? Here’s a short thread on this very obscure connection and this week’s episode of
#TheLastDoor
:
Our
@AfUncensored
reporter
@justlonestar
has been apprehended by men in plain clothes driving a black Subaru while he was taking photos of the protests at Jacaranda. Calvin identified himself as a journalist to the men who appeared to be police officers but an eyewitness says…
Eish! An entire press statement meant to debunk an incident that has eye-witnesses, let alone CCTV footage that supports
@bonifacemwangi
narration of events? What is going on!!
What level of depravity in Saudi homes will it take for the GoK to stand up for its citizens? Why should it even have to take more than one case of abuse? This new recording of abuse is just a different level of disgusting, but all the abuse that has happened prior is terrible
BIG NEWS THREAD! The Class action suit filed by the Owino Uhuru community and
@phyllis_omido
was successful!! They've been awarded 1.3 BILLION shillings! We told their story
#plagueforprofit
in 2015 as well as via
@AfUncensored
:
Each IEBC commissioner is more damning than the next. An effort should be made to establish the facts, so that those who are lying are prosecuted for perjury. From deliberate hacking attempts to NSAC members claiming skirmishes had begun and thus results should be changed.
@makaumutua
@IEBCKenya
@WChebukati
Isn't Chebukati, as chair, the Returning Officer for the Presidential election and thus empowered by the constitution to make the announcement?
"Do you accept biscuits as payment?"
Our kids asked for snacks while we were shopping. Whenever they do, we usually give them a very limited budget to teach them how to plan their purchases, and see how many items they can fit in to it, or how much they can save for the future.…
You may have missed this, but on Wednesday this week, lawyer Jeremiah Meme Kinyua was shot to death, allegedly by police, on his way back from a court case in Embu. Sound familiar? That's because you know about Willie Kimani . This needs to stop.
Did a little shopping this past weekend on the way back from a field assignment. Differences in prices of potatoes in Nairobi and the countryside are 🤯. Kenya has great potential to feed itself with the right priorities and a food system that serves both the buyer and the…
An MP shoots someone in a nightclub. A young man is shot allegedly over weed in Majengo. Another for protesting over poor roads. This happened in the span of LESS THAN A WEEK. This is how power that is unaccountable works against a people. Are you next?
👇🏾 My very last day at KTN, 29th Nov. 2015. The following day we opened our doors for
@AfUncensored
first full day of operations. Six years later we are still here, ever so grateful for the lessons, the experiences (not all of them good) and the hundreds of stories. To many more!
Team
@AfUncensored
spent the better part of the afternoon screening
#FertileDeception
for members of the Senate committee on Agriculture and Livestock, who have just commenced an investigation into the fake fertilizer issue. Hopefully something comes of this. With…
A thread/request to Kenyans: if you want to really know which candidates will win in the August election, then you need to be part of tens of thousands of Kenyans who volunteer to share results from your polling station. Here's why:
In 2007, KICC was the venue of a political showdown where Martha Karua emerged as a key defender of the late President Kibaki's presidential results against Raila Odinga. That 15 years later it is the same venue where this hatchet seems to have been buried is quite interesting
#DoNotForget
Emmanuel and Ben. Lazarus. Samuel. Yassin. Stephanie. Pendo. Calvin. Samuel. Hamza. Willie. Joseph. Josephat. Jeremiah Kinyua, and hundreds more who have been killed. 📸
@BrianInganga
@NationAfrica
There is no contradiction between your belief and the churches respect for the law
@SakajaJohnson
. That people in bars sin differently doesn't make them better candidates for tougher adminstration. We are all equal under the law.
The hangover of poor borrowing choices ten years ago is here. Kenya is going after one of Africa's most expensive Eurobonds - largely to settle our first Eurobond. How'd we get here?
@AfUncensored
has been tracking Kenya's debt since 2019. Here's a short thread, beginning with…
Our
@afunceensored
journalists,
@justlonestar
and Clint Obere have been arrested by police while covering protests in Mathare. We aren't sure where they are being taken at the moment. This is uncalled for, an affront to our freedom to do our jobs. They need to be released NOW
Journalist Barrack Oduor before our interview.He & Sharon were abducted on the 2nd of September 2018. He escaped. Sharon who was 7 months pregnant never made it. Were it not for Barrack, the world may not have know of her murder. Tonight on
#TheLastDoor
we revisit Sharon’s murder
DRC: President Tshisekedi’s Chief of Staff Vital Kamerhe has been found guilty in $50 million corruption & embezzlement case.
He’s been sentenced to 20 years forced labour, plus confiscation of some assets, financial penalties & 10yrs disqualification frm voting/holding office
After
@Cynthia_Gichiri
@AfUncensored
sought comment from
@KEBS_ke
, their MD says they took 59 samples of SBL/GPC organic fertilizer from
@NCPB_KE
depots across Kenya and tested them. Not even one sample turned out to be organic fertilizer. NOT. EVEN. ONE. SAMPLE. This product…
Another day, another illegal action against
@MigunaMiguna
. Eventually, those behind this flagrant disrespect for the law will be beaten with the same stick they wield so recklessly. Everyone needs to respect the law, even those who are powerful today. Today is not forever.
Kenyan President, H.E William Ruto, Opposition leader Raila Amolo Odinga consult with President Museveni this afternoon in Kisozi. H.E. Ruto said after the meeting that Kenya and Uganda have the warmest relations and both yearn for the East African Political Federation.