27/12/2024
COPIED FROM Silas Gisiora Nyanchwani
Tonight, my thoughts are with those young kids who are missing, abducted, and probably being tortured mercilessly, for merely using AI tools to generate fake pictures of our president portraying him as a dead man.
Essentially, it is tactless, if foolish act, not to be encourage because human decency discourages such.
But nowhere it is a crime worth attention from authorities. Kenya is not a dictatorship or some banana Republic where the head of state is some untouchable figure. Our constitution grants us certain immunities.
Even at the worst of times of Uhuru Kenyatta's regime, I don't remember anyone wishing him death. Other than jokes about his alcoholism and incompetence, nobody wished him harm or death. In fact, when Social Media became too toxic for his mental health, he logged off permanently until he left office.
What has Ruto done to offend and annoy everyone so much? Save for a few folks from his ethnic background, a few Luo bloggers benefiting from present state largesse(and it is perfectly understandable, I have nothing against them), I don't know anyone who likes or feels Ruto.
I have never seen a figure attract so much hatred in so short a time.
People hate him, not because he is a Kalenjin.
People hate him because he lies with such cavalier hollowness, such that even the most illiterate person knows it is useless listening to him. People hate him because we have never had such an incompetent president and this is a fact. People hate him because he promised never to abduct anyone, never to torture anyone, there would be no disappearances under his watch, and we have never seen more broadlight shootings, more broadlight arrests, more mutilation of our constitution than we have seen in this year alone. All those bodies collected. All those kids killed during protests; it is hard to love any man who kills our children with no remorse, no parent will have any love left for him. People hate him because he has done the exact opposite of his campaign promises. He has enrolled and bankrolled dynasties in his eating, he is mortgaging the country to foreign interests and excusing terrible things being done to us, all the while insulting and abusing our intelligence.
There is nothing redeemable about Ruto.
Nothing.
Not a single a thing.
He was a bad man from the word go.
At no point in his political career can you pin point Ruto doing anything that was right, or serving the interests of the people. But his dangerous charisma fooled everyone and now he is sinking our country to lows that we may never recover from in our lifetime.
Told you three years ago, if Ruto became our president and you were aged 25-35, consider yourself a lost generation. You will never make enough generational wealth to turn the fortunes of your family.
When kids start circulating photos of you as a dead man, you need to sit and reflect where their hatred comes from. It is narcissistic to dismiss the cries of the children as tribal.
There are some adults who still don't understand the import of the Gen Z maandamano. We have almost a million graduates, very intelligent kids, wildly gifted who are unemployed, underexposed or grossly underpaid. On the other hand you have a government whose best effort so far is sending them to the middle-east for menial jobs and being proud of it.
The palpable anger in these kids has been completely misunderstood and sadly NIS seems not to know their job to tell the emperor how naked he is and how exposed is. If those kids hit the streets again, and they will, they will be unstoppable. And luckily now, there will be nobody to save Ruto, because both Raila and Uhuru have joined Ruto to run the country down one last time.
Ruto only had one job, turn the economy around, make it work for a majority of the people, not a few Indian billionaires and his Kalenjin inner circle, make healthcare work, not ruin the system, make education work, and all these things are not rocket science.
Nobody wants him on top of cars spreading lies like a cheap conman. Nobody wants to listen to his staid, uninspired and uninspiring speeches. He will never say one credible thing that people believes him. People hate him and his incompetent, totally useless cabinet.
Two years is enough to gauge the competence of a leader with the ability of doing something right that may help the country.
Sadly Kenyans are broke, hungry, angry, demotivated, and even this Christmas has a certain sad cheer.
That is why people would wish him dead, because we are so powerless, and only his death can rescue people from his bad regime.
He is a father, a loving one while at it. He is a friend to many people no doubt. If not for lying and his incompetentence, I think he is some I can have a cup of tea with.
But he can't run a country.
That is the fact.
It doesn't matter what colour of lipsticks his bloggers paint him. He can't run a country. And people will keep wishing him bad things until he changes his ways.
