Some amongst us — hooligans, goons, and soulless degenerates — who’ve turned our cries for justice into their playground for destruction.
The chaos isn’t new, but it has mutated, slithering from the shadows of legitimate dissent into a beast that threatens to devour the very soul.
The protests in Kenya were a ghastly sight. This turn of protests revealed a much uglier undertone to Kenya’s politics. The disregard for human life, the coldness with which politics is prosecuted, but worse… far much worse: the existence of evil within, not just the political class, but some within our ranks. Some amongst us — hooligans, goons, and soulless degenerates — who’ve turned our cries for justice into their playground for destruction. We must burn this rot out, root and stem, or we’ll lose more than our voices. We’ll lose our country.
The chaos isn’t new, but it has mutated, slithering from the shadows of legitimate dissent into a beast that threatens to devour the very soul of our protests. I’m not here to parrot the government’s lazy line that the protests were paid for by politicians. That’s a tired script, a distraction. The Kenyan youth has agency that this government cannot tame. They know this, and the fact that they keep insisting, an entire year down the road, that the protests aren’t organic, and that they’ve been facilitated by some gods in the shadows, is precisely why these things keep happening.
