In a months time the current regime will have been in power for three of a five-year term period terminating in August 2027. A very crucial time indeed. After the demonstrations across all counties, culminating with the attack of the parliament building on the 25th June 2024, and the resulting aftermath, the president came out to the people and for once appeared to have listened, with immediate effect he nullified the first cabinet of ministers, and he also did not sign the controversial finance bill 2024 into law. It was a win for the fallen youth - Gen Z, and a win for the nation as a whole, their deaths were not in vain, but as we have already seen, our beloved president never fails to amaze with his power tricks, the dissolution of the cabinet was all for show, a way of calming down a lynching nation, and once the nation was sort of pacified, the president submitted the new appointees for the vetting by the parliamentary committee, and guess what? He had only sent home very few of the past cabinet home, instead he chose to reshuffle all past CS who remained into different ministries, and included in his new cabinet very prominent members of the opposition, all as the president's supposedly wise way of appeasing all parties. What has followed since then is a further addition of opposition members and key figures during the regime of the former president Kenyatta. Due to the cataclysmic damage which resulted from the ousting of the first deputy Rigathi, the president has been forced to try via his cabinet to appease the crucial political zone, Mlima, from where the now uncrowned deputy hails from, but still, the mountain rumbles, everyone is starting to get this nasty perspective about the regime.
The president in a way underestimated the rift born out of deputy changes, I believe he thought with his countermeasures he could still maintain control over the region, but man was he wrong. Despite a very large number of crucial heads in the government hailing from the Mlima region, and even the vice president replacement hails from the same region, but control he could never achieve after such a break of trust, something that will always haunt him is why he decided to go ahead with the impeachment while he had the power to change the course of things and defend his vice, but that was what he really wanted. All along he had been looking for a way to get rid of the vice, after his role was done, he had allowed the president to get more votes in the Mlima mountain but after that, he was too hot for the president to keep around. What seats wrong with most is not the fact that the deputy is a saint of a being, no, to the contrary he is quite the character with a weird energy and all, but the president should have just left him run his mouth all he could just for the five years, as the former president Uhuru, had done with his deputy, the now current president of the republic. But the president can't help but be suss about his delivery, and did he anger many! With the new vice president the president embarked on a damage control mission which ended up changing nothing. At the same time the president with the help of the new cabinet edited the controversial bill and made it look like the president was finally listening to the people, and he was willing to now guide the nation forward through the observation of public participation during the making of policies and passing of bills, but no, the president had his own personal ideologies and goals and was to prove to the people of the nation that he was willing to go to any lengths to ensure control and him achieving his grandiose egotistical goals.
In the finance bill, the president had included a 3% cut on all civil servants for the affordable housing project. The cuts would be effective for a seven-year period after which supposedly one can get bet back their deducted money, the president needed the money to caution the whale investors he had pitched the affordable housing project to, and he made the cut strategically to run through his first term. But with him not signing into law the first bill, in the edited version he updated the cut to 1.5%, which still faced major pushback and uproar from the civil servants commissions, the supreme court tried to weigh in and ensure justice for the people, but the president persisted and for a while the nation witnessed what was a battle between president and the judicial system which had ruled for the pause of the correction of the cut, something which must have angered the president, for he was so close to roll in billions monthly from pockets of the nation, The president heavily defended his affordable housing scheme, saying that it was the time every family in the nation had decent accommodation. The plan is genius the only hitch is why does a president require cutting 1.5% of the monthly salary of all civil servants. And it is not that the cut makes one a default owner of the new houses in the project, or rather share owner to fully pay for the mortgage later on. And so he made his bill, revised, but still echoing much of what was in the first bill, just represented in a more subtle way rather than the previous one which was more grandiose.
In the shadows of everything that was transpiring, there was something else lurking, the abductions. They had been growing rampant the targets being influential figures, social media personalities who had made terms the regime would deem abusive, and those involved in the mobilization of the protestors. Particular Subaru cars became infamous as they were used by the members of directorate of criminal investigation, DCI, who would track down particular individuals and take them forcefully for questioning. It did not matter where one was, once they were interested in you, and they had your current location they would show up and do the abduction. The government of course stayed quiet and pretended nothing was happening except the riots, but since the abductions were sometimes even happening in broad daylight, it was very hard to ignore the fact for long, and the president finally came out and acknowledged the abductions and promised that those who were behind it would face it, but really he was the orchestrator all along. To him the nation is composed of the political elite and the servant class of lesser beings who are there to just serve the president's desires and goals. Before attaining the win, the president was just a common man like everyone else, but with the leadership came a magnificent boost of the ego to the skies, and he lost view. The abductions continued being rampant, the president was working hard to make sure people knew he meant business, to the press and the nation he sympathized with the families of those abducted but ultimately did nothing to change the situation for the families except empty promises of justice. Those few that have survived the abduction experience narrate of the horrors meted on them by individuals in masks, but highly trained and armed, who would question them and subject their bodies through various harassment and torture techniques for days on until one gave up and gave them the information that they were after, to this day many still remain missing, many families still left in uncertainty of the whereabouts of their kin. The abductions went even for kids of the political elite which of course resulted in the member involved writing to the president requesting for help in getting back the abducted son, what followed was an epic exposure of the workings of the abduction since the involved member, leaked his communications with the president about the matter, finally providing proof that the president was directly implicated in the violation of human rights through the abductions and the police were authorized to use force to use any means necessary to disburse the protestors, this has led to the loss of many innocent souls, and the injuring of many more as they run for their life from the police.
It is very funny that publicly the president says to rule via the rule of law, but in reality Kenya is not a true Democracy, as the president has proven, the ruling are exempt from the law, in a way they are above the law, there is nothing that can be done to them and one can escape with quite the transgressions against a nation and its people. But as the protests showed people were getting tired of the apparent oppressions by the government, and thanks to online spaces, TikTok Live and Twitter Spaces people were able to get information on all that was happening, much of which most of the legacy media avoids focusing on. And then there is the fact there is a new generation that isn't willing to take oppression and go down without a fight, they are unruly, energetic, and ingenious in their attack methods. I don't think per se the young generation wants leadership but rather a system that actually functions without imposing a myriad of taxes on the citizens, just trying to squeeze every coin from them, a rule of the people by the people. Making matters worse most of all utility services that the government found in place, they have done some changes ultimately paralyzing crucial services such as hospital insurance. It seems the only true aim of the regime is to siphon funds in all areas that they can before the end of the term in 2027. And hence why the scandals regarding many a fake tenders continue to dominate the headlines, but ultimately nothing is done, the cases disappear and the public is swept by the next trending news. Even to the president himself, the national hate is apparent, and he tries to gaslight the nation by asking them why they never gave other presidents before him such a hard time as he has had with the public, in reality though his rule has been one of the worst, there has just been too much bloodshed in the nation over people exercising their constitutional right to congregate and demonstrate peacefully. But gen z aren't for taking it and keeping quiet like previous generations, they are already hopeless enough to see a death for the nation heroic. But their deaths can't be for naught. They have birthed the spirit of disruption, if few have to die for change then that's how it's going to be. Emulating their ancestors who in the past fought for the nation from the colonizers, the gen-z are hell-bent on change rather than being complacent, their goal is to break the oppressive system and replace it with a leadership that respects the wishes of the nation and it's people, at whatever the cost since the current president has promised to try and influence the elections in his favor, but unfortunately he is beyond redemption. The one-term president is what he will be remembered for.
