Of all the political miscalculations the Ruto regime has managed to pull off, nothing beats in foolishness the failed attempt to isolate Kikuyus. It is still fresh in the memory of the nation that William Ruto is in State House, not because of the few noisemakers in government who are trying so hard to drown the wails and cries of millions from all corners of the country who are getting crushed by the ruthless Ruto regime, but because of the nearly 4.1 million votes he got from Mt. Kenya. Simply stated, Kikuyus made Ruto president. That the same president can watch as a few clowns play with fire, toying around with the very powder keg that sent 1 million Rwandese onto the grave, turned crimson the rivers of the Banyarwanda, and soiled a continent, is disgusting. Fatuma Mohammed, an evidently brick thick woman, who happens to be an electoral accident from Migori County, was caught on camera loudly calling upon 46 tribes to turn against Kikuyus. For what? For making Ruto president? For telling Ruto to fire Gachagua? For letting the likes of Kimani Ichungwa mislead the president?
The attempted logic, twisted, erroneous, and obviously stupid is that it is Kikuyus who are rebelling against President Ruto’s regime. What a flat lie! Well, Kenyans can see through the garbage. The idea is to turn a blind eye against the other tribes in the movement, focus the heat on Kikuyus because of their electoral force, scare, threaten, intimidate, and ostracize them, then kill the resistance. Bad news for these idiots is that the move failed before it even took off. How do you tell Kisiis who are strongly opposed to the regime that it is the Kikuyu’s fault? How do you convince the majority of patriotic Luos who want nothing to do with Ruto that the resistance is solely from Kikuyus? What language can you use to convince Masais who thronged to Narok town to receive and listen to the opposition leaders led by Riggy G that the push against this rogue regime is from just one tribe? Can Kambas even have time for nonsensical talk that minimizes and even deletes their voices as part of the resistance?
When Riggy G and his team toured Kilifi, were the thousands of people who showed up for the rallies Kikuyus imported from Murang’a? By the way, who were those angry young patriots who torched Mawego Police Station as an expression of anti-police sentiment over the murder of Albert Ojwang? Were they Kikuyus?
Even as the nation makes historical strides towards enlightenment that has been given a serious boost by information dissemination, there are some people who are clearly experiencing a knowledge lag. And in their foolishness, they think the rest of the county is with them. Not really!
Madam Fatuma, it is possible that your head is full of camel milk instead of a brain. We actually need to carry out a citizen test on you because you would be among those Somalis from Somalia sent here to cause chaos and make Kenya look like Mogadishu. The rebellion has Somalis-the young patriots who tore down Ruto signs as he toured Mandera. The resistance has Kisiis. The rebellion has Kambas. It also has Luhyas, Mijikenda, Masais, Kalenjins, Merus, Embus, Dorobos, among other groups. I want to believe that you know this and you were trying to achieve a certain target as guided by Farouk Kibet. In this instance, I will accuse you of a malice problem. If not, meaning that you honestly believe that it is just Kikuyus who are staging the resistance, then you have a stupidity problem.
I have also observed another issue that I will call the “Junet Mohamed Syndrome.” As a non-Luo elected among Luos, he always goes an extra mile, belching obscenities and cracking corny yet unfunny jokes in a laughable effort to sound more Luo than Luos, an unnecessary endeavour to secure his vote. Fatuma is also overreaching, trying to earn her place as a gallant defender of Ruto, as a way of casting herself as a foremost carrier of Raila’s message of support for Ruto. In the process, she is vomiting every piece of trash in her empty head.
From a patriotic standpoint, we must not allow anyone to play with the peaceful coexistence of our people for whatever reason. Small-minded politicians such as Fatuma Mohammed should be and must be called out, as loudly as possible, and the courts and other relevant institutions must be ready to take action. I expect the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) to pursue her promptly and get her to not just record a statement, but explain to the nation what she meant and apologize to the people for stupid and blatant spread of tribal hate.
Politics can be played with principle. But unfortunately, some of our political leaders are too thick to think along the lines of enduring principles that help in building nations such as ours. Disagreements are part of life, and politics is certainly part of life. Descending to the pit latrine of isolating tribes and directing hate on them is outright low.
And before I forget, Fatuma, who we have already established lacks intelligence, tried to make the country believe that it is just president Moi and President Ruto who have faced calls to leave office before their terms are over. Well, President Kibaki was forced into a shared government by Raila and Ruto. President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election was nullified in an historical first in Africa and the world indeed. He faced tough opposition from Raila leading to accommodation that saw Ruto get pushed out. So which is this Kikuyu president who in this small-minded woman’s head has had it easy?
Let me leave this here: The tragedy we face as a nation is in the choices we make at the ballot. We cast our votes based on guidance from our kingpins or the handouts we receive, and we end up with potato heads such as Fatuma Mohammed who have nothing in between their ears. This is how our nation stagnates. The quality of our debate sinks, the finesse of our laws erodes, the very fabric of our society ruptures, and the destiny we desire collapses. We have a duty to do better when we choose leaders. We must choose leaders with big brains that generate big ideas. Not pea sized brains that can only engage in senseless tribalism and nonsensical fearmongering. And by the way, any undecided vote among the Kikuyus that Ruto might have gotten in 2027 has been pushed to the opposing side by these silly utterances by Fatuma.
The new movement that has been birthed by her stupidity is this: We are all Kikuyus. 47 tribes have shed off their names and adopted the Kikuyu identity.
#weareallkikuyus