Bangladeshi citizens were seen climbing over the prime minister’s residence.
Shaheen Ali is one of my best friends in Toronto and we have worked together for decades and she is from Bangladesh, a great writer too, and has been fighting to get her country free so when her country went down with the PM fleeing I called her and asked her if that is a good thing. She told me it was inevitable and they must deal with it from there on.
People swim in the lake inside Ganabhaban, the Prime Minister’s residence, after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 5, 2024.
Hasina’s son Joy defended her record: “She has turned Bangladesh around. When she took over power it was considered a failing state. It was a poor country. Until today it was considered one of the rising tigers of Asia.”
Now we turn to Kenya. Are we going the Bangladesh way or does Kenya have any alternatives with Raila Odinga joining President Ruto in some shaky unity government.
There are a few complications for our country. One thing is the new Treasury boss John Mbadi has to come up with an a Finance Bill that Kenyans will accept. That is not going to be easy.
Then we have President Ruto going to the Supreme Court to salvage the 2003/24 Finance Bill which is all they have to keep collecting 16% on VAT and other taxes. Otherwise they are broke. The appeal is just to buy time. The Supreme Court is not going to overrule a unanimous decision by three Appeal Court judges unless they want to look super stupid and even ignite the country to more rebellion.
So Ruto needs to buy time and keep collecting taxes hoping that the new Treasury creates a new Finance Bill to help him run the country even if means he is running it to the ground.
If the next Finance Bill does not work the Ruto regime is done and over with. That will be Kenya’s Bangladesh moment and surely we don’t want to go there. Revolutions do not happen in a day like some Kenyans think in their twitter politics. And when they happen there is nothing anybody can do to stop them. The Kenya revolution is brewing and if it explodes after the next Finance Bill Failure the issue will be how to save the country from total destruction. That is next.
John Mbadi as the new Treasury boss is going to try his best and he has the expertise for that job. But that place is a shit hole. The other fact is that President William Ruto is the minister in every single ministry in Kenya. That is the way he operates his regime.
Right now Ruto says the next Finance Bill starts from zero because there is no budget to rely on. If it starts from Zero and ends up in Zero it is over for him. William Ruto excuse now is that if Kenyans overthrow him they are also doing the same for Raila Odinga because now he is working with him.
Mbadi has to be very careful. If he is given a chance to do something positive for Kenyans then do it. If Ruto controls everything and he cannot do anything then he has to walk away from the Treasury and resign from that job.
The other problem Kenya has to deal with is localized goon violence where MPs and Governors are hiring and arming thugs to fight Kenyans protesting for a better country free from corruption and theft of public funds.
That will work for a while for Ruto and his gangsters hired by MPs and others but eventually it will degenerate to local civil war and the citizens will overcome the goons hired by the government. Nane Nane just shows the desperation in the country where nothing is working. The next phase is coming.
And everywhere is a mess right now for the William Ruto regime. Here are the teachers getting ready to go into action. It can’t get any worse if they are out there and the Kenyan masses are overrunning the Ruto Regime. Watch out.
TSC CEO Nancy Macharia and Knut Secretary General Collins Oyuu during a past meeting.
In the meantime, President Ruto working with Raila Odinga has appointed 19 millionaires to the cabinet. These are people who make so much money and pay no taxes.
Not one of them was asked by the MPs during the “vetting” about how much tax they have paid even when some former CSs said their net worth has increased by Sh. 100 million since they were appointed two years ago.
How much tax did you pay in the 2023 or 2024 finance year? No, MPs will never ask such questions. It is a government of thieves by thieves and for thieves. What else does anybody expect from this Ruto regime?
It could blow up the Bangladesh way and both the leaders and the citizens know that. Watch out.
Nane Nane was just one day. What matters is what happens next.
And the so called Kenyan opposition is totally confused. Martha Karua has quit Azimio and maybe she has not noticed that she doesn’t even have a single MP in Parliament from her Narc Kenya Party.
But this was a very good move by Martha Karua. It is time to join the fight for the country. Personally, I think this is the best thing Martha Karua as an opposition leader has done for our country which is approaching war time. Stay there, please. Martha Karua showed some guts that Kenyans need from other opposition leaders. Go face the bullets please then there will be few bullets fired at Kenyan protestors.
In my opinion, Martha Karua who was Raila Odinga’s VP choice in the 2022 elections should go to Raila and tell him they are ready to talk to President William Ruto on this national conversation thing on one condition and that is to have IDs being issued to Kenyans right from now, and once the IEBC is sorted out, have a voter registration for six months. The rest of the opposition is a joke.
Jubilee with Jeremiah Kioni is yelling and and they have not noticed that the only MP they have in parliament is Sabina Chege who was nominated by Raila Odinga and joined KK as soon as she was in parliament. We have somebody called Peter Munya from PNU who wants a new Azimio leader. Does anybody know who he is?
Kalonzo’s wiper which joined Azimio at the last minute before the elections has 25 MPs. ODM has 85 MPs in parliament. End of story. Without Raila Odinga there is no Azimio.
The Kenyan opposition will develop in the next few years and nobody knows what it will look like. Okay. The real issue for any opposition in Kenya today is to have IDs issued to Kenyans and voter registration so Gen Z protestors can be registered to vote in the next election.
Why can’t the so-called opposition get that simple fact straight instead of dwelling on irrelevant things like who is the leader of Azimio?
