Right now our country is on the edges of a national catastrophe which was brought to earth for every Kenyan on July 7, 2025. It is quite clear that Kenya is facing an existential threat never seen before and the country could fall apart into pieces that could reduce our nationhood to zero.
That cannot be accepted by Kenyans regardless of their positions in the country or their tribe as some want to ventilate about.
As a result of that, Raila Amolo Odinga, in his capacity as a Kenyan first and for most called a press conference on July 7, 2025 to put forward a proposal for a national dialogue for the whole country to address the political gridlock and serious economic challenges driving millions of Kenyans into abject poverty with no hope for a better life whatsoever.
Raila Odinga has called for the establishment of an “Intergenerational National Conclave” to discuss issues raised by Kenyans as the country is going through what is threatening to break Kenya into unrecognizable pieces of warring parties and interests endangering the very fabric of the existence of our country.
What Kenyans showed on July 7, 2025 is not a country anybody would like to live in and that was probably just the beginning of what we face as a country and as citizens. The obvious fact is that Kenyans have no other country to live in except for the one we all saw falling apart before all of us on Monday July 7, 2025.
Since that proposal was made by Raila Odinga a few days ago other big political leaders in our country have completely denounced the proposal.
We all know that our country is going to be at risk of being engulfed in what our politicians do best which is endless quarrelling and fighting among themselves as the citizens and their country falls to apart we have to think outside the box given the seriousness of the situation on the ground.
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In his proposal Raila Odinga asked that whatever the National Dialogue team agrees on has to be subjected to a referendum for Kenyans to decide if that is the right way to go or not.
Based on the political squabbling already endangering that whole process as a solution it might be better for Kenyans to actually hold that referendum in the form of a presidential election within the next three to six months.
Our 2010 Constitution provides that a Presidential and General Elections must be held on the second Tuesday of August every fifth year since the last elections.
If the nation is at war then both presidential and general elections can be delayed by up to six months if passed by two thirds majority in the House and the Senate. Fortunately for us our country is not at war yet so that proposal is irrelevant to our country now
The 2010 constitution also provides that in the event prior to the general and presidential elections, the position of the President falls vacant as well as that of the Deputy President, presidential election can be held earlier at any date within six months after the vacancy arises.
Considering the situation on the ground today for every Kenyan the third option fits the needs of Kenyans perfectly.
In that case, President William Ruto and the DP Kithure Kindiki will have to step down from holding those positions in the next three months and let Kenyans elect a President and DP of their choice.
In such election President William Ruto and VP Kithure Kindiki are free to run for the same positions they are holding but it will give them an opportunity to put foward their vision is for the country today.
The national dialogue is for Kenyans to make proposals to do everything better for its 40 million citizens in every aspect of their lives and abide by the constitution of the country in deed not just in words.
On the other hand we have key politicians in our country who have publicly declared that such a dialogue is waste of time and they have no interest in participating in any such dialogue even though the same politicians do not provide any route out of the troubles we face as a country.
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has laid bare the devastating aftermath of the recent Saba Saba protests, revealing that at least 31 people lost their lives during the nationwide demonstrations.
As we all know in our country if nothing is done to deal with situation we face now the politicians will be fighting and quarrelling, calling each other names and all that while the country continues to burn to the ground. That “solution” must be rejected by Kenyans because we are right now seeing where it takes the country.
As we have seen with the Gen Z movement in our country which was started organically by young Kenyans who were ready to fight for a new country and demanding a better economy for Kenyans as well as trying to make sure that our country follows the rule of law.
This ensures that there is justice for them and everybody else in the country and address problems that hinder our country from moving forward with dignity and hope for a better future for all Kenyans.
That Gen Z movement is still going but faces two big problems. One bad thing is that we have a government that continues to do the very things that Gen Z is fighting to eliminate.
We have abductions of Kenyans from the streets and some from their homes. Many Kenyans have been shot dead by police officers and other state agents like the General Service Unit (GSU), the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) and prison guards brought to the streets to kill Kenyans.
The shoot to kill rampage of the Kenya police is going and they are killing young Kenyans like Boniface Kariuki who was just doing his business of selling masks and was shot point blank with the gun pointed and just touching his head before the bullet went through his head and that young man is now dead.
Kariuki’s family shared heartfelt tributes, remembering him as a hardworking, kind-hearted young man who met his death while going about his normal duties.
“It has been very difficult for us, but with God we know we are going to win,” said a family member even as they called for justice.
Emotions ran high Wednesday during a requiem mass for Boniface Kariuki, the mask vendor shot by police during the June 25 protests.
The event held at the All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi was attended by family, friends, and relatives.
Kariuki’s family shared heartfelt tributes, remembering him as a hardworking, kind-hearted young man who met his death while going about his normal duties.
“It has been very difficult for us, but with God we know we are going to win,” said a family member even as they called for justice.
“It was painful, we do not want to discuss more about how he was robbed of his life.”
On the other hand we have politicians who have hijacked the Gen Z movement and are behaving as if are those young Kenyans are fighting for them to gain political power even though not a single of one of them has been to the demonstrations including the big one on July 7, 2025.
Those politicians claiming to own the Gen Z movement are in their homes, their own grown sons and daughters will never show up in that Gen Z battlefield because they are at home enjoying their time.
None of those politicians trying to kidnap the Gen Z movement for democracy and human rights have lost a single one of their children in the streets of Nairobi or elsewhere.
They have not ever dealt with a situation where their businesses and homes are vandalized and razed to the ground with so called goons who are actually normal human beings mainly teenagers living under terrible economic conditions that forces some of them to risk death just to get a loaf of bread from some shop in Nairobi during the demonstrations.
And the politicians are not the Kenyan women being invaded in hospitals while in the process of giving birth. Maybe if any of these horrible tragedies directly affected the politicians from both sides they would be eager to find real solutions as opposed to endless political fights for political power for themselves which has nothing to do with where to take the country.
The time for Kenyans to take issues in their own hands has come and it is now. If Kenyans feel that it is better for them to reorganize the political journey of our country where one side is for dialogue and building new structures to get the country out of the dangerous situation Kenyans face now and the other side either has no idea on what to do, apart from blame games, then it is better for Kenyans to take matters in their own hands.
Kenyans need to and must decide which direction is best for them between those two completely different directions for the country. That decision can only be made in the ballot box where every Kenyan will speak very loudly with their voting cards and not with guns or stones and crude weapons. How can that possibly be wrong.
Martha Karua actually made a very good point for going for presidential elections right now when she made these very clear statements.
“Being elected is not a title deed which you wave in our faces, you have a term but it can be withdrawn. Ruto should consider that he was fired last year during the Gen Z protests. If you’re on borrowed time, try to correct your mistakes; he’s adding insult to injury. My call is for all Kenyans of goodwill that this is our country.”
She challenged the Ruto regime to change its course, warning that Kenyans hold the constitutional power to terminate his mandate early, reigniting the ongoing debate over the one-term slogan.
“If you want to meet us on the ballot, change your ways, you and your illegitimate rogue regime. if not, Kenyans have the power to terminate the contract earlier,” she pointed out.
Martha Karua declared the William Ruto government as a rogue and illegitimate regime and has declared that they are ready to meet him at the ballot box.
So instead of these fights and abusive language which will contaminate Kenyan political space for another two years till 2027 while politicians shout at each other nonstop there must be better options for the country.
As the politicians fight for power till 2027, the demonstrations and killings as well as the looting and rampage of people’s businesses will go on with the politicians trying to twist that to suit their own power fights while Kenyans suffer.
To solve this nightmare in our country today it is much better for Kenyans to elect their president and the politicians can spare the country from noisy fights as Kenyans people suffer even more everyday.
On the very same day Martha Karua declared her opposition to the intergenerational dialogue for the country Rigathi Gachagua’s team made it very clear they don’t want to be involved in such a process.
As far as Gachugua’s DCP is concerned the dialogue is completely useless.
“This dialogue is misleading and self-serving. It is not about the youth—it is about protecting entrenched political interests,” the Gachagua team declared.
According to the media the Gachagua MPs further condemned the recent demonstrations taking place across the country, warning that the situation is escalating into what they termed a “targeted war” against specific communities.
A Practical way to address tribalist innuendos about targeted certain communities is to take the example what happened in Ndunyu Njeru Police Station in Kinangop, Nyandarua County where the entire police station and all facilities used by the police there were burnt into ashes.
In the police cells at that police station were three suspects held there and the burning of the police station was because the police officers on sight at that time refused to remove the suspects and hand them over to the raging mob of young people who wanted to lynch them.
All those who did the terrible arson down there were from that community and after the fire was over and the whole place burnt to ashes the dead and burnt out bodies of the suspects is all that was left.
Was this one of the targeted wars against that community?
It is obvious Rigathi Gachagua and his DCP which is a big part of the United Opposition group will not in any way participate in the proposed dialogue and that is fine for them because they have every right to make choices that they think are better for the country.
It is frightening for any political group to bring naked tribalism into the dilemma our country faces today because it can only make things worse. The idea that the chaos in our country is a “targeted war” against specific communities is an outright lie that Kenyans should condemn without any hesitation at all.
People are being shot by the Kenya Police and it is obvious the cops don’t ask them their tribe before they shoot them and if the Gachagua team has any evidence about tribal shootings by the police they should bring it forward instead of trying to set different communities and tribes to be at war with each other. What will be next for such cheap political adventurism? Is Kenya going to provide arms for each tribe to go to war with the other?
The so-called goons are destroying businesses everywhere and when they are burning down shops and buildings they have no time to determine the tribe of who owns that business. It could be owned by a Kikuyu business family, a Luo family, a Luhya or anyone else and most of the businesses being burnt all over the country are in places where relatively poor people many of them Kenyan women do business just for survival. The big conglomerates have all the security to protect their property and nobody goes there.
Why would any serious political group or leaders want to bring tribalism into the tragedy Kenyans are facing today. If that is the only way for such people to achieve their political interests in the country then that is even a better reason to have a national dialogue and if that is not acceptable to some then Kenya must have a presidential election in the next six months.
And here comes Kalonzo Musyoka Wiper Party Position on National Dialoge.
“We shall not participate in or support the proposed Kenya Kwanza-led broad-based government of national unity. This is a betrayal of the Kenyan people, particularly Gen Z and millennials, who have paid the ultimate price to rid this country of the disastrous Kenya Kwanza regime, their harsh taxes (Finance Bill 2023/2024), corruption, tribalism, unemployment, and the continued high cost of living,” Kalonzo declared.
“Should any of our members opt to join the proposed Kenya Kwanza-led broad-based government of national unity, we shall not be a party to that decision, they will be joining in their individual capacity, not on behalf of Azimio,” he added.
Kalonzo went ahead to note that the mandate of the opposition is to represent the voices and needs of the people, not those of the government.
In regard to the current state of affairs in the Cabinet, the Wiper boss pointed out that little was bound to change with a new Cabinet unless the current regime considers the proposal of Azimio chief Raila Odinga to initiate a convention that forges a way forward for the country instead of a dialogue.
“As long as the Kenya Kwanza regime remains in place, absolutely nothing will change. Unless the new Cabinet takes place after Raila called a convention, not a dialogue, then there can be engagement in regard to interim arrangements of a transitional government of national unity, following resolutions of a convention,” he said.
“In terms of the Gen Z revolution, it appears that the administration lacks an understanding of public sentiment. Generation Z does not wish to engage in dialogue. They want action and Wiper agrees,” Kalonzo said.
“The government knows what needs to be done. We do not need more dialogue; we need action. The youth of this country are tired of endless discussions and want to see tangible results,” Musyoka asserted.
Kalonzo Musyoka rejection of the proposed Nationa Dialogue is his right as a leader of a political party and he wants to be a presidential candidate in the next election but there are some very strange things he brought up which have nothing to do with Raila Odinga’s proposal to help the country deal with the problems Kenyans face right now.
One crazy thing Kalonzo Muysoka talks about is a far fetched idea that Raila Odinga’s proposal is to establish “a transitional government of national unity”. Nothing could be farther from the truth unless Kalonzo has a different copy of the proposals that were made in a press conference and Kenyans listened to that and have read them in the media reports.
Just to help Kalonzo get to the facts as per the proposals, Raila Odinga is not inviting him or any other political leader to join the government in any capacity. As a matter of fact Raila Odinga has no powers to invite anybody to join the Ruto government because he is neither the president nor does he hold any executive position in that government.
In its simplest sense mediation can be defined as the act or process of mitigating the concerns of disputing parties by an intermediary who is not a party to the conflict, but who enjoys the trust of all parties and whose goal is to help forge settlements that are deemed acceptable.
Raila obviously made the proposals where in his view he felt the country was falling a part and different sectors and politicians in our country need to come together and come with a way forward which will be taken to a referendum for Kenyans to vote on.
If Kalonzo has any ideas about how to make the Kenyan economy work and how to get the Kenyan more jobs and business opportunities to improve their lives he should be very welcomed in the dialogue team to offer those ideas.
Another issue that is very obvious from Kalonzo Muysoka’s rejection of the proposed dialogue is his insinuation that somehow he is the leader of the Gen Z and he wants to project himself like the spokesperson for that group.
“In terms of the Gen Z revolution, it appears that the administration lacks an understanding of public sentiment. Generation Z does not wish to engage in dialogue. They want action and Wiper agrees,” Kalonzo said.
I don’t know when and where Kolonzo held a meeting with the Gen Z groups and they asked him to be their leader. In case he thinks he is the leader of Gen Z and all those young Kenyans fighting for a better life and opportunities to work and do business then the more reason for him to go to the dialogue team.
It is probably be a better idea to have the real representatives of the Gen Z communities to directly participate in the national dialogue process instead of political opportunists pretending to represent and speak for them.
That would be better for everybody in including the Gen Z communities all across the country. The politicians are dragging the actions of the Kenyan youth into their own political problems so those politicians can look like they are busy doing the Kenyan youth a favour while doing absolutely nothing for those young Kenyans.
That whole idea of desperate political parties pretending that they represent Kenya’s Gen Z young Kenyans while they are more than seventy years old and have never participated in the Gen Z activities or mass rallies is itself a problem that has to be dealt with.
Kalonzo concludes by saying something that many Kenyans would agree on and lets hope he means business.
“The Dialogue Gen Z and Kenyans are demanding is that Parliament stands dissolved, a snap election be called, and that Ruto steps down. And Wiper Democratic Movement agrees”
In a very specific way our 2010 constitution already provides for an early presidential election anytime the office of the president and the DP falls vacant and Kalonzo can prepare to face William Ruto and any other Kenyans interested in being our next president in the next three to six months.
In fact Kalonzo and others including Gen Z activists can go to the national dialogue conference next week and call for immediate presidential elections now unless they are scared that they could lose that election.
“We are tribe-less, party-less and leaderless. None of the current political class speaks for us” said one protest leaders during a rally on July 7, 2024
People like Kalonzo and all other politicians fighting for power in Kenya needs to understand the underlying principle of the Gen Z movement. None of the political parties in Kenya today represents the group of young Kenyans fighting for their future.
One thing that Kenyans may have to try because they have so many problems with the Kenyan police is to ask President Ruto not to send a single police officer in the streets of Nairobi when there is another mass demonstration in the city.
Let the demonstrators take the whole city for themselves with no police in sight. If we end up with a perfectly peaceful demonstration then that can be integrated into our constitution and that could solve a big problem Kenyans face today with cops during demonstrations.
Here is one attempt to do that and maybe it should be implemented while also removing any police presence in the streets during demos. In this kind of arrangement the government could save a lot of money by cutting the police force by half and use the money saved to help young Kenyans invest in business and make a descent living.
And here is a court ruling today July 9, 2025 which could pave the way for police-less situations in Kenya.
According to media reports, the Katiba Institute had moved to court citing the unlawful suspension of fundamental human rights following the events of July 7, where police barricaded major roads leading into Nairobi, ostensibly to prevent Saba Saba protesters from accessing the central business district.
Delivering his ruling on Wednesday, Justice Lawrence Mugambi found that the actions of the National Police Service had infringed on key constitutional rights, including freedom of movement, assembly, and protest as provided under Articles 37 and 39 of the constitution.
“Pending the hearing of the application, a conservatory order is hereby issued restraining the 1st Respondent, the Inspector General of the National Police Service, or any officer subordinate to him, from suspending Articles 37 and 39 of the Constitution by cancelling, disrupting, or interfering in any way with the right to assemble, protest, or picket while peaceful and unarmed,” he ruled.
