D I K E M B E

SENATOR NYUTU represents the world that Mt. Kenya leaders and people have been living in, shielded by the state so much so he did not know that there has been abductions, maimings, killings, rapes, politically instigated sexual violence, forced displacement of populations, forced disappearances, assassinations, infanticides, femicides, etc going on in the last 20 years. President Ruto came to power some 20 years after President Moi. For Mt. Kenya leaders and people, the kakistocratic impunity and primitive brutality of the last 20 years does not exist (because such were being perpetrated by their people). Someone should tell Muranga Senator Sen. Joe Nyutu to stop his tribal nonsense. He’s feeding Mt. Kenya a romanticized, revisionist hodgepodge of Kenyan history — lived largely by Mt. Kenya folks. President Ruto did not pick up from where Moi left. He took over from Uhuru Kenyatta whose record on human rights abuses is still very recent. Uhuru himself took over from Mwai Kibaki, another flagrant abuser of rights and father of modern electoral rigging and impunity. Kibaki took over from Moi, who only followed the Nyayo of Kenyatta. The people from Mt. Kenya and their leaders do not like history because history will reveal, to their embarassment, that their current pain, heartbreak and suffering are not unprecedented in the history of Kenya. As a young historian, I come to this war with a heart full of gratitude to President Ruto, for rarely do one live long enough to see oppressors being oppressed. When Mt. Kenya emerges from their current political wretchedness, they should never forget how it felt, so that they never recreate and perfect this cyclic system of oppression, as they did post-2002. KUMI BILA BREAK.

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