When the COVID-19 is over I will invite you to Kamakis for a beer. Then I'll ask one of my drinking buddies to tell you about the land directly opposite, hidden by a massive eucalyptus stand. It looks like a forest. It is not. Rumor has it that it was Waititu who gave Uhuru the idea of planting a line of trees to hide their massive landholdings in Ruiru.

The Gikuyu have a quaint term for it: 'Ukari muhithe' (namely, people will forgive your being rich and mean so long as you don't flaunt your wealth in their faces too much).

But if you take a flight to Kisumu and you happen to look down on take off, you can see the hidden wealth, flaunted in all its glory. A massive empty land block abutted by the crowded slums of Mwiki and Githurai to one side and the growing Kamakis and Ruiru/Murera to the other. And this is just one of many such examples.

How long do you think people will put up with such ostentatious displays of wealth within poverty?

Uhuru may not be about amassing riches. But if he has not thought about protecting the family wealth I would be very surprised. Certainly his mother and brothers have.

In fact the recent Kenyatta family moves, to transfer their holdings into liquid assets - buying banks, expanding Brookside, creating the Northlands project - shows that they are indeed alive to the potential danger.

Another example of the painful experience of the failure to have The Buttons on the Virtual Republic of Wazua.

The Like. The Love. The Upvote. The Downvote. Buttons.

Now to substance.

The Kenyattas is a known-known.

For Hon. Ruto to win, he needs to make it the hustlers versus the dynasties.

Please tell us about the Odingas

The Moi's

The Koinange's

The Kihika's

The Moses Mundamba Mudavadi Dynasty.

The Nyachae's

The Murgor's

Put it in another way, every District and Province in Kenia has its dynasty. The local dynasty.

Then, there is the Kenian Wahindi's

And ultimately, The Survivors of the Happy Valley Dynasty.

Will this combined force stand by and let these "tumundu's" take over.

Incidentally, I would love to understand your version of who is the "Deep State" in Kenia. Your version.

Your move.

Wow, it looks someone has been stung, has one?

Smoke a joint and chill my brother.

I will not give you the satisfaction of joining you in the gutter.

Next!

The 2022 battle is clear, its hustler nation vs dynasties. One thing is clear though, Uhuru will not get that constitutional amendment. The gods are against it and they've sent Covid19 to kill that...now once the gods are against you, do you stand a chance? Truth is Uhuru is not smart and its very obvious to everyone.

First heard this during the handshake. That this was the primary reason Uhunye sought for RAO

I find it strange for a man who wanted to use the Moi strategy ascend to power to want to remove hos boss.

But anything is possible in siasa.

Katambe

Not so fast sir. Party ORGANS will determine that.

🙆‍♀️🙆‍♀️29th is in 2 weeks time.

Never joke with a man with the power.
Tears will flow freely.

BTW how comes there no riots in Eldy and other Kale towns on the ongoing manenos of their "Mtu wetu".

And Kiongosi wa Ponde la Ufa really talked matope.He seems to have been really hurt.

This is the most laughable statement. I forgive your ignorance my brother for you don't understand how capital works and probably you have not visited a single plantation or a ranch in Kenya.You probably sit in a congested air-conditioned open office in a skyscrapper in Nairobi slaving daily 8AM-5PM for someone else.

Hiyo shamba ya Ruiru isi kusumbue sana my friend. It is theirs and no one can tunya them. Hapo hapo ruiru there are other landlords like rendevous(tatu city) and the Gatabaki's.There is also a coffee plantation in the same neighbourhood owned by an obscure company known as EAAGADS with all manner of shareholders including modest retired teachers from Kisii, Migori, Taita Taveta as well as here in Wazua.

No one can dare play with CAPITAL in a capitalist system.

First and foremost, The Kenyattas are not only wealthy but are also very powerful with or without one of them being being in statehouse. They also have very powerful buddies in the USA,Buckingham palace and other jurisdictions. Friendships forged over 70 years ago and cemented by marriages,business partnerships and other interests. Baba himself is one of the longtime family friends who is also fairly wealthy,powerful and influential.

Secondly, it is not only the Kenyattas that are super rich in Kenya. We also have other Kenyans wahidis,wazungus and lately Chinese with serious capital invested in Kenya. We have people with over 50000 acres of consolidated prime land in Kenya which not only has cattle,goats and sheep but also herds of elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, zebra, hyenas, lions,mongooses etc. as well as indegenious forest hapana hiyo mtoto mibao/mefao(eucalyptus) forests wazuans are fond of. We have people in Kenya with over 10000 acres solid under tea alone.Others have over 20000 acres(consolidated) all under the most underrated cashcrop known as sisal. They are not called Kenyatta or Moi but they exist humuhumu.Some Wazuans even have shares in this plantations earning juicy dividends yoy. Touch Kenyatta and the next thing you know @vvs et al will be lamenting in the blue section about government interference with biashara and their holdings no matter how small.Hapana cheza na capital i emphasize.

All this capital is intertwined. You try touch one and the next thing you know is sanctions from USA or a phone call from Buckingham palace and a lot of kelele in the blue section.

I have said it before and i will say it again. By the year 1935, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta had attended three universities huko majuu notably University College London, Communist University of the Toilers of the East, and London School of Economics. Most of Wazuan ancestors in the 1930's including mine were running helter sketler semi-nude in the plains of Laare and elsewhere totally content with their hunter-gatherer livelihoods. Old Jomo and others had already been exposed not only to Western mannerisms but also to complex concepts as capitalism and communism and accumulation of wealth. You cannot fault Jomo for being smart and acquiring capital for his descendants.

By 1922 Jomo was working for the now dysfunctional Nairobi water and sewage company earning a tidy sum of kshs. 250 per month. 20 acres of land in Karen in 1920 was going for 20 bob. My grandfather then was pre-occupied with adding another wife and siring more children and evading/resisting thingira tax imposed by mubeberu. I don't blame my grandpa. He was just in the wrong place at the right time and had not gone to school.

When Mzee Moi(RIP) left office, the media said Narc(of Kibaki and Raila) will repossess all wealth from Moi and his buddies like Biwott, Saitoti, Merali etc. Mzee Kibaki being the pragmatic fellow he is, offered amnesty for the wealth that was out-rightly plundered from treasury but not for "clean" established businesses employing Kenyans and paying billions in tax.

Lastly, the oath of Presidency in Kenya has a part where the incoming president swears to protect Kenyans and their wealth. The police and the judiciary are very effective when it comes to protecting capital held by Kenyans and others. The Kenyattas are Kenyans and not Ugandans
.(Tafakari)

Refs:
1. Jomo Kenyatta. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jomo_Kenyatta

To quote macharia gaitho they dont come anti ruto like him

"There will actually be little to celebrate for a president who knows that he has lost his key support base. It does not need an opinion poll to tell that, in his central Kenya bastion, President Kenyatta has become a deeply unpopular figure. He is a subject of scorn and derision who is blamed for everything — from the dire economic situation to being a spoilt royal out of touch with the needs of the common man"

The seeds of what will happen in 2022 are being planted now and the battle lines are clearly drawn unless uhuru pulls a rabbit na isikuwe Gideon or MDVD

Team hustler has already been dismantled. Waititu and Sonko have shown in leadership, giving power to hustlers is dangerous. Mido class has learnt its lesson not to align with riff raff again. The narrative against the hustler nation has been written. They are a corrupt mafia like cartel using dubious means to acquire wealth and power. They are not the answer to Kenya's problems by any stretch of imagination.

Uhuru and his dynasties have also shown contempt for mido class and its values: too much taxation, destroying stock market, promoting tenderpreneurs while killing genuine SMEs, limiting access to capital, allowing municipal services and urban planning to go to the dogs and finally basically telling the mido class during covid shutdown you are on your own. Mido class will revisit.

2022 battle will be alignment between mido class and the dynasties to run out hustler nation riff raff out of town and then battle royale between mido class and the dynasties from 2030 onward.

Mido class will swell in numbers in the coming decades as income rise as avg number of children per family falls to 3 and below. The aspiring poor will be inclined to align with the mido class like US democrats.