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@Safaricom_Care I paid for home Internet in the morning and I still don’t have internet.

In an exclusive interview with Citizen TV, my friend @EvansDims, who photographed the Rt. Hon. Raila Odingabetween 2015 and 2018, has revealed that Raila never wanted cameras present whenever he was giving or helping people. Raila believed that kindness and generosity did not need to be broadcast to the world. Yet for years, political detractors weaponized the false notion that Raila was not a giver, using it to paint him as disconnected from ordinary people. I am happy that, in the end, the truth is emerging from those who were closest to him, people who witnessed the small, unrecorded moments that defined his humanity.

Sat down with #GateteNjoroge to talk to him about photographing one of the most consequential figures in our politics @RailaOdinga . I talk about the stories behind some of my most iconic photos I ever made. Catch the interview on @citizentvkenya at 9pm local time.

On the streets of Bondo this morning. He sold one of these to me then later told him that this is my work. I Love the print quality and the value addition he’s done on them.

Winnie Odinga shared a beautiful bond with her dad and it really shows in this behind-the-scenes video of the making of Jakom’s official portrait from 2017. She was the one directing the shoot, and you can see how naturally she made him feel at ease,cracking jokes.

One of the most iconic shots of the 2017 political campaigns and one of my favorites of Jakom @RailaOdinga The photo was published on NatGeo online magazine with an editor’s note.

📸 Credit @EvansDims

It was a great honor to capture this portrait of Rt. Hon. @RailaOdinga in 2017.

@Disembe 100%

Wabiro budhi Jahome! @EvansDims

Thomas Partey may have cost us this game by getting that silly yellow card in Madrid.

@Disembe Okwanyal yie! Okwabiyie..sani kata seche mabiro.

The type of government that the tribal kikuyu want is one where there’s no Luo anywhere. At its best, it is a government where the Kikuyu leads and the rest toe the line. At its worst, a caretaker Kalenjin leads but with all critical roles and decisions still reserved to the Kikuyu. In this arrangement, Kenya is some Kikuyu bequeath and the rest of us must live according to the above dicta. Put simply, what the Kikuyu is attempting to normalize in Kenya is a situation where all other ethnic groups in Kenya live at their mercy— economically, politically, socially. The worst political sin to commit in Kenya today is to include the Luo in government. The Luo should be in opposition, permanently; being clobbered, tear-gassed, brutalized, ostracized, impoverished and killed anyhow. Luo lives lost in the fight against government mean nothing — it is like the lives of those Palestinians in Gaza. GEMA backed Uhuru throughout the time his murderous regime was killing Luos aimlessly, with police thugs breaking in people’s homes: raping women and teen girls, bludgeoning infants and violating men. They used to tell him to suspend the constitution and rule with iron fist. When Uhuru realized he had to stop the mass murder that was going on in Kisumu, and elsewhere in Luo Nyanza, and called Raila Odinga to resolve their political differences, that was the time GEMA, which had cheered him all along, stopped supporting him — March 2018. Earlier, same GEMA backed Kibaki to the last hour, never mind Kibaki had lost the support of the entire country (41 ethnic communities in 2007 rejected Kibaki). GEMA were okay with Kibaki using Mungiki in 2007 and celebrated Mungiki for meting animalistic barbarity on Luos. When they finished with Luos and turned towards home, that’s when GEMA suddenly realized the Mungiki was a ‘menace’ that needed to be contained — and Michuki used the remaining bullets they hadn’t used on Luos to solve the Mungiki problem. Guess where Mungiki top leaders ran to hide — among the Luos! Some of their leaders were saved by running to Raila for protection. If in 2022 some 1m kikuyus wanted Raila to be President, and 4m wanted Ruto, whereof, Ruto won, and somehow now has the backing of Raila: why is the 4m who backed Ruto very bitter with Raila and his people for also supporting the same Ruto? People can yap as much as they want but the Luo are not going to expose themselves to government brutality anymore. That stupidity is over. All I want is for my children to live in a Kenya where their tribe and social identity is irrelevant. Until then, you can yap all you want but I will not cheer my community to accept a role so condemned. Those opposed to Ruto regime should fight Ruto without expecting Luo solidarity. OKWABIYIE parie👌🏻.

@Disembe 🤣😂

What stops Rigathi from just saying all illicit brew dens in Mt. Kenya are run by raira ondinga…everyone will abandon kinyweso 🤣👇🏽

It’s 2024..almost 2025 @SonyAlpha @SonyMEA..we aren’t doing this anymore.

Interesting

If the election outcome is as I expected, it should cause the large minority of the country who supported @KamalaHarris and predicted her victory to begin to question their sources of truth. Half the country has believed that @X is filled with mis- and disinformation, and that they could only therefore rely on The NY Times, MSNBC, CNN and other mainstream media for their news. And they did. If, however, you have been active on @X for the last year, you have known the truth days, weeks and often months before the facts appear in the MSM. The MSM excerpted, clipped and cut to defame @realDonaldTrump while claiming that @JoeBiden was fit as a fiddle. Then when Biden’s polls collapsed, @KamalaHarris was anointed the candidate and her hagiography was written with glowing acclaim from the press. But this could not hold as she ducked the media and held fast to the teleprompter. Citizen journalists with their phone cameras in hand captured the real Kamala forcing her to defend her record and her plans in more media appearances. It did not go well and the public demanded to learn more so @KamalaHarris had to risk more unscripted media. The doom loop was underway with perhaps 60 Minutes as one of the more dramatic examples, even after CBS tried to save her, most glaringly by excerpting one answer to replace a word salad response to another. But the citizen journalists on @X quickly caught and outed this fraud and demanded a transcript. As many who supported Kamala began to realize that they have been misled, they became open to Trump as an alternative, but they didn’t want to rely on the media to understand him because they did not want to be misled again. They wanted to hear the candidate in his own words and that is where @lexfridman and @joeroganhq long form podcasts came to the rescue. When Kamala was offered the same opportunities to explain herself, she rejected them. And the voting public could only draw a negative inference. When the story of this election is written, I expect it will be as much about how half of America woke up to the reality that they have been manipulated by the media. This should lead to an abandonment by many of the MSM as their primary source of information. It will push more people to @X, to podcasts and other empirical sources, and it will lead to a more informed public. The other outcome I hope happens is the implosion of the Democratic Party. The Party lied to the American people about the cognitive health and fitness of the president. It prevented, threatened, litigated and otherwise eliminated the ability of other candidates for the primary to compete, to get on ballots, and to even participate in a debate. The Party and the administration used lawfare in an attempt to imprison, bankrupt or otherwise kill off Trump as a candidate. These acts are collectively grave threats to our democracy. With the highest irony in order to hide these acts, the Party accused the opposition candidate of being the grave threat to democracy. The Democratic Party proved itself to be fundamentally undemocratic. It needs a complete reboot. The leadership should be thrown out and those responsible should apologize to the American people. Honest Abe said it best: You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

I interviewed Neema( the lady in red) back in 2018 for an ngo called Natural Justice. These people have suffered for years. Glad to see something being done finally. Hoping it’s not just for optics.

I’m an independent Film maker and I’ve been covering the Kenyan protests. Today I was threatened by an officer while filming and I stood up for myself by shouting ‘I will not be threatened’ to the officers. #RutoMustGo

The best at what he does!

From @LarryMadowo RETWEET once you see it . Justice for our brothers and sisters from Githurai R.I.P Tupatane Thursday #ROADTOSTATEHOUSE #RejectFinanceBill2024 #RevolutionNowOrNever

As other Kenyan celebrities are playing it safe for fear of losing Gov't gigs, @KHALIGRAPH JONES already printed t-shirts and is handing over to those going to Tuesday protests. We will remember not to forget.