OchollaDancun
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@gladyswanga Lakini governor,Umbesoru sana wewe na John mbadi...pesa iyudo ee ohala,uromowa gi ruto.
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OPEN LETTER TO H.E. HON JAMES ORENGO, SC, GOVERNOR, SIAYA COUNTY
Dear Governor Orengo (My Father),
RE: REFLECTION, DIGNITY, AND THE PLACE OF WOMEN IN OUR PUBLIC LIFE
I write this letter in my personal capacity, not as Governor of Homa Bay County, nor as Chairperson of the ODM Party, but simply as Gladys: daughter, mother, wife, and a woman who, like many others, continues to navigate leadership in spaces that often demand strength while offering little grace. For many years, these spaces were occupied by men, and only courageous women dared to break through.
I have reflected deeply on the remarks you recently made concerning me. I chose silence at first, because I have always believed that not every disagreement demands public contest, and not every hurt should invite a public response. Yet some moments require reflection, not because of the individuals involved, but because of what they represent.
I have always held you in immense respect. To many of us who entered public life after your generation, you have represented courage, conviction, and the possibility of principled leadership. Many young politicians look up to you for motivation and inspiration. You have been around for a long time, and I have personally regarded you with the esteem one reserves for an elder and, in many ways, with the affection and deference one would extend to a father figure. Indeed, listening to your remarks and the manner in which they were received left me wondering how I would have felt hearing the same words from my own late father - whom I saw for only a few years - and from respected men of his generation like you, to whom I had looked for guidance and direction.
That is perhaps why they hurt.
Not because political criticism is unfamiliar to me, nor because public office exempts one from scrutiny, but because certain expressions carry weight beyond politics. They say politics is a dirty game, but I did not expect it to become dirtier through your utterances. Words spoken by respected leaders shape culture, reinforce attitudes, and determine what society permits. When remarks directed at a woman carry undertones that diminish, ridicule, or reduce her because of her gender, age, or place in public life, they travel far beyond their immediate target.
They become an echo familiar to millions of women and girls who have endured various forms of gender-based violence, exclusion, intimidation, and dismissal in workplaces, homes, and public spaces. They run through the vertebrae like lightning striking a tree.
Many women are told to speak more softly, lead smaller, occupy less space, or defer - not because they are wrong, but because they are women. Many endure insults that men in equivalent positions would never face. It is this reality that made your remarks painful - not merely as an affront to me, but because they inadvertently validated a burden many women continue to carry quietly.
I do not write this to seek an apology through public pressure, nor to invite sympathy for myself. I write in the hope that moments such as these can remind us all - especially those of us privileged to be in leadership, and particularly in spaces where, traditionally, women were only supposed to be seen and not heard- that strength and dignity are never diminished by kindness, and that authority need not come at the expense of another’s humanity.
Governor, despite the distress and untold discomfort this episode has caused me and those close to me, I do not wish to engage you in prolonged exchanges over this matter. I consider you my senior, a respected elder, and someone whose contributions to public life deserve honour and respect.
I therefore choose forgiveness. I was humbled just as I was humiliated.
More importantly, I choose to leave the door open for engagement, dialogue, and collaboration on matters that uplift our people and propel our community forward. After all, God gave us the responsibility to make our community better & more respectable.
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@WehliyeMohamed @droid254 @WehliyeMohamed what have you achieved in your lifetime?we will be happy to know and maybe gain inspiration from your "marvelous"journey.
Anybody can be anything provided they are appointed to those positions, people appointed to positions of influence are not superior.
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@jimNjue_ we've never claimed to have driven out the British by force of arms!!! it's your people who have held on to that lie like kids and santa 😂😂😂
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@OmarrAbdi @ZacEnya Blame your grandfather for wasting 60yrs fantasising about Joining Somalia.
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@ZacEnya I wonder dis pple are so disturbed whenever Ruto launch project in NFD..If they think they can speak 4 Northern kwani walikua wapi tangu 1963 when all successive regime have been sidelining us..sai ndio wanajifanya eti Hosipitali, ooh shule
Let NFD be! We dont want their advice🖕🏻
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Fvck you Nelson. We had ZERO inch of Tarmac in the entire NFD Where were you all along?
Now today because of Ruto and Madaraka Day the entire town, Bulla to Bulla, Roundabout to Roundabout, Highway to Highway throughout 4miles Radius and Subcounties of Eldas, Hadado, Tarbaj and Habaswein is well covered. Hospitals equipped.
Y’all are pained by us getting that 1% development and want to dictate for us what is of priority. Bro we never saw a Government in 60years LET’S FEEL & ENJOY the presence of government in my Villages too just like your Parklands and your KAKAMEGA!
Nelson Havi SC@NelsonHavi
Why build all these edifices yet we cannot build schools and hospitals for the People of North Eastern in particular and the People of Kenya in General?
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@MunaMunahamed We've never heard you complain about the presence of al Shabaab in those counties.we all know the game you people play.
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MANDERA ON FIRE.Nominated MP Abdisirat Khalif just dropped a BOMBSHELL “Jubbaland security forces are inside Mandera . We reported it to President Ruto .ZERO action.Anyone hosting them in Mandera county for money or favours has 72 HOURS to move them to Kahawa, Eldoret or any Kenyan barracks OUTSIDE Mandera… or else” Mp warns.
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@Hashi25979Hashi @CfcCostaa He didn't ask whether you're a candidate 😕
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Sometimes you come across an idiot and you just wonder if this country will be in safe hands if we decide to choose someone with his last name. No wonder, Kenyans are apprehensive. Now I know why…
Makau F. Mully@MakauWaMuli
Kenya with serious leadership would have probably negotiated for annexation of part of Somalia just like Russia did in Crimea, Ukraine. This would make Somalis the largest community in Kenya then we Christianize them.
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@jimNjue_ Go fuck yourself what did you experience tell me kikuyu boy? We build your shithole we employ you and your parents we give bribery daily do you think Kenya would have existed without IMF and Somali people cunts these kikuyu are the most ungrateful ever most corrupt thieves.
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@ahmednasirlaw @NelsonHavi Biased and Flawed assumption.
Let Gaucho go to school...he's made some money out of political thuggery.
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@NelsonHavi Where did those with many degrees take us? Where did those whose fathers and grandfathers stole from us take us? I agree with you 100%. Gaucho and his parents and grandparents have not stolen from us. He is thus supremely qualified.
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@AbdiwahabSheik7 Concoction of Rogo and makaburi kind of reasoning..you should be happy you survived the uhuru regime.
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Al-Shabaab really ran from Israeli-dominated Somaliland just to sneak into Kenya and terrorize civilians and you call that a “mission”? What kind of religion hides behind bombs in markets and bullets in mosques?
You don’t confront the real enemy, You you represent the big powers agenda you prey on Somali refugees, poor Somali Muslims, and peaceful Kenyans trying to survive.
That’s not bravery that’s cowardice wrapped in slogans.
You claim to defend faith, yet you spill Muslim blood. You claim to fight oppression, yet you terrorize the weakest.
You shout about dignity, yet your only legacy is graves, displacement, and ruined futures in Southern Somalia and Kenya.
Let’s stop pretending. This isn’t liberation. It looks like a proxy project to keep the Horn of Africa unstable to undermine Somali sovereignty and sabotage Kenya’s peace. And we see it.
Kenya must send a message so loud it echoes across the border: business is NOT as usual. To Al-Shabaab and their masters , your time of exploiting chaos is closing.
You don’t represent Islam. You don’t represent Somalis. You represent fear. And fear doesn’t win anymore.
Diin meesha kuma haysaane gaalnimadda cadaysta.

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@Dr_AustinOmondi @OmondiEric19948 Very true.Nobody drove out the British by force of arms!Mau Mau was a cultural terrorist organization who were fighting against abolition of FGM
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@OmondiEric19948 Nobody fought for Kenya’s independence in the traditional sense of the word. The whites left willingly and sold us back our independence
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@Safaricom_Care I recently lost my ID and from messages I get on my primary number,The ID has been used to open a Till Number.Kindly Help
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@dervishconan Somalis are indigenous to kenya and they occupy 3 counties.
Somali counties receive the highest resource allocation from the national government despite their region being arid and semi-arid with nothing much to add to the national cake."ungratefulness is a mentality"
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@Heal_within96 Actually, it is Ethiopia and Kenya two black African countries not any Arab countries that are occupying Somali territories and have committed serious mass killings against Somali people in the occupied territories.
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@moneyacademyKE Based on south Sudanese we see on kenyan roads, it's safe to assume the south Sudanese are richer than their state 😂😂
Idiots are looting their country dry
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@AbillaAbdallah @AyoyiPatrick @BillowKerrow what neglect and your region receives Billions of shillings in equitable share from the national government?
Your community is intolerant to other communities and they would gladly host,fund and celebrate butchering of teachers,mine workers and anyone deemed outsider amongst you
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@AyoyiPatrick @BillowKerrow State neglect and systemic marginalisation results in disconnection between the people and its Government,you cannot dogde this reality.
If religion is the only reason you so desperately hooked to,what about Turkana,Pokot,Samburu?
Where bandits kill and displace communities?
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It's house negroism If I trivialize the historical & current political & policy prejudices that continue to deny the North its rightful share of national identity, security, economic & infrastructural development, but unwittingly embrace the ethnic profiling, & disingenuous condemnation of the community.
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@MuhammadSh71487 @AbdiwahabSheik7 At least I live in my country..You are only good at running to other countries.
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If the US attacks Iran, the Middle East as we know it ends.
The rules-based world order collapses into silence and smoke.
This is not Iran of four years ago. China, Russia, and North Korea will not be spectators.
NATO is fracturing, the timing is reckless, and escalation will be uncontrollable.
This war risks becoming US–Israel on one side and much of the world on the other. I hope President Trump chooses diplomacy before anarchy chooses us all. History is watching, consequences will be irreversible.

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@SadatMoham23320 @AbdiwahabSheik7 Several states built back after total collapse or civil war..china, america, Egypt,Tunisia just to mention a few.
Somalia is a client state of Turkey,UAE and the likes.Somali elites do not love their country.
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@Ogweeh @AbdiwahabSheik7 Define us that freedom same as that somalis fought to dismantle their statehood ?
And still they are painfully straggling to receive it or that of Iraq or Libya or maybe Yemen ?
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@_KithureKindiki You people struggle so much to show your side represents the face of kenya.
But in reality,it's as Tribal as Gachagua's side.Just a simple look at state appointments!very ethnicised.SHA being the recent poster child.
Hypocrisy at its best
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Let us compete on which team has better ideas, policies and programmes to transform Kenya, industrialize it, create more jobs and eradicate extreme poverty in the shortest possible time.
Politics organized around crude ethnic bigotry, violence, chest thumping and disruption belong to the Kenya of the past, not the Kenya of today and tomorrow.
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