brunyolicious

Today my heart is heavy because I am speaking for a young man called Emmanuel Maina, now branded a criminal after being charged with possession of a firearm. But before you judge him, ask yourself one question: where was the leadership when this boy was crying for help? In 2023, I personally walked into the Kasarani Constituency CDF offices with two vulnerable children, a boy and a girl. Their only crime was poverty. They were living with guardians and desperately needed school fees so they could have a future instead of the streets. I met the constituency CDF chairman Samuel Kamau, a man who behaves like he is the MP himself under Hon. Ronald Karauri. Instead of listening, instead of showing compassion, he dismissed those guardians like beggars and denied this boy a chance at education. The girl survived because the Constituency Manager Mr. Langat had a heart. He listened. He told me to buy books and uniforms and promised to pay her fees for four years. Up to today, that girl is in school at Mwiki Bookshine Academy because one man chose humanity over arrogance. But Emmanuel was abandoned. No school. No ID. No opportunity. No hope. He ended up surviving through bodaboda work carrying passengers as a child because leadership failed him completely. Yesterday I watched the same society that abandoned him call him a criminal. My heart broke. Hon @KarauriR, you love speaking about education and empowering the youth. Remember our meeting in your office when I told you that children in Kasarani were dropping out and ending up as matatu touts because poverty was swallowing them. Remember that conversation. This boy is not just a court file. He is a product of neglect. A victim of prideful leadership. A casualty of gatekeepers who lie to politicians/leaders to protect their positions while children drown in poverty. Samuel Kamau should carry the shame of this story. Men like him sit in offices blocking desperate children from opportunity while pretending to serve the people. Then later they act shocked when the streets recruit the same abandoned youth into crime. Kenya must stop criminalizing children we first failed to educate, failed to protect and failed to uplift. Emmanuel Maina did not wake up one morning and choose darkness. Leadership pushed him there step by step. Today my heart is heavy because I am speaking for a young man called Emmanuel Maina, now branded a criminal after being charged with possession of a firearm.