Kenyans Protest the Ruto Regime and Its Finance Bill, Part 4: July 1 to 7, 2024

Gregor Flock
13 min readJul 9, 2024

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A collection of evidence and documentation of events, including of abductions, violence, shootings and killings by the Ruto regime.

Monday, July 1, 2024

A closer look at the Tuesday, June 25 massacres in front of the Kenyan Parliament by CNN’s Larry Madowo:

“Ibrahim was shot twice in the neck at a protest in Nairobi”:

https://x.com/LarryMadowo/status/1807809386569511194

“Human rights groups accused police of shooting dozens of unarmed protesters, including some who were fleeing. No one has accepted or denied responsibility for the killings.”:

https://x.com/LarryMadowo/status/1807809386569511194

“These protesters, standing over a man who is apparently dead — police fire a non-lethal round directly at them.”:

https://x.com/LarryMadowo/status/1807809386569511194

“Nairobi’s police chief, seen here, commanded the operation, his officers clearly contravening their own rules for the use of force.”:

https://x.com/LarryMadowo/status/1807809386569511194

A respective bullshit statement by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions:

https://x.com/bonifacemwangi/status/1807857082349109715; https://x.com/ODPP_KE/status/1807820481338220869

The mourning mother of Shujaa Kennedy Onyango:

More abductions by the Ruto regime:

https://x.com/CydWambui/status/1807728864329642207
https://x.com/MsMakeri/status/1807828944608968797
https://x.com/bonifacemwangi/status/1807718205139423605; https://x.com/Eastleighvoice/status/1807643352881402215

By law, MPig Oscar Sudi should no longer be a Member of Parliament:

https://x.com/MissOlendi/status/1807693374696079819; https://x.com/potentash/status/1807667882441986144

The state of affairs when you let parasites like Ruto or Sudi rule:

https://x.com/firi_the_cat/status/1807821807359348778; https://x.com/whoisk__th/status/1804654470460027126
https://x.com/bonifacemwangi/status/1807769562852577520

The trolling of the Ruto regime’s anti-protest propaganda:

https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1808089510162346411

Kisumu:

https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1808027564880875559
https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1808076578326290830
https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1808094042833801655

Kitengela:

https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1808084337436270969

Kitui:

https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1808073932940914848

Mombasa:

https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1808044821300273504
https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1808083203464233154

Nakuru:

https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1808090358158356842
https://x.com/Adele_lide/status/1808090663998636048

Hired goons:

…as admitted by Senator Kanarseki:

https://x.com/bonifacemwangi/status/1808033470024687791

…as reported on Kenyan mainstream media:

https://x.com/magwaz3/status/1808352681146122413
https://x.com/bonifacemwangi/status/1808187146345537652
https://x.com/jamessmat/status/1808122899280060834 to https://x.com/jamessmat/status/1808123659766100019
https://x.com/ahmedsalims/status/1808098840093860096
https://x.com/FaithOdhiambo8/status/1808081849853292685
https://x.com/brutalanalyst/status/1808052952168268177; also see https://x.com/MarvinGakunyi/status/1808072344864174219
https://x.com/Ohta_Ryota/status/1808167090676785312

Police arrive and only feebly motion with their batons to signal the goons to move away from the shop they just looted; not a single person gets beaten:

https://x.com/Ohta_Ryota/status/1808167090676785312
https://x.com/axel__yoh/status/1808198244565946757
https://x.com/Mkenyanese/status/1808123607861624923; also see https://x.com/ceciliawanjiku2/status/1808103862714224941
https://x.com/maliks_88/status/1808092980890276047
https://x.com/Adele_lide/status/1808066749075452014
https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1808529510360342984
https://x.com/Afro_254/status/1808173605458698325

Ruto regime violence and killings:

https://x.com/LarryMadowo/status/1808159769233862857
https://x.com/MotivKasagga/status/1808165860617469969
https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1808092509937062117
https://x.com/just_obra/status/1808066508179853362
https://x.com/Kenyans/status/1747607908714504494

[translated from Swahili into English]

Female medic: “Excuse me, I’m with the other medics inside there. I have about 10 people with gunshot wounds. Your fellow cops too.

Ruto regime goon: “Go back and wait, we will kill even more. Go pick them too.”

Female medic: “Did you just say you will kill even more?”

Ruto regime goon: “Save the ones that you have now.”

Female medic: “I’m trying, but you are throwing teargas at us! We are treating your own colleagues! You want to blow up the anaesthesia, what will happen to the people there? We are treating EVERYONE. 10 people need help and the ambulances can’t get to us.”

https://x.com/Kenyans/status/1747607908714504494
https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1807976034597257512
https://x.com/AfcKuno_/status/1807977932113023095; https://x.com/Katis_KE/status/1807977742941466940
https://x.com/bonifacemwangi/status/1808012196581953545
https://x.com/WairimuMariam/status/1808220134462705928

Little to no interest in ‘conversation’ or ‘dialogue’ with Ruto:

https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1807977933887217770
https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1808119309249450138
https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1808112721583317244
https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1808118847074861272

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

https://x.com/bonifacemwangi/status/1808153961104298214

Ruto regime abductions, violence and killings:

https://x.com/FaithOdhiambo8/status/1808484185469858112
https://x.com/Eastleighvoice/status/1808482302453760084

Thursday, July 4, 2024

A 4-minute primer to William Ruto:

https://x.com/MutemiWaKiama/status/1808713984956088661

On Ruto’s Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen:

https://x.com/CaptainDominicO/status/1808720061462409488
https://x.com/yourzawadi/status/1808760758844420244
https://x.com/n_ndovu/status/1808811980330872935

A European and North American economic exploitation take on “Sub-Saharan Africa” in general that comes from the type of white elites which the Ruto regime is collaborating with:

https://x.com/itskipronoh/status/1808770312533647424

White ‘economics’ professor: “Sub-Saharan Africa has been fundamental to the global prosperity of the advanced countries, and Africa had a role to play: It has a role as a raw material producer. We will not allow Sub-Saharan Africa to escape that, okay? We do everything to keep Sub-Saharan Africa where it is, also impoverished. It’s absolutely vital for the prosperity of everyone else. […]

And this means all the economic structures, all the global institutions, and the economics we teach everyone is all designed to keep Africa exactly where it is. And whether it is Europe or US or now China, it’s always the same. We need Africa to be impoverished, because we need those raw materials, and we need them dirt cheap. […]

The job of many Western academics is to convince Africans they have to keep doing what they’re doing, okay? And to show them it’s your fault that you’re poor. It’s not our fault. It’s your fault that you’re poor. So this is what we do in [Western] academic institutions.

We know the basic forces that have caused this underdevelepment. We know it’s colonization. We cannot afford to allow Africa to industrialize and start producing manufactures. […]”

After colonization [officially] ended, we needed new structures to keep these countries where they were, okay? And the first of those is aid. […] Aid for what? Actually, we give them aid to keep repressive regimes in power. That’s all. All the hypocrisy about transparency and democracy and bullshit like that. It’s all bullshit. But it would go to country after country, offering [IMF!] loans, and if the president did not accept the loan, they were killed. […]

It’s economic warfare. The rich declare war on the poor. It happens everywhere: […] the rich control the government. Of course they do. You really believe you have democracy? Come on, I mean grow up.

https://x.com/WairimuMariam/status/1806348602748412108

#RutoMustGo protests:

https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1808871495562645904

A suggestion for future protest goals:

https://x.com/Benign_Overlord/status/1808757493503529146
https://x.com/Benign_Overlord/status/1808838992579694811

Ruto regime violence and killings:

https://x.com/LarryMadowo/status/1808858826889707802
https://x.com/FGaitho237/status/1808838209658630272
https://x.com/DictatorWatch/status/1808734451607970190
https://x.com/DictatorWatch/status/1808761516293804236

Friday, July 5, 2024

From a Ruto press briefing before his propagandistic Twitter/X space:

https://x.com/LarryMadowo/status/1809180483600646425

The financial state of affairs in Kenya and because of Ruto and other parasites:

https://x.com/JamesOleKiyiapi/status/1809148676587000312
https://x.com/YusufMukash/status/1809166101185454320/photo/1
https://x.com/JaokooMoses/status/1809150313456165204; https://x.com/JaokooMoses/status/1809150318514450713
https://x.com/wwaweru49/status/1809166735230013606; https://x.com/JaokooMoses/status/1809167060951265573
https://x.com/moneyacademyKE/status/1810886456656663003
https://x.com/lipundaKE/status/1810887706920075680
https://x.com/CrystalAsige/status/1810917394610589785

Demands of the public and protesters:

https://x.com/kijanaYaa/status/1809180810773213398

Ruto’s X space:

https://x.com/Afro_254/status/1808911890715922728

Ruto-hosted X spaces keep crashing:

https://x.com/CaptainDominicO/status/1809145589436727663
https://x.com/Afro_254/status/1809097990910460310

Saturday, July 6, 2024

Osama Otero’s hosting of William Ruto on Twitter/X was not well-received by Kenyans who had supported him when he was (allegedly) abducted by Ruto, and the hashtag #FuckOsama was born:

https://x.com/MjengoKE/status/1809554403726090562
https://x.com/Brianmbunde/status/1809543076714537281
https://x.com/kavutha_/status/1809471390904443200; https://x.com/Brianmbunde/status/1809463698508918896
https://x.com/Samzen_/status/1809491806448394509

It was even questioned whether Osama was actually abducted:

https://x.com/Kimuzi_/status/1809212651509002407; https://x.com/Jacobjuma_/status/1809214234317684956
https://x.com/The_Beardless25/status/1809478845658992708;

#RutoMustGo chants greet Ruto Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria:

https://x.com/MutumaoNkanata/status/1809703860119728449

Sunday, July 7, 2024

https://x.com/bonifacemwangi/status/1807040209478898116
https://x.com/C_NyaKundiH/status/1810058105822302639

One wonders if the IMF’s wavering has something to do with the Ruto regime’s killings of protesters, but probably not:

https://x.com/MjengoKE/status/1810524277919121443

Rex’s father: “I have the footage of the cop who shot my kid. He has not been apprehended. And he did it again the other day. Shooting live bullets again. […]”

More reminders why Kenyans are protesting and why #RutoMustGo:

https://x.com/MkenyaMzi/status/1810765602434503003
https://x.com/ntvkenya/status/1810748407696482711
https://x.com/ntvkenya/status/1810756634492252388

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Gregor Flock
Gregor Flock

Written by Gregor Flock

independent philosopher (univie.academia.edu/GregorFlock) and journalist, Global Civil Society Network founder (www.gcsno.org/my-blog/), Tweets @GFlock_GCSN.

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