The meeting took note of the desire of the people of Mt. Kenya to have a healthy political environment like other Kenyans. Unfortunately, this desire is being thwarted by the KK regime. It must stop.
Whereas the Constitution under Article 37 gives the people of Kenya the right to peacefully assemble, demonstrate, picket, and present petitions to public authorities, the actions of this regime indicate a determination to deny the same to the people of Mt. Kenya.
We saw this during the questioning of Maina Njenga at DCI on 25 May 2023 and the subsequent court appearance in Nakuru. Maina’s treatment laid bare the determination of the regime to weaponize state agencies to harass and intimidate Mt. Kenya Leaders.
We are seeing the profiling of Mt. Kenya youth as Mungiki which amounts to an attempt by the regime to create an artificial crisis to justify violence against innocent young Kenyans. It is our position that profiling of the Mt. Kenya Youth will not solve this regime’s problems, it will only derail the healing process.
It will equally not help the Mt. Kenya youth overcome the many challenges driving them into despair. It will worsen the problem.
We must remind the people of Kenya that the violence meted on Kenyans and particularly the Kikuyu nation in 1992, 1997 and 2007/2008 was started and sustained by senior government officials some of whom are serving in this regime. Those who faced ICC charges over the 2007/2008 violence must be reminded that killing witnesses was not escapatory.
Further, we wish to remind the people of Mt. Kenya that the attempt to target, isolate and finish the established leaders and political parties of the region has happened before, with grim consequences. Those who were old enough when power changed hands in 1978 will recall that Kikuyu leaders, their businesses and those in public sector immediately became targets.
The community witnessed a massive effort to cut down and humiliate its leaders like James Gichuru, Njoroge Mungai, Mbiyu Koinange, Waruru Kanja, Bernard Hinga and Mwai Kibaki immediately Jomo Kenyatta left the stage. Mwai Kibaki, who was later to become the most transformational leader the nation has known, was seriously undermined and humiliated.
Out of the blues, the government claimed to be conducting surveillance of subversive activities and that its agents had infiltrated the organizations responsible for the same. Then as now, the State sponsored political attack dogs to ensure Kikuyu leaders who could command national constituency like Kibaki did not rise. That plan has started again.
As the regime targets the region’s youth and leaders, it has also trained its eyes in taking over or destroying political parties associated with the region. The invasion of Jubilee Party must be seen in this light. It is an attempt to cripple Mt. Kenya Leadership and create a crisis of governance of political parties in the region.
The vilification of Azimio chairman H.E. President Uhuru Kenyatta is also part of this evil scheme to subdue a whole community and region. This is avoidable and unnecessary. It was Chinua Achebe who asked, ‘when did the rain start beating us?’ We would like to ask: ‘When will this rain stop?’
It is apparent that destabilization of Jubilee Party and the destruction of established political leaders of the region is a do-or-die agenda of KK regime, sponsored by the highest-level Kenya Kwanza leadership to ensure Mt. Kenya region has no serious political party to challenge anti-Mt. Kenya policies that appear to be driving the decisions of this regime.
Many of the tax measures contained in the finance bill currently before parliament are unreasonable and clearly directed at Mt Kenya businesses. The proposed turnover tax is basically a tax on assets whose primary objective is to impoverish the mama mbogas, boda boda and other vulnerable Kenyans struggling to make a living in these difficult economic circumstances. The majority of these small businesses are owned by men and women from Mt Kenya region. In light of the above, we state as follows:
Kenya Kwanza regime MUST stop profiling Mt. Kenya Youth.
We call on critical institutions among them the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA), Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) and the National Cohesion and Integration commission (NCIC) to investigate the conduct of police at DCI offices and raids on Maina Njenga Homes and the statements by government officials on the resurgence of the Mungiki sect.
Any attempts to profile and vilify the community and claw back gains made will be resisted vehemently. We will resist KK regime economic policies that are designed to oppress, deprive, or curtail economic opportunities of any of the communities that make up the Kenyan State.
We will continue monitoring, documenting, and responding to emerging policy and human rights issues affecting the Mt. Kenya region and adherence to the rule of law.
Kenya Kwanza regime in its evil design to impoverish the people of Mt. Kenya must be reminded that it is not possible to legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
Withdrawal of the Finance Bill 2023 in it’s entirety.
The unwarranted and uncalled for attacks on H.E. President Kenyatta, the Azimio chairman must stop.
