President William Ruto is slowly but steadily steering Kenya towards the status of a failed state, and the events of Thursday during the commemoration of the Gen Zs who died during the anti-Finance Bill protests on June 25th, 2024, have provided the most damning evidence yet of how far the country has fallen under his watch.
The day was marked by shuttered businesses, heavy deployment of police officers across major towns, and the unleashing of state-sponsored goons who had been strategically positioned to infiltrate peaceful commemorations and turn them violent.
The plan, as has now become clear, was to use hired muscle to loot and destroy businesses in Nairobi’s Central Business District, create chaos, and then blame the destruction on opposition leaders and the youth.
What made Thursday particularly chilling was the level of coordination involved. In videos that have since circulated widely, goons were seen in possession of police radio sets, communicating with each other in the same organised and tactical manner that armed gangs operate in war-torn states.
The sight of individuals who are clearly not law enforcement officers using police communication equipment on the streets of Nairobi is not just alarming. It is evidence of a deeply compromised security apparatus that has been weaponised against the very citizens it exists to protect.
In other videos, police officers were captured brutally beating a physically disabled man, raining blows on him with apparent enthusiasm and total disregard for his condition, all to impress their masters and demonstrate their loyalty to a regime that rewards brutality.
Kenya was never Haiti. But with a president who deploys goons, arms them with police radios, and directs officers to beat crippled men in broad daylight, the distance between Nairobi and Port-au-Prince is shrinking faster than most Kenyans would like to admit.
Here are the videos that will make you see for yourself exactly what President William Ruto is turning this country into.
https://twitter.com/citynews254/status/2070506375780749787/video/1
https://twitter.com/_James041/status/2070190670657061318/video/1
