Trans-Disciplinary Public Intellectual. Indisputable Leader in Civil Society. Founder Ujamaa Center. Independent Consultant, Public Policy & Social Research
Mombasa, Kenya
Joined May 2012
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Very profound. Eti mtu na mama yake wana pigwa picha wakienda Bomas to bamboozle the public
I have filed a Constitutional Petition No. E757 of 2025 in the High Court to defend the integrity of Kenya’s presidential election process and to uphold the Constitution of Kenya, 2010.
This petition challenges the unconstitutional establishment and operation of the National Tallying Centre during presidential elections, as well as Sections 39, 39(1C), 39(1G) of the Elections Act and Regulation 83(2) of the Elections (General) Regulations.
The Constitution is clear:
✔️ Presidential results are tallied, verified, and declared at the 290 constituencies, and those results are final and binding.
✔️ The role of the @IEBCKenya Chairperson under Article 138(10) is strictly clerical; to add up constituency results and declare the winner.
❌ The Chairperson cannot verify, re-tally, alter, or overturn any constituency result.
❌ No law or regulation may introduce a second layer of verification at county or national level.
Yet, current laws and @IEBCKenya practice unlawfully create a parallel system of verification at the National Tallying Centre, which:
• Treats final constituency results as provisional;
• Enables interference, manipulation, and delays;
• Undermines transparency and fuels mistrust;
• Violates the people’s sovereign will as expressed at the constituency level.
This petition seeks, among other declarations:
🔹 Abolition of the National Tallying Centre as currently constituted;
🔹 Quashing of unconstitutional provisions in the Elections Act and Regulations;
🔹 Immediate public posting of final constituency results at each constituency;
🔹 Removal of illegal verification powers from County Returning Officers and the IEBC Chairperson;
🔹 Restoration of strict compliance with Articles 86 and 138 of the Constitution.
If successful, this petition will fundamentally transform the management of presidential elections from 2027 onwards, ensuring a transparent, decentralised, and constitutionally faithful process with no “Bomas drama” and no ambiguity.
Our democracy must be anchored not on improvised systems, but on the letter and spirit of our Constitution. This petition is part of my continued commitment to defend the rule of law, protect the sovereign will of the people, and secure free, fair, and credible elections.
The lives of Elias Lukwago & Dr Kizza Besigye are on the line due to ongoing medical restrictions &no bail, this is state-sanctioned execution. Please take a moment, amplify for their release. Besigye fainted in court, was transferred to ICU, but was still unconscious 24hrs later
I know school Principals are pretending they haven't seen this news about arbitrary fines when schools experience unrest.
#RamulaMunungoAreNotforSale Ramula and Munungo will NOT be moved. "Gold employs 9000 people here, that Shanta Gold wants to throw out of work in exchange for 700 jobs" Secretary Bamboo Artisanal Miners SACCO at a community dialogue forum at Bamboo with volunteer lawyers today.
Today marks another chapter tht confirms our slide down the precipice. Razor wire to block mother's of victims from laying wreaths to remember their children brutally murdered by police bullets, the murderous cops reigning terror on the people. These butchers don't care4 #justice
The distressing reality that the conference is not discussing is the privatisation wave that is ceding our mangroves, seagrass beds & beaches to profiteers in the name of blue carbon strategies or adopt a forest scams. These, disguised as conservation are profiteers @canco_kenya
We welcome all delegates from across the world to this #OurOceanconference 2026 in Mombasa, Kenya. @JuliusOgogoh @OchiengPatrick
Incarcerating in prison and incarceration at home changes nothing.
‼️🚨LISSU HOUSE ARREST SI SULUHISHO🚨‼️
Huko ndani wamevurugana maana akina Who are you wamekaza sana na wahuni wana shida ya pesa! Sasa wazo lingine limetoka kwa Abdul la kuiga yale ya Uganda kuweka wapinzani house arrest! Ili waambie donors kuwa wamemwachia ila kesi inaendelea!
Abdul usione watu ni wajinga kama wewe! Hii bado ni kifungo na haitawasaidia kukwepa vikwazo
Kibaya mkifanya house arrest mtasaidia kimama chenu abebwe kwenye tenga kwenda kukaa selo moja na Maduro 😁
Naendelea kuwaambia - njia pekee ni kumwachia huru Lissu bila masharti!
Samia Suluhu and her murderous cabal are considering placing Tundu Lissu under house arrest (taking a leaf out of Museveni’s book) thinking it would help them avoid sanctions - they think everyone is as stupid as they are! It will not help!
The demand is clear: Free Tundu Lissu unconditionally NOW! Nothing more, nothing less!
#FreeTunduLissu
Raila himself confessed that he needed marionettes & voting machines to whip his views in Parliament, he kept talking about something he called guided democracy and found independent voices inimical to the numbers bandwagon approach in Parliament. These merchants paid their bids
After careful analysis, I have made the conclusion that Jaramogi Oginga Odinga was both a brilliant national leader as well as an exceptional community leader. In contrast, Raila Odinga, after him, was a brilliant national leader but a poor community leader. I think Raila's death has exposed this fact.
Look at it this way. In the 1992 election, Jaramogi got himself 21 Luo MPs. 22 if you add the one in Langata. 23 if you add Ochieng' Mbeo, who joined two years later following the double by-elections in Kasarani (first, following a successful petition by Ferdinand Masinde and then the death of Masinde himself on by-election night, occasioning two by-elections in quick succession).
Jaramogi's cast was so stellar that some of their names were already legendary before they even set foot in parliament.
Jaramogi himself in Bondo.
Iconic freedom fighter Achieng' Oneko in Rarieda.
Political scientist, economist and academic giant, Prof Nyong'o in Kisumu Rural.
Firebrand lawyer and feared liberation hero, James Orengo in Ugenya.
Leading environmental expert and academic, Prof Ouma Muga in Rangwe.
Celebrated legal intellectual, Dr Oki Ooko Ombaka in Gem.
Sports administrator, business guru and leading reformer, Joab Omino in Kisumu Town.
The multiple-times detainee and most uncompromising liberation fighter, former university lecturer, Raila Odinga in Langata.
And the only woman in the entire cast was also the most accomplished woman in the whole land, the inimitable Phoebe Muga Asiyo of Karachuonyo.
Their elections were hardly ever contested. The people chose their finest. Jaramogi never raised anyone's hand. Delegations never went to Bondo to change the will of the people. In fact, the man considered the worst of the whole lot, Tom Obondo of Ndhiwa, as if on cue, defected back to Kanu soon after the 1992 elections, and was replaced by Accountant Orwa Ojode in the ensuing by-election.
The class of 92 spoke and the nation listened. In parliament, they broke down data, discussed policy, delved into complex international issues and were at home in the midst of intellectual discourse. Back home, they focused on the quest for justice and liberation. They were smart, coherent and at ease with whatever item of discussion came their way. They led from the front. They complimented Jaramogi in every sense.
But the first sign that the Raila era would come with leadership regression must have been when two of the very finest Luo minds were replaced by two of the worst MPs to ever hold office, as NDP took community power in 1997. The revered Achieng' Oneko lost to one George Odeny Ngure while the hugely respected Prof Nyong'o was beaten by Winston Ochoro Ayoki. The downhill fall had begun.
A quarter century later, and following Raila's death, I've been looking at the list of elected leaders in Luo land and making comparisons with the class of 92. Only four of the current leadership would make it to the Class of 92, and that includes Nyong'o and Orengo who were already there. Which means only a maximum of two, and just barely.
The more disturbing question is just how did Luos end up with intellectual tadpoles like Sam Atandi, public nuisances like Gladys Wanga, political smugglers like Junet Mohamed, confused elements like Paul Abuor, comedians like Jalang'o, confirmed street ruffians like Fred Ouda, smiling empty debes like Ojienda, perennially dazed and lost souls like Lilian Gogo and Adipo Okuome and echo chamber praise machines like Rosa Buyu and Kaluma?
Did Raila deliberately kill the quality of Luo leadership or did he simply focus on national leadership as the community itself regressed? Were the NDP-ODM era party nominations programmed for failure? Were Luos taken for a ride, as they voted in jokers and ruffians, while trusting only in the top leader?
Something went wrong between 1992 and 2022. We need to find it.
The Gold Company in Gem and Mwibona reminds me of atrocities communities have had to bear in Guatemala, Tanzania, Honduras etc. at the hands of mercenaries contracted by mining companies. WE MUST RESIST, RELEASE SILAS ASITIBA NOW!
Thank YOU Counsel. It MUST be said LOUDLY and silence in times like this is complicity with EVIL
Asante sana wakili msomi Mwabukusi
Hatukukosea kukupambania ili uwe Rais TLS - asanteni sana mawakili kwa kumpa kura @Mwabuk2Boniface
Umenyooka na kueleweka! Kama wameumia wanywe sumu 😁
#FreeTunduLissu NOW 👊🏽🔥
@Cofek_Kenya You remind me of a public interest case in Msa against the County for mishandling the Budget process, when a good lawyer from an established Public Interest Law Organization announced in broad daylight to the Judge, that "I have no instructions" to a bewildered Court
Court Rejects COFEK Bid to Withdraw US-Kenya Health Data Sharing Agreement petition:
Justice Nyaundi has upheld Katiba Institute's objection to COFEK’s application to withdraw Constitutional Petition No. E809 of 2025, which challenges the constitutionality of the Health Data Sharing Agreement between Kenya and the United States. COFEK had informed the Court that it had entered into a consent with the Government.
In response, our Counsel, @joshuamalidzo , submitted that there can be no consent to constitutional violations, and that constitutional petitions cannot be withdrawn by consent where the alleged violations persist. Secondly, counsel argued that the Petition was filed in the public interest and is not the sole property of COFEK; any member of the public may prosecute it.
In upholding this objection, Justice Nyaundi held that courts must retain control over constitutional petitions filed in the public interest, and that a notice of withdrawal may be declined where the Court is persuaded to do so. In this case, Senator Okiya had already indicated his willingness to prosecute the petition alongside his own Petition No. E816 of 2025, and the Court allowed the matter to proceed to its conclusion.
We welcome the Court’s reasoning, as it affirms the jurisprudence on Public Interest Litigation in Kenya, holding that constitutional petitions are vehicles of constitutional accountability.
The Consolidated Petitions will be heard on 25 May 2026 before Lady Justice Nyaundi.
.@OkiyaOmtatah
This afternoon @ntvkenya at a Town Hall meeting in Kakamega the CS @HassanAliJoho the Mining PS Kimutai and Shanta Gold treated Kenyans to a spectacle graced by a hired crowd of YES-men. This is the reason grievance remains the only logical approach to this @shanta_gold menace!
#NoToShanta April 3, 2026 communities of Ramula & Mwibona took part in a protest following the arrest of 2 community members whom the community learnt were picked up by DCI officers and held for reasons only the officers knew. The two were not promptly presented before a Court /1
6. The ASM representative knows that Shanta will edge out small scale miners because they have the rights to areas under concession by license, but chose to dwell on non-issues.