Mr. President, wake up and smell the Kofi
“The wind has blown and the anus of the chicken has been exposed.”
Yesterday, on the 4th of May 2025, we all saw a very, very disturbing (I was not disturbed) video of a shoe meeting with the head of the President of the Republic of Kenya in Migori County. Even with our Kenyan reputation for being ungovernable, that was new. As I have numerously stated before, I don’t like the president. I don’t have to like him because it is not his job to be liked; he was elected to serve me. Respect is a two-way street; if our leaders don’t respect us, we have no business respecting them. The emperor is naked, and instead of covering him, his people are undressing in solidarity.
I am sure the president would have been less angered if it was Murkomen or Aaron Cheruiyot who threw their expensive designer shoes at him. The president and his henchmen have made it a habit to display their ill-gotten wealth. For a group that rode on the “poverty/hustler” narrative to clinch power, their mannerisms are a cosplay of old money folks like Wanjigi who have never seen the inside of a pit latrine. Maybe if it was a $2000 Gucci snakeskin shoe made by kid slaves in Honduras, he would have seen it coming.
The president can not believe that people still don’t give a fuck about him and his political honchos even after employing the whole opposition. What he needs to understand is that the era of mtu wetu politics is a thing we as a generation are phasing out. We are not Raila Odinga’s anus, ati we will always follow him around. We disliked you before you got into bed with him, and we still dislike you next week. He is hellbent on pleasing the purported puppet masters, thinking the public will follow suit and fold, but we want a government that works, not John Mbadi in the cabinet. If we wanted Opiyo Wandayi in Cabinet, we would stuff him in a wardrobe; why appoint incompetent people first?
We can all sit and debate about the moral focal point of a citizen throwing their shoe at the chief in command. But what is the meaning of such an action? What will be the consequences for the tired citizen that did it? We are in a regime that has killed, abducted, and tortured young men for far lesser evils. This was total humiliation for a sitting president. This was not just a security lapse in the presidency; it means we can actually get to the man in the house on the hill.
The disconnect between the citizenry and the political class grows wider every everyday. A result of the dehumanization of our country, where citizens are often on the tail end of brute force instigated by the political class. They murdered people in Narok in cold blood and said criminals should be shot, then an MP was assassinated and Kenyans celebrated; it is a case of dog eat dog. If you are insensitive to us, we will be to you too. We no longer dislike politicians; this is pure hate, and as a certified hater, this is the sweetest feeling.
The Kenyan people don’t like their president and that's just it, no amount of PR gimmicks will change that at all. Mr president wake up and smell the coffee.
