I truly don't think people comprehend how detrimental his position, as the face of protest in Kenya, is for activism/grand organising in the long run.

The parallels we can draw between him and Raila should, at the very least, give people some pause.

And I say this from personal experience cos we achieved nothing with the Sabasaba March this year & a large part of that was cos he swooped in, charismatically took over, had people meet at Kencom (a logistic nightmare) & had us running around the CBD without a plan.

And on top of no plan, no means of communication (telegram is right there or better yet signal). So we were split into small easily dispersive groups stuck on a loop tryna avoid getting teargassed and arrested.

PS. SJCs that had organised the march actually had a plan.

See I understand incremental gains are important in building a strong movement but the thing is, when there isn't a strong central politic, every single protest/community organising seems like standalone action. So the whole thing collapses like a house of cards.

And that's why I think its important for us to examine how & why we make noise as the monolith that is KoT. People keep saying that its important & it does things but just like "collective amnesia", if you look closely, we're just fighting single battles while losing the war.

Bringing this back, we don't need messiahs cos:
1. We've done that and they've done nothing for us.
2. KOT is literally community organising. Loosely so, but still.

So divest or we will keep running (and falling) round this hamster wheel.