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Mnaka serious. Mnaka mendas. Sayi, sayi, sayi. Wow, spefi. Let me start with you Tony. What is your role? See now I've already introduced you as we are good. Please introduce yourself Tony. My name is Tony. Yeah. And where you from Tony, what do you do? I'm a political expert. Okay. That's a very heavy title. Let's put you to the test. Let's see what you can do. All right, how can we find you on social media? I don't have any social media platform. Really? Is that intentional? Yeah intentional. I don't know if you even have Facebook account. Wow. I have only WhatsApp. Wow. Okay, I'm very... But you can find me in TikTok. Okay, okay. I'm very intrigued. Mostly because in this era of you will find, let's say Maheshimua Flani. Let's just call him X. We'll go to Twitter or X now as it's called. Yeah, yeah. And then whatever he says there now makes it the mainstream media in its news. So why wouldn't you want to engage in that kind of space? Okay, you know everybody has his own lifestyle. And I like being that symbol. But I mean TikTok, Twitter and maybe WhatsApp. So niku chasachini. Niku chasachini. All right. Get it, get it now. And lovely lady, what is your good name? My name is Miriam Kenijui. Takin bikom Mutkanyu University. I'm a youth leader. Got to do some subcounty. I was an aspiring leader in Mutkanyu University. I was in the presidential seat in 2024 and 2025. I want to be the first female president there. There's never been any finance director, twinkle time cleaning company. She has acoleds upon acoleds upon acoleds. It's very impressive. Okay, all right. You said you want to be the first president. There's never been a... The first female president. There's never been a female president. Okay. And do you imagine it will be a challenge for you? I assume just because we're female we're emotional beings. Yes, most of them actually tell me, female think with the emotions, they make decisions with the emotions. Yes, it's that part of us, but we also use logic. Emotions and logic. We need to be very hard. We've never had one. And the rules, the rules of politics even nationwide have been made for man. I know I got the strength. I have the zeal. I'll be a man if I need to. All right. Okay, just now because you've brought something up that's triggered me a little bit, there's a few weeks ago, I don't know what he was, it was just a fight that started on a particular social media platform. So he also went on that particular platform and he went off and talked about things. And I looked at it and I'm like, okay, these are our leaders. Kedokitogo, our Nairobi governor, Takaja went off also with Babu. They also had it. And then, of course, our favorite recording artist, Mike Soko, got in. And then just the other day, I don't know if you've heard this tagline, let's go baby. Umu nyalich kwa mtuwa kajo, akam pelikalap, kwa expressway. So she later apologized. And then after she apologized for maybe her valga demina, she said she wants to buy for women rep mahali. So you see these gentlemen are being treated one way versus the way this lady is being treated. And they're all kind of doing the same thing, making noise on social media. Do you think that's a problem? And we can connect it with that gender role, our toothache role, which still is not really being implemented though it should be right now. Okay, you know in this country, we have a culture of life. When you trend, you want to be a politician. Anything you do, you trend, you want to be a politician. Even these politicians like Bapu, Sakhaja and that mumiaist, they are doing that, what we call chase clouding. So they are trying to to get that relevance. Now like now nobody knew about Pita Sivashia. But right now everybody knows him because what he does, these tricks, Sakhaja also is doing that trending. So what's happening between Sakhaja and Bapu, is that Bapu, we don't want to be the governor. So you want to obscene this man. So if you want to win anything, I have to use your weakness so that I can beat you. So now Bapu is trying all the best to obscene Sakhaja by using his own weaknesses. Now Sakhaja is trying too to make himself relevant the way he was since. But that girl, before you continue, let me ask what you think about that particular situation. I think different rules apply to different people. When it's a man, they react differently. When it's a woman, they react differently. So I feel yes, she used vulgar language. Yes, she did what she had to do. But she says, she says it's something there. It's something, but she used the best whip on she had. And we see the same with our governance, with our leaders, all over the country. But there's someone who told me men get away with so many things. But for us women, especially on integrity and the way we represent ourselves, we are judged so harshly by the society. And I think it's time to change that. If the rules of politics are playing on me, if I'm vulgar and I'm a woman, when you criticize me, do the same to the male counterparts, let the same rules apply to all of us. Leaders, let's not, we should not seek relevance on issues that are irrelevant, just like zakaja, that issue on Kancho, at the time, at the Chukwani, at the... Yopeta. Yopeta. And the money he gave, 10,000. I think that was for sure. Yes. We should be bringing real issues, addressing real issues as leaders. Let's not seek relevance on nan issues. I don't know if you remember. Okay, I don't... Tony. Tony. You see, it's very difficult to understand how we... Before even we get them to the seats, because seats ask for votes. Am I... They don't appoint themselves. Okay, granted that. You know, nominees here and there, but generally we elect our leaders. So, what is it that they tell us that gets us to stand in line for almost a whole day and wake up in the wee hours in the morning to, you know, kupanga line and then later realize, eh, did I really vote for this person? Is it based on sensations? Is it the campaign period that oh, Alin Patea saw by the way? And this kind of stems really into corruption. We're talking about corruption just the other Monday. And does it begin here, the campaigning period, or it's something that they experience once they've entered the seat and a little bit drunk with power, if I may. You know, first I started like we are in a political country. Like in Kenya, everyday is politics. We are being ruled by politics. So right now is the president who was elected last year. But now somebody wants to be the president, 2027. We'll study this campaign after the election, you know, to gain that relevance and to be that to the people. So this country is a political country, not even economic or what, it's a political so if today we'll not do politics, we'll never achieve anything. So after election like now you are the hemp, you open and it's now campaign. You see your weaknesses now. For 2027 to use to win. After in winning, maybe you can come back or you can outshine him. So this country is not like we are doing politics. We have been in politics, we have been ruled by politics. So we will continue with the politics and the economy of this country ruled by politics. So we are in a political economy. So it depends on the government of the day. So even if tomorrow the opposition take the government then rule the economy concerning there with their political. So this country nobody is new and you will not tell me that you will be the president or MP then you will change the culture of this country. These leaders we have nobody is new in this country. It's now the president, he was MP from 1997. He was there. The opposition leader also. He was there from 1980 something. So even Kalonso also. He was in this politics, he was even the vice president. At one point. So now it's like we are changing we are changing the forest but the mangas are the same. So we have the same mangas but the forest is different. So now you change you may have root of the president to Kalonso. It's just you have shifted the forest to another side. We tumetoka mao tumenda in nature really bony forest. No you are changing the forest but the mangas they are the same. Right now as we are speaking we are expecting Kalonso to be the flag pair of or maybe the same people. They were there since 2007. So this country is a political country and we have to accept it. Concerning this thing we are crying tags. You know there is something people don't want to understand. Juzy we say in first constitution of Kenya chapter 1 in Asema so French power belongs to the people. But now this power we have we don't choose as the people. We have taken our power then we have given to the politicians. The politicians now are ruling our power. So now when a politician when a politician says today let's go for a demonstration we will talk a engine or two ender. So we will go for that demonstration because of a politician but like for example Juzy there's me wanted for this be ya wunga ishuka. Everybody even me I was seen for wunga ishuka. So but now they say let's go for demonstration people went. Now they say no let's cool there the demonstration we have a talk be ya wunga ishuka. So which means we don't have our own power as the people. The wunga is still the same. We are about six months since the demonstration the money for that wunga since they have went for that by lateral talk. They have not even talked about it. They are talking about their own things or office of the opposition I don't know a lot of things which doesn't affect common money positively. So what I'm saying is this we the people we don't have that power personally. We have given out our powers to to politicians. Mayan do you think this is true and before she answered me please do understand any views or comments shared here do not represent that of the station kindly no matter how sensational or not they do not represent those of the station mayan. I believe necessity rules the world. So when politicians come to us na wanatu ziasera mostly politicians will tell you what you want to hear. Mkwanakazia pana I will give you a job when you get there. Mkwanakazia no most our country 75% of our country is used most used are employed. They have nothing to rely on. So when you give that 100 shilling 500 shilling ata kuhimba ata semai wewendo na ingia without looking at the repercussions or whether you are capable of delivering or not and most of them go emotional like in the past election 2022 our president our now president used sympathy to gana votes especially on Mount Kenya region I remember back at home we were doing campaigns and I told my sister I was campaigning for a certain leader back at home but he was not from any any coalition political party thank you but at home they were convinced our former president has done nothing for us and from Gatundo south has done nothing for us so my sister I told her we live vote for this leader that I am supporting he has a vision he is a leader he is not a politician he is mostly a leader not a politician and my sister was like we are voting for suits they would say it in Kikuyu so they are going from president until MCA they are voting for the same so they mostly don't look at the capabilities of a leader whether this leader is going to make a change or not they are already they are emotional they have been told they have been told not to do this our former president did not do this so vote for me so mostly most of them voted based on emotion and sympathy and that's something that's really really nice they are bottom and four for the youth they have a say we control I can say we control most of the country because you are 75% we can have a say only if only we stand strong look at the future and be vigorous take up the leadership roles then we can have a say now that you've said that first forward into after the general elections and now on the news I was quite intrigued by the way but after his excellency Dr William Ruto stood up and said you know what he defended why he's been globetrotting let's call it like that he's been to now 39 I won't call him diplomatic business because he is the president and in his defense he says he is going to nacheka in his defense he is the agent of the country he is the ambassador of the country he is going to pave ways I believe there was a figure around 350,000 new jobs in the UAE alone Saudi Arabia in particular and I am just I am floored by the fact that he feels that they need to defend himself that means that people at an uproar what do you think how are you feeling about him traveling so much and just his first year okay everybody has his own ways of ruling he knows himself why he is flying out we might judge or we might not but in real sense maybe one in a positive way maybe he wants to make friends and first thing you have to do is to make friends after that what you want you can borrow favor favor so you have to say hi I am the president from Kenya I am the new president I want this now your friend will tell you you go back I will call you maybe that's the positive side of it but in real sense the president knows why I can't judge I can say he is doing so much you don't know you might be going there making friends so that he can bring the good for us and at the same time but I don't know the negative so I am sticking to the positive maybe he is trying so much to find friends very different networking is good I want to think networking is everything when you network relate with people it's good but at the expense of of taxpayers money I am glad you mentioned that because the taxes are still kind of it's from 8% to 16% let's not even talk about this and not even at gradually it's one of and our former CS Kurya said it's going to happen every single month I'll see you to Chiba Kisi to Kisi so at the expense of the taxpayers money and looking at our economy we are at a bad state at the good positive side that's nice networking is always nice but do it moderately it's just one you have five years five years to do all that again we have we have the foreign foreign minister we have a what are they called? the ones PSS no no no at every country there is ambassador yes I believe there is ambassador represent our countries so I don't think I don't believe it's necessary to do so many of them in a span of one year and looking at our economy it's not doing doing good to the economy there is a saying you spend money to make money do you think this is the case here? maybe in the long run maybe not but as for now have we made any money? it's a very good question it's a very good question there's been promises just promises promises alisa much stuff ngo liwa soko yama kadamiya yama kadamiya yama kadamiya nga nga nga nga nga nga I think we can give we can give the president time we can give him time at least for 2 to 3 years time is good yeah but he was this was a transition government from another government to another it's like you're moving into a new house so you have to find out where is the switch you have to find out where is the way to the kitchen where is the bedroom so you know it's a new transition and when you the first day maybe you buy a car or whichever or even a motorbike so you are not good in it so you have to see like where is the break where is this you know how this mirror looks like so maybe the president is trying to balance so that is affecting us but let's give him time it's too early for us to church the problem is yes we will give him time but the problem is he keep promising us he told us within one year right yes we can give him time but he is the one telling us one year I will do this in 2 months I will do this yet he doesn't do that so we are stuck to his promises yes we are we know the economy takes time to grow gradually but you have to know one thing you don't trust the politicians but too many promises too many promises as a leader a politician is the most suitable when you have a politician politician has to ask you want to place both sides you want to place his spot up you want to thank you