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Mama Samia provides dash of Dar hospitality to top Kenyan activists

Human rights activist Boniface Mwangi at the Moi International Airport in Mombasa, on May 22, 2025. He was dumped in Horohoro after detention in Tanzania. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

Shikamoo, Mama Samia Suluhu Hassan. I am using these honorific titles very deliberately; I understand you berated Kenyans for being "mannerless," an attribute that the Kenyan government supports.

Allow me to invoke the principle of national sovereignty, so that I keep you out of our internal affairs, same way you detest our interference in your own. Let's just say I consider the Government of Kenya to be bure kabisa, and I don't mean that disparagingly.

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