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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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