Popular Kenyan businessman and car dealer, Khalif Kairo, has shared his candid thoughts on the country’s turbulent political climate while recovering from a serious bike accident at the hospital.
Speaking to Obinna TV Network who visited him at the hospital, Kairo expressed profound heartbreak and anger over the tragic death of blogger Albert Ojwang allegedly in police custody.
Kairo minced no words, directly condemning people in power who he described as “extremely evil who will not hesitate to kill, maim, even destroy businesses, especially if you criticize them”.
He empathized deeply with Ojwang’s family, noting the blogger was an only son with a small child. Having faced the system’s manipulative nature himself, including a month in prison, Kairo stressed that “no place is safe” when targeted by those in authority, highlighting the dangers of being killed in jail or kidnapped.
The idea that Ojwang died in police custody after being arrested was particularly tragic for Kairo, who believes it’s just bottom of the barrel to kill someone over a social media post.
“I’ve personally learned the hard way. So that’s why you see me nowadays. I just I just prefer to watch things unfold, but it’s very tragic. My heart bleeds for that young guy. So, he has a small kid, you know, he has a dad. He’s the only son. And I put that parent in my mom’s shoes,” Kairo sympathized.
Kairo posits that the activists and people making noise online today – primarily Gen Z – will one day hold the reins of government.
He then issued a chilling prophecy, saying that they might be a little bit tough to the current leaders who by then would be political retirees.
“Today, we are in our 20s. In the next 10 or 20 years, we’ll be in our 40s. These activists you’re seeing around, these people you see making noise online, one day they’ll be the people in government. Our generation might not be very kind to what they’re doing to us right now,” Kairo said.
Unlike previous generations in Kenya, whom Kairo believes were more forgiving of past regimes, he predicts a stark future for those currently in power.
“I foresee a situation where people especially people in this current regime might even be jailed for very many years because a lot of none of these things go unpunished”.
This future, he believes, is inevitable as God has a way of balancing the scales, and Gen Z will be the ideal people to liberate Kenya from the current situation that he believed is largely caused by the current political class.
Kairo underscores that while Gen Z may currently feel weak without the resources of the police, army, or money, time is on their side, and nothing lasts forever.
“Today, they might feel they’re strong and we are weak. Yeah, we are weak because we don’t have the police at our disposal. We don’t have the army at our disposal. We don’t have the money. But time. Nothing lasts forever. Regimes have come and gone… So even these regimes, you just need to realize that some of these things will catch up with them and we may not be very kind.”
“I believe that God has a way of balancing the scales and one day we are the generation that will fix this country and they will pay,” he added.
Despite being a figure many Gen Zs look up to, Kairo currently shies away from political aspirations, describing Kenyan politics as very dirty, and very mucky.
by moses sagwe
