Something is unraveling across Mt Kenya, and it’s not organic…
Anyone paying attention can see it—the slow, calculated descent into chaos that’s being normalized and, in some quarters, celebrated.
Weirdly, by individuals who cannot be considered local residents of these places.
Towns that have never known unrest—Kiambu, Githunguri, Kenol, even Kangema—are now flashpoints. Githurai has been deliberately turned into the new Kondele. Kagio, Sagana Mwea. The symbolism isn’t accidental.
This isn’t just protest.
It’s something else.
A fragmentation.
A targeted destabilization of a region once considered the political and economic spine of the republic. And no, it’s not H.E. Rigathi Gachagua, EGH pulling the strings.
That theory is both lazy and convenient.
Too neat.
It collapses under scrutiny.
Let’s tart with what we know.
Two allies of the DCP party—Peter Kawanjiru and Seral Wanjiku Thiga have been charged with terrorism. Yes, terrorism. Not vandalism, not arson, not incitement—terrorism. Their alleged crime? Coordinating the June 25 arson attack in Kikuyu that torched government offices. The Law Courts. The Registrar of Lands. Essential services. The accusations suggest a conspiracy to paralyze governance.
But why them?
Why now?
This is how it starts.
Criminalize youth leaders.
Tie them to unrest.
Isolate emerging political alternatives.
Then flood the digital space with a pre-baked narrative like akina Mutai are doing:—that the Mt Kenya uprising is the work of political sabotage orchestrated from within by people like Gachagua. Never mind that no concrete evidence links him to any of these activities.
Never mind that he no longer controls any police machinery or administrative arms. The objective isn’t truth—it’s confusion. It’s chaos. It’s to fracture the mountain and redirect rage inward.
And while the mountain bleeds, other regions remain calm. Western Kenya is stable. Nyanza is being congratulated for “discipline.” Ukambani is relatively quiet. Yet it’s only in Mt Kenya where youth supposedly wake up to loot their neighbors, burn tyres on village roads, and disrupt their own shambas.
Since when do farmers leave their land to stage chaos at home?
Since when do boda boda riders in Githunguri shut down their only routes to the dairy plant, hospitals and markets?
The explanation we’re being fed—that this is self-sabotage rooted in local disaffection—doesn’t hold. It insults logic.
And still, the question remains:—where are the police? Where is the security intelligence? The counter terrorism experts? We’re they supposed to counter these things long before they happened?
Spur Mall area off Ruiru is all gunshots for hours since dawn. Running battles between police and looters who’re determined to access Naivas. Kagio township a supermarket was looted in daylight. Mwea descended into madness as Mwea Nice City was looted to the ground.
These aren’t remote outposts.
They are under the eye of state surveillance. The passivity wasn’t accidental.
It felt tactical—calculated absence to allow the chaos to brew, so the response could be militarized and the narrative cemented.
“See what happens when you don’t toe the line?” They shall proclaim in days to come. Last week we all saw it as the DCI rounded up youth “suspects” again from across the region.
What’s being done to the Mt Kenya region is a form of slow dismemberment. Economically, socially, politically.
The goal isn’t just to punish a dissenting block.
It’s to break its backbone.
To make it seem unruly.
Dangerous.
A problem.
And in doing so, to justify repression, arrests, and the neutralization of any voice rising outside the approved script.
But the people are not stupid. They see through it. They know what it means when state bloggers repeat the same line about “locking Mt Kenya out of the capital so they can destroy their own.” They know what it means when youth from the mountain are branded terrorists while others elsewhere are called patriots. They know this isn’t about law and order. It’s about control.
Something deeply dangerous is underway. And unless exposed for what it is—a deliberate fragmentation of a region through disinformation, weaponized arrests, and staged chaos—it will succeed.
Not because the people wanted it.
But because the state needed it.
in 2023.