[WATCH]: Safaricom Attempts to Extricate Itself From #GithuraiMassacre

Posted by Javan Onguru 7/03/2026 02:22:00 pm

Apocalypse Doesn't Mean What Most People Think It Means. So How Did It Become Synonymous with the End of the World?

Mention the word apocalypse and most people picture the same scene: cities reduced to rubble, fire falling from the sky, horsemen galloping across a dying Earth, and a final battle that brings human history to an abrupt, terrifying end. Hollywood loves that version. So do many preachers. The Greek language doesn't. The word apokalypsis , from which "apocalypse" is derived, simply means an unveiling, a disclosure, a revelation. Before it became associated with catastrophe, it described the act of pulling back a curtain so that something hidden could finally be seen. That raises an uncomfortable question. If apocalypse originally meant revelation, how did it become almost exclusively associated with global destruction? The answer lies not in a conspiracy but in centuries of interpretation. The Book of Revelation is arguably the most misunderstood book in the New Testament. Written towards the end of the first century, it emerged during a period when Christians lived under ...

On Tuesday 25 June 2024, at the zenith of the world-famous #RejectFinanceBill2024 and #OccupyParliament protests, Safaricom switched off the Internet on the night of the Githurai massacre as Kenya Police descended on Githurai, slaughtering countless Kenyans in their wake.

The country entered a long night of communications blackout and nobody knew where anybody was or if they were safe. Come Wednesday morning, we were informed that no fewer than 22 bodies had arrived at the Nairobi City Mortuary overnight. Some of the bodies from the Githurai massacre, we now learn, were dumped at Kware in Mukuru Kwa Njenga.

In a morbidly bizarre twist, the woman who identified the mass grave dumpsite was led there, after weeks of searching, by her dead sister who, apparently, appeared to her in a dream to pinpoint the location of her body. And as fate would have it, the first body that was recovered by the young men she enlisted to assist her belonged to her dead sister.

Angry residents soon began to clamour, expressing displeasure and demanding for answers, not in the least because the local police station is barely 50 metres from the dumpsite graveyard. But all they got was the now-famous William Ruto response.