This archive report was first published on 21 December 2019.
Just days after King Kaka's powerful song 'Wajinga Nyinyi' sparked a national conversation on corruption, another artiste has picked up the mantle and released a spoken word video continuing the strong anti-corruption message.
Teardrops, a Kenyan artiste, released the video on YouTube on Saturday, December 21, 2019, describing it as the second part of King Kaka's song.
In the video, Teardrops starts by saying that he is pumping sense into 'short wires' and defiantly says he is ready for any repercussions, referring to himself as the choirmaster.
He goes on to talk about the deaths of university students, including Sharon and Mercy Keino, who died under circumstances shrouded in mystery.
“Tulipata new currency but change haiko bado ama Kenya iko blessed na corruption,” Teardrops says in the video.
He laments on how Kenyans fought hard to gain independence from the British colonialists to be able to have their ancestral land back only to lose them to Kenyan land grabbers.
He also highlights the irony of the Sh200 currency note featuring people picking cotton, yet Kenya still imports second-hand clothes.
Teardrops negates President Uhuru Kenyatta's assertion that security starts with an individual Kenyan, opining that it is only corruption that starts with an individual in the country.
