The Miserable Twat, Troll and Deperate Cyber Whore is Erik Hersman Not Alai

There is a gene in myself which does not and will never allow for fraudulent people and ideas to rule my life. I will stand up and tell you there and then that you are wrong when I feel that you are wrong. I have told my dad, siblings, teacher, bosses and even friends. That is the mantra which I live by.

So it really does not surprise me that twats and conniving whores really see me as a troll. Lets start from where this is coming from. I was summoned by the Kenyan Criminal Investigations Department (CID) over tweets I supposedly sent regarding Alfred Mutua. I obeyed the summon and the CID decided to detain me until then next day when I was sent to court, charged and then released on bail.

While away, like the proverbial cat, the neocolonialist twats who have forever expected me to get desperate and really need their resurrection decided to try to gain some attention while I was away. And the twat was doing it with a not so convincing excuse that they disagreed with some “Kenya Censorship Laws.”

Erik Hersman decided to say how I am a troll and so have been banned by iHub, Skunkworks, Nokia and Google (someone tell me what sets the four listed entities uniquely apart). The sad reality is that Google Kenya, Nokia Kenya, iHub Ngong Road and Skunworks nowhere are not unique. The same few 50 or so people operate and run the entities.

The four have no ideals which anyone with futuristic thought can boast of apart from that they are all Manambas hoping that by clutching the tails of the torn coat of Erik Hersman, they will spur any meaningful innovation.

Erik Hersman on the other hand passionately hate independent mindset. You will not survive at iHub, Ushahidi or any of the loudly celebrated but rarely accepted entities if you have a mindset which will challenge and prove that Erik Hersman’s mindset is shallow, narrow, neocolonial and conniving.

At the launch of mLab East Africa, one of the managers at the Bishop Magua based facilities warned me as much. Again just 2 weeks ago, I came to know of the supposed iHub ban which is nothing but Erik’s personal declaration of persona-non-grata.

While talking to one of the iHub managers about the same, he was bluntly honest, “Erik Hersman hates you. We have really told him that we see nothing wrong with you but he is insisting that he threatened not to work with anyone who thinks that you should be allowed to freely visit or attend events at iHub.” That is Erik Hersman.

I have met developers doing great work outside the iHub and even those still are inside the iHUB. Majority of them say that Erik Hersman is such an attention whore who will do anything to remain the centre of attraction. The same crimes Erik is accusing me of committing.

So let me tell Erik Hersman about myself and @Korruptsoul, @arabari and @robert_rabari can all attest to as they are my closest relatives on Twitter.

I am a person who will never get to be a selfish opportunist. I will never stop to tell Nokia that they are losing the market when they are doing so. I will never fail to remind Google time and time again that they are behaving like colonialists by luring Kenyan entities into ideas which will lock them and make sure that they earn no meaningful return from the same.

When Nokia or any vendor or tech company does not want to hear, they will always try to hide their inadequacies by locking out the
sane voices and sticking with praise singers and ass-lickers. The result is that Nokia is preparing to even close its much touted research lab which it so much advertised as revolutionary in this side of Sahara.

With Google, no Kenyan developer is making money from its Android platform or any of the initiatives it has started apart from few prizes here and there which are just bribes packaged as reward for “great ideas.” If Google was serious in changing the tech landscape in Kenya and Africa as a whole, it would listen and engage especially when we disagree.

Secondly, Erik should know that I never get to disagree, correct and even take people and ideas head-on for any virtual traffic gain as he has stupidly alleged. Ask the three I mentioned above and they will tell you that I have very strong views which even my teachers, family and even bosses have found hard to accommodate one time or the other. I told off my Headmaster in Onjiko High School, my boss at the UN Mission in DRC, my dad and even my MPs.

My strong views earned me a beating as a kid or student and has not stopped into my adulthood. I was assaulted in in Kisumu in August 2011 and left for dead. Just because of my tweets disagreeing with what Minister Anyang’ Nyong’o was doing at the medical services ministry.

Disagreeing and holding divergent opinions from the people Erik would have wished that I ass-licked does nnot bring me any meaningful traffic nor Adsense earnings. I live on other things. I will never be reduced to begging for handouts and space from Erik Hersman. I have better ideas of making money my own way.

And on the very desperate blog post, Erik Hersman claimed how “a lot of Kenyans on Twitter” laughed at my incarceration. Who is a lot to Erik? The usual barking mongrels he feed coffee and few beers at iHub to attack me? Before Erik who is an American and not a Kenyan ask us to defined who define our laws, let us ask him who defines his statements. Kenyan laws will be defined by Kenyans not some jobless American who few corrupt Kenyan government officials have saved from being irrelevant.

Erik then goes on to say how I am guilty of libel and defamation while marketing the blog post as a fair analysis of the going-ons.

The same mindset which Erik holds declared both Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela as terrorists. There is nothing unique or inspiring in the thought. It is shallow, patronising and colonial to say the least.

Erik Hersman would wish that I constantly cleaned his rear opening. Others can find it tasteful and do it however much they want, the truth is that I will never or simply I WON’T.