This Is Why Twitter Has Censored Cyprian Nyakundi’s Trending Hashtag
The price of poking your nose on the untouchables on social media is being censored. Twitter bigwig Cyprian Nyakundu rattled one of the most powerful financial institutions in the world and Twitter had to act.
The World Bank is under siege. Kenyans led by Cyprian Nyakundi and the brainy PLO Lumumba are firing salvos at the international financial institution.
But why are Kenyans angry with World Bank, an institution which has been on the fore front waging war on poverty and providing loans to developing nations?
Nyakundi started #WorldImpoverishingBank after he read the viral Huffington Post article that peeled back World Bank’s mask.
According to the American online news aggregator and blog, the Kenyan government was using a World Bank-backed conservation project to bankroll a wave of evictions in Cherangani Hills targeting the indigenous Sengwer tribe.
#WorldImpoverishingBank was trending first on trends map but it’s conspicuously missing on Twitter. But the censoring of the hashtag hasn’t stopped Kenyans from taking a jab at World Bank.
PLO Lumumba: Irony of preaching poverty eradication with one hand while the other funds projects that force people off their land #WorldImpoverishingBank
Evans Ngeno: Good that Kenyans have now opened their eyes and realized @WorldBankKenya doesnt give for free .The Poor pays dearly #WorldImpoverishingBank
Zizs Adhiambo: World bank also funded a BIDCO palm oil project in Uganda that has harmed the environment and evicted many #WorldImpoverishingBank
Dikembe: Today, both the World Bank and IMF refuses to acknowledge IFMIS was their smart way of looting public funds #WorldImpoverishingBank
Robert Syundu: Kibaki hated the World Bank and IMF guys but Jubilee worships them #WorldImpoverishingBank
M U N E N E:@WorldBankKenya releases funds carelessly highly promoting corruption #WorldImpoverishingBank
M U N E N E: Guys at @WorldBankKenya work hand in hand with the government to cook up economic figures and lie to Kenyans #WorldImpoverishingBank
Robert Syundu: #WorldImpoverishingBank This is a Creative one . i have been wanting to ask @WorldBankKenya Many Questions but they Blocked me .
Dikembe: The removal of the Sengwer from their natural habitat in a World Bank-sponsored eviction is morally tasteless. #WorldImpoverishingBank
