Was it just a matter of time before the inevitable happened in the Gen-Z movement that had threatened to overthrow the country’s political order a few months ago?

The constant bickering, infighting and name-calling between some of the emerging leaders of the self-described “leaderless” system has caused some concern among Kenyans who had supported the noble cause of good governance they were demanding.

The forces targeted by Gen Z are gleefully excited about the implosion of the movement, as its leaders fight and engage in heated debates on social media and in the general political space.

Fallout and power struggles are common in Kenyan politics, particularly since the return of multi-party politics in 1992, when many political parties split or simply disappeared over leadership struggles.

Such divisions emerge from an unbridled lust for power and its attendant traps, making popular political adventures like the Gen Z movement’s agenda open to infiltration and sabotage.

Political experts believe that the leaders of the Gen Z movement have been infiltrated by saboteurs, resulting in infighting, cries of mutual bloodshed and all manner of accusations against each other from the from its budding leaders.

Former Nairobi municipal secretary and politician Philip Kisia describes the verbal wars between Gen Z and millennials as unfortunate as they have shown a lot of promise for the country by starting from a very strong foundation as leadership alternative.

Having declared themselves tribeless, non-partisan and leaderless, many believed it might have been difficult for the group to allow itself to be penetrated by destructive forces.

“These young people were going to change the trajectory of the country because they have the numbers. Their thinking, their philosophy and their ideology were taking the country in a complete 360-degree turn,” explains Kisia.

Unfortunately, since tribal politics is very entrenched and they also come from different tribes, the influence of the older generation remains strong, especially after Raila Odinga struck a deal with President William Ruto for members of the ODM join the government.

Another school of thought is that strong divisions have struck young people because some find it difficult to shed old habits and are therefore easy to manipulate into creating power struggles, frustrating those who advocate competence, integrity and the fight against corruption in government.

Kisia believes that people in power are becoming very uncomfortable and that is why they will use every trick, including infiltrating Gen Z with huge amounts of money to buy their support and create discord among them.

But the young people used to sow discord seem to have forgotten that the old guard is only interested in promoting personal and selfish gain, and not the values ​​and principles for which some of their friends lost their lives during the recent protests of Generation Z.

“Remember, Generation Z are human beings too. They see the people who influence them living in opulence and are torn between integrity, righteousness and the desire to live a superfluous life, while members of the political class cannot show the source of their wealth. Kisia explains.

Kasmuel McOure is a young activist who has been featured prominently in social and mainstream media. He, among others like Kebaso Morara, has been accused by some young activists of promoting personal self-aggrandizement to increase their visibility.

He disagrees: “Kenyans have shown they are willing to use crowdfunding. If we are truly leaderless, why shouldn’t someone else step up. Hundreds of young people have emerged in this revolution and we must give them a chance.”

He also claims that they are preparing for the electoral revolution into which the political class is pushing them.

Lawyer Miguna Miguna, who has been supporting Gen Z through her social media posts since May, has been highly critical of Morara’s style of engagement with Kenyans, creating frenzied discussions on media platforms social.

He disapproved of calls from a post asking him to support Morara’s work, warning that he would only support integrity, truth and revolutionary commitment to social justice. “You focus on the people and totems you worship. I don’t worship anyone,” he added.

Miguna said he stopped supporting Morara when he allegedly derailed to focus on projects hostile to Generation Z and the millennial movement, to which Morara responded politely, telling Miguna that everyone should be allowed to do what he does best. .

“We don’t have to do the same thing. We just have to have the same goals,” Morara said, as many others supported or attacked him in the heated engagement that has continued since early last week.

However, this did not prevent Miguna from being even more stammering by telling his detractors that he is not on the X platform to please anyone, but that he is there to denounce the crooks, the crooks, organized criminals and emerging and entrenched looters.

“It’s painful to realize that Morara has cornered us, but let’s count our losses and march without him,” Miguna added.

Morara’s answer is that people see things differently and his strategy is simple, because whatever they do, they must all remember that 70 percent of the country is villages.

“My heart is pure. My conscience is clear. We have to get off our horse X and do a lot of ground work in the villages. If we can convince people in the villages to support us, then we will succeed,” Morara said.

He describes his style as political and that of Miguna as militant, adding that others may apply a provocative musical approach or creative educational content and that is why each person should do what they can do well to achieve the same objective.

The Truth Watchdog team cautioned young leaders against fighting against each other, singling out Morara and McOure and advising them to work together to achieve a common goal that will bear fruit.

He also warned that politicians and the old guard are using some of them to cause divisions.

It seems that some people are not happy that Kenyans are raising money to allow Morara to travel around the country and expose fake projects supposedly funded by the government. They were also annoyed by his proposal that young people form their own political party so they could prepare to take power in the 2027 presidential election.

Commenting on the call for a political party, a young woman calling herself Udaku girl, said she had noticed that Morara’s allies online attack people who have different ideas.

“Why ask us to suggest a party name and colors, when he has already decided and was already wearing a green tie, a color he had proposed,” Udaku said.

For his part, Otieno Otieno added that someone lied to Morara by telling him that a political party is more important than denouncing the government, its corrupt cartels and its lies.

He regretted that now that Morara has entered the mainstream media space and speaks a different language, the sad reality is that he is no longer with the others.

Speaking as an admirer of Gen Z, Kisia advises that the way forward is for them to not take their eyes off the ball and look at the bigger picture, which is securing their own and their future. their children.

“So many of them can lead. Immediately they realize that someone among them has been compromised, so they need to call those people or drop them like a hot potato,” Kisia advised.

As noted earlier, it is not just Generation Z who are feeling the effects of the politics of betrayal and backstabbing, as it has been a common practice in Kenyan politics for a long time.

In the 1990s, power struggles, egos and personal ambitions undermined the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy (FORD), a movement that could take over the country if its leaders Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and Kenneth Matiba remained united .