The BBC’s Colonial Psyops: Manufacturing Heroes, Burying Truth, and Propping Up Puppets in Kenya

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The British Broadcasting Corporation a festering organ of colonial subterfuge masquerading as journalism, has long served as the mouthpiece of British imperialist designs, deploying pacifist psyops to smother Kenya’s righteous indignation and enthrone frauds as hollow heroes. Its latest propaganda piece, Blood Parliament, is a shameless rehash of the 2014 farce Terror at the Mall, both sinister spectacles crafted to deflect attention from systemic corruption and perpetuate colonial interests. These so-called documentaries are not mere storytelling but calculated exercises in narrative distortion, designed to pacify a nation’s fury, shield corrupt elites, and anoint opportunists as saviors while burying the true architects of resistance.

The BBC’s colonial playbook is predictable yet insidious: inflate the profiles of charlatans, erase genuine heroes, and divert focus from the rot of governance. In Blood Parliament, the BBC brazenly crowns Boniface Mwangi and Hanifa Adan – two self-serving hustlers who emerged from obscurity to exploit Kenya’s unrest – as the contrived “heroes” of the June 2024 Gen Z protests. These parasitic grifters, Boniface Mwangi and Hanifa Adan, had never shown a shred of interest in activism tied to economic crimes before the protests erupted, their sudden “activism” a transparent ploy to ride the wave of public discontent.

Mwangi, a sanctimonious con artist peddling crocodile tears, and Adan, a shrill opportunist cloaked in counterfeit righteousness, are no champions of the people. They are vultures, aided and abetted by the BBC’s colonial script, scamming Kenyans with their performative outrage while angling for political fiefdoms. Their “carnival” of protests, as Mwangi gleefully described it, was less a revolution than a staged spectacle, meticulously curated to siphon the Gen Z movement’s momentum into their own self-aggrandizing narrative.

This is not the BBC’s first foray into such treachery. In 2014, following the blood-soaked Westgate Mall attack, Terror at the Mall elevated Abdul Haji – a man with suspiciously convenient ties to the terrorists who orchestrated the carnage – as the “Westgate Hero.” By colonial design, Haji “happened” to be at the scene, trailed by a professional photographer poised to immortalize his staged heroism. Brandishing a gun he never fired, Haji posed as a savior while the BBC’s cameras lapped up the charade. Not a single bullet left his barrel, yet this fraud was crowned Westgate’s messiah, his manufactured halo gleaming in the colonial spotlight.

Meanwhile, the elite Recce Squad, who methodically cleared the mall floor by floor, risking their lives to neutralize the threat, were erased from the narrative. Their valor was buried, their sacrifices silenced. One Recce hero even fell to “friendly fire” from the perpetually dubious Kenya Defense Forces (KDF), whose presence at every national calamity reeks of sabotage. The KDF, those bumbling agents of chaos, prolonged the Westgate debacle, looting shops and banks in a brazen display of opportunism. Their actions, shrouded in suspicion, conveniently bolstered war criminals Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto, whose International Criminal Court cases mysteriously dissolved in the aftermath. Westgate, it is clear, was a choreographed spectacle by Kenyan intelligence, designed to derail international justice and entrench colonial puppets.

The beneficiaries of this BBC-orchestrated sham were predictable. Abdul Haji, now lounging in the Garissa Senator’s seat, owes his political career to the BBC’s colonial alchemy. His brother, Noordin Haji, slithered into the role of Kenya’s intelligence czar, presiding over a chilling reign of abductions, extrajudicial killings, and enforced disappearances – a macabre encore of the Westgate playbook. The threads of this sordid tapestry are unmistakable: William Ruto, Noordin Haji, and the BBC, a triumvirate of colonial deceit weaving lies to prop up their marionettes.

Noordin Haji’s Role in Abductions, Enforced Disappearances, and Extrajudicial Killings Since June 2024:

Since the June 2024 Gen Z protests erupted against the Finance Bill, Noordin Haji, as Director-General of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), has been repeatedly implicated in a wave of state-sponsored abductions, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings targeting government critics. The Kenya National Human Rights Commission documented 82 cases of abductions and enforced disappearances between June and December 2024, with 29 individuals still missing as of late December. Human rights groups, including Amnesty International and the Kenya Human Rights Commission, have pointed to security agents, widely suspected to be under Haji’s command, as the perpetrators. Prominent activists abducted and held incommunicado before being traced have directly named Haji as a key orchestrator of these violations.

A chilling example emerged on January 14, 2025, when Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi announced that his son, Leslie, was abducted by NIS agents during the June protests, only released after President Ruto’s personal intervention. Reports also highlight discrepancies between police records and autopsy findings in protester deaths, with 63 extrajudicial killings documented, 41 involving gunshot wounds. Posts on X further amplify public sentiment, with users accusing Haji of leading a campaign of terror. Haji’s NIS, operating with impunity, has been linked to covert units tracking and abducting dissenters, including high-profile cases like the transnational abduction of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye in Nairobi. Despite government denials, the pattern of repression under Haji’s tenure mirrors the “Moi playbook” of systematic silencing, fueling fears of a return to Kenya’s authoritarian past.

Now, with Blood Parliament, the BBC recycles its colonial script, attempting to canonize Mwangi and Adan, those loathsome parasites who feed on Kenya’s unrest. Their sudden pivot to “activism” in June 2024, absent any prior engagement with economic crimes, exposes their opportunism. Mwangi, a snake oil salesman peddling faux moralism, and Adan, a fame-chasing fraud draped in activism’s tatters, are no heroes – they are the detritus of a corrupt system, propped up by a foreign media outfit that thrives on Kenya’s misery. Their “activism” is a colonial performance, a grotesque masquerade meant to distract from the true architects of oppression. The BBC’s lens, ever selective, ignores the organic rage of Kenya’s youth, instead crafting a narrative that sanitizes rebellion and funnels it toward these impostors.

Yet Kenya’s Gen Z, sharp and unyielding, sees through the BBC’s rancid charade. The attempt to foist these contemptible frauds as heroes has collapsed under the weight of its own absurdity, leaving the BBC’s colonial propaganda machine sputtering in the dust.

The truth, fierce and unquenchable, burns through the fog of their lies: Mwangi and Adan are no saviors, just as Haji was no hero. They are pawns in a colonial game, their hollow crowns shattered by a nation that refuses to be tamed. The BBC’s pacifist psyops, deployed to deflate public anger and entrench colonial interests, have faltered. Terror at the Mall and Blood Parliament stand exposed as sinister tools of manipulation, designed to distract from corruption and protect the powerful.

Kenya’s awakening cannot be subdued by colonial sleight of hand. The empire’s gambit has failed, and its puppets stand naked before a nation that demands truth over treachery.