Minister Githae had his Budget, Kenyans have ‘Budget ya Masufferer’

Kenyans can be creative, really creative. 

And when it comes to making fun of their government they can do it wholesomely and leave your ribs dry from a suffocating laughter.  

So on this important day for the rulers when the Minister for Finance Njeru Githae was busy giving his financial breakdown for the next fiscal year, Kenyans on twitter, #KOT, were busy downloading their hearts on the social site with a kind of dream budget ‘expectations’. Their handle #BudgetyaMasufferer gained fiery popularity within seconds and received hundreds of tweets and retweets. Most of them though were mock postings but gave a rare glimpse of what inhabited Kenyans' thoughts when they decide to open up to all their good hearts. 

As per the tradition, the minister read the 2012/13 budget in parliament detailing the amount of money allocated the ministries (state departments after the next elections). He also revealed some austerity measures the government would be taking to cut expenses. Kenyans didn’t care much about that serious part of day. 

They had these on their minds: 

One @Trackmann, posted “ #BudgetYaMaSufferer Iyo shamba enye iko between a rock and a hard place, ma youth wapewe tupande maindi”.

@whizaburia: #BudgetYaMasufferer parliament si club, hiyo speaker inaitwa marende iuzwe” 

Presidential candidate Martha Karua fell into this hilarity posting “#BudgetYaMasufferer I agree with the tweep who said space iko chini ya mayai ijazwe!" feed the nation!  

@sickolia_added “#BudgetYaMasufferer Unga ya Jogoo bana ikue na Flavour ya Kuku.Ata ukikula na skuma si mbaya sana”

@PtahRussian said: “#BudgetYaMasufferer Jua Cali atulipie fees. Alisema yeye ni baba yetu” an apparent mock of a popular musician, Jua Cali, who sang a song titled Baba Yetu.

@aPaCHe14: Hospitali zipunguzwe bei Wakorino wapone vichwa haraka #BudgetYaMasufferer" 

@DopestChiQa: #BudgetYaMasufferer ile light inakuanga at the end of the tunnel izimwe ku save energy. 

#BudgetYaMaSufferer Ma dame waitikie kuingia bahasha ju Box zimepanda bei 

#BudgetYaMasufferer hiyo shimo katikati ya donut itolewe, ata si tamu!! 

There were some sober postings like this one from ‏@duaneceek  who posted “#BudgetYaMasufferer Gava to create a fund to pay interns who are attached to its ministries.  

This is just a small collection of the hundreds posted thorough the handle that spirited up live of #KOT that day.

Budgetyamasufferer attempted to capture the dreams of the very poor in society (unofficially called Masufferers). The hilarious postings touched on their probable day-to-day difficulties, more so aimless wishes but whatever they were they relayed a message to planners on what lay Kenyans expected of their leaders when coming up with the annual budgets. 

 Creativity reloaded. Period.