Politics & activism — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 13 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 84% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
14 measurements spanning 43 days, net -127. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 5,434–5,599 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
19 Sept 2026, 11:38
5,453
-10
15 Sept 2026, 09:17
5,463
-8
11 Sept 2026, 13:37
5,471
-20
6 Sept 2026, 16:40
5,491
-18
2 Sept 2026, 15:38
5,509
-9
30 Aug 2026, 12:44
5,518
-8
27 Aug 2026, 11:56
5,526
-3
24 Aug 2026, 09:36
5,529
-14
20 Aug 2026, 23:29
5,543
-12
17 Aug 2026, 15:46
5,555
-7
14 Aug 2026, 07:38
5,562
-3
11 Aug 2026, 07:15
5,565
-11
8 Aug 2026, 07:21
5,576
-4
7 Aug 2026, 16:46
5,580
first reading
Engagement
22 posts held, back to 6 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 8 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 22 posts for this entry, the most recent from 11 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
What this channel posts
Video runtime
37s
Average length
12s
Measured directly from 3 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Reaction mix
84 reactions across 16 posts, in 13 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 31.0% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
❤
26
31.0%
💩
15
17.9%
👍
14
16.7%
😁
8
9.52%
🔥
7
8.33%
💯
5
5.95%
👎
2
2.38%
🤔
2
2.38%
😱
1
1.19%
😴
1
1.19%
🤬
1
1.19%
🤮
1
1.19%
🤯
1
1.19%
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 17 of the 22 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 84 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 22 most recent posts we hold, published 6 July 2026 to 11 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Gachagua’s Parallel Talking Points: Why the Impeached Leader Keeps Dodging the Thande Ruling
Rigathi Gachagua consistently avoids the issues that actually constrain power, preferring to launch parallel talking points that generate emotion without confronting the structure of the regime.
He and the broader opposition remained silent when William Ruto sought to establish an Ebola quarantine facility and have offered …
The Daily Nation responded to Justice Mugure Thande’s High Court ruling - which found that the next presidential election was constitutionally due in August 2026 - by ignoring its substance and instead launching a glossy “Decision 2027” campaign that treats the 2027 date as settled.
The paper has featured a curated line-up of preferred politicians, issued an unsolicited pledge of fair coverage, and focused on campai…
Two Aging Regime Mouthpieces Panic as the Constitution Catches Up
David Ndii and Ahmednasir Abdullahi spent the weekend frantically dismissing Justice Mugure Thande’s Malindi ruling as either mathematical illiteracy or “one of the stupidest judgments since 1895,” desperate to stop the public from noticing that Article 136(2)(a) places the presidential election in the fifth year - not after it - and that the Constitu…
William Ruto Reduced to Ceremonial President After Constitutional Deadline
Based on the Malindi High Court ruling of 7 August 2026, William Ruto became a ceremonial president with effect from 10 August 2026 - the day after the constitutionally required election date of the second Tuesday in August 2026.
The court declared that the presidential election must be held on the second Tuesday of August in the fifth year …
The Shahbal–DP World agreement is scheduled to be signed at State House in Nairobi on 8 September in the presence of President William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta; the two Epstein-adjacent figures who have spent years mortgaging strategic national assets.
For many Kenyans, the first time they ever heard of Mukurweini MP John Kaguchia was last night, after he staged his own arrest after a Citizen TV interview.
Can federations that only recently endorsed Gianni Infantino’s illegal and unconstitutional third term now be trusted with the stewardship of a new FIFA?
❤1
Showing the 12 most recent of 22 posts we hold for @francisgaitho. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Handles this channel named that no longer answer
Dead references
3
handles named in this channel’s posts, vacant today
Evidenced gone
0
we ourselves saw one of these resolve, at some point
Never seen alive
3
vacant every time we have ever looked
@francisgaitho named 3 handles that resolve to nothing today. That is a fact about the reference, not necessarily a fact about the handle’s history — see the two groups below.
Most of these may never have existed as a live channel at all. A handle a channel names can be a typo, an aspirational name nobody registered, or a channel that was already gone before this one ever mentioned it. Unless a row below is marked evidenced, all we know is that it references a handle that is not a live channel today — not that anything “died”. How this is measured.
Never seen alive
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
@infoninja named in 5 posts, 8 August 2026 – 13 August 2026
@evenmaina named in 2 posts, 8 August 2026 – 9 August 2026
@kenyapower_care named in 2 posts, 8 August 2026 – 9 August 2026
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
TUKO.co.ke News @tuko_news · 24,592 Telegram ranks this channel #10 of 63 here — alongside 62 others — read 15 September 2026
TopTags @lyf4g · 21,894 Telegram ranks this channel #17 of 54 here — alongside 53 others — read 22 September 2026
Duncan Ndung'u @DuncanNdungu · 26,288 Telegram ranks this channel #21 of 57 here — alongside 56 others — read 12 September 2026
Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @Nyakundi · 104,370 Telegram ranks this channel #28 of 66 here — alongside 65 others — read 15 August 2026
The Nairobian @nairobianofficial · 132,684 Telegram ranks this channel #29 of 67 here — alongside 66 others — read 15 August 2026
Kenyan News Panel @kenyan_news_panel · 80,097 Telegram ranks this channel #31 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 19 August 2026
Mwangi Muthiora @mwangimuthiora · 44,796 Telegram ranks this channel #33 of 51 here — alongside 50 others — read 27 August 2026
BNN BASIC ❤️ @bnnkenya · 105,730 Telegram ranks this channel #33 of 54 here — alongside 53 others — read 15 August 2026
The Kenyan Wallstreet @kenyanwallstreet · 35,157 Telegram ranks this channel #39 of 76 here — alongside 75 others — read 2 September 2026
This channel appears in 9 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 19 September 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Francis Gaitho” (@francisgaitho), 5,453 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/francisgaitho.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.