Eagle's Eye

A greater percentage of Kenya's population lives a hard life in the country while the remaining live a lavish life. "Hard living" is a song by Wailing Souls but among those in the streets of Kibra in Nairobi, Obunga in Kisumu, and Old Town in Mombasa, among other slums, it is an epitome of their livelihood. It is this reality, that those in the top ladder are satirizing. The remarks by Treasury Cabinet Secretary, Honourable John Mbadi on the majority of Kenyans consuming soda signifying the reduction in the high cost of living is unpalatable and apathetic.   Politicians in their cadres assume citizens subscribe to their ideologies only to later realize that the majority of Kenyans are awake.  The same speed and agility they have while speaking only makes Kenyan image to degenerate lest other countries alter their perception of what is Kenya. Indignity that even a toddler cannot withstand. A portrait of cerebrally challenged hermaphrodite, theatrical stunts w...

Kenya is making a shift from chorusing Vision 2030 to a new song of Vision 2060. The shift in vision has been made abrupt that every person seeks to address the authenticity of vision 2060 especially at these critical moments that Kenya is experiencing a polarized political situation.  As experts could view it, that policies driving a country are formed by experts and such policies are independent of political affiliations. President William Ruto launched vision 2060 and formed a committee that would oversee its implementation as well as drawing structural guidelines raises eyebrows. The backlash received upon the launching is not drawn from political class alone but also from the experts, the same way the voice in this article raise concerns about the pragmatism of vision 2060 when Vision 2030 have not been reached. Kenya's vision twenty-thirty has just flew away even before the year of the vision itself. I am tempted to ask one prophetic question that will Vision 2060...

Who's to blame Kenya comprises more than 40 ethnic groups and perhaps this is what we call our strength because of the diversity.  In the happiness index, surveys reveal that in Africa, Kenya is one of the happiest countries in the continent. The survey has it right until politics comes in as the enemy with politicians as the conduit through which division, hate, violence and tension gets in.  Eight months remain for campaigns to officially begin yet politicians are organizing rallies across the nation to show how influential they are, how mammoth followers are after them but behind every rally casualties are evidenced.  Injuries, deaths, tear gassing, mars various rallies organized by the Kenya's politicians.  In Homa Bay, during the Linda Mwananchi rally, two people were pronounced dead while dozens sustained injuries as goons and the Linda Mwananchi brigades were deeply engaged in a scuffle.  Whereas Nyanza region and by extension Western Kenya b...

photo courtesy: amateur  The enmity between cat and dog is so intense that some animals in the compound with these two individuals might tend to take sides.  The dog's owner chases away the cat while the cat owner picks the stone to pelt at the dog. This enmity exists between the two owners just as it is with the pets.  In lieu of these domestic animals is a police officer and the ordinary citizen.  The relationship between men and women in uniform is so cranky that even if the ordinary citizens make a mistake, the police officer is to be blamed and when an ordinary citizen deviates from the norm, there is no room for forgiveness.  The enmity is cyclic, retribution with no contrite, and what does this one speak of a nation in a magnifying lens.   The recent trending clip where a driver was capturing a police woman allegedly demanding fifty Kenya shillings (kshs. 50) is not like interpreting a blank page in which one hastily flips to the nex...

photo courtesy: illustration by Gayo When the leech found out that by hiding inside the throat of a cow it can suck quarts of blood, it needed not to worry, only to wait for the cow to come and drink from the coldest water that meanders through the stones. It is there that it would sneak into the cow's throat and have enough blood. In Africa, the race to amass wealth preoccupies the minds of every politician, to an extent that the citizen's interest comes last. Should the interests of the citizens be on the menu, then others would order it as a pudding, or dessert, while theirs which is the main meal fills the plate.  Sad enough that the moment, these politicians clinch power, they turn off the cameras of accountability and transparency or otherwise, they hire their men to operate in the control of these cameras.  These are credits that makes them be opulence and be august, far-fetched is their bravado that even after assuming to the electoral seat they extend it ...

photo courtesy: Vecteezy Every institution has a set of standard rules and morals that guide them, and stakeholders of various companies are expected to abide by them to the latter, so are other occasions where attire matters most. In schools, learners are expected to be in uniform, the clergy are supposed to be in their cassock or maybe clerical attire, while barristers are expected to be in robes. Flouting these rules results in disobedience, and may attract penalties of any kind depending on the set rules and regulations.  As the same is expected in the Parliament, a new trend seems to emerge from some of the members of Parliament who have so far expressed their temerity by dressing on their choice.  Babu Owino mid this year walked into the parliament building clad in lawyers' attire just seventeen weeks later Honourable member of the legislative arm, Boni Khalwale surprised the senate house when he joined the session attired in informal clothes that doesn't mat...