Eagle's Eye

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...

Honourable Paul Ongili, alias Babu Owino is a tree within the storm after he came out and started free online classes for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Exams that begins that began this month of October. The storm is that the legislature is facing criticism over his involvement in the teaching career. As it stands out to be, learners are in dire need of knowledge since the grand exams are assumed to be significant determinant of every candidates dreams. Usually, this creates intense atmosphere among them, thanks yo Babu Owino who is of goodwill and ready to share the available knowledge with the candidates. Basically, Babu Owino is right and rhetorically arguing he is right, with attempts to judge both sides of the coin, this article takes the tail side of a coin to trail Babu Owino's pedagogic approach, to subtly tread on pragmatic route. To begin with, the total population of this year's candidates is 3,424,836 million including those of...

photo courtesy (unknown) A person cannot retract a message that has reached a mass audience invariant of where it was said. One of the characteristics of communication is that you cannot uncommunicate.  A silent person remains wise until he utters a word. His Excellency Mutahi Kahiga might exemplify this phrase considering his tracenda during his speech at a funeral in Kiambu county, where he was addressing them in the local dialect.  Mr. Kahiga, seems to be deficient in emotions especially concerning the latest tragedy that befell the country when he cast aspersions on Raila Odinga's demise.  Raila Odinga, without doubt was akin to mumbo-jumbo within the luo community yet to his capacity during his lifetime did he not only benefit the Luo but became a national figure and perhaps a trademark in Kenya's politics.  In the history of human life, man is mortal and from soil we come, to soil shall we return. Regardless of the circumstances, man is...

illustration by: Collins Omondi Art ODINGA'S CANDLE BLOWS OFF Raila Amollo Odinga passed on this week on Wednesday 15, Morning in India where he had gone for treatment.  According to one of the doctors who attended to Raila before his untimely demise, he was suffering from various ailments but at long last succumbed to cardiac arrest.  The former Premier, until the time of his demise was an active politician, who inadvertently and visibly shaped Kenya's political angle. Raila Odinga has been a veteran politician having survived and manoeuvering through the Governments and regimes thereby becoming indomitable in the line of politics. The former Prime Minister as a character in Kenya's political history, has been understandably witty, ingenious, mysterious something that made him be epitheted in various names such as Enigma, Baba, Agwambo, Tinga, hummer(nyundo), jakom among other names just to epitomize his character.  Raila Odinga, run for presidential electio...

Photo Courtesy   Waking up to find the sun rising from the West and not East at dawn is enough to signal a whirl of change in the cosmological history. As a product of imagination it can be, who knew Gen Z would emerge as with a wave of change in a sundry of generations unexpectedly.  With this wave, the political sphere in every country worldwide is experiencing an overhaul.  Recently, protests have marred different countries with calls for change.  Bangladesh, Nepal, Morocco, Madagascar, Kenya are some of the countries that have at least tasted the pinch of the GenZ protests, while some of the protests have resulted in a change in the political sphere of the affected countries others have left less impact with mission and vision unreached due to fanciful impulse.  Generation Z, globally have not only expressed their anger through anger through protests and demonstrations, but also in politics where some of the African countries like Seychelles and...

Kenya got its independence 1963 from the British colony, while Singapore got it two years in the month of August 9, 1965 from Malaysia after they had intense political differences which resulted to racial riots. Standing on the mirror line reflecting on the two countries between Kenya and Singapore, Kenya is extremely behind Singapore in terms of development.  Singapore hastily rose from third world country to first world country while Kenya still maintained the third world class.  Recently, Kenya's President Dr. William Ruto, is full of comparison statements: between Kenya and Singapore. Surprisingly, the phrase of boosting Kenya's world class has taken a beautiful twist where every politician is dreaming of Kenya to be futuristically the same level as Singapore. Pausing a bit, what's a dream? pondering on this; a dream literally means imaginary events while sleeping.  Our politicians are forgetting the dogmatic saying that goes 'action speaks louder than...

photo courtesy: Illustration by Nation Kenya is one of the democratic nations in the world . True to the definition of democracy, Kenyans enjoy electing leaders to represent them in various positions as it stands; representative democracy.  Alongside democracy, constitutionality is upheld everywhere within Kenya's geopolitical borders and the patriots love it, because in the constitution, there are rights and freedom clearly spelt out.  However, our leaders seem to exhaust many clauses of the constitution, they tend to be in the illusionary cognition that they are demigods and can do anything anywhere anyhow, and can spew words without applying any filter. Sensationalism it is!  To begin with, Kibra MP Peter Orero's words carries the day and wraps the week with a lot of negative trolls, negative pictures of our Kenya's political leaders. I mean the 'taka taka' remarks and the second phrase in it is 'peleka kwa Ruto'.  In the world, Kenyan memb...