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Who is right!  President William Ruto 's remarks on Tata company has caused a heated debate and backlash within the political classes. The President ordered evacuation of the company from Lake Magadi citing the "exploitative" nature of the company and "not benefiting" the locals. Leaders opposing the government have taken the president head-on over his sentiments. They say the head of state is creating an "unconducive" environment for the investors. Honourable Rigathi Gachagua , one of the key principals in opposition have opposed the president's move likening it to the Iddi Amin 's case where during his assumption to power, he drove them away from Uganda, saying that since then Uganda have had a staggering economy. Investors love a conducive environment, a country with a promising strong economy and security guaranteed.  The main objective of an investor is to make business as it contributes to the economy of such country. Tensi...

Churches Again! Kenyan politicians should desist from attending churches as a way of getting masses, let each one organize mass on his or her own.  While doing politics, leaders usually prefer weekends and majorly on Sundays in order to get masses and sell their aspirations to the congregants.  In 2022, Dr. Canon Ida Odinga , was bashed when she breached an idea about church regulation when the current government during their hay days in their opposition intensed their campaigns in churches as the congregants were the target voters. Luckily, church was the conduit for the majority of present political leaders to assume the seats. The trend still continues when churches are still being used as the platform for political campaigns.  The Office of the Attorney General through its boss Dorcas Oduor , has revealed that they receive about 60 registration requests for churches. In Rwanda , some of the churches were shut down on the basis of their doctrin...

Who balances matrix illustration courtesy: Missing Voices Part of the definition of democracy is rule by the people. Citizens in every democratic nation yearn to enjoy the best of democracy, however, the situation takes a different twist, when citizens receives the contrary. In East Africa, Kenya , Tanzania , and Uganda are resolute members of the East Africa Community (EAC) with one thing in common in terms of their governance structure, democracy. In Uganda, the opposition are always vexed by the government system of suppressing and oppressing Ugandan citizens who are against the government,Tanzanian opposition chiefs are crying foul to the government over mischievous acts which is being by the government. During the 2024 general elections in Tanzania, majority were killed while others are nowhere to be found until today. In Kenya 198 cases of forced victims of disappearances have been reported. Democracy is being vitiated, those in power are incontinence, doing everyth...

Kenya is a youthful country with 50.1% of the total population being below 18 years. According to the census done in 2019, figures show that 21.85 million are children while the latest estimate by UNICEF is 24.9 million children under the age of 18. The statistics do not only display a number to be quoted but a number that should be placed on the radar.  This is the population that is holding and driving the country in the future compared to the older generations which is in the apex of leadership and offices currently.  Ironically, the predecessors who play a major role in being the yardstick are divesting from their obligations and now it is a society where everyone rides on the mantra of freedoms and rights.  The safety of children not only in Kenya but also in other parts of the world is not worth being neglected at the expense of freedom and rights.  TikTok was sued in 2024 over the high degree of data amounts on millions of children under the age of 13, the c...

Photo illustration by: UNESCO Slavery in the previous centuries was marked with humiliation, torture and deaths of the victims.  In 1791, Saint Domingue which is now called Haiti , experienced a fascinating strange event, where the enslaved people revolution . This insurgency led to the inception of International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition .  The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) remarks this day annually with the dictum "to inscribe the tragedy of the slave trade in the memory of all people". It is a momentous occasion to remember the victims of slave trade, celebrate resistance and freedom, and fight against modern forms of slavery and racism .  As the day is serving a purpose and directly aligned to its course, key stakeholders who have the gist to push the agenda of the day slightly are doing less and have not reached the goal.  Young people, educators, artists, and...

El Niño It Is Before deluge, warnings came, attention ignored and that is how lives are lost, properties carried away and infrastructure destroyed.  Evidentiary El Nino is imminent as forecasted by the Kenya's weatherman with prediction rate going up to more than 80 percent with its adversarial effect to last until early next year of 2027. River Nyando in Kisumu usually burst and paralyzes the transport sector and as well disrupting people's way of life, Nairobi city after every continuous heavy downpour usually gets flooded yet it is the face of the country. Kisumu and Nairobi are one of the eighteen counties that have been labeled as high risk counties regardless of these, the county residents listen and watch El Nino information on media while the experts are in offices without any important communication to make. Communication concerning forthcoming irregular rainfall patterns should not be done through sharing of posters, circulating memos. Worthy to note...

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. <script src="https://pl31036930.profitableratecpmnetwork.com/42/fb/6e/42fb6edaece576db30b03763452f3344.js...

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...

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...

The miss link in communication in the Government as a unit is a puzzle. President William Ruto was today on May 3, expected to address the nation on the state of the nation in regard to the flood. Just before the President addressed the nation, there was a memo circulating already of how the school reopening would go on as planned. The Ministry of Education while addressing the safety of the learners through the memo directed that the School Board of Management to ensure that the learners are ready for learning and precautionary measures are undertaken to avoid hindrances. Later, two hours after the memo, the President addressed the nation and ordered that the postponement of school reopening be suspended until further notice. Out of the impossible, the ministry of education seemed to be having the stand of opening schools. The Education Cabinet Secretary seems to be under pressure when he was releasing the memo since the last was released on the wee hours of the morning hence today...