Eagle's Eye

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 ...

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...