Eagle's Eye

  By Glen Don THE MEDIA COUNCIL’S VISIT TO KISII UNIVERSITY The Kisii University Media students on Saturday 10, February will have the privilege of meeting their umbrella body, the Media Council of Kenya (MCK). The MCK’s official visit will commence tomorrow Saturday until Monday 12, February with various activities set to take place within the period of the visit. In the schedule, on Saturday the opening activity will be Students' talk and career guidance, on Sunday it will be sports day where Kisii Journalists will have a match against Kisumu journalists and on Monday there will be a separate round-table meeting with the lecturers, training for the journalists, lecturers and students then finally training for communication team and journalists on access to information. This will mark the end of their three-day visit to Kisii. Apart from these, the MCK is expected to aid the students who have qualified to be media practitioners and communication experts in obtaining thei...

   THE E-CITIZEN MIGRATION Last week, the Government through the Ministry of Education’s Principal Secretary gave a directive to the national school principals to initiate the fee payment on the eCitizen platform. Ecitizen Platform is a Government-owned online platform that offers about 5,000 services and now the payment of school fees joins these services. This now means that the parents and or guardians at national high schools will have to abjure to going to the banks affiliated with the various schools, money orders, mobile transactions such as M-Pesa, and direct hand-to-hand payment of school fees. In the circular that was circulated to the national school principals, they (principals) were directed to provide their school’s bank account name, Account numbers, branch, and branch code. This initiative just like a coin has two faces; the head and the tail, while to the context the tail is the disadvantage and the head is the advantage. In defense of the progra...

BACKTRACKING CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER By Glen Don.  The Failing CEO. Last week, President William confessed that truly promises are difficult to fulfill. His Excellency, Dr. William Ruto avowed this when he was on a visit to Mombasa. The reality of the promises is opaque and cannot easily be translated, especially, this time when the Kenyan economy is at its knees. Jimmy Wanjigi in an interview with Spice FM, said that the President is the Chief Executive Officer of the nation and must therefore take charge of every responsibility. During the campaign periods, Dr. Ruto, the then Deputy President used churches as platforms for campaigns to the extent he nearly became dilly dally of the churches,  these are some of the places he used to have an audience and make promises of what he would do after clinching power.

INJUSTICE TO THE MERU COMMONERS By Glen Don This is the second time Meru Governor, Her Excellency Bishop Kawira Mwangaza has been impeached by the Members of the County Assembly. The assembly comprises 69 MCAs and out of total number 10 members were absent during the impeachment day. Last impeachment, 67 members of the house voted in favour of her ouster. As per the constitution, the governor's impeachment must get approval from the Senate house. Impeachment at the County level is not a strange issue as the county bosses seem to be at the mercy of the County Assembly members. This is where devolution is at its weaker point. The strangest of the kind is Meru County where within a year, Kawira Mwangaza is facing a second impeachment by the Assembly. The accusatory remarks against are like nepotism and misuse of office powers among other charges. The charges against Kawira by the MCAs are not new in sight as these charges are merely similar to the previous ones. Last time the Senate ...

 EAST AFRICA DEVICE ASSEMBLY LIMITED KENYA The President yesterday Monday 30, launched an industry that will manufacture Kenya-made smartphones.  The phones are expected to be selling at Ksh. 7,500 higher price compared to the initial price that was earlier said by the President His Excellency Dr William Ruto which was ksh. 5,000. If the company starts to run, then it will be the Kenya's first industry to perform such task. The smartphones are expected to be unleashed to the market in about less than a year. The phones will be available in Faiba shops, and Safaricom shops among other authorised dealers by the Government. The types of brand names will be Neon, and Smarta. The president also said that the gadgets will be available in installments.  This is the best point for Kenya to start for even a journey of one thousand miles starts with a step.  Could be the smartphone an individual's interest or it is out of goodwill, this a puzzle worth not be solved now. The pa...

SORRY NOT ENOUGH By Glen Don. Not Happiness at all. King Charles III and Camilla are on Tuesday 31 October expected to jet inside the country. It is 60 years since the monarch visited the country with the last one being of Queen Elizabeth who assumed the throne while staying in Kenya 1963. The late Queen Elizabeth II stayed in Kenya for about 10 years before embarking to her Kingdom. It is barely five months since King Charles III took over from his mother Queen Elizabeth II. It is not dream nor fictitious of the atrocities that were inflicted on Kenyan Africans by the Colonialists. Deaths, torture, land grabbing, heavy taxation, heavy works under poor conditions among other pains Kenyans underwent during the colonial era. Little is expected from His Majesty's speech on colonial brutalities and injustices. As he is just ceremonial leader and that can only be expected from Rishi Sunak who also has Kenyan traces. The word 'forgive us' might be good but it should be from insi...

By Glen Don THE INJURED INNOCENT PERSONALITY  No one plants a seed , see it germinating then abandons it without seeing any fruit from the tree leave alone the tree reaching maturity. In the farm when you plant a seed and if you expect to have greater yield from the plant, then tender care is mandatory, weeding, top dressing and other field maintenance practices must be achieved. When you plant your orange. seed then at maturity, the tree yields bitter fruit or smaller fruit the farmer should first judge his course. The journey. In any given family the child is the seed that couple sees and everyone sees as the product of the family. It is a proof of the seed that was planted. Domestic violence gains momentum in the current societies either passively or actively with the couple as the major perpetrators, whilst other violences reach extreme cases until the depart some persevere. The main question is ; what about the children? The Swahili proverb "how you raise a child is the way ...