By Nicholas Olambo A frustrated President Uhuru Kenyatta lashed out at anti graft agencies at governance, anti-corruption and accountability summit held at state house, Tuesday 18th. He sought to defend himself saying that he has done everything within his powers to strengthen the fight against corruption, including increasing the budgetary allocations to relevant agencies like […]
By Nicholas Olambo The government of Burundi has said the country is pulling out of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and ‘they’ are ready to face the impacts of withdrawing. The cabinet announcement came six months after the court’s Chief Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, indicated she would investigate the unending violence. Political turmoil erupted in Burundi […]
By Nicholas Olambo Article 4 of the AU Constitutive Act rejects and condemns impunity; on the contrary, that is what is visible. Many African governments thrive on dictatorship and brutality on their people. On Sunday a festival turned tragic following a confrontation between the Oromo ethnic people and the police. During the festival, the Oromos […]
By Nicholas Olambo Elgeyo Marakwet Senator stormed a meeting he did not organize in his country. The meeting was organized by the County Government of Governor Alex Toglos and the local churches. As is the ‘norm’ these days political rallies are organized as prayer meetings, one wonders when prayers or crusades became the business of […]
By Nicholas Olambo The former PS of Foreigner Affairs ministry has announced his quest to contest the Laikipia gubernatorial seat in 2017. Mr. Thuita Mwangi was in the company of his aide, driver and a body gourd when he pulled the overdone PR stunt, entered a food kiosk near the county commissioner’s office for a […]
By Nicholas Olambo ‘Wamalwa comes across as a sober leader of great character’ reads a section of an article by Chebweche Mabuto in standard newspaper. He/she goes ahead to purport that the CS did not contest the Saboti parliamentary seat in 2013 because he had his eyes on bigger things, he may gun for president […]
By Nicholas Olambo 2016 has not been a good year for the arrogant and controversial political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi. Mutahi has been known for his rapper attitude and ‘dissing’ analyses on Cord leader Raila Odinga. He once described him as ‘a busy house girl’ in the grand coalition government. He was alleging that Mr. Odinga […]
By Nicholas Olambo Politicians will always say that Eldoret is a cosmopolitan town to win your vote but the reality is way far from that. A keen observer can guess a possible scenario if an individual from a community outside North Rift vies for a top political post, the ‘madoa doa’ narrative will begin. Negative […]
By Nicholas Olambo As interviews ended, Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) retreats to consider who is best fit to be the next Chief Justice of the supreme court of Kenya. The seat that fell vacant Willy Mutunga retired in june attracted 14 applicants but only 6 were shortlisted. The interviews this time did not match up […]
By Nicholas Olambo Jubilee party launch was also the event that saw the top cream in Kenya’s music take on stage to entertain the mammoth crowd and dignitaries. There was nothing different from that list and previous events, industry is run by cartels and their seasoned bootlickers could not miss out. It was the same […]
By Nicholas Olambo With the new constitution came the devolution that created the governor position to head counties. Each governor appoints his deputy before presenting their documents to IEBC, the duo are then elected as a team to lead the county governments. The journey was all rosy till elections but immediately they got into office […]
By Nicholas Olambo The race to clinch the 2017 presidential seat began soon after the Supreme Court dismissed CORD’s petition case that was challenging President Kenyatta’s election. Hon. Raila Odinga respected the court’s verdict, moved on but swore to fight another day, 2017. Kenya has never ceased to be in a campaign mood from 1992, […]
By Nicholas Olambo Political fever pitch is rising by the day. Candidates with bigger visions beyond 2017 are looking at Nairobi gubernatorial seat to launch their bids or push individuals loyal to them to go for the Nairobi seat. But where does this leave the electorate of Nairobi County? The precious document that saw the […]
