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September 23, 2018
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Secretary General of KMPDU Ouma Oluga,Organising Secretary of KUSU Ernest Wayaya,Secretary General UASU Constantine Wasonga and Chairman UASU Muga K'olale during media briefing on Lectures strike at Kenyatta National Hospital on 1 Feb 2018./COLLINS K. LANGAT

Collapse of varsity education

By OKECH KENDO
Better days lie ahead as optimists say, but for public universities those moments are in the past. The two decades of this...
President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition leader Raila Odinga shake hands at the foot steps of Harambee House after their meeting where they resolved to work together and unite the country after the long protracted elections. March 9, 2018./JACK OWUOR

Handshake blows up ambitions

By OKECH KENDO
Cynics who claimed there was nothing ‘enigmatic’ about the ‘freak’ handshake between opposition leader Raila Odinga and...
Motorists stranded on Nairobi-Narok road after floodwaters cut off the road at Suswa on Friday, March 9, 2018. /COURTESY

Chasms worse than Mai Mahiu

By OKECH KENDO
"The Berlin Holes’ of Karachuonyo found 30 minutes of exposure on national TV after 70 years of untamed environmental vandalism...
A file photo of EACC headquarters in Nairobi.

EACC chases rats as house burns

By OKECH KENDO
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission should learn from four international events – in Ukraine, South Korea, South Africa,...
Mudavadi
President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition leader Raila Odinga shake hands at Harambee House on March 9, 2018. /Jack Owuor
Former adviser to the Prime Minister Miguna Miguna during the launch of his book "Peeling back the mask-A quest for justice in Kenya" on Saturday 14th, July 2012. Photo/ Jack Owuor

Come home baby, come home

By OKECH KENDO
During his last local appearance on a TV breakfast show late in January, the self-styled National Resistance Movement general...
IEBC

IEBC threat to national unity

By OKECH KENDO
Electoral reforms are a vicious cycle of dead-ends in a polity where the power clique is obsessed with greed, arrogance, ethnic...
Pot Vs Kettle

Will ODM support IEBC fraud?

By OKECH KENDO
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. If electoral injustice is a threat to democracy, it is also a challenge for...
Candidates of Starehe Boys Centre stand up as supervisors collect examination papers after the completion of Swahili paper one. photo/PATRICK VIDIJA
NASA Coalition principal Kalonzo Musyoka./JACK OWUOR

‘DP’ Kalonzo can still rebrand

By OKECH KENDO
A baptism by fire is the ritual Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi and Moses Wetang’ula need to catch up with, given the...
Let there be light

We need light, not this darkness

By OKECH KENDO
Rumours sprout in the dark like bush fire. Once raging,the inferno consumes everything on its way. Mansions of the rich and...
President Uhuru Kenyatta chairs a Cabinet meeting at State House, Nairobi./FILE

Cabinet: Gaps and questions

By OKECH KENDO
On the 58th day, last Friday, a local daily was complimenting President Uhuru Kenyatta for breaking presidential record on...
Uhuru

Bridge the legitimacy deficit

By OKECH KENDO
Legitimacy is the currency of international engagement among democratic nations. Even a stop-gap President mentored during the...
Bulb

Kenya Power's season of darkness

By OKECH KENDO
Kenya Power’s attempts to wriggle out of scandalous electricity billing would have been comical if it wasn’t callous,...
Mkate

Drop this mkate mentality

By OKECH KENDO
Nusu mkate’ is a metaphor the ‘digital’ regime uses to protect its claim to the whole. The thinking is an official approval of...
Opposition leader Raila Odinga./FILE

Raila fights for a better Kenya

By OKETCH KENDO
Quotable quotes capture fundamental truths, profound thinking, compassion, passion, refined emotionsand zeal to change the...
Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi with Jessica Mbalu after their election to the Parliamentary Accounts Committee as chairman and vice chairperson respectively on December 18, 2017. /Jack Owuor

Jubilee, ODM affair a poisoned chalice

By OKECH KENDO
Jubilee’s budding ‘love’ for ODM MPs is not compassionate. Jubilee is not consoling MPs from a rival party, which claims it has...
Laptop vs food

Food security and laptops fate

By OKECH KENDO
One of the gainsaid planks of the Jubilee regime, food security, will aid national inclusion if it considers areas hitherto...
Vultures

Forget defectors, look for merit

By OKECH KENDO
Partisans, apologists, and sycophants are hovering around State House and the Office of the Deputy President looking for their...

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