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November 19, 2018
The Star, Kenya

Okech Kendo Section

A file photo of DP William Ruto, President Uhuru Kenyatta and NASA leader Raila Odinga. /FILE

Moral hygiene begins at the top

By OKECH KENDO
The pending national ‘fumigation’ would have been good news for everyone, if the vocal minority had nothing to hide. The...
Thievery

Outraged citizens do nothing

By OKETCH KENDO
The more things change, the more they remain the same. The more Kenyans suffer lack of basic or shoddy services, in the face of...
Thievery

Corrupt Kenya ‘teaches’ Zambia

By OKECH KENDO
The visit by Zambian MPs to ‘learn corruption’ would have been timely fake news, but it wasn’t. The lawmakers showed up on...
Stupidity

Say no to ‘prolonged stupidity’

By OKECH KENDO
Prolonged drought and 'prolonged stupidity' are alike in their devastating effects on people, their economy, and ecology....
Rage

Weta should let go his anger

By OKECH KENDO
Bungoma Senator Moses Wetang’ula is still simmering with bottled-up anger, even as handshakes and hugs cascade across the land...
Cartels

Ban cartels to save Big Four

By OKECH KENDO
Marauding cartels have taken over, as Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i procrastinates. Corruption cartels are a threat...
Education

State messing up universities

By OKECH KENDO
Even after the government ceded control of public universities to their councils, Jogoo House is still meddling in the affairs...
Corruption in government.

Graft swallowing up Big Four

By OKECH KENDO
The National Youth Service returns to the scandal lane, with a suspected plunder of Sh10.5 billion. In 2015, politically-...
Ruto vs Mois
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...

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