Pigs and the bile of religious hypocrisy

Unemployed youths constitute a time bomb ticking towards disaster

A former media consultancy client and friend of mine, whom I met at the University of Nairobi in early 1970s, the former president of East African Court of Justice, Moijo Mataiyia ole Keuiwa, (God rest his soul in peace) revealed to me that in his early school days he was growing to be a devout Roman Catholic but was driven away by the hypocrisy of his Italian father-cum-teacher.

Like many other students, ole Keuiwa was an innocent believer that Catholic fathers never married because their oath of celibacy prohibited them from engaging in affairs that would lead then astray towards sexual activities. That was until one late Sunday afternoon when he wandered into some bushy scrubland and heard some female giggling that captured his curiosity.

Towards Safer Roads in Kenya

85 per cent of road accidents in Kenya are as a result of driver error

Road carnage has become a matter of great concern the world over.  Thousands of lives are lost daily through road crashes that also cripple tens of thousands while inflicting heavy economic dents on governments and households.

The United Nations declared 2011-2020 the “UN Decade for Road Safety Action” two years ago. In Kenya the former President Mwai Kibaki last November put ink on paper to establish the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA), which was actualized a few weeks ago.

How Kenyatta dodged World War I

Kamau Kabarega transformed into Jomo Kenyatta

Just a year after the King Kabarega was shipped to Seychelles detention camp, Olonana was released from detention. He reorganized his troops and continued with the resistance but from a different angle.

The white man at the time was busy trying to solidify his position in the protectorate for easy, safe and cheap control. The Maasai had proved a difficult community and therefore the cunning English way of life was to be followed that was to be based on deceitful legal covenants and agreements.

Kenyans must rise against Parliamentary Dictatorship

Greedy men and women who have never earned Ksh 100,000 a month

The clamour and determination by Members of Parliament to disband the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) is a precursor to establish Parliamentary Dictatorship in Kenya.

Parliamentarians have in recent years amply demonstrated their intolerance to any Commission that questions their integrity and corrupt manner of conducting themselves. This was very well demonstrated by the 10^th Parliament when it sent the directors of the defunct Kenya Anti Corruption Commission (KACC) packing after verbose CEO Patrick Lumumba cast his net over the corrupt in parliament.

Open letter to COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli

Dear Mr Atwoli,

Kindly indulge me for a few minutes as you prepare your Labour Day historic address to the new government of President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Before you leave for the Labour Day meeting venue at Uhuru Park, please do the following:

1.      Stand before your dressing mirror and take a long look at the image inside the silver reflection – it may be a disaster in the making. Pinch your left hand and check if there will be any sense of touch or some pain to confirm that some blood is flowing through your veins and feeding your brain with oxygen to think rationally.

Kenyatta: The mystery of Kenya’s 1^st President

Detainees Laibon Olonana and King Kabarega of Bunyoro

Recently the Ugandan Kingdom of Bunyoro celebrated the ascendancy of Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta as Kenya’s 4^th President claiming him as their distant cousin. Many Kenyans were baffled by the Bunyoro claim. KENYA CONFIDENTIAL, in a three-part exclusive series, gives you a rare glimpse into the facts about the strange historical coincidence.

The British fought very hard to occupy East Africa since the entry of doctors David Livingstone and Krapf Rebman in Tanganyika and Kenya respectively. Uganda became an immediate darling of the white man as it had an organized system of governance through the Kings as was the case with Nigeria with its chiefs.