Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

By Joseph Amukoya. When devolution came into effect under the new constitutional dispensation, hope was rife across the country that the new system would foster cohesion and development. However despite the huge amounts of money that has trickled down from the national treasury to the counties, very little has been done to quench the thirst of the common mwananchi who was looking up to the fruits of devolution. In this article, I will give a detailed chronology of events and make recommendations that require to be addressed urgently to save one of the devolved units (Kakamega County Assembly) which is…

By Dikembe Disembe Boniface Mwangi is such a fraud. Either he doesn’t have a clear knowledge on matters governance or he just seeks to sabotage the thinking process of Kenyans in their daily struggle to have a democratic government. First, he tells us that on the day to Saba Saba he was writing booklets containing the graphic photos of the 2007/08 violence which he delivered to CORD leaders (and some Jubilee leaders) because ethnic tension was rising in the country. There has been prayer rallies where Jubilee politicians are setting the stage for another ethnic strife, why is Mwangi not…

Former campaign manager of Raila Odinga presidential secretariat has viciously tore into the integrity record of Nairobi Governor Dr Evans Kidero and Budalangi MP Ababu Namwamba. The ODM Secretary General is facing rancorous vitriol after he released to journalists a recording of a private conversation he and other ODM leaders had with the party’s boss and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. While Raila is said not to be perturbed by the recording, ODM rank and file have all reacted with shock and fury, terming the secretary general an ‘ungrateful Ababu is corrupt; and the weeks ahead will be his waterloo.…

CORD Leader Raila Odinga was a central player in the move from analogue to digital television. Raila, while Prime Minister, launched the Startimes pay television which is among the highest digital signal providers now. While the CORD leader has urged the government to review the manner in which it is handling digital migration, the perception created is that Mr. Odinga is opposed to digital migration. This is false as the ODM leader was and remain the senior most government official who pushed for the migration from analogue to digital over two years ago. Watch Raila’s speech below delivered during the…

While debating the naming of city roads and streets, Nairobi County Assembly amassed all the city’s history for themselves by passing a motion to compel the county executive headed by Governor Dr. Evans Kidero to review and change names on several roads and streets within the city county. The Assembly Deputy Speaker Ken Ngondi stated that the Governor, the Speaker, the majority and minority leaders plus himself should have roads named after them by virtue of being the first officials to serve under the devolved dispensation. Some members however wanted the names of insignificant things and people changed and replaced…

Hot in the heels of Chicken gate scandal where a British ballot printing company Smith and Ouzman paid IEBC officials millions to get tenders, another multi-billion scandal involving a US company and several Kenyan government agencies including the disciplined forces has sufficed. Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Company has been fined Sh1.5 billion for giving over Sh136 million bribes to various government institutions for tenders. Respected institutions like the Kenya Air Force, Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces Canteen Organization (AFCO) are some of the institutions named for taking millions in bribes from the company to allow it win tenders. “Between…

While opposing the 2010 constitution, political scientist Mutahi Ngunyi elaborated how the new constitution would eventually lead to a tyranny of Kenya’s two dominant communities at the expense of others. Read:  My name is Mutahi Ngunyi, citizen number 4855678. I am previously from the Gema Nation, before becoming a Kenyan. And my vote is a big fat No. I am not ambiguous; I am not thinking about it. It is a No. If I can be allowed, I want to vote tomorrow. No point waiting for August 4. I want to reject the draft and move on. The lawyers have…

CORD leaders Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka are outside the country. While addressing the press moments after High Court declared several sections of the security law recently enacted by parliament and assented to by President Uhuru as unconstitutional, Senate Minority Leader Moses Wetangula revealed the two leaders, whose absence during the judgement was conspicuous, were outside the country. Odinga’s last public engagement was in Ndhiwa constituency where he, accompanied by wife Mama Ida Odinga, attended the burial of ODM activist Monica Amolo who died in a gristly road accident while campaigning for ODM senator Moses Kajawang’ to capture Homa Bay parliamentary…

The High Court will today deliver the much anticipated ruling on President Uhuru’s security law which the opposition CORD and Kenya National Human Rights Commission has disputed as unconstitutional. The law was passed in a riotous parliament which has seen three opposition MPs suspended from parliament. The ruling was to come last Friday but was pushed forward as the judges claimed they were not ready and would deliver it this morning. On Friday, a parked court waited anxiously for the ruling only to be informed there will be no ruling. A five judge bench presided over by justice Isaac Lenaola…

Moi University at Main Campus where a female student was found sexually assaulted and murdered last night has a big problem with accommodation of students that if not checked will continue to expose more students to danger as they navigate the treacherous and dimly lit paths to their far flung living dormitories. To start with, Moi University in the last two years has been admitting the highest number of new students. This has been happening despite the fact that the university has stalled hostels creating acute shortage of residential spaces. Every new year is a nightmare to continuing students who…

A female student of Moi University at Main Campus, Eldoret, was found sexually assaulted and killed near one of the institution’s hostels. The student is believed to be a third year in the school of Arts and Social Sciences. The shocking incident happened last night and police are yet to make any arrests. As news of the incident spread across the institution, fear gripped female students with many calling on the university to do more on security of students. Many former students have told this writer that around 2006 onwards, the university used to face such incidents where students would…

As CORD Leader Raila Odinga took a potentially disastrous decision to ‘stand with the media’ as he has always done, his co-principal and former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka has not openly stated his position on the digital migration fiasco. And Kalonzo is right not to do so; for it serves the country to let the mainstream media go digital, or, if they don’t want to, let the country go digital. A whole world of opportunities are already opening up. Nothing, since independence, has challenged media dominance than digital migration is doing. President Obama would say, ”the ground beneath has fundamentally…

By Toka Akhabele WHEN Catherine Kihanya left Mumias Sugar Company  to join President Uhuru Kenyatta’s campaigns in 2002, a young marketer by the name of ELIUD IKUNZA was hired to take over. KIDERO was at the helm when Ikunza took over as marketing manager. Ikunza had worked as a marketer with Nairobi Bottlers before he left for Tanzania as marketer for Cocacola East Africa. His joining of Mumias Sugar was to provide a continuity to the revolutionary marketing that had been started by Ms Kihanya where the company had also moved to smaller packages of Sugar away from the 50kg…

The coalition of reforms and democracy CORD has postponed the launch of the referendum draft bill that was to take place tomorrow at the Bomas of Kenya. The event was to be officiated by the three CORD Principals, members of the national assembly, members of county assemblies, governors, memebers of the civil society, students organizations and the country’s labour and teachers unions. The bill, which has been drafted by CORD’s committee of expert led by lawyer Paul Mwangi, seeks to strengthen devolution among other items lined up for the plebestice. Sources closer to the coalition indicate the postponment was occasioned…

A 96-paged paperback authored by former Vice President and doyen of opposition politics in Kenya Jaramogi will tomorrow be reprinted at Visa Oshwal, Nairobi. The book chronicles Oginga Odinga’s two months visit to India at the eve of Kenya’s Independence. While Odinga had presented the papers for compilation in 1955, it was until 1966 that the paperback was first published by LawAfrica, a publishing firm. In are are experiences and impressions of Jaramogi on an invitation to India. Originally written in Luo language with the title ‘Dweche ariyo India’, the book was then translated and published in English. CORD leader…

During the election which made him the student guild president of Kenyatta University, many students complained that Vice Chancellor Prof Oliver Mugenda choreographed George Thuku’s win by ensuring his worthy opponents were barred from the election. It all started when one student, a Mr. Owino, who was vying against Thuku, was disqualified. This led to chaos at the institution as other students protested the move citing ‘early rigging’ of the election by the administration in favor of those who perceived to be administration projects. Several students, including Owino, was suspended. The student election then took the form of national ethnic…