May. 9 | BY OBIAGELI K. EZEKWESILI, MO IBRAHIM AND JAY NAIDOO
Corruption is a growing problem that hobbles development, and robs poor people of opportunities for economic and social advance. That much is well-known.
Less well evident, however, until recently were the more insidious effects of corruption in spawning violence that not only threatens the viability and stability of whole nation states but can engulf them.
"Conflict, Security, and Development," the World Bank’s just-released 2011 World Development Report sheds new light on the intractable, age-old problems of weak governance, poverty, and violence.
The new report’s findings are unequivocal, and make for sober reading:
* Some 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by political and criminal violence – causing human misery and disrupting development;
*...
Apr. 29 | By Mbugua Muchoki
Nothing excites corporate profiteers and humanitarian organizations than a complacent government in times of crisis, or when one is manufactured. Such, I believe, is the situation obtaining in Kenya today after the “on-going draught crisis†in some parts of the country. Millers and other grain importers are busy lobbying the government to declare the draught a national disaster, humanitarian organizations have already put in place structures to move in and assist.
But why is there so much pressure on government to declare the current situation a national disaster? Draught in this country is big business. As it kills the ordinary citizens, these organizations are equally making a kill; through tax-free imports, funds mobilization and shameless conspicuous consumption in the name of feeding the hungry. Government...
Apr. 23 | By Kennedy Onyonyi
Nationwide Football League Limited is concerned about the ambiguity of the above criteria contained in article 9b of the recently released electoral code of Football Kenya.
Whereas the criteria for non qualification of delegates to the General Assembly meet the suggested threshold which include: being subject to bankruptcy or debt; being subject to disqualification order under the Companies and Societies Act; having a conviction for indictable offence; having a criminal case pending involving moral turpitude, being under investigations for an offence under the Anti-corruption and Economic Crimes Act, having mental disorder, holding a political office and engaging in political activities, criteria for contesting persons is ‘weak’.
All that is required is for one to be a Kenyan citizen with football management...
Apr. 22 | By STEPHEN MUTORO
The statement by Energy PS Patrick Nyoike on “causes of the currently very high petroleum fuel prices” made a very good reading on long term pledges but fell on its head on addressing salient local issues that have led to an uproar by Kenyans, outside and inside parliament, over extreme fuel prices.
From the outset, Mr Nyoike must be commended for responding to public outcry albeit reactively.
His assertion that the “unprecedented high petroleum pump prices witnessed in the country have been caused (purely) by factors beyond Kenya’s control”, while in part remains valid, is largely insulting to the intelligence of an average Kenyan consumer.
What in essence the PS was implying then was that his ministry has no business existing. Because if it did, the ministry would certainly have a role...
Apr. 21 | WHO IS FOOLING WHO?
“LET US NOT BE VAGUE LET US GO TO HAGUE “These were the words of the honorable
members of parliament.
Don’t ask me why cause I just don’t understand what’s happening but one thing am
for sure is that the politicians are at it again, playing their tricks and games
on Kenyans. The question is what has changed, why the certain change to have
the PEV suspects tried locally? The govt spokes person will tell is
circumstances have changed. You and I, clearly we are out of the picture, which is
or who is not guiltily we don’t know and we can’t judge. The suspects are the
only people who know whether they are innocent or not.
The president is silent and watching the events as they unfold, leaving the
prime minister to fight the ordeal with his rivals, very clever ehh.The question
is, what impact...
Apr. 21 | After spending some time reading and responding to many posts attacking the Prime Minister, I have come to the conclusion Raila cannot do enough for a certain hardcore haters who remind me of Rush Limbaugh, a Right Wing Nut Radio Host in the US who for the two terms Bill Clinton was president, slept and breathed Clinton, railing against him daily and not once did he ever find anything good to say about Clinton; and that is being on air daily for roughly 2,900 days during that period, or the equivalent of starting to rail against someone before a child is conceived through when the child is conceived, born, crawls, learns to walk, learns to eat, learns to read and write and is old enough to tell you there is something wrong with you if you can’t find anything good to say about a person all this time.
For Limbaugh, Clinton never did anything...
Apr. 21 | It was reported in the media today that contrary to what was reported the other day that some crazy people were trying to have Kibaki run again for president despite the absence of a legal basis to do so, Kibaki is ready to retire. Go to http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/Kenyanews/Kibaki-ready-to-retire-in-2012-12505.html for the full story.
Reading this piece instantaneously took me back to January 1, 2008 when having been up sleepless since election day in 2007, I recall a friend of mine and I watching the unbelievable swearing in of Kibaki at State House. Sitting there as a witness was another friend of mine I had tried to contact without success from the day before in frantic efforts to find out if there was anything he could do being a friend of the president but seeing him there obviously dispensed that idea.
A few days later, I left the...
Apr. 21 | DO OUR LEADERS CARE?
With the rising prices of fuel in the country things are just not working out to the normal citizen, life is becoming hard and hard. What kind of leaders do we have? What are their roles? Your guess is as good as mine. Kenyans have got a lot to deal with and with this………. The possible presidential candidate, the deputy prime minister and the minister for finance hon. Uhuru Kenyatta and his counter part the minister for Energy added salt to the injury when they said they have reduced the diesel and kerosene prices by 30%: translation ksh 2/= per liter , seriously when there was an increment of Ksh 9/=
The question begs do our leaders care? May be this is another scandal all together as the Budalangi legislature puts it. Politics will always prevail.
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