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Kenya’s Constitution Should not be Watered down, Diluted and Weakened!

Wednesday, May 20th, 2015

Kenya had a very good Constitution at its independence! The supreme law which was negotiated by diverse Kenyan communities and the Colonial Administration was very strong and spelt a federal system of government for the country with each region in Kenya enjoying federal autonomy. The devolved system of government was meant to prevent what Kenya’s […]

Hatred is Great Shame on Modern Society!

Sunday, April 19th, 2015

Quite often, people talk about hatred as if it is just a word. They hardly know how inhuman, dehumanizing and excruciatingly agonizing it can be until (God forbid!) they get subjected to it! Victim of hatred know truly well the pain and injustice it causes! No one of course will want to be subjected to […]

Kenya’s Democracy Should Always Progress!

Sunday, February 22nd, 2015

Organized society is unique! It is designed and built deliberately to ensure all humans co-exist in harmony. That of course is why laws are enacted to ensure such harmonious co-existence! However, we know that organized society is as diverse as there are nations, races, peoples, tribes and states enjoying legal, cultural and political sovereignty and […]

We Need Peace in Every Place!

Sunday, February 23rd, 2014

We have always argued on this blog and elsewhere for peace. We have always indicated, as we will indeed continue doing, that peace is always important in all places i.e. within homesteads, in local communities, regionally, nationally and internationally or indeed globally. Peace is indeed vitally important in every nook, street, road, highway, village, township, […]

Kenya Should Protect its Democracy!

Monday, June 3rd, 2013

Of late there has been tension in Kenya between civil society, the public and constitutional commissions on one hand and parliament on the other. The bone of contention has centred on Parliament’s demand for commensurate pay for its members. The salaries of members of parliament(MPs) in Kenya were reduced selectively while those of the commissions […]

BRAVO KENYA FOR A PEACEFUL ELECTION!

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Kenya held a peaceful election on March 4, 2013. That was indeed a great achievement, a true marked contrast with the chaotic elections of 2007 and the skirmishes which ensured! Kenyans, as we had predicted, proved to be truly careful and smart. They had been bitten once and are always twice shy. We believe that […]

Stop the Insanity of Violence!!!

Saturday, November 24th, 2012

The year 2012 has been a very difficult year. It has been a year marked with very many negatives. Poverty and unemployment took the toll on many people. Then there have been recent escalation and re-emergence of violence. There was violence in Syria the whole year round. Violence also occurred quite recently in DR Congo, […]

STOP THE VIOLENCE

Monday, November 28th, 2011

STOP THE VIOLENCE People anywhere desire, want and need peace! The benefits of peace need neither explaining nor narration! The importance of peace is indeed obvious to everyone, anywhere, everywhere, anytime, every time, all the time, always! Peace is thus needed all the time, every time, always, anywhere, everywhere, and ever! However, violence in many […]

PEACE IS EVERYTHING

Saturday, September 3rd, 2011

Peace is so important in our lives that if it goes away, all that we enjoy including our lives stand threatened. Our hope in the future boils away. Our goals,aspirations and dreams in life become meaningless. Yet, when we enjoy peace we do not know how fragile and important it is until that moment that […]

The City of Nairobi: Taking a New Dierction.

Monday, August 8th, 2011

We indicated in our immediate previous article that Kenya’s capital city needs to decentralize its governance, operations and administrative structure through a system of fragmentation so as to take advantage of the ‘divide and rule‘ problem-solving strategy in order to improve service delivery to its residents and visitors as well as improving its image with […]

Famine, Hunger, Starvation in Kenya and The Shame of Succession Politics

Saturday, July 16th, 2011

Kenya is headed for a general election in 2012. This has generated a lot of heated politics and campaign with prospective contenders struggling to outdo each other in their bid to woo voters to their side. The ardent followers of some seem not to have learnt lessons from the last elections and the chaos that […]

Kenya Headed the Right Way in Quest for Revised Law

Monday, February 1st, 2010

As noted in an earlier post, Kenya’s quest for a revised constitution has been a tricky and highly divisive affair. The effort to revise the law has dragged on for a long time basically since the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Kenyan democratic crusaders intensified their activism against what they viewed as repressive laws. […]

Kenya’s Current Situation Tricky But Needs Resolute and Swift Action

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Kenya’s immediate former president used to say: ‘Siasa mbaya, maisha mbaya!’. This can be translated as :’bad politics begets misery in life’. This does not necessarily mean we consider his then politics good but that he considered his politics as superior and better than anyone else’s in Kenya, if not in the whole African Continent. […]

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