Editorials
Think long and hard about what lack of opportunity brews
When Pope emeritus Benedict XVI assumed office at the Vatican, one of his most painful acknowledgements was that there were many failures in the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy and transgressions of faithful, saying: “Man sometimes falls to the ‘lowest, vulgar levels’ and sinks ‘into the swamp of sin and dishonesty’.”
Read More »Who will look over the Governors’ shoulder?
The trend where governors are swearing into office executive members after their own county assemblies have rejected them are sowing seeds from which only bitter harvest can be expected.
Read More »Supremacy war masks bigger problem of wasteful spending
Members of the National Assembly need to take time off from their current battles on which chamber is superior to the other and ensure the bulk of the Sh1.6 trillion budget presented to the House last week is used in areas that will give the country a better return on investment than it has been getting over the past fifty years.
Read More »Directive to clean up Mombasa port laudable
The story of Mombasa Port — like most other State utilities — is one of waste, inefficiencies and runaway sleaze.
Read More »Time electoral body came clean on final tallies
It appears the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has been squeezed into a corner by the law and its own housekeeping glitches.
Read More »Other Stories
- Senate, MPs face-off over resources has its taproot in history
- Amid all the noise, let devolution be protected
- It’s time to buy Kenyan and create jobs
- Enough opportunities for all will stem crime
- Why Rotich’s is a Budget of unpretentious knives
- Zero tolerance to corruption is Jubilee’s best option
- Experts must urgently address grey areas in Constitution
- Crack down on officers in uniform behaving badly
- ‘Waste not, want not’ if Counties are to grow
- Food security not assured with clouds swirling over NCPB
- Country’s spending and debt are dangerously high
- Khartoum, Juba relations key to regional stability
- Yes, there is enough for all our needs, but not for all our greed
- Conference on alcohol, drug abuse timely
- Time to act on youth unemployment is now
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