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Barrack Muluka

Did Uhuru's advisers get it wrong on Mt Kenya?

The big numbers have already added up. Now it is small numbers that count. Every plus matters. The smallest single-unit minus is painful. Herein resides the philosophy of everyone coming out to vote.

By Barrack Muluka 4 days ago

Did Uhuru's advisers get it wrong on Mt Kenya?

The making of Azimio: Political milestone for handshake duo

The making of Azimio: Political milestone for handshake duo

By Barrack Muluka 11 days ago

Let's disappoint doomsday scribes and purveyors of untruths on polls

Let's disappoint doomsday scribes and purveyors of untruths on polls

By Barrack Muluka 13 days ago

Raila, Wajackoyah scored own goal by snubbing the big debate

Raila, Wajackoyah scored own goal by snubbing the big debate

By Barrack Muluka 20 days ago

Is the government using food as a weapon in this year's election?

According to the Kenya Government, “the cost living” is the price of maize flour. Hence the government is providing a subsidy to cushion Kenyans against the cost of living for a few weeks.

By Barrack Muluka 27 days ago

Is the government using food as a weapon in this year's election?

Echoes from 2017 and IEBC's unenviable task before and after polls

Claims of planned rigging, unfinished business between Chebukati and Chiloba could determine how elections go as commission walks the tightrope over the next three weeks

By Barrack Muluka 1 month ago

Echoes from 2017 and IEBC's unenviable task before and after polls

Martha Karua can't lecture anyone on anger, her tantrums are legend

Muluka doubts Karua could stand on any moral high ground to question anyone’s emotional comportment. In her own way, she has anger issues, which she is unable to manage in public.

By Barrack Muluka 1 month ago

Martha Karua can't lecture anyone on anger, her tantrums are legend

Why it's dishonest to blow Ruto slap remarks out of proportion

To blow out of proportion Ruto’s hyperbole is fine. Not so fine is to cast aspersions on the integrity of IEBC. Experience has it that with such rail at IEBC, they will reject results.

By Barrack Muluka 1 month ago

Why it's dishonest to blow Ruto slap remarks out of proportion

In whose hands? The State must disclose deals with other entities

Kenya’s narrative on corruption revolves around denial, scapegoating and hypocrisy. Last week’s column wondered who ‘we’ refers to in the question, “In whose hands are we safe?”

By Barrack Muluka 1 month ago

In whose hands? The State must disclose deals with other entities

No Mr President, we are not yet brave enough to undo land theft

Kenya has witnessed systematic derogation of land rights over the past 59 years. Public land, especially, has been stolen with impunity.

By Barrack Muluka 1 month ago

No Mr President, we are not yet brave enough to undo land theft

If this election is about cost of living, which coalition wins it?

Besides belonging to certain tribes, there is nothing special about these three people. It surprises me that we should follow any one of them, just because they are from our tribe.

By Barrack Muluka 2 months ago

If this election is about cost of living, which coalition wins it?

Whittle down fear of defeat and let big four compete for top seat

Informing the campaigns is fear of losing this all important single poll. When people ask whether the IEBC is ready for the elections, they mean the presidential election. The stakes are that high.

By Barrack Muluka 2 months ago

Whittle down fear of defeat and let big four compete for top seat

Insults before and after prayers expose hypocrite politicians

The prayer day starts bordering on a hollow copycat event, an empty isomorphic mimicry. For, it was borrowed from offshore without the philosophical underpinnings of the original.

By Barrack Muluka 2 months ago

Insults before and after prayers expose hypocrite politicians

Barrack Muluka: Why I won't be quick to send my congratulations to Martha Karua

I need clarity before I can catch up with those excited about you running with Mr Odinga. Have you had a quiet moment with him, to explain what happened on that tragic December day?

By Barrack Muluka 2 months ago

Barrack Muluka: Why I won't be quick to send my congratulations to Martha Karua

Cabinet meeting used to sanitise the illegalities of last two years

The Cabinet is the highest council in the country’s national executive. It constitutionally comprises the President, Deputy President, AG and not more than 22 Cabinet Secretaries.

By Barrack Muluka 3 months ago

Cabinet meeting used to sanitise the illegalities of last two years

Why the choice of presidential running mate is a mind-bender

The two State House hopefuls have to discover incentives to float to populous areas and rest of the country. Wiper leader Kalonzo has since proved to be Azimio la Umoja’s horn of dilemma.

By Barrack Muluka 3 months ago

Why the choice of presidential running mate is a mind-bender

Makerere University: School of handicraft that became beacon of higher education

Former Uganda Technical College had its courses expanded to include arts and medicine. In it, technocrats and political leaders were tendered before being released to the world.

By Barrack Muluka 3 months ago

Makerere University: School of handicraft that became beacon of higher education

Kibaki stained a government that Kenyans had put so much hope in

Soon after the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) pronounced Kibaki president-elect, everything about him changed.

By Barrack Muluka 3 months ago

Kibaki stained a government that Kenyans had put so much hope in

Kibaki: The making of a statesman and the strife in his government

When he resigned from the Cabinet in 1991, many expected he would join the newly emerged Opposition.

By Barrack Muluka 3 months ago

Kibaki: The making of a statesman and the strife in his government

Mr President, retire means pack your bags and leave

The noble thing is for His Excellency the President to collect his retirement package and go, when the time comes.

By Barrack Muluka 3 months ago

Mr President, retire means pack your bags and leave

With all these, Kenya requires little to push it over the cliff

The country staggers from state fragility towards state failure. Make no mistake, the fuel crises across the country are only one of the indicators.

By Barrack Muluka 4 months ago

With all these, Kenya requires little to push it over the cliff

Power will change Raila, if things go his way in elections

Some party leaders from Azimio outfits imagine that he owes them something, following vague agreements they signed, even without knowing the contents as they are telling us.

By Barrack Muluka 4 months ago

Power will change Raila, if things go his way in elections

With fall of BBI, Uhuru and Raila must ask hard questions

Future generations will read about this season as the age in which the Kenyan Judiciary found its feet, courtesy of the 2010 Constitution.

By Barrack Muluka 4 months ago

With fall of BBI, Uhuru and Raila must ask hard questions

Why Queen Mother must not take sides in certain contests

The Mother of the Nation must safeguard her diplomatic immunity by being measured in her public pronouncements on Kenya’s civics.

By Barrack Muluka 4 months ago

Why Queen Mother must not take sides in certain contests

Kalonzo’s horror of parties that signed what they didn’t know

It cannot be true that the 15 or so political parties that signed the Azimio la Umoja Coalition agreement did not understand the covenant?

By Barrack Muluka 4 months ago

Kalonzo’s horror of parties that signed what they didn’t know

Boda boda chaos: Let political class deliver promises or else...

A motorist in a traffic mishap was sexually abused in broad daylight. And Nairobi looked on; cold, unmoved.

By Barrack Muluka 5 months ago

Boda boda chaos: Let political class deliver promises or else...

Ask Raila, Ruto hard questions or get 5 years of refined rubbish

So far, the competition between them has been about who takes home the crown of insolence.

By Barrack Muluka 5 months ago

Ask Raila, Ruto hard questions or get 5 years of refined rubbish

Uhuru has a right to be angry but with dignity and decorum

Those close to him might find it a little awkward to talk to him about the need for sedate management of the emotional domain in public space.

By Barrack Muluka 5 months ago

Uhuru has a right to be angry but with dignity and decorum

What role will Uhuru play if Raila wins?

Narc-Kenya leader Martha Karua becomes only the latest voice to loudly articulate what has been canvassed and whispered in quiet circles.

By Barrack Muluka 5 months ago

What role will Uhuru play if Raila wins?

I have always dreamt of a Raila presidency, but not like this

I remain persuaded that, regardless of what Justice Johannes Kriegler says about the 2007 election outcome, Raila's 2007 election was stolen.

By Barrack Muluka 6 months ago

I have always dreamt of a Raila presidency, but not like this

Why Uhuru should let State House contest just play out

Now that it is clear there are two main camps in the August 9 presidential race, I am also clear about how I purpose to vote.

By Barrack Muluka 6 months ago

Why Uhuru should let State House contest just play out

Don’t worship Raila or Ruto for that could trigger misrule

Between Raila Odinga and William Ruto, one is most certainly set to be Kenya’s president by Christmas. Don’t rule out rest of the aspirants, however.

By Barrack Muluka 6 months ago

Don’t worship Raila or Ruto for that could trigger misrule

Journalism owes us the truth on politics and graft cartels

A key role for journalism is the interpretation of experience. This involves the expression of memory. The scribe opens up stores of experience.

By Barrack Muluka 6 months ago

Journalism owes us the truth on politics and graft cartels

Kenya is dead, despite having law protecting sanctity of life

If we are not a dead country, what are we? A soulless nation is a dead society.

By Barrack Muluka 6 months ago

Kenya is dead, despite having law protecting sanctity of life

How Raila-Ruto power contest could bring back 2007/8 ghosts

We are hurtling into exceptionally dangerous space, in Kenya, complete with selective memory of recent history and explosive rubble rousing politics.

By Barrack Muluka 7 months ago

How Raila-Ruto power contest could bring back 2007/8 ghosts

Mulembe nation’s foolishness is good news to Ruto and Raila

A limping antelope will not survive. The lions will snack on it, way before breakfast. Survival for the fittest is the name of the game.

By Barrack Muluka 7 months ago

Mulembe nation’s foolishness is good news to Ruto and Raila

Njonjo did great things and made big mistakes

Apocryphal narratives have it that Charles Njonjo distinguished himself as a brilliant lawyer with a sharp mind, and a stickler for legal detail.

By Barrack Muluka 7 months ago

Njonjo did great things and made big mistakes

If not managed well, Raila-Ruto camps could unleash violence

President Kenyatta and Raila have made peace, yes. But they have also jointly engaged the country in fresh hostility between their camp and Ruto’s.

By Barrack Muluka 7 months ago

If not managed well, Raila-Ruto camps could unleash violence

Is the government using food as a weapon in this year's election?

According to the Kenya Government, “the cost living” is the price of maize flour. Hence the government is providing a subsidy to cushion Kenyans against the cost of living for a few weeks.

By Barrack Muluka 27 days ago

Is the government using food as a weapon in this year's election?

Echoes from 2017 and IEBC's unenviable task before and after polls

Claims of planned rigging, unfinished business between Chebukati and Chiloba could determine how elections go as commission walks the tightrope over the next three weeks

By Barrack Muluka 1 month ago

Echoes from 2017 and IEBC's unenviable task before and after polls

Martha Karua can't lecture anyone on anger, her tantrums are legend

Muluka doubts Karua could stand on any moral high ground to question anyone’s emotional comportment. In her own way, she has anger issues, which she is unable to manage in public.

By Barrack Muluka 1 month ago

Martha Karua can't lecture anyone on anger, her tantrums are legend

Why it's dishonest to blow Ruto slap remarks out of proportion

To blow out of proportion Ruto’s hyperbole is fine. Not so fine is to cast aspersions on the integrity of IEBC. Experience has it that with such rail at IEBC, they will reject results.

By Barrack Muluka 1 month ago

Why it's dishonest to blow Ruto slap remarks out of proportion

In whose hands? The State must disclose deals with other entities

Kenya’s narrative on corruption revolves around denial, scapegoating and hypocrisy. Last week’s column wondered who ‘we’ refers to in the question, “In whose hands are we safe?”

By Barrack Muluka 1 month ago

In whose hands? The State must disclose deals with other entities

No Mr President, we are not yet brave enough to undo land theft

Kenya has witnessed systematic derogation of land rights over the past 59 years. Public land, especially, has been stolen with impunity.

By Barrack Muluka 1 month ago

No Mr President, we are not yet brave enough to undo land theft

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