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Paul Matiku

Extend ban on issue of permits to safeguard key biodiversity areas

In a recent pronouncement, the government banned the issuance of development permits in key wildlife conservation areas.

By 7 months ago

Extend ban on issue of permits to safeguard key biodiversity areas

We have everything to gain by conserving Yala Swamp and other wetlands

We have everything to gain by conserving Yala Swamp and other wetlands

By Paul Matiku 1 year ago

Montreal conference has given developing nations a raw deal

Montreal conference has given developing nations a raw deal

By Paul Matiku 1 year ago

How Churchill would have taken BBI verdict

How Churchill would have taken BBI verdict

By Gerald Kithinji 2 years ago

Use imagination to engage the youth and create opportunities

An African proverb says it is better to wander aimlessly than stay home aimlessly, for the wanderer comes across something.

By Gerald Kithinji 2 years ago

Use imagination to engage the youth and create opportunities

Our leaders should embrace political hygiene

No Kenyan wants to be indoctrinated. They just want to understand the message of the contestant.

By Gerald Kithinji 2 years ago

Our leaders should embrace political hygiene

No one can ambush us with legal tsunami

Our Supreme Court, High Court and Court of Appeal judges have shown they can be bold and fiercely independent.

By Gerald Kithinji 2 years ago

No one can ambush us with legal tsunami

Let political leaders retire honourably and mentor others

Some politicians left National Assembly to vie for seats in the counties. Now they are done with the counties, they want to run for presidency.

By Gerald Kithinji 2 years ago

Let political leaders retire honourably and mentor others

Why politicians love rowdy crowds

A politician’s job is to talk. His greatest happiness is when he finds an audience, preferably a big and even rowdy crowd.

By Gerald Kithinji 3 years ago

Why politicians love rowdy crowds

Why embrace losers after every election?

To assuage the embittered failed candidate, the state starts mulling over a way to accommodate them in government

By Gerald Kithinji 3 years ago

Why embrace losers after every election?

Constitution change and 'colonial virus'

The social democrats want a power structure that elevates the president to a pedestal that none but a few can approach.

By Gerald Kithinji 3 years ago

Constitution change and 'colonial virus'

Spare NEP counties agony of funds cuts

That is why I think it would be foolish for government to discriminate in the face of the 10-year-old devolution.

By Gerald Kithinji 3 years ago

Spare NEP counties agony of funds cuts

Three-tier government a threat to presidency, recipe for chaos

Kenya is a country at war. And no country at war ever tries to neuter the Commander-in-Chief of their Armed Forces.

By Gerald Kithinji 4 years ago

Three-tier government a threat to presidency, recipe for chaos

Why government must change approach to tackling locusts

The weather has been good for them as the ground is wet and encouraging rejuvenation.

By Gerald Kithinji 4 years ago

Why government must change approach to tackling locusts

For devolution to have impact leaders must live in counties

Develop your county and stop blaming it for not having the amenities that other counties have

By Gerald Kithinji 4 years ago

For devolution to have impact leaders must live in counties

The right bodies key to marketing Kenya

If your child is dancing clumsily, tell the child you are dancing clumsily. Don’t tell the child do as you please, my love.

By Gerald Kithinji 4 years ago

The right bodies key to marketing Kenya

We don’t have a central figure key to a parliamentary system

Until that can be arranged, we better not tinker with our system, bequeathed to us by those who fought for independence.

By Gerald Kithinji 4 years ago

We don’t have a central figure key to a parliamentary system

Thick line between parliamentary and presidential set up

Some 79 countries in the world, including Kenya, run a presidential system of governance, where the president is both head of state and head of gov't

By Gerald Kithinji 4 years ago

Thick line between parliamentary and presidential set up

State officials have a duty to stay true to oaths of office

The officers are bound to abstain from all acts inconsistent with the Constitution.

By Gerald Kithinji 4 years ago

State officials have a duty to stay true to oaths of office

Let’s ask ourselves what we all stand for

Are you a Kenyan politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for the country?

By Gerald Kithinji 4 years ago

Let’s ask ourselves what we all stand for

The 1978 transition: The night Cabinet handed Moi the Presidency

Behind the scenes, members of the Kenyatta Cabinet struck a deal that would ensure they would not lose their parliamentary seats in the coming 1979 po

By Gerald Kithinji 4 years ago

The 1978 transition: The night Cabinet handed Moi the Presidency

How Miguna’s case will impact immigration

The immigration case of lawyer Miguna Miguna has attracted a great deal of interest and legal curiosity that call for a proper perspective.

By Gerald Kithinji 6 years ago

How Miguna’s case will impact immigration

Lessons Kenya can take from Cuba on sports and recreation

The most significant development in sports this year is the signing of a sports exchange Memorandum of Understanding with Cuba.

By Gerald Kithinji 6 years ago

Lessons Kenya can take from Cuba on sports and recreation

Parliament must amplify law on demonstrations and protests

Let us not behave like irresponsible children who have no value for anything. If a demonstrator is a potential threat to public or private property let the organiser of the event take out requisite insurance cover.

By Gerald Kithinji 6 years ago

Parliament must amplify law on demonstrations and protests

Let's amend Constitution to cure 'shortcomings' of the top court

The voters should be in the centre of any election contest. They are the ones who have to exercise their sovereign right to vote and expect those votes to be captured as distributed amongst the contestants.

By Gerald Kithinji 6 years ago

Let's amend Constitution to cure 'shortcomings' of the top court

Trading in futures is Kenya's politics new style

We have all witnessed the phenomenon. Politicians are trading in futures.

By Gerald Kithinji 7 years ago

Trading in futures is Kenya's politics new style

ICC trials: persecution or prosecution?

But due to their omnipresence here on Planet Earth, there are many opportunities for their agents to commit crimes against humanity in alien territory.

By Gerald Kithinji 8 years ago

ICC trials: persecution or prosecution?

Tyranny of numbers philosophy unethical

When intellectuals, political pundits and politicians utter the words, 'tyranny of numbers', one gets the feeling that those using them have very little regard for the class of people catalogued as forming those numbers.

By Gerald Kithinji 8 years ago

Tyranny of numbers philosophy unethical

Rethink focus on rural settlement

Jomo Kenyatta's call at Independence to 'Go back to the land' was okay back then. The population was a mere 9 million people and the land was there for those who really wanted to till it. Kenya had to become food-sufficient.

By Gerald Kithinji 8 years ago

Rethink focus on rural settlement

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