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Edward Macharia

Miano: Energy guru who cut her teeth at Kengen

Rebecca Miano was appointed KenGen's chief executive on October 30, 2017, taking over from Albert Mugo who retired in August of the same year.

By Edward Macharia 1 year ago

Miano: Energy guru who cut her teeth at Kengen

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

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

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Why Queen Mother must not take sides in certain contests

Why Queen Mother must not take sides in certain contests

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

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

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

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

Kenyans are eager to be eaten by either a fox or wolf in 2022

Yet, does the Kenyan nation, as a hugely Christian community, seem to thrive on lies and sundry propaganda?

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Kenyans are eager to be eaten by either a fox or wolf in 2022

Let Raila, Ruto turn to real issues now ahead of 2022

Both the state project and its alternative must now turn to real issues. Ndung’u and TJRC top the list.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Let Raila, Ruto turn to real issues now ahead of 2022

Where and why Raila must tread carefully

Why Raila must avoid his father's and his own mistakes that snatched defeat from the jaws of victory

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Where and why Raila must tread carefully

Future is beyond us, but chaos must not decide our president

People go to elections to choose their leaders. One person wins, while the rest lose. In the case of the presidency, the winner becomes the president.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Future is beyond us, but chaos must not decide our president

Why the village is alive once again and the absurd season

Jamhuri, the progeny of independence, is around the corner. Christmas too is coming, in hot pursuit. The air is pregnant with festivity.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Why the village is alive once again and the absurd season

It’s tribe, stupid! The lessons Africa is taking to US politics

Here in Kenya, the election industry is real. We got inured to permanent campaigns in 1992.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

It’s tribe, stupid! The lessons Africa is taking to US politics

Miguna saga: It’s a shame how our leaders disregard the law

I find Miguna obtuse and obnoxious. Regardless, the injustice and impunity in the Miguna matter is not lost on me.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Miguna saga: It’s a shame how our leaders disregard the law

Raila and Ruto must rein in their troops to avert chaos

Deputy President William Ruto’s motorcade has recently been stoned at least twice, once each in Busia and Kisumu.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Raila and Ruto must rein in their troops to avert chaos

Our high schools are boring, breathe freshness into them!

The young people are simply saying they no longer see the wider relevance of being in a tiresome place they can’t connect to the future.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Our high schools are boring, breathe freshness into them!

Kagwe should take Junet’s joke seriously for what it is

The joke brings to the surface unpleasant thoughts and desires that are otherwise repressed in the unconscious mind.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Kagwe should take Junet’s joke seriously for what it is

In Africa, politicians roast and eat their former allies

Just what is it that could engage the human mind to the point of self-destruction? Moby Dick was a giant whale, a sperm fish, they said.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

In Africa, politicians roast and eat their former allies

Liberators of yesterday have ganged up with oppressors

There is democracy in elections and democracy in governance and distribution. This is easily the greatest of all democratic failures.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Liberators of yesterday have ganged up with oppressors

Our leaders have made us poor and we love them for it

Poverty is free-willed, both at personal and societal level. Nature has given us a pack of cards. How they have reached us is a factor of determinism.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Our leaders have made us poor and we love them for it

The world is watching keenly Uhuru, Ruto’s political paths

President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto would do well to take seriously the invitation by the Catholic Church to recall them to order.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

The world is watching keenly Uhuru, Ruto’s political paths

Jubilee duo’s heartbreak will hurt many for years to come

In the idiom of the sea, a shipwreck is the destruction of the vessel at sea.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Jubilee duo’s heartbreak will hurt many for years to come

Between Ruto and Matiang’i whom should we believe?

You float ideas on how you intend to organise and run public affairs in the interest of society. Someone else floats a different idea.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Between Ruto and Matiang’i whom should we believe?

Grand return to The Hague loading, same leading cast

In 2011, Uhuru and Ruto bonded purely because jail threatened them through the International Criminal Court (ICC).

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Grand return to The Hague loading, same leading cast

US exit from Afghanistan offers us poignant lessons

Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has been coming for a while. Of course NATO knew the war against the Taliban death machine was lost.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

US exit from Afghanistan offers us poignant lessons

Constitutional changes in Kenya since independence

The Constitution was tinkered with at least 27 times, making a wide range of amendments each time.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Constitutional changes in Kenya since independence

Political power play behind constitutional changes in Kenya since independence

The Constitution was tinkered with at least 27 times, making a wide range of amendments each time, most of which eroded civil rights and liberties.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Political power play behind constitutional changes in Kenya since independence

Kenya flirting with chaos by yielding power to ‘outsiders’

Sovereignty is often symbolised by the holder of the highest public office, and how they carry out the functions of state.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Kenya flirting with chaos by yielding power to ‘outsiders’

You are their cows and they don't care what you think

Political flatterers behind every Kenyan alpha male politician have the essence of a high-grade Orwellian trotter. In tow are sundry lesser animals.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

You are their cows and they don't care what you think

Let clerics give us directions on Covid rules and 2022 poll

The fourth wave of Covid-19 is in the offing, according to the Ministry of Health. Expect more restrictions with the new spike.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Let clerics give us directions on Covid rules and 2022 poll

South Africa engulfed by tensions of three decades

South Africa has been in the news for the wrong reasons. Zuma’s Zulu tribesmen are angry. They have vowed to make their country a cauldron of anarchy.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

South Africa engulfed by tensions of three decades

Why boda boda are united in anger, hope and despair

Kenya’s boda boda fraternity typifies the anger, hate and frustration that is the lifeblood in the country.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Why boda boda are united in anger, hope and despair

Raila wants to jail all thieves, will that be a prudent move?

Grand larceny in Kenya is well documented, even if nothing is done about it.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

Raila wants to jail all thieves, will that be a prudent move?

The village is no longer the same thanks to devolution

If we are a town, we are moving towards the slum. And if we are a village, we could pass for a slum village. Yet we are not alone - Muluka.

By Barrack Muluka 2 years ago

The village is no longer the same thanks to devolution

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