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Isaac Kalua Green

Ruto's green ride to KICC is a call for Africa to take up electric cars

Autopax, the Kenyan company behind the electric car that the President drove, has proved Africa has what it takes to offer electric cars.

By Isaac Kalua Green 19 days ago

Ruto's green ride to KICC is a call for Africa to take up electric cars

We can reap big from forests we sow without cutting down

We can reap big from forests we sow without cutting down

By Isaac Kalua Green 24 days ago

Why youth should lead push for change to our 2010 Constitution

Why youth should lead push for change to our 2010 Constitution

By Isaac Kalua Green 26 days ago

How diaspora job opportunities can boost our economic growth

How diaspora job opportunities can boost our economic growth

By Isaac Kalua Green 1 month ago

After ten years of devolution this is what we must do for it to work

A report by the Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee (IGRTC) shows that ten years after devolution, there are functions still being undertaken by the central government.

By Isaac Kalua Green 1 month ago

After ten years of devolution this is what we must do for it to work

Why we must restore upper Tana River area and nurture more trees

Tree growing is in line with the government's goal of planting and growing 15.7 billion trees by 2032. For that to happen, we need to plant an average of 4.7 million trees daily.

By Isaac Kalua Green 1 month ago

Why we must restore upper Tana River area and nurture more trees

Mombasa Port should turn around East Africa's economy, create jobs

The President's directive to reduce the weighbridges from six to two and to remove all police roadblocks should be implemented with the urgency it deserves.

By Isaac Kalua Green 1 month ago

Mombasa Port should turn around East Africa's economy, create jobs

Restore the family unit to heal our hurting nation and prosper

In yet another case of a broken family as featured through media a 90-year-old lady was kicked out of her house by her own grandson due to a land squabble. What heartlessness!

By Isaac Kalua Green 1 month ago

Restore the family unit to heal our hurting nation and prosper

Why Kenya urgently needs power of reconciliation, honest dialogue

Reconciliation restores unity, entrenches a joint pathway, and fuels the journey towards the same direction yet again. In so doing, reconciliation heals, fills and frees.

By Isaac Kalua Green 2 months ago

Why Kenya urgently needs power of reconciliation, honest dialogue

Londiani accident should serve as a turning point on road safety

At the Londiani junction, motorists stop right in the middle of the road to buy roast maize or fresh vegetables. Hawkers swarm around the junction due to slow traffic caused by the many road bumps.

By Isaac Kalua Green 2 months ago

Londiani accident should serve as a turning point on road safety

Debate on our forests should go beyond the money from timber

One large tree can supply up to four people with oxygen for a day, the older the tree the more oxygen it releases. As such, trees essentially breathe life into us.

By Isaac Kalua Green 2 months ago

Debate on our forests should go beyond the money from timber

What we must do to benefit from electric mobility, green economy

The electric vehicles are tailored to meet the unique needs of the Kenyan market. This is only the latest in a series of developments that have put Kenya in pole position to be a global leader

By Isaac Kalua Green 2 months ago

What we must do to benefit from electric mobility, green economy

Make reconciliation a catalyst for our economic and social recovery

Observing the issues that bedevil our nation every day, I sincerely appreciate the urgent need to shun conflict with nature and one another at all costs.

By Isaac Kalua Green 3 months ago

Make reconciliation a catalyst for our economic and social recovery

Politics should not obscure noble provisions in Ruto's first budget

The budget has planted the right seedlings in the right places. However, there are hundreds of thousands of people in those places who must nurture those seedlings to maturity.

By Isaac Kalua Green 3 months ago

Politics should not obscure noble provisions in Ruto's first budget

Ruto should activate Bribery Act to rally Kenyans support against graft

Lowering corruption and bringing sub-Saharan Africa's governance to the world average could increase the region's GDP per capita by an estimated 1 to 2 percentage points a year.

By Isaac Kalua Green 3 months ago

Ruto should activate Bribery Act to rally Kenyans support against graft

What we must do to strengthen the middle class and grow the economy

As per the bank's macro poverty outlook, 18.8 million or 34.3 per cent of Kenyans, live below the poverty line of Sh220 a day.

By Isaac Kalua Green 3 months ago

What we must do to strengthen the middle class and grow the economy

Why the Finance Bill will hurt fledgling middle class the most

Kenya's middle class is the centre that holds the country together. If it falls apart, the country too inevitably falls apart.

By Isaac Kalua Green 3 months ago

Why the Finance Bill will hurt fledgling middle class the most

Let's fix perennial milk shortage using simple and local solutions

There is an acute shortage of milk, according to the Kenya Dairy Board. We are experiencing a deficit of about 20 million litres every month against 74 million litres.

By Isaac Kalua Green 4 months ago

Let's fix perennial milk shortage using simple and local solutions

We must inject integrity into the 'labyrinth' of importing vehicles

Since about than 98 per cent of the cars imported from Japan originate from auction houses, the government should require that all car dealers attach an authentic translated auction sheet.

By Isaac Kalua Green 4 months ago

We must inject integrity into the 'labyrinth' of importing vehicles

Just like Japan, let's be intentional, forge united front to drive change

Japanese farmers embody the power of collective responsibility and unified effort. Since the mid-1950s, their powerful voice and votes have kept the Liberal Democratic Party in power.

By Isaac Kalua Green, Stephen Rutto 4 months ago

Just like Japan, let's be intentional, forge united front to drive change

How Shakahola tragedy exposes Kenya's three societal challenges

It's easy to dismiss the victims and followers of Makenzi as gullible and naive. Desperation drives people to do desperate things as evidenced in the Shakahola story.

By Isaac Kalua Green 4 months ago

How Shakahola tragedy exposes Kenya's three societal challenges

End of Ramadan should offer all Kenyans key lessons on empathy

The Holy Month of Ramadan is graciously over. And lessons of the month should remain ingrained in us. This applies even to non-Muslims like myself.

By Isaac Kalua Green 5 months ago

End of Ramadan should offer all Kenyans key lessons on empathy

Three pathways that we should take to recreate a thriving Kenya

Community organising must have a laser focus on policy. If an intervention is not captured in policy, it will never be achieved.

By Isaac Kalua Green 5 months ago

Three pathways that we should take to recreate a thriving Kenya

Let the Judiciary lead the charge to reverse climate change effects

The Judiciary is indeed uniquely equipped to tackle climate change issues decisively. It can do so through a variety of interventions that were spotlighted in the symposium.

By Isaac Kalua Green 5 months ago

Let the Judiciary lead the charge to reverse climate change effects

Kenya urgently needs a national engagement, not just a dialogue

Tragically, lives have already been lost since March 20th when the demonstrations started. William, a 21-year-old Maseno University student is among those who have died in the protests.

By Isaac Kalua Green 5 months ago

Kenya urgently needs a national engagement, not just a dialogue

Why solving the 'man problem' is key to achieving societal progress

Firstly, we should learn to tackle conflicts speedily and decisively. Maturity is defined by how fast we resolve our conflicts.

By Isaac Kalua Green 6 months ago

Why solving the 'man problem' is key to achieving societal progress

Three things men must change in their lives to attain true fulfilment

As men we must appreciate that we face unique challenges including, the richer you get the lesser the genuine friends.

By Isaac Kalua Green 6 months ago

Three things men must change in their lives to attain true fulfilment

Power must always be used to make Kenyans' lives better, spur economy

The economy must be designed to deliberately support the likes of my barber and millions of other Kenyans in the informal sector.

By Isaac Kalua Green 6 months ago

Power must always be used to make Kenyans' lives better, spur economy

Three-pronged approach we must take to survive perennial drought

I urge all of us to celebrate our birthdays by growing trees commensurate with our ages. Don't wait for anyone to buy those tree seedlings for you.

By Isaac Kalua Green 6 months ago

Three-pronged approach we must take to survive perennial drought

Four things we must do to make Nairobi River spur our economy

Nairobi residents must build an affectionate relationship with their rivers. Most of Nairobi's five million residents broke up with the rivers a long time ago. They have zero feelings for them.

By Isaac Kalua Green 7 months ago

Four things we must do to make Nairobi River spur our economy

What the climate change council must do to fight hunger, poverty

The report revealed that Kenya has experienced a fifth consecutive poor rainfall season. This has adversely affected an estimated six million people in 32 counties.

By Isaac Kalua Green 7 months ago

What the climate change council must do to fight hunger, poverty

Our political parties are the weak link to real national development

A country can only be as successful as its political parties' commitment to their constitutional mandate. Failure to this we shall keep going round in circles. 'Tusijidanganye'.

By Isaac Kalua Green 7 months ago

Our political parties are the weak link to real national development

Why Ruto must forge a common front to rejig our ailing economy

Currently, our tax revenue only accounts for 14 per cent of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) yet in most developed countries it accounts for as much as 25 per cent.

By Isaac Kalua Green 7 months ago

Why Ruto must forge a common front to rejig our ailing economy

Let men of cloth put out fires of depression amid spiritual walk

When the Church is preoccupied with putting out internal fires, they lose sight of societal furnaces that need to be extinguished.

By Isaac Kalua Green 8 months ago

Let men of cloth put out fires of depression amid spiritual walk

What we must do to revive our ailing rural public health sector

According to the recently released 2022 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, 75 per cent of Kenyans don't have any form of health insurance.

By Isaac Kalua Green 8 months ago

What we must do to revive our ailing rural public health sector

Make your life's mistakes count and strive to provide solutions

The greatest lesson learned in this past decade is the importance of respect for people. Respect begets truth. Truth is the antidote of boundless relationships.

By Isaac Kalua Green 8 months ago

Make your life's mistakes count and strive to provide solutions

The magic bullet needed to turn our coffee into a wealth creator

Kenya has about 800,000 small scale coffee farmers and millions of cash crop farmers

By Isaac Kalua Green 9 months ago

The magic bullet needed to turn our coffee into a wealth creator

How plant your age move can push Ruto's forest cover dream

When we take care of trees, they reciprocate and take care of us. They replenish our health, our relationships, our livelihoods and our spirituality.

By Isaac Kalua Green 9 months ago

How plant your age move can push Ruto's forest cover dream

Why the 51 principal secretaries hold the key to Kenya's success

As State departmental leaders, Principal Secretaries turn the wheels of a ministry forward.

By Isaac Kalua Green 9 months ago

Why the 51 principal secretaries hold the key to Kenya's success

Poor food production is our real foe, not maize imports or GMOs

According to the US International Development Finance Corporation, a staggering 30 to 40 per cent of Kenya's food is wasted through bad infrastructure and porous distribution.

By Isaac Kalua Green 10 months ago

Poor food production is our real foe, not maize imports or GMOs

Why Ruto administration must invest in preventive healthcare

Preventive healthcare is ultimately cheaper and more lifesaving than curative healthcare.

By Isaac Kalua Green 10 months ago

Why Ruto administration must invest in preventive healthcare

The unifying power of sports and how we can make money from it

Last Sunday, about 10,000 virtual and physical runners proved that there is more that unites us than divides us when they participated in the 2022 Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon.

By Isaac Kalua Green 10 months ago

The unifying power of sports and how we can make money from it

A new sunrise in agriculture only possible if we can feed ourselves

Every year, each Kenyan eats an average 70 kilos of maize and maize products. Despite this widespread consumption of maize, we don't produce sufficient maize to meet our needs.

By Isaac Kalua Green 10 months ago

A new sunrise in agriculture only possible if we can feed ourselves

How locally produced vehicles can turn around our economy

It is time to overhaul our automotive sector by choosing to manufacture locally.

By Isaac Kalua Green 11 months ago

How locally produced vehicles can turn around our economy

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