Proposal to regulate social media absurd

In a rare light-bulb moment, Malava MP Moses Malulu Injendi has now come up with a bill to police Facebook and WhatsApp groups.

By Shiundu 6 years ago

Why China’s fish is set to stay on Kenya’s menu

A recent budget forecast shows the country will continue to import China’s fish for at least three years.

By Shiundu 7 years ago

Studying for free: The real cost they won’t reveal

As Kenya goes to the polls, Jubilee and NASA are both promising to offer completely free secondary education. We totted up the numbers on what this entails.

By Shiundu 8 years ago

We can’t meet SGR obligations, say policy experts

The joke doing the rounds after the launch of the multi-billion-shilling Standard Gauge Railway on June 1 was that the beach is now only four hours away from Syokimau, on the outskirts of Nairobi.

By Shiundu 8 years ago

Duale, Muturi and Ethuro in bitter fight for control of PSC billions

It is none of your business! National Assembly Speaker and Majority Leader tell off Senate boss over proposed changes at the Parliamentary Service Commission

By Shiundu 8 years ago

Hits, misses of Jubilee promises as Uhuru seeks re-election

Jubilee promised to deal with corruption, shore up the economy, create jobs. Here is a review five years later.

By Shiundu 8 years ago

Uhuru’s path to power: Intrigues, godfathers, deep pockets and ICC

From Kanu to Jubilee, the President has passed through people’s sacrifices to finally make it to State House.

By Shiundu 8 years ago

Tough times as Sh140b debt due amid costly campaigns

As Jubilee struggles with current food crisis, economists predict tough times ahead of election because of campaign billions, rise in oil prices, army worms and Kenya’s Sh4 trillion debt.

By Shiundu 8 years ago

New bid to give diplomatic passports to MPs, spouses

Final battle looms between Senate and National Assembly over new PSC Bill as vicious battle rages within parliamentary bureaucracy over money and power

By Shiundu 8 years ago

Budget office rejects Rotich's plan to control tenders

Minister is seeking to pick appointees to two crucial boards that have final say on government procurement disputes.

By Shiundu 8 years ago

Long odds await independents who become MPs, governors

They only matter when parties are desperate for votes. But, the risk is they have to beg the big parties to appoint them to House committees or even get foreign trips. If they win as governors, they are hostages of MCAs allied to big parties.

By Shiundu 8 years ago

MPs who defected could be kicked out

At least 20 MPs are staring at job losses following their defection from parties that sponsored them to Parliament. The MPs defected to vie as independent candidates or to join parties popular in their constituencies.

By Shiundu 8 years ago

Third-time lucky? Gender Bill heads back to House

Speaker mulls last-ditch legal shortcut to pave way for Parliament to pass law on two-thirds gender principle.

By Shiundu 8 years ago

Open defiance, sabotage killed gender rule dream

When Justice John Mativo slapped MPs with a 60-day ultimatum to either pass laws to implement the two-thirds gender rule or go home, women celebrated.

By Shiundu 8 years ago

Why gender target has been so near yet so far since 2010

But after nearly seven years of missed deadlines, failed amendments and legislative dithering, it appears that implementing Article 81(b) of the Constitution to ensure that “not more than two-thirds of the members of elective public bodies shall be of the same gender” is harder than anticipated, especially for the National Assembly and the Senate.

By Shiundu 8 years ago

Ongoro, the Iron Lady of Orange party

The first time she hit the headlines in a notorious manner was when news filtered one morning five years ago that an assistantminister had beaten up her husband.

By Shiundu 8 years ago

Why explosive NYS report may never see 'light of the' House

After captivating the country with eye-popping details about how a colossal Sh1.4 billion was stolen from the National YouthService (NYS) and part of the loot carted away in gunny bags, MPs do not have the time to debate the explosive report of the Public Accounts Committee!

By Shiundu 9 years ago

MPs: Come clean on ‘omitted’ Sh155bn debt in Budget

The Parliamentary Budget Office – the experts in economics and finance who advise lawmakers on the national budget—has exposed the National Treasury for failing to declare a Sh155 billion rise in debt interest and repayments.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

Budget Office asks Rotich to raid cash-rich betting industry

Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich will on Thursday, March 30 read Kenya’s national budget amid dim warnings of an economic slowdown in an election year.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

Budget Office asks CS Rotich to raid cash-rich betting industry

Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich will on Thursday, March 30 read Kenya’s national budget amid dim warnings of an economic slowdown in an election year.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

US spy agency named Kibaki, JM Kariuki as potential Jomo Kenyatta successors

At least six years before Jomo Kenyatta died, America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had prepared a thorough assessment of the political succession in Kenya, complete with possible successors, their chances and competence, and how they would affect the country’s relations with the United States.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

The untold story of the Kenyattas' wealth

The vast wealth of the Kenyatta family was considered such a crucial factor in Kenya’s internal security that the CIA, America’s spy agency, issued a special report on it the day Kenya’s founding father was buried in 1978.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

Rogue lawyers, greedy telcos in MPs’ last agenda

These legal amendments are contained in the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendment) Bill – usually called the Omnibus Bill as it carries with it changes to dozens of laws.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

Banks in fresh trouble as new Bill proposes ban on deposits of public funds

In a new Bill headed to the Government Printer for publication, the MPs have proposed tough new rules to guide the Government on where State agencies will bank, for how long, and the threshold of interest to warrant banking with commercial banks.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

MPs rush to allocate themselves more money ahead of elections

As the National Assembly resumes on Tuesday, one of its first agenda is an amendment of the Constitution to entrench the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) into the country’s supreme law.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

Game of numbers drives UhuRuto and Raila to villages in vote hunt

Ahead of the next General Election, the President and his deputy have moved out of their offices, and using all State power, are camping in their strongholds begging their supporters to enroll as voters.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

Chic slogans as aspirants for city women rep take politics to another level

Whether in tight jeans, knee-high boots or in figure-hugging dresses or with shiny lip-gloss, colourful lipstick and heavy make-up, or perhaps long weaves on their heads, the campaign for Nairobi County woman representative’s seat is turning into a contest about beauty, politics and policies.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

Donald Trump shock for Kenya

Kenya is worried over a possible withdrawal of US support for its campaign in Somalia, following a series of questions sent by incoming President Donald Trump’s team to the State Department.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

Why 2017 will mark end of the Kenyatta, Oginga rivalry

The biggest news in Kenya‘s New Year agenda is the August 8, 2017 General Election. It is a political watershed moment that will bring the curtains down on a 50-year political rivalry involving sons of Kenya‘s independence-era politicians.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

The good, the bad and the ugly of Uhuru’s self-proclaimed errand boy Duale

In a secluded corner on the First Floor of Kenya’s Parliament Buildings, there’s a four-roomed office that serves as the Office of the Majority Leader.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

Speaker Justin Muturi blames State for rights abuses

National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi has blamed radicalisation of youth in Kenya on impunity and corruption in government.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

Reprieve for Ijara residents in row over forest once inhabited by militia

Parliament is piling pressure on the government to surrender an expansive swathe of forest land to the Somali community in Ijara, Garissa County.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

Ghosts of CDF losses haunt Raila and eight ex-ministers

Eight former MPs including Opposition chief Raila Odinga are on the spot after the Auditor General’s report exposed fraud during their tenures.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

Millions wasted as MPs abandon crucial CDF projects

Key projects in many constituencies were abandoned when former MPs lost their seats even after millions had been pumped into them.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

From boda boda sheds to fences, the crazy things MPs spent our money on

In what could turn out to be classic cases of outright theft of millions of public funds, the Auditor General has exposed hundreds of ways Kenyans lose money to non-existent or abandoned projects at the constituency level.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

National security budget shoots up as war on terror intensifies

Kenya’s annual budget for military and spy operations has doubled in the five years the military has been fighting Al Shaabab militants in Somalia.

By Shiundu 9 years ago

Capture of Kismayu port was the brainchild of Karangi

Hidden in the 306 pages of the Kenya Defence Forces’ official account of Operation Linda Nchi is what the military authors call the “Ugali strategy.”

By Shiundu 9 years ago

Wetang’ula: Bring boys back home, Linda Nchi mission is over

Kenya’s former Foreign Affairs minister, Moses Wetang’ula, who is today an opposition senator has asked President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration to end the military incursion in Somalia and “bring the boys back home.”

By Shiundu 9 years ago

Yes, Kenya is in dire need of moral lessons, can our universities help?

In an address in Kiswahili to Kenyans living in Israel on February 24 during his state visit to that country, President Kenyatta decried Kenyans’ base morals: “Kenyans are experienced in stealing and perpetuating other crimes.”

By Shiundu 9 years ago

Retired judges to get over Sh65m in benefits

Chief Justice Willy Mutunga, his deputy Kalpana Rawal, and judge Philip Tunoi are assured of good financial packages as they exit the Judiciary.

By Shiundu 9 years ago