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How Gachagua's ethnic chauvinism will hand Ruto an easy victory

Gachagua arrived on the Opposition landscape full of bile, grief and vindictiveness
By Barrack Muluka 2025-12-07 14:43:37
President Samia Suluhu Hassan has blamed the electoral disorder in Tanzania on foreigners and has vowed to crush them.
By Barrack Muluka 2025-11-09 09:05:05
The messy elections have just thrown Tanzania into serious waters of instability and President Suluhu into the doldrums of illegitimacy. 
By Barrack Muluka 2025-11-02 12:09:34
The tone and messaging is absolutist and triumphalist to the point of recklessness.
By Barack Muluka 2025-11-02 10:22:02
Raila Odinga’s exit has exposed the nakedness of a parasitic political class, now staring at an uncertain future.
By Barrack Muluka 2025-10-26 09:10:00
President Ruto’s decoration of Raila should stir some level of uncomfortable questioning in our collective conscience, as the Kenyan nation.
By Barrack Muluka 2025-10-26 06:00:00
ODM faces both internal challenges and external pressures as vultures circle it. The Ruto State is the foremost predator slavering for ODM’s flesh.  
By Barrack Muluka 2025-10-22 06:00:00
In Uganda and Tanzania there is not the slightest pretext at political common decency. It is raw and naked political bestiality in Kenya’s sister states.
By Barrack Muluka 2025-10-12 10:21:00
Histories of the suffering show that sorrow and grief is unproductive. Only appropriate action can change unhappy fortunes.
By Barrack Muluka 2025-10-05 08:10:00
Gachagua seems unable to carry his rhetoric beyond Mt. Kenya, to rattle and inspire the Kenyan nation. He has no notable names among his troops.
By Barrack Muluka 2025-10-05 07:00:00
Raila Odinga will not support President William Ruto’s second term bid in 2027, or maybe he will.
By Barrack Muluka 2025-09-28 13:00:00
Kenyans are sick and tired of the Kenya Kwanza regime and its ODM partners. The time for Raila Odinga to escape is now.
By Barrack Muluka 2025-09-28 10:13:00