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Kenya sliding into repression as leaders plot to silence the critics
This week, Kenya was downgraded from the “obstructed” to “repressed” category in the influential CIVICUS State of Civil Society report.
By Irungu Houghton
2024-12-07 20:40:00
By Irungu Houghton
2024-11-23 10:21:46
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights has verified 61 police killings, 73 abductions and missing persons and 1,765 arbitrary arrests of protesters.
By Irungu Houghton
2024-11-09 09:36:23
The last four months remind us that organised generations always rise to remind those in power that they rule with our consent.
By Irungu Houghton
2024-11-02 00:00:00
Kenya can meet the remaining 11 out of 16 obligations documented as outstanding by the International Service for Human Rights and Amnesty International.
By Irungu Houghton
2024-10-19 07:14:25
Recent events have left me reflecting on the growing danger for state officers in important constitutional offices and our democracy.
By Irungu Houghton
2024-10-05 07:05:00
Parliament must resist new attempts to undermine the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner’s independence.
By Irungu Houghton
2024-09-28 09:56:58
Even where they have fallen short of keeping the Executive operating within the rule of law, constitutional commissions remain critical to Kenya’s governance architecture.
By Irungu Houghton
2024-08-31 00:00:00
The idea of being buried as an unclaimed body in a mass grave is probably one of our worst nightmares.
By Irungu Houghton
2024-08-24 18:30:00
From the perspective of leadership integrity, what do his recent choices communicate and what can be done to root out the impunity that snapped the nation’s patience recently?
By Irungu Houghton
2024-08-17 00:00:00
Without new ways of leading by the nation’s imams and priests, Mutava Musyimi's taskforce report might as well be buried alongside the victims at Shakahola.
By Irungu Houghton
2024-08-03 17:00:00
Police leadership must come with new strategies of listening and acting that can de-escalate and hold accountable those under their command that have broken our laws.
By Irungu Houghton
2024-07-27 13:24:53
Politicians, civil servants and their tenderpreneur cousins must stop stealing, money laundering and buying allegiance at the pulpit, funeral and wedding harambees.
By Irungu Houghton
2024-07-06 16:00:00
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