Tag: Editorial
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A Love Letter To Gen Z
Dear Gen Z, Please allow us to start off this epistle by referring to you by your proper epithet at this monumental juncture in our country’s history: our leaders. Yes, you are our leaders, and we write to you this love letter to express our love ❤️, solidarity ✊🏿 and pure admiration 🤗. We know…
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Jesus Wept. William Lied.
It is June 2022. Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for the Treasury Ukur Yatani has presented President Uhuru Kenyatta’s final budget to Parliament. To finance the ambitious KSh 3.3 trillion budget (a 10 percent increase from the previous one), Yatani, through the Finance Bill 2022, has proposed an avalanche of new taxes – including a 3 percent…
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It’s Official. We’ve Got A Jet-Gate.
The President, “His Friends” and A Private Jet This is not a witch hunt. We open with this disclaimer because two things happened yesterday which were meant to put what had not yet become a full blown jet-gate to rest. The first one was an off the cuff remark made by President William Ruto at…
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Who’s Talking? Ruto, Rigathi or Malala?
The kitchen inside President William Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party has suddenly and uncharacteristically gotten extremely hot, and folks, some pretty close to the head chef – pardon us 😅 – the head of state, are now being told to evacuate immediately if they can’t handle the joto and the moto (or is it…
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The President, the Jet and the Spokesman
During his spirited campaign to be president, William Ruto’s main refrain was that he was the son of a nobody – that his father was a nobody, which therefore made him a nobody. The President repeated time without number that he came from nothing, absolutely nothing, and that it was especially for this particular reason…
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Hurtling Towards The 2022 Abyss
As the country gets into premature presidential election campaigns, signs that the country is steadily but surely hurtling towards the early stages of the 2007/2008 nightmare are beginning to show.
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Reclaiming the Pulpit
The seeming unusualness in Rev. Wainaina’s delivery emanates from the fact that the Provost’s interpretation of the gospel isn’t hypothetically but is grounded in the context of the goings on in the country today – from grand corruption to political conmanship and brinkmanship.
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Why We Are Debunking BBI
Kenyans will be forgiven for being indifferent to the ongoing political theatre. The economy is limping, the pandemic is ravaging, the future looks bleak. And yet, as we’re often reminded, it is darkest before dawn. There are no prizes for guessing the cause(s) for Kenya’s darkness.