Recently, the Kenyan populace have been treated to the disturbing news that some graduate police officers of other ranks had their salaries cut as they were demoted back to lower job groups as a consequence of a recent court ruling on the graduate officers in those ranks. “Other ranks” in the police refers to the ranks below the rank of Inspector of Police. Many an opinion have been passed and even the COTU secretary general, Francis Atwoli weighed in on the issue with a feeble plea to Dr Fred Matiang’i. A terrible spectacle considering he  is supposed to be a fighter for workers’ rights. Such fights do not succeed through being nebbish and pitifully prostrating at the feet of authorities in a bid to have them practice fidelity to existing laws. Wake up, brother Atwoli! You losing your mojo. Many of those opinions seem to blame the government for acting as it did. And government can hardly escape responsibility in a matter like this. Government can not claim to suffer from the sam...

The Honourable Raila Odinga’s attempt at another reinvention of himself and counter-narrative to Dr. William Ruto’s Hustler movement was great but seems to be failing to hit the right chords with the populace. Like he has done many times before, the aging Raila came up with his new mantra after he and his ‘brother’ Uhuru Kenyatta’s BBI vehicle faltered in the hands, or should I say desks, of a fiercely independent Judiciary. The BBI would have been a shot in the arm for the enigma’s 2020 presidential bid 'if he were to chose to run.’ After the fall of the BBI, Raila had to dig deep into his political craft to find the last and perhaps this time, the very last bullet. He is adroit when it comes to finding that last bullet. He always has a way of getting it and getting away with it. And the so Raila comes up with AZIMIO LA UMOJA. A great slogan, I must admit but it is my considered view that this slogan is old and tired. This jingle, however you twist and paraphrase it, is the same ...

Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi is a name many do not associate with a lot of good in the history of Kenya’s political leadership. During his leadership, so much happened. Groans and grumbles begun, of his leadership after the failed 1982 attempted coup and to be fair to the man, much of what he became after that unfortunate coup attempt was a direct reaction to the event. He became fearful and careful; intolerant and reactionary; brutal and prompt. He led by an iron fist. Those who were grown then will tell you he was cunning as a fox and his moves became as unpredictable as the coming of Christ. In private, he was feared like hell while in public he cut the figure of a very friendly fellow, easily tickled by a funny remark, and often rushing to join and jig with a welcoming band of school kids or local women dancing a happy welcome folk for him. Moi was a phenomenon. In our current politics, we have at our disposal two of Moi’s best students in president Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy Will...

Kelvin Nyamache Nyakeriga is a brilliant young man and definitely an example for many young people to emulate. There’s no gainsaying the fact that he is what many of his age mates can only dream to be. I respect that. However, the young man is the purest, most undiluted among the Ruto-hating species. A near fanatic of Ruto’s political nemesis, Raila Odinga. In one of his many criticisms against the deputy president, Kelvin attempted to define for the hustler nation what, in his view the true meaning of a hustler president should be. And in his attempt, he pulled out a really fitting example, apt for his rant, in Jose Mujica, the former Uruguay president. Kelvin seems to suggest that a true hustler president should choose to live like president Mujica and no other way. To him, Hustler means simply living like a poor man or ordinary life. Needless to say, Mujica chose that life because it’s the life he lived before he became president. He simply elected not to change his lifestyle or sw...