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Truth Without Fear
There was a time I would engage anyone and everyone on matters religion but I grew out of my obsession with the realisation that matters of faith and religion are individual choices.
Water determines whether our farms thrive or fail, whether food prices remain affordable or spiral out of reach, and whether communities flourish or struggle.
Today, a billion shillings has lost meaning. If a corruption deal does not breach the billon shilling mark, its not worth a mention in the news.
The roads are no better than cattle tracks of the middle ages. School children walk with empty jerrycans hunting for water, mostly from the eponymous river that cascades from Molo.
It is an established fact globally that most businesses do not survive beyond their first three years.
Our motorcyclists are not exactly known for level-headedness. Then you add a sick passenger on a contraption launched with so much fanfare? Wonders will never cease.
Ongoing issues at Nairobi City Hall, likening persistent mismanagement to “same forest, different monkeys.”
Land grabbing scandals in Kenya continue unabated, implicating both current and former national and county government officials and highlighting deep-seated corruption.
We have many such freaks of ‘nature’ in this country, especially within government, where money from the Treasury tends to find its way into a sinkhole.
Traffic cameras in Kenya can only be effective when backed by political support, as enforcement often depends on police discretion.
True leadership demands restraint, vision, and a commitment to national unity. It requires politicians who understand that their words carry the weight of history.
For a country like Kenya, which shares a colonial history and a similar starting point with Singapore in the 1960s, the contrast in our current trajectories is jarring.
Last week, and for the first time in a very long time, I queued for petrol somewhere in Karatina.
Small farmers now get a much better deal from the aggregators.
Tanzanians have built companies that are true multinationals in the real sense of the word.
A couple of Kenyan companies have shown what a little portion of their profits can do for the less privileged in society.
We were recently treated to much-needed comic relief by the county leadership of Nairobi, which awakened the Kenyan spirit of finding a joke even when the situation calls for tears.
Instead of Emmanuel Macron and 30 African heads of state, the tables had been turned in my dream
I have always regarded Energy Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi as a generally dour character.
The affordable housing concept is shrouded in a deep mystery that has failed all understanding, and only the Housing Ministry Principal Secretary appears to understand this thing.
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