After a month of Gen Z-led pro-good governance, not anti-government, protests, we are back to default settings.
It is fair to speculate that President William Ruto’s Kenya Kwanza administration might turn out to be our most disappointing since independence.
The broad-based government reboots President Ruto's economic turnaround agenda that has so far been mostly mixed, moving in fits and starts.
S&P lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating for Kenya from “B” to “B-”. Like the legend of Nero’s Rome, our leadership fiddles as Kenya burns.
How do we improve the lot of Kenyans without imposing new taxes and overborrowing while offering government services?
The first call is embedded in our budget calendar for 2025/26, the penultimate fiscal year to our 2027 election because the 2027/28 budget two years later will be transitional
In this “business unusual” space, the focus is the destination of our journey, not their vehicle to take us there. Because, here and everywhere, the government is not the economy.
DP impeachment is a cacophonous sideshow. The reality is likely about real transparency and accountability in our fiscus before we are called for taxation.
Public participation on the impeachment motion against Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has suddenly, and unsurprisingly, mutated into a referendum on on Ruto’s presidency.
Kenya Kwanza is an unpopular government, and it doesn’t need rich people to fund poor people to say this.
For the avoidance of doubt, the ongoing process to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is a terrible diversion.
The writer says the State of The Nation Address is more about self-reflection and introspection than it is about self-praise and congratulation.
Our eagerness to celebrate foreign pressure as the reason these deals were cancelled understates the important role played by local whistleblowers.
As we step into the hopeful embrace of 2025, let’s randomly walk through a couple of unusual reflections for the year.
As our 2027 politics gets louder and more aggressive, it is easy to forget we are entering the home stretch of a 2025/26 budget process launched in August last year.
Eyes always light up and the national pulse beats harder when the government deigns to broach the sensitive subject of parastatal reform.
Judiciary, no stranger to calls for radical reform finds itself under a harsh spotlight following a highly accusatory and largely social media-driven push for yet another judicial purge.
As we all know, the 2025/26 budget process — strictly 2025/26 to 2027/28 Medium-Term Budget process — is well underway, at both national and county government levels.
As Kenyans bemusedly endure this administration’s penchant for costly foreign travel and local development tours in a tough economic environment, now the 2027 election agenda is already framing.
The political collaboration between UDA and ODM, represents the latest example of a long-held belief among our political elite that Kenyans have short memories.
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