Today is 10 October, and the country has been told to plant a tree. The holiday began in 1988 as Moi Day, a date Daniel arap Moi gave himself to …
Francis Gaitho
- Politics
After Putting Raila Through The Illicit Handshake With Ruto, Ida Odinga Now Wants To Finish her Children Next
Watching the week at Kang’o ka Jaramogi, the arrangement finally sat in plain view. The centre of power was Ida Odinga, and it had not been Raila. The illicit handshake …
- Social Analysis
RIDGEWAYS BAPTIST: Pastor Majid Ochieng Covered the Shujaa Cartel While Sammy Thuita and Daniel Ndegwa Billed the Parents
Daniel Mwangi Ndegwa is a notorious thief from an unpopular gene pool, and the public record of that family is already thin. His sibling Kabaru Ndegwa, a lawyer since 1986, …
- Commentaries
Muhoho Kenyatta Lives, Patrick Mbacio Died, and HIV Was the Rumour That Hid the Difference
When HIV reached Kenya in the mid-1980s, the first public case was already being written up as a “killer sex disease,” and by the late 1980s the newspapers were teaching …
- Corruption
Muthaiga Golf Club, Debt and Dispossession: Ronald Karauri, Kamau Thugge, Evans Kidero, Kabando wa Kabando and Andrew Musangi Linked To Ruto Land Grab
In Kenya, the primary instrument of theft is seldom the midnight raid or the crude seizure of title. It is debt – tethered to a narrative of urgency, and to …
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There is a lazy story that Kenya is a treasure chest the West cannot leave alone. The poster says more than 970 identified minerals, worth trillions, looted in silence. Minerals …
- Featured
Kenyan Courts Are Striking Down 400% App Loans. The Banking System That Built Them Has Not Moved
On 6 August 2026 the Small Claims Court at Milimani, in judgment SCCE2180 of 2026, told Ipesa Limited to close a loan account at nil and to forget Sh75,694 in …
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Mejja, born Major Nameye Khadija, has a new hit called Hustler. On the surface it praises hard work and the micro-entrepreneurial spirit of Kenya’s middle class; not the slum romance …
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𝐔𝐊𝐎𝐑𝐀 𝐌𝐓𝐔𝐏𝐔 Lifting the Lid on Kiambu’s High-Value Land Fraud Cartels A WhatsApp blast is circulating in Thika and beyond: plots on an 86-acre coffee farm along the Thika-Garissa highway. …
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Robert Shimooshili did not build Namibia’s historic Africa Cup of Nations run. He arrived in time to collect it. Elected Namibia Football Association president in November 2023, he took office …