Wetang’ula plants candidate on Wamunyinyi 2022
Kanduyi MP and self-declared Ford-Kenya party leader Wafula Wamunyinyi’s political camp has been rocked by uncertainty in the wake of a political storm as a section of his rivals threaten to unlock multimillion shillings campaign war chest ahead of 2022 general elections. The constituency is one of those to be...
Waiguru,Ndambiri strike deal on BBI
Kirinyaga governor Anne Waiguru and her deputy Peter Ndambiri have hammered a truce to back the Building Bridges Initiative and rally residents behind it. This follows months of fighting where Ndambiri has been accusing his boss of trying to hide behind BBI to evade accountability after MCAs tried to upstage...
Exposed : KTDA bid to bribe MPs
The parliamentary departmental committee on agriculture finds itself in the eye of a storm of cartels at Kenya Tea Development Agency said to be spending millions of shillings to scuttle the tea Bill before parliament that comes for final reading and amendment. The Bill was adopted from a report on...
Pressure on civil servant to enter Kiminini race
The race for Kiminini parliamentary seat has started in earnest with MP Chris Wamalwa who is a top contender to replace Governor Patrick Khaemba is set to vacate. One of those already eyeing the seat is Kituyi Wambaya . However, he is keeping his supporters guessing as to whether he...
Kalonzo party unable to foot lodge bills
A letter in which the management of Maanzoni Lodge in Athi River, Machakos county, is demanding officials of the Wiper Democratic Movement pay outstanding bills is causing a storm within the party. In the letter signed by Kanini Musau, the management queries failure by the party to honour promises to...
Axed Mwonya orphans at Egerton University panic
Sacked Egerton University vice-chancellor Rose Awuor Mwonya now faces arrest. Prof Mwonya was replaced by Isaac Kibwage as acting new vice-chancellor. Prof Kibwage has been deputy vice-chancellor administration, planning and development. Many had expected Alexander Kahi, DVC academic affairs to be appointed in an acting capacity. However, sources within the...
Leadership style comes to haunt Nyagarama in twilight years
Since Nyamira county governor John Nyagarama came to power in 2013, he has never held a leaders’ meeting something that has now turned out to haunt his leadership and political legacy as he serves his last term. Despite efforts by other leaders led by Interior cabinet secretary Fred Matiang’i to...
BBI: Church has Kalonzo cornered
Did Kalonzo Musyoka outsprint himself when he supported the BBI report at the Bomas of Kenya on the day it was released even going to the extent of suggesting that the report should be ratified immediately because he had read it overnight and seen it was good for Kenya. It...
All is not well at State House!
Like a cornered fox, Uhuru Kenyatta has devised covert strategies to keep William Ruto and Raila Odinga busy fighting each other to ensure they do not team up to vanquish him. The president’s move to engage Ruto and Raila is said to be fueling bitter wars at State House that...
Day voters humiliated Nyagarama infront of Uhuru, Raila
Governor John Nyagarama has for the first time spoken out in public over his two longest minutes of heckling he faced in the presence of Uhuru Kenyatta in Nyamira two weeks ago. The governor had hosted Uhuru at Ikonge Primary School where he commissioned a new road and had a...
Plot by Kenya Pipeline MD to rehire secret lover
Disquiet is growing at the Kenya Pipeline Company following attempts by the new managing director Macharia Irungu to bring back a former employee initially fired over incompetence, nepotism and tribalism. The latest controversy has triggered a simmering uproar against the new MD who took over following the arrest of his...
Infighting slows Ruto march in Ukambani
There is more than meets the eye in the postponement of William Ruto’s tour of the three counties of Ukambani last week. Although the postponement was attributed to the suspension of public meetings announced by Uhuru Kenyatta in face of increasing Covid-19 cases, there were those who were perplexed to...
