/blogs/-/446718/446718/-/r0scw5z/-/index.html http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/+This+is+nothing+but+Anglo+Leasing+revisited+/-/446718/1403454/-/t6j4yrz/-/index.html The handling of the National Health Insurance Fund scandal is a demonstration of just how dysfunctional and corrupt the coalition government has become. 2012-05-10T16:28:41Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/All+aspirants+should+be+given+a+chance/-/446718/1398888/-/12fo8v5/-/index.html The political classes have their knickers in a twist over Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi and his temerity to stand up and challenge his erstwhile benefactor, boss and friend, Prime Minister Raila Odinga. 2012-05-03T15:14:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/+Intrigues+of+Sololo+and+the+NSSF++/-/446718/1389902/-/1ylrbqz/-/index.html A newspaper is like an old man’s house. There are little-visited nooks and crannies full of interesting and valuable things. 2012-04-19T16:08:50Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1385440/-/al103o/-/index.html Prime Minister Raila Odinga is in danger of losing his voice just when he needs it most. 2012-04-12T16:43:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1380750/-/akwkv3/-/index.html One of my friends used to tell me that the greatest reformer in the public service was Dr Richard Leakey. 2012-04-05T16:05:26Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1376450/-/akf5jf/-/index.html I think you will need a guide on how to behave properly as citizens of an oil-rich country. 2012-03-29T17:58:21Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Mt+Kenya+is+the+source+of+life+itself+/-/446718/1371552/-/8vtvkrz/-/index.html Mt Kenya, which is on fire, is not just the home and shrine of (to their tribal rivals) the loathed Mt Kenya Mafia. 2012-03-22T15:49:50Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1366996/-/ajspo4/-/index.html I met a gentleman who has returned after working abroad for a while and he was puzzled. 2012-03-15T14:12:55Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/It+is+a+good+thing+to+care+for+the+poor/-/446718/1361984/-/essxxdz/-/index.html I do not wish to sound heartless. Neither is it my intention today to get into a fight with President Mwai Kibaki or his dear partner-in-power, Prime Minister Raila Odinga. 2012-03-08T16:05:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Modern+highways+are+not+enough/-/446718/1357118/-/xcx9n3/-/index.html The Thika superhighway and the new by-passes in Nairobi will make traffic jams worse and increase road deaths. 2012-03-01T14:42:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/To+truly+reform+the+Judiciary+we+need+to+go+all+the+way/-/446718/1333580/-/k0vnqq/-/index.html Why is the vetting of judges and magistrates being done in secret? Is it to spare the wrongdoers the blushes? 2012-02-23T16:05:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Lynch+mob+proposals+not+the+answer+/-/446718/1329114/-/10c14x0/-/index.html Members of Parliament have insinuated themselves at the Central Bank and after conducting hearings, arrived at the rather unsurprising conclusion 2012-02-16T16:49:13Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/ODM+should+not+allow+intolerance+to+ruin+its+great+moment/-/446718/1323396/-/vlgbcb/-/index.html The vilification of Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi by a section of Orange Democratic Party members for daring to seek the party’s presidential nomination is an arrogant and intolerable display of chutzpah. 2012-02-09T13:09:48Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1304632/-/ag3163/-/index.html It is early morning, on the third day after voting. The country is on the verge of mass panic. 2012-01-12T16:15:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1297198/-/a2l4nv/-/index.html The first existential test for New Kenya will come, not from the Rift Valley and its addiction to bloodletting, but from the Coast and its fondness for secession. 2011-12-29T15:29:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1290064/-/a2g8kg/-/index.html I am willing to stake my reputation on this: there isn’t going to be a 2011-12-15T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1286252/-/a1xw55/-/index.html Don’t be alarmed if you are a little confused about the military situation in Somalia. You are not alone. 2011-12-08T16:33:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1282588/-/a1v7an/-/index.html It most probably isn’t fate (or bad luck, or karma or ancestral spirits) causing trouble in your life. In many cases, fate has a name, a grudge and a plan, and is reorganising your life in the most fascinating and destructive of ways. 2011-12-01T15:58:22Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/What+matters+is+whether+the+polls+will+be+free+/-/446718/1278646/-/jew5l8/-/index.html Kenya is full of madmen. The talent for sitting back, reflecting and taking the best decision is totally absent. 2011-11-24T15:09:30Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Trucks+on+our+highways+being+driven+by+lunatics/-/446718/1274828/-/xggyslz/-/index.html The beautiful Mombasa highway the Narc government built for us is unravelling. 2011-11-17T13:30:26Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/How+America+Cold+War+blunders+created+monster/-/446718/1270796/-/ophjglz/-/index.html I have spent valuable days poring obsessively over reams upon reams of prints from the internet on Al-Qaeda in East Africa. In my mind is beginning to emerge the appalling extent of the influence of Cold War mistakes on the security and future of the Horn of Africa. 2011-11-10T12:55:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1266720/-/a0px73/-/index.html The reaction of the international media to Kenya’s incursion into Somalia has left me, as a media man, a bit baffled. 2011-11-03T12:57:38Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/So+Al+Shabaab+is+suing+for+peace/-/446718/1262910/-/s5vubxz/-/index.html Dear Mr Wetangula, We have a problem. Your quick brain, and even quicker tongue, will be required to deal with these jokers in Somalia. 2011-10-27T17:21:04Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1258834/-/a05sqk/-/index.html Armies don’t go to war, countries do. So Kenya is at war with al Shabaab. I tend to be a little hot-headed and a bit of a war-monger, I fear. 2011-10-20T15:25:09Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/We+must+stop+playing+party+politics+/-/446718/1254956/-/7sfg6rz/-/index.html We are all facing financial ruin because the shilling has gone West (to borrow an expression). 2011-10-13T16:23:10Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1251294/-/a00sxx/-/index.html Somali pirates are killing Kenya, one tourist at a time. Hotels have closed 2011-10-06T16:58:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/It+is+time+to+sue+for+peace+and+to+unite+/-/446718/1245046/-/uhwtnqz/-/index.html After the election violence of 2007/8, it is only right and fair that justice be sought, locally and internationally 2011-09-29T14:19:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1241230/-/9ye9w7/-/index.html Elections are best rigged well before the ballots are cast. In Kenya, electoral 2011-09-22T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Negligent+failed+leadership+allowed+Sinai+tragedy+/-/446718/1236952/-/11q0b1wz/-/index.html The Sinai fire tragedy was bad. It was so bad that even seasoned Nation journalists, many of whom see death nearly every day, required trauma therapy. 2011-09-15T15:49:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Lets+pay+our+teachers+well/-/446718/1232780/-/4qwdakz/-/index.html When I was a university student (Mr Wilson Sossion, the fire-breathing Knut chairman was my yearmate and neighbour in the halls of residence) 2011-09-08T17:40:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1229074/-/9xbp7o/-/index.html Sometimes small things happen which change the course of history 2011-09-01T15:23:40Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1225426/-/9x90xg/-/index.html There will be probably never be a better time to retell the story of Caesar 2011-08-25T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/1217380/-/9wnu26/-/index.html After liberation in 1994, there grew in South Africa a breed of eaters, known as 2011-08-11T15:37:12Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Crusade+bombing+has+changed+Kenya+forever/-/446718/938880/-/4g4oi6z/-/index.html You will know a bad one when the tip comes in. Sunday’s grenade attack on a crusade at Uhuru Park doesn’t come any worse. 2010-06-14T17:50:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/838410/-/ou2mkqz/-/index.html The Akiwumi tribunal has done us all proud. It’s sagacity and probing intellect is a great credit to this country. 2010-01-08T06:37:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/663762/-/pvgvhaz/-/index.html It is 19 years since the clamour for constitutional change gained widespread support. 2009-09-26T15:30:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/660632/-/pvj0awz/-/index.html I think henceforth, whenever President Kibaki wishes to make an appointment, he should ask his secretary to call me 2009-09-19T18:26:46Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/657002/-/pw0sqfz/-/index.html No one, least of all the politicians, has had anything good to say about former police commissioner Major-General Hussein Ali 2009-09-12T16:49:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/640006/-/pwr7utz/-/index.html A section of Members of Parliament think it is a grand idea for us to have a special tribunal, after all. 2009-08-15T11:19:30Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/636568/-/px9grgz/-/index.html August 7, 1998, was, for me, a time of trauma beyond the terror attack. That week someone had come to my house 2009-08-08T13:38:43Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/633292/-/pxbm0uz/-/index.html I am amused by the outrage expressed by MPs over the Cabinet decision to try election violence suspects in the High Court. Why are MPs pissed off? They got what they wanted, didn’t they? 2009-08-01T12:23:36Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/629714/-/pxsv9vz/-/index.html No empire is ever conquered by an outside power without first destroying itself from within 2009-07-25T11:31:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/622710/-/pxxqi7z/-/index.html The unthinkable was always going to happen, I just didn’t expect it to be this soon: I am beginning to tire of Barack Obama. 2009-07-11T19:30:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/619116/-/pyfjuvz/-/index.html Fox News, the American TV channel which during the US presidential elections distinguished itself with its anti-Obama slant, caught my attention yesterday. 2009-07-04T15:12:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/616150/-/pyhmq1z/-/index.html I confess I have been writing saucy war headlines. We journalists and our soulmates in certain sections of society, mainly MPs 2009-06-27T16:29:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/613222/-/pyjoyoz/-/index.html I have no illusions: the world is a twisted unkind place and human beings, while capable of the most touching kindness 2009-06-20T14:58:10Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/610344/-/pylr3wz/-/index.html If I were on talking terms with Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta, here is what I’d say to him 2009-06-13T13:20:50Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608752/-/q02na7z/-/index.html There is no age-set without its hero.” The proverb sat between the two men like a grenade. 2009-06-06T14:20:15Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608754/-/q02na5z/-/index.html I has supported the mochion,” the fat man panted as he slipped into the seat opposite the other fat man, whom we shall call Fat Boy for ease of identification. “We have win.” 2009-05-30T16:06:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608760/-/q02n9dz/-/index.html We have been hoping that the Kenya coalition will last a while, not because we like the feuding clowns who currently populate our politics, but because we are grateful it stopped the war, and there is an important reform job to be done. The most important part of that job, is of course, to take the law to every region and class. 2009-04-18T15:57:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608762/-/q02n9bz/-/index.html South Africa is about to elect its first African president. A 66 year-old man who learnt to read and write in prison, was indicted for corruption, a populist politician with a strong tribal appeal, a revolutionary of Umkhonto we Sizwe for which he was intelligence chief, Jacob Zuma is the next ruler of South Africa. Mr Zuma is what my grandfather would have a described as a man with a strong thigh, five wives and/or fiancés and counting with 18 children out of his loins. 2009-04-11T15:16:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608764/-/q02n99z/-/index.html Kenyans today stand to lose half the land in their country: All that region to the west of the Rift Valley is going to suffer a disaster of big proportions; it’s drying up, the farms are producing less, rainfall is decreasing, it’s becoming hotter, the lakes are vanishing. 2009-04-04T15:54:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608766/-/q02n97z/-/index.html I could not hold back a guffaw when I read on Saturday that Prime Minister Raila Odinga and President Kibaki were having second thoughts about the much talked- about Cabinet reshuffle because they have been advised it could do irreparable political damage. 2009-03-28T16:51:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608768/-/q02n95z/-/index.html A politician was banned from the United States by its government earlier in the week, and there was probably joy across the land. 2009-03-21T15:52:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608770/-/q02n8hz/-/index.html While you’ve been quietly starving in your manyatta or slum hovel, while your stomach was becoming one with your back 2009-03-14T14:17:26Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608772/-/q02n8fz/-/index.html One of the most memorable, and possibly thought-shaping, events of my youth was a speech delivered by Prof Anyang’ Nyong’o in 1995. I remember it was at the Serena Hotel, and he had been requested to invite the guest speaker, Dr Khalid Mansour, a prominent Sudanese lawyer, intellectual and, naturally, dissident. 2009-03-07T16:03:02Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608774/-/q02n8dz/-/index.html We are caught between a police bullet and a Mungiki panga. It is quite possible to stick your head in your armpit and refuse to acknowledge reality. 2009-02-28T16:34:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608776/-/q02n8bz/-/index.html I threw away the column I had prepared for this week after my experiences on Saturday afternoon and how they demonstrated to me the reality of living in a country without leadership. 2009-02-21T14:22:55Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608778/-/q02n89z/-/index.html The inability of Parliament last week to pass a law to enable the trial of post-election warlords at home is a sign of the sustained decay of the Kenyan state. 2009-02-14T14:17:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608780/-/q02n7lz/-/index.html In a word, if you wanted to “off” yourself, what is the most efficient way of doing it? 2009-02-07T13:44:01Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/608782/-/q02n7jz/-/index.html Happy New Year. By the way, you should be offended at that greeting because there is nothing joyful about this year so far. 2009-01-31T17:35:31Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/459762/-/r04px2z/-/index.html The typical image of mother-in-law is that of frumpy meddlers in windscreen glasses getting down on arthritic knees to check for dust under the bed and sending the breakfast tea to the Government Chemist to confirm that it is drinkable. 2008-08-09T13:54:51Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458950/-/r05dp9z/-/index.html An email, presumably written by high school students, has been doing the rounds. It is titled “Why academic fires will continue” and is an ineffectual justification for students setting fire to their schools as a means of drawing attention to grievances. 2008-07-26T16:21:38Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458948/-/r05dpwz/-/index.html I have two members of parliament. There is Fred Gumo, the member for Westlands and there is Mr Gitobu Imanyara, the member for Imenti Central with whom I have a history. You see, 2008-07-19T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458946/-/r05dpyz/-/index.html MUTUMA MATHIU: Sometimes, when I hear arguments about “looking East” and getting alternative markets for our groundnuts, alternative 2008-07-12T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458944/-/r05dq1z/-/index.html MUTUMA MATHIU: The scene is from one of my favourite movies, a Western whose name I have forgotten. 2008-07-05T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458942/-/r05dq3z/-/index.html MUTUMA MATHIU:I read that your house was recently burgled. I hope nothing of value was stolen. You really must do something about that crime of yours, otherwise someone might steal your diplomas. 2008-06-28T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458940/-/r05dq5z/-/index.html There is nothing as frightening as failure to learn from history. Kenya’s constitution-making efforts have followed the same path: A committee of MPs is put in charge of the process that we are all 2008-06-21T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458936/-/r05dquz/-/index.html MUTUMA MATHIU: I was standing in the petrol queue in heaven. Two angels with enormous white wings, from where I stood the wing span looked 2008-06-14T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458934/-/r05dqwz/-/index.html MUTUMA MATHIU: Life is irony, wrapped in a paradox floating in a sea of incongruity. It is starvation in a time of plenty. 2008-06-07T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458932/-/r05dqyz/-/index.html MUTUMA MATHIU: The move by the government back bench to form a “grand opposition” is a fascinating piece of PR and doublespeak. 2008-05-31T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458930/-/r05dr1z/-/index.html The European Union, for example, would like Africa to regard it as a friend out to help it crawl out of endemic poverty, violence and death. 2008-05-24T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458928/-/r05droz/-/index.html MUTUMA MATHIU: A colleague was recently horrified when she was stopped by her watchman who asked: “Have heard? There is going to be a coup.” 2008-05-17T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458926/-/r05drqz/-/index.html MUTUMA MATHIU:The ongoing hearings by the Kriegler commission into the election fiasco serves to focus the mind of Kenyans on the costs of this cursed election and the wanton lawlessness that attended it. 2008-05-10T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458924/-/r05drsz/-/index.html MUTUMA MATHIU: Imagine that you live in Kange 2008-04-12T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458922/-/r05druz/-/index.html MUTUMA MATHIU: We are dangling on the edge of a precipice, not just because of the expected disruption of normal life and possibly more ethnic 2008-01-12T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458920/-/r05drwz/-/index.html MUTUMA MATHIU: This election has dashed very many hopes and killed many dreams. People are angry and, like me, hurting. 2008-01-05T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458918/-/r05dskz/-/index.html MUTUMA MATHIU | Insight:As I sit at my desk on Saturday morning receiving reports of violence from across the city, I reflect on the momentous events of the last 48 hours with a heavy heart. 2007-12-29T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458916/-/r05dsmz/-/index.html MUTUMA MATHIU: I have just read a horrible story in the Sunday Times magazine, published under the succulent headline “Homo erectus extinctus.” 2007-12-22T21:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/458914/-/r05dsoz/-/index.html MUTUMA MATHIU: A power struggle is taking place at a place called Polokwane in South Africa today whose resolution will have significant impact 2007-12-15T21:00:00Z