/blogs/-/446672/446672/-/jye7ntz/-/index.html http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Uhuru+can+sure+lay+out+a+party/-/446672/1410592/-/oilkio/-/index.html Uhuru Kenyatta can pull some fancy footwork. He delivered his keynote speech at the launch of his new party in a formal business suit, then doffed jacket and tie to join the youngsters at the music concert. 2012-05-21T16:46:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1401304/-/g2onl4z/-/index.html Throughout the struggle for the second liberation and into the early years of the multiparty system, former Vice-President Mwai Kibaki was contemptuously derided as General Kiguoya 2012-05-07T15:34:58Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Gema+may+erode+Uhuru+appeal+on+national+stage+/-/446672/1373160/-/5uo2wrz/-/index.html Friday’s Limuru meeting that was intended to unite the Gema community may have unintended consequences. 2012-03-24T17:00:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Will+Uhuru+go+for+broke+and+defy+ICC/-/446672/1372432/-/g5p3kvz/-/index.html When Mr Uhuru Kenyatta contested the presidency in 2002 as outgoing President Daniel arap Moi’s hand-picked successor on the Kanu ticket, he sought to project himself as the young, modern, cosmopolitan, detribalised, dotcom candidate. 2012-03-23T17:18:51Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Theres+still+work+to+be+done+to+secure+our+peace+/-/446672/1355048/-/y6ul2rz/-/index.html We mark on Tuesday the fourth anniversary of the National Accord that halted the savagery out of the disputed presidential election and ushered in a mongrel called the Grand Coalition Government. 2012-02-27T17:05:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Michuki+upheld+and+broke+law+equally/-/446672/1333162/-/4te7f6/-/index.html It was no accident that when Mr John Michuki chose a name for his exclusive swanky 2012-02-22T19:30:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Have+anti+reformists+found+Judiciary+Achilles+heel/-/446672/1305350/-/6vyvckz/-/index.html Deputy Chief Justice Nancy Baraza is undoubtedly facing personal agony over the now infamous Village Market incident. 2012-01-13T17:58:14Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1299166/-/h05quxz/-/index.html As the new term opens, primary schools across the country will be celebrating their successes or mourning their failures in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examination results that came out just last week. 2012-01-02T15:53:31Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Omar+and+his+ilk+in+high+places+must+mind+their+tongues/-/446672/1292306/-/sbh9mrz/-/index.html Nearly two months ago, a friend approached me at the local with something that was really troubling him. 2011-12-19T14:20:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1288358/-/h0rxjcz/-/index.html President Kibaki really disappointed me on Monday. I expected a pronouncement to cheer all Kenyans celebrating 48 years of nationhood. 2011-12-12T16:14:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1286696/-/h0t9ptz/-/index.html Kofi Annan is the quintessential diplomat. 2011-12-09T13:15:43Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1284672/-/h0unf2z/-/index.html After prostrating himself before Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, our Foreign Minister Moses Wetang’ula came home from Khartoum with a very positive spin. 2011-12-05T15:57:14Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1277196/-/h1f889z/-/index.html The military incursion in pursuit of Al-Shabaab extremists across the borders 2011-11-21T17:27:13Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1273290/-/h1hypnz/-/index.html Any large concentration and movement of loaded donkeys will be considered 2011-11-14T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1268980/-/h20vjsz/-/index.html I wonder whether Prime Minister Raila Odinga took time off on Sunday while 2011-11-07T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Al+Shabaab+ties+a+probe+is+in+order+/-/446672/1265058/-/6ioyebz/-/index.html Assistant Foreign Affairs minister Richard Onyonka seems to have suffered a bout of Foot-in-Mouth disease. 2011-10-31T16:46:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1261118/-/h25x8mz/-/index.html To kill a snake, goes the popular truism, you cut off its head. Perhaps, then, somebody should explain why Kenyan soldiers are pursuing Al-Shabaab militants deep inside Somalia instead of taking out the nexus right here at home. 2011-10-24T17:15:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Kenyas+foray+against+Al+Shabaab+will+not+be+easy/-/446672/1257054/-/vqus81/-/index.html As long as Al Shabaab retains the capacity to wage terror campaigns in pursuit of some warped jihadist agenda, sitting back and praying they do not attack us would be criminal dereliction of duty. 2011-10-17T15:33:58Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1253220/-/h2q2ohz/-/index.html So this darned saboteur will not defy just the Central Bank, but can go ahead and treat with contempt pronouncements by the President and the Prime Minister? 2011-10-10T15:50:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Farewell+to+the+indefatigable+fighter+for+justice/-/446672/1243534/-/11xckkx/-/index.html Prof Wangari Maathai did not sit around moaning and whining and begging the male power structure for donation of 30 per cent; she fought it out and grabbed her own 100 per cent. 2011-09-26T18:30:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1239094/-/h3u0xoz/-/index.html I fled Nairobi for brief refuge down south just before I was hung, drawn, and quartered. 2011-09-19T15:18:22Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Dont+blame+government+for+slum+inferno/-/446672/1235094/-/5026fv/-/index.html On February 2, 2009, the Daily Nation published an article entitled “The fire next time: Slum courts doom”. 2011-09-12T16:20:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1230968/-/h412tnz/-/index.html The eyes of the nation have been riveted in the past five days on a courtroom in a small city in the Netherlands. 2011-09-05T17:30:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1227390/-/h4hv53z/-/index.html Recently when I needed to look up the number of outgoing Attorney-General Amos Wako, I reached for the trusty old Telkom Kenya telephone directory. 2011-08-29T16:44:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Colonel+is+about+to+go+who+will+fund+AU+/-/446672/1223434/-/ohsai0/-/index.html Now that Brother-Colonel Muammar Gaddafi will no longer dispense his largesse, the nabobs at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa might have to look for another source of sustenance. 2011-08-22T15:24:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Starvation+Why+Kenyans+need+to+take+a+long+hard+look+/-/446672/1219458/-/mjguq0z/-/index.html From the frying pan into the fire? The heavens have opened up and flash floods have already claimed lives. 2011-08-15T16:13:15Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Rather+than+donate+food+why+not+change+government++/-/446672/1215654/-/tiuk2i/-/index.html My heart swelled with pride last Friday watching Kenyans happily raise hundreds of millions for the hungry. It was one of those ‘Najivunia Kuwa Mkenya’ moments. 2011-08-08T15:49:38Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Why+Migunas+exit+was+as+dramatic+as+it+was+predictable/-/446672/1213736/-/ru29ctz/-/index.html The suspension of Mr Miguna Miguna from the Prime Minister’s office 2011-08-04T17:36:49Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Ministers+who+denied+famine+should+be+sacked+/-/446672/1211732/-/kd8rw6z/-/index.html The government has rightly taken plenty of flack for being slow in response to the threat of famine. 2011-08-01T15:54:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Lesson+in+peaceful+Gor+AFC+match+/-/446672/1207682/-/1498l22/-/index.html That near full-house at Nyayo Stadium showed that despite mismanagement, charlatans and fraudsters, Kenyan football still has a future. 2011-07-25T16:38:12Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Credibility+of+2012+poll+outcome+depends+on+appointees+to+IEBC+/-/446672/1204208/-/e3q41e/-/index.html One can expect that appointment to the new Independent and Electoral and Boundaries Commission will provide theatre for the usual tussles 2011-07-19T16:29:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Special+constituency+seats+to+be+set+aside+for+women/-/446672/1203510/-/qfiri6/-/index.html Somebody has come up with a barmy idea on how gender parity can be achieved in the next Parliament. 2011-07-18T16:22:02Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/It+is+come+let+us+eat+together/-/446672/1198830/-/52en4ez/-/index.html With the countdown beating so rapidly towards the 2012 elections, it is not surprising that our peculiar breed of leaders should shove aside critical matters on the national agenda to plunge headlong into the scramble for political office. 2011-07-11T11:56:02Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Move+back+shut+up+and+sit+down/-/446672/1194260/-/xtl3id/-/index.html I have a date with a magistrate on Tuesday morning. I am supposed to answer to the charge of “failing to comply with traffic signs — no right turn”. 2011-07-04T13:25:01Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1189806/-/hjtv64z/-/index.html International news agencies were reporting celebrations across the Libyan city of Misrata as news came in that the ICC had issued arrest warrants 2011-06-27T11:35:40Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Were+Mutunga+Baraza+signalling+end+of+old+order/-/446672/1185970/-/i1mhcs/-/index.html “…the English judges of the higher ranks are saddled with enormous horsehair wigs that can cost over one thousand pounds and weigh almost that much. They are also expected to wear garish robes trimmed with the carcasses of small woodland creatures. The English judicial costume is said to be itchy, unhygienic, and uncomfortable. It also doesn’t always smell terrific”. 2011-06-20T16:01:02Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Transition+government+in+Somalia+seems+to+have+woken+up++/-/446672/1180188/-/oun5doz/-/index.html I have previously had very little faith in the so-called Transitional Government that pretends to run Somalia. 2011-06-13T14:37:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Its+a+tough+budget+but+stay+ahead+of+the+thieving+hordes+/-/446672/1175984/-/146pi3qz/-/index.html Dear Mr Kenyatta, I hope you are well-prepared to present the budget for fiscal year 2011/2012. 2011-06-06T13:56:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Ban+on+export+of+nuts+was+meant+to+exploit+farmers/-/446672/1172048/-/7vpxupz/-/index.html Just the other day, five MPs from Murang’a and Embu counties appealed to the government to re-impose the ban 2011-05-30T16:09:01Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Dont+allow+our+courts+to+mess+up+justice/-/446672/1168146/-/7simsw/-/index.html He can run, but he can’t hide. That is the famous quote attributed to legendary heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis 2011-05-23T16:04:45Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Reformist+Chief+Justice+should+expect+vicious+fight/-/446672/1163704/-/i1cyd3z/-/index.html Don’t Be Fooled, Reject those Nyayos. That was the title of a tract that landed University of Nairobi law lecturer Willy Mutunga 2011-05-16T15:27:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1163352/-/hl78nqz/-/index.html RIP Sammy Kamau wa Wanjiru. But questions, questions, questions: Should we not have read the danger signs? Did Kamau not have a recent history of domestic violence that landed him in court? 2011-05-16T05:24:31Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Removing+Osama+was+the+easy+part/-/446672/1159118/-/uqfgd2/-/index.html The very welcome departure of Terror Inc chief Osama bin Laden has sent hope soaring that al Qaeda and its various offshoots, including our very own al Shabaab, is in its death throes. 2011-05-09T14:52:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1154974/-/hlrxhbz/-/index.html This was a blatant case of extra-judicial execution. American soldiers flew deep into Pakistan and murdered Osama bin Laden and a few close associates. 2011-05-02T15:38:33Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Rutos+proposed+return+could+tear+coalition+apart+/-/446672/1150714/-/i00wm8z/-/index.html If President Kibaki allows Mr William Ruto to resume his job as minister for Education without securing the say-so of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, that should be the signal for the latter to re-evaluate his continued stay in a government that treats him with increasing contempt. 2011-04-25T16:50:24Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1148828/-/hmbq0pz/-/index.html Had a run-in earlier Thursday with the American Ambassador’s security goons. 2011-04-21T16:14:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1146998/-/hmd3oez/-/index.html I spent a good chunk of my Sunday morning glued to the small screen. No, it wasn’t the Uhuru Kenyatta-William Ruto tag team at a highly-charged ‘‘prayer rally’’ devoted to violent epithets. 2011-04-18T17:11:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/+Dont+use+IDPs+as+bait+in+your+political+wars++/-/446672/1142778/-/59sdt5/-/index.html You have to give the devil his due. Mr Uhuru Kenyatta and Mr William Ruto have done a sterling job milking political capital out of accusations they face of crimes against humanity, including murder, rape and other sexual violations, forcible displacement of people, persecution and other inhumane acts. 2011-04-11T17:05:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Who+WIll+put+genie+of+ethnic+hatred+back+into+the+bottle/-/446672/1138704/-/12f1i80/-/index.html The Hague-bound duo Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto might just feel they are justified to reply in kind to the invective they have endured 2011-04-04T15:49:21Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1134666/-/hn13n5z/-/index.html As the Uhuru Kenyatta-William Ruto roadshow goes gallivanting all over the place ahead of a starring role at The Hague courtroom drama, I am becoming more and more convinced that the whole show is scripted and directed by none other than one Daniel arap Moi. 2011-03-28T16:02:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Ocampo+Six+cant+afford+to+become+global+pariahs++/-/446672/1130384/-/13q408nz/-/index.html Parliament reopens on Tuesday with a crowded reform agenda likely to be derailed by bitter divisions over the fate of the so-called Ocampo Six. 2011-03-21T16:34:39Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Letters+to+the+UN+and+Hague+a+national+disgrace+/-/446672/1124964/-/d2kbwyz/-/index.html The letter from Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s ODM to the UN Security Council on the so-called Ocampo Six is not surprising. 2011-03-14T16:02:43Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Move+may+shift+political+alliances+ahead+of+2012+polls+/-/446672/1122236/-/5o9r5ez/-/index.html The moment the International Criminal Court made its decision to Summon the six suspected authors of Kenya’s post election violence 2011-03-09T18:15:45Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Kenyans+woke+up+to+good+news+this+morning+/-/446672/1120704/-/7kitw8/-/index.html Only the blind who do not see and the deaf who do not hear can fail to appreciate the tremendous efforts the government has made in ensuring that all those who became internal refugees out of the post-election violence are now living securely with roofs over their heads, land to till, and no fear of hostile neighbours. 2011-03-07T16:13:57Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1116464/-/ho7tdez/-/index.html It was joy for some and heartache for others yesterday with that annual ritual of national school-leaving examination results. 2011-02-28T17:10:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1112210/-/hoancjz/-/index.html One of my enduring memories of President Jomo Kenyatta was the earthy and undoubtedly risqué language he often employed at public gatherings. 2011-02-21T16:35:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Muthaura+should+thank+God+for+his+enemies/-/446672/1107452/-/15ktbuj/-/index.html I almost felt sorry for Mr Francis Muthaura. Last week, the head of the Public Service and Secretary to the Cabinet cut a hapless and rather bewildered figure trying to extricate himself from a damaging voice recording that caught him saying pretty interesting things. 2011-02-14T16:15:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Egos+take+precedence+over+national+good+/-/446672/1103286/-/2ngrqlz/-/index.html House Speaker Kenneth Marende threw the two coalition principals a lifeline of sorts last week, but President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga have rejected the helping hand. 2011-02-07T17:06:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Why+nominees+should+decline+Kibakis+nomination+/-/446672/1099126/-/10fxmkz/-/index.html By standing down as Mr William Ruto’s lawyer in the Sh96 million fraud case, Mr Kioko Kilukumi has done the right thing. 2011-01-31T15:54:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1095152/-/i3e0n4z/-/index.html Helping put together that Daily Nation package last week on the Lang’ata Road police execution of suspected criminals, I anticipated howls of outrage once those photographs were shown to the world. 2011-01-24T16:34:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1091244/-/i3gr66z/-/index.html Parliament resumes on Tueday after a shortened ‘winter’ break. 2011-01-17T16:04:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1087290/-/i3y515z/-/index.html A Nairobi magistrate on Monday fined some 25 people a total of Sh890,000 or six months in jail each for drinking or selling alcohol outside the stipulated hours. 2011-01-10T15:57:43Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1079436/-/i4j8ucz/-/index.html Samuel Johnson was right. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. I would add the call to sovereignty is born out of hubris. 2010-12-27T15:13:33Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1075756/-/i4lxpvz/-/index.html I would want anybody who imagined, encompassed, devised, invented or intended the savage death and displacement of Kenyans to face the full force of the law. 2010-12-20T15:42:36Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Kenya+leaks+its+own+diplomatic+cables+/-/446672/1071860/-/1x6lv5z/-/index.html President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga held a private meeting late into the night on the eve of Jamhuri Day to craft a response to the damaging gossip and rumours spread by US ambassador Michael Ranneberger through whistle-blower website, Wikileaks. 2010-12-13T15:35:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1067662/-/i574qjz/-/index.html This short missive is just to assure you that everything is under control at this end. 2010-12-06T18:48:24Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Mr+PM+the+Bill+of+Rights+covers+gay+Kenyans+too+/-/446672/1062652/-/svsbwe/-/index.html Kenyan politicians out to deflect attention have perfected a time-honoured diversionary tactic. When facing problems after being caught with their hands in the till, it is always about “our people are being finished”. 2010-11-29T16:47:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1058514/-/i5s08iz/-/index.html Japan’s Justice minister is resigning. Resigning, mark you, not merely stepping aside. 2010-11-22T15:24:33Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Secrecy+should+not+cover+up+theft/-/446672/1054246/-/245wmh/-/index.html It is not every day that we see our military top brass submitting themselves to civilian authorit 2010-11-15T17:10:43Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1049620/-/i6dt0fz/-/index.html Suspended Cabinet minister William Ruto came home on Monday to a hero’s welcome and declared himself satisfied with the outcome of his meeting with International Criminal Court prosecutors at The Hague. 2010-11-08T17:13:47Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/CCM+could+be+facing+fate+of+Kanu/-/446672/1044734/-/mo1xqk/-/index.html I hopped into a dala dala on Saturday night. 2010-11-01T15:30:48Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Yes++school+quotas+reduced+us+all+to+villagers/-/446672/1040078/-/gkyhuc/-/index.html A week ago today, duty elsewhere made me miss Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s function on the eve of Mashujaa Day at Nairobi’s Lenana School. 2010-10-25T15:54:14Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Ruto+will+survive+because+this+is+a+government+that+sees/-/446672/1035616/-/tcggu1z/-/index.html "He is claiming that the criminal charges are politically motivated, offering his defence in the public forum instead of waiting to have his day in court." 2010-10-18T16:08:15Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Back+tough+action+on+rot+in+football/-/446672/1030736/-/r8dxor/-/index.html If exactly a week ago you’d asked Kenyan soccer fans their opinions, the response would have been unanimous: 2010-10-11T16:03:21Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1026060/-/i7o4crz/-/index.html The death of Akuku Danger – the nonagenarian who boasts to have successfully managed a happy family of 100-plus wives and an entire clan of children and grandchildren – has not surprisingly sparked an intense debate. 2010-10-04T16:34:13Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1019186/-/i88jg6z/-/index.html Martha Karua is one of my favourite politicians. She brings a combination of spunk, guts and intelligence rare in the Kenyan political theatre. 2010-09-27T15:53:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446672/1014728/-/i8bvhjz/-/index.html Voters in Juja, Starehe and Makadara constituencies were still queuing to cast their ballots as I started hitting the keyboard. 2010-09-20T15:49:31Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/We+should+make+devolution+work/-/446672/1010118/-/v62ky/-/index.html One is neat, polite, orderly. The other is loud and totally chaotic. That is the main difference between the main bus terminal at Ubungo in Dar es Salaam, and the wild din that is Nairobi’s ‘‘Machakos Airport’’. 2010-09-13T16:35:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/The+Kenyan+was+under+counted+/-/446672/1005014/-/s04jk7/-/index.html The fellows who did the national population census conned us. The census was rigged against my community, so it should be scrapped so that we all can be counted afresh. 2010-09-06T16:57:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Party+to+beat+all+parties+hardly+lived+up+to+its+billing+/-/446672/999846/-/viu8ky/-/index.html The starters included cucumber yoghurt and dill salad, followed by roasted pumpkin and ginger soup. 2010-08-30T16:26:58Z