/oped/Cutting+Edge/-/440802/440802/-/14rbu09/-/index.html http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1412686/-/11um1lfz/-/index.html Eldoret North MP William Ruto’s suggestion that his URP should be given a share of the ODM nominees to the East African 2012-05-24T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1412052/-/12o29du/-/index.html The Kenya Urban Roads Authority must do better than the small storm drains being constructed 2012-05-23T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1411234/-/11umt6wz/-/index.html Following the recent fatal grenade attack at Bella Vista nightclub in Mombasa, Terewa Buhere 2012-05-22T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1410430/-/14cq2u6z/-/index.html hile commending Murang’a Municipal Council for improving sanitation and general cleanliness 2012-05-21T14:58:46Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1409786/-/14d6adyz/-/index.html Kenya Power is right now not in the good books of Nyeri Town resident Martin Njoki, who has a grouse over what he calls their “billing inconsistencies” 2012-05-20T14:40:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge/-/440802/1409340/-/ni4jw2/-/index.html With the mushrooming universities in the various towns around the country, Jane Hughes is worried 2012-05-19T14:59:44Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1408706/-/12nk1rg/-/index.html With the putting of final touches on Thika highway continuing, Churchill Amatha is unhappy about a  road behind the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation that has been closed. 2012-05-18T16:55:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1407992/-/11v51iqz/-/index.html As a loyal tax and ratepayer in Nairobi, Mubarak Butt is extremely angry at those responsible 2012-05-17T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/THE+WATCHMAN/-/440802/1407172/-/gxtnjsz/-/index.html Could the Ministry of Health officials or the City Council clarify whether Chandaria Health Centre 2012-05-16T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1406646/-/14d8e8hz/-/index.html The Higher Education Loans Board is not only inefficient, but could also be breaking the law as it seeks to recover loans from past beneficiaries 2012-05-15T17:28:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1405642/-/12nhx4w/-/index.html Parliament may have finally given the nod last week for former Kenya Revenue Authority commissioner Mumo Matemu 2012-05-14T14:00:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1404936/-/14d9pjcz/-/index.html Can the traffic police rein in rogue drivers endangering the lives of other motorists and pedestrians on James Gichuru 2012-05-13T13:57:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge+/-/440802/1404642/-/v5x7nyz/-/index.html Seasoned air travellers these days pack all their valuable items, including laptops, cameras, and mobile phones, in carry-on bag, remarks veteran aviation professional Thomas Kizuri. 2012-05-12T14:20:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1404136/-/14d9vt0z/-/index.html Is it not time the country did away with such graft-prone bodies as the NHIF and NSSF, to which workers must make contributions? 2012-05-11T15:28:31Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1403406/-/14daiugz/-/index.html The people criticising the Meteorological Department over its forecast on this year’s long rainy season are mistaken, says Juma Gwidi. 2012-05-10T16:12:41Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1402638/-/11v8km4z/-/index.html Though the Postal Corporation of Kenya has noted Karen Lang’ata District Association chairman 2012-05-09T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1401926/-/11v97luz/-/index.html The Kenya National Highways Authority is aware that Kangundo road has deteriorated badly 2012-05-08T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1401232/-/14dby06z/-/index.html Whenever the rains begin, Michael Pike reports, many sewer manholes start oozing with the murky water. 2012-05-07T13:44:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1400516/-/14dcl0mz/-/index.html The rains pounding Nairobi have become a nightmare for motorists due to the heavy traffic jams they have had to endure daily on most roads. 2012-05-06T14:49:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge+/-/440802/1400262/-/v6131pz/-/index.html Somebody dug a trench on Enterprise Road in Nairobi’s Industrial Area, near the Jomo Kenyatta Foundation’s gate, to lay cables and just didn’t bother to put back the soil and restore the surface, moans Ashok Dave. 2012-05-05T16:32:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1399486/-/14qp8f9z/-/index.html A public-spirited J. Vohora has been given the cold shoulder by Nairobi Water Company, to which he reported a leaking water pipe, off Thigiri Ridge Road 2012-05-04T10:56:55Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1398896/-/14qptkpz/-/index.html Now that Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi has finally abandoned ODM, Martin Tairo hopes he will take to his new party, UDF, those democratic principles and ideology he had been complaining were missing in his former home. 2012-05-03T15:22:22Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1398166/-/14qq05kz/-/index.html After his Ideos smartphone indicated that it would take him 16 minutes to navigate the 12-km distance between his Chiromo Road office and his home in Nairobi South ‘B’ 2012-05-02T14:18:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1397490/-/129o150z/-/index.html As the country mourns the death of seven young people in freak floods at Hell’s Gate gorge near 2012-05-01T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1396988/-/14qr7gfz/-/index.html Nyahururu-based subscriber Ambrose K. Gathogo is accusing Yu Mobile of sending messages to him 2012-04-30T16:40:44Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/THE+WATCHMAN/-/440802/1396292/-/hce7pnz/-/index.html Do not change Hell’s Gate’s name, please, urges Beatrice Mbogoh, writing from Oxford, UK.  2012-04-29T16:01:30Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1395954/-/129paxhz/-/index.html The skies have opened but the water has for several weeks now been flowing to waste 2012-04-28T17:44:21Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1395176/-/14qs337z/-/index.html Rent-a-president. The suggestion that to avert a looming ethnic conflict, Kenyans should rally behind a presidential candidate either from the minority mzungu or Asian communities may seem ridiculous, but it sounds revolutionary, remarks Alfred Njeru. “The next General Election is like a time bomb, and its fuse is the ethnicity, which we need to defuse. Or we should just invite a competent mzungu or Asian president to oversee our development as we have struck oil,” urges Alfred, whose contact is njerufredd@ymail.com. 2012-04-27T14:34:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1394498/-/129q43az/-/index.html The police officers who brutally broke up an anti-Gema meeting at Limuru allegedly to thwart 2012-04-26T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1393696/-/129wnx7/-/index.html With the rains falling now, power failures are bound to happen due to system hitches, says Phaustin Karani 2012-04-25T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1393050/-/129wj4q/-/index.html Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi’s exit from ODM is good riddance that could 2012-04-24T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1392212/-/129rjhsz/-/index.html The government’s decision to scrap the traffic department is ill-advised, says Nyamu Wambugu 2012-04-23T12:50:46Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1391584/-/14qur78z/-/index.html The rains pounding Nairobi have once again confirmed that the city’s infrastructure is literally held together by paper glue, remarks Daniel Mayabi. 2012-04-22T14:05:50Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1391216/-/14qutpqz/-/index.html With the increasing tribal talk nearly a year before the next General Election, Hassan Kamal is worried that the country could be headed for something worse than the bloody post-2007 poll mayhem. 2012-04-21T14:43:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1390592/-/14qvghkz/-/index.html Those unhappy that pedestrians in Nairobi and other towns have been shunning footbridges over busy roads should go and see the mess up there, then they will understand why, says Janet Kui. 2012-04-20T15:56:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1389714/-/14rbp5gz/-/index.html With the proliferation of groupings mobilised around ethnic lines, tribalism is being cemented in the run-up to the election, warns Abade Kennedy 2012-04-19T13:39:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1389112/-/14rbtu9z/-/index.html Years after the much-touted fibre optic connectivity was ushered in with much fanfare, little has changed 2012-04-18T15:14:48Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1388334/-/12a9vmsz/-/index.html The call for pruning the tree branches protruding into Uhuru Highway 2012-04-17T14:57:55Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1387542/-/14rd5a4z/-/index.html rotate presidency. Ramadhani Wambere is convinced that the solution to the deadly fight for the presidency is to change the Constitution 2012-04-16T13:57:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1386976/-/14rdqdoz/-/index.html The City Council of Nairobi has noted Evans Mburu’s concern about the ‘Ferdinand Waititu for Governor’ graffiti that was recently scrawled on bridges and bypasses on the Thika superhighway, says Omar Abdi 2012-04-15T14:56:44Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge+/-/440802/1386546/-/vk29e7z/-/index.html NSSF needs to quickly style up by embracing the readily available information communication technology instead of asking its contributors to personally visit the headquarters and branches, Elizabeth Kigen says it’s something that is quite easy to do. 2012-04-14T14:46:39Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1386042/-/14rdxikz/-/index.html NCIC boss Mzalendo Kibunjia is literally inciting the Luo and Kisii communities, charges Samwel Oresi Nyagucha 2012-04-13T15:44:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1385130/-/14rem38z/-/index.html After all the excitement that followed the announcement that oil had finally been struck in Turkana, Nyaga wa Mario says he is beginning to have doubts about what many believed was the defining moment in the country’s transition from poverty. 2012-04-12T13:13:04Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1384576/-/12acm8yz/-/index.html Police should quickly investigate the claim that some foreigners have been recruited to assassinate 2012-04-11T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1383938/-/14rftfoz/-/index.html Opening a branch of the National Social Security Fund at Westlands may have been a good idea, but some of the staff are doing absolutely nothing 2012-04-10T18:39:30Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge/-/440802/1383146/-/n3twu2/-/index.html The plan to scrap government-funded research organisations such as Kari and the Tea Research Foundation is ill-advised 2012-04-09T15:08:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1382542/-/14rgluyz/-/index.html National Social Security Fund members wishing to know the status of their contributions are forced to go to the Fund’s headquarters in Nairobi 2012-04-08T14:50:44Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1381400/-/14rhc37z/-/index.html Frustrated about delay in connection of power supply to Munyuini Secondary School in Gatundu South constituency, board of governors member P. Mbugua Ndungu wishes Kenya Power CEO Joseph Njoroge could intervene 2012-04-06T15:53:50Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1380736/-/14rhxy6z/-/index.html Nothing could have surprised Frank Ngige more in this day and age of advanced ICT, especially the Internet, than a tender advertisement in the papers for the airlifting of presidential speeches, he says. 2012-04-05T15:54:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1380026/-/14ri4h9z/-/index.html IT WAS AN OWN GOAL. Prime Minister Raila Odinga, in his characteristic use of popular football analogies to explain political and other situations 2012-04-04T13:57:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1379468/-/14rxb9lz/-/index.html OIL NOT A BLESSING. Those celebrating the discovery of oil in Turkana should hold their horses, Morrison Muleri cautions. 2012-04-03T16:21:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1378740/-/14rxxaez/-/index.html SCULPTURES NEGLECTED. The idea of having a herd of elephants sculptured in scrap metal near the gate to the JKIA 2012-04-02T16:20:18Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1378056/-/14ry3qjz/-/index.html The National Hospital Insurance Fund is not efficient as Benson Makale has found out. 2012-04-01T16:47:09Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge+/-/440802/1377400/-/vkn4uiz/-/index.html The discovery of oil in Turkana should complement other economic activities 2012-03-31T14:02:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1376822/-/14s0b70z/-/index.html Though the discovery of oil in Turkana is good news, Jimford Kebira is warning fellow Kenyans against celebrations. 2012-03-30T15:05:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1375988/-/14s0yk8z/-/index.html The surprise Cabinet reshuffle on Monday in which Mutula Kilonzo was removed 2012-03-29T12:54:24Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1375472/-/14s13ikz/-/index.html fix the gangsters. The gangsters who rip off side-mirrors from moving cars in Nairobi are becoming more brazen and venturing into the city centre from Forest and Chiromo roads where they have been operating with impunity 2012-03-28T15:46:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1374750/-/14s1pj7z/-/index.html The hague is best. Gema’s endorsement of Uhuru Kenyatta for the presidency may seem like a storm in a tea-cup, but it could end up fuelling ethnic divisions 2012-03-27T15:14:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1374050/-/14s1v1ez/-/index.html let the child be. Without rules agreed on by teachers and parents, the learning environment would be a mess, 2012-03-26T14:26:18Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1373508/-/14s2gjhz/-/index.html Safaricom’s Bonga Points customer loyalty scheme has become a source of frustration 2012-03-25T16:37:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge+/-/440802/1373112/-/vkpygmz/-/index.html Could Chief Justice Willy Mutunga, who has pledged reforms at the Judiciary to improve the delivery of justice 2012-03-24T16:08:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1372310/-/14s37ewz/-/index.html There are some really incredible tales about a private school in Kitengela, Kajiado County 2012-03-23T15:32:29Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1371460/-/14s3ut7z/-/index.html There are new signposts installed by the City Council of Kisumu inviting visitors to the lakeside town or bidding them goodbye, which Dave Tumbula finds rather intriguing. 2012-03-22T14:30:26Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1370794/-/14s4hp8z/-/index.html Security professional Sadik M. Makii says he was appalled at the conduct of police officers during the chaos between Gor Mahia and AFC Leopards match at Nyayo National Stadium. 2012-03-21T14:36:50Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1370192/-/14s4mf1z/-/index.html THE CHINESE CONNECTION? Quite depressing, John Mwangi says, has been the news about a resurgence in elephant poaching that has seen many of the animals crudely butchered for their ivory. 2012-03-20T16:27:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1369604/-/14sjsqfz/-/index.html SAVE THE CARVINGS. The extension of the Lang’ata Road dual carriageway from the KWS headquarters gate to the Bomas of Kenya/Magadi Road junction in Nairobi should provide some much-needed relief to motorists, says Shadrack Muli, who is, however, worried about the destruction of some beautiful landscaping, vegetation and animal carvings. 2012-03-19T17:37:10Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1368858/-/12bhug9z/-/index.html Following Kenya Ports Authority’s demolition of the Mitumba slums at Nairobi South ‘C”, Brenda Ambatsa says 2012-03-18T15:32:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge+/-/440802/1368440/-/vl8yc4z/-/index.html Transport Minister Amos Kimunya is just trying to cleverly wriggle out of the plan to ease traffic congestion by phasing out the 14-seater matatus, says Livingstone Sakwa 2012-03-17T14:55:39Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1367680/-/14sl76sz/-/index.html Kilifi resident Tony Gee wishes to differ with Benny Ranjonne, a visitor to Kenya 2012-03-16T12:28:24Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1367000/-/12biq6qz/-/index.html A diehard fan of the once popular Zain/Celtel Africa challenge for universities, Chintan Gohel 2012-03-15T14:13:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1366344/-/14slxxrz/-/index.html DISCIPLINE THESE MPS. How come some MPs cannot see how their utterances could easily plunge the country back into the same kind of mess as witnessed after the disputed presidential election of late 2007? 2012-03-14T13:49:18Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1365574/-/14smlmdz/-/index.html WHY IGNORE KILIFI? Benny Ranjonne, who is visiting Kenya, says he has noted that all the leading radio and TV stations have given the cold shoulder to Kilifi County 2012-03-13T15:02:29Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1364970/-/14sn7stz/-/index.html SAD NEWS. President Kibaki’s surprising suggestion the other day that the coming General Election might be held early next year is bad news indeed 2012-03-12T16:18:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1364264/-/14sndbsz/-/index.html Most of the people who visit the NSSF headquarters in Nairobi daily are retirees chasing their terminal benefits, notes Thomas Yebei 2012-03-11T16:51:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+Cutting+Edge/-/440802/1363196/-/12blhftz/-/index.html After striking employees displayed placards that corrupted the meaning of the state broadcaster 2012-03-10T07:34:55Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1362854/-/14somaaz/-/index.html The most irritating thing to have happened in Nairobi lately is the scrawling of ‘Waititu for Governor’ 2012-03-09T15:15:10Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1362030/-/14sosltz/-/index.html Who has been discharging raw sewage or toxic waste into Kirichwa Kubwa River in Nairobi’s southwestern suburbs 2012-03-08T16:19:44Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1361244/-/14spgc3z/-/index.html The mobile phone money transfer service has become a bit of a joke with many agents 2012-03-07T14:56:26Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1360718/-/14sq1siz/-/index.html Alarming theft. Unless steps are taken immediately to stop the vandals wreaking havoc in Nairobi, the footbridge on Mbagathi Way, near the Nyayo Highrise estate 2012-03-06T15:55:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Cutting+Edge/The+cutting+edge+/-/440802/1359992/-/14t6a2gz/-/index.html WHO IS TELLING THE TRUTH? There is more to the seemingly endless wrangling at the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission than meets the eye 2012-03-05T16:34:37Z