/oped/Opinion/-/440808/440808/-/3jx0lg/-/index.html http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/The+reason+I+prefer+Kilonzo+to+Kalonzo/-/440808/1324976/-/wleutcz/-/index.html What a difference one vowel makes. One is “Kilonzo” and the other “Kalonzo.” 2012-02-11T17:15:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Our+new+look+judiciary+is+the+best+lets+embrace+it+/-/440808/1324972/-/cpcgko/-/index.html Kenyans should celebrate and embrace the new judiciary instead of complaining that the courts have gone too far. 2012-02-11T17:12:39Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Can+we+really+handle+the+democracy+we+all+swear+by/-/440808/1324966/-/opg2gb/-/index.html We Kenyans are a funny lot. In fact we have very peculiar habits. In our politics too we are peculiar. 2012-02-11T17:11:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/ODM+may+never+be+the+same+again+/-/440808/1324964/-/4borw6z/-/index.html The decision by Musalia Mudavadi to launch an aggressive campaign for the ODM ticket for presidency has caused some interesting reactions within and without the party. 2012-02-11T17:09:49Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Where+is+the+sense+in+lawyers+going+on+strike/-/440808/1324960/-/lp7j1kz/-/index.html The Constitution has been an unimaginable boon for workers. That is beyond dispute. 2012-02-11T17:07:18Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Will+the+Lands+ministry+deliver+or+abort+reforms/-/440808/1324956/-/96ma58z/-/index.html I had kept away from writing on land or land reforms since some time last year. 2012-02-11T17:03:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/The+change+promised+under+new+order+is+almost+with+us+/-/440808/1324952/-/3in0adz/-/index.html The change Kenyans have been yearning for has to be the transformation from a government-centred operation to a people-focused 2012-02-11T17:01:12Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/ODM+must+pass+internal+democracy+test+/-/440808/1324950/-/y6h1anz/-/index.html The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) must not only preach about the absolute necessity for internal party democracy, but must absolutely practise internal democracy. 2012-02-11T16:59:41Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Address+root+of+societal+rot+rather+than+symptoms+/-/440808/1324944/-/cj8e2c/-/index.html The proposal by the Nairobi City Council to license prostitution is an indication of the level of moral rot in our society and a clear sign that some leaders have resigned to its fate, which is unacceptable. 2012-02-11T16:53:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/A+rule+of+life+If+its+free+its+very+expensive+/-/440808/1324940/-/qg8txq/-/index.html People everywhere love freebies. If it is “free”, we want it. And we want lots of it. 2012-02-11T16:50:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Time+to+implement+the+health+task+force+report+/-/440808/1324938/-/ob9i7cz/-/index.html At the height of the doctors’ strike last December, sceptical observers wondered whether doctors would be willing to go back to work if nothing but their pay demands were met. 2012-02-11T16:46:58Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Police+wage+war+against+the+two+minute+burglar+/-/440808/1324910/-/n0vuj3z/-/index.html A house in Britain is burgled every two minutes, but capturing the burglar is not easy. 2012-02-11T16:23:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Deluge+of+online+data+a+recipe+for+burnout+/-/440808/1324898/-/we5btm/-/index.html Sometimes, the web can be very aptly named. Before you know it, you are caught in it, stuck on an endless treadmill of barrage of tweets, 2012-02-11T16:15:19Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Mutula+a+prophet+of+both+the+letter+and+spirit+of+law+/-/440808/1324852/-/q89cvgz/-/index.html John Whyatt was a legalist if ever there was one. Serving as Kenya’s Attorney-General (AG) during the Mau Mau confrontations, he frustrated Governor Evelyn Baring 2012-02-11T15:35:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/I+dont+see+a+happy+ending+in+the+Raila+and+Mudavadi+battle/-/440808/1324836/-/ujfb13z/-/index.html Musalia Mudavadi is belatedly learning that nothing comes on a silver platter, but the price is steep indeed for ODM. 2012-02-11T15:23:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/South+Africa+should+head+the+AU/-/440808/1324824/-/lfxj7i/-/index.html One year on, the revisions are flowing in. It is always difficult to predict how a war will turn out, but Libya was a disaster foretold. 2012-02-11T15:13:02Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/No+one+should+face+more+than+one+case+at+the+same+time+/-/440808/1324122/-/15xum5/-/index.html It is now official. No one should be subjected to “multiple concurrent legal processes,” 2012-02-10T12:18:48Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/We+should+reject+nepotism+in+leadership+/-/440808/1324118/-/ljnxi/-/index.html The sight of ODM legislators grovelling and imploring President Kibaki to declare ‘Raila Tosha’ was both embarrassing and ill-conceived. 2012-02-10T12:16:14Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/The+media+is+reluctant+to+report+on+full+content+/-/440808/1324114/-/669wywz/-/index.html A friend of mine attended the Ruiru prayer-cum-political rally of January 28, 2012, held ostensibly to pray for the “Ekaterina 4”, following the confirmation of charges, transforming them from suspects to accused persons on some of the most serious crimes imaginable, including crimes against humanity and forced displacement. 2012-02-10T12:13:12Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Economics+For+Everyone+Development+Discourse+/-/440808/1324108/-/twxp2cz/-/index.html The scene repeats itself daily. At a remote border crossing between two east African countries, a woman carrying an impossibly-heavy load of eggs on her back is harassed — or worse — by custom officials. 2012-02-10T12:06:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Sex+work+must+never+be+carried+out+in+the+open+we+are+Kenyans+/-/440808/1324050/-/hni944z/-/index.html Someone needs to check what Nairobi Mayor George Aladwa has been taking. 2012-02-10T11:20:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/So+much+to+learn+about+business+in+the+slums+/-/440808/1324048/-/mjr8g5z/-/index.html For many years, I’ve spent part of my summers volunteering in a medical clinic deep in the slums of San Salvador, El Salvador. 2012-02-10T11:20:36Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Writers+are++not+responsible+for+headlines+/-/440808/1324046/-/11xaok4/-/index.html Talking of sub-editors, one recently gave me the headline: “Thank God, I am an atheist”. Even I was a tad puzzled. 2012-02-10T11:20:24Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Contracts+will+entrench+accountability+/-/440808/1323394/-/t4m158/-/index.html It seems that whenever performance contracting is mentioned, a chill runs down the spines of teachers in public schools. 2012-02-09T13:07:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Our+future+lies+in+integrating+economic+concerns++/-/440808/1323392/-/4heo9t/-/index.html The world is on an unsustainable path, and must urgently chart a new course forward 2012-02-09T13:05:33Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Do+not+allow+loopholes+to+trip+civil+servants/-/440808/1322760/-/9qdkhn/-/index.html Access to quality health care is an important goal for the Ministry of Health. 2012-02-08T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Parties+can+easily+avoid+election+tensions+/-/440808/1322770/-/6u491v/-/index.html The history of the Kenyan political party has been that of an institution with one powerful individual at the top, with insignificant commoners making up its body. 2012-02-08T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Somalia+seems+ripe+for+the+picking/-/440808/1322912/-/bairckz/-/index.html On February 23 something very important for East Africa, and indeed all of Africa, will happen in London. 2012-02-08T15:51:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/New+partnership+heralds+fresh+hope+for+victims/-/440808/1321966/-/sku9h8/-/index.html Although much of the world has never heard of diseases like lymphatic filariasis or schistosomiasis, these and other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a daily reality for many living in Africa and across the world. 2012-02-07T14:01:02Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Say+no+to+land+related+election+violence+/-/440808/1321944/-/9jo1wq/-/index.html We had ethnic clashes in Kenya in 1992, 1997, and 2002 and tension in 2005. 2012-02-07T13:42:50Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Its+polls+season+again/-/440808/1321488/-/k4ha1cz/-/index.html The silly season is upon us. Premature campaigns for a General Election that has not even been called are already in full swing. 2012-02-06T16:46:29Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Proposal+to+control+interest+rates+is+a+simplistic+solution/-/440808/1321364/-/v5v2s6z/-/index.html Parliament intends to, once again, introduce interest rate controls. Unlike the Donde Bill of 2000, the latest proposed legislation has not attracted much attention from the public. 2012-02-06T14:40:45Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Taskforce+should+have+consulted+experts+/-/440808/1321362/-/oaisfoz/-/index.html Kenya could face disaster if the recommendations of the taskforce on the realignment of the education sector to the new Constitution are implemented. 2012-02-06T14:34:07Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Total+fiction+ethnicity+and+the+Diaspora+/-/440808/1320728/-/13w67sx/-/index.html A friend alerted me to the fact that I had been adversely mentioned in a column by Rasna Warah (DN, January 23). 2012-02-05T14:42:58Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Why+is+famine+the+only+story+worth+telling/-/440808/1320718/-/s6ijcy/-/index.html Six months after declaring the famine in Somalia as one of “biblical proportions”, the United Nations has now said that Somalia is a famine-free area, but that nearly a third of the country’s people are still “in crisis”. 2012-02-05T14:27:55Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/+Kenyans+desperately+need+issue+focused+election+campaigns/-/440808/1320708/-/j3y220/-/index.html This year seems to be one of drama and Kenyans needs to brace themselves for a circus when politicking takes centre-stage. 2012-02-05T14:11:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kenyatta+agreement+at+heart+of+MRC+rebellion+/-/440808/1320450/-/214xlp/-/index.html To understand the origin of the land problems at the Coast, one must take a historical perspective. 2012-02-04T18:31:46Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Destructive+fifth+column+that+crawls+out+every+election+year++/-/440808/1320444/-/8nvwtl/-/index.html Every election year since the reintroduction of multi-party politics in 1992, a mysterious group emerges 2012-02-04T18:29:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Change+will+come+after+leaders+feel+the+pain+/-/440808/1320402/-/1052u1bz/-/index.html A drive on one of Kenya’s highways is, we can all agree, a hair-raising experience. 2012-02-04T17:48:48Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Its+a+pity+Kenyans+value+the+rich/-/440808/1320372/-/hqjrxvz/-/index.html Last Sunday I read with keen interest an article on Jaramogi Oginga Odinga’s story of Independence by Murithi Mutiga. 2012-02-04T16:51:44Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Devolution+Bill+offers+old+school+leadership+a+reality+check+/-/440808/1320364/-/i7lpyaz/-/index.html At long last, the County Governments Bill is ready for Parliament. This is the document that concretises devolution and gives us a picture of how a devolved government will work in general and what the county government will look like in particular. 2012-02-04T16:39:07Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Sub+judice+rule+flies+in+the+face+of+freedom+of+expression+/-/440808/1320360/-/3uei8z/-/index.html The recent ruling by Justice Isaack Lenaola barring public discussions on whether Mr Uhuru Kenyatta and Mr William Ruto should vie for the presidency after charges of crimes against humanity were confirmed by the ICC demonstrates how old legal rules can undermine the rights and fundamental freedoms as provided for in our robust Bill of Rights. 2012-02-04T16:30:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Political+opportunism+belittle+ICC+process+/-/440808/1320350/-/72uk1z/-/index.html The confirmation of charges against Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto at The Hague is complicating the conduct of Kenyan politics more than some of us were originally willing to admit. 2012-02-04T16:17:45Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Is+AG+suspended+between+the+new+and+old+order/-/440808/1320338/-/bbla5b/-/index.html Prof Githu Muigai is a distinguished scholar with a lot of “intellectual juice”. 2012-02-04T16:08:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Police+need+to+recognise+that+the+poor+are+human+/-/440808/1320330/-/15i007mz/-/index.html Since the International Criminal Court let Kenya’s former police boss off the hook last month, the country’s officers seem to have regained their moxie to dehumanise citizens. 2012-02-04T16:01:51Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Attorney+General+must+move+fast+to+bring+change+/-/440808/1320326/-/4e225o/-/index.html The State Law Office and the Attorney-General’s chambers seem to be undergoing some profound change that seems to disturb the status quo and its natural beneficiaries. 2012-02-04T15:52:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Do+not+light+a+lamp+and+hide+it+under+a+bushel+/-/440808/1320322/-/784b80/-/index.html Permit me to continue, as promised, with a look at who is who in the upcoming presidential election. 2012-02-04T15:44:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Councils+of+elders+pose+a+threat+to+democracy+/-/440808/1320314/-/2bg121z/-/index.html Amorphous groups calling themselves “councils of elders” habitually gain prominence in election years in Kenya. 2012-02-04T15:37:45Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Mudavadi+as+the+star+of+political+transfer+gossip+/-/440808/1320306/-/853ofv/-/index.html The January transfer window in English football closed last week without the excitement normally associated with big money signings. 2012-02-04T15:30:43Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Would+I+lie+to+you+Of+course+why+not/-/440808/1320290/-/150pbpmz/-/index.html In a survey that should surprise no-one, Prof Paul Whiteley announced last week that we Brits are less honest than we were 10 years ago, young people are less honest than older people and men are less honest than women. 2012-02-04T15:20:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kiyiapi+a+good+bet+to+replace+the+old+Nyayo+order+/-/440808/1320222/-/ikvm4q/-/index.html James ole Kiyiapi and William ole Ntimama carry themselves like true Nilotic royalty of yore. 2012-02-04T14:34:21Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/New+institutions+should+be+loyal+to+the+Constitution+/-/440808/1320214/-/q88spk/-/index.html The last one year has witnessed unprecedented growth of new institutions while the face of some of the older ones has changed. 2012-02-04T14:27:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Raila+Mudavadi+battle+could+strengthen+ODM/-/440808/1320208/-/kca03mz/-/index.html The battle between Raila Odinga and Musalia Mudavadi for the ODM presidential ticket––which could prove to be the political story of 2012––will end in one of two ways. 2012-02-04T14:14:55Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Create+a+level+playing+field+if++devolution+is+to+be+successful+/-/440808/1319546/-/4d2ifrz/-/index.html Throughout the many slums of this world, poor children are dreaming of becoming football stars and playing at the World Cup. 2012-02-03T13:58:05Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/ICC+is+not+a+kangaroo+court+/-/440808/1319528/-/11je1l1/-/index.html In his statement following the confirmation of charges against the “Ekaterina 4” President Kibaki stressed that Kenya had made progress in rehabilitating its criminal justice system, emphasising that we have a new Chief Justice, a Director of Public Prosecutions, and that a process of reforming the police force was underway. 2012-02-03T13:55:40Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Politicians+now+hijacking+Gods+houses+/-/440808/1319518/-/myy249z/-/index.html I am constantly asked how I would react if a gang of politicians and a heavy duty media team arrived unannounced 2012-02-03T13:53:57Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Uhuru+resignation+from+DPM+post+would+result+in+chaos+and+riots+/-/440808/1319514/-/v4lt6lz/-/index.html Calls for Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta to resign are both mischievous and misplaced. 2012-02-03T13:50:51Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Next+time+you+want+to+blast+someone+on+Twitter+think+again/-/440808/1319512/-/1wftq6/-/index.html Many people believe they can, with impunity, defame, malign, and vilify anybody on Twitter, Facebook 2012-02-03T13:48:47Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Typos+can+also+be+described+as+slips+of+the+finger+/-/440808/1319510/-/kdrb57/-/index.html According to a letter in another title of the Nation Media Group recently, if — especially in a column by Philip Ochieng — a word which should be “invariable” appears instead as “unvariable”, it can only be a coinage (by me). It can be nothing else. 2012-02-03T13:47:12Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Terror+attacks+in+your+home+cant+be+tolerated++/-/440808/1319502/-/onvhj0z/-/index.html The Kenyan military action inside Somalia must receive stronger national support to succeed. 2012-02-03T13:40:01Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Flawed+vetting+caused+the+Baraza+fiasco+/-/440808/1318730/-/rlqv8dz/-/index.html As we debate the case of Mrs Rebecca Kerubo versus Deputy Chief Justice Nancy Baraza, we must remember that without justice, there is no equality, freedom or love. 2012-02-02T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/All+teachers+in+public+schools+should+be+bound/-/440808/1318728/-/clcf8bz/-/index.html The release of the KCPE examination results late last year witnessed high drama manifested in some parents attacking teachers perceived to be underperforming. 2012-02-02T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Why+is+there+no+passion+to+punish+all+who+killed/-/440808/1318726/-/6yawmiz/-/index.html I was surprised, and amused in equal measure, by the divergent reactions to confirmation of charges against the four top Kenyans by ICC judges some days ago. 2012-02-02T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/ICC+ruling+amounted+to+politicising+justice/-/440808/1318110/-/y983amz/-/index.html The International Criminal Court was founded with the sole purpose of ending impunity by perpetrators of international crimes under the Rome Statute. 2012-02-01T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Bring+our+soldiers+in+Somalia+back+home+/-/440808/1318114/-/j30nb7/-/index.html We have bombed them, whacked them and clobbered them. 2012-02-01T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/If+Uhuru+and+Ruto+run+for+president+Kenya+wins/-/440808/1318104/-/bhpa39z/-/index.html After the International Criminal Criminal ruled that four of the “Ocampo Six” should stand trial for crimes against humanity, there have been calls that Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and former minister William Ruto should abandon their presidential bids. 2012-02-01T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/This+is+how+to+avoid+future+electoral+crisis+/-/440808/1317638/-/w10x3qz/-/index.html The International Criminal Court has finally confirmed four of the six cases the prosecutor submitted to the pre-trial chamber, ending the anxiety that had gripped the country since the process began last year. 2012-01-31T17:34:15Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Ida+is+mistaken/-/440808/1317590/-/10qnx2y/-/index.html The suggestion by Mrs Ida Odinga that Kenyan judges are better placed to try the Ocampo Four than ICC judges because they understand their people better is wrong for four reasons. 2012-01-31T17:01:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Uhuru+will+be+a+cross+between+an+IDP+and+a+squatter+/-/440808/1316906/-/6y9m07/-/index.html Mr Uhuru Kenyatta is now Deputy Prime Minister without portfolio. It cannot be fun holding high office without a desk or a chair to work from. 2012-01-30T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Eurozone+crisis+should+be+a+lesson+to+EU+/-/440808/1316734/-/lej0v1/-/index.html The East African Community team tasked with negotiating the monetary union protocol has done a commendable job. 2012-01-30T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/+Baraza+is+about+to+have+an+encounter+with+history/-/440808/1316732/-/juu2jw/-/index.html Whatever the recommendations of the tribunal that has been established to investigate her conduct, suspended Deputy Chief Justice Nancy Baraza will live to regret the events of December 31, last year, for the rest of her life. 2012-01-30T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/It+is+time+to+focus+on+post+election+violence+victims/-/440808/1316060/-/j5llse/-/index.html Now that Mr Uhuru Kenyatta and Mr Francis Muthaura have resigned from their posts, it is about time the government focused its attention on the real victims of the post-election violence of 2007/8. 2012-01-29T14:51:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/These+two+have+no+business+in+public+office+/-/440808/1316052/-/8kj066z/-/index.html I congratulate Mr Uhuru Kenyatta and Mr Francis Muthaura for quitting office over their cases at the International Criminal Court. 2012-01-29T14:45:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Uhuru+and+Muthaura+didnt+have+to+quit+jobs+/-/440808/1316038/-/yxq0k6z/-/index.html The decision by Mr Uhuru Kenyatta to step aside from his position as the minister for Finance, and Mr Francis Muthaura to relinquish his role as Head of the Civil Service, have followed days of fierce criticism 2012-01-29T14:34:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Upholding+quality+nobility+in+unseen+areas+/-/440808/1315800/-/41tnth/-/index.html Looking at Apple’s fourth-quarter 2011 results is enough to boggle the mind. 2012-01-28T18:54:18Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Impunity+ends+as+new+order+restores+honour+to+our+nation+/-/440808/1315738/-/3f8o35z/-/index.html August of 2010 was indeed a true defining moment in the history of our nation. 2012-01-28T17:31:45Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Election+date+Its+time+to+move+country+forward+/-/440808/1315730/-/bbio5lz/-/index.html On January 13, 2012, Justice Isaac Lenaola, Lady Justice Mumbi Ngugi and Justice David Majanja delivered a historic judgment on three consolidated petitions on the date of the next General Election. 2012-01-28T17:21:50Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Pay+heed+to+the+divisive+potential+of+ICC+ruling+/-/440808/1315716/-/ok165ez/-/index.html The Monday, January 23 ruling by Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court that four of the so-called Ocampo Six will proceed to trial on charges of crimes committed during the post-2007 election violence has not taught some of the country’s political leaders any lessons. 2012-01-28T17:11:07Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/A+free+trade+road+map+for+Africa/-/440808/1315698/-/2msn1uz/-/index.html The heads of state meeting of the African Union in Addis Ababa this weekend is set to launch an initiative creating a Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) by the year 2017. 2012-01-28T17:00:23Z