/oped/Opinion/-/440808/440808/-/3jx0lg/-/index.html http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1412690/-/lrmhdxz/-/index.html On March 12, this year, President Kibaki announced that we had discovered oil in the remote poor region 2012-05-24T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/The+Tenth+Parliament+is+impunity+itself/-/440808/1412692/-/14ui6adz/-/index.html The Tenth Parliament risks going down the annals of history as the House of Shame 2012-05-24T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1412912/-/lrmf8lz/-/index.html In this very Kenya, which has 70,000 cops and APs, there are 5,700 officers 2012-05-24T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1412064/-/lrmm68z/-/index.html Recent progress on Tullow Oil’s Ngamia-1 exploration well in Turkana County moved Kenya 2012-05-23T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1412068/-/lrmm64z/-/index.html Two events in the last few days have led us to peek into the future. One was the launch of Mr Uhuru Kenyatta’s 2012-05-23T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1411264/-/lrn9whz/-/index.html In November 2007, I was contracted by a prominent international magazine 2012-05-22T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1411276/-/lrn9vjz/-/index.html Our tea industry is being strangled. The recent ad valorem levy of one per cent is ill-advised 2012-05-22T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Victims+of+injustice+hail+vetting+board+/-/440808/1410440/-/syn1rl/-/index.html My positive reaction to the disqualification of four judges of the Appeal Court stems from my suffering 2012-05-21T15:05:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Espouse+culture+of+open+televised+debates+/-/440808/1410436/-/eo74gj/-/index.html As the country negotiates the last bend towards elections, there have been persistent calls 2012-05-21T15:03:04Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Swearing+by+the+Bible+odious+propaganda+/-/440808/1409798/-/7756m0z/-/index.html An article by a Mr John B. Osoro (DN, May 15) claimed that Murang’a MPs held the Bible aloft and swore allegiance to Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta at a function last month. 2012-05-20T14:56:10Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1409796/-/ls459fz/-/index.html For a country whose Constitution progressively embraces the imperative of dual national citizenship, Kenya’s formal institutions are incredibly timid when it comes to acknowledging the reality and benefits of hybrid ethnic identities. 2012-05-20T14:52:40Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1409794/-/ls459hz/-/index.html I am glad that Charles Onyango-Obbo had the gumption to ask the “elephant-in-the room” question in his report on military actions in Somalia published in the EastAfrican last week 2012-05-20T14:49:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/President+doesnt+have+power+to+appoint+county+commissioners+/-/440808/1409314/-/e9dvj4/-/index.html The appointment of 47 county commissioners by the President has been widely condemned as unconstitutional. 2012-05-19T14:23:57Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Judges+should+be+bold+enough+to+call+looters+to+account+/-/440808/1409312/-/vss63xz/-/index.html The Judges and Magistrates’ Vetting Board, in recommending the removal of four judges a fortnight ago, offered the country at large 2012-05-19T14:22:23Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kenyans+should+answer+the+ethnic+question+/-/440808/1409310/-/46cc41/-/index.html Lately, the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has been in the news discussing the ethnic composition 2012-05-19T14:17:46Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Grenades+make+a+mockery+of+military+heroics+in+Somalia+/-/440808/1409308/-/156ih59z/-/index.html Thabit Jamaldin Yahya, the 30-year-old man held by police over the grenade attack on a Mombasa nightclub on Wednesday, has publicly protested his innocence. 2012-05-19T14:16:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Curry+colleges+recruiting+British+youth/-/440808/1409306/-/t8h56u/-/index.html Everybody knows Britain’s favourite meal is roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Or maybe fish and chips. 2012-05-19T14:15:01Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Forces+supporting+gay+unions+will+carry+the+day+/-/440808/1409302/-/1tpl2y/-/index.html My aunt made a terrible hiss over the phone when she called me on hearing Obama had endorsed gay marriage 2012-05-19T14:00:05Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Prayer+for+a+clean+and+honest+leader+/-/440808/1409300/-/og2vs3z/-/index.html Given our new constitutional dispensation, we Kenyans are now at a more serious junction than we have ever crossed in our 49 years of independence. 2012-05-19T14:00:01Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Big+firms+seem+to+forget+the+very+basics+of+business+/-/440808/1409296/-/v6r30l/-/index.html Picture yourself at one of our many fruit-and-vegetable markets. 2012-05-19T13:59:49Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Githae+stand+on+by+elections+is+untenable+/-/440808/1409294/-/15gq8xiz/-/index.html If you quit the party that sponsored you to Parliament; the party on whose ticket you were elected, then you have to seek a fresh mandate from the electorate. 2012-05-19T13:59:46Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Ngugi+is+right+when+he+says+our+Asians+are+our+very+own+/-/440808/1409292/-/9s8eidz/-/index.html Like Limuru’s “Asians” of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s youth, my “Asians” (the dukawallahs of Awendo) never mixed with their black clientele. 2012-05-19T13:59:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Cheer+up+Kenya+is+doing+far+better+/-/440808/1409290/-/r4xv2wz/-/index.html At breakfast with a group of African journalists a few days ago, the lady from Lesotho suddenly rose from the table to take a call from home. 2012-05-19T13:59:34Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Why+risk+national+catastrophe+for+the+Ocampo+Four/-/440808/1409288/-/nwp3ej/-/index.html Think of Kenya as a big “room.” Well — there’s a big elephant in the “room.” 2012-05-19T13:59:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Lets+strengthen+the+rule+of+law+to+crush+impunity+/-/440808/1409286/-/ib4rps/-/index.html It is widely recognised that a weak rule of law is a threat to the stability of any country, especially those in transition to democracy. 2012-05-19T13:59:15Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Dairy+farmers+unable+to+exploit+market+potential+/-/440808/1409284/-/f27elh/-/index.html Two years ago, the country experienced a milk glut resulting to a situation where customers were given one free packet of milk 2012-05-19T13:59:12Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kibaki+sorely+missing+Muthauras+management+skills++/-/440808/1409280/-/enu8s1z/-/index.html One man’s elderly sagacity, firm hands, calm head, astuteness and rational management of the affairs of the State will be dearly missed. 2012-05-19T13:59:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/You+must+read+paper+to+understand+China+/-/440808/1408720/-/jx6yaez/-/index.html The Chinese are coming. 2012-05-18T16:59:30Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Jangili+is+a+word+borrowed+from+India+/-/440808/1408718/-/kf9op4/-/index.html I have always thought jangili is a Kiswahili word. But Ngugi wa Thiong’o gives me a good idea why the word is not found in the pages of D.V. Perrott’s Essential Swahili Dictionary. 2012-05-18T16:59:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1408716/-/ls4troz/-/index.html The rules of the Supreme Court are meant for legal practitioners. 2012-05-18T16:59:21Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1408714/-/ls4trqz/-/index.html What a shame that the Attorney General succumbed to political pressure to withdraw the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, 2012, from Parliament. 2012-05-18T16:59:16Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/The+poor+dont+feature+in+regimes+plans+/-/440808/1408712/-/52a065z/-/index.html The sight of the expanding skyline of Nairobi or Mombasa would impress any foreign visitor. 2012-05-18T16:59:12Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1408710/-/ls4truz/-/index.html Weighing in on whether people accused of crimes against humanity at the ICC can seek office, Catholic Bishop Philip Sulumeti joined the side that is deliberately misleading Kenyans that only criminal convictions define integrity. 2012-05-18T16:59:08Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1408708/-/ls4tsiz/-/index.html She was born in 1930. The child of poor European immigrants, who married the son of other poor European immigrants. 2012-05-18T16:59:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1408032/-/ls5088z/-/index.html I was called back to the office on Wednesday night to dismantle and remake the Daily Nation because 2012-05-17T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1408006/-/ls50arz/-/index.html Prof Makau Mutua’s piece titled “Rights body has finally stood up for gays and lesbians” 2012-05-17T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kenya+journalists+among+the+best+in+Africa/-/440808/1408010/-/h4l9msz/-/index.html Under normal circumstances, I would have let pass the commentary by Fredrick Ogenga titled 2012-05-17T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Middle+class+drives+development+in+Kenya/-/440808/1407184/-/h7j94n/-/index.html In her article writer Wamuyu Gatheru castigates the middle class for sneering at the 2012-05-16T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1407186/-/ls5nmez/-/index.html A keen-eyed government analyst recently noted that; “If we are not careful, Nairobi could die” 2012-05-16T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1407180/-/ls5nmkz/-/index.html The report by the Kenya National Commission on Realising Sexual and Reproductive 2012-05-16T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Third+World+poverty+rates+falling+rapidly+/-/440808/1406632/-/u483b8/-/index.html We all know the clichés: Is the glass half full or half empty? Is the light in the tunnel the train coming towards you? 2012-05-15T17:19:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1406628/-/ls696jz/-/index.html This year, Kenya will migrate its four million analogue TV viewers to the digital platform. 2012-05-15T17:17:07Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1406626/-/ls696lz/-/index.html I don’t agree with the approach the government has taken in trying to resolve the National Hospital Insurance scandal. 2012-05-15T17:14:39Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1405948/-/ls6v3kz/-/index.html The other day, we were treated to extremely uncivil exchanges between former University of Nairobi colleagues Barrack Muluka and Kibisu Kabatesi 2012-05-14T18:33:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Bringing+ICC+related+cases+to+Africa+makes+sense+/-/440808/1405646/-/eb8wxw/-/index.html Finally, President Kibaki has shown his true colours concerning the International Criminal Court, cases facing four Kenyans. 2012-05-14T14:04:36Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Towards+a+more+inclusive+government+/-/440808/1405644/-/b1wl9bz/-/index.html Among the most offensive and comical events reported in recent days is when some Central Kenya MPs featured prominently in the local dailies holding the Bible in a public rally. 2012-05-14T14:03:14Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Without+a++Pentagon+++can+Raila+make+it++/-/440808/1405024/-/15mw18iz/-/index.html During the disputed presidential elections of 2007, Mr Raila Odinga, then ODM flag-bearer, came close to occupying State House 2012-05-13T15:11:35Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1405020/-/ls737oz/-/index.html Kenya is moving towards another one of those historic junctions that happen only once or twice in a generation. 2012-05-13T15:09:47Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Traffic+congestion+a+result+of+Kenyas+failure+/-/440808/1404950/-/srci0iz/-/index.html Anyone who has sat in Nairobi’s torturous traffic during this rainy season must have wondered whether the city – or Kenya for that matter – has a transport policy. 2012-05-13T13:58:05Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Why+an+off+site+backup+plan+is+a+must+for+firms+/-/440808/1404716/-/9mr8knz/-/index.html We live in unpredictable times. We see many buildings go up in flames and if you have noticed, records and computers are sometimes the first casualties 2012-05-12T17:22:47Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/We+have+lost+a+decade+in+reforming+parastatals++/-/440808/1404712/-/buccg3z/-/index.html Back in 2003, we thought we had put the era of truly horrible state corporations behind us. 2012-05-12T17:19:53Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1404674/-/ls7mokz/-/index.html President Kibaki announced this week that he would not support South Africa’s bid to have her Technology minister Dr Nkosasana Dlamini-Zuma elected chairperson of the African Union Commission 2012-05-12T16:22:41Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Rights+body+has+finally+stood+up+for+gays+and+lesbians+/-/440808/1404672/-/3nygsqz/-/index.html I’ve been pilloried for standing up for gays and lesbians. Tough luck – that won’t stop me. Nor will it drive gay rights activists underground 2012-05-12T16:19:26Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/As+a+voter+Mudavadi+Im+not+impressed+/-/440808/1404670/-/k8pvny/-/index.html Dear Musalia Mudavadi, I have been watching you for the past month and I must say I am not impressed. 2012-05-12T16:13:58Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kibaki+doesnt+owe+any+hopeful+an+endorsement+/-/440808/1404668/-/b44d6mz/-/index.html Why are the supporters of Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka desperately hungering after President Kibaki’s endorsement of their presidential bids? 2012-05-12T16:09:56Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/ICC+Four+must+free+Kenya+for+the+sake+of+peace+/-/440808/1404666/-/n1ctntz/-/index.html As the country prepares for a hotly contested and historic General Election, a number of national confidence building measures must be taken. 2012-05-12T16:06:50Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Matemus+appointment+a+sham+/-/440808/1404664/-/14rtdep/-/index.html Parliament has finally approved Mumo Matemu as director of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). 2012-05-12T15:16:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Integrity+Kenyan+voter+must+not+demand+less+/-/440808/1404662/-/gxuads/-/index.html The concept of integrity in leadership appears to have sprung up overnight in Kenyan discourse and is fast becoming our most treasured new vocabulary. 2012-05-12T15:12:14Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Civil+servants+insurance+saga+has+the+stench+of+fraud+/-/440808/1404660/-/umm45yz/-/index.html The past couple of days have seen the country subjected to yet another disturbing reality show produced and directed from Afya House and the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) board. 2012-05-12T15:07:07Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Has+our+time+come+to+put+a+David+in+State+House/-/440808/1404656/-/1595m1z/-/index.html It would not be too far fetched to imagine that the biggest question in the minds of majority of Kenyans is who our next President will be. 2012-05-12T15:03:46Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1404650/-/ls7mqgz/-/index.html When the history of the role of ethnicity in fostering divisions and conflict in the Kenyan political arena is written, Gazette notice No. 31 of 2012 will prove a handy guide. 2012-05-12T14:44:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1404648/-/ls7mr4z/-/index.html A widely-held view of Prof Anyang’ Nyong’o is that he suffers from insufferable arrogance. 2012-05-12T14:38:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Poverty+of+ideas+is+the+reason+floods+kill+by+the+thousand+/-/440808/1404646/-/6sbid7/-/index.html Africa’s development standstill is most manifest in its extreme poverty of ideas. 2012-05-12T14:34:37Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Obama+takes+a+gamble+on+gay+rights+/-/440808/1404154/-/wwqhnp/-/index.html By endorsing the marriage of same-sex couples this week, he has taken a stand on a subject that’s one of the most controversial in America. 2012-05-11T15:33:24Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1404152/-/ls7qnoz/-/index.html Forget about corruption, which is difficult to prove, as the most likely undoing of the judges being vetted. The real killer is judgment writing. 2012-05-11T15:33:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Nothing+can+be+absolutely+independent+/-/440808/1404150/-/2kumhsz/-/index.html Divorced from its context, the headline a sub-editor gave me here last week was absolute. It said: “No grammatical person can take a conjugated verb”. 2012-05-11T15:33:04Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1404148/-/ls7qoez/-/index.html After careful observation, the kangaroo nature of the International Criminal Court has become apparent for the entire world to see. 2012-05-11T15:32:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Civic+education+an+obstacle+to+real+change+/-/440808/1404146/-/s6p7gbz/-/index.html Politics and civic education have become a disgraceful and wasteful money spinning racket. 2012-05-11T15:32:54Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Making+real+change+requires+constant+vigilance+/-/440808/1404144/-/wbdh1g/-/index.html I was in Tunisia recently as part of my duties as UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association. 2012-05-11T15:32:47Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/How+price+controls+can+trigger+higher+prices+hitting+the+poor++/-/440808/1404142/-/s41pbr/-/index.html The Kenyan Parliament has just passed a new Finance Bill and there is one important piece of good news: interest rates will not be capped. 2012-05-11T15:32:40Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1403412/-/ls8dq1z/-/index.html There is no doubt that a number of judges and magistrates will either be dismissed, found unfit, or retired at the conclusion of the vetting process. 2012-05-10T16:16:40Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1403410/-/ls8dq3z/-/index.html I have keenly read through the Determination of the Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board on Judges Riaga Omollo, Emmanuel O’Kubasu, Samuel Bosire, Joseph Nyamu and the dissenting determination of three out of the nine members on Mr Justice Alnasir Visram, and what stands out is the applicability of double standards. 2012-05-10T16:16:34Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1402752/-/ls90laz/-/index.html The 22nd World Economic Forum (WEF) is meeting in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa 2012-05-09T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1402758/-/ls90l4z/-/index.html I will not apologise for beginning this article by demolishing two potentially misleading 2012-05-09T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/The+law+allows+secession+but+try+it+and+see/-/440808/1402762/-/h5q0irz/-/index.html I reject the argument that because Article 2(6) of the Constitution gives ratified treaties the force of statute 2012-05-09T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1401934/-/ls9ne9z/-/index.html Right from the beginning of his term, Mr Nicolas Sarkozy rubbed the collective French and African 2012-05-08T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Plea+for+help+by+the+poor+no+joking+matter/-/440808/1401936/-/14k0ykcz/-/index.html A callous idea – that poor Kenyans must reduce their expectations of government – is gaining 2012-05-08T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Who+will+make+the+city+council+deliver/-/440808/1401300/-/9f5xdj/-/index.html As the dust raised by the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report on the City Council of Nairobi settles 2012-05-07T15:31:10Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1401296/-/ls9sq3z/-/index.html Educationists agree that three factors influence the quality of students that graduate from institutions of higher learning. 2012-05-07T15:25:57Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1400508/-/lsafwsz/-/index.html I recently participated in a meeting organised by members of the Kenyan diaspora in the United States to discuss the ways in which they can participate in Kenya’s political and economic agenda. 2012-05-06T14:42:29Z