/oped/Opinion/-/440808/440808/-/3jx0lg/-/index.html http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/At-least-Kiplagat-team-provided-for-reparations/-/440808/1862942/-/sbu307/-/index.html At long last, the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission has issued its report, bringing an end to four years of mostly a frustrating project to shed light on Kenya’s historical injustice 2013-05-25T17:02:52Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Why-ICC-is-repelling-Africa/-/440808/1862938/-/k60i8h/-/index.html A recent resolution by the African Union calling on The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) to refer the Kenyan cases back to the country has apparently put the Court on the path of a furious tornado of resurgent pan-Africanism 2013-05-25T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Are-Kenyans-prepared-for-TJRC-report/-/440808/1862676/-/oq5r7x/-/index.html When I joined in the agitation for the establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission, I also argued that truth does not unite or reconcile 2013-05-25T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Fond-memories-of-Carey-Francis/-/440808/1862748/-/cboba2/-/index.html We, Luo students at Alliance High School, privately knew Edward Carey Francis only as Okaro. By that corruption of our headmaster’s middle name, we brought it into line with Luo naming 2013-05-25T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kenya-would-be-better-off-without-myth-making/-/440808/1862686/-/as6j2z/-/index.html Kenya is a great place for rumours, stereotypes, myth creation and outright lies 2013-05-25T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/UK-joins-in-the-trend-to-okay-gay-unions/-/440808/1862666/-/bpht2s/-/index.html Gaydom has been much in the news lately 2013-05-25T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/German-model-shows-a-more-robust-way/-/440808/1862758/-/y1i90dz/-/index.html On Saturday night, the 2013 UEFA Champions League final was played 2013-05-25T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/ICC-baby-with-Ocampos-dirty-water/-/440808/1862844/-/jrv07h/-/index.html By the time you read this, the African Union will probably have censured the International Criminal Court and possibly set the stage for its members to quit the body 2013-05-25T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Can-we-really-afford-a-bicameral-Parliament/-/440808/1862750/-/owtqhd/-/index.html Status does not necessarily infer power. Nor is seniority synonymous with clout. And vice-versa 2013-05-25T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Why-Kenyans-are-more-divided/-/440808/1862692/-/ekeq8w/-/index.html Something terrible has been happening since Jubilee leaders Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto won the March 4 elections 2013-05-25T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Democratic-gains-appear-to-be-receding/-/440808/1862680/-/il984o/-/index.html An important and largely addressed mystery of the now nearly 25 years of post-Cold War democratisation is what accounts for the increasing evidence that the advance of democratisation has stalled recently or, actually receded 2013-05-25T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Install-a-CCTV-camera-at-home/-/440808/1862760/-/ge4se7z/-/index.html Thanks to ever-expanding options for video surveillance, it’s never been easier to protect your home, business, and personal possessions 2013-05-25T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Medical-negligence-reports-grossly-exaggerated/-/440808/1862670/-/usws5vz/-/index.html Last week, a local newspaper carried a series of stories whose thrust was that medical malpractice was rife in the country and was causing untold suffering and loss of lives in our hospitals 2013-05-25T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Crack-the-whip-on-lavish-spending/-/440808/1862694/-/xgpycv/-/index.html Dear President Kenyatta, you are an RnB-bred teenager of the 70s so you will remember this 1979 song by ‘The Manhattans’ 2013-05-25T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Why-Ugandas-rogue-actions-are-a-danger-to-the-East-Africa/-/440808/1861996/-/14c7vdaz/-/index.html Two developments this week underscored the difficulties that Uganda is going through with regard to its observance of the rule of law. 2013-05-24T16:15:15Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Truth-report-fails-miserably-when-it-comes-to-healing/-/440808/1861994/-/rcw2py/-/index.html Kenyans like talking, and for the next three weeks or so, they will be talking of nothing else but the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation  Commission report, which cannot in any sense be described as explosive. 2013-05-24T16:14:22Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Churches-have-abandoned-social-justice-/-/440808/1861992/-/pvjurlz/-/index.html Last week I met a father of five children struggling to retain them in full time education. In the course of our conversation, Joseph — not his real name — told me he was HIV positive, but since his wife was negative, he always used a condom. 2013-05-24T16:13:31Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Writing-a-new-history-of-Kenya-after-50-years-/-/440808/1861990/-/nlt5qx/-/index.html Until this week, when the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission released its final report, the prospect of beginning a national conversation about Kenya’s past appeared very dim. 2013-05-24T16:12:51Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/With-all-this-pettiness-and-sideshows-in-the-country/-/440808/1861988/-/orsqha/-/index.html In the last week, I have been struck by how unrecognizable Kenya has become. 2013-05-24T16:12:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Knowledge-is-an-attribute-of-human-beings-/-/440808/1861986/-/8ljec0/-/index.html This week’s Eastafrican reports that, last year, “tech-savvy employees stole … Ksh1.5 billion … from Kenyan banks…” How did they pull it off? Of course, by being “tech-savvy”. But what is it to be “tech-savvy”? 2013-05-24T16:11:24Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/The-Judiciary-owes-Kenyans-an-apology-/-/440808/1861984/-/xm9l2fz/-/index.html Judges enjoy immunity from civil liability arising for their judicial actions. Even when they are malicious or incompetent, no lawsuit can be brought against them. 2013-05-24T16:10:48Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Legislators-should-forget-ego-wars-and-do-their-jobs-/-/440808/1861982/-/ehc7dhz/-/index.html The last few days have seen a dispute between senators and members of the National Assembly on the Appropriation Bill following amendments made to that Bill by the Senate after it was passed by the National Assembly. 2013-05-24T16:07:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/With-leaders-like-these-MPs-Kenya-does-not-need-enemies-/-/440808/1861980/-/99sxl6/-/index.html Something sinister is afoot with our “leaders”, and if we are not alert and resist in every way we can, this country will be in big trouble. 2013-05-24T16:06:33Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Are-Kenyan-MPs-worth-the-money--/-/440808/1861978/-/jfo0xa/-/index.html On 14 May, protestors in Nairobi released a sow and a dozen piglets outside parliament to show their anger at legislators’ proposals to increase their already large salaries. 2013-05-24T16:05:58Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Top-diplomat-should-keep-her-eyes-on-the-economic/-/440808/1861976/-/xufeikz/-/index.html The new foreign secretary, Amina Mohamed, is assuming office at a critical period in our country’s history. 2013-05-24T16:04:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1861716/-/ji9ip1z/-/index.html A cold wind is blowing in America. 2013-05-24T12:01:32Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1861062/-/ji9o2wz/-/index.html Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush’s Defence minister, is having a great time puffing his new book, Rumsfeld’s Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War and Life. 2013-05-23T16:44:02Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1861014/-/ji9o7az/-/index.html The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission report that Kenyans have been anxiously waiting for is finally out 2013-05-23T16:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/But-what-of-justice-and-reconciliation/-/440808/1861010/-/1181q7qz/-/index.html Finally, the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation report is out after two years of power struggles in the team that sat, listened and eventually compiled a report on the people’s views before giving its recommendations 2013-05-23T16:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Poll-puts-Nairobi-Mogadishu-ties-at-risk/-/440808/1860246/-/yxbqnk/-/index.html Kenya’s testy and troubled relations with Somalia are once again on the rocks 2013-05-22T20:10:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Heres-a-chance-to-ease-the-misery-of-fistula/-/440808/1859702/-/ihqt16z/-/index.html Kwamboka W. was still in primary school when she had sex with her first boyfriend 2013-05-22T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1859900/-/jipgi4z/-/index.html I was last in Kisumu “City” nearly seven years ago. At that time, I was, how shall I put it, terribly underwhelmed? 2013-05-22T16:02:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1859892/-/jiph2jz/-/index.html The Constituency Development Fund has been overtaken by events and should be abolished, and its functions integrated with the county governments 2013-05-22T15:58:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1858968/-/jiq5nqz/-/index.html At the height of the Iraqi war and before the US government sent more troops there, Jack Kelly, a national security writer for the Post-Gazette of Ohio, wrote 2013-05-21T16:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1858970/-/jiq5n3z/-/index.html It looks like the new administration will not allow an increase in electricity tariffs in the near future. They don’t want to spoil the party in the middle of their honeymoon 2013-05-21T16:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1858938/-/jiq5qez/-/index.html We have recently been treated to an advert by a group called “Catholics for choice”, flooding our print media and a number of strategic bill-boards, listing ‘their opinion’ on what “they” stand for 2013-05-21T16:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/ICC-cases-against-Kenya-leadership-should-be-dropped/-/440808/1858012/-/ii85p7/-/index.html My recent communication to the UN Security Council requesting the cessation of weak cases against Kenyan officials by the International Criminal Court has caused considerable public commentary. 2013-05-20T14:03:40Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Uhuru-should-copy-Gorbachev-De-Klerk/-/440808/1857938/-/e1vcjwz/-/index.html Many Kenyans are probably too young to recall President Mikhail Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union or former President of South Africa, F. W. de Klerk and even former Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin. 2013-05-20T12:46:27Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/End-talk-about-creating-jobs-and-start-manufacturing-goods/-/440808/1857932/-/vn8u1tz/-/index.html If there is anyone out there who still doubts that choices have consequences, someone should take the trouble to remind them that just the other day, British investors took home Sh20 billion in earnings from their investments in Kenya. 2013-05-20T12:41:14Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/New-Cabinet-secretaries-must-inculcate-values/-/440808/1857256/-/brg9nhz/-/index.html Congratulations are in order to the 16 people appointed to serve as Cabinet Secretaries. But there is no time for celebrations; the hard work of transforming the country must start in earnest 2013-05-19T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Outlaw-pornography/-/440808/1857262/-/xuj6a4/-/index.html The arrest of a former UN employee and 11 women in Mombasa on charges of engaging in acts of “bestiality” has created shockwaves across the country 2013-05-19T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Society-should-stop-neglect-of-mental-patients/-/440808/1856658/-/13mq44jz/-/index.html The daring and shocking escape by 40 patients from Mathari mental and referral hospital earlier in the week is a challenge to society to spare a thought on the inconvenient subject of mental health in Kenya 2013-05-18T20:30:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Management-of-universities-a-mockery-of-devolution/-/440808/1856660/-/r313sk/-/index.html Peter Drucker, who is referred to as the father of management, once said, “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” 2013-05-18T20:30:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Screens-dimming-eyes-of-young-users/-/440808/1856504/-/5h37dx/-/index.html With the world gone digital, the use of computers and cell phones is no longer limited to the economically advantaged. Virtually every home has at least one cell phone 2013-05-18T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/They-seek-to-reap-where-they-never-sowed/-/440808/1856468/-/73ldm4z/-/index.html In absolute terms, France is twice as populous as Kenya 2013-05-18T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Men-take-right-to-die-demand-to-court/-/440808/1856486/-/ln3ybd/-/index.html Paul Lamb wants to kill himself, but he is so badly paralysed he would be unable to raise the poison to his lips 2013-05-18T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/We-do-not-take-public-support-for-granted/-/440808/1856484/-/vla2snz/-/index.html Ever since I took my oath of office on June 20, 2011, I have never been under any illusion that winning public confidence is a destination – rather, I believe that it is a continuous journey 2013-05-18T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Vetting-of-Cabinet-nominees-was-a-sham-exercise/-/440808/1856408/-/rkq8rxz/-/index.html What exactly was the reason a parliamentary committee was constituted to vet the President’s nominees to various Cabinet positions? 2013-05-18T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kituyi-must-infuse-UNCTAD-with-intellectual-leadership/-/440808/1856462/-/hi8dyx/-/index.html The way I know Dr Mukhisa Kituyi, this is one informed voice that the international community is unlikely to ignore 2013-05-18T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/I-have-a-gripe-with-Cabinet/-/440808/1856480/-/hst1qmz/-/index.html Though I agree with the general public endorsement of the new Cabinet team, I hold some reservations 2013-05-18T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Vision-2030-wont-happen-without-mass-social-security/-/440808/1856410/-/q21pf6z/-/index.html The other day when the Cabinet secretaries were being sworn in, the President made emphatic reference to the Vision 2030 2013-05-18T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Let-us-not-be-seduced-by-false-consensus/-/440808/1856502/-/6vdn0j/-/index.html The mood was upbeat. Speaker after speaker had highlighted the fact that Kenya is on the move, that the direction is right, that the economic fundamentals are now very attractive 2013-05-18T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Raila-dont-accept-errand-boy-job/-/440808/1856434/-/11pdoyuz/-/index.html Your departure from politics would be a betrayal to men and women of conscience who believe in you 2013-05-18T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Well-deserved-praise-for-Collymore-and-Judge-Mumbi/-/440808/1856414/-/12s0yjoz/-/index.html This column abhors sycophancy and senseless praises 2013-05-18T14:00:29Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Protests-can-be-kept-peaceful-without-riot-gear-and-violence-/-/440808/1855784/-/oa2cy8z/-/index.html I recently spent a few days in Mongolia, attending the Seventh Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies, a voluntary association of governments committed to democracy. 2013-05-17T16:06:07Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Super-cycles-of-goods-and-why-they-matter-/-/440808/1855782/-/hpycqgz/-/index.html The average developing country lives off exporting commodities like oil, gas, copper, cocoa or soybeans. 2013-05-17T16:04:29Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kengen-case-ruling-pushes-State-agencies-to-open-up/-/440808/1855780/-/4qf180z/-/index.html Early this week, the High Court made a decision which went further into expounding the essence and limits of the rights guaranteed in the Constitution. 2013-05-17T16:03:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/When-activists-made-a-pig-of-themselves-/-/440808/1855756/-/jo9djuz/-/index.html The Tuesday demonstration was well-oiled and well-funded. It ended with a bang and was quite a show. 2013-05-17T15:51:11Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Ahmednasir-has-the-guts-and-brains-but-not-the-humility/-/440808/1855752/-/10nqxmgz/-/index.html Senior Counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi is one fine lawyer and he knows it. He is brilliant and, in some likeable way, overbearingly loud about it. This, for me, indicates that he is confident about who he is and what he knows. 2013-05-17T15:50:24Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Adjectives-in-English-are-never-pluralised-/-/440808/1855750/-/msvgn8z/-/index.html A newspaper commentator disparaged the “coup d’etats” that have beset Africa since independence. 2013-05-17T15:49:43Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/ICC-on-trial-in-the-eyes-of-Kenyans-/-/440808/1855746/-/l9u3ez/-/index.html Every morning I am greeted by three little chaps on their way to nursery school: Raila, Obama and Ocampo. Parents love to name their children after important people and memorable moments. 2013-05-17T15:48:25Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/A-home-cannot-prosper-if-the-woman-is-kept-like-a-chattel/-/440808/1855742/-/f97jctz/-/index.html The day that African men accept to liberate their women is the day the entire continent will take off like a caged bird set free. 2013-05-17T15:47:20Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1855736/-/jisa9vz/-/index.html After the contested attempt by MPs to raise their own salaries, the next big dispute is likely to revolve around the implementation of the Political Parties Fund. 2013-05-17T15:46:03Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Give-priority-to-crimes-against-pigs-and-dogs-/-/440808/1855726/-/4efwx2/-/index.html Good people of Bungoma, Busia and Mandera, as well as the ones receiving threatening leaflets in Trans Nzoia County. You must understand why the police are not able to come to your rescue just now. 2013-05-17T15:45:28Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Letter-From-America/-/440808/1855494/-/11yry66z/-/index.html A line has been crossed thee times in America this week. The country’s taxing agency, the Internal Revenue Service, said that it targeted conservative political groups over the last year without reason. 2013-05-17T10:43:51Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Interviews-for-Cabinet-secretary-jobs-were-a-total-bomb/-/440808/1855118/-/coy42p/-/index.html If you are hired today as the chief executive of an organisation, you go in with the intention of achieving better results. 2013-05-16T19:48:06Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1854622/-/jit0eiz/-/index.html One of the cardinal principles of the new Constitution is ‘integrity’ — an issue that is a recurrent theme in our body-politic and one that we seem to have a major difficulty responding to 2013-05-16T16:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Civil-society-protest-noble-mode-too-crude/-/440808/1854628/-/ptdidjz/-/index.html There is no doubt that the civil society has a very strong, if irrefutable point, in objecting to demands for higher pay by MPs 2013-05-16T16:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Forget-land-or-ethnicity--This-is-all-about-politics-and-power-/-/440808/1854084/-/9m47hd/-/index.html Like in many other parts of Kenya, dancing with death during political campaigns in Bungoma County is common. 2013-05-15T20:01:49Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Pay-them-more-but-base-it-on-performance-/-/440808/1853862/-/140cvjcz/-/index.html The clamour for a pay rise among MPs had started even before they had commenced their new job. 2013-05-15T16:05:50Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Not-a-shilling-more-should-our-MPs-be-paid/-/440808/1853858/-/3947c3/-/index.html Some MPs have floated the idea of engaging the services of a communications expert “to educate Kenyans on the role of Parliament and improve its public image.” 2013-05-15T15:59:42Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/MPs-and-the-Kenya-hunt-who-gets-the-first-cut/-/440808/1853852/-/132iodwz/-/index.html It will be interesting to see where the current highly-charged debate over Kenyan MPs’ push for higher salaries and the very dramatic protests against it (complete with activists carrying pigs in front of Parliament) ends. 2013-05-15T15:53:17Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Sub-Sahara-Africa-leads-in-infant-deaths/-/440808/1852738/-/nioqy7/-/index.html Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Sierra Leone and Somalia have some of the highest newborn death rates in the world 2013-05-14T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Why-overturn-GMOs-ban-that-never-was/-/440808/1852742/-/gjjrroz/-/index.html The supporters of biotechnology have launched a new offensive to overturn last November’s Cabinet decision purporting to ban imports of genetically engineered foods 2013-05-14T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1851452/-/jiv4uaz/-/index.html China’s engagement with Africa is the most momentous phenomenon over the last decade. 2013-05-13T16:48:57Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Why-are-we-still-killing-one-another-using-machetes/-/440808/1851444/-/13lqnqp/-/index.html When adventurers like Amerigo Vespucci sailed away from the shores of their fatherlands, they were not just going to look for salt and other condiments that would spice the diets of their fellow countrymen. 2013-05-13T16:44:35Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/House-team-did-a-shoddy-job-of-vetting-nominees-to-the-Cabinet-/-/440808/1851438/-/hhyps9z/-/index.html Watching on live TV the vetting of Cabinet nominees, some wag commented on social media that Kamlesh Pattni would have passed scrutiny with flying colours. 2013-05-13T16:40:59Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Its-going-to-be-a-real-tough-balancing-act/-/440808/1850296/-/ysl7laz/-/index.html The unveiling of the 2013/2014 budget is fast approaching and Kenyans are keenly awaiting it 2013-05-12T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Translating-manifesto-to-viable-economic-growth/-/440808/1850308/-/137k0pz/-/index.html When the National Rainbow Coalition government came to power, it faced challenges much like the Uhuru-Ruto administration faces today 2013-05-12T17:00:00Z http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/How-American-governments-colonised-oil-rich-states/-/440808/1850318/-/eo9yfxz/-/index.html Now that Kenya is set to enter the league of oil-producing nations, the country may want to examine a little more closely its relationship with foreign governments and companies seeking to extract oil and other natural resources from our land and shores 2013-05-12T17:00:00Z