Author: Mwaura Kamau 

Kiambu governor Kimani Wamatangi has proved to be a hard nut to crack when it comes to cornering him. Even as local legislators and the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) gang against him over alleged death of newborns occasioned by the on going doctors’ strike, the governor has stuck to his guns and affirmed that he won’t negotiate with the union, “until all the doctors who are on strike goes back to their work stations’. “Let those who are paid to go to the street go ahead and do it but it should dawn on them that my…

Corruption has become a norm, Chief Justice Martha Koome says, urging Kenyans to always speak against it. She notes that the vice is so ingrained that Kenyans perceive it as normal, carrying bribes to courts like offerings to church. Koome spoke at St. Paul’s University, Limuru, during the institution’s 5th Annual International Research Conference, themed “Re-conceptualizing sustainable development goals for today’s challenges and tomorrow’s possibilities.” Koome attributes the slow realization of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals to corruption and inequality in Kenya and globally. She opines that Kenya and the world are not on track to achieve the…

The apparent grandstanding between the Kiambu county government and the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has continued to confuse the nation by the day. Conflicting information regarding the provision of health services in the county’s health facilities in the past four months has caused uncertainties and confusion among patients. The county government maintains that there is no health crisis in the county and that claims of the same are a fabrication of the union and a section of politicians. Wamatangi says that his administration won’t be intimidated by outside forces, adding that he doesn’t run his government through…

THAT the Kenya society has gradually shifted its focus from the boychild to girls thereby making the male gender seem like a species undersiege is an open secret. The same is amplified by some outrightly biased provisions of the Sexual Offences Act,2006 which critics say is skewed against boys with girls being portrayed as victims and boys as villains. The apparent discriminatory application of the law has prompted civil society groups to describe the Act as insensitive, offensive and atrocious to the boy child. One such civil society lobby group is Sauti ya Wanaume na Watoto whose CEO James Mumbi…