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Misplaced Priorities: Why Investing Abroad Weakens Kenya’s Healthcare

By Mercy Mutheu, Rongo University  It is deeply hypocritical for the Social Health Authority (SHA) to seek licensed overseas hospitals to treat Kenyan patients abroad when citizens are already complaining…

Rising Cases of Sexual Violence Demand Immediate Action

By Mercy Mutheu, Rongo University  The escalating cases of sexual assault and the killing of girls and women are deeply alarming and demand urgent attention. Just last Sunday, 17-year-old Phedona Auwor,…

Why President Ruto Made History In Nyatike Constituency With Recent Visit- NGOJE

BY ROBLEY NGOJE President Ruto is the first sitting Kenyan President to visit Nyatike Constituency since Kenya attained independence in 1963. In under one year, the President has visited the…

Why Sonko’s new outfit calls for Kenya to regulate the number of parties we can have- MIJUNGU

BY BILLY MIJUNGU Parliament should regulate the minimum and maximum number of political parties to help build them into proper public institutions that cannot be created and destroyed at will….

OPINION: Raila’s Ideological Assassination, Fight For Legacy After Death- BUKE

BY WAFULA BUKE After years of successful gang schemes to deny Raila Presidency, William Ruto is on a final stretch: subjecting Raila to ideological assassination. It was Mozambique’s Moises Samora…

How KDF, NYS and Police Recruitment Can Be Fair Once and for All

BY BILLY MIJUNGU It is disheartening that a single slot for a Police or KDF officer can be sold for up to one million shillings. That means only the rich…

OPINION: ODM Will Survive Only When It Becomes Corporate- MIJUNGU

BY BILLY MIJUNGU ODM and Raila Odinga were once inseparable. To be ODM was to be Raila, and to be Raila was to be ODM. That bond was both its…

OPINION: Why government should ease the pain in payslip- MIJUNGU

BY BILLY MIJUNGU For the past three years, the National Treasury under the Ruto administration has relentlessly tightened its grip on the payslip. The justification has always been debt management,…