By 2 p.m. on 22 August 2022 – being the final day and hour when filings to the Supreme Court would be made against the declaration of William Ruto as president-elect – nine petitions had been submitted, with the requisite fee of KSh 1 million paid.
For the second time since Raila Odinga chose to lead his supporters in street protests primarily challenging William Ruto’s ascendancy to the presidency, Odinga’s Azimio La Umoja One Kenya and Ruto’s Kenya…
SPOTLIGHT
In one of his most categorical commitments since coming to power, President William Ruto has…
The Sergeants-at-Arms is appointed by the President, and is usually recruited from senior ranks in security agencies and administration.
After Moses Wetangula was officially sworn in as the 8th Speaker in the history of…
POLICY
Unlike super petrol, diesel and kerosene, the price of LPG is not regulated.
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Stutchbury’s murder has shaken the conservation world, and understandably so because since time immemorial, Kenya has stayed on the wrong side of this fight.
For the basic structure to be morphed, the sovereignty of the people must bear.
The decision is not about those who subscribe to
ELECTIONS
About 18,000 local and international observers were accredited by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to monitor polling stations in the 290 constituencies around the country, ahead of the 9 August polls. 1300 of them were international observers, from a cross-section of…
According to Article 134 of the Constitution, temporary incumbency of the President occurs “during the period commencing on the date of the first vote in a presidential election, and ending when the newly elected President assumes office.”
I made these logs on Wednesday 10 August 2022, the day after the general election, while monitoring the status of tallying in seven constituency tallying centers across Nairobi County. The following were my observations throughout the day:
0558hrs. In the horizon I can hear boda boda guys urging a sleepy town to wake up and go vote. I am on Wanyee Rd, heading to Toi Primary School, just off Ngong Rd, one of the main arteries that feed the…
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The territory presently known as Uganda held its FIRST elections in 1957, during which exercise representatives from the Uganda Protectorate were elected into the colonial Legislative Council.
The seeming unusualness in Rev. Wainaina’s delivery emanates from the fact that the Provost’s interpretation of the gospel isn’t hypothetically but is grounded in the context of the goings on in the country today – from grand corruption to political conmanship and brinkmanship.
Whether you are for or against the 69 year old, you have to give the Embu Governor his due. As he embarks on his new role as CoG, with the possibility of winning a second and final term, observers will be keen to see whether legal and political challenges will follow Wambora into his new role, and whether he will surmount them the same way as he has done in the past.
On January 11, Facebook shut down accounts suspected to be pushing the governing National Resistance Movement’s propaganda. To retaliate, President Yoweri Museveni ordered the complete shutdown of Facebook in Uganda.
