Author: Cyrus

Uber has finally launched in Dar es Salaam. The innovative technology platform links Dar es Salaam to the list of smart transportation hubs in Africa. Uber connects drivers with riders in real time, at the touch of a button while the ride sharing platform believes that Dar es Salaam’s exciting, rapidly growing market is a perfect fit for Uber. According to the World Bank, Tanzania’s GDP growth rate is estimated at 6.8% for 2017 and the country is maintaining a low rate of inflation. Businesses are flourishing, with sectors such as transport, construction and financial services booming. Uber helps people get a ride at the…

  Instruction from Office of the President to DCI boss was clear, arrest the CORD legislatures to cover the hate spewed by Moses Kuria and Waititu at President Kenyatta’s Kameme FM radio station event.   Make Kenyans think that the CORD legislators are more hateful than Moses Kuria who has called for the execution and assassination of individuals and communities.   Kenyans MUST demand for the immediate arrest of Moses Kuria, Ferdinand Waititu and Kimani Ngunjiri. Arresting others to hide the crimes of the President’s hate-mongers is solving nothing. Moses Kuria calling for the assassination of Raila Odinga   The…

By Donald Kipkorir Dr. Willy Mutunga rode to the Judiciary like a Prince in a shining armor, but on the midnight of June 15, 2016, he will turn 70, and mandatorily fade into History like a witch. His tenure as our first Chief Justice under The Constitution promulgated in August 2010, was hopeless, fickle, uninspiring and rudderless. He reprobated and approbated in leadership. A leadership that was zilch. CJ Mutunga, as per his tiny admirers, may have wrestled the Judiciary from the Executive and corruption enterprise in the judiciary. But he immediately handed the Judiciary to a small Cabal that…

Prosperity of the country is directly linked to well functioning, accountable and democratic institutions. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) does not meet measure to this threshold. It is major source of uncertainty and conflict. IEBC has no heritage of rights. It exists to the service of the people of Kenya. It derives its legitimacy and authority from the people. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has full constitutional powers, authority and control on all maters touching on elections and referenda. It has constitutional functional autonomy and insulation to ensure it meets high degree of integrity, credibility, transparency and accountability…

Is Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho the cause of Betty Kyalo and Dennis Okari’s separation? Well, word on the street has it that the flamboyant deputy ODM party leader is a frequent visitor and rate payer at Betty’s Hurlingham apartment. The Mombasa governor is rumoured to have bought Betty the apartment. Betty is said to be driving a sleek 4×4 courtesy of the governor. Residents of the apartment have taken photos of the governor frequenting at the Rose Avenue located apartment with his security in tow. “When he is here, security is very tight,” one resident intimated. We are still loving…

Dar days in Kenyan journalism is here. Kenyan media managers have been cornered by the highly bribing government to kill objectivity and allow for compromised journalists to reign supreme as the executive try to control media channels during the electioneering period. Today, Nation Media CEO has suspended Managing Editor for special projects, Dennis Galava, over an editorial he authored and published on 2nd January 2016 calling on President Uhuru to put his acts together and allow for free expression in the country. Many journalists have voiced their concerns against the move by NMG calling it dictatorial and bordering on sabotage…

Recently the Minister for Education was quoted saying that the quality of education has greatly gone down at the expense of structural advancement at our universities. Having been a university don, no one understands this better than him, but at the same time, to majority of us, he was stating the obvious. As a person who has been involved with teaching at the universities for close to five years now, I would like to share with the Minister and those concerned in the sector how in our own small ways we have contributed to the poor quality of education after…

There is the story of the Jamhuri Day military parade commander who dropped his sword while requesting for permission to lead his guard out of Nyayo Stadium. Well, Lt Col Edward Banda has now been fired from the military. Banda has been the commanding officer for the 15 Kenya Rifles and was the day’s parade commander. He was also the same officer who commanded the troop of colour during the Mashujaa Day celebrations. The mistake happened right in front of the President and visiting dignitaries led by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia. The embaraced officer tried to save face by…

Facebook has launched the Internet.org Innovation Challenge in Africa, with the aim of recognising developers and entrepreneurs who are using the internet to improve the standard of education and economic health in their communities. Developers across Africa are invited to enter the challenge. Facebook will present an Innovation Challenge Award of US $150,000 to the app, website or service judged to be the best in two categories: learning/education and economic empowerment. Each Innovation Challenge Award winner will also receive a package of tools and services worth up to $60,000 from Facebook’s FbStart program (https://fbstart.com). Two apps, websites or services in each category will receive an…

So questions have been asked about the Aston Martin valued at Ksh 15million which Robert Alai linked to Ian Waiguru. The story is getting interesting.Apparently the unearthing of the Aston Martin might lead Kenyans to the real conduits in the looting of Devolution and Planning Ministry. The key individuals here are Karani Nyamu and Luke Ouko. Both individuals are the directors of a company called Verve KO Limited. The company has been getting most of the IT related tenders at the devolution ministry. Here is a link to a Ksh 650 million Enterprise Data Warehouse tender Verve KO has with the Finance…

By Concerned Staffof Horizon We would like to bring to the attention of the public labour laws and human rights violation that has been going on at HORIZON CONTACT CENTER – GATEWAY CENTER MOMBASA ROAD. We would like to request the copied government agencies to investigate in order to verify our claims and take action as this violations have continued for a long time.   -Staff members are given contracts to sign within 5 minutes and you are told not to take time to read and your copy is not given to you inorder to hide the wrongdoings.   -Staff…

Robert Ngeru has finally been given matching orders at Samsung East and Central Africa office. The outspoken Samsung boss was shown the door after internal investigations by sleuths from Samsung headquarters found him complicit in various fraudulent transactions which saw the company loose more than $24million. Before being sacked, Samsung headquarters tasked Ghiyeon Kim, Jung Hyun and Yunkun Num to lead the investigations on the actions of Robert Ngeru, especially in regards to a company called Jayden Limited (named after Ngeru’s daughter), Orchid Resources Management and Alsaa Investment Limited. The three companies were removed from the list of vendors and blacklisted…

It seems like the Chinese are not sparing any side of the Kenyan economy. Now they have set up an e-commerce site to sell their exports in Kenya and other parts of the world. A Chinese e-commerce group called Chinabuy has launched in Kenya today. The site will offer Kenyan shoppers access to over a million different items for direct purchasing from Chinese manufacturers and all the Chinese giant online sites. It will be available through the Chinabuy.co.ke website and provides online shoppers a one-stop shopping platform with millions of items from many factories and providers for purchase without getting lost over the…

Early in the year, there were damning revelations that Bungoma County had bought 32 acres of land in Musikoma at KSh6 million per acre. A total of Ksh192 million was paid for the land that is earmarked to house the Governor’s residence. Three Issues: (A) According to a surveyor on Teacher’s Plaza and who still handles various transactions in Bungoma town including Musikoma, the price of an acre of land in the same area only late last year was Ksh1 million. When did the price shoot to Sh6 million – meaning land in Bungoma in becoming even more expensive than…

Fastjet has announced that it is finally ready to launch in Kenya though the aviation regulator denies that. The British owned low cost carrier is set to launch in the country to compete with Jambojet and Fly540. But the main competition is going to be Jambojet as Fly540 is known to target a unique clientele in the domestic market which doesn’t mind a little mark-up over low cost rates to get assured service. However, questions are being raised on the manner in which the carrier was granted the Air Service License which will enable it to operate domestic flights. The…