Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Five Kenyan schoolgirls aged 15 to 17 have won a trip to California to take part in this year’s international Technovation competition event. Technovation competitions invite teams of girls from all over the world to learn and apply the skills needed to solve real-world problems through technology. The five teenagers, developed a mobile app (I-cut) to help end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) problem in the communities. In Kenya, is estimated one in four Kenyan women and girls have gone through FGM. In Africans they are the only one selected to take part in this year’s international Technovation competition event at Google…

The country is about to have its General Election next month. So just how big a problem is fake news in Kenya and what impact is it having on the way people consume information? Fake news has become a recent problem, the topic came to prominence during the recent US presidential campaign. For the first time, deliberately false news stories, or fake news, appeared to influence the outcome of an election. A recent report reveals that 90% of Kenyans have perceived or overheard an untrue news around the 2017 general election, with 87% reporting case in point of deliberately false…

Action movie superstar Dwayne Johnson “The Rock” has made a “movie” co-starring Apple’s voice assistant Siri. In the movie, which runs for three minutes and 45 seconds, we tail The Rock in a number of situations as he tried to fit more into his already busy schedule, and he needs Siri’s help to get it all done. It’s quick, most of the segments are pretty funny and all of it is nice-looking. The Entertainment The film is called The Rock x Siri Dominate the Day and was released today on Apple’s YouTube channel. In the movie, The Rock sees a…

Safaricom Report, has Links KDF to Theft of their Merchandize during and after a terrorist attack on the Westgate Shopping Mall, where numerous mobile phones and airtime at the Safaricom Westgate Retail Centre were stolen. Safaricom carried out a detailed analysis on stolen merchandise to determine key suspects involved in this theft between 25th and 27th September 2013. Samsung Android App Blocks Texting While Driving According to the report, of all the handsets that were stolen from Westgate shop, 528 handsets (valued at KES 5.5 M) had been used on their network as on 10th December 2013. A total of 1,283 unique mobile…

This is the last election that Wiper Party is participating in after which the party is to collapse and rejoin ODM. A source privy to the goings on say Kalonzo believes he stands a better chance becoming president in post-Raila era by rejoining and strengthening ODM, rather than remaining Party Leader  of Wiper Party which is still largely Ukambani based, with little traction outside his Kamba backyard. “The future of Kenya is two strong parties. Jubilee is already one, ODM is another. It will be hard to run for presidency outside these two parties. This is what informs Kalonzo move,”…

Fallout was always expected in ODM following the publication of the party’s list of people to be nominated but no one saw the Executive Director of the Party, Mr. Oduor Ong’wen, pushing for the nomination of his wife. Yet still, it is incomprehensible that Ong’wen, known to be a fair man, chose to defend the nomination of the wife by a team comprising the party’s central committee officials often chaired by the ODM Party Leader Raila Odinga. Such things are dicey, for it is often difficult to oppose upward mobility of a family member despite the obvious ethical issues such…

It is less than three weeks to the August 8 elections and multiple sources in government have revealed to Kahawa Tungu that there are no plans to swear in a new president who is likely to be NASA’s Raila Odinga. As at now, no transitional committee has been formed which ordinarily would have seen some handlers of the NASA presidential candidate incorporated to begin learning the ropes of state-craft both on inauguration day and after. It is also evident that as at now, Jubilee is not sharing any intelligence with the NASA leader even as observers see this election as too…

Murang’a Governor Mwangi wa Iria’s re-election bid met its last obstacle following his thrashing of Kigumo MP Jamleck Kamau to clinch the Jubilee Party ticket. Earlier, a series of politically instigated cases which culminated in charged senate grilling and publicized EACC appearances nearly saw him knocked out. Those opposed to his re-election had sought to portray him as corrupt. And failed. Seen as one of the strongest examples of devolution successes, Wa Iria would receive backing from strange quarters, including from ODM supremo Raila Odinga. With a petition to remove him from office having collapsed, and impeachment proceedings having faltered…

While ODM’s candidate for Kisumu gubernatorial election Prof. Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o did not win fairly but ‘played dirty’, he has spent the post-nomination period reaching out to people who long felt the Kisumu County under incumbent governor Jack Ranguma had been totally mismanaged. Nyong’o appeals to voters who feel Kisumu needs a different direction to prosper, and has launched a progressive manifesto to buttress his bid as an alternative to Ranguma. The Economics and Political Science professor has been aided in part by the totally mediocre campaign that Ranguma is running, where key campaigners are still on a looting spree.…

That Raila Odinga is taking nothing to chance to dislodge President Uhuru from power has seen him fire his second campaign manager Willis Otieno and hire long time associate Joe Ager. In total, Raila has had three managers now, which is in sharp contrast to the 2013 election where he stuck with Eliud Owalo, accused to have bungled the campaigns of that year. Raila had initially hired University of Nairobi don Dr. Adams Oloo whose short stint ended abruptly as NASA settled on Raila as the joint presidential candidate. Willis, an advocate, was brought in just after presiding ODM Appeals…

ODM candidate for Mombasa County gubernatorial race Hassan Joho is likely not to participate in a joint debate by all candidates seeking the position. Sources have intimated to Kahawa Tungu that Joho will not participate in the debates, despite his bravado and positioning as ‘unbeatable’. Joho is taking cue from other incumbents who are opting not to debate their competitors. In Kisumu, incumbent governor Jack Ranguma failed to show up to debate ODM’s Prof. Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o. Only in Nairobi did all the top gubernatorial candidates face each other. The Mombasa debate had been billed as a clash of titans,…

Winnie Odinga, a soft power player in ODM and NASA circles has shared some interesting thoughts on her worldview with Pulse Magazine. The last daughter of NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga has revealed she loves Tupac Shakur to Biggie, and is also dating, though could not reveal the identity of the man (or woman). She’s been rumoured to play in Team B. She loves sneakers and boots, doesn’t do heels and sure doesn’t carry handbags around. Her sobriquet is “Kazi”. Given to her by her sister Rosemary. Educated at exclusive Rusinga School and Brookhouse, then to the US where she…

The independent Elections and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has finally revealed it will print the voter register and display it in the 40,833 polling stations a week to the general election. A printout of the register will be displayed at all the 40,883 polling stations 7 days to the polls. You do not need a voting card to vote — IEBC (@IEBCKenya) July 11, 2017 At the same time, NASA recently alleged that there are as many as over 400,000 double registrations in the voter register. “In the voters register which we have obtained from the IEBC website, NASA campaign secretariat…

President Uhuru is today campaigning in the expansive Narok County, seen as a swing county in the August presidential election despite voting for a Jubilee governor in 2013. The county has witnessed the proliferation of Chama Cha Mashinani (CCM) which is expected to give the Jubilee candidate, incumbent governor Samuel Tunai, much headache. CMM candidate is Patrick Ntutu, current MP for Narok West. The ODM candidate, Tiampati Ole Musuni, is a former ICT Principal Secretary in Uhuru regime who was sacked over graft as his name appeared on the 2015 ‘list of shame’. Meanwhile, the NASA brigade led by presidential…

Mombasa County ODM leadership is under serious threat of disintegration with the possibility of jeopardizing the re-election of ODM Deputy Party Leader and current governor Ali Hassan Joho. Trouble begun with a number of serving Luo MCAs, including former Speaker Thadius Rajwayi bolting out of the Joho camp, citing frustrations. Attempts by ODM Party Leader Raila Odinga to have the Luo community in Mombasa back his deputy in ODM has failed twice, the latest being last weekend. Today, a section of Luo leaders and elected Luo MCAs have thrown their weight behind Wiper gubernatorial aspirant Hassan Omar. The group was…

In a series of tweets that point to the continued frustrations in the law office of Ahmednasir Abdulahi, the once powerful lawyer, now a pale shadow of his former self, took to twitter to join Jubilee overrated simpletons like Kipchumba Murkomen, Kimani Ichungwa and Aden Duale in bashing the three judge bench that ruled against IEBC, particularly Justice George Odunga. Already, we’ve heard how one of the judges is related to NASA’s James Orengo. Ethnic profiling. How about the other two? Judges make mistakes & on many occasions get it totally wrong. As a country we must always respect their…