Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

First elected to parliament in 1997, Samson Kegengo Ongeri served until 2002 when the ‘Narc wave’ engineered by Raila Odinga swept him aside. Ongeri had remained in KANU while the Gusii had moved, almost to a man, to support the presidential bid of Simeon Nyachae. Five years later in 2007, he regained the seat, and was quickly appointed cabinet minister for education in the first Kibaki cabinet formed a few hours after the totally bungled election was called for Kibaki. Elsewhere in the country, fire and smoke billowed. As a KANU politician allied to then PNU, Prof. Ongeri emerged as…

Once revered in judiciary circles as among a small clique of influential lawyers to go to for high profile cases, Ahmednasir Abdulahi has seen his legal career suffer massive setbacks since the 2013 supreme court presidential debut that remains the highest profile case in recent times. Ahmednasir thrived under Dr. Willy Mutunga, who was himself accused of having benefited from the lawyer’s treachery as then a member of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) that recommended his name for the Chief Justice post. Ahmednasir had been exposed as having leaked interview questions to Mutunga, then coached him on how to answer…

The family of the late Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery is barring politicians allied to the opposition NASA from accessing the rural home of the late cabinet secretary. Kajiado Governor David Nkaidenye, Kajiado Central MP Elija Memusi both allied to ODM and Wiper Kajiado Women Rep aspirant Simaiya Rakita were among leaders stopped from entering the home. Former Kenya Meat Commission Chairman Taraiya Ole Kores, who was endorsed by Gen. Nkaissery to vie for governor of Kajiado but lost to Joseph Ole Lenku and defected to the opposition, was also barred. Governor Nkaidenye and MP Memusi are said to have…

Julie Gichuru and her gang of “PEACE” hawks are back in business and these are their times for heightened activities. The electioneering period is their time for peak business and she never fails to seek attention with totally irrelevant calls. RELATED: Robert Gichuru was the Driver of Fidel Odinga’s Ill-Fated Range Rover The TV host, gambling company owner (M-Cheza), wife of an opportunistic fraud (husband is known corruption baron while father in law is wanted in a foreign country for the same) and known victim of spousal abuse (she is a victim) got the guts to come out again and preach…

ODM nominee for Kajulu ward, Clifford Mwalo has been missing for one month and nobody seems to know where he might be. Even the ODM party has not raised a complaint with the police or even announced this sad news. The candidate who left Kisumu on 5th June for China was only traced until Dubai where he arrived and has not been heard of since then. According to friends and relatives of the aspirant, Cliff can’t take more than 2 hours before communicating with his family but this time his silence is worrying his friends, supporters and family. The family…

Lawyer Ahmednasir has claimed that Jubilee honchos and key officials in the Judiciary tried to make sure that they were in control of the NASA’s case against IEBC from the start. According to the lawyer, senior government officials made serious attempts to ensure that Judge Odunga was not hearing the case and the team they had “prepared” was to handle the matter. The claims are surprising considering that the lawyer was a key part of the IEBC legal team against Raila. Breathtaking drama behind the scene in the case NASA filed yesterday. 2 failed attempts made to ensure Odunga J…

By Joseph Amukoya. When devolution came into effect under the new constitutional dispensation, hope was rife across the country that the new system would foster cohesion and development. However despite the huge amounts of money that has trickled down from the national treasury to the counties, very little has been done to quench the thirst of the common mwananchi who was looking up to the fruits of devolution. In this article, I will give a detailed chronology of events and make recommendations that require to be addressed urgently to save one of the devolved units (Kakamega County Assembly) which is…

By Dikembe Disembe Boniface Mwangi is such a fraud. Either he doesn’t have a clear knowledge on matters governance or he just seeks to sabotage the thinking process of Kenyans in their daily struggle to have a democratic government. First, he tells us that on the day to Saba Saba he was writing booklets containing the graphic photos of the 2007/08 violence which he delivered to CORD leaders (and some Jubilee leaders) because ethnic tension was rising in the country. There has been prayer rallies where Jubilee politicians are setting the stage for another ethnic strife, why is Mwangi not…

Former campaign manager of Raila Odinga presidential secretariat has viciously tore into the integrity record of Nairobi Governor Dr Evans Kidero and Budalangi MP Ababu Namwamba. The ODM Secretary General is facing rancorous vitriol after he released to journalists a recording of a private conversation he and other ODM leaders had with the party’s boss and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. While Raila is said not to be perturbed by the recording, ODM rank and file have all reacted with shock and fury, terming the secretary general an ‘ungrateful Ababu is corrupt; and the weeks ahead will be his waterloo.…

CORD Leader Raila Odinga was a central player in the move from analogue to digital television. Raila, while Prime Minister, launched the Startimes pay television which is among the highest digital signal providers now. While the CORD leader has urged the government to review the manner in which it is handling digital migration, the perception created is that Mr. Odinga is opposed to digital migration. This is false as the ODM leader was and remain the senior most government official who pushed for the migration from analogue to digital over two years ago. Watch Raila’s speech below delivered during the…

While debating the naming of city roads and streets, Nairobi County Assembly amassed all the city’s history for themselves by passing a motion to compel the county executive headed by Governor Dr. Evans Kidero to review and change names on several roads and streets within the city county. The Assembly Deputy Speaker Ken Ngondi stated that the Governor, the Speaker, the majority and minority leaders plus himself should have roads named after them by virtue of being the first officials to serve under the devolved dispensation. Some members however wanted the names of insignificant things and people changed and replaced…

Hot in the heels of Chicken gate scandal where a British ballot printing company Smith and Ouzman paid IEBC officials millions to get tenders, another multi-billion scandal involving a US company and several Kenyan government agencies including the disciplined forces has sufficed. Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Company has been fined Sh1.5 billion for giving over Sh136 million bribes to various government institutions for tenders. Respected institutions like the Kenya Air Force, Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces Canteen Organization (AFCO) are some of the institutions named for taking millions in bribes from the company to allow it win tenders. “Between…

While opposing the 2010 constitution, political scientist Mutahi Ngunyi elaborated how the new constitution would eventually lead to a tyranny of Kenya’s two dominant communities at the expense of others. Read:  My name is Mutahi Ngunyi, citizen number 4855678. I am previously from the Gema Nation, before becoming a Kenyan. And my vote is a big fat No. I am not ambiguous; I am not thinking about it. It is a No. If I can be allowed, I want to vote tomorrow. No point waiting for August 4. I want to reject the draft and move on. The lawyers have…

CORD leaders Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka are outside the country. While addressing the press moments after High Court declared several sections of the security law recently enacted by parliament and assented to by President Uhuru as unconstitutional, Senate Minority Leader Moses Wetangula revealed the two leaders, whose absence during the judgement was conspicuous, were outside the country. Odinga’s last public engagement was in Ndhiwa constituency where he, accompanied by wife Mama Ida Odinga, attended the burial of ODM activist Monica Amolo who died in a gristly road accident while campaigning for ODM senator Moses Kajawang’ to capture Homa Bay parliamentary…

The High Court will today deliver the much anticipated ruling on President Uhuru’s security law which the opposition CORD and Kenya National Human Rights Commission has disputed as unconstitutional. The law was passed in a riotous parliament which has seen three opposition MPs suspended from parliament. The ruling was to come last Friday but was pushed forward as the judges claimed they were not ready and would deliver it this morning. On Friday, a parked court waited anxiously for the ruling only to be informed there will be no ruling. A five judge bench presided over by justice Isaac Lenaola…

Moi University at Main Campus where a female student was found sexually assaulted and murdered last night has a big problem with accommodation of students that if not checked will continue to expose more students to danger as they navigate the treacherous and dimly lit paths to their far flung living dormitories. To start with, Moi University in the last two years has been admitting the highest number of new students. This has been happening despite the fact that the university has stalled hostels creating acute shortage of residential spaces. Every new year is a nightmare to continuing students who…