Author: KahawaTungu Reporter

Two supreme court judges should not be part of the Supreme Court bench that will determine the petition by the NASA Coalition on the alleged computer-generated re-election of President Uhuru owing to their past association with the Jubilee regime. Kahawa Tungu has learnt that NASA will oppose the two judges from being part of the petition. The opposition coalition wants only neutral judges to preside the case. Justice Njoki Ndung’u and Justice Jackton Boma Ojwang’ are said to be openly partisan. Njoki is said to have been seen in social gatherings with senior Jubilee leaders including Jubilee Vice Chair David…

Former Nairobi Governor Dr. Evans Kidero is lobbying to join Uhuru cabinet, multiple sources have informed Kahawa Tungu. Kidero lost an upset poll to Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko and initially toyed with the idea of lodging a petition to challenge the win but was persuaded by senior government officials, including President Uhuru, to concede in exchange of a role in the new regime. Kidero’s concession was briefly used to corner NASA Leader Raila Odinga not challenge the re-election of President Uhuru, coming only days after the poll verdict was declared. I commend outgoing Gov. Kidero for conceding defeat and handing…

ODM Party Leader Raila Odinga is expected to be at the second inauguration of Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho tomorrow. The ODM Leader who was also the joint NASA Presidential Candidate will be in Mombasa to witness the event at Mama Ngina Drive  grounds, the venue of NASA’s final rally in the county weeks ago. Raila has not attended any inauguration. Mombasa voted for Raila more than Uhuru but the president attained the mandatory 25 per cent threshold, having garnered more than thirty per cent of the vote. The Rt Hon @RailaOdinga to grace the inauguration of Mombasa Governor Elect…

Nairobi Governor-Elect Mike Sonko has started doing what he was widely expected to do from day one: cleaning up Nairobi. Under the incompetent Dr. Evans Kidero, Nairobi was choking with filthy garbage, especially in the backstreets where small and medium sized enterprises thrive. Many Nairobi residents had given up on garbage, which formed part of the historic decision to vote out Kidero, who had joined city hall with the promise of ‘better city better life’. Major cleaning exercise taking place at Wakulima Market #FixingNairobi https://t.co/uZQPhnXKOk — Mike Sonko (@MikeSonko) August 16, 2017 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

The ODM Party is facing unpredictable future as its main adhesive, Raila Odinga, stares at a future with little prospects for him individually. Little is expected from the Supreme Court, where NASA is today expected to file a petition to challenge the re-election of President Uhuru. Nearly all the judges do not share the ‘struggle’ or ‘second liberation’ reforms history with Mr. Odinga, save for Justice Mohammed Ibrahim, who was briefly detained in the 1980s. This petition also occurs in the backdrop of near unanimity by all global political actors who observed last week’s polls that the election was peaceful…

The controversial Kaparo-led National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) had the term of its commissioners extended by President Uhuru for one year, a move legal experts term as illegal. Apart from engaging in fearmongering and staging political arrests, the dubious commission has failed to hold the regime accountable on ethnic exclusion, which is among the key mandates of the commission, and which continue to cause the national fragmentation being witnessed with the country increasingly getting polarized along ethnic lines. On 5/8/17, the President in violation of section 19 of the NCIC Act & First Schedule thereof renewed the Term of…

What you need to ask yourself: Why was Dr. Roselyn Akombe Kwamboka leaving in a huff back to the United Nations office in New York even before her IEBC contract expired? What you need to wonder about: Why did she lie, in documents she presented to immigration officials at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, that she was going to Dubai?  The Law: Did she lie while applying for the IEBC job and appearing for interviews, as the law forbids an IEBC Commissioner to work part-time? And because of this, did someone bring this to her attention, and made her easily…

NASA idea of “adopting a polling station” saw the coalition create an M-Pesa number through which Kenyans could contribute funds to ensure NASA votes are protected by sponsoring agents across the country. Safaricom Rolls out 4G+, Fastest Network Speeds This account, according to sources at Safaricom, had more than Ksh250 million as at yesterday meaning the money was never used even as lack of agents countrywide has seen NASA fail to protect its votes, which has given President Uhuru a landslide win. Even as the coalition throws tantrums about Jubilee rigging, coming up with fictitious documents they claim are generated…

Opinion polls in Kenya are sponsored propaganda tools to tilt public opinion on who is winning and, or  losing. The two main players in this field have been Infotrak Research and Ipsos Synovate, formerly Steadman. Infotrak is owned by pollster and social scientist Angela Ambitho, while Ipsos’ public face is the old mzungu – Tom Wolf. While Ipsos since 2007 has remained pro-PNU and its current offshoot, Jubilee, Infotrak polling has been more credible, offering results that mostly tallied with the reality and political shifts in perception. The third pollster, Maggie Ireri’s TIFA Research, has focused more on counties and gubernatorial…

Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho meeting with members of Kikuyu community failed to take off for the third time as the Mombasa governor continue to face hostility among various upcountry communities. Joho has been silently seeking support of the group. Joho regime is accused of isolating people not originally from Mombasa on account of their ethnicity, even as he ring fences opportunities for a very small click of friends and families related to him and his cronies. Mombasa county employment is a cesspool of sex scandals and family favoritism, even as the Mombasa governor nurse ambitions for being President someday.…

The increasingly elusive Luo bloc vote in this year’s Mombasa gubernatorial election has made incumbent governor Ali Hassan Joho hold meetings with members of the Luo migrant community in Mombasa more than five times seeking their endorsement and support for his re-election. Yesterday, Joho flew to Mombasa Luo Council of Elders Mzee Willis Otondi to convince Luos to vote for him. Mzee Otondi is also expected to hold another meeting between Joho and NASA Presidential candidate Raila Odinga and key Luo grassroots leaders ahead of NASA rally on Friday. Mzee Otondi, with a number of Luo sages, have been booked…

Justice George Odunga is once again in the eye of a partisan political storm after the Jubilee Party through its erratic Secretary General Raphael Tuju wrote to the Chief Justice David Maraga to bar the judge from hearing all election related cases arising from next week’s August 8 polls. Through Tuju, the party wants Mr Odunga to be replaced from being the “judge on schedule” during the period in which election petition cases will be filed at the high court. Tuju has taken to accusing Justice Odunga of being related to Siaya Senator James Orengo as the only reason why…

Mainstream churches are finding it hard to preach ‘peace’ following what is becoming a new industry of commercial peace peddlers in the country particularly around elections period. Ahead of the August 8 elections, peace preachers have held mass prayers rallies, peace concerts, sponsored peace messages and in some regions are moving door-to-door to preach peace. Increasingly, however, Kenyans are calling for a free, fair and credible elections as a bare minimum for peace, a message that contrasts the ‘peace at all costs’ gospel of the donor funded peace artists. The peace peddlers, now referred to as ‘peacepreneurs’, are a mix…

A silent tussle in the Kenya Defense Forces is pitting Defense Cabinet Secretary Raychelle Omamo against serving soldiers in what Kahawa Tungu has learnt has been a simmering row over Omamo’s incompetence as the civilian head of the military apart from President Uhuru. Chief of the General Staff, General Samson Mwathathe is said to have a very strained relationship with the CS. Soldiers claim Omamo did not show the kind of support they expected when a number of them died in gruesome Al Shabaab attack in Somalia, with many military families now resigned to poverty and neglect. The soldiers also…

Statement from the African Union reads: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) Moussa Faki Mahamat has learnt with shock about the killing of Mr Christopher Msando, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Manager at the Independent Electoral and Boundary Commission (IEBC) of Kenya. This dastardly act happened a week ahead of the Kenyan general elections planned for 8 August 2017. “I condemn this senseless act in the strongest terms and call on the Kenyan authorities to conduct a full investigation into the murder and bring those responsible to justice. I extend my most sincere condolences to the family of…