Author: CHRISPEN AKALI
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 -Isaac Ruto has come out to clarify his relationship with Deputy President William Ruto despite having recently entered into a coalition pact with Uhuru’s Jubilee. The former Bomet Governor who switched to Tangatanga on Friday January 15th in an event that saw him gifted a wheelbarrow, has said his decision was well thought out before making the move. In an interview with The Daily Nation, he explained that his coalition agreement with Jubilee Party which is led by President Uhuru Kenyatta still holds because the government has to be respected and given time to deliver. “The…
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 -Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s sentiment over debt politics has continued to stir sharp reaction from a section of leaders from Mt. Kenya region. Among those who have responded to him is Nyeri Town MP Ngunjiri Wambugu who is a known Kieleweke member. He has since told off Mr. Odinga that their region will not be coaxed to vote based on debts which were agreed on individual basis and not communities. He asserted that leaders will only be elected to power according to what agenda they have for the country and their region. Same sentiments were…
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 -Embattled ex-city boss Mike Mbuvi Sonko has escalated his war of words with Interior Permanent Secretary Karanja Kibicho. Through a fierce thread he started on Monday January 25, Mr. Sonko sensationally claimed that plans to eliminate the Orange Democratic Movement ODM boss Raila Odinga were ready and this was to be orchestrated on his arrival from the US at the height of the disputed 2017 elections. He named PS Karanja Kibicho as among the top State officials who planned day and night to assassinate Mr. Odinga through a bullet. He went ahead to share a video…
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 -Utterances by embattled ex-Nairobi Governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko, according to political pundits, points somewhere else. In his latest verbal attacks on the ‘Deep State’, M r. Mike Sonko narrated how Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement ODM Party was named in many scandals that were stage-managed by the Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto campaign machinery. Speaking while accompanying William Ruto in their Dagoretti South political tour over the weekend, Sonko in a blow by blow account recounted how powerful Permanent Secretary Karanja Kibicho organized youth, gave them ODM shirts and crude weapons to go and vandalize vehicles…
Monday, January 25, 2021 -Fresh war of words has ensued between Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru and area Woman Representative Purity Ngirici. Barely two days after the Governor claimed that the Building Bridges initiative BBI was a forced document, Ngirici now calls such a sudden U-turn as not only desperate but also a double speak from the politically cornered Waiguru. Addressing residents of Mwea on Sunday January 24th, the Woman Representative recounted how Waiguru was among tho leaders who ignored calls for a consensus and instead continued chest thumbing that the BBI project was a must document with or without changes.…
Sunday, January 24, 2021 -KANU Chairman also Baringo Senator Gideon Moi has disclosed how a mega coalition was in the making ready for the 2022 battle. Speaking this in Laikipia County on Saturday January 23, Moi hinted the post-referendum coalition which they want to come up with will comprise those in support of the Building Bridges Initiative BBI. He challenged Deputy President William Ruto and all others who are opposed to the BBI politics to confidently come up with their team and face them at the ballot. He indicated that there was a possibility of teaming up with ODM’s Raila…
Sunday January 24, 2021 -Anyone who wants to be a president through Orange Democratic Movement ODM Party will have to part with a whopping sh 1 million. In its early statement released by Party’s Elections Board Chairperson Catherine Mumma, this will be part of the qualifications for one to meet the threshold. The controversial requirement of sh 1 million each will be nonrefundable and must be paid through ODM bank account by a Bankers Cheque or through a cash deposit. Some Kenyans were however not happy with this development terming it a pyramid scheme meant to drain money from members…
Saturday, January 23, 2021 -President Uhuru Kenyatta has summoned all Mt. Kenya leaders for a mega weeklong meeting to be held at Sagana State Lodge. Kenyans.co.ke reported that plans are already at an advanced stage and the president has just to approve the day for the convention which could be January 30th. “We have a meeting this weekend in Nairobi to finalise the Sagana Convetion which will bring together both elected and government officials from the region. “We are also targeting grassroots leaders since it will not be a one-day event,” revealed a government official involved in the preparations. It is reported…
Saturday, January 23, 2021 -Baringo Senator Gideon Moi will be having a very difficult time to become anything in this country unless just handpicked. Just like ANC’s Musalia Mudavadi is a good boy in Kenya’s politics, which is not quiet a good qualification in Kenya’s politics, so is Gideon Moi. Politics in Africa cannot be molded on ‘Good Boys’ grounds. I pity Gideon and Mudavadi because if they are going to face off with the likes of DP Ruto and seasoned enigma Raila Odinga, then I am sorry power was not meant for them. How the two behave leaves me…
Friday January 22, 2021 -Orange Democratic Movement ODM party leader has baptized Deputy President William Ruto with a new name “Mr. Six” in direct reference to the six month period Ruto used to promise Kenyans deliverables. According to K24 Digital, Odinga reminded the DP on how he(Ruto) led the Jubilee government in promising learners laptops a promise that ended up to be another scandal the government cannot speak about anymore. Odinga in another thin-veiled-attack to the Jubilee’s false promises said Uhuru and Ruto told the youth that they will be offered with 8 million jobs what has now been turned…