By Martin Plaut Financing Al-Shabaab operations As the forensic experts sift through what’s left of Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall one question is not being asked: who paid for the Westgate attack? As every journalist knows, the rule is always to follow the money – find the financiers. So who did pay for the atrocity? There […]
Archives for September 2013
The Buck Stops At The Presidency: Uhuru Kenyatta Should Resign!
Hon Koigi Wa Wamwere First, let me send deep condolences to families who lost loved ones at the Westgate Mall and wish speedy recovery to those who suffered injuries. To ensure there is no repeat of this tragedy however, people must learn from it or they will have suffered in vain. The disease that returns […]
Sonko slaps Shebesh, weeks after the “Gubernatorial Slap”
When Nairobi Governor Dr Evans Kidero lost his cool and slapped TNA women representative Rachel Shebesh in a confrontation which left the city awed, wild and, in some quarters, charmed; another revelation is now emerging that Hon Shebesh was engaged in yet another scuffle on Thursday by Hon Mike Sonko, the Senator for Nairobi County. […]
Ephraim Njega: Appointments By Uhuru Kenyatta Confirm Battle Against Tribalism Is Lost!
Ephraim Njega Recent appointments by President Uhuru Kenyatta show that we have lost the battle against tribalism. They have left me deeply troubled. I don’t want to believe the appointments are due to bad advice. They are a reflection of his thinking. While the people appointed may merit the positions the appoints betrays ethnic bigotry […]
Uhuru Kenyatta’s Leadership, A big Joke To Kenyans?
By George Morara Sometimes we’ve got to laugh at ourselves – Kenyans we are a funny gullible lot but really there are at times we MUST ask real questions and expect reasonable answers! Following the massacre in Nairobi with about 70 people reportedly dead, and several terrorists neutered, there seems to be no evidence of […]
Raila Odinga’s new book: The Flame of Freedom
Dikembe Disembe The great democracy teacher and father of freedom, RAILA AMOLO ODINGA, will launch his (our) new book-an autobiography-titled “RAILA ODINGA-THE FLAME OF FREEDOM” Last time Teacher Jakom, through the Nigerian Author Obafemi, released a biography, “An Enigma in Kenyan Politics”. Then that funny Miguna Miguna also wrote a baaaaaaad book on BaBa. And […]
Koigi Wa Wamwere: Uhuru Kenyatta Should Step Aside Over Westgate Terror Attack
Koigi Wa Wamwere who mess in their jobs should step aside for those who can do them better. Only this makes sense. From the interview on Citizen TV, it is clear, a lot is being hidden from the people about the Westgate tragedy. I believe I was right to ask Uhuru to take political responsibility […]
Kenyan authorities had been warned about threat to buildings ‘day before attacks’
Family members at the funeral of Sudharshan Nagaraj, one of the Westgate victims. Photograph: Aijaz Rahi/AP By: Afua Hirsch in Nairobi for The Observer, Saturday 28 September 2013 19.52 BST Intelligence agents are said to have been in Westgate mall just hours before killings, as criticism over government grows Kenyan authorities had intelligence pointing to […]
A spade must be referred to as such
ANOTHER DARK MOMENT The social contract mandates the sovereign to protect its citizens. The events of 21st September 2009 must be condemned with the strongest terms and actions possible. The departed must be left to Rest in Peace and the injured should be attended to and nursed until sufficient and full recovery. The events beg […]
AGONISING DEATHS, eerie sufferings, the ‘WASTE GATE’ that was never reported to you YET Kenya claims victory
Eyes gouged out, bodies hanging from hooks, and fingers removed with pliers’: Horrific claims of torture emerge as soldiers reveal gory Kenyan mall massacre details Soldiers told of the horrific torture meted out by terrorists in the Nairobi mall massacre yesterday with claims hostages were dismembered, had their eyes gouged out and were left hanging […]
SHOCKING JUDICIARY REVELATIONS: Can ALL THESE be TRUE or STANDARD MEDIA GROUP just lying to Kenyans and doing PR for embattled GLADYS SHOLLEI?
(This is a story appearing in the Standard Newspaper today, Friday 27, september 2013 by Kipchumba Some) A power struggle at the top of the Judiciary has spawned a 31-point ‘war strategy’ aimed at achieving the absolute authority of Chief Justice Willy Mutunga, and revealing chilling inner workings within the institution, aimed at ousting reformer […]
BREAKING NEWS: UHURU Appoints former Treasury Ps Joseph Kinyua Head of Public Service
Sadly, the position of public service ceased to exist with the first election under the new constitution. Kinyua will also double as Chief of Staff. More analysis.
SPEECH BY HON RAILA A ODINGA: Elections, Electoral Politics and Coalition Building in Africa
Elections, Electoral Politics and Coalition Building in Africa: Is Democracy on trial? EISA Executive Director, Members of the EISA Board of Directors, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, Let me first congratulate the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa for the valuable work it is doing across Africa. Over the last decade, ISA has transformed itself […]
China Remains The Largest Supplier of Ammunitions to Al-Shabaab
Sospeter Otieno True friends are offering to help. China remains the largest supplier of ammunitions to Al-Shabaab. 90% trading of goods by Al-Shabaab entails goods imported from China by the Al-Shabaab War-Lords. Like Tom Mboya and Jomo Kenyatta , 40 years ago, I choose to take the right decision, I am turning my back on […]
Westgate Mall Attack: Many Were Killed By Friendily Fire and recklessness???………………………
Excerpts from The Guardian.CO.UK The Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, is left in ruins on Wednesday after the terrorist attack that began on Saturday. Three storeys of the buildings have collapsed and smoke is rising from the rubble as sources say hundreds of bodies could remain underneath the wreckage. A total of 72 people are […]
Kenya mall attack: dozens more bodies believed buried under rubble
Scores more bodies are believed to be buried under rubble in Kenya’s Westgate shopping mall as gruesome details continued to emerge on Wednesday from the aftermath of the four-day terrorist siege. As one morgue in Nairobi said it was preparing for up to 160 new corpses, an intelligence source told the Guardian there was evidence […]
Robert Alai:Kenyan Blogger, Earns Praise for Coverage of Terror Attack at Westgate Mall
Kenyan blogger Robert Alai has utilized Twitter and Facebook to, over the course of the Westgate mall attack and subsequent hostage situation, deliver live coverage to over 100,000 people. Alai has earned praise from both fellow Kenyans and people following the situation abroad for his quick updates, a mixture of information from sources and official […]
“Kenyatta and Ruto will use Westgate to evade the ICCâ€: Kenyan professor
By Makau Mutua The terrorist attack at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall could not have come at a worse time for the East African country. Since the 4 March election, Kenya has never been more divided along its sharp ethnic cleavages. All one needs to do is to listen to the political discourse – and the chatter […]
DAVID MATSANGA: ‘killing’ ICC WITNESSES on Jubilee government payroll?
By Daniel Ojoo Ongoma guest bloggers, in Kampala. Dr. Matsanga, in his reply to a detailed expose (REVEALED: FUGITIVE UGANDAN behind ICC witness Intimidation and mass Withdrawals) we did last week, had unsavoury language towards the editors of Kenya Today and we seek to set the record straight. We shall break the issues bit by bit. […]
ODINGA leaves for South Africa to open a democracy symposium
CORD leader Raila Odinga leaves the country for South Africa this morning for a three day conference on democracy and coalition politics. He will be accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Moses Wetangula among other leaders. According to Denis Onyango, Odinga’s spokesman, the former prime minister will open the 8th Annual Symposium of the Electoral Institute […]