By Dikembe Disembe1.Amend Article 203 of the Constitution to delete 15 per cent and replace it with 45 per cent of latest Exchequer Accounts. 2.Strengthen the role of Senate by making it an Upper House with concurrent legislative powers with the National Assembly, but with a final say over matters touching on Counties, while creating […]

By Dikembe Disembe While the time of polling of Ipsos polls does not help much – coming after a ‘highly  propagandarised’ return of President Uhuru Kenyatta from the Hague – it was relishing to observe that the pollster found an overwhelming majority of Kenyans support a referendum. The news couldn’t have been better for us in […]

By J. O Bonnie [Eyewitness] By now, you all know that blogger Dikembe Disembe (born Seth Odongo) has two cases over hate-speech both generated by a complict nexus between the national cohesion and integration commission and a group of middle aged Jubilee regime bloggers whose public faces are Dennis Itumbias (official) and Mugo wa Wairimu […]

By Gisesa Mang’enya Long hours of protest on Wednesday and Tuesday night at Kenyatta University highlight increasing cases of student protests over administration interference in student elections. In past five years, a majority of students who have been suspended from the university have been affiliated to the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and, later, the Coalition for […]

By Otieno Sikuri The argument they give is, you have to be in power to marginalize and you have to be out of power to be a victim of such a powerful practice. They argue, these Odm social media scavengers, that within a span of two years Uhuru has successfully managed to marginalize Kisumu and […]

By Walter Khobe Shalin Sugunasiri in ‘Contextualism: The Supreme Court’s New Standard of Judicial Analysis and Accountability’ and Jacques de Ville in ‘Legislative History and Constitutional Interpretation’ argue that a written text cannot have one pure or true meaning because meaning is a function of language itself and not of some or other mental process […]

A group of Federation of Women Lawyers activist, including lawyer Judy Thongori and Ann NJogu, were Tuesday detained in the home of Machakos Senator Johnstone Muthama for hours after they entered the home without senator’s approval. The group drove from Nairobi with journalists as part of a group that was to help the senator’s first […]

I have just heard of the passing on of my Professor. Ali Al’Amin Mazrui from his dear wife Pauline today. My wife Dorothy and I are in deep shock since we were talking to Pauline while in California last week, that we would be visiting them next month. With the demise of Ali the curtain […]