Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Uncategorized, Youth, constituencies, elections on Dec 8th, 2009
The clamour for a new Constitution Series: Hon. Paul Muite, a former legislator and Senior Counsel at the Kenyan Bar, takes us on a historical journey through the painful struggle to reclaim democratic space in Kenya after 46 years of derogation of fundamental freedoms of the people, and dictatorial impunity. This informative, ‘must-watch’, series in [...]
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Uncategorized, Youth, constituencies, elections on Dec 3rd, 2009
Kenya’s Corrupt Elite Under Threat, Reports Guardian journalist Xan Rice
Wednesday December 2nd 2009
In his Kenya diary, Guardian journalist Xan Rice reports on how a decision by the prosecutor of the international criminal court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, to investigate the 2008 post-election violence in Kenya threatens the corrupt elite
When someone complains about the state of Kenya today, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2009
Kenya has had imperial presidents since Independence. All have started out as men of little means and ended up as tycoons. Every one knows the history. Jomo Kenyatta’s home in Gatundu was a community project, because he had lost years to jailing and detention, and yet he died as the country’s single largest landowner. All [...]
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Youth, constituencies, elections on Sep 15th, 2009
WORST CASE SCENARIO: PARLIAMENT SHOULD PREPARE TO BE ASKED TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION TO ALLOW MWAI KIBAKI TO RULE FOR LIFE!
“There is no worse heresy then that the office sanctifies the holder of it”
Lord Acton in a letter he wrote to scholar and ecclesiastic Mandell Creighton, April 1887 (thank you Rama [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2009
A Report of the Mars Group Kenya.
In March 2009, a riot broke out at Kenya’s second largest University because students were not allowed to sit their final examinations unless and until they came up with the year’s fees – One Hundred Thousand Shillings (US$1,250).
Kenyatta University, named after Kenya’s first President, [...]
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Posted in Civic Education, Civil Society, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Forum, Governance, Government, Judiciary, Kids, Laws, Mars Group, Multimedia, Parliament, Petitions, Publications, Youth, constituencies, elections on Jun 1st, 2009
THE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHANGE MESSAGE FOR MADARAKA DAY – 46 YEARS LATER IT’S NOT YET UHURU BUT CHANGE IS COMING.
Nairobi 1st June 2009
Summary: Madaraka was meant to;
- give Kenyans sovereignty over their political affairs and their resources
- give Kenyans a Bill of Rights to be enforced by an independent judiciary
- create a democratic, prosperous [...]
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The tribal violence that has swept through parts of Kenya during the past month has been blamed on a disputed election. But in fact it has been simmering for decades, ever since British colonialists unjustly carved the country up – and Kenya’s own leaders followed suit. Chris McGreal reports
Thursday February 7, 2008
The Guardian
Charles Mugo [...]
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Friday October 1, 2004
Who owns Kenya?
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EXCLUSIVE
By Otsieno Namwaya, East African Standard
Kenya’s two former First Families and the family of President Mwai Kibaki are among
the biggest landowners in the country.
A residual class of white settlers and a group of former and current power brokers in the
three post independent regimes follow them closely while a few businessmen [...]
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Where else in the world, would you find a Government so unresponsive to its people? Kibaki, whom I personally voted for on December 27th 2002, had only one mandate I cared about. Stop corruption so that we could have economic growth. It is now clear that his much vaunted zero tolerance to [...]
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