Send this article to Twitter! I said previously that I’d be reading the Wikileaks cables on Kenya as they came out and writing about them here.  Well, a few have been released so far and I’ve picked out the sections that I found either interesting or alarming.  So,  let’s begin by looking at them....
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Send this article to Twitter!I’ve mentioned the Wikileaks report here before and that column received a big yawn from the readers.  The first time I mentioned it was in relation to the Kroll report, which had tracked about $4 billion dollars stolen by former president Moi and diverted into various bank accounts and properties...
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Send this article to Twitter!Ah…sigh….Here we go again.  Can somebody please tell me what Andrew Ligale is smoking? Of the 80 new constituencies created, 5 were in central province. Now, how does that make sense? If central province has 20% of the population, then logic would dictate that 20% of the newly created consitutuencies...
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Send this article to Twitter!I’ve been reading the news lately and there’s been all this talk about everyone being corrupt and it’s getting personal with various ministers trying to bring down each other and so forth, but I don’t think any of these public spectacles are really getting to the heart of the issue...
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Send this article to Twitter!I was reading this story in the Nation the other day and it raised a few issues for me.  The story is about one of the President’s investments firms (Mwalu Investments Limited) — which incidentally, he jointly owns with Equity bank (have I not warned people here about Equity bank...
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Send this article to Twitter!Every once in a while (or maybe often) one needs to draw inspiration from somewhere in order to get things done in their lives.  You know how it goes, they’re days when you just don’t want to get out of bed and go to work, they’re times when you end...
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