Author: CHRISPEN AKALI
Friday, April 22, 2022 –Former President Mwai Kibaki has been confirmed dead. The third president of the Republic of Kenya breathed his last on Friday April 22 morning before President Uhuru Kenyatta made the announcement on Friday afternoon at around 12:30 PM. Uhuru mentioned his predecessor as a leader who was selfless and who was committed in uplifting the lives of Kenyans. Kibaki served with Raila Amollo Odinga who was his prime mister in the grand coalition government that was formed at the height of 2007/8 post-election violence. The former President served as the third president of the Republic of…
Friday, April 22, 2022 –Popular Nairobi rapper Julius Owino or Majimaji famed for their hit song Unbwogable has been denied ODM ticket. According to videos on our desk, the rapper-turned-politician was on Friday April 21 not a happy man after Raila Odinga’s ODM Party decided to hand his rival, Dr. James Nyikal, a nomination certificate without involving him. The young politician has been busy preparing to unseat Nyikal from office but on Friday was left high and dry after he learnt last minute that ODM top leadership had instead certified his rival through unorthodox ways. An emotional 15-minutes long video…
Thursday, April 21, 2022 –Vocal Nandi County Senator Samson Cherargei has reportedly been arrested by detectives. The DP William Ruto’s close defender, on Thursday April 21 afternoon, took to his social media platforms, with the message that he had been picked from his rural home in Nandi and was being rushed to Nairobi. “I have just been arrested and taken to Nairobi,” he updated his Twitter handle. He, however, did not clarify why he had been picked by the police and taken to Nairobi for questioning. We tried to reach out to him or his aides but it was not…
Thursday, April 21, 2022 –Azimio-One Kenya colaition today resolved to form an advisory panel of eminent persons to help them pick the best suitable person to be Raila Odinga’s running mate. In their Thursday April 21 meeting held at Kenyatta International Conference Center KICC, the group dubbed Azimio Council AC deliberated on the best way forward to galvanize votes for Mr. Odinga ahead of August 9 elections. “The council also resolved to form an advisory panel to recommend suitable candidates for nomination as the Deputy presidential candidate,” partly read the statement. The Council led by President Kenyatta also, through the…
Thursday, April 21, 2022 –Linet Chepkorir ‘Toto” today received a new Toyota Prado car to help boost her campaigns. Ms Chepkorir, 24, continues to inch closer to becoming the next Bomet County Woman Representative even as everybody else remains stunned with her fast rising star. And today, Bomet Governor Hillary Barchok has fulfilled his pledge to gift the youngest and poor politician with a Prado. Toto who will be vying for the women representative post Bomet County today received the brand new car to help her in her win the woman rep seat. Governor Barchok will also fully sponsor her…
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 –More trouble continues to bedevil Azimio ship since Wiper Democratic Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka joined the coalition a couple of weeks ago. Makueni County Governor, Kivutha Kibwana, has today April 20 categorically stated that he is finding it hard to work with Kalonzo Musyoka due to his character and attitude. In a hard statement he made on Wednesday afternoon, Governor Kibwana noted that Kalonzo with his stooges have been pushing him and other leaders from the larger Lower Eastern out of Azimio’s coalition through disrespectful utterances and moves. “It is proving impossible to work with Kalonzo…
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 –Ms Ruth Odinga had to run for her safety after ugly clashes ensued at a local polling station at Urudi Primary School Nyakach in Kisumu County where she had gone to inspect the process in which she is also a participant. This happened during their party primaries held on Tuesday April 9 as rival groups ended up clashing before police swung into action with teargas. A local media house revealed that this incident occurred following a rumor that someone had sneaked an extra illegal electronic voting gadget into the station. Further, tension went high when there…
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 –Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga is expected to jet out of the country on Friday April 22 alongside Narc-Kenya Party leader, Martha Karua. Ms Karua will be making her first political international tour together with her Azimio-One Kenya Alliance presidential candidate, Raila Odinga, who is scheduled to hold a series of high profile meetings overseas some which will see them talk to Kenyans in the diaspora. According to reports, Ms Karua will be in the company of Odinga who is also looking forward to get his running mate from the Mt Kenya part of the country.…
Monday, April 18, 2022 –Azimio la Umoja women now want Ms Martha Karua to deputize Raila Odinga in the August 9 general elections. Youth and Gender Affairs Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Rachel Shebesh who today Monday April 18 led a women’s league meeting at Jacarabda Hotel in Westlands, asked Azimio-one Kenya Alliance leaders to pick on the Narc-Kenya Party leader to be Raila’s running mate. The women argued that, finally, they had a woman who was sufficiently fit for that role without more excuses as it has been claimed before. Shebesh further argued that in Martha, women across the country…
Monday, April 18, 2022 –Businessman Jimi Wanjigi has clarified the reason why he will not support Deputy President William Ruto’s presidential bid. In his Kwale rally held on Sunday April 17, the tycoon made it clear that Ruto’s Hustler programme was a fraud visited on the poor Kenyans with intentions of making a few billionaires richer. He stated that the current difficult economic situation in the country was purely created by the DP who had his man Henry Rotich at the helm of the National Treasury when the country started going to the dogs. He therefore told his supporters that…