Uncle Has Played Us, Yet Again
On 8th October 2023, the late General Francis Omondi Ogolla hosted president Ruto for dinner at his rural home. It was a highly classified dinner with no photos taken and…
Total Orphan Dr Ng’onga Molo Oburu Oginga’s Advise to Rabuku Stole the Show
There’s a tendency by the bereaved families of powerful personalities in Kenya to turn into state collaborators once their figureheads are removed. Christabel Ouko, the wife of former Foreign Affairs…
Siaya: Stop the Drama, Just Collect Taxes
Just like Siaya, Homabay County two years ago was registering low collection of Own Source Revenue with an unsustainable revenue growth pattern and reversed previous year gains. Then the story…
Good Morning First Lady Mama Betty Kaari Murungi
Yesterday Siaya County College and University Students’ Association (SICOCUSA) through the Ugunja sub-County Representative Wyclife Wendo partnering with Miss Ugunja conducted a mentorship program that invariably ended up in a…
Open Letter to Governor James Orengo
John the Baptist was beheaded for confrontationally telling off Herod Antipas that he should not marry Herodias, the ex-wife of his half brother. Prophet Nathan more or less told King…
Siaya County Government —The Enemy is Within!
After one election is won, or lost, politicians are always busy preparing for the next. They rarely find time to revisit their manifestoes. The honest ones delegate duties to qualified…
Quick Lessons for Obiero Otare and Other People Who Claim to Hold Ex-officio Positions
When James Obiero Otare first announced at a funeral that he was the acting Siaya Deputy Governor a sense of incredulity engulfed mourners since buffoonery is also one of his…
How the Cookie Crumbles for Siaya Legislators
The chicken are coming home to roost. When we wrote a piece in March about the need for political realignments now that Baba will likely not be holding the hands…
If You Live in A Glasshouse Don’t Throw Stones
Media personality Gabriel Oguda is an ardent critic of the Kenya Kwanza administration. From morning to evening Oguda with a following of close to one million on X (formerly Twitter)…
Stop Baseless Attacks on Orengo Administration
The Merriam-Webster eleventh collegiate dictionary defines the word resign as quit, leave or voluntarily retire from a job or position. On Wednesday 28 February 2024, the Siaya County Assembly unanimously…
Sangwenyas Must Eat — But Must They Also Insult Our Intelligence?
It is sad that everyday an appointment is made in Siaya certain people have to go off on a tangent about academic qualifications that usually aim at shaming the subjects.…
Yes, Breach of Confidentiality is An Offence under Section 62 of the Data Protection Act
80-year-old Speaker of Migori County Assembly, Charles Owino Likowa was chatting a damsel (24-years-old) when he accidentally sent the heart-to-heart message to a public Whatsapp group asking for more. This…
Rashid Mohammed Echesa: Village Boy Who Came to Nairobi and Bit More than He Could Chew
Rashid Mohammed Echesa is a stereotype of modern-day youth who have chosen to tread the treacherous footpath of politics. His beginnings as a vociferous youth leader in Kakamega who had…
Happy Easter — Try and Remember the Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta Experience!
Today Christendom celebrates Easter and for some uncoordinated reason I’ve remembered the day former president Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta visited a mental hospital and asked the patients “Mnajua mimi ni nani?”.…
Why the Department of Information in the Siaya County Government is Under Fire
Don’t praise the king when he goes naked, it will boomerang on you. These are the words of legendary journalist Phillip Ochieng to a cub reporter many years ago on…
Stop Sponsorship of Siaya Negative Press
Siaya negative press is sponsored. Details have emerged of an intricate plot by disgruntled elements, mostly losers in the last gubernatorial elections to tarnish the performance of current Governor James…
Kevin Ochieng Odhiambo: Taking Alego-Usonga By Storm
History has an uncanny way of repeating itself. Just as the current Alego-Usonga Member of Parliament Samuel Onunga Atandi burst into the political limelight in 2017 from nowhere, a new…