Raila will this Friday night hold a KSh 100,000 a plate dinner to help him raise funds for the coming elections. The dinner will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nairobi’s Upper Hill. It has been organized by Raila’s campaign secretariat and some of his supporters. His campaign secretariat communication director, Barrack Muluka, confirmed...

Had President Kibaki enacted the bill seeking to make it mandatory for a legislator to have a degree, many of the current MP’s would have been disqualified from running for office next year. Some of them are well known like Balala, Sonko, Ngilu and Fred Gumo. Here is a list of those mps who have no undergraduate degrees. Central region 1....

Kisia Eats A Humble Pie After Taking His Tribal Mathematics Online. Phillip Kisia was today forced to delete two tweets which were seen to be perpetuating tribalism. The former Nairobi town clerk and now a candidate for Nairobi governor came under heavy criticism from fellow tweeps after word spread that he had written something showing his strategy...

Has Mzalendo Kibunjia Slept On His Job For Too Long? Popular Kikuyu musicians, Kamande wa Kioi, Muigai wa Njoroge and John Demathew have come under scathing attack from Kenyans on social media and several bloggers after an article by a blogger calling himself moderate kenyan highlighted the vast tribalism, hate and incitement in some of their songs....

 Peter Kenneth Angry At Jeff Koinange For Dishonesty. Jeff Koinange has always been accused of biased reporting and interviewing. One columnist for the Star newspaper accused him of being openly anti Raila. He was branded ‘a man on a mission’. This was after he invited Miguna Miguna on the bench, several times after he fell out with Raila....

Who will save us from our MP’s? When Kenya voted for the new constitution in 2010, a new order was supposed to take charge of the country. Political discipline was mandatory and Kenya was destined never to be the same again. Flash forward to 2012,The only fruit Kenyan’s have enjoyed so far is an independent chief justice, who by the way...

“Orwa Ojode Was Just Collateral Damage” Mutahi Ngunyi. The media’s favourite political analyst, Mutahi Ngunyi, sensationally claimed that Prof. George Saitoti might have been assassinated. Mutahi was speaking this Friday on Jeff Koinange’s Capital Talk. The famous political analyst said that assassination was number one...

“This is Ruto Speaking”. The statement that stunned the presenters. Eldoret North mp William Ruto today called Kass FM to cool down Cyrus Jirongo’s. The Lugari mp was being hosted for an interview in which he accused Ruto of dictatorial tendencies.Jirongo had lamented to Silas Tarus and Alex Tum of lack of democracy in URP. ‘We...

The National Alliance Set The Bar High, On Election Management. Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta officially opened TNA’s headquarters in Nairobi. The party headquarters are located along the busy Jogoo Road. The offices are strikingly similar to American campaign offices. The space is divided into several work stations (referred to as county...

“He is no different from Ngilu who refuses to shake her opponents hand” Bonny Khalwale has all along been Kenya’s watchman in parliament. He has always lead in the fight against corruption. His ruthlessness in dealing with corrupt ministers has earned him lots of respect. His bravery is undeniable. He brought down Kimunya with his...

Peter Kenneth Takes The Lead. As opposed to 2007 elections, 2013 elections are being held during a period when Kenyans are the 2nd most tweeting nation in Africa. In President Kibaki’s own words, the number of Facebook users is fast approaching 2 million. The significance of this is the proof that millions of Kenyans are getting online. By...

Uhuru Tuko Pamoja. Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday met university student leaders as he moved to consolidate his support ahead of the launch of his new party next week. Mr Kenyatta met the 60 student leaders at Sagret Hotel in Nairobi for more than three hours where they pledged to support him in his presidential bid.  The DPM he...

Kabatesi VS Muluka. Forget the bitter fight for the ODM presidential nomination between party leader Raila Odinga and his deputy, Musalia Mudavadi. There is another intense battle going on in the background, and the combatants prefer bare-knuckles. As things stand now, Raila nearly has the prize, the ODM ticket to vie for the presidency in the...

When foreign affairs minister,Sam Ongeri, revealed to a parliamentary commission last week that president Kibaki had turned down a visit to the UK in 2010, where he was to meet both the prime minister and the queen, it was pretty obvious something was wrong. Despite Ongeri refusing to reveal the reasons for the cancelled trip on camera, people concluded...

ODM deputy party leader Musalia Mudavadi held a secret meeting with Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday morning. Although the Star could not establish the agenda of the five-hour meeting at State House Kampala, it emerged that the talks centered on regional politics. “We know that they discussed regional politics, including...

What about my testimony? Uhuru Kenyatta’s Hague Witness Lewis Nguyai is said to be an angry man. Following his unquestioned loyalty to Uhuru Kenyatta, which culminated in him testifying for the deputy prime minister at the Hague ( a role which Jeremiah Kioni allegedly refused ), Lewis Nguyai expected at least something from the latest cabinet...

Should  Njeru Githae be on the same side with his brother in law, and the man who made him, SK Macharia, or be in the Uhuru camp? “Mr Kenyatta’s supporters in Parliament  publicly called on Central province residents to boycott RMS outlets” Acting Finance minister Mr Njeru Githae is walking a political tightrope. He is torn...

In this youtube video, IEBC chairman Isaack Hassan and its commissioners share a conversation that was not supposed to go on record. Two commissioners are overheard telling the chairman of a message they have just received from ODM chief whip Jakoyo Midiwo, loosely translated as , we will give you a beating.The exact words in swahili are: ‘akina...

Makadara MP, Mike Sonko is making headlines again. Unconfirmed reports claim that the flamboyant mp has bought himself a Ferrari. The reports appearing on a blog, claim that the Ferarri is currently at a warehouse in Changamwe awaiting clearance. The make of the Ferarri is not known but whatever it is , they don’t come cheap. The report should...

Jeff Koinange is the undisputed talk show king in the region. Very few would actually match his prowess in Africa. For this he has been at the centre of various entertainment shows, including Keff Joinange of XYZ show (voice done by Nick Odhiambo), and some unsuccessful attempts to mimic his voice by various acts on Churchill live. His show capital...