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More on Significant Political Sentiment
30 Jan 2021
Season of realignments, bad business
Ahead of his meeting with a section of elected representatives from his Mt Kenya region, MPs from the Tangatanga faction of the Jubilee Party wrote a letter of defiance and lamentations to President U...
22 Jan 2021
Unexplained decisions at the IEBC but BBI team remains confident
Anyone who has
been captured
as a supporter
without their
consent can
report to the
Commission by
writing to the
Acting Commission
Secretary/CEO
indicating their
objections.”...
15 Jan 2021
On the 41 judges, it’s an argument without end
In an interview with Citizen TV after his retirement as Chief Justice, David Maraga retraced the history of the dispute over the nomination of 41 judges that President Uhuru Kenyatta has refused to ap...
15 Jan 2021
In Nairobi, speedy moves have brought some calm
After a long-forgotten case challenging her nomination was speedily ended, Anne Kananu Mwenda was quickly vetted and sworn in as Nairobi’s Deputy Governor on Friday afternoon. She is now in li...
8 Jan 2021
BBI: Mwananchi speaks
TIFA Research has conducted a survey on Sentiments in the nation regarding BBI. The TIFA survey was designed and the data collected several weeks before the writing/release of the “letter” authore...
8 Jan 2021
Silver linings in the wake of Sonko’s exit
Anyone who knows anything about Mike Sonko would know it is naïve not to expect that he would have a record of any interaction with him. The latest proof has been in the form of a recording of a conv...
18 Dec 2020
After Sonko, tough decisions have to be made
The defeat of the ODM candidate in Msambweni earlier in the week was seen by some as a triumph of the people against the system. A few days later, as former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko was shown...
11 Dec 2020
Intrigue at the Judiciary kicks off
As Chief Justice David Maraga prepared to go on his terminal leave, activist Okiya Omtatah filed a case to stop Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu taking over. Mwilu has seven issues hanging o...
4 Dec 2020
Beyond Ruto’s issues, BBI needs more verve
Deputy President William Ruto thrives in contests. He was in the winning team that rejected the draft Constitution in 2005, used the No movement to build his influence and political mobilization in 20...
27 Nov 2020
Sonko finally gets the Boot
When the motion for his impeachment was delivered this week, Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko’s supporters said that the 86 Members of the County Assembly who backed it were simply on an extortion missio...
27 Nov 2020
Two weeks later, one brother remains on course, two wondering
As President Uhuru Kenyatta gathered proponents of the Building Bridges Initiative to launch the collection of signatures, his deputy took to his new favourite medium of communication, Twitter. “Eve...
20 Nov 2020
With postponements, BBI buys the president time
Mr Ruto and his
supporters appear
to have succeeded
in confusing the
pro-BBI team: they
have continuously
poked holes in
the report and its
recommendations
and Mr Ruto...
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