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By HUDSON GUMBIHI
CRIME has significantly reduced in Nairobi’s Central Business District (CBD) over the last three years, thanks to revolutionary policies that are gradually aiding in restoring the lost glory of the city in the sun.
Besides boosting investor-confidence, city residents and tourists walk along streets and alleys with a sense of self-assurance unlike in the [...]
Written on September 28, 2009 | Posted in
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By HUDSON GUMBIHI
THE heist involving police and security guards to defraud millions of cash-on-transit has once again exposed complicity within local security agencies.
Kenyans wherever they are, have always cast aspersions on the professionalism of police officers charged with the responsibility of protecting their lives and property. Over [...]
Written on September 25, 2009 | Posted in
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By HUDSON GUMBIHI
THE biting food shortage in Kenya has adversely compromised the security situation in a country where more than 10 million people are faced with starvation.
In marginalized parts; cattle rustling and banditry incidences are commonplace; armed robberies and organized crimes are frequent in urban settings. Food and security experts are unanimous that the worsening [...]
Written on September 23, 2009 | Posted in
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BY MAURICE ALUDA
One of the major concerns in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People is examination of how the present African political culture of corruption, betrayal and violence is slowly eating itself into the post-independence youth. A number of youthful characters in the novel are easily swayed away from their once cherished political ideals [...]
Written on September 21, 2009 | Posted in
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By Caroline K. Kwatemba.
A young man is fighting for his life in a Nyahera Health Center, Nyanza province, Kenya, following a self-inflicted wound after his parents apparently refused him consent to marry his sweetheart. The man, who is in his early 20s, reportedly chopped off his genitals with a kitchen knife after his parents refused [...]
Written on September 21, 2009 | Posted in
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By Oscar Osore.
The simmering row over the ownership of Fr. Walstra Primary School in Bungoma municipality, Kenya, took a new twist. During the celebration of mass at Christ the King Cathedral,the parish priest Fr Christopher Wanyonyi reiterated that at no given time did the diocese of Bungoma cede the school to the government and [...]
Written on September 20, 2009 | Posted in
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By HUDSON GUMBIHI
RECENT events in Kenya indicate that drug trafficking is still a serious problem despite numerous policies to control the vice, which has become a source of violent crimes and general social disorder.
Signs that drug trafficking is a security threat and at the same time a lucrative trade in the underworld, surfaced when [...]
Written on September 17, 2009 | Posted in
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By Hudson Gumbihi.
THE Kenyan government finally bowed to international and local pressure effecting top-level changes in a battered police force with the dubious reputation of wayward corruption, impunity and brute conduct.
In came career policeman Mathew Iteere and out went beleaguered Major-General Hussein Mohammed Ali, a forthright man whose undoing was to head an agency whose [...]
Written on September 16, 2009 | Posted in
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BY MAURICE ALUDA.
One of the concerns that Chinua Achebe raises in his ‘Morning yet, on Creation Day’, is about leadership. In one of the essays, he begins by observing that the problem of Nigeria is a problem of leadership. Yes, even the problem of Kenya is also that of leadership.
One of the institutions that our [...]
Written on September 15, 2009 | Posted in
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By Maurice Aluda
I have read and heard stimulating debates about the dwindling status of research in oral literature, especially in our institutions of higher learning. Some critics have even gone to the lengths of proclaiming the death of this genre of literary study. Sometimes back I had the occasion to attend and participate in an orientation [...]
Written on September 14, 2009 | Posted in
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