Why the 50-60% Increment in Teachers Pay is Good for Us

Let’s face it. The teaching profession has become just as lucrative and endearing as politics. The 50 - 60% pay increment in the teachers’ salaries awarded to them by the Labor Court and upheld by the Court of Appeal, gave a much needed lifeline to the teaching profession and the education sector.

Here is How to Really Defeat Terrorists

The war against terrorism is painful, expensive and protracted. Even the most powerful nation on earth, the US, is having a difficult time dealing with terrorists. Over the years, it has sent thousands of men and women to combat them wherever they are on the planet. The US, among many other moneyed countries, has also given financial and military assistance to different countries to fight terrorists.

Nothing Makes me More Proud of Being Kenyan than Our Athletes

Its been a great week for Kenya at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing. In under a week, we have won 11 medals. Six of them being gold medals. To put it simply, we have won two gold medals everyday of the championships. Now who does that, if not the hardworking Kenyan athletes?

Somebody Tell Mudavadi to Stay in ODM and Fight for "Change" From the Inside

Kenyans are keenly waiting to see which party one Musalia Mudavadi will be moving to - that is if he makes his   intentions true. The Labour Party of Kenya and the New Ford Kenya are some of the parties that have been said to be warming up to him.But should he walk out from ODM? What would it mean for him? What would it speak of ODM? What would it say of Kenyan politics?

A Call to Kenyan Minorities to Unite: Let Us Form the Minorities Tribal Group

I have tried forgetting the GEMA and KAMATUSA meetings since the day they were convened. I do not have to say that I have not been successful in that regard. The memory of the meetings stalk my shadow during the day and hover above me at night like some malevolent fiend. I have tried pushing back the resolutions they made to the back of my head where bad dreams are, but it has not worked either.

Is There Some Truth in the Claims to Assassinate Raila?

Is there some truth in the claims to assassinate Raila? I don't know.

Open Note to Voters: Vomit all GEMA and KAMATUSA Politicians

The recent meetings by GEMA and KAMATUSA have sparked a lot of debate in the country. These meetings, inspired by pending ICC cases against four Kenyans (Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto, Joshua Sang and Francis Muthaura), were called in a bid to delay any prosecutions until after the next General Elections in Kenya. The reason behind this is that both Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto (both of the G7 political alliance) are presidential candidates. Their communities (tribes?) feel that the charges against them are politically instigated and they will lock out their "sons" from vying for the top seat.