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“Call me Willy,” he says.

Today the new Chief Justice, Dr. Willy Mutunga, only one week old at the helm of the Judiciary signed up on Twitter and Facebook, rounding off the week in a now-characteristic refreshing way. His foray into social media is refreshing because of the usually ultra-conservative ...

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How not to automate taxation processes

(This article was published today in the Daily Nation.) I don’t particularly like the tax man, but reports that the Kenya Revenue Authority has improved in its revenue collection efforts in the last year find me with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I feel choked because ...

We stay with the Hague! Sign the petition!

I have today signed the petition for Kenya to stay with the Hague Process and I want to be one of 1 Million Kenyans who say no, we do not want to get out of the Hague process. My Personal Position is that it is ...

PARLIAMENTARY IMPUNITY: Where is the fury?

It gets worse by the day! First, MPs banded together in Parliament and passed a (nonesensical) resolution for Kenya to withdraw from the International Criminal Justice system at the Hague - in support of 6 people who have been fingered by Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor ...

Electric Cars: is Kenya ready?

Forget the major issues of availability of electricity and so on. Kenya, along with the rest of sub-saharan Africa, is among the countries that would most be affected by the whole question of Global Warming. Incidentally, the Kenyan middle class (and the East African middle ...