Muniini K. Mulera

Rigathi Gachagua’s day of Machiavellian reckoning

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 21, 20240 comments

#Gachagua #Ruto #Kenyatta #Moi #Pinto #Mboya #Kariuki #Tuko #Muge #Machiavelli #Kenya #Uganda #Nyayo #Moi

Photo: Nyayo House, Nairobi © Muniini K. Mulera Following his fall from the deputy presidency of Kenya last week, Rigathi Gachagua expressed his shock at the way his “brother and friend” President William Ruto had treated him. “I did not know that ...

Ruto should complete Zakayo's story

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 16, 20240 comments

#Ruto #Zakayo #Zacchaeus #Kenya #Uganda #Kangire

Photo: Children in rural Uganda; are they citizens too? ***************** Kenyans call their current president Zakayo, after Zacchaeus, the height-challenged tax collector at Jericho two thousand years ago, who was reportedly very wealthy. President William Samoei Ruto’s ...

Kenya: a warning sign for those with eyes and ears

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 1, 20240 comments

#Kenya #Ruto #Uganda #Museveni

Photo: Kenya Parliament Buildings, Nairobi (built in 1954). After years of chaos in the land, the people that captured power in Uganda in 1986 had the excellent opportunity, space and time to discharge the generally accepted responsibilities of a government, namely, (1) human ...

Why Kenya’s Gen. Omondi Ogolla’s death needs independent investigation

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 24, 20240 comments

#Kenya #Omondi #Ogolla #Ruto

The death of General Francis Omondi Ogolla, Kenya’s Chief of Defence Forces, has sent shockwaves through his country, with ripples that have extended to all who care about stability in our region. His death in a helicopter crash on Thursday April 18, along with Brigadier ...

Hand over election management to the Commonwealth or United Nations

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 15, 20220 comments

#Kenya #election #IEBC #Ruto #Raila #Odinga #Tanzania #Chebukati

Writing about this year’s presidential election in Kenya was akin to chasing a bouncing, curving tennis ball. Now you see it. Now you don’t. Signs of hope. Signs of despair. Not because of who was leading, but because of the cumulative evidence of fraud within the work ...

How will history judge Uhuru Kenyatta?

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 1, 20220 comments

#Uhuru #Kenyatta #Raila #Kenya #Ruto

The Kenyan political marathon enters the home stretch with the country, and the world, in Olympic-size suspense. Will the next president of Kenya be Raila Amolo Odinga or will it be William Samoei arap Ruto? Will the result reveal a decisive winner, or will there be a runoff, complete ...