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NTV journalist Larry Madowo sharply differed with former Nairobi gubernatorial aspirant Miguna Miguna while hosting him last night on his show The Sidebar. In the show, attended by Senate majority leader Kipchumba Murkomen and senator Kilonzo Junior, Miguna openly said that in a revolution blood ought to be involved. The statement in turn did not auger well with the host who interjected and demanded to know whether the speaker was advocating for violence. Miguna however said he should finish speaking and should not be subjected to interjections from Larry. Larry turned emotional and told him, "Don't come back to my show." Miguna had taken much of his time condemning the Jubilee administration saying it has failed to meet its promises, statements that lacked marriage with Murkomen's view.

NASA leader, Raila Odinga, has said that their supporters shall hold demonstrations across the country on 26th October 2017, the election day. This comes days after NASA withdrew its participation from the repeat polls after the commission failed to meet their demands named Irreducible Minimums. According to Raila Odinga, the Jubilee regime is targeting the Luo community which is at the front line in the current anti IEBC demonstrations experienced in the purported NASA strongholds. In his official Facebook page, Raila called on the Jubilee administration to investigate the killings terming them extra judicial. On Tuesday, the coalition called off their daily demonstrations on behalf of the demonstrators who died during the demonstrations. In what seemed like an answer to Odinga's claims, President Uhuru Kenyatta warned the NASA coalition not to interfere with the voting exercise on 26th saying that it's not a compulsory duty to vote and every Kenyan is entitled to security. Sp...

*Press Statement by Dr. Roselyn Akombe* 17 October 2017, New York For many months now, I have questioned my role as a Commissioner at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. But I have soldiered on hoping that we could collectively find a way of addressing the crisis our country faces today. I have agonized over the decision to leave my committed IEBC FIELD staff and my country. My decision to leave the IEBC will disappoint some of you, but it is not for lack of trying. I have tried the best I could do given the circumstances. Sometimes, you walk away, especially when potentially lives are at stake. The Commission has become a party to the current crisis. The Commission is under siege. It has become increasingly difficult to continue attending plenary meetings where Commissioners come ready to vote along partisan lines and not to discuss the merit of issues before them. It has become increasingly difficult to appear on television to defend positions I disagree with in ...

SAKAGWA ACADEMIC BLOCK This is one of the most busy building in the institution. It houses more than 50 offices and a number of ultramodern lecture halls. Its entrance always seems busy due to the high number of people who use the facilities it offers. It houses the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Education, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, etc. Sakagwa most definitely gives the institution its face of operation and social recognition. It is situated next to the Science Complex, near the Sports Ground. 2. MAIN LIBRARY A very common building in the university. Almost all media adverts must display this enormous knowledge store that houses kilometres of shelves and a cool learning environment. The building also houses the famous Libaset lecture halls that are common for examination and learning common units. It is situated next to the school of law, almost 1km from the main gate via the Administration Block. 3. ADMINISTRATION BLOCK One can easily tell it by the fla...

A university is a society of its own;one that enjoys a wide range of its own generated stories. Like any other society, the members of a university, most probably students, are the authors of its fortunes and misfortunes. It goes without saying that every university houses beautiful girls and handsome boys, and narrowly that everyone has a lover in university. Obviously, university students are grown ups who are less monitored and enjoy the privilege and independence of making decisions. For the sake of the animal called democracy, or rather the desire of the heart, students make their own decisions on whom to marry or befriend. Perhaps this is what brews the problems we experience in our institutions today. If you grew up during my times, then you certainly know what 'Fisi' means. In my times, it does not mean that greedy, ugly animal that brawls in the forest. It refers to an unmarried guy who wants to own every beautiful girl he comes across. Likewise, people of my times kn...

The current Kisii University Students Union leadership is under siege after a group dubbed as rights watch group has been reportedly going round collecting signatures as part of the legal process for the same. Led by Akama Junior, a student and blogger, the group has accused the current leadership for failing to meet their promises alongside corruption cases. In a post by a member of the group, on the Facebook group named Kisii University Comrades Forum, the group allegedly claimed that the leaders led by the KUSU president Peter Kuria, have embezzled funds allocated to them by the university council. Akama Junior had earlier on claimed that they have already collected more than 2500 signature as per the law. The Peter Kuria leadership has been under pressure to organise the Cultural Week event which some have allegedly said might not take place and have directly linked it to the current leadership's failures. However, through his official Facebook page, Peter Kuria wrote about the...

GUSII POLITICS How big is Gusii in the political geography of Kenya? How voluminous is Gusii in terms of decision making in the Kenyan politics? How predictable are the voting patterns of the Gusii people? How dear are the Gusii people to the government? These are hard questions, right? You need a sack of groundnuts to ponder them... Believe me. Gusii politics have gone through a rough system of maturity for many decades, to where they are currently. The landslide has been definitely brought by education, civilisation, democratic growth, population growth, benchmarking, among other issues. For instance, political lords of the days before, were known to use tricks as a means of influence to lure voters. A story is told, of how the late George Anyona beat the late Makone Ombese by telling the public to mark X against his (Anyona) name if they were against him. By doing so, they overwhelmingly voted for him and saw him to parliament. Another story is told in the Nyaribari arena, where the...