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Dominic Odipo

Governors must protect devolution

Those familiar with the politics of the Vatican, the tiny city state in the centre of Rome that serves as the world headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, will probably also be familiar with the famous or infamous “five don’ts.”
By Dominic Odipo 10 years ago
Governors must protect devolution
When did the rain start ‘beating’ us?
When did the rain start ‘beating’ us?
By Dominic Odipo 10 years ago
Poison pill behind East Africa Portland Cement Company woes
Poison pill behind East Africa Portland Cement Company woes
By Dominic Odipo 10 years ago
Intrigues hide Portland’s poor performance
Intrigues hide Portland’s poor performance
By Dominic Odipo 10 years ago
No Luhya can fit into Moses Mudavadi’s shoes
Among his fellow Luhya members of Parliament, he was undoubtedly the First among unequals. If the new constitution had existed in his time, he would almost certainly have been elected either the first senator or the first governor for Vihiga County.
By Dominic Odipo 10 years ago
No Luhya can fit into Moses Mudavadi’s shoes
Another tribute to Lumumba from a fan
After reading my column on Patrice Lumumba, one of our readers wrote the following: “My name is Eliud Biegon. While reading for my History degree, I took an interest in Patrice Emery Lumumba and searched and read and watched materials on him, thanks to the Internet.
By Dominic Odipo 10 years ago
Another tribute to Lumumba from a fan
Africa should set aside day for Lumumba
Early in the morning of January 17, 1961, they were collected from the army camp at Thysville and taken to an airfield at Moanda accompanied by three soldiers from Kasai, especially chosen for their hatred of the leader.
By Dominic Odipo 10 years ago
Africa should set aside day for Lumumba
Exempting athletes from paying tax is wrong
Should our world-beating athletes – who bring so much glory to Kenya by winning all those gold medals at all those international meets – be taxed on the millions of dollars they earn every year in fees and bonuses?
By Dominic Odipo 10 years ago
Exempting athletes from paying tax is wrong
Why Raila must nurture competition in ODM
The Macmillan English dictionary defines the word charade as an attempt to pretend that a situation is good or satisfactory, when in fact it is not. Is the political situation within the Orange Party good and satisfactory?
By By Dominic Odipo 10 years ago
Why Raila must nurture competition in ODM
Why a ‘Nguema’ can attain power in Kenya
He was a man of limited education and low mental ability who had made his way up the ladder as a result of the support of Spanish administrators who believed he could be turned into a trustworthy collaborator relied upon to do their bidding.
By dominic ODIPO 10 years ago
Why a ‘Nguema’ can attain power in Kenya
Muthaura appointment not popular in Coast
Could the implosion of the Jubilee Coalition government inadvertently start from the sleepy far northern coast resort town of Lamu? This sounds like a foolish question, but there are times when only such dumb questions manage to get to the heart of the matter.
By DOMINIC ODIPO 10 years ago
Muthaura appointment not popular in Coast
Back AFC and Gor for Stars to do well
Students of statistical theory will be well familiar with the concept of spurious correlation. Two seemingly unrelated events seem to happen in exactly the same way, even though we cannot see any obvious connection between them.
By DOMINIC ODIPO 10 years ago
Back AFC and Gor for Stars to do well
Central African Republic needs international help
As many participate in religious celebrations at this time of the year, our country, the Central African Republic, remains on the brink of religious warfare. In a place that most of the world struggles to find on a map, more than 2 million people, nearly half of the nation’s population, are in desperate need of aid.
By Dominic Odipo 10 years ago
Central African Republic needs international help
We are getting it wrong in mining sector
Is Kenya’s mining industry, especially the extractives sector, being managed properly? Is this industry being managed and regulated by an enlightened, equitable and reasonably stable policy and legislative regime?
By Dominic Odipo 10 years ago
We are getting it wrong in mining sector
Uhuru’s efforts to gag media will fail
Who, at the end of the day, should have the last word on what the Kenyan media writes or broadcasts? Should it be the President, the cabinet secretary in charge of information and communications, the leader of the majority in Parliament or the Chief Justice of the Republic?
By Dominic Odipo 10 years ago
Uhuru’s efforts to gag media will fail
New mining law a recipe for disaster
What is our mining policy or blueprint? Do we already have it in one single document or is it, like the British Constitution, unwritten and still being developed one paragraph at a time as the days go by?
By Dominic Odipo 10 years ago
New mining law a recipe for disaster
Remembering the day JFK was assassinated
It was the news bulletin that even the television news anchors wept over as they read. It was the news that shocked and stunned not only the entire United States of America but the whole world.
By Dominic Odipo 11 years ago
Remembering the day JFK was assassinated
MPs treading on dangerous ground with Bills
Our Members of Parliament (specifically those sitting in the National Assembly) now want to control the Judiciary.
By Dominic Odipo 11 years ago
MPs treading on dangerous ground with Bills
Restore sanity to sugar industry in Western
The week before last, the Western Development Initiative Association (Wedia), a sugar industry lobby group, made a presentation to Parliament.
By Dominic Odipo 11 years ago
Restore sanity to sugar industry in Western
Let Senate allow governors room to work
We, the people of Busia County, elected former attorney general Amos Wako to go to the Senate in Nairobi so that he could present and articulate the most critical issues facing our county to the nation and rest of the world.
By Dominic Odipo 11 years ago
Let Senate allow governors room to work
Investing in bank stocks no walk in park
On June 20, 2013, a normal trading day at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), the county’s largest bank by asset base, sold a total of 4,250,000 ordinary shares.
By Dominic Odipo 11 years ago
Investing in bank stocks no walk in park
On the Irrigation Act, Attorney General is correct
On March 22, this year by a legal notice which was published in a Kenya Gazette Supplement, Attorney General Githu Muigai effectively reversed an earlier Kenya Gazette notice which had repealed the Irrigation Act, Chapter 347 of the Laws of Kenya.
By Dominic Odipo 11 years ago
On the Irrigation Act, Attorney General is correct
Greatest anti-tribalism speech ever written
It was, perhaps, the greatest peace speech ever delivered anywhere by a major political figure over the last 50 years.
By Dominic Odipo 11 years ago
Greatest anti-tribalism speech ever written
Realpolitik of chess game that is presidency
After Edmund Hillary first reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953, he was asked why he had attempted to climb the world’s highest mountain in the first place.
By Dominic Odipo 11 years ago
Realpolitik of chess game that is presidency
Is there an anti-devolution conspiracy afoot?
To Senator Kipchumba Murkomen, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Devolved Government, this was part of a “grand conspiracy to cripple the Senate and have it wound up.”
By Dominic Odipo 11 years ago
Is there an anti-devolution conspiracy afoot?
Who said Provincial Administration is history?
Probably the most preposterous local news item I saw last week was in the Friday edition of The Standard under the headline: “Former PCs get new roles as Regional Commissioners.”
By Dominic Odipo 11 years ago
Who said Provincial Administration is history?
Why Mboya, JM remain elephants in the room
He was flamboyant, articulate, highly intelligent and, as most ladies would agree, very handsome. He had left formal schooling only in Form Two but later ended up at Ruskin College, Oxford and rose to become the most effective parliamentarian this country has ever produced.
By Dominic Odipo 11 years ago
Why Mboya, JM remain elephants in the room
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