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Njonjo Kihuria

Nakhumicha needs humility to serve all Kenyans effectively

The police service is independent and such matters should fall under the relevant commission and the Inspector General of Police. CS Nakhumicha should complain to them through CS Kindiki.

By Njonjo Kihuria 1 year ago

Nakhumicha needs humility to serve all Kenyans effectively

Professionalism and work ethics needed urgently

Professionalism and work ethics needed urgently

By Njonjo Kihuria 1 year ago

Let those who can afford, pay university fees

Let those who can afford, pay university fees

By Njonjo Kihuria 1 year ago

Ruto should nip Gachagua, Sakaja tiff in the bud

Ruto should nip Gachagua, Sakaja tiff in the bud

By Njonjo Kihuria 1 year ago

You're our son don't neglect us, Mau Mau war veterans tell Gachagua

Official says DP's mother listed as member 171, making him Mau Mau descendant. Association wants State to identify the graves of freedom fighters and build monuments.

By Njonjo Kihuria 2 years ago

You're our son don't neglect us, Mau Mau war veterans tell Gachagua

Mr President, keep the promise to our youth

There is dignity in hard work Mr President, but you cannot dignify giving a slasher to a mechanical engineering graduate to clear road reserves.

By Njonjo Kihuria 2 years ago

Mr President, keep the promise to our youth

Yes, just excuse our politicians from the degree requirement

Those looking for these high-flying jobs are unaware of the toils of the under-privileged and real jobs are the last thing on their minds. So I can still laugh, I guess.

By Njonjo Kihuria 2 years ago

Yes, just excuse our politicians from the degree requirement

Mt Kenya, stop craving for DP’s slot, ask for more

Just filling the number two position does not benefit Mt Kenya in any way, apart from someone from the area being associated with the presidency

By Njonjo Kihuria 2 years ago

Mt Kenya, stop craving for DP’s slot, ask for more

Njonjo’s 14 years in the quiet 'wilderness' after failed coup

Sir Charles Njonjo almost single-handedly ensured Moi became president and soon after plunged into active politics.

By Njonjo Kihuria 2 years ago

Njonjo’s 14 years in the quiet 'wilderness' after failed coup

First black AG despised African lawyers, pilots

Charles Njonjo loved the Queen’s English, believed in many things white and at one time had disparaged African pilots.

By Njonjo Kihuria 2 years ago

First black AG despised African lawyers, pilots

What Sir Charles Njonjo would have written in his untold memoirs

The chips were down and Njonjo lost many friends some of who were afraid of reprisal from the government if they continued associating with him.

By Njonjo Kihuria 2 years ago

What Sir Charles Njonjo would have written in his untold memoirs

Fete freedom fighters at Mashujaa museum at Uhuru Gardens

MMWVA asked for recognition of the Mau Mau armed struggle and that of the second liberation of the 1990s, through Acts of Parliament.

By Njonjo Kihuria 2 years ago

Fete freedom fighters at Mashujaa museum at Uhuru Gardens

Rich Kenyans ignore the poor at their own peril

Most politicians do not watch much TV apart from news, where they can watch themselves insulting each other.

By Njonjo Kihuria 3 years ago

Rich Kenyans ignore the poor at their own peril

Kirigiti, venue for Kikuyu music, dance and sports, to get a facelift

At Kirigiti, people danced to the unity jig known as ‘gicukia’ and ‘ndumo’, a performance by women during happy times.

By Njonjo Kihuria 3 years ago

Kirigiti, venue for Kikuyu music, dance and sports, to get a facelift

Kalembe’s heart was in the village where he was loved

I initially met Kalembe Ndile while as a budding features writer with The Standard in the 1990s.

By Njonjo Kihuria 3 years ago

Kalembe’s heart was in the village where he was loved

Kalembe Ndile’s heart was in the village where he was loved

To discard the villager in him, he rented a posh apartment on Ngong road.

By Njonjo Kihuria 3 years ago

Kalembe Ndile’s heart was in the village where he was loved

Allow the well-to-do get the commercial Covid-19 vaccines

Many well-to-do Kenyans I am sure even tried and maybe in some instances succeeded in bribing their way to the front of the queue.

By Njonjo Kihuria 3 years ago

Allow the well-to-do get the commercial Covid-19 vaccines

How NOT to beat Covid

Citizens are treating a State directive to keep safe from Covid with a deadly disdain

By Njonjo Kihuria 3 years ago

How NOT to beat Covid

Jomo nurse recalls good times with high and mighty

Gacigi Gecaga is embroiled in a legal tussle over property and is not only broke but now lives in misery.

By Njonjo Kihuria 5 years ago

Jomo nurse recalls good times with high and mighty

Residents want more from mining project

Families resettled in Bwiti complain they were inadequately compensated.

By Njonjo Kihuria 7 years ago

Residents want more from mining project

Former MP living in poverty and solitude

He says life out of political limelight is calm but without friends

By Caroline Nyanga Njonjo Kihuria 7 years ago

Former MP living in poverty and solitude

Neglected Mau Mau grave sites found in Narok

When the colonial administrators left Kenya in 1963, they destroyed most of the evidence of torture by setting ablaze incriminating materials in detention camps, prisons and emergency villages.

By Njonjo Kihuria 10 years ago

Neglected Mau Mau grave sites found in Narok

Day Prophetess Akatsa brought ‘Jesus’ to Nairobi

From a house help to ‘high priestess’, Mama ‘Prophetess’ Mary Sinaida Akatsa was as controversial as her sermons, revelations and healing marvels at the Jerusalem Church of Christ in Kawangware.

By Njonjo Kihuria 10 years ago

Day Prophetess Akatsa brought ‘Jesus’ to Nairobi

Dream team that failed to kick-start economy

Hemmed in by donors who were demanding accountability and an opposition insistent on removing it from power, the Kanu government in mid 1999, appointed high level technocrats to “turn round the economy”.

By NJONJO KIHURIA 10 years ago

Dream team that failed to kick-start economy

Genesis of illicit brews and the untold agony

For the better half of the last century when Kenya was a British colony, Africans were not allowed to drink ‘bottled’ beer because it was the preserve of their white masters.

By Njonjo Kihuria 10 years ago

Genesis of illicit brews and the untold agony

How NARC became a movement

Towards the end of 1998,the country was going through hard economic times and anger had been rising over inordinate price increases of essential commodities.

By Njonjo Kihuria 10 years ago

How NARC became a movement

Constitution amendments that dealt Kenya a body blow

When the first amendment to the Independence (Lancaster House) Constitution was made in 1964, Kenyans were elated in the realisation that their fellow countrymen were now in full control of the country’s destiny.

By Njonjo Kihuria 10 years ago

Constitution amendments that dealt Kenya a body blow

Bitter reward of 40-year ban for Mau Mau revolt

They were labelled terrorists and on August 12, 1950, the British colonial government gazetted Subsidiary Legislation Number 913, outlawing the Mau Mau.

By Njonjo Kihuria 10 years ago

Bitter reward of 40-year ban for Mau Mau revolt

The old boys club that made up independence Cabinet

Independent Kenya’s first Cabinet was more of an old boys club, with nine of its 15 members being former Alliance High School students. Two others had gone to Maseno and another two were former Mang’u High School students.

By Njonjo Kihuria 10 years ago

The old boys club that made up independence Cabinet

How Njonjo barred Africanisation of the judiciary

Kenya had desperately yearned for an independent Judiciary after many years of manipulation by the colonial government.

By Njonjo Kihuria 10 years ago

How Njonjo barred Africanisation of the judiciary

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