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Caleb Atemi

Oloo Aringo's harrowing airport experience after Ouko's death

Oloo Aringo’s sycophantic moment came when he heaped praise on President Moi to the point of referring to him as “The Prince of Peace.”

Oloo Aringo's harrowing airport experience after Ouko's death

UhuRuto Tantrums: Walking in the other's shoes and a lesson for leaders

UhuRuto Tantrums: Walking in the other's shoes and a lesson for leaders

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

The African diplomat; Is Ruto treading a dangerous and slippery ground?

The African diplomat; Is Ruto treading a dangerous and slippery ground?

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Kenyans caught between two hard headed politicos reluctant to let go amid raging tiff

Kenyans caught between two hard headed politicos reluctant to let go amid raging tiff

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Of politics and the health of presidents

President Daniel Moi was such a heath freak, if one coughed or sneezed violently during cabinet meetings, he could be requested to take leave and return once fully recovered.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Of politics and the health of presidents

Malala joining Cabinet: A case of trusted presidents' allies whose word became law

Ruto is following in the footsteps of his predecessors, who surrounded themselves with men and women that were strangers in government, but had massive clout and say on matters of national importance

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Malala joining Cabinet: A case of trusted presidents' allies whose word became law

Murders, detentions and armed raids: Wars that media has fought across the decades

Since independence, Kenya has had its fair share of the likes of Kuria; men foaming at the mouth, spewing venom and vomiting threats.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Murders, detentions and armed raids: Wars that media has fought across the decades

Drunks, brewers, and chiefs: Politics of illicit brews and the curse of colonial laws

Since colonial days, poor Kenyans have suffered in the name of the fight against alcoholism. Violence, discrimination, and primitive methods have been used to fight brews.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Drunks, brewers, and chiefs: Politics of illicit brews and the curse of colonial laws

What Ruto can learn from his predecessors on how to manage precarious situations

Ruto being a strategist who learned from Daniel arap Moi, will not allow the Finance Bill to fail. Most MPs know that if the bill fails in totality, the country will shut down.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

What Ruto can learn from his predecessors on how to manage precarious situations

Why, Like others before him, Ruto will have a hard time dealing a killer blow to graft

Ruto, who packaged a hustler's champion campaign, is promising to tackle the vice whose flames made my father weep during his last days. He must first contend with the private owners of Kenya.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Why, Like others before him, Ruto will have a hard time dealing a killer blow to graft

Trump before court: Similarities between US and African countries on power and wealth

After many years of violent street protests, battles and deaths, long after the Cold War had fizzled out, Kenya ushered in multiparty democracy. But did this mean anything to the citizens?

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Trump before court: Similarities between US and African countries on power and wealth

First on scene! Telling stories about the pain of others and living with the consequences

Journalists are among the most traumatised professionals. Like doctors, nurses, teachers and police officers, journalists are neglected and taken for granted.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

First on scene! Telling stories about the pain of others and living with the consequences

Combating religious cults is timely, but let us also get rid of cultic politicians

The Shakahola massacre opens national wounds oozing with pus and maggots of religious cults and cultic leaders, who prey on people's weaknesses.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Combating religious cults is timely, but let us also get rid of cultic politicians

Economic genius but bad politician; why Kenyans still miss Kibaki's leadership

Kibaki introduced performance contracting, each government ministry, agency and parastatal, had to put in place measurable programmes with clear goals and deliverables.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Economic genius but bad politician; why Kenyans still miss Kibaki's leadership

How Kamlesh Pattni's charm held Kenya's rich and mighty captive in his Goldenberg scandal

The year was 1993. After pressure from donors and western governments, Pattni was arrested and charged with conspiracy to defraud the government of billions of shillings.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

How Kamlesh Pattni's charm held Kenya's rich and mighty captive in his Goldenberg scandal

How handshakes became part of Kenya's political history, will Ruto follow suit?

Kenyatta set the stage and pace of power sharing, his actions prepared the behavioural pattern of subsequent leaders to make promises and proclamations they knew couldn't be achieved.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

How handshakes became part of Kenya's political history, will Ruto follow suit?

From Jaramogi to Matiang'i: Tales of Kenya's dark past of impunity involving police power

Today, our policemen are still being used by those with money, influence and power. Even a transformed Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is caught up in political intrigues.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

From Jaramogi to Matiang'i: Tales of Kenya's dark past of impunity involving police power

Matiang'i woes: Vital lessons from Kenya's chequered history on power and influence

Matiang''i was an all-powerful minister in the government of Uhuru Kenyatta. He wielded massive power. He issued threats against the then Deputy President William Ruto and his supporters.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Matiang'i woes: Vital lessons from Kenya's chequered history on power and influence

The silent message in recent visit to Kenya by America's First Lady Jill Biden

America is gently elbowing its way back to Kenya and Africa. For years now, China has occupied the place that the US and other Western powers had fought hard to retain since the Cold War era.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

The silent message in recent visit to Kenya by America's First Lady Jill Biden

Why US doesn't leave anything to chance whenever top officials go abroad

Whenever the US president visits, especially in developing nations, the Secret Service and US military take over the country's airspace, and takes full control of the security.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Why US doesn't leave anything to chance whenever top officials go abroad

Winning the war on cattle rustling needs more than police and army

As President William Ruto seeks a permanent solution to banditry, he might consider reestablishing the anti-stock theft unit which should be run professionally.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Winning the war on cattle rustling needs more than police and army

They killed Robert Ouko and let the GSU loose on the people

Robert Ouko death: How GSU brutalised innocent locals to quell demos

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

They killed Robert Ouko and let the GSU loose on the people

Covering Ouko murder mystery: Reflections of a journalist

There lay remains of a human being with black and dry skull. The neck, shoulders and torso had been eaten by the flames and all that remained were thick lumps of black ash.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Covering Ouko murder mystery: Reflections of a journalist

Transitions come with fair share of problems

Kenya's first president Mzee Jomo Kenyatta took over leadership from a brutal, racist British regime. The white colonialists grudgingly handed over power.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Transitions come with fair share of problems

Kenya has some cleaning up to do, avoid falsehoods that create poll tension

The Kenyan electoral system has undergone a major evolution. In 1974, candidates couldn't be elected to Parliament without an election symbol.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Kenya has some cleaning up to do, avoid falsehoods that create poll tension

Pele's football was art and dance; this is how

The absolute King of Football, has gone to join his two friends. Pele, just like Bruce Lee and Muhammad Ali, was in his discipline, The Chosen One.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Pele's football was art and dance; this is how

How founding president and Moi set the precedent for closing and opening the new year

President William Ruto follows in the footsteps of his political teacher Daniel arap Moi. He’s a teetotaler and marks his events with prayers.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

How founding president and Moi set the precedent for closing and opening the new year

The politics of betrayal and how Ruto broke jinx that has plagued vice presidency

Ruto's detractors forgot one thing, he was a student of multiple political chess masters. He had worked with and studied them all, writes biographer and editor Caleb Atemi

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

The politics of betrayal and how Ruto broke jinx that has plagued vice presidency

How the vice presidency is Kenya's most challenging job

When the colonialists wanted to offer Kenyans early independence with Odinga taking charge, Jaramogi said there can be no Uhuru without Kenyatta.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

How the vice presidency is Kenya's most challenging job

Lessons for Ruto: What it took past presidents to make their disloyal ministers toe the line

If President William Ruto intends to run his government in an orderly fashion, he needs to learn some critical lessons from his predecessors.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Lessons for Ruto: What it took past presidents to make their disloyal ministers toe the line

Moses Kuria's hard punching and lessons for Ruto about loyalists

President William Ruto is looking to be a good student of Moi. He must be aware that some of the men and women he has appointed to the Cabinet will act like skunks and give his government a bad name.

By Caleb Atemi 1 year ago

Moses Kuria's hard punching and lessons for Ruto about loyalists

How past presidents treated their ministers

During the recent vetting of Cabinet Secretary nominees, I saw men and women receive punches and kicks they could not deflect. Some hit the ground as the committee tore through them.

By Caleb Atemi 2 years ago

How past presidents treated their ministers

Rogue police: Looking back at era when forced disappearances, killings were rife

Victims would be placed in a container within a police station before transportation to their death place. They would then be strangled using electric wires and their fingers chopped off.

By Caleb Atemi 2 years ago

Rogue police: Looking back at era when forced disappearances, killings were rife

Of presidents and false promises: Will Ruto stay the course in quest to grow economy?

These interventions coming in under 30 days of taking power have received a major applause from his supporters who have said he is taking care of the hustler's interests.

By Caleb Atemi 2 years ago

Of presidents and false promises: Will Ruto stay the course in quest to grow economy?

William Ruto using democratic ways to amass power, but will he wield it wisely?

Almost all arms of government from the Council of Governors, to Speakers of both the National Assembly and the Senate, to the Leader of Majority, are aligned to him.

By Caleb Atemi 2 years ago

William Ruto using democratic ways to amass power, but will he wield it wisely?

Kabuga's tragic history intertwined with Kenya's political, ethnic cleansing

He is alleged to have supplied the militia with machetes said to have originated from Kenya. Fortunately, Kenya didn't have a Felicien Kabuga with a powerful and popular radio station.

By Caleb Atemi 2 years ago

Kabuga's tragic history intertwined with Kenya's political, ethnic cleansing

Same script in intrigues that thrust Ruto and Moi into power

The ascendance to the presidency by Ruto stirred in me a historical and spiritual fire that was already burning quietly

By Caleb Atemi 2 years ago

Same script in intrigues that thrust Ruto and Moi into power

Covering violent 92, 97 multiparty elections was no walk in the park

Kanu controlled the security apparatus. However, resilience was growing rapidly among the youth in opposition strongholds. By the time the 1992 elections came, the opposition had grown in strength.

By Caleb Atemi 2 years ago

Covering violent 92, 97 multiparty elections was no walk in the park

When Bwana DC counted imaginary voters

In the 1980s and early 90s, journalism was an adventure. You would be arrested for covering anyone opposing Kanu. Voting was by mlolongo and District Commissioners were the returning officers.

By Caleb Atemi 2 years ago

When Bwana DC counted imaginary voters

How Uhuru's leadership style differs from three presidents before him

Jomo looks at his son from his grave and smiles, sometimes shudders and wants to cry. To tame their deputies, Moi and Kibaki would not have employed Uhuru's abrasive tactics.

By Caleb Atemi 2 years ago

How Uhuru's leadership style differs from three presidents before him

Kenyan journalism is poorer without Joe Kadhi

Joe was among the first crop of indigenous journalists to be on the driver's seat. He was also a great writer with compelling points on whatever subject.

By Caleb Atemi 2 years ago

Kenyan journalism is poorer without Joe Kadhi

If corruption thrives, Martha Karua will walk away from the government

Inflammatory utterances from 2005 referendum campaigns set the stage for 2007 contest. In 1997, Karua walked out on President Moi at a national meeting in Kirinyaga.

By Caleb Atemi 2 years ago

If corruption thrives, Martha Karua will walk away from the government

How VP Mwai Kibaki once poured his heart out to press

Mwai Kibaki, then Minister for Health, knew that every political function would be invaded by security personnel from the dreaded Special Branch squad.

By Caleb Atemi 2 years ago

How VP Mwai Kibaki once poured his heart out to press

How the rich splurged on pizza and fuel after Covid lockdowns

The increased spending on fuel and prepared foods in September pushed up their inflation rate.

By Domnic Omondi 2 years ago

How the rich splurged on pizza and fuel after Covid lockdowns

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