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THE STANDARD OPINION A matatu with a painting of US presidents Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln, and civil rights activist Martin Luther King. Dr King is frequently cited as a freedom champion who stood on a spiritual platform. [Courtesy: AFP] A string of insults, a bag of foul language, blaring character assassination and the speech still ends with “God Bless Kenya!” How is God supposed to fit comfortably in such a dark sentence? Such is the conflicting form of our politicians’ speeches. Their boldness to accuse others of moral failures, while they themselves have a forest of logs in their eyes, is often dizzying. ....
THE STANDARD POLITICS Navakholo Mp Emmanuel Wangwe (left) with Kenya Medical Training College Board Chairman Prof. Philip Kaloki when he inspected a new building at Kenya Medical Training college Navakholo satellite campus.[Benjamin Sakwa, Standard] Navakholo MP Emmanuel Wangwe has said the BBI proposals will change Kenya s political structure and secure everybody s interests. Wangwe said the overwhelming endorsement of the BBI Bill in both houses of Parliament demonstrates that the president is fully in charge and his ‘foot soldiers’ are keen to deliver on his agenda. “By garnering a rare more than two-thirds in the National Assembly and the Senate, President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga have flexed their political muscle and showed they are the real heavyweights,” he said. ....
April 19th 2021 at 08:38:38 GMT +0300 If Dr Mukhisa Kituyi succeeds in his bid to become Kenya’s fifth president, he will join a small, elite club of leaders whose spouses are freedom fighters in their own right. His wife, Dr Ling Merete, currently a senior UN official based in Geneva, Switzerland, traditionally keeps a low profile. But she is a giant of the second liberation from the 90s when her husband was among the Young Turks that took on the Kanu regime in fiery calls and protests that led to multi-party politics. Former Sirisia MP John Munyasia explains that politically instigated tribal clashes uprooted many families from their homes in Bungoma and Trans Nzoia. Forced to seek refuge at market centres, the displaced persons suffered both trauma and physical injuries. ....
THE STANDARD By Josphat Thiongó | March 14th 2021 at 09:41:38 GMT +0300 Former Machakos Senator Johnstone Muthama addressing Msambweni MP-elect Feisal Abdalla Bader s supporters outside Diani Police Station in Kwale County on Wednesday 16th December 2020. [Kelvin Karani, Standard] President Uhuru Kenyatta’s reintroduction of Covid-19 containment measures has dealt a blow to the political class who are not allowed to hold any political gatherings for the next 30 days. During his televised address to the nation from State House on Friday, President Kenyatta spelled out new containment measures, chief among them the ban on political gatherings for one month. Burials will now also be held strictly within 72 hours, while weddings will be allowed to have no more than 100 guests. ....