Talking Point

ACCOUNTABILITY MUST BE  GUARANTEED  TO THE PEOPLE OF BOMACHOGE BORABU – WARNS BUSINESS MAN RIANG’A By Lethal Team Riang'a Addresses Citizens When he started his fight for a transparent, accountable and straight forward leadership in Bomachoge Borabu constituency, many said he would soon back down and cow out. Three years later “Hon. Riang’a as many refer to him has stood his ground that all leaders must always be brought to account to every penny that Kenyans pay as tax. He has maintained that all he would like to see is a people who are empowered and given whatever they have been promised. Speaking to Lethal via the phone, Riang’a insists that whatever he is doing and has been doing is in no way a way to further any political ambitions or to discredit any administration but rather to ensure that his people get their better portion of the bargain. “Whatever I have been doing is not in any way intended to further any personal ambitions. NO!...

  STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER RAILA ODINGA OVER ICC REMARK; By Lethal Team I began writing this from Paris where I had come for a special meeting of the Emerging Markets Forum hosted by the Governor of Banque de France. The theme of the meeting was “Striving for a Just, Prosperous and Harmonious Global Community.” It was attended by various world leaders and particularly President Alassane Ouattara, President Horst Koehler, Michael Camdessus and Hiroshi Watanabe. While in Paris, I learnt of a medieval dance that originated in France called the “danse macabre,” which is French for “the dance of death.” It started in the mid-14th Century and involved a procession in which people danced to the graves of the dead in their community in celebration of death. As I thought about this very perverse type of custom and traditions, I could not help but compare this with what President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto have planned to do at Afraha Stadium...