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Riungu Jnr Ikiugu Kenyans will be always be Kenyans no matter what measures are spelt down and implemented. For instance, if Kenyans can beat the tight security by our military men along the Somali border and illegally smuggle items and people into the country, what will make these same Kenyans not sneak themselves out of Nairobi, Kilifi and Mombasa to other  counties? Nothing will! Ignorance will kill us fellow Kenyans. Personal responsibility and will, will help us dear Kenyans. The 2010 Kenyan Constitution clearly spells out laws against corruption and the its outrightly very clear on the consequences to be taken on those who do not abide by these laws. Buy instead, what do we see? Kenyans stealing right, center and left. Ignorance will kill us fellow Kenyans. Personal responsibility and will, will help us dear Kenyans. Since independence, for 57 years, Kenya has been fighting tribalism. Political leaders have come and gone. Religious leaders have been there, ...

By Riungu Jnr Ikiugu Saturday, April 4 2020 I have keenly, interestingly, bitterly and curiously been following the battle on the banning and burning Khat [Miraa] on  the Meru Facebook pages.  A battle that has, far and wide, involved everyone [ both the political bigwigs, the political dwarfs, sycophants and propagandist] from Meru County, with all the players literary struggling to show their political prowess and support to either the  politicians and/or the Miraa farmers, retailers and consumers. I see this as a battle mainly between the foot soldiers of the incumbent Meru County Governor, His Excellency Kiraitu Murungi and and his predecessor, Hon. CS Peter Munya, the  Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Trade. In my opinion, I can confidently conclude that, this Miraa battle is unworthy and unnecessary. But at the same time, it could be worth fighting. Why? One, I think its worth fighting because the politicians and the political foot s...

There is usually a range of reasons why people may prefer to use pseudonyms or alias names. Reasons ranging from concealing real identify to escape a lawful arrest to committing crimes against humanity. However, among politicians, the use of pseudonyms and aliases has been, in most cases, founded on personal political goals and greed. I have read and evaluated the political class across the world and concluded that the use of the alias and pseudonyms names by the political class often geared towards portraying themselves as either powerful people with extraordinary power to protect their people, or as good and down to earth leaders with a positive course towards helping humanity and bringing development. However, after a thorough review of the world political class, the overall strategic goal of alias and pseudonyms use is dictatorship, greed, bad governance, corruption, and wealth accumulation throughout tax payers. Let's look at the history of a few of them: 1. Joseph-Dé...

Have you thought of a bedroom before? I know you haven’t. But in case you have thought about it, I am more than certain that, what traversed and visualized in your wits was, “a bedroom is a slumbering place”. Simply because we have two words conjoined in one; a bed and a room. That’s a silly thought. Anyway, in your aptitude, you are right, but in my capacity, you are conclusively and stupidly wrong. Allow me today, to solve this bedroom riddle. Casually and literary, under the disguise of ‘civilization, a bedroom is a room and a bed. However, in reality, we all know that in our extreme and obvious life scenarios, we need not have a bed to call it a bedroom. Right? Regardless of whether you reside in a bungalow or a maisonette   in the high end estates of Karen, in an apartment in Kilimani, in a flat in the densely populated drinking estate of Kahawa Wendani, or in the square shaped Mabati structures of Mukuru Kwa Njega, a bedroom is a bedroom; with a mattress, no mattress, w...

The writer airborne for 5 minutes The long route was usually my ideal way home from the town. I don't really know why I preferred the long route, but I guess I enjoyed the roars of River Thingithu. The town was trifling shanty town with more barber shops and drinking dens than there were vegetable vibandaski’s . The presence of many barber shops was an indication of high levels of joblessness among the young people. Engaging in barber shop business was undoubtedly also an indication of the young people's ambition for a better life. Besides each barber shop, there was at least two besmirched drinking dens. Dens that were stocked with the porridge looking liquor, 'marwa' and the foul smelling yellow liquor 'mugacha' . It was these drinking dens that had killed the aspirations of some of the fledgling people. In the evenings, I would often take a walk to the shanty town to pass time. Pass time listening to ragga music with my teeth busy gnawing the m...

Am not very sure if you are all familiar with the dragon fly story. Nonetheless, am more certain that you are familiar with the dragonfly itself. During our childhood days, the older boys in the village and in upper primary school back in the days had a very peculiar way of "winning" a girl (s) of their choice. The dragon fly. I remember Mutua Wa Salasio , a huge tall and talkative boy, would boast to us how he had worn the heart of many beautiful, elegant girls. I recall him explaining how the dragonfly was his secret weapon. Every morning during the 10 O’clock classes break, he would gather at a landmark huge stone behind the class 8 classrooms where the older boys would surround him to listen to his hot, funny and dirty stories. No one knew the age and origin of this huge stone but Mutua Wa Salasio, would often tell us how his great grandfather is buried under that stone. The younger boys like me in the lower classes would later often join him in tens, ...