I try to keep this blog free of the profanities that litter my everyday speech, but for this post I am willing to make an exception: I am so pleased that I am not in Kenya right now, because I am fit to cut a bitch. Several bitches, actually.
The bitches in question are the scoundrels, [...]
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Quick! Somebody check to see if an NMG reporter has been transported back in time to work at Soviet-era Pravda! Check to see if a journalist was forced at gunpoint to revise their article! Something very strange is going on, and the Daily Nation is doing its best to hide the truth.
I get RSS feeds [...]
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The book isn’t available in bookshops yet, the journalists reviewing it can only have skimmed it, yet Kenyan netizens are already gearing up to disparage John Githongo’s account of what led him to leave the country for exile in the UK, It’s Our Time to Eat.
While the Daily Nation piece on the book is not [...]
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The PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report into the collapse of Nyaga stockbrokers has been completed and leaked. From the details made available in the press, it appears that the rot started in the manner in which the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) and the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) are structured and administered.
Apparently the CMA sat on the report [...]
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The board of the National Social Security Fund have been fired after a series of questionable transactions.
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