Comments on: Giving credit where it’s due…

By: acolyte

acolyte — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:10:10 +0000

That piece on the extravagance was good and the one on the show of opulence by our parliamenterians at KSMS just as good if not better as it had pictures.We expect our leaders to fight poverty and extravagance but they are unwilling to take the first step as charity begins as home.

By: InSidious

InSidious — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:47:17 +0000

[URL= http:/www.parliament.go.ke/composition.php/URL]

Andy, one can still access the website through the ‘back door’. I believe the link above is it.

By: Andy Carvin

Andy Carvin — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:29:12 +0000

I wrote about this yesterday on my blog, in case you’re interested:

http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/01/kenyas_parliame.html

Thanks Andy, nice post…will be responding.

By: Whispering Inn

Whispering Inn — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:45:10 +0000

Real change (not superficial bandages but lasting policy-driven solutions) WILL come eventually, albeit very, very slowly. There are far too many factors at play here.

By: bankelele

bankelele — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:17:07 +0000

It appears the Standard has thrown all caution to the wind and is going to run hard-hitting strories (like the wealthy beggars story above) and is willing to risk a goverment boycott on adveritising over the next 2 years, despite the governme’s spokesman’s denial of such a plan. Just today in the Nation, KACC reprimanded the Standard for wrongly claiming that (i) Murungaru was the first/only leader they have asked to explain his wealth and (ii) Ringera did not have to ask the Presiden’t permission before summoning Murungaru.

By: Osas

Osas — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:49:15 +0000

Well, at last the KACC will probably beat Bunge with their respective website:
“We are now at the final stages of having our website done. The board and contributors (half of them foreigners, and cartoonists like GADO) seem to be working around the clock as we will launch it in early February.”
Don’t tell you heard it from me.

Osas

Your secret is safe with me …keep em coming!

By: Keguro

Keguro — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:07:11 +0000

I’ve been watching that website, intent on starting a letter-writing campaign to MPs.

Of course, this is Kenya. It’s a small village. Addresses are available, *somehow*.

Nation has been doing a *much* better job, in some ways. But, to my mind, they still seem driven by news as spectacle and critique as scolding.

We shall see what happens.