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    Hon Atwoli and President Kenyatta at a  previous function. The Central Organization of Trade Unions, COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli has claimed that President Uhuru Kenyatta will not be retiring completely from politics and could come back to leadership after ten years. Speaking on Saturday, April 30, while briefing the nation on preparations for Labour Day celebrations slated for today (1st May) the trade unionist said the head of state is still young and cannot rule out any possibilities of him coming back and seeking the country's top seat in the future. While ruling out this being Uhuru's last Labour Day celebrations at the helm of power, Atwoli said Uhuru consider coming back to seek powers again in the near future as it has reportedly happened in other countries where presidents who are still young have considered coming back to power after some years. "I am not saying this is President Uhuru Kenyatta's last Labour Day celebrations. He can decide to be...

  .      Hon Kassim Were at a Past event||Bonnylad Ke|| There is pain in the Orange Party. Aspirants and electorates alike have decried foul plays in award of party tickets in the primaries. Fingers have been pointed at party mandarins for not upholding democracy, an antic they believed might suppress the party from attaining over 90% representation in the August House.  Kisumu residents protested and  threatened to vote for  DP  Ruto after nominations showdown.    Residents of Nyalenda A Ward took to streets to demonstrate after ODM Party mandarins revoked Mr Boitone Ratib's ticket||Bonnylad Ke|| Angry residents in Nyalenda staged a peaceful demonstration  to protest  the flawed democracy that has marred party primaries in ODM  where the top brass leadership convened boardroom meetings meant to install leaders they deemed  fit to the people. The riots in Nyalenda A  occurred at the backdrop of  withdrawal o...

    President Uhuru leads a contingent of Kenyan leaders in paying their last respects to the Late President Mwai Kibaki. By Bonnylad.  The Late President Kibaki will go down in history books as a valiant and gallant soldier that championed for all and sundry's rights in his tenure as in Public Service and  the President of Republic of Kenya. The late President has been eulogised by leaders across the globe as a statesman that uphold integrity in matters of leadership.   His body left Lee Funeral Home to Parliament apartments for public viewing, and the interrement processions will be conducted at his Othaya home . Foreign leaders will pay their condolences to the late President Mwai Kibaki at his State funeral in the Nyayo National Stadium on Friday, led by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and his South Sudan colleague Salva Kiir. Other dignitaries expected include Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde and former Malawi President Joyce Banda, accordi...

The Late Hon Daniel Moi's 24year regime was not all rosy. It was marred by an avalanche of human rights abuse, economic crisis and political turmoil. This led to a section of jaded and irate Civillians to stage an attempt to put him behind bars immediately his term limit came to an end in a hotly contested 2002 elections where Mwai Kibaki emerged the winner. Who saved him from being jailed? On our News Cafe Political Cafe , we are joined by Meru County Governor Hon Kiraitu Murungi who takes us down the memory lane.                 The Meru County Governor Hon Murungi shares out why                        Civillians wanted Hon Moi gaoled and Late Kibaki's                                      intervention to counter it. Were it not for former President Mwai Kibaki who died last week, his predecess...

  Kibaki swore himself ‘at night’ fearing Raila would run to court in the aftermath of 2007 polls, Judge Evan Gicheru looks on. The aftermath of 2007 General Polls was more of sham elections blighted by massive rigging alleged by the then opposition leader, Hon Raila.  It was a highly contested for elections, a two horse race between the late Kibaki and Hon Odinga. Governor Mutua gets us the insights and dissects into the events leading to swearing-in of the Late President and what happens thereafter .  Fallen Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki swore himself for a second term in office at dusk in 2007 because he feared Raila Odinga, who was his main competitor, would rush to court to challenge the election results. Kibaki, who passed away last week, controversially won the contentious polls with the slimmest of margins against a determined Odinga leading to chaos and mayhem across the country. In an interview with Citizen TV, Machakos Governor Alfred Mutua, who served as govern...

      The Presidency is a race of Coalitions,         Azimio la Umoja One Kenya vs Kenya        Kwanza. The much hyped about August elections is three months away. The Political sphere is charged up with high voltage campagns, with every aspirant out to coerce, woo, lure and solicit for votes from the Citizenry. With the nascent coalitions formed by a number of party honchos to outshine opponents in other factions, this year's elections will be a competition of tyranny of numbers to enable leaders  elect ascend to various elective seats. https://bonnyladnewscafe.blogspot.com/2022/04/agenda-vs-propaganda.html In this article, attention is shifted to two seasonal politicians eyeing the Presidential seat, Hon Raila and his political nemesis, Hon Ruto. The big question though is, in Whose Hands are you Safe? A fortnight ago, Kenyans were probed to blatantly declare in whose hands is their safety guaranteed  between Hon Ra...

          A lady skimpily dressed .  For a nation to be certified and highly rated to have cut the mustard in passing morality test, it has to be institutionalised along a stable fabric of systems aiding it. These systems,  a country vest its trust in to champion, marshall and advance for this morality must fan the flames of hope in a nation by establishing a raft of measures to make sure no one infringes on them. The recent incidences in our nation and other perennial vices continues to taint, dent, dim and frustrate efforts and good values our fore fathers fought for.  In this regard, stringent measures ought to be crafted to cushion, curb, mitigate and suppress the moral decadence that has marred our nation, taking us back to the slavery-laddenned pre colonial era.  Listed below are vices that have intensely driven our morality to the deathbed:      a) Arsonry attacks in Schools.      An arson incident in one...

            Bonnylad Writes. Life has an avalanche of snares and scares, hustles and bustles too. As human beings, we are not supposed to bow down to this challenges. We have a destiny and a goal to achieve to. We therefore have an obligation to hatch up mechanisms to live life by choices we make, not by chance. Are you on the brink of giving up with life? Dont give up yet, this article is the only oasis in your desert of lost hope.  https://bonnyladnewscafe.blogspot.com/2022/04/agenda-vs-propaganda.html   Many ask what life is. Well, It is a sum total of the choices we make every day. We are faced with a myriad  issues to decide upon on a daily basis.We either make a good choice or a bad one but one thing is certain,we are the first beneficiaries of the choices we make. The macmillan English dictionary defines a choice as 'the opportunity or right to choose between different things'. Based on the same we can conclusively say every day is an ...

          By Bonnylad         A freelancer Scribe.        Men are visual beings. They fall for any lady with alluring physical .     looks, a beautiful lady with the wiles to excite any warm blooded.          animal, without taking time to study and learn the pros and cons      of  the lady. Courtship is solicitation of a lady, the wooing process, the coercion of the female gender for a certain period before marriage. For how long us courtship supposed to take before popping the question,  'will you marry me? ' Did your relationship pass the courtship test? Or you simply bumped into your better half at a wetting joint and things happened? What is the significance of courtship in relationships? Every man wants an adorable, beautiful, lovely and expressive woman they will be bold and proud to show to their family and friends. A man's choice of a wife or spouse ...

Bonnylad writes.     Photogrid of Vice President DR Ruto and former Prime Minister,           Hon Raila.      The two politicos are front runners to clinch the much  hyped  and       coveted Presidential seat. Kenyan politics just hit the Crescendo. The two Presidential honchos, Hon Raila of the ODM political outfit under the nascent Azimio la Umoja One Kenya alliance and DP Ruto of Kenya Kwanza are the leading acts for the coveted Presidential seat. Are they simply spinning a spider of propaganda or they got an agenda for the jaded Kenyan citizenry? As we tend towards the August elections, the political mantra is charged up with campaigns to woo, coerce and convince the electorates to submit their support towards different aspirants.  The political outfits are merging, some disintegrating as they advance at attaining a common goal. The then moribund outfits are getting resuscitated to gain politic...

      Train your children the ethos and ethics the community expects           from them  and they will never disappoint.  Dating back to 90s, raising  kids was  a communal affair. The responsibility was never solely bestowed to biological parents. The peace and tranquility shared among the community members made them live as a unit. A family was simply a microcosm of that community and we could traverse one household to another without fret.  Any child that flouted the set rules used to be caught on the receiving end; any parent could punish you. Getting back home , pain was again inflicted on you cos the power of the rod ruled, it wasnt spared. But with digitisation and cropping up of digital parents, with sprouting up of new millennium babies, morals have been thrown to the dogs. Everything literally changed and  consequently, most of the ill-mannered occurrences popping up, are fruits of bad seeds sown by mos...