by Patrick Ochieng | Feb 21, 2022 | Shaping narratives
Our Courts have Lost their Ballast. A Mombasa Magistrate has sentenced 5 activists to Jail for participating in a demonstration against COVID 19 funds theft on trivial COVID rules that were not proved an the trial. Boni is right to be apprehensive about his date with...
by Patrick Ochieng | Feb 14, 2022 | Pepping up local action
The hype about the Blue Economy has been on the cards as Jubilee Government’s major plank in delivering development. Behind this noise and unknown to many Kenyans this hype is all but hot air. Maritime training is a tatty mess with a Maritime Academy that is...
by Patrick Ochieng | Feb 5, 2022 | Pepping up local action, Unmasking complexity
Intolerance, Pettiness and Intellectual Bankruptcy finally leads to the eventual death of the Civil Society Reference Group (CSRG) Reflections by Patrick Ochieng, Former Member of the Oversight Committee Chinua Achebe (1985), in his book “The trouble with Nigeria” put...
by Patrick Ochieng | Sep 1, 2021 | Shaping narratives
Since the beginning of June I have been holed by choice in the sleepy village of Gul Kamwamba on the shores of a small stream, we call Nyameme; Gul is to be exact a forgotten community on the administrative boundary of South and East Gem Locations in Siaya County. In...
by Patrick Ochieng | Aug 22, 2021 | Unmasking complexity
An article in the Guardian by Peter Muiruri on August 10, 2021, reveals shocking statistics that “Kenya recorded 483 suicides in three months, i.e. up to June 2021 a figure that beats the numbers for the whole of 2020 and the annual average of 320”. Muiruri’s article...
