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...
by Patrick Ochieng | May 2, 2021 | Unmasking complexity
A conversation recorded by Reuters in February 2015 chronicles a message the former US President Barack Obama told the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington that Christians had been guilty of violent crimes as well as Muslims. For this, the report says, “President...
by Patrick Ochieng | Apr 18, 2021 | Unmasking complexity
My 20 long years doing community accompaniment work has been an epic journey, leaving in its wake many footprints in the path of its journey. It is a journey that has been characterised by moments of joy but sometimes pain, moments of fear but also triumph. When I...
by Patrick Ochieng | Apr 15, 2021 | Shaping narratives
The other day Mutemi Wa Kiama braved a harrowing experience that started with his arrest and subsequent arraignment in Court over a mundane post on his social media account that ticked off the government for its appetite for odious debt. If this was bad, the decisions...
by Patrick Ochieng | Apr 1, 2021 | Pepping up local action
Quite unknown to many, there is so much treachery in our human rights movement as we know it today but because we live in a world where dysfunction and disorientation have become a permanent feature it is invidious to single out the movement alone. DISRUPTION...
by Patrick | Jul 16, 2020 | Shaping narratives
Today virtually all areas of human endeavor, from child protection, health, governance, human rights, housing, gender, human trafficking etc. boast of some voluntary entity or the other formed to pursue different multiple outcomes in the best interest of society....
