Rigathi Gachagua is not going quietly. That much is clear. While courts deliberate on whether his impeachment stands — and whether he will ever be allowed to contest elective office again — Kenya’s former Deputy President has already made his…
Something is stirring in Bungoma and Trans Nzoia, and it has nothing to do with the usual political theatre that Kenyans have grown numb to. This is different. This feels personal. Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna is heading west, and the…
Why is Sonko campaigning now, three years before the election? Mike Sonko has officially launched the National Empowerment and Development Party’s grassroots campaign in Nairobi, and the timing is deliberate. The first stop was Mugumoini Ward in Lang’ata Constituency —…
Something has shifted in Kenya. Not quietly, not gradually, but unmistakably. A political culture that for decades has relied on routine campaign tours, carefully managed public appearances, and the assumption of unquestioned authority is encountering a citizenry that is increasingly…
This Is Not Someone Else’s Fight On July 16, 2026, residents of Ol Kalou armed themselves with whatever they had and chased away vehicles carrying hooded gunmen who attempted to storm a polling station at AC Primary School. Let that…
William Ruto just got embarrassed in Ol Kalou, and every political strategist in Nairobi knows what that means. The President, who built his brand on hustler energy and grassroots momentum, watched helplessly as Rigathi Gachagua’s Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP)…
Voters Defy Chaos to Deliver a Landslide The people of Ol Kalou spoke — loudly, clearly, and in defiance of everything thrown at them. Opposition party DCP’s Douglas Kamau Waweru won the constituency’s parliamentary by-election with 35,440 votes, crushing UDA’s…
There is a moment in every political fight when the people stop listening to the noise and make their own statement. In Ol Kalou on Thursday, that moment arrived — loudly, unmistakably, and in a way that should make every…
Picture this: it is early morning in Ol Kalou, a constituency most Kenyans associate with the cold highland air and the mountains of potatoes, carrots and cabbages that keep the country fed. Voters have risen before dawn, queued patiently outside…
A man is dead. Nine motorcycles are ash. A police vehicle is wrecked. And two competing narratives about what happened this weekend are now circling each other like fighters before a brawl. The thesis here is simple and uncomfortable: Kenya’s…
