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Dec 24, 20223 min read
Beyond dust-storm of opinions on police reforms, we must get it right
Incoming Inspector General Japeth Koome whipped up his first dust storm. His and other public comments may indicate the possible...
Dec 10, 20223 min read
Let's serious with public safety, law and order
Today marks 74 years since the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights was adopted. The enduring lesson for us all is, when one...
Dec 6, 20223 min read
Let's interrupt gender violence and narratives that support it
The world is midway through the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence. The recent conviction of Moses Gatama Njoroge provides...
Nov 20, 20223 min read
CBC task-force must address state of disability rights in schools
With the 49-member Presidential Working Party on Education Reform completing its public consultations this month, it is time to look at...
Nov 12, 20223 min read
What difference could new Police Inspector General Japhet Koome make?
The fourth Police Inspector General of Kenya was sworn yesterday. As Japhet Koome assumes office, what might he find in his in-tray and...
Oct 31, 20223 min read
Weak oversight not a "few rogue officers" feeds police impunity
Suspected enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of foreign nationals over the last month has burst one of Kenya’s worst...
Oct 17, 20223 min read
Cabinet Secretaries must come with new and consistent policy options
Tomorrow is World Food Day. With 4.2 million Kenyans facing acute food insecurity and 24 drought-stricken counties there is very little...
Oct 9, 20223 min read
Legal literacy will decongest police stations and prisons
Next year marks the 50th anniversary of legal aid in Kenya. As the Interior Ministry and the Office of the Attorney General reinvent...
Sep 17, 20222 min read
The context just shifted, we must also
Anti-slavery campaigner Fredrick Douglas reminds us power concedes nothing in the absence of organised public demand by those most...
Aug 19, 20223 min read
Time for criminal justice reform?
Azimio la Umoja decision to petition last week’s election places another checkpoint on the Kenya Kwanza road towards a hustler nation....
Jul 23, 20223 min read
Incoming regime must step up and halt extra-judicial killings
The recent brutal killings of seven Nakuru women horrified the nation. Within weeks, police had arrested over a hundred youth and are now...
Jun 17, 20223 min read
Kenyans want the death penalty abolished
By Irũngũ Houghton and Maurice Oginga It’s been thirty-five years since the Kenyan state legally executed anyone for a capital offence...
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