Opinion | Irunguhoughton

Jan 19, 20193 min read

Rule of law sure bet to taming terrorism

After a two-year lull, Al-Shabaab has managed to hit our capital city hard again. Tuesday’s attack on the five-star DusitD2 hotel and...

Jan 12, 20193 min read

Anti-Corruption Conference must address public and private ethics

“What’s your salary expectation?” is one of my favourite job interviews questions of all time. Every time I ask it, I know I am...

Jan 5, 20194 min read

Mandatory pregnancy, FGM testing illegal

Photo: The Star Newspapers Neighbours are part of life, we all have them. There are some we can learn from and others that can drive us...

Dec 29, 20183 min read

A country or chaos, choose.

First published Saturday Standard, December 29, 2018. Kindly reproduced here with permission from the Standard Group It is exactly fifty...

Dec 22, 20183 min read

Deliver housing plan with public participation

First published Saturday Standard, December 22, 2018. Kindly reproduced here with permission from the Standard Group Christmas is almost...

Dec 1, 20183 min read

Denial will perpetuate deadly poll violence

First published Saturday Standard, December 1, 2018. Kindly reproduced here with permission from the Standard Group The Kenya National...

Nov 24, 20183 min read

Sex education will stem teen pregnancies

First published Saturday Standard, November 24, 2018. Kindly reproduced here with permission from the Standard Group It’s been a while...

Nov 17, 20183 min read

Amidst the chaos, how we can keep our heads

First published Saturday Standard, November 17, 2018. Kindly reproduced here with permission from the Standard Group Several experiences...

Nov 10, 20183 min read

Neither civilians and police officers are safe from unlawful police killings

First published Saturday Standard, November 10, 2018. Kindly reproduced here with permission from the Standard Group Barely sixty days...

Nov 3, 20183 min read

Hard questions no one is asking about cancer

Having watched two dear ones succumb to cancer in the last sixty days, this public health challenge just got very personal. Cancer stalks...

Oct 27, 20183 min read

Do not awaken the demons of our past

The disruption of the referendum debate by the African Union Commission announcement on Raila Odinga this week should sound alarm bells....

Oct 20, 20183 min read

Impunity and indebtedness fuels our fiscal crisis

Safaricom’s data and call price hikes announcement this week fuels anxiety at the rising cost of living after new taxes last month. As ...