When David Maraga took oath of office as the Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya. [File, Standard] During the anti-government march of June 25, 2025, held to commemorate last year’s deadly protests that involved a breach of Kenya’s national assembly, Chief Justice Emeritus David Maraga appeared on the streets of Nairobi, in solidarity with thousands of picketing youths. Videos showed excited, admiring crowds sidling up to him. The scene looked like a Presidential rally. Maraga, the 14th Chief Justice of independent Kenya, and the second under the Constitution of Kenya 2010, will be vying for the…
Author: By Peter Theuri
It has been a long time since people in my village, Gitegi, walked with as much fear as they are now, weighed down by pessimism and a resignation to their fate. For the first time in a long time, shoppers engaged in idle talk in the village shopping centre can find something positive to say about Harold. Suddenly, he does not look all that bad. We watched, on that wee TV that keeps pews inside Harold Assemblies of Holy Associates (HAHA) church company, the happenings of June 25 with muted stupefaction. Protesters emerging out of a cloud of teargas…
US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk (R) speak in the Oval Office before departing the White House in Washington, DC, on the way to Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida on March 14, 2025. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP) The Trump-Musk bromance, a riveting story of frenemies who conspired to hand Republicans a win in the 2024 US Presidential election, imploded dramatically on Thursday (June 5, 2025), when President Donald Trump and SpaceX boss Elon Musk viciously attacked each other on social media, making chilling allegations – and threats – against each other for hours on…
President Donald Trump displays one of the executive orders after signing at the Oval Office. [AFP] Just like it took you days to adjust to calling Sue your leader after she beat Harold in 2022, it is time to start training your tongue to say ‘President Donald Trump’, even though Harold was not invited for the inauguration. On the streets of Gitegi, people are asking me, as the wisest person in the village, what a Donald Trump presidency means for Gitegi. In all honesty, I do not know. It could be that it means little. It could be that Gitegi…
Village grudges are usually light, easily forgotten. People are quick to forget they annoyed one another because the opportunities of offending each another anew keep appearing. When someone does you wrong and arbiters, men who often spend half their days inebriated, take forever to resolve the dispute, the complainant just says; “It is okay. It is okay. By Sunday I will have had my revenge.” And the case is dropped. Everyone is happy. While such a person may have no outright motivation to revenge, the opportunities present themselves. Your chickens could stray into this their farm. Your child could skip…
DP Rigathi Gachagua was impeached after 282 MPs voted to support his ouster on Tuesday. [DPCS] Should you happen to come to my village and someone randomly asks you if you support without offering any context, know that they are asking you about Riggy G’s impeachment. You have to be as shrewd as the snake, which we call ‘the animal of down’. At the shopping centre, in farms during weeding, in the drinking den and even at the hallowed Harold Assembly of Holy Associates (HAHA) tabernacle, we are all shaken. A microcosm of Kenya, and a contranym par excellence, Gitegi…