THE STANDARD By
Ndungu Gachane |
February 22nd 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
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THE STANDARD By
Jacinta Mutura |
February 1st 2021 at 11:16:28 GMT +0300
Hundreds of women eager to meet President Uhuru Kenyatta at Sagana State Lodge on Monday were taken aback after it was communicated that there was no such meeting.
The women said to have come from neighbouring areas were streaming in at the State Lodge as early as 6am only to be told that there was no meeting.
But in a statement, State House spokesperson Kanze Dena said the meeting had been postponed and that a new date and venue of the rescheduled meetings will be communicated in due course.
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Angel Mbuthia addresses the press after a consultative meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta at Sagana State Lodge, Nyeri County, yesterday. [Mose Sammy, Standard]
Kenya’s leading politicians are burning the midnight oil in a bid to win the minds and souls of the youth, a critical mass in the country’s election campaigns.
The charm offensive by politicians is coming at a time when millions of youths have been rendered jobless by a weakening economy and now have had to resort to various odd means to eke out a living.
Riding on the disillusionment created by a depressed economy and a heavily indebted government which has failed to fulfill its campaign promise of creating millions of jobs, partly derailed by the Covid-19 pandemic, a number have drifted to the promised land of a wheelbarrow economy.
TV Anchor in Grisly Accident Rushing to Uhuru Meeting
30 January 2021 - 2:58 pm
The wreckage of the vehicle in which KBC anchor Gladys Mungai was involved in an accident on January 30, 2021.
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Celebrated news anchor
Gladys Mungai was on Saturday, January 30, involved in an accident while on her way to cover a meeting called by President Uhuru Kenyatta at Sagana State Lodge.
Source privy to the information disclosed to
Kenyans.co.ke that the incident occurred at the Makuyu area when the anchor was trying to avoid an oncoming lorry.
The
KBC anchor, who was driving hit barriers on the road, and the car rolled down a cliff.
THE STANDARD By
Wainaina Ndung u |
January 31st 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses delegates at Sagana State Lodge. [Kabata Kihu, Standard]
It looks like President Uhuru Kenyatta is in that dreaded political life cycle.
He is gaining political baggage weight, having night sweats on who succeeds him, a demand for endorsements and even some of his Cabinet members pulling in opposite directions.
Like the man who mentored him in politics – late former President Daniel Arap Moi – Uhuru has staked his neck out to influence the choice of his successor, taking a big gamble at the twilight of his political career.