Author Archives: Dr. Daniel Mutegi Giti, PhD.

The 2019 Population and Housing Census shows that the country has over 47.6 million persons that should now be approaching 50 million, who will require adequate supply of food despite the recurrence of droughts in Kenya. In other countries, it’s only a small number of persons that are involved in farming and livestock rearing. InContinue reading “Why Kenya shouldnt have drought amidst the plenty that we have”

The decision to declare Kenya Power & Lighting Company a state project is timely, because of the interconnection between power charges and pricing and the overall intentions of the nation to attain middle income status by the year 2030. It is through such a move that all that has been wrong with company, which isContinue reading “I support the Decision to make Kenya Power a state project”

IEBC is currently undertaking voter registration for potential first time voter who are mostly youths, and who should vote when elections are called. According to Worldometer 2021, the median age in Kenya is 20.1 years meaning that of the 48 million Kenyans, the average is 20.1 years. It should be noted that voting is aContinue reading “Why you should register as a voter and vote”

In 1884, fourteen European Nations including America met in Berlin, Germany and divided amongst themselves the countries of Africa, but they didn’t have a single representative from Africa. The outcome of such meeting was the drawing of the African political map that has since existed with slight modifications. It can thus be said that theseContinue reading “The ICJ- Kenya – Somalia ruling an effect of colonialism”

The theme for this year’s World Habitat Day celebrations to be held on Monday, 4th October 2021 is “Accelerating urban action for a carbon free world”. Increases in carbon globally has been responsible for global warming, adverse weather conditions & climate change, which poses a major challenge for sustainable development. As a country, we shouldContinue reading “Leverage on the World Habitat Day 4th October 2021 celebrations for more action on climate change”

Africa has disseminated many things to the world, one of which the Ubuntu worldview and social ideology, underpinned by interdependence and interrelatedness of individual to the other human beings and the larger society. The Ubuntu philosophy is held by two truisms namely: human being are humans because of others; human being are so because ofContinue reading “Sticking to the Ubuntu philosophy and also leveraging on soft power will reduce leadership squabbles”

The Economic Survey 2021 that shows that the economy lost over 740,000 jobs, which is not purely a Kenyan challenge since we all have faced the wrath of the vagaries of COVID 19. Despite this challenge, the economy recorded positive strides in the sectors of Information Communication Technology (ICT), which grew by 4.8%, which impliesContinue reading “Leverage on the findings of the economic survey 2021”

The Kenya vision 2030, under the political pillar, envisages issue based politics to be at the centre of every political condensation. The implication is that such contestations should be pegged on addressing the needs of the citizenry, including crating an enabling environment for achievement of individual and national objectives in a harmonious manner. The manifestoesContinue reading “What are we missing in the current manifestoes that are being developed”

Kenyans have been accused of politicking throughout their lives, an accusation that is activated every election time. This makes our brand of politics to be highly emotional and one filled by cut throat competition, arguments and counter arguments as rival groups try to undo each other. This in the process makes some communities to engageContinue reading “A properly working system and how to end poverty required in Kenya”

There has been much hullabaloo on the recent reorganization of the University of Nairobi and other state owned enterprises. It should be remembered that in 2013, H.E President Uhuru Kenyatta, commissioned the parastatal reforms report, which highlighted the need to merge some state owned entities to make them more viable economically and functionally. The reportContinue reading “Continue with the ongoing parastatal and university reforms in Kenya”