Sam Gituku
120 Articles
Fact checking President Ruto's State of the Nation Address
President Ruto underscored various milestones in food production, one of his administration's key agendas.
SAM'S SENSE: Why citizen advocacy is key to holding the government accountable
Often times, government and politicians allied to the government have dismissed criticism, suspicion and questions coming from outside the government. Terms like naysayers, enemies of progress, and critics of negative energy have been thrown at “those people”.
SAM’S SENSE: SHIF gaps - Communicate, but what?
What doesn’t make sense however is how, more than ten months after the enactment of the new health laws, there is so much unknown about the programme. And the ignorance does not discriminate. We have seen it from the high offices in government, public officials who cannot coherently explain how the...
Controversy behind Ksh.104B SHA technology deal awarded to Safaricom and Apeiro Limited
Issues such as low registration rates among Kenyans, a budgetary allocation of less than 5 percent by the government and concerns about transparency in the tender process for the crucial technological system have raised serious concerns about the vital programme.
SAM'S SENSE: Start paying attention to details
On many occasions, the word ‘public participation’ has dominated many conversations. Multiple court rulings and judgments have been issued, some nullifying laws on account of lack of public participation. And Yes, the Judiciary has stood with the sovereignty of the people when they needed it most....
SAM'S SENSE: The Ksh.45 billion benchmark
On the global scale, the national government spent heavily on bilateral meetings, state and official visits, training, workshops, and negotiations.These trips, while often framed as necessary, raise questions about their actual impact on the counties they represent.
The Adani-JKIA Deal: A deep dive into Kenya’s most controversial aviation project
Citizen TV has been piecing together different threads of a complex web around the plan that could lead to leasing of the nation’s most important aviation asset for at least three decades to entities linked to individuals in India, the Middle East and of course, Kenya....
SAM’S SENSE: Corruption within TSC?
Since last year, there have been rather too many allegations that employment letters were dished out through politicians during the mass recruitment of more than 50,000 teachers. That without connections you cannot be employed. Without connections and money, you canno...
SAM'S SENSE: Are the government's austerity measures just for show?
Over the last one month, the government led by the President has been on a journey. A journey of the nation, touring different parts of the country, in what has become re-committal of promises that may have been made over the last two years.
Teachers to get between Ksh.1K and Ksh.3K in new salary increment structure
The teaching fraternity is set to get between Ksh.1000 and Ksh.3000 more on their payslips based on their job groups.Based on figures seen by Citizen TV, the least paid teacher at Grade B5 will now be paid a basic salary of Ksh.23,830, up from Ksh.22,739....