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Sam Gituku

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SAM’S SENSE: Institutions - To obey or disobey?
October 22, 2026 11:35 (EAT) • 2 weeks ago

SAM’S SENSE: Institutions - To obey or disobey?

We live in a country where every sector of the economy has a variety of institutions established with particular mandates. It is the engine that ideally should run the state. They are established with a clear roadmap, intended at tapping into expertise ideally to info...

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SAM SENSE: Raila - A legacy revisited
October 15, 2026 11:46 (EAT) • 3 weeks ago

SAM SENSE: Raila - A legacy revisited

Here we are, one year since Raila died; and ten months before an election. And as the memory of Raila gets processed in assorted flavors, what he stood for remains true and requiring of action by all Kenyans.

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SAM'S SENSE: 2027 - new wine, old skins
October 09, 2026 12:02 (EAT) • 4 weeks ago

SAM'S SENSE: 2027 - new wine, old skins

It is what has become of our politics, that there is no free airtime regardless of who you are. Well! That’s not my concern tonight.

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SAM’S SENSE: Critical thinking, I hope...
October 01, 2026 11:33 (EAT) • 1 month ago

SAM’S SENSE: Critical thinking, I hope...

The reports, spanning early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary education, were broadly in agreement on the competencies a new Kenyan curriculum needed to instil. Among them: critical thinking, reflection and decision-making.

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SAM'S SENSE: Funds accountability- please explain
September 25, 2026 12:05 (EAT) • 1 month ago

SAM'S SENSE: Funds accountability- please explain

The Controller raised concern about the government increasingly establishing special funds that appear to operate outside the regular framework of checks and balances.

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SAM'S SENSE: Spend, Yes, but can we account?
September 10, 2026 11:40 (EAT) • 1 month ago

SAM'S SENSE: Spend, Yes, but can we account?

The cake baked last year was worth about Ksh.5.2 trillion. Part of it we baked with our taxes and service fees. The rest we borrowed at home and away. And the report is out.Some 83 per cent of the cake went into recurrent expenditure. O...

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Roadside declarations: How Ruto's remarks fuel public confusion
September 09, 2026 08:44 (EAT) • 1 month ago

Roadside declarations: How Ruto's remarks fuel public confusion

The latest controversy began with a presidential directive that triggered anxiety among thousands of Burundian nationals, many of whom camped at the Burundi High Commission seeking clarity and intervention from their government.

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SAM’S SENSE: The ritual of maize importation
September 03, 2026 11:54 (EAT) • 2 months ago

SAM’S SENSE: The ritual of maize importation

Principal Secretary for the State Department for Livestock, Jonathan Mueke, announced plans by the government to open a duty-free window for the importation of yellow maize as part of strategic interventions to address a gap in animal feeds. He put a figure to it: 500,000 tonnes of yellow maize....

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SAM'S SENSE: Million voters, billion shillings
August 27, 2026 11:56 (EAT) • 2 months ago

SAM'S SENSE: Million voters, billion shillings

Recently, IEBC told us that we have now added more electors to the register. Before clean up, there are 25 million registered voters. On average therefore, it costs the IEBC Ksh.3,000 per voter for them to choose their leaders.

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SAM’S SENSE: Counties and Singapore
August 13, 2026 10:22 (EAT) • 2 months ago

SAM’S SENSE: Counties and Singapore

Last week, Parliament released a report that measured the fiscal performance of counties based on budget implementation and commitment to developing the devolved units.Only three counties scored 60 per cent and above in fiscal performance, rated Grade B, with none scoring an A. ...

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