Vincent Obadha

Gifts galore as top gov't officials storm Ol Kalou ahead of critical by-election

For President Ruto, this race is existential in a specific sense: a loss would confirm the narrative, already gaining traction, that his base in the region that swept him to power in 2022 is fracturing dangerously ahead of his re-election bid.

How the James Gichuru–Rironi Highway became a trail of red flags, nine years on

What the original review document reveals, read against the decade of delay that followed, is not simply bad luck. It is a project whose execution problems were visible, in writing, before a single new beam was poured.

Chronic spenders: How gov’t is living beyond its means as Kenyans tighten belts

It shows how the government spent far beyond what Parliament approved in key offices at the center of power. 

What is really driving Kenya's crisis of student unrest?

Kenya's burning schools: A brutal cycle of death, tough talk and broken promises

The Utumishi Academy fire is not an anomaly. It is, rather, the latest chapter in a decades-long national tragedy that has consumed hundreds of young lives in Kenyan boarding schools.

Kenya tables a Ksh.4.8 trillion budget troubled by debt burden, Middle East shocks

The Middle East conflict stands as a defining new risk, which has seen crude oil trade at USD 100 per barrel.

France's desperate pivot to Kenya as its grip on West Africa weakens

The story of France's collapse in West and Central Africa is one of hubris meeting history. For six decades after independence, Paris maintained what its architects called “la Françafrique,” an informal but iron-clad sphere of influence that kept former colonies within France's strategic, economic,...

What could be done to contain Kenya’s fuel crisis amid limping G-to-G deal

The ever-engaged political opposition in the country has called for the suspension of key levies. Not a single share in these firms is government-owned. It then begs how the contact was a G-to-G deal.

As pump prices soar, Kenyans unearth old clips of Ruto's rosy promises to cut taxes on fuel

The price of petrol in Nairobi had gone up by Ksh.28.69 to Ksh.206.97 per litre, and diesel had shot up by an eye-watering Ksh.40.30 to Ksh.206.84 per litre.

The cost of Kenya’s perennial budget deficits

Paying government employees consumes a disproportionate share of public revenues, crowding out spending on services and development.