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Yvonne Okwara

Yvonne Okwara

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YVONNE'S TAKE: Of Messianic solutions and risks
April 02, 2026 11:58 (EAT) • 3 days ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: Of Messianic solutions and risks

It is the steady construction of something resembling a messianic instinct in leadership. The idea that, perhaps, all problems can be solved by one individual. That where institutions falter or are perceived to falter, a single figure can step in, steady the ship, and restore order....

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YVONNE'S TAKE: For once, listen!
March 26, 2026 11:31 (EAT) • 1 week ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: For once, listen!

In all the noise, in all the response, in all the reassurance — Is anyone listening?

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YVONNE'S TAKE: The drainage race
March 12, 2026 11:36 (EAT) • 3 weeks ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: The drainage race

In Nairobi alone, more than 20 people lost their lives as floodwaters surged through neighbourhoods from Mukuru to South B, sweeping away cars, flooding homes and trapping motorists overnight.

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YVONNE'S TAKE: An Accountant vs School Dropouts
March 06, 2026 12:21 (EAT) • 1 month ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: An Accountant vs School Dropouts

Yet increasingly, one gets the uneasy sense that those who wield power see it differently, as an obstacle to navigate, or worse, an irritation to endure.

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YVONNE'S TAKE: Common Brits, learn!
February 26, 2026 11:33 (EAT) • 1 month ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: Common Brits, learn!

Following the Peter Mandelson-Epstein saga, serious questions are being asked about whether Prime Minister Keir Starmer exercised, wait for it, poor judgment.

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YVONNE'S TAKE: Kenya's perpetual campaigns tragedy
February 19, 2026 11:42 (EAT) • 1 month ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: Kenya's perpetual campaigns tragedy

Under Kenya’s electoral framework, principally the Elections Act, campaigns are not supposed to be permanent. The campaign period is meant to be formally declared by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. 

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YVONNE'S TAKE: The star-studded show
February 05, 2026 11:49 (EAT) • 2 months ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: The star-studded show

To disburse Ksh.22,500 to individual Kenyans, money that is sent, quite literally, at the press of a button via mobile money transfer.

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YVONNE'S TAKE: Healthcare, who really cares?
January 29, 2026 11:41 (EAT) • 2 months ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: Healthcare, who really cares?

In recent weeks, we have seen disturbing reports of medical malpractice that should trouble every one of us. A man who went in for a routine dental procedure and never walked out alive. A woman forced to carry a dead foetus in her womb for days at a sub-county hospital, ignored, mistreated, humiliat...

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YVONNE'S TAKE: Kenyans are not resisting development, it's leadership without trust
December 18, 2025 10:50 (EAT) • 3 months ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: Kenyans are not resisting development, it's leadership without trust

Kenya cannot simply borrow Singapore's ambition without investing in trust as its foundation. Citizens will not leap into high-stakes reforms if they feel unheard, dismissed, or misled. Development without trust becomes coercion, and coercion always meets resistance.

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YVONNE'S TAKE: When pulpit becomes a podium
December 11, 2025 11:45 (EAT) • 3 months ago

YVONNE'S TAKE: When pulpit becomes a podium

But in recent times, something has changed. More often than not, that pulpit has quietly been recast as a campaign podium, a stage for political performance disguised in the language of faith.

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