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Jan 17, 2025 | 
debunk.media | Mwalimu MatiUpdated |Mwalimu Mati |Isaac Otidi Amuke
There is so much to say in this sad moment but I can only profess that Rasna Warah was one of the bravest and most truthful Kenyans I have known. She stood on principle and exposed mischief within the United Nations at the cost of her job. She quit a prominent columnist role at the Nation because she wouldn’t stomach government-directed editorial interference with her writing.
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May 30, 2024 | 
debunk.media | Lilian Mutinda |Ras Mengesha |Mwalimu Mati
During crises, people prefer stories of good news: miraculous rescues and escapes, acts of heroism and bravery, selfless first responders, and survivors being treated, fed, and clothed—all exemplifying an ideal disaster response. Rarely does anyone focus on the grim, monotonous, and challenging aspects of the process, such as coordinating recovery efforts or making attempts to rebuild. For weeks, various parts of Kenya endured relentless heavy rainfall that wreaked havoc.
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May 29, 2024 | 
debunk.media | Lewis-Miller Kaphira |Ras Mengesha |Lilian Mutinda |Mwalimu Mati
Today, one of Africa’s and indeed the world’s most important countries goes to the polls. Dubbed the most important election since the 1994 general election in which Black South Africans voted for the first time, giving the then Nelson Mandela-led African National Congress (ANC) a 62 percent majority, the 2024 election hugely mirrors 1994 in that 1994 was about political liberation, and 2024 is (hopefully) about economic liberation.
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May 28, 2024 | 
debunk.media | Lewis-Miller Kaphira |Ras Mengesha |Lilian Mutinda |Mwalimu Mati
During his spirited campaign to be president, William Ruto’s main refrain was that he was the son of a nobody – that his father was a nobody, which therefore made him a nobody.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Mwalimu Mati |Rasna Warah |Mwende Ngao |Khui Karanja
2023 has been quite a year for Dr. Margaret Nyakang’o, Kenya’s Controller of Budget. After two explosive revelations of her strong suspicions of illegal dealings at the heart of government, she now faces criminal charges herself as the first senior scalp of Renson Ingonga, the new Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). At the moment, there is no way of judging the veracity of the claims against Dr. Nyakang’o, but history makes me smell a rat.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Mwalimu Mati |Lorna Likiza |Lewis-Miller Kaphira |Isaac Otidi Amuke
Getting a National ID, the universal Kenyan rite of passage, has just been tapped as a money-earner by the Kenya Kwanza government. According to a (revoked after public outcry) error-filled Gazette Notice signed by Prof. Kithure Kindiki, the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration, the State Department for Immigration and Citizenship Services intended to charge Kenyans who have turned 18, KSh 1,000 for a national identity (ID) card (now reversed downwards to KSh 300).
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Kiprop Kimutai |Mwalimu Mati |Bernadette Muthoni |Mulle Musau
Two or so years ago, I packed my bags and moved to Iten in Kenya’s Rift Valley, where I lived on our family’s farm for a year. It was the first time for me to live in Iten exclusively since ‘escaping’ it by going to university in Nairobi (primary and secondary school had been a mere five minute walk from home).
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Stanley Gazemba |Mwalimu Mati |Bernadette Muthoni |Mulle Musau
We had been booked in Lamu for the entire Christmas period, after which we would be flown back to Nairobi. But what the Kwani?
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Mwalimu Mati |JACQUELINE KUBANIA |Vincent Ng'Ethe |Mwende Ngao
Last week, Kenya’s Controller of Budget Dr Margarat Nyakang’o, revealed on national TV that her official salary has been inflated (by up to three times) in the books kept by the National Treasury. According to Dr Nyakang’o a triple provision of her actual salary has been programmed into the IFMIS payment portal, which state of affairs makes it possible to draw the funds at will.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Vincent Ng'Ethe |JACQUELINE KUBANIA |Mwalimu Mati |Mwende Ngao
What does public participation in Nairobi look like? The Constitution of Kenya 2010 requires the government – whether national or county – to facilitate and engage in public participation whenever making laws. However, the form such civic undertakings take depends on who is doing it, and why.
