Nzau Musau

Nairobi

Journalist at The Standard (Kenya)

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NZAU MUSAU: When in power, don't be a Kaaria, butcher of Wagalla

3 weeks ago | the-star.co.ke | Nzau Musau

When he landed in Garissa in April 1980 donning a wide-brimmed hat of a freshly minted Provincial Commissioner, Benson Naaman Kaaria was breathing fire. He wasted little time in announcing to the locals that if they felt fed up with Kenya as a country, they should simply pack their bags and go back to Somalia. Go back? Yes, you read that right! To the locals who had been choking under the combined weight of shifta war, banditry and government brutality, his arrival added swell to their suffering.
NIS, Defence boss' reveal emerging threats to stability

3 weeks ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Nzau Musau

Two of the country’s top security chiefs publicly opened up on the state of the country’s security, speaking firmly about their resolve to maintain a constitutional order, and rallying Kenyans to lend full support to securing their country.
NIS and KDF's firm 'No' to protests, abductions

4 weeks ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Nzau Musau

Two of the country’s top security chiefs publicly opened up on the state of the country’s security, speaking firmly about their resolve to maintain a constitutional order, and rallying Kenyans to lend full support to securing their country.
'SANY demolitions': Taxpayers to cough Sh2 billion for Nakumatt Ukay compensation

4 weeks ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Nzau Musau

Kenyans will cough in excess of Sh2 billion to compensate the owners of Nakumatt Ukay mall demolished at the crack of dawn by a multi-agency government team back in 2018. Justice Oguttu Mboya slammed four state agencies- Office of the Attorney General, National Environmental Management Authority, Water Resource Management Authority, and the Nairobi City County- for arbitrarily depriving the owners of Nakumatt Ukay of their property.
NZAU MUSAU: Why Kenyans should cut veteran Raila some slack

4 weeks ago | the-star.co.ke | Nzau Musau

Opposition leader Raila Odinga’s way of life is falling into the sere, the yellow leaf. At 80, his life journey has shadowed the twists and turns of the Kenyan story. Kenya’s story, just like Raila’s, is the story of dualities of life; hope and despair, conquests and losses, fear and courage, determination and defeat. Both Raila and Kenya have seen it all.
NZAU MUSAU: Indulge our politicians to speak in burials, birthdays

1 month ago | the-star.co.ke | Nzau Musau

In his famous work Brothers Karamozov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky divulges the three forces capable of holding “weak rebels” captive for their own happiness. Miracle, mystery and authority, he says, are very much capable of leading grown-up men and women, like sheep. The first two, miracle and mystery, befuddle the mind. In our inability to have an objective, rational appreciation of them, we easily surrender to them. For thousands of years, religions and religious leaders have traded in their currency.
NZAU: Of ballerina dress and Kenya's tiring politics

1 month ago | the-star.co.ke | Nzau Musau

PRESIDENT Daniel Moi, my country’s president for the first 20 years of my life, was a man given unto choice, memorable quotes. One of my favourite, albeit no longer palatable in the modern, gendered etymology, was his analogy of the ballet dress in reference to the circuitous nature of Kenyan politics. Like the ballet dress, Kenya’s politics moves thither and hither, this way and that way, giving flashes of hope in every direction, but offering none in the end.
ICC targets Sudan war enablers amid Kenyan links to militia gold

1 month ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Nzau Musau

The eyes of the international community are turning towards the enablers of Sudan civil war, days after the country’s militias formed a parallel government in Nairobi and startling claims on Kenyan leadership involvement in illicit gold business emerged.
NZAU MUSAU: Kasmuel in Addis - What not to do in diplomacy

1 month ago | the-star.co.ke | Nzau Musau

In SummaryDid Raila need any moral support, least from the likes of Kasmuel and ilk? I would hazard a big no since he was in great company with his adorable, and supportive wife Ida. Raila Odinga and Kasmuel McOure. Two weeks ago, Kasmuel McOure ambled his youthful frame to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and boarded an airline to Addis Ababa. Like most people do, he must have said something to his family or friends about his mission.
Why "Kenya coalition" featured in German election

1 month ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Nzau Musau

Except for the unimpressive campaign billboards propped in city streets, and the fairly modest final campaign rallies, a stranger in snow-swept Berlin would have hardly noticed that Germany was on the eve of a decisive federal poll. Berliners went about their business in the last week leading to the poll, devoid of the euphoria and drama characteristic of final pitches in other places, including Kenya.