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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.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
debunk.media | JACQUELINE KUBANIA |Mwalimu Mati |Vincent Ng'Ethe
I have fantasies of being enrolled in a boot camp. In them, a sadistic trainer kicks me out of bed every morning at 4 a.m., putting me through hours of such punishing physical exercise that it makes me weep. But there’s no time to cry because right afterwards I have to attend French classes with a militant teacher who takes no prisoners, and then go swimming, and then be forced to sit in a chair for three hours straight until I produce 3,000 words of writing every single day.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Vincent Ng'Ethe |Rasna Warah |JACQUELINE KUBANIA
When times are tough, governments declare they will slash spending and Kenyan ones are no different. Kenyans will remember when Uhuru Kenyatta, as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, declared that government ministers would have to be driven in Volkswagen Passat vehicles because the customary Mercedes Benz limousines were fuel guzzlers. It’s not clear what that decision did to the lumbar health of our leaders, but the natural order of things was soon restored.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Vincent Ng'Ethe
On a Monday morning in July 2023, before the deadly confrontations between protestors and riot police that would end up killing more than six Kenyans, Raila Odinga boarded a matatu from his Karen home headed for the Nairobi Central Business District. With his bodyguard keeping his distance, Odinga ambled to the bus stop clad in his Azimio-Blue kaunda suit, climbing aboard adroitly enough, much as he didn’t swing from the door.
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May 29, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Vincent Ng'Ethe
When the Finance Bill finally makes it to Parliament, do you know how your MP will vote? For most Kenyans, the answer to that question will be “No”. For a law that promises much more than a 3 per cent housing development levy, you should be concerned. Kenya has a freedom of information law but its authors in Parliament are holding it back. According to of the Constitution and the Access to Information Act 2016, every Kenyan has a right to information held by the State.
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May 19, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Vincent Ng'Ethe
The ongoing Hollywood writers’ strike has drawn attention to just how far businesses can go to eliminate humans and the cost of their labour from production. Here in Kenya, tea-picking machines were introduced to the great chagrin of workers. One change that still seems far from Kenya is the cashier-less supermarket, where money leaves your account as you walk out of the store.
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May 8, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Vincent Ng'Ethe
Maps have long been a staple of election reporting. The US Presidential election, for instance, is one of the most mapped anywhere. Be it the presidential election or the midterms, maps help voters everywhere to digest and understand results. Typically, results are reported from precinct to county, to state, and then nationally. Use of more granular maps produces data that better visualises local politics.
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Apr 13, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Vincent Ng'Ethe
Ever since Kenya was a republic, dominion, colony, or left alone the way its people liked it, wildlife meant wealth. People made great fortunes by shooting and mounting the biggest trophies, poaching for skin, teeth and horn, and latterly by hosting those who wish to photograph live animals. Adventurers, hoteliers, photographers, artists, publishers, safari boot-makers, camera manufacturers, statue carvers and governments all benefited.
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Feb 15, 2023 | 
debunk.media | Vincent Ng'Ethe
A Twitter user posted a photo that he claimed showed police vehicles outside the former Internal Security Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi’s home. On the night of 8 February 2023, news broke that there was an alleged police raid at Matiang’is. One journalist, however, questioned why no photographs of the policemen who stalked Matiang’i had been published, and media reports have continued to question whether police visited the home.
