Wishful thinkers, chewing the proverbial meat of contentment, have been head over heels on blogosphere and e-groups with a somewhat mundane argument, that President Mwai Kibaki won the 2007 elections.

Sovereignty means government freedom from external control. It can also be interpreted as dominion of a monarch. At a personal level, it is the liberty to decide one’s thoughts or actions without external coercion, or interference

Getting Kadhi’s courts out of the constitution is critical. This will not only ensure justice, but also align well with the provision that Kenya is a secular state.

I trust this finds you well. Probably you just got out of a steam bath, or a sauna, but that does not bother me, right now.

One glorious morning, somewhere in western Kenya, sugarcane harvesters had been working arduously and calculatedly; as usual they had attracted a huge crowed of idle onlookers.

The arguments making the rounds on the Mau are becoming mundane. We can easily agree that occupation of Mau is wrong; whether within legal or “divine” right.

Hindsight can get grumpy with a hard laugh when you come to think of it. As we fold up 2009, we fondly pluck from it cherished memories of events that shaped the world. January 20, saw Barack Obama crowned King of the free world; even as the global citizens politely referred to it as America’s Presidential inauguration.

The Mau reclamation taskforce did a tremendous job in consolidating sensible proposal that blended compassion with due process.

Agriculture Minister William Ruto, the legislator from Eldoret North, has demonstrated quite some commitment in the Mau issue and reforms, but his is a case of sacrificing the national good at the altar of self-conservation.

The Mau forest saga has been unfolding in a manner unprecedented. Mau is turning out to be the fence that binds the wealthy and squatters in the same yard. Welcome to a tale of misery and opportunistic politics.

After so much hype as to who is who among our leaders; this is to say thank you very much, to Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, for his honesty. The founding father of our nation and Kenyatta’s father, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, was quoted as referring to politics in the now common word “siasa” as “si hasa” meaning “not real.”

People of Nairobi; the Maasai place of cool waters; people of central, the place of the beautiful snowline; people of Rift Valley, the heart of milk and honey; people of Eastern, the place of sand and rock that industrialized Nairobi; people of coast, the place of coconut and mangoes; people of Nyanza, the place where fish dot lake shores and bananas spread the hillsides; and the people of western, where cane, and sweet potato yield beyond compare; I have a word for all of you.