A look inside Uhuru Kenyatta's grand projects, grand budgets
The 10 years of the Jubilee administration have been characterized by mega size infrastructure projects. From roads, to rails, to ports the Jubilee administration was grand on infrastructure.
Grand infrastructure, however, translates into grand budgets and over the last decade, Kenya's budget deficits have widened and public debt has ballooned.
As President Kenyatta exits the stage, the debate is raging as to whether the legacy infrastructure projects meet the value for money threshold.
PLO Lumumba, the Pan-Africanism Champion
When he is not litigating in courts, then he is probably giving a public lecture or seated on a panel somewhere across the continent of Africa preaching about the elusive dream of a united Africa. Kenya’s high court advocate professor PLO Lumumba is increasingly gaining traction in the continent for his passion on pan-africanism that has seen him stand out as the latter-day Kwame Nkrumah who was the champion for pan-africanism. So what drives him to be this passionate about mama Africa? What kind of Africa is his dream about and who inspires him the most?
April 21, 2024
Killed in pineapple farms || Inside Out
On a 22,000-acre piece of land that cuts across the Murang’a and Kiambu county borders, a small fruit that lands on the plates of many Kenyans and international supermarket outlets is causing big trouble. The pineapple. The fruit has seen unimaginable acts carried out on those who attempt to pluck it unauthorised, steal it and even those going about their business using the roads that cut through the vast farm. Many have been maimed, rape and tens murdered.
The company at the Centre of all of this is Del Monte Kenya, whose guards are on record for using excessive force whenever a trespasser is found within the confines of the pineapple farm.
The family of a 28-year-old man says time has stood still since his murder occurred within Del Monte farm.
April 21, 2024
Once A Criminal...
Mid 2016, police found themselves dealing with a new and awkward form of crime. Criminal gangs in Kisauni, mombasa were reportedly waylaying women and suckling their breasts. Months earlier and those that would follow, the gangs attacked their victims with machetes fatally wounding dozens and in most cases causing life threatening injuries. Most people now walk in Kisauni with scars inflicted by the gangs.
To understand why they did it and how coordinated the gangs were, NTV set out on a journey to speak to former members of the dreaded Wakali Kwanza and Wakali Wao gangs and now we can present this special report – ONCE A CRIMINAL, Inside the dreaded lives of Kisauni Gangs.
April 16, 2024
Education in private hands | EQuality
Education in private hands...falling standards and inefficiencies pushing learners private schools.
April 13, 2024
The Holy Betrayal
The seventh-Day Adventist church has been fighting for it's space and legitimacy over the years as critics and self-proclaimed cult watchers like Dr Walter Martin attempted to liken it to one in a 1955 book, the Rise of the Cults. Until Walter and the likes changed their views in 1965, the church has grown and tremendously transformed the belief of their members. By 2019, there were 21,000,000 baptized members around the world. In this story, we focus on the emergence of SDA offshoots, splinter groups that are threatening the legitimacy of the church and creating a fight between extremists and Adventists.
April 7, 2024
Inside The Coveted City Land
For 16 years, a 7.3 hectare parcel of land located in Loresho along the Lower Kabete Road has been the subject of contestation with the "temporary detention" of lands CS Alice Wahome on the parcel about a month ago being one of the latest public developments about that land. As of today, 3 parties are laying claim to the property. Investigations by NTV's specials and investigations unit, are now drawing in a possible soon to be 4th claimant, Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja who may have already made part payment to own the land. Here's our senior specials and Investigations reporter Ibrahim Karanja with the details behind this property that has made authorities seemingly rendered powerless in as far as bringing order is concern. The story is Inside the Coveted City Land.
March 31, 2024
#DefeatingJustice: The mismanagement of corruption cases by the ODPP
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has come under mounting criticism over the handling of corruption cases. Most recently, the office has clashed with the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission on the withdrawal of two cases involving former high ranking government officials. The courts have also taken issue with what one judge described as the 'fashion' of withdrawing cases by the office of the DPP. The office of the DPP has also been called to order by the courts in some cases for preferring charges before conclusive investigations and in others, sabotaging their own cases mid-stream when the courts decline their applications for withdrawal, giving accused persons a walk over. The civil society has joined the courts in calling for consequences where the office of the DPP fails to discharge their constitutional mandate.
March 24, 2024
SophieBot the AI chatbot covering sexuality and sexual reproductive health || Equality
For young people who have sexual reproductive health questions and are afraid of talking about sex with adults, SophieBot is here for you.
According to Irvine Mukasa, the developer, SophieBot is an AI chatbot that is fed with verified information on sexuality and sexual reproductive health and relays the information to its users through conversations that are driven by text or voice chats.
March 23, 2024
Meru Political Unease
Meru county governor Kawira Mwangaza has survived two impeachment attempts barely a year in office. The political heavy weight she defeated in the 2022 election have been blamed for engineering her political woes, or are they?
March 21, 2024