Linus Kaikai

May 08, 2026 12:04 (EAT) • 4 hours ago

KAIKAI'S KICKER: Let the Supreme Court remain Supreme!

It is painful when Supreme Court interviews are seen from the simplistic point of how a judge would vote in a presidential election petition, for example.Ultimately, the JSC must embrace its independence and aim to make the Supreme Court a 100 per cent merit-based institution....

April 30, 2026 11:45 (EAT) • 1 week ago

KAIKAI'S KICKER: Haiti: What about officer Kabiru?

The mission is over, but not for one family whose kin, a police officer, went missing in Haiti. To this date, the family of police officer Benedict Kabiru Kuria remains in the dark over what really transpired in March last year, when Kabiru allegedly disappeared during an attack by a gang in Haiti....

April 03, 2026 12:01 (EAT) • 1 month ago

KAIKAI'S KICKER: Easter - Say hi to your Barabbas!

The entire story of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ sounds like a Kenyan fable, complete with Kenyan characters of diverse political and ethnic backgrounds. Do you remember some fellow called Barabbas?

March 19, 2026 11:40 (EAT) • 1 month ago

KAIKAI KICKER: Dear leaders, acheni ujinga na utoto!

Despite concerns of society-minded, right-thinking Kenyans, political leaders particularly President William Ruto and former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua have persisted on this embarassing path of low-grade discourse.

March 12, 2026 11:40 (EAT) • 1 month ago

KAIKAI'S KICKER: RSF passports: Uta do?

The silence could mean many things. First, and I offer this as the worst-case scenario, the silence could mean that the government or the particular authorities concerned, including the Ministry of Interior and National Administration and the Directorate of Immigration Services, do not care about th...

February 26, 2026 11:38 (EAT) • 2 months ago

KAIKAI'S KICKER: RSF passports...bei ya Jioni!

As a reporter some years back, I witnessed firsthand the atrocities and suffering visited upon non-Arab citizens of Sudan by an Arab militia group called the ‘Janjaweed’. I visited the strife-torn Darfur region and the camps of the internally displaced where I saw non-Arab Sudan citizens nursing var...

February 19, 2026 11:39 (EAT) • 2 months ago

KAIKAI'S KICKER: John Mbadi's 3-letter treasure

Tribe is something to be proud of. And indeed I am just following this as a proud Maasai and I can't help wondering, what can John Mbadi Ng'ong'o tell Rigathi Gachagua?

February 05, 2026 11:58 (EAT) • 3 months ago

KAIKAI'S KICKER: Let State House remain State House

When all else fails, can State House be kept what it was named, and that is ‘State House’? Like, state… not party house, just State House.

January 29, 2026 11:39 (EAT) • 3 months ago

KAIKAI'S KICKER: Tribute to school headteachers, walk tall!

The Grade 10 transition has in the last few weeks been nothing short of a nightmare for the majority of parents and teachers. To headteachers across the country, count yourselves as some of Kenya’s valued miracle workers.

December 18, 2025 11:10 (EAT) • 4 months ago

KAIKAI'S KICKER – Hello Mt. Kenya, please don’t downgrade

You must have heard of calls to split Mt.Kenya into two distinct blocks – Mt Kenya east and Mt.Kenya West.