Mutuma Mathiu

Managing Editor - Daily Nation

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MUTUMA: Let’s pay our teachers well

When I was a university student (Mr Wilson Sossion, the fire-breathing Knut chairman was my yearmate and neighbour in the halls of residence)...

Posted Thu Sep 01 18:23:40 EAT 2011

MUTUMA: Devolution would be a good thing if only the corrupt did not take charge

Sometimes small things happen which change the course of history...

Posted Thu Aug 25 20:00:00 EAT 2011

MUTUMA: Like Caesar’s wife, top graft-busters must at all times be above suspicion

There will be probably never be a better time to retell the story of Caesar ...

Posted Thu Aug 18 18:06:48 EAT 2011

MUTUMA: We can’t allow more Somali children to die of starvation

Every disaster has its icon, the one powerful image which immediately tells you what...

Posted Thu Aug 11 18:37:12 EAT 2011

MUTUMA: Africans, it seems, will always find a loophole to profit from the public till

After liberation in 1994, there grew in South Africa a breed of eaters, known as...

Posted Mon Jun 14 20:50:56 EAT 2010

MUTUMA: Bombing has changed Kenya forever

You will know a bad one when the tip comes in. Sunday’s grenade attack on a crusade at Uhuru Park doesn’t come any worse....

Posted Fri Jan 08 09:37:59 EAT 2010

Three cheers for Akiwumi team, we feel proud

The Akiwumi tribunal has done us all proud. It’s sagacity and probing intellect is a great credit to this country....

Posted Sat Sep 26 18:30:28 EAT 2009

MUTUMA MATHIU: If experts can’t reach common ground, how will we?

It is 19 years since the clamour for constitutional change gained widespread support. ...

Posted Sat Sep 19 21:26:46 EAT 2009

Oh, the burden of being Meru in these difficult times

I think henceforth, whenever President Kibaki wishes to make an appointment, he should ask his secretary to call me...

Posted Sat Sep 12 19:49:08 EAT 2009

MUTUMA MATHIU: Farewell to coppery and all that: Post card from El Wak

No one, least of all the politicians, has had anything good to say about former police commissioner Major-General Hussein Ali...

Posted Sat Aug 15 14:19:30 EAT 2009

There are good reasons for State’s three arms

A section of Members of Parliament think it is a grand idea for us to have a special tribunal, after all. ...