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Irungu Houghton

What IG Kanja must do to reform police, earn Kenyans' confidence

The season of public violence, abductions by secret squads, non-cooperation with IPOA and human rights organisations and contempt for court orders has polluted the national atmosphere

By Irungu Houghton 1 month ago

What IG Kanja must do to reform police, earn Kenyans' confidence

Kenya still needs commissions to check an overbearing presidency

Kenya still needs commissions to check an overbearing presidency

By Irungu Houghton 2 months ago

Nairobi's disposal of 120 bodies could violate dignity of the dead

Nairobi's disposal of 120 bodies could violate dignity of the dead

By Irungu Houghton 2 months ago

What Ruto's new Cabinet projects on integrity and public resources

What Ruto's new Cabinet projects on integrity and public resources

By Irungu Houghton 3 months ago

Why Kenya, Tanzania must step up protection of their elephants

Elephants have individual personalities. Everyone of them intelligently think, communicate, solve problems, mourn, play and even laugh.

By Irungu Houghton and Dr Paula Kahumbu 3 months ago

Why Kenya, Tanzania must step up protection of their elephants

Kenya needs fresh ideas to tackle extreme religion and rogue clerics

Without new ways of leading by the nation's imams and priests, Mutava Musyimi's taskforce report might as well be buried alongside the victims at Shakahola.

By Irungu Houghton 3 months ago

Kenya needs fresh ideas to tackle extreme religion and rogue clerics

Rethink police handling of protests amid new leadership in the service

Police leadership must come with new strategies of listening and acting that can de-escalate and hold accountable those under their command that have broken our laws.

By Irungu Houghton 3 months ago

Rethink police handling of protests amid new leadership in the service

Kenyans must seize this moment to transform the political edifice

What if the Gen Z movement intentionally showed up en mass to peacefully register for IDs and voter's cards at huduma centres and immigration offices.

By Irungu Houghton 4 months ago

Kenyans must seize this moment to transform the political edifice

Let third liberation be about restoring integrity and accountable leadership

The issues raised by the protest movement are systemic.

By Irungu Houghton 4 months ago

Let third liberation be about restoring integrity and accountable leadership

Gen Z awakens spirit of Saba Saba in their agitation for transparency

Politicians, civil servants and their tenderpreneur cousins must stop stealing, money laundering and buying allegiance at the pulpit, funeral and wedding harambees.

By Irungu Houghton 4 months ago

Gen Z awakens spirit of Saba Saba in their agitation for transparency

Military must operate within Bill of Rights and protect right to life

The army and all security agencies remain bound by the Bill of Rights in the Constitution of Kenya and international human rights law.

By Irungu Houghton 4 months ago

Military must operate within Bill of Rights and protect right to life

State at a crossroads as it faces fearless, firm Gen-Z protestors

Attempts to brand them as disaffected and jobless looters fell flat as the protestors remained largely peaceful in their thousands.

By Irungu Houghton 4 months ago

State at a crossroads as it faces fearless, firm Gen-Z protestors

More reasons why our police are not ready for the Haiti mission

In the last week, eight police officers have been arrested for extorting bribes and stealing from the public.

By Irungu Houghton 5 months ago

More reasons why our police are not ready for the Haiti mission

Why must we over-borrow, overspend, then tax Kenyans more?

Introducing VAT on ordinary bread and dairy products will raise the cost of living for most households.

By Irungu Houghton 5 months ago

Why must we over-borrow, overspend, then tax Kenyans more?

Let's celebrate those who write to expand and protect our freedoms

Let's celebrate them and all who write, speak or act today to protect and expand the freedoms contained in our Bill of Rights this month.

By Irungu Houghton 5 months ago

Let's celebrate those who write to expand and protect our freedoms

Use AI tools to boost dignity for persons living with disabilities

AI is built on datasets. If that data has societal anti or PWD neutral biases, artificial intelligence will perpetuate that bias ten-fold to us all.

By Irungu Houghton 6 months ago

Use AI tools to boost dignity for persons living with disabilities

It's time to step up our call for a sustainable future, just society

Rising levels of impunity, inequalities and human rights violations within several countries offer little hope for the future.

By Irungu Houghton 6 months ago

It's time to step up our call for a sustainable future, just society

Broad disaster preparedness key to tackling future floods

As an entire nation finds itself vulnerable to nature and braces for Cyclone Hidaya, we must address what didn't happen and what needs to happen now.

By Irungu Houghton 6 months ago

Broad disaster preparedness key to tackling future floods

Human rights gains at risk due to impunity among those in power

Benna Buluma was not killed by raging floods. The Mathare-based leader was killed by the lack of dignified housing, urban planning and misgovernance.

By Irungu Houghton 6 months ago

Human rights gains at risk due to impunity among those in power

IG Koome missed a point on how officers should respond to crisis

State officers may not need to be popular, but they do need to be pre-occupied with how their services can be more rights based and public centred.

By Irungu Houghton 7 months ago

IG Koome missed a point on how officers should respond to crisis

Guard your right to criticise and hold all state officers accountable

Government officers use public finances to sue their detractors, giving them an undue advantage. Parliamentarians must now review several laws that stifle free expression.

By Irungu Houghton 7 months ago

Guard your right to criticise and hold all state officers accountable

The state must protect Senator Omtatah from constant attacks

Over the last year, he has faced several public attacks and raids on his office and home designed to intimidate him from his legislative and litigative duties as an opposition parliamentarian.

By Irungu Houghton 7 months ago

The state must protect Senator Omtatah from constant attacks

Unraveling the complexity of the Shakahola tragedy

Alongside a de-radicalisation and rehabilitation plan we urgently need new regulatory guidelines and programmes that pre-empt future occurrences.

By Irungu Houghton 7 months ago

Unraveling the complexity of the Shakahola tragedy

Festering wound in health sector needs more than threats to heal

An acute health crisis has just boiled over, again. Unattended to, slow-burning issues in the governance of our health now threaten the right to health for millions.

By Irungu Houghton 7 months ago

Festering wound in health sector needs more than threats to heal

We have Dr Chakava to thank for the rights and freedoms we enjoy

Dr Henry Miyinzi Chakava recently passed away after a life devoted to undermining state censorship and promoting the right to free expression.

By Irungu Houghton 8 months ago

We have Dr Chakava to thank for the rights and freedoms we enjoy

How safe are asylum seekers in Kenya and how can we step up?

What could the government learn from other governments currently addressing transnational repression?

By Irungu Houghton 8 months ago

How safe are asylum seekers in Kenya and how can we step up?

Reform the service rather than hide rotten apples in the police

Chief Inspector Walter Nyamato Nyankieya died in a Washington DC hotel this week while attending consultations on the legally distressed police deployment to Haiti.

By Irungu Houghton 9 months ago

Reform the service rather than hide rotten apples in the police

Avoid all forms of victim shaming to protect all from gender violence

Sexual and gender-based violence is not normal. Our silence, jokes, or sense of denial must not license public acceptance. Femicidal behaviour is criminal, and it must stop.

By Irungu Houghton 9 months ago

Avoid all forms of victim shaming to protect all from gender violence

Why Kenyans should protect their public and personal data

Big data breaches are not unique to Kenya. Last year IBM reported that global data breaches amounted to Sh700 million last year, a 15 per cent increase over 3 years.

By Irungu Houghton and Victor Ndede 9 months ago

Why Kenyans should protect their public and personal data

Guard against religious cults out to exploit the vulnerable Kenyans

Kenya has experienced more than six massacres linked to religious extremism in the past 30 years. Shakahola death toll has claimed the most lives.

By Irungu Houghton 10 months ago

Guard against religious cults out to exploit the vulnerable Kenyans

Global justice system on trial as South Africa takes Israel to ICJ

What is the significance of the South Africa petition before the International Court of Justice (ICJ)? More importantly, can it bring the atrocities to an end?

By Irungu Houghton 10 months ago

Global justice system on trial as South Africa takes Israel to ICJ

Blogger's killing: The ball is now in police, ODPP's court

Daniel "Sniper" Muthiani was last seen heading for the residence of Governor Kawira Mwangaza after receiving a call from her associate Vincent Muriithi Kirimi.

By Irungu Houghton 10 months ago

Blogger's killing: The ball is now in police, ODPP's court

It might be time for a new song to raise awareness about Gaza

20,000 human beings, 70 per cent of them non-combatant women and children, lie dead under makeshift graves or below the rubble of homes and hospitals in Gaza.

By Irungu Houghton 10 months ago

It might be time for a new song to raise awareness about Gaza

National awards must tap into vein of leadership and courage

Nearly 1,000 Kenyans were honoured in the pre-Jamhuri Day gazette notice of 16986.

By Irungu Houghton and Njeri Kabeberi 11 months ago

National awards must tap into vein of leadership and courage

Massive global human rights violations

Silence normalises and is fertile soil for state and public apathy. Let us demand that the world remains focused on Sudan and Gaza. Let each of us record and post #StopTheWar 10-second videos.

By Irungu Houghton 11 months ago

Massive global human rights violations

How our silence emboldens those that hurt people based on identity

It has become increasingly fashionable for leaders to associate their parents with the Mau Mau at veteran's funerals. Family genealogies are re-historicised to downplay relatives.

By Irungu Houghton 11 months ago

How our silence emboldens those that hurt people based on identity

Grand corruption and abuse of office killing bottom-up dream

Grand corruption and abuse of office remain the biggest threat to the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda and a second term.

By Irungu Houghton 11 months ago

Grand corruption and abuse of office killing bottom-up dream

Beware push to pass bills that target people based on identity

These domestic interests and their foreign allies are dragging The Presidency into a high-stakes policy distraction that risks licensing horrific crimes and an international backlash.

By Irungu Houghton 1 year ago

Beware push to pass bills that target people based on identity

Children have gone online let us nurture them on the digital path

Given the huge understanding gap between most parents and children, digital safety programs must be designed based on a localised understanding of young people's interests.

By Irungu Houghton 1 year ago

Children have gone online let us nurture them on the digital path

Let's demand integrity from all professionals to safeguard society

Several cases of identity theft and misrepresentation, identity theft and fraud alert us the legal profession is gradually deteriorating.

By Irungu Houghton 1 year ago

Let's demand integrity from all professionals to safeguard society

The world must now find lasting solution to Palestine occupation

Over 4,700 Palestinian civilians, 40 per cent of them children, have been killed in Gaza and the West Bank.

By Irungu Houghton 1 year ago

The world must now find lasting solution to Palestine occupation

Public anger growing against officers out to extort Kenyans

Ceasing the appointment of individuals with tainted histories would restore public faith. Over the last year, no less than 245 corruption cases have been withdrawn against presidential allies.

By Irungu Houghton 1 year ago

Public anger growing against officers out to extort Kenyans

Our nation's model is not based on hatred or bias against anyone

History is replete with religious and political leaders announcing warring crusades or pronouncing fatwas against Muslims, Christians, blacks, the sick, differently abled and women.

By Irungu Houghton 1 year ago

Our nation's model is not based on hatred or bias against anyone

Why Kenya must criminalise enforced disappearance in law

Overlooked and now in need of their legislative attention are the legal loopholes that allow state officers to forcibly disappear suspects or persons in conflict with the law.

By Irungu Houghton 1 year ago

Why Kenya must criminalise enforced disappearance in law

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