THE VIC REPORT

This year will play a life-changing role in the run up to the 2022 general election. The outcome of the election will greatly be influenced by the actions, strategies and activities of particular politicians who shape the political discourse of the country. While some are fighting to remain in the political limelight, others are in the business of making a come back after being in political cold for years.  Musalia Mudavadi; The ANC party leader and former deputy premier is spending his 8th year out of government. He has however managed to stay relevant and influence political discussion in the country by his neutral and objective arguments.  He has expressed interest in the Presidency and is currently supporting the BBI for policy reasons and 2022 survival.  Uhuru Kenyatta; He is President of the Republic of Kenya and Jubilee party leader. He is serving his second term and is expected to retire in 2022. However, after launching the BBI, many have questioned his possibili...

2020 has been a devastating year not only for working adults but also young Learners whose lives turned around over night at the discovery of the first COVID-19 case in Kenya.  Children had to be confined within the walls of the home for longer hours due to movement restrictions in combating the virus. They were denied a fundamental opportunity to play and catch up with their peers as stigma about the disease increased by the day. For many, They nolonger accessed usual childly needs as parental income greatly reduced due to economic impacts of the disease. It has been paradise turned hell for them. Smiles were replaced with sadness and silent depression.  I feel for children who had to experience the dark side of marriage violence as partners who couldn't put up together longer that usual resorted to violence in solving their differences. This had a traumatic effect on children and the psychological torture could follow them for days into the future. COVID-19 provided an envir...

The Raila Odinga led  orange party is no doubt the biggest political party in Kenya. We can trace its roots back to the 2005 referendum in which Raila was opposed to the proposed constitutional change. He converted the opposing wing into a political party, ODM.  ODM thrived through 2013 and 2017 elections. In 2018,  ODM found itself in a handshake which now looks like a political pact between Odinga's party and the ruling Jubilee party led by President Kenyatta. The collaboration has manifested in many ways, the latest being Msambweni parliamentary by-election  where Ruto's independent candidate won against the ODM cum handshake candidate. This put ODM on the political radar, attracting profound negative perceptions about the party's influence not only in coast politics but also national politics. ODM Lost lost the third By-election after Embakasi south and Ugenya.  A single election shouldn't be used to measure the party's nation wide influence but a loss in a ...

In the last couple of months,  Machakos county recorded close to 4000 teenage pregnancies. Going by the MoH statement on Monday, the numbers we see could be as a result of double counts. I still don't understand why teenage pregnancy had to be rampant at this particular time of a pandemic. The children are on holiday, so are  adults as results  the stay at home order.  So  you find adults who have been in intimate relationships have now been cut-out from their  partners due to the situation. When the appetite grows as COVID-19 regulations stay longer, the next victim of sexual fulfilment becomes that young girl/guy next door whose parents are not so keen. It's that cousin who came over to your place after schools closed. It's that nephew or niece who was entrusted to you by their parents or any other case that may arise as demanded by various situations and such, the feeling is mutual between the two sexes, so we can't blame either sex solely.  Ho...

Kifo - the man accused of sealing off his wife's private parts. A Man in Meru - Kifo, is reported to have sealed off his wife's private parts for cheating.  The jealous husband later went to Kitui to seek the help of a witchdoctor  so that he could be delivered of his troubles, since the police were constantly after him.  The man, who is now in custody is said to have sneaked out of Nairobi to his home Village in Meru to discipline his wife who he had been suspecting of cheating. He got home and asked his wife, who is currently discharged from hospital to disclose the man who has been sleeping with her, but she declined.  Kifo then led his wife to the banks of the river after telling her they were escaping from the police who were already hunting him for getting out of Nairobi illegally.  Upon reaching the river, the man ordered his wife to undress. She humbly obeyed; their young boy holding the torch at the command of his father.  Kifo then sodomized the w...

Tanzania President John Magufuli Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli has stunned the East African people and the world  after he claimed that his child healed from COVID-19 by eating lemons. Speaking at a church service today, the no - nonsense President admitted that his child had tested positive for COVID-19, isolated,  took to home made remedies to treat the disease, recovered and is now  doing push ups.   “Nina mtoto wangu alipata Corona, mtoto wa kuzaa mimi, amejifungia kwenye chumba akaanza kujitibu, akanywa malimau na tangawizi, amepona yuko mzima sasa anapiga push up,” said President Magufuli during a Church service. President Magufuli has gone on record dismissing the disease as "fake". This is after samples from Paw Paws tested positive for covid-19 in his country. In making further headlines, President Magufuli had once declared a 3 day prayer period in Tanzania, allowing worship gatherings despite other countries in the world banning such gatherin...

Kipchuma Murkomen and Susan Kihika Earlier today, President Kenyatta chaired a Jubilee Party Parliamentary Group meeting( PG ) at statehouse which was attended by Jubilee senators. This followed a notice of the PG issued by statehouse on Sunday. In a Press Release by statehouse on Monday 11th May 2020, Kenyans learnt of critical changes in the Jubilee leadership in Parliament, following the resolutions of the PG. In the changes, Majority Leader in the Senate, Kipchumba Murkomen was plucked off his position and replaced with West Pokot Senator, Samuel Poghisio. ( KANU)    West Pokot Senator Samuel Poghisio. Majority Chief whip and Nakuru Senator Susan Kihika was also releaved of her duties and replaced with Murang'a Senator, Irungu Kang'ata. Other contents of the agenda were not disclosed. In  response to the changes in a letter to the speaker of the Senate, Senator Kihika said she didn't recognize the changes, that due process as required by the standing orders of parliam...