Joseph Bonyo
45 Articles
BONYO'S BONE: Health - Kiambu dropped the ball
For 127 days, doctors in Kiambu have been on strike. That’s four months, one week, and five days. In that time, a woman could carry a pregnancy without ever seeing a county doctor. That is how long Kiambu residents have been abandoned.
BONYO'S BONE: Education - Ghosts for ghosts, by ghosts
Last week, basic education principal secretary Julius Bitok revealed before parliament that an ongoing audit had unearthed 50,000 ghost students.
BONYO'S BONE: Graft - Take aim, miss!
Now, just days before marking his first anniversary in office, Kanja was on national television and admitted what every Kenyan already knows — that police recruitment has been riddled with corruption for years.
BONYO'S BONE: Governors, but are they?
Here is a fact: we don’t expect a Governor to be an accountant, an engineer, and a human resource officer all in one. But when you insist on answering every technical audit query yourself and stumble through numbers you don’t understand, then Kenyans will judge you.
BONYO'S BONE: Out of order, Mr. Speaker
But sadly, Mr. Speaker has refused to rise above the stature of an ordinary MP. He has chosen to drag the Speaker’s chair down to the trenches of partisan politics.
BONYO'S BONE: Hello, devolution dancers...
Twelve years later, ordinary Kenyans should be dancing too. Joining their Governors along the lakeshore for a jubilant ajawa. Instead, the only rhythm they know is the pounding ache of poor services.
BONYO'S BONE: African elections in terms
1991, in Zambia. Kenneth Kaunda, the founding father, lost the first multiparty elections to Frederick Chiluba. Didn’t even finish a first term in the new democratic setup. That is democracy.
BONYO'S BONE: Sober up, NACADA!
The latest raft of proposals by NACADA, framed as an attempt to tackle what they call the “alcohol and drug menace,” are not just misguided, they are draconian, anti-business, and dangerously out of touch with modern governance.
BONYO'S BONE: FKF - Shame in the boardroom
Hussein Mohammed, MacDonald Mariga; let me say it plainly—you’re failing the game. And worse, you're failing the people who believed in you.When you took office, it felt like a long-overdue turning point for Kenyan football. Your election was celebrated across counties, streets, and stadiums.
BONYO'S BONE: Futility of the gag
But make no mistake, these attacks are not random. They point to a deliberate strategy by the state and its operatives to control the message.