Sam Gituku

May 07, 2026 11:53 (EAT) • 1 day ago

SAM’S SENSE: Numbers: Gov't-to-Govt clash

The recently transmitted budget estimates for the 2026/2027 financial year suggest that the economy is now at more than Ksh.20.8 trillion in size.The National Treasury imagines that the country’s GDP for purposes of the national budget is Ksh.20.8 trillion, but KNBS just put it at Ksh.17.6...

April 30, 2026 11:59 (EAT) • 1 week ago

SAM’S SENSE: Ichung'wah's millions: Gift or graft?

Ichung’wah says Gachagua denied any involvement and that later that evening, the DP sent millions his way. He says he kept the money safe, taking out Ksh.1 million and donating it at a harambee that weekend.

April 23, 2026 11:44 (EAT) • 2 weeks ago

SAM’S SENSE: Parliament - Oversight or overwhelmed?

Often times when Members of Parliament are put to task over their role in oversighting the national Executive, they tend to turn defensive.Some of them question the authenticity of reports that the media relies on in publishing stories of possible misuse of public funds.

April 09, 2026 11:54 (EAT) • 4 weeks ago

SAM’S SENSE: University and politics

Over the last three years we have been told that most of our public universities were or are insolvent.This reported reality was the basis of a new university funding model to save the institutions that were facing collapse. Well, there is no evidence to show that the said institutions are now back...

April 02, 2026 11:54 (EAT) • 1 month ago

SAM'S SENSE: Between 'Wantam' and 'Tutam'

But the campaigns are already heated. Source of the heat? A war of words between those who believe in two terms for President William Ruto, versus those who believe he doesn’t deserve an extra day in office post the 10th of August 2027. And the face of that wing is Rigathi Gachagua, Ruto’s former de...

March 26, 2026 11:39 (EAT) • 1 month ago

SAM'S SENSE: Between barrels and barrels

Three weeks of retaliatory attacks that have hit the Middle East affecting global trade channels. At least 20 per cent of the world’s crude oil passes through the waterway into the open ocean.

March 19, 2026 11:33 (EAT) • 1 month ago

SAM’S SENSE: Call to eternal vigilance

There has also been so much noise around new laws, new funds like the National Infrastructure Fund and the new Railway Development Levy Fund that has just been created to facilitate borrowing, to finance the development of Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) infrastructure....

March 12, 2026 11:45 (EAT) • 1 month ago

SAM’S SENSE: State House happy hour...

Just as is often the case, the majority of state departments and entities had under-implemented their budgets. On average, departments absorbed 47 per cent of the Ksh.4.69 trillion expenditure plan.

March 05, 2026 11:50 (EAT) • 2 months ago

SAM'S SENSE: KPC IPO: What are Kenyans saying?

First, the privatisation of the Kenya Pipeline has been a topic that dominated public discourse for the better part of 2025. Many questions were posed, many loaded with suspicion that particular government functionaries were intent on cutting a piece of the KPC cake.

March 04, 2026 09:30 (EAT) • 2 months ago

MPs clash over proposed National Infrastructure Fund amid oversight concerns

Proponents of the bill say it is the surest way for the country to unlock trillions of shillings needed to develop previously neglected areas.The bill has divided the House between those in support of President William Ruto’s “Singapore dream” and those sceptical of i...