Author: David Indeje

A centralised information database will enhance efficiency in planning, capacity building and providing support for Kenya’s Small Medium Enterprises. “We need to have databases of the SMEs, their products. A centralized database will help give lenders information on prospective clients. SMEs must also be empowered in terms of capacity building,” said Ms. Ibukunoluwa Odegbaike the Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank, East Africa. Ibukun Odegbaike said there are a lot of opportunities for regional trade between Kenya and the East African Community member states and also within the wider international trade arena. For this to be achieved, she urged the…

In the past 10 years, China has gone from having a small presence in Kenya to become one of its most important trading and investment partners.  Thanks to shipments of rolling stock and other equipment, Kenya’s imports from China ballooned to nearly US$3.4 billion in 2016 — an almost threefold increase from 2010 — against US$478 million from the US.  This figure is set to increase further with the construction of China’s BRI projects, which include the Standard Gauge Railway and the Lamu Port and Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor, both of which are largely Chinese funded. “As a regional…

Kenya has recognised the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as boosters of its economy and they constitute a major source of employment, enhancing competition, fostering innovation and generate significant domestic and export earnings for the country. According to the National Economic Survey report by the Central Bank of Kenya of 2017, SMEs constitute 98 percent of all businesses in Kenya, create 30 percent of the jobs annually and contributes 3 percent of GDP. “Kenyans have an impressive entrepreneurial spirit …You see it everywhere you go and most of our people are self-employed or employed by entrepreneurs. The informal sector contributes…

Corporal Fenwicks Chesoli Odera Obedi was on Wednesday 9th February 1983 sentenced to death by a Court Martial sitting at Langata Barracks Nairobi for committing treason during the 1st August 1982 coup attempt in Kenya. Corporal Fenwicks Chesoli was as the Nation Newspaper then reported:   “Ninth rebel to die. Another Kenya Air Force (KAF) rebel was yesterday sentenced to death for treason” He was an aircraft technician. In the Book by Babatemi A. Badejo  “Raila Odinga, An Enigma in Kenya Politics” it is revealed that Cpl Fenwicks Chesoli was considered a member of the “Peoples Redemption Council” that…

There is no point in having mentors if you’re not going to utilise them correctly. Make sure you are getting the most you can from their expertise and connections according to Nancie Amunga. “To achieve success in life, we must constantly interact with the achievers. We can never be eagles as long as we keep dwelling among chickens. The higher we ascend the more competitive it becomes but, it also becomes less crowded and the air gets fresher. We should never allow ourselves to be dragged down by those consumed by negative and destructive attitudes!” Amunga, the Managing Director of…

In 2013, as Kenyans went to the polls in March, the people of Western Kenya were hit by a wave of attacks they had never experienced since those of the tribal clashes of 1992.The attacks came hot on the heels of the hotly contested 2013 elections with residents being ambushed during the night by gangs of machete, axe and other crude weapon yielding gangs who had only one massage ‘ we were sent to kill you’.Could the killings have been vendetta and grudge held since the bungled 2007 presidential elections?The killings started from Busia County and spread all the way…