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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Omollo on September 29, 2015, 10:38:40 AM
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The first is is the Nation. Here is the screaming Headline:
Ipsos survey shows only 17pc of Kenyans support the opposition
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Survey-shows-low-support-for-opposition/-/1064/2889096/-/o901f/-/index.html
Confidence in Kenya’s opposition is very low, according to a survey.
The survey by Ipsos Kenya places the confidence rating in the Opposition at 17 per cent, out of which only 7 per cent are Jubilee supporters and 37 per cent are Cord supporters.
The survey, conducted between July 30 and August 9, also assessed the confidence ratings of the Senate, the National Assembly Speaker, the Cord principals, the majority leader of the National Assembly and political parties.
Confidence in the National Assembly, National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi, National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale and senators is equally low, all with a rating of below 20 per cent.
The general rating of confidence in the National Assembly, according to the survey, is 14 per cent, 15 per cent for the National Assembly Speaker, 12 per cent for the majority leader, 22 per cent for the youth MPs and 19 per cent for senators.
MORE CONFIDENCE
The National Assembly Speaker and the House majority leader, however, enjoy more confidence among Jubilee supporters.
The researchers also examined the knowledge of respondents on their MPs, focusing on names and approval as well as the general performance of the current Parliament. According to the findings, a majority of Kenyans would re-elect their current MP.
The Ipsos’ 2nd Quarter 2015 survey, however, shows that more rural residents have knowledge of their MPs compared with urban residents.
Generally, at least 79 in every 100 Kenyans can correctly identify their local MPs and know them by name.
An interesting finding was that fewer urban residents — 69 per cent — know their constituency MPs by name, compared with rural areas, where knowledge of area MPs is high, at 85 per cent.
The proportion of knowledge of area MPs is higher in the western, eastern, central, northeastern and Nyanza regions, at between 81 and 89 per cent. Nairobi has a low of 59 per cent.
According to the researchers, this is a pointer to the higher level of interest in rural politics.
RURAL POLITICS
“This is evidently a reflection of two realities: first, that many urban-dwellers pay more attention to constituency-level politics in their rural home-areas (and perhaps also go to vote there), while others do not vote in the constituency in which they live in the capital, but in another of the county’s 17 constituencies,” they stated.
This could also be the explanation for the variations across Kenya’s other regions.
The survey also sought to compare the perceptions of Kenyans on the performance of the current Parliament and the previous one.
In this regard, the former Parliament, under the Grand Coalition Government, scores slightly higher, at 37 per cent, versus 30 per cent for the current one.
Fifty per cent of Jubilee supporters contacted through the survey, however, felt that the 11th Parliament has performed better, compared with just 23 per cent of Cord supporters who felt the same way. Forty-two per cent of Cord supporters felt it has performed worse.
Thirty per cent of the respondents who felt that the current Parliament was better than the previous one cited development, while 11 per cent cited leadership and nine per cent cited the implementation of the Constitution.
CORRUPTION MATTERS
By contrast, 28 per cent felt it has not performed as well in leadership and 21 per cent felt it has not done as well on matters of corruption.
A further 14 per cent felt it has performed worse on parliamentary procedure and 10 per cent felt it has failed on development.
According to the researchers, Ms Hilda Kiritu and Mr Tom Wolf, “what is evident is that Cord supporters are more comfortable with the Jubilee leadership as compared to the Jubilee supporters that are comfortable with the Cord leadership”.
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51 per cent Kenyans confident Cord can monitor Jubilee - survey
More than half of Kenyans are confident in the Opposition's ability to keep the government in check, an Ipsos survey has revealed.
The survey showed 51 per cent Kenyans have confidence in Cord while 45 per cent registered low confidence in the coalition's ability to fulfill its mandate.
It further found that seven per cent of the public, who affiliated themselves with the Jubilee coalition, have "a lot of confidence" in Cord.
“The fact that more than five times as many Cord supporters do so in their own leadership (37 per cent) is of no surprise,” stated the report released on Monday.
Cord’s most significant stances against the government for the period reviewed included challenging the Sh1 billion Mumias Sugar Company bail-out by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
The legality of the president’s directive on the recruitment of 10,000 additional police officers, and renewed calls for the overhaul of the IEBC through a referendum were also highlighted.
The survey found a majority of Kenyans prefer the national government (67 per cent) to the Cabinet (53 per cent).
In a state of the nation address in July, Uhuru directed the investigation and prosecution of 175 public officials, including several CSs.
Among them were Charity Ngilu (Lands), Davis Chirchir (Energy), Felix Koskei (Agriculture), Michael Kamau (Transport), and Kazungu Kambi (Labour), who were suspended.
The research also found that 44 per cent interviewees prefer the management of the CDF by counties, not MPs.
Thirty-three per cent favoured management by MPs while 15 per cent said the national government should take over.
The findings come amid reports of the misappropriation of funds by county governments.
Meru county is probing the procurement of hospital curtains at Sh7.8 million, and Bungoma the purchase of 10 wheelbarrows at Sh109,000 each.
Other counties that have come under fire for excessive spending; the Kirinyaga Governor’s Facebook page is allegedly being managed at Sh2 million, while the Embu county headquarters reportedly cost Sh13 million.
The survey conducted between July 30 and August 9 involved 2002 participants from rural and urban areas.
Its margin of error was +/- 2.2 and confidence level 95 per cent.
- See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/51-cent-kenyans-confident-cord-can-monitor-jubilee-survey#sthash.0qAWtqYE.dpuf
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51 per cent Kenyans confident Cord can monitor Jubilee - survey
Almost half of Kenyans express little or no confidence in the current crop of Cabinet Secretaries, a poll by Ipsos Synovate suggests.
The poll shows only 53 per cent of the respondents say they have either a lot (17 per cent) or some (36 per cent) confidence in the CSs as a team.
This comes as President Uhuru Kenyatta is widely expected to reshuffle his Cabinet.
The rating is lower than President Uhuru's personal score of 67 per cent in the same survey conducted between July 30 and August 9.
As a whole, the national government gets an approval rating of 65 per cent from Kenyans who say they have a lot or some confidence in its performance.
Of the 17 per cent who says they have a lot of confidence in the CSs, 24 per cent are from Jubilee, while six per cent are from Cord.
The same trend is seen in the national government. Thirty percent of Jubilee supporters surveyed expressed a lot of confidence, compared with eight percent from Cord.
The survey covered 2,002 respondents age 18 and above in 41 counties. They were interviewed at random and face to face in English, Swahili and Somali. The margin of error is +/- 2.2 with a 95 per cent confidence level.
The poll also suggests Kenyans believe county governments have performed better than the national government.
The survey shows 64 per cent of the respondents said they have a lot or some confidence in governors. County governments got 69 percent approval.
The poll indicates 57 per cent of the respondents have a lot or some confidence in MCAs.
The survey suggests that in general Parliament gets 59 per cent approval, while 51 per cent have a lot or some confidence in the opposition.
The survey suggests Kenyans approve more of their MPs (61 per cent) than their Senators (46 per cent).
Overall, only 37 per cent of Kenyans say the current Parliament has performed better than the last one; thirty per cent said the performance is worse.
Among those saying Parliament has performed better, the three main reasons are "improved development, leadership and implementation of the Constitution'.
Those saying Parliament performs worse than its predecessor cite leadership, corruption, parliamentary procedure and development failure.
While 50 per cent of Jubilee supporters say Parliament has performed better, 42 per cent of those in Cord say it's worse.
Speaker of the National Assembly Justin Muturi gets an approval rating of 50 per cent, while Majority Leader Aden Duale gets 40 per cent.
The poll indicates that 53 per cent of respondents who know who their MP is would re-elect him or her, while 19 per cent would not vote for them and 19 per cent are unsure.
- See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/half-kenyans-lack-faith-cabinet-secretaries#sthash.vxvHc8Ja.dpuf
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I am told there is a concerted effort at The Nation to twist stories to fit a certain narrative and any journalist who deviates from that pays a heavy price.
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