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Varsity students
battle police
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By GEOFFREY MOSOKU
Attorney General Githu Muigai strove to de-
ect criticism aimed at him over the way Kenya
mishandled appeals against rulings to pay An-
glo Leasing merchants by blaming the court-
room debacles on his predecessor.
But yesterday, a day after the gruelling news
By STANDARD TEAM
Battles between public university students
and police rocked towns countrywide yesterday
and brought learning to a halt.
Motorists and traders bore the brunt of the
protests, with some being violently robbed.
The students were protesting an alleged in-
crease in fees and cuts in the maximum loan giv-
en them by the Higher Education Loans Board.
However, Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob
Kaimenyi said tuition fees had not been raised.
Wako blames collapse of Anglo Leasing cases on Githus handling
2014 BUDGET SHOCK
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
SEE STORY ON PAGE 6
By MOSES MICHIRA
For the rst time, the Government is facing uncer-
tainty over how it will ll the deep hole in its wallet as
it counts down the two weeks to Budget Day.
As evidence of the Governments desperation, The
Standard has learnt that the National Treasury is
preparing two different supplementary budgets as
A policeman puts out a re lit by University of Nairobi students on Moi Avenue, Nairobi, yesterday. They were protesting an alleged fees increase. [PHOTO: MBUGUA KIBERA/STANDARD]
President Uhuru Kenyatta Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich
Since he has referred to
me as a surgeon I want to
say that I handed over as
Attorney General to a
person I believed was a
competent surgeon and not
to a mortician. Amos Wako
Two weeks to Jubilees second budget,
Treasury technocrats worry about a
Sh342 billion hole and if a Sovereign
Bond foated by Kenya fops, the future
of the economy can only get worse
13th June, 2014
The patient died
on the operating table
long time ago. Githu
Muigai is the mortician.
If you think the patient
should have lived, ask the
surgeon. Githu Muigai
Page 2 / NATIONAL NEWS Wednesday, May 21, 2014 / The Standard
options for raising the extra cash
needed to fund the record Sh1.6 tril-
lion Budget.
The Budget is Sh342.6 billion shy
of its target, and the Government has
already paid Sh1.4 billion to two An-
glo Leasing companies without the
approval of Parliament.
It hopes the payment will secure
its plans to raise Sh174 billion ($2 bil-
lion) from foreign creditors next
month through a sovereign bond. Be-
cause it has already factored the mon-
ey into this years budget, Treasury is
preparing for the worst if things fail to
go according to plan.
The bond would partly nance
one of the supplementary budgets,
while the other would rely on a less at-
tractive programme of local borrow-
ing and heavy cuts on Government
spending to pay MPs, State ofcers
and other public servants.
If the bond ops or delays, the im-
pact on the economy would be severe,
with higher bank interest rates caused
by the Governments local borrowing
choking investment and stalling de-
velopment projects.
It would also increase the level of
domestic debt currently at Sh1.21 tril-
lion to well over 50 per cent of the val-
ue of the economy measured as the
Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
The international bonds issuance
was delayed due to uncertainty in the
international markets, and a dispute
with Parliament over the Sh1.4 billion
Anglo Leasing payments.
Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich
conrmed that the huge revenue hole
faced by Treasury gives him limited
options. Borrowers would be hit by
higher interest rates and the shilling
would weaken.
Among the countrys most press-
Major dilemma
over Sh174bn
budget shortfall
ing needs is repayment of a Sh52 bil-
lion loan ($600 million) that was due
last week, but the State got a three-
month temporary reprieve, albeit at a
very huge cost (see separate story).
The latest nancial crisis explains
the panic that has hit the Govern-
ment, as indicated by the executive
order to pay the controversial Sh1.4
billion to two European companies in
contracts related to Anglo Leasing.
Treasury insiders said plans had
already been put in motion to cut na-
tional spending to accommodate the
Sh174 billion gap just in case oating
of the sovereign bond is delayed or
ops.
SPENDING PLANS
We have been revising the budget
in the context of Supplementary I and
II, explained the source.
He, however, did not disclose the
programmes that would be affected
by the revised spending plans.
Rotich had earlier informed the
media that the bond would be oated
before June 30, when the current -
nancial year ends, echoing President
Uhuru Kenyattas optimism in having
a successful issue.
The State has a cumulative budget
shortfall of Sh329 billion in the cur-
rent nancial year. Rotich told Parlia-
ment when presenting the budget last
year that Sh223 billion would be
raised through borrowing from the
other countries, including the Euro
Bond.
The funding crisis has been wors-
ened by weaknesses in the countrys
key economic sectors of tourism and
agriculture, which account for the
bulk of the countrys foreign exchange
revenue inows.
Repeated terror attacks in the
midst of further threats from the Al-
Shabaab militia group have caused
panic among tourists, leading to mas-
sive booking cancellations this month,
prompting thousands already on hol-
iday to cut short their stay.
Last year, tourist arrivals were
down 300,000 to 1.4 million on rising
terror threats. Poor rains and low pric-
es for its key exports of tea and coffee
in the international markets have hit
agriculture, which contributes to
about a quarter of Kenyas economy.
Robert Bunyi, an investment bank-
er, says it is absolutely critical for Ke-
nya to raise the funds through the sov-
ereign bond.
Kenya must just oat that bond,
said Bunyi, noting that tourism and
agriculture sectors were both heading
south.
The other options of borrowing
locally or cutting back on services
could be too painful on the citizens.
He explains that the Government
could crowd out the private sector if
it opts to raise the funds locally
through bonds, a scenario that could
push up the current interest rate that
averages at 20 per cent to new highs.
In his estimate, the sovereign bond
could be raised at about 12 per cent
interest, going by rates in comparable
economies and Kenyas credit rating
of B+.
President Kenyatta had explained
that issuance of the bond was critical
to service delivery, when defending
his directive to pay the Sh1.4 billion
owed to Anglo Leasing rms, last
week.
There was no way we could go for
this particular bond without rst hav-
ing cleared our international obliga-
tions. So I gave that directive, said
Uhuru.
Sources at the National Treasury
said the payments to two claimants,
First Mercantile Securities Corpora-
tion and Spacenet Inc, were made on
Thursday.
Rotich had factored settlement of
the Sh1.4 billion debt in his budget
last year but the item had been dis-
guised as an allocation for guaran-
teed debt payments and other non-
discretionally expenditures.
Non-settlement of the debts has
been the biggest barrier to Kenyas in-
tention to issue the bond.
There have been fears that the out-
standing claims by the two rms
owned by Mr Anura Perera, a Kenyan
with Sri Lankan roots, would impact
on the success of the bond, especially
after the ruling by international
courts. State House spokesman Mano-
ah Esipisu had earlier announced that
Uhuru wanted the bond issued to
protect countrys economy from in-
terest rate shocks that would follow
any domestic borrowing by Govern-
ment.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014 / The Standard NATIONAL NEWS / Page 3
State loses Sh500m as fnes for
postponing payments to banks
BY JAMES ANYANZWA
The decision to defer a Sh52.2 bil-
lion ($600 million) loan repayment
signals that the nancial crisis facing
the Government may be bigger than
previously thought.
Taxpayers will now have to pay
Sh574.2 million as an additional cost
to save the Government from eminent
embarrassment of defaulting on its
debt obligations to three internation-
al banks. The amount is owed to Cit-
ibank, Standard Chartered Bank (UK)
and Standard Bank of South Africa.
This has become even more ur-
gent because defaulting would fur-
ther sabotage the desperate effort to
oat a Euro denominated sovereign
bond worth Sh174 billion ($2billion)
that the Government has factored in-
to the budget (see separate story in
Pg 2).
Part of the process of effectively
oating the bond includes the Sh1.4
billion payments last Thursday to two
European companies in the infamous
Anglo Leasing contracts once con-
demned by President Uhuru Kenyat-
ta.
The President has had to make a
painful decision on what is the great-
er evil: either (pay) the money or put
the countrys economy at risk. By
making this payment, the President is
not legitimising what he and many
Kenyans believe to have been a series
of fraudulent transactions, read in
part a statement from State House
Spokesman Manoah Esipisu.
National Treasury Principal Secre-
tary Kamau Thugge (pictured) con-
rmed to The Standard that the Gov-
ernment would pay an extra fee of 1.1
per cent to a consortium of three for-
eign banks, which agreed to defer the
loan of Sh52.2 billion for three
months.
Dr Thugge said the Government
has other options of paying off the
loan but had opted for a cheaper al-
ternative in the shape of the sovereign
bond issue.
SOVEREIGN BOND
We are ready to repay the loan,
but we had discussions with our lead
arrangers to give us time to access the
sovereign bond. By August, we shall
clear this debt. Our interest is to issue
a bond, Thugge said in a telephone
interview.
The Government has set out an
ambitious Sh1.8 trillion budget even
as it struggles to contain the runaway
wage bill that stands at 55 per cent of
the countrys revenue collection of
Sh900 billion. The public service has
up to 700,000 employees and its wage
bill has shot up from Sh200 billion in
2008/2009 to Sh461 billion in
2012/2013.
The two-year loan that has been
deferred for three months was to fund
the Governments ambitious develop-
ment plan. Thugge conrmed to The
Standard that the Government would
pay the Sh574.2 million as commis-
sion for the extension.
We had the money but realised it
was cheaper for that extension than
to settle the amount, said Thugge,
while downplaying the risks of the de-
ferral that has the potential to send
wrong signals to local and interna-
tional lenders.
He denied that there were fresh
conditions attached to the extension
granted by the banks. There was an
extension by three months. We ex-
tended on the same terms and condi-
tions like before. There were no new
conditions. There was nothing, he
explained.
However, a cross-section of re-
nowned economists said the request
for the extension of the repayment
period points to a Government facing
severe nancial stress.
This means the Government has
overstretched itself in terms of expen-
diture. We are running a shortfall in
revenue collections and there is no
money in circulation. All these are sig-
nals that our economy is in bad
shape, said Samuel Nyandemo, a se-
nior lecturer at the University of Nai-
robis School of Economics.
EXPENSIVE LOAN
According to Dr Nyandemo, re-
scheduling the loan repayments
comes with penalties that make the
loan even more expensive, coupled
with the weakening of the Kenya shil-
ling against international currencies.
There are penalties on the exten-
sion of the repayment period, which
depends on the terms and conditions
of this loan, he said.
According to Thomas Kibua, a for-
mer long-serving deputy governor of
Central Bank, the Governments -
nancial health is not good.
I think the crude term is you
(Government) are running broke. Your
programming is not right and some-
thing is not right, said Dr Kibua who
is currently a senior economist with
African Development and Economic
Consultants.
Our national debt has become an
issue. They want to buy more time to
repay this loan, which is not a good
thing becau2se the shilling is slightly
depreciating against the international
currencies, he added.
Part of the money from the planned
sovereign bond issue will be used to
retire the loan. The syndicated loan
was mainly designed to substitute
part of what Government had planned
to borrow from the domestic market
during the period under review.
During the 2011/2012 nancial
year, the National Treasury planned to
borrow Sh119.5 billion from the Ke-
nyan market, but high interest and ex-
change rates volatility made investors
jittery, causing them to demand high-
er yields in order to compensate for
risk.
Treasury auctions experienced
lower subscription rates mainly due
to tighter liquidity, more attractive
commercial bank rates and increased
uncertainty over the direction of in-
terest rates. Higher yields led to lower
bond valuations with listed Treasury
bonds losing approximately 20 per
cent of their value in 2011.
By December 2011, the Govern-
ment had raised only Sh14 billion
from the domestic market, implying
that a further Sh105.5 billion was to
be borrowed before the closure of the
2011/12 scal year.
TRACING THE BURDEN
The Government lost cases in Euro-
pean courts last year against two
companies involved in the Anglo
Leasing security contracts, hence
the payment of Sh1.4 billion
The scandal hinged on 18 con-
tracts, including a secure passport
equipment system and a forensic
science laboratory that were never
supplied
The Government opted for a com-
mercial loan from the international
nancial institution to nance part
of the revenue shortfall during the
2011/2012 nancial year
BY CYRUS OMBATI
and JOSEPH MUCHIRI
Mystery surrounds the Monday
evening disappearance of Embu
County Assembly Speaker Justus Mate
from a Nairobi hotel.
A section of Members of the Embu
County Assembly now want the police
to investigate how Mr Mate went
missing from a city hotel where they
were meeting.
Embu Deputy Speaker Ibrahim
Swaleh yesterday conrmed that Mate
went missing on Monday and they are
yet to trace him.
Mr Swaleh said before his disap-
pearance, the Speaker had allegedly
received a phone call at around
4:30pm from an ofcer attached to
the Criminal Investigation Depart-
ment (CID) in Pangani and identied
as Nicholas Kangangi, whom he was
scheduled to meet later.
He said they became alarmed
when Mate failed to report for dinner
at around 8.30pm, prompting them to
report the matter at Muthaiga Police
Station.
We were referred to the Pangani
DCIO whose personal assistant, Elias
Kathiga, Mates driver and County As-
sembly Majority Leader Andrew Mu-
sakwa recorded a statement. Mate
was an integral part of the meeting, as
he was leading the committees and
would have nalised the sittings to-
morrow, said Swaleh.
PARKED CAR
Mate is said to have left his mobile
phone on the table before walking
out. Mr Kathiga said guards at the ho-
tel said the Speaker was seen leaving
in a vehicle that was parked outside
the gate, but it is unclear why he en-
tered it.
Kathiga was further quoted as say-
ing the Speaker asked where a vehicle,
registration plate KBK, was parked
and on learning it had not been seen,
he started walking towards the gate,
where he supposedly boarded the
waiting car.
The MCAs were meeting to discuss
the county budget. Swaleh asked the
MCAs and the public not to speculate
over the matter and asked the police
to hasten the search for the missing
Speaker.
He said the speaker had been ask-
ing for police security, as he feared for
his life.
Our Speaker has been writing to
the Embu county commandant ask-
ing for bodyguards but has never re-
ceived a response, said Swaleh.
Nairobi police boss Benson Kibue
said CID had taken up the matter and
launched a search for the Speaker.
Mystery hangs
over missing
Embu Speaker
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Page 4 / NATIONAL NEWS
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 / The Standard
Former AG, Githu trade
accusations over payments
conference by the professor of law,
during which he literally prosecuted
his own case with documents and
references to timelines and legal
chronicles, Amos Wako hit back
heatedly, and not without some
wit.
The two traded accusations that
left the country uncertain just who
between them was responsible for
the feeble, if not non-existent, de-
fence the Kenya Government put up,
leading to losses that have now seen
President Uhuru Kenyatta succumb-
ing to pay up Sh1.4 billion.
Prof Muigai had blamed it all on
Wako but yesterday, the Busia Sena-
tor and former long-serving AG
came out declaring that he left ofce
just after he had led Kenyas de-
fence, which he said he left in Githu
hands. Wako asked Githu to carry his
own cross over the bungled State de-
fence in the cases led by Universal
Satspace and First Mercantile Secu-
rities Corporation.
Wako faulted his successor for
misrepresenting the facts when he
(Githu) claimed that he was only a
CURRENT AND FORMER AGS FACE OFF
Attorney General Githu Muigai blamed Amos
Wako for Kenyas feeble defence leading to
losses that have now seen President Uhuru
Kenyatta forced to pay Sh1.4 billion
However, former long serving AG and cur-
rent Busia Senator Wako declared that he left
offce just after he had fled Kenyas defence,
which he said he left in Githus hands
The two senior lawyers, who were chief le-
gal advisors to retired President Kibaki at dif-
ferent times, sparred as the blame game con-
tinued over one of the biggest scandals
mortician and not the surgeon who
oversaw the death of the patient (in
reference to the court cases).
He argued that Githu appears to
have lost it when he stepped away
from the written script. Wako said he
was surprised that the Attorney Gen-
eral of the Republic of Kenya could
refer to himself as a mortician.
LEGAL ADVISOR
If I was a surgeon as he has clear-
ly indicated in his remarks, then I
handed over the ofce of Attorney
General to a fellow surgeon to con-
tinue with the treatment of the said
patient. He took over the ofce and
swore to diligently serve the people
of Kenya in his capacity as the prin-
cipal legal advisor to the Govern-
ment, Wako said.
The two senior lawyers, who were
chief legal advisors to former Presi-
dent Mwai Kibaki at different times,
sparred as the blame game contin-
ued over one of the countrys biggest
scandals.
Wako, who served as AG for 20
years and was in ofce when the
State entered into the contracts, said
his successor took over ofce from
him immediately after the ling of
the defence on Anglo-Leasing cases.
Wako, who left ofce in August 2011,
said Githu couldnt accuse him of
complacency in handling the con-
troversial multibillion-shilling con-
tracts.
Both men advised retired Presi-
dent Kibaki, with Wako serving for
eight and a half years and Githu one
and a half years of Kibakis rule.
Wako claims that by the time he
left ofce, the matter was under liti-
gation and it was Githu who oversaw
the State lose the cases.
He spoke a day after the AG came
out to defend himself and the State
Law Ofce over the controversial
payments Uhuru has authorised if
only to get the Sovereign Euro Bond
to salvage the Jubilee governments
pet projects currently threatened by
cash-ow problems at Treasury.
DIVERTING ATTENTION
Wakos statement was a sarcastic
response to the AGs remark on Mon-
day. Githu had said: The man you
see before you is a mortician. The
patient died on the operating table
long time ago. Githu Muigai is the
Waiguru in hot soup as Jubilee MPs plot her downfall
By MOSES NJAGIH
and WILFRED AYAGA
MPs have instituted proceedings to-
wards the removal of Devolution Cabinet
Secretary Anne Waiguru over alleged gross
misconduct and gross violation of the Con-
stitution.
Igembe South MP Mithika Linturi yes-
terday started the process of removing
Waiguru from ofce by ling a Motion and
concurrently collecting signatures for the
petition to be presented to the House.
By yesterday evening Linturis petition
had been supported by 103 MPs, exceeding
the constitutional threshold of one quarter
of all National Assembly members, re-
quired for the petition to be admitted by
the Speaker.
A list seen by The Standard revealed that
majority of MPs who had signed to support
the Motion were from President Uhuru Ke-
nyattas TNA party. They are disgruntled by
the manner in which Waiguru is undertak-
ing her duties.
In the Motion, Linturi accuses the Cab-
inet Secretary of abusing, intimidating and
threatening public servants under her ju-
risdiction, citing the removal from ofce of
former National Youth Service Director
General Kiplimo Rugut and former Youth
Enterprise Fund Chairman Gor
Semelango.
Linturi says Waiguru has failed to re-
spect and uphold Articles three and 152 of
the Constitution. The MP also accuses
Waiguru of violating Articles 47, 50, 232 and
236 of the Constitution.
The lawmaker says Waiguru has failed
to defend and obey the Third schedule of
the constitution regarding fairness in ad-
ministrative actions and fair hearing in the
removal of public ofcers from ofce.
GROSS MISCONDUCT
Aware that she appears to have mis-
used her ofce, this House resolves that
pursuant to Article 152 (6) of the Constitu-
tion, the President dismisses Anne Waiguru
from the position of Cabinet Secretary for
Devolution and Planning for gross miscon-
duct and gross violation of the Constitu-
tion, the notice of motion reads in part.
The President will then be under obli-
gation to dismiss her. She should begin
packing. We are very serious about it. If the
President does not act, then, he will know
that impeaching him is also not very dif-
cult, Linturi told The Standard on phone.
According to Article 152 of the Constitu-
tion, which deals with the removal of a Cab-
inet Secretary, once a petition has been car-
ried by more than a quarter of legislators,
it is presented to the House, where if it gar-
ners support from more than a third of all
MPs (in this case 117), a select committee
is formed to hear and determine the allega-
tions levelled against the CS.
Should the 11-member committee re-
turn a verdict that there are sufcient
grounds to have the Cabinet Secretary re-
moved, then the matter is taken to the ple-
nary where it requires a simple majority for
the resolution to be passed that the Presi-
dent removes his minister from ofce.
Article 152 (10) compels the President to
remove such a Cabinet Secretary from of-
ce upon receiving notication from the
Speaker of the National Assembly.
Linturi said the process of removing
Waiguru will be expected to gather mo-
mentum today when all the legislators in
support of the petition address a press con-
ference at Parliament.
mortician. If you think the patient
should have lived, ask the surgeons.
Yesterday, Wako said: He should
therefore bear full responsibility and
stop dragging my name into this,
since I had long left ofce during the
defence process. He was in ofce
and should stop diverting attention
from the reality.
In a statement sent from Geneva,
where he is attending parliamentary
business, Wako said rather than
making such outrageous assertions,
Githu should just have focused on
the written statement issued by his
ofce.
What I would simply say is; the
AG appears to be lost for words
whenever he goes out of the written
script.
Yesterday, Githu refused to com-
ment on Wakos reply to his Monday
news conference. No comment.
The documents I have submitted
speak for themselves. No further
comment, he told The Standard
when reached on phone.
During the Monday brieng, the
AG sought to defend his record as he
blamed former State ofcials who
oversaw the contracts. Although he
did not directly mention names, the
AG apparently pointed an accusing
at his predecessor, Wako, and former
Cabinet ministers Musalia Mudava-
di and Chris Obure (Transport and
Finance ministers in 2002), and for-
mer Postmaster General Francis
Chahonyo, who were in ofce when
the suspect deals were signed.
On Monday, Muigai gave a chro-
nology of the events leading to the
payments as he sought to distance
himself from culpability, adding that
the State sought legal opinion from
renowned international experts in
telecommunication and medita-
tion.
Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru. [PHOTO: FILE/
STANDARD]
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Students go on
rampage over fees FROM CLASS TO STREETS
students attempted to congregate.
The student leaders had warned
motorists to keep off major roads
leading to the city centre due to yes-
terdays nationwide students demon-
strations.
Tension remained high at the Ke-
nyatta University gate. The students
had been advised against protesting
in circular issued by Deputy Vice
Chancellor Prof John Okumu (Aca-
demic) saying no public university
had been informed of the planned
increase of the fees.
In Machakos, several people were
injured when police clashed with stu-
dents of Machakos University Col-
lege.
The ofcer red severally in the air
and lobbed teargas canisters to dis-
perse the more than 500 rowdy stu-
dents who were hurling stones at
them.
Among those injured were pass-
ersby who were caught up in the me-
lee and clobbered by the police along-
side the protesters.
The students started the demon-
stration from the college at about 9am
and walked towards Machakos town
1km away blocking the Machakos-
Makueni Road.
Residents going about their nor-
mal business were beaten up after the
students, who deed police orders to
return to the college, intermingled
with them. Machakos OCPD Hillary
Birgen, however, said no one was re-
ported seriously injured during the
confrontation.
Elsewhere, a Standard Group van
was among vehicles that were stoned
by Maseno University main campus
students during yesterdays riots.
The vehicles windscreen was shat-
tered as the rowdy students pelted
motorists and journalists who had
gone to cover the protests with stones.
Journalists had taken cover at the lo-
cal Administration Police camp when
the students stormed as the armed
ofcers watched from a distance.
The ofcers from Maseno Station
were forced to dialogue with student
leaders, who helped calm down their
colleagues before they caused more
damage.
The students blocked Kisumu-
Busia Road for close to ve hours.
Motorists caught up in the mayhem
were taxed by the students before
they were allowed to continue with
their journey.
Led by the university students
chairman Charles Juma, the over
2,000 students urged the Government
not to increase fees or lower the stu-
Protesters disrupt
traffc, rob pedestrians
as police engage them
in running battles
Rioting varsity students paralyse
By STANDARD TEAM
Learning ground to a halt in public
universities across the country as
students took to the streets to protest
against an alleged plot to increase
tuition fees.
Police engaged in running battles
with the protesters after the demon-
strations, which the students had
promised would be peaceful, turned
chaotic.
In Nairobi, major businesses re-
mained closed yesterday as police
lobbed teargas canisters at a section
of University of Nairobi (UoN) stu-
dents who engaged them in running
battles.
More than 100 students were ar-
rested during the protests in the city
and taken to Central police station.
Police said some of them may be
taken to court today.
Some motorists reported that they
were attacked and robbed by the stu-
dents.
Police battled the students at the
UoN main campus as parts of Uhuru
Highway and University Way re-
mained blocked for several hours.
Motorists were being diverted to use
other routes disrupting trafc ow.
The protesters said they were an-
gered by increment of fees and reduc-
tion in the maximum loan given to
students by the Higher Education
Loans Board (Helb). According to the
student leaders, the Government is
planning to double the fee for regular
students, which currently stands at
Sh28,000 per year.
But Education Cabinet Secretary
Jacob Kaimenyi reiterated that the
Government had not increased tu-
ition fees for public universities.
Earlier, there was tension in Nai-
robis Central Business District after
police said they would not allow the
students to hold a procession as ear-
lier planned.
Nairobi police said they had infor-
mation the students had been inl-
trated by criminals.
We told them to call off their
strike because some of the partici-
pants were thieves, said Nairobi
deputy police boss Moses Ombati.
The group dispersed causing ten-
sion and fears in the CBD as they ran
shouting anti-Jacob Kaimenyi slo-
gans. Tens of riot police were posi-
tioned at various places ready to
confront the students. Some ofcers
barricaded Jogoo House, the head-
quarters of Ministry of Education,
where the students planned to con-
gregate and deliver their message.
More ofcers were at Parliament
Buildings where police lobbed teargas
at the students to disperse them.
Students Organisation of Nairobi
University (Sonu) chairman Babu
Owino told motorists to keep off Uni-
versity way, Nairobi CBD, Moi Avenue,
Parklands, Kikuyu Road and Thika
Superhighway.
There were more teargas canisters
lobbed at the protesters near the UoN
main campus, Kimathi Street and
near Central police station where the
WHY THE STUDENTS WENT
ON RAMPAGE
The protesters said they were
angered by an increment of fees
and reduction in the maximum
loan given to students by the
Higher Education Loans Board
According to the student lead-
ers, the Government is planning
to double the fee for regular stu-
dents, which currently stands at
Sh28,000 per year.
But the Education ministry in-
sists that the Government has
not increased tuition fees for
public universities
dent loans .
With ination and a rotting Ke-
nyan economy, we would expect Helb
to increase the loan by 200 per cent
and not reduce it, said Juma.
POLITICAL ACTIVISTS
In Kakamega, protesting Masinde
Muliro University of Science and
Technology students disrupted busi-
ness in the town and also at the
county government ofces. They
stormed the county ofces demand-
ing to be addressed by Governor Wyc-
liffe Oparanya. They were, however, re
directed to the county commissioners
ofce to lodge their grievances as the
governor was not in his ofce.
Masinde Muliro University Stu-
dents Organisation chairperson Bill
Clinton Owiti said education in the
country would become expensive if
the fees is increased and vowed that
students would not sit back and watch
as education standards deteriorate.
In Nakuru, police were forced to
lob teargas canisters to disperse dem-
onstrating Egerton University stu-
dents.
The ofcers dispersed the students
near the Town Campus moments af-
ter they had started marching towards
the central business district.
The students scampered for safety
before regrouping at Nyayo Gardens
where police used more teargas to
ush out Students Union of Egerton
University (Sueu) leaders who were
addressing journalists.
1
5
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 / The Standard
NATIONAL NEWS / Page 7
1 A GSU ofcer beats up a
passer-by on Thika Su-
perhighway yesterday.
[PHOTO: GEORGE NJUNGE/
STANDARD]
2. A Policeman lobs teargas
canisters at protesting
Egerton University stu-
dents in Nakuru. [PHOTO:
KIPSANG JOSEPH/STAN-
DARD]
3. Students from Technical
University of Mombasa
demonstrating in Mom-
basa. [PHOTO: MAARUFU
MOHAMED/STANDARD]
4. A policeman helps an in-
jured student in Nairobi.
[PHOTO: MBUGUA KIBERA/
STANDARD]
5. Suspected car thieves
take advantage of the
students riot in Nairobi.
[PHOTO: GEORGE NJUNGE/
STANDARD]
By AUGUSTINE ODUOR
The Government has dismissed
claims that university fees has been
increased and asked rioting students
to return to class.
Education PS Bellio Kipsang said
university students were acting on
rumours and ill-informed facts and
faulted their actions.
No one has increased their fees.
This is sheer misinformation and it is
unfortunate, Dr Kipsang told the
House Education Committee on Edu-
cation yesterday.
He said fees increment is a process
that cannot be done at one sitting and
told the students to return to class.
This is an exercise that is done by
universitys respective councils and
we have not heard of any information
with regards to that, he said.
The House committee had asked
the PS to clarify the issue of university
fees. Kipsang said the students were
acting on information that hinted that
Higher Education Loans Board (Helb)
would revise down capitation.
This story was misleading and
someone must have misinterpreted it
with bad intentions. We have been in
constant talks with Helb and I can
conrm there is nothing like that, he
said. He, however, noted that the
number of students has been rising
but the funding for Helb has not.
No one has
raised fees,
says ministry
cursing and accusing the police of
infringing on their constitutional
right to picket. Police barricaded the
university and said the students could
only be allowed to protest within the
institutions compound.
Benmark Nganga, a student
leader, complained that they were
being denied the right to demonstrate
peacefully despite obtaining a permit
from Makupa Police Station.
It is the police who will push us
into rampage. We are protesting for
our rights peacefully and they unrea-
sonably engage us without even un-
derstanding our motives, said
Nganga.
University of Nairobi students
Mombasa Campus, however, man-
aged to take to the streets and block
trafc ow along Moi Avenue.
Story by Lydiah Nyawira, Alex
Wakhisi, Kevine Omollo, Victor Nzu-
ma, Joackim Bwana and Karanja
Njoroge
3
2
Businesses along Kenyatta Avenue
were closed hurriedly as traders,
caught up in the melee, moved to se-
cure their premises.
Police sources indicated the move
to swiftly disperse the students fol-
lowed fears that some political activ-
ists were planning to inltrate the
protests to counter a pro-Jubilee
demonstration held in the town on
Monday.
Nakuru Town campus chairman
Arnold Martin said students would
resist any plans to raise fees and
lower the Helb loan.
Meanwhile, Mombasa police
thwarted an attempt by dozens of
Technical University of Mombasa
students to demonstrate citing terror-
ism fears.
Armed police charged after the
placard-waving students and lobbed
teargas canisters at them to disperse
them back to the campus which is
situated in Tudor.
They retreated to the university
4
By LYDIAH NYAWIRA
It was business as usual at Dedan
Kimathi University of Technology in
Nyeri County after students refused to
participate in nationwide demonstra-
tion called by the Kenya University
Students Organisation (Kuso).
Kimathi University Students Union
chairman Mosi George said while the
students were opposed to any fee in-
crement, they would not disrupt
learning to participate in demos.
We will not go on strike because
not all avenues had been exhausted in
resolving the impasse between the
Ministry of Education and the student
unions concerning the proposal to
increase fees, Mosi explained.
He termed Kuso leaders as politi-
cians seeking fame by disrupting
university learning.
We support the National Univer-
sity Students Organisation (Nuso)
which met with Education Cabinet
Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi. After the
meeting an ofcial statement from
the CS claried that no fees have been
increased, Mosi said.
Mosi said the circular clearly ex-
plained that no fees increment would
be initiated without consultating all
stakeholders.
Dedan Kimathi
students defy
strike call
business in towns, city
FROM CLASS TO STREETS
Students go on
rampage over fees
Page 8 / NATIONAL NEWS Wednesday, May 21, 2014 / The Standard
cine Initiative, to be held at the popu-
lar Mombasa Serena Beach Resort &
Spa on June 18 and which was to be
attended by 20 delegates, has been
cancelled due to travel advisories is-
sued by the UK, Australia and the
US.
Mombasa Serena General Manag-
er Tuva Mwahanga said yesterday an-
other workshop, organised by the
World Bank and which was to run
from May 15 to 20 at this hotel, was
called off over security concerns.
And at the Travellers Beach Hotel,
an International Transport Workers
Federation (ITF) congress for Africa to
be attended by delegates from differ-
ent continents, has been postponed
indenitely.
Travellers Sales and Marketing
Manager Wafula Boniface Waswa said
the ITF congress was slated for May
25 with 30 delegates expected to at-
tend. The congress was to discuss oil
and gas, with delegates and facilita-
tors from across the world.
EMERGING MARKETS
Waswa also said organisers of a
wedding which was to take place at
the hotel and run for three days in
June for a Kenyan bride and a British
groom hangs in the balance.
We have tailor-made wedding
packages on offer but with the travel
advisories, there is uncertainty over
the whole event, he said.
A total of 170 guests, 100 from Brit-
ain, had been booked for three days
at the hotel for the wedding.
But at the Government-owned
Mombasa Beach Hotel, Sales and
Marketing Manager Maureen Oketch
said the facility expects to host sever-
al local workshops and seminars.
Players anxious after
international meetings
cancelled as offcial
calls for VAT removal
Alarm as delegates
call off conferences
in fear of terror
attacks at Coast
A deserted swimming pool at the Mombasa Beach Hotel. Tourist facilities at
the Coast have reported low visits following terror alerts. [PHOTO: OMONDI ON-
YANGO/STANDARD]
Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Vice Chairperson Lilian
Mahiri-Zaja (left) with commissioners Albert Bwire and Muthoni Wangai at
Parliament Buildings, yesterday. [PHOTO: BONIFACE OKENDO/STANDARD]
By FELIX OLICK
The Independent Electoral and
Boundaries Commission (IEBC)
kicked up a storm after ofcials an-
nounced they had already rolled out
the voter registration exercise.
MPs questioned the commission
for kicking off the exercise in silence,
raising credibility issues regarding the
process.
Appearing before the Parliamenta-
ry Committee on Justice and Legal Af-
fairs, IEBC acting Chief Executive Of-
cer Betty Nyabuto opened the lid,
saying they began the exercise on
April 15.
The strategy of the commission is
to carry out voter registration contin-
uously at the ward level as opposed to
the current strategy of undertaking
registration at the constituency level
which has proved to be inefcient and
inconveniencing to potential voters,
Ms Nyabuto said yesterday.
Commission ofcials led by Vice
Chairperson Lilian Mahiri-Zaja were
appearing before the parliamentary
committee to present their budget es-
timates for the next nancial year
2014/2015.
But the lawmakers took the com-
missioners head-on saying they had
started creating room for suspicion
ahead of the 2017 polls.
Ruaraka MP Tom Kajwang said
Kenyans would imagine that plans to
rig the next election are afoot and that
the registration is being done for a
particular presidential candidate.
FINANCIAL HITCH
You are setting yourself up for
suspicion. Kenyans will start saying
you are doing the registration for
some people and this will stick till the
next election, cautioned Kajwang.
MPs from both sides of the politi-
cal divide admitted that they are not
aware of the exercise and criticised IE-
BC for failure to convene a press con-
ference to make the announcement.
What members nd curious is
that you are doing things quietly. And
I think you can see we are dissatis-
ed, noted committee Chairman
Samuel Chepkonga.
However, the commission main-
tained that they are broke and do not
have nances to publicise the exer-
cise. Ms Mahiri-Zaja said nancial
constraints had also hindered the
commission from cascading the pro-
cess to the ward level.
She, however, assured the MPs
that they are not carrying out registra-
tion in constituencies where there is
likely to be a by-election including
Nairobi County.
I have to point out that this is not
fresh registration, pointed out the IE-
BC vice chairperson. We have also
ringfenced areas where there is likely
to be a by-election as per the law in-
cluding Nairobi.
According to their budget esti-
mates, the commission is requesting
for Sh4.4 billion in recurrent vote and
Sh1.413 billion in development vote.
However, only Sh3.3 billion and
Sh100 million as the ceiling was allo-
cated for recurrent and development
respectively.
IEBC on the spot for silently kicking off 2017 voter registration
By PHILIP MWAKIO
and BENARD SANGA
Four international conferences
scheduled to be held in Mombasa city
have been cancelled and one post-
poned indenitely due to simultane-
ous terror alerts.
Separately, several Western con-
sulates in Mombasa are said to have
scaled down operations and request-
ed additional Kenyan police. It was
not clear how much hotels had lost af-
ter the cancellations or how they
would be compensated.
One of the conferences, funded by
the United States Aid agency (USaid),
was to be held at Sai Rock this morn-
ing to discuss family planning mat-
ters.
Robert Kiri, Sai Rocks general
manager, told The Standard on Mon-
day that organisers sent an email to
the hotel after the advisories were is-
sued informing them of the cancella-
tion.
The hotel is enjoying a 70 per cent
booking capacity, most of them local
tourists and conferences, but the ad-
visory has led to the postponement of
one of our two-day conference to de-
liberate on family planning that was
sponsored by USaid, said Kiri.
And an international meeting or-
ganised by the International Aids Vac-
We are even getting inquiries and
conrmed bookings for seminars in
our two smaller lodges at Voi in Tsavo
East National Park and Ngulia Safari
Lodge in Tsavo West, she said.
Kwale County Executive in charge
of Tourism and ICT Adam Sheikh has
asked the Government to immediate-
ly grant a suspension of the 16 per
cent Value Added Tax it had imposed
on the sector.
Sheikh, a veteran hotelier, said this
would help lower rates for holidays
and attract more tourists.
The industry, though in its tradi-
tional low season, requires urgent in-
centives to resuscitate it after the ad-
visories have dealt a major blow to
international arrivals in the country,
Sheikh said.
In the meantime, the countrys top
tourism marketer, Kenya Tourism
Board (KTB) has presented its imme-
diate outlook and focus on Kenyas
tourism.
According to Jacinta Nzioka, mar-
keting director of KTB, over the past
years, a percentage of visitors from
Europe has declined overall in favour
of signicant rise in arrivals from new
and emerging markets like China,
Russia, India and notably Africa.
These are areas where KTB now
intends to give greater prominence in
promotional activities, she said.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has crit-
icised Western nations and said the
country would focus its energies on
tapping into domestic and regional
tourism and shop for tourists in other
nations.
In the meantime, the national car-
rier, Kenya Airways will later this year
launch additional ights to China
with Shanghai and Beijing being the
expected new destinations. Kenya
Airways is also eyeing more destina-
tions in India.
Africas youngest and fastest grow-
ing eet, RwandAir now connects ve
West African destinations to Kigali
and ies from there to Mombasa, al-
lowing for packages to be marketed
across their network, as does Air
Uganda which ies from Entebbe
nonstop to Mombasa.
At the same time, Kenya, Rwanda
and Uganda will shortly launch a new
preferential visa for expatriates living
in the neighbouring countries to en-
courage more of them to come to
Mombasa and Malindi, visit the goril-
la parks in Rwanda or take a river sa-
fari in Murchisons Falls National Park,
Uganda.
The East African Tourism Plat-
form, the private sector umbrella
body for East Africas tourism associa-
tions, has already lobbied for such vi-
sa to be given free of charge to expa-
triates holding work or residence
permits in any of the member States,
a move which could provide an im-
mediate travel boost by such a target
group from say Rwanda and Uganda
to Mombasa.
CANCELLED EVENTS
A conference by USaid was to
be held at Sai Rock this morning
An international meeting or-
ganised by the International
Aids Vaccine Initiative, to be
held at the Mombasa Serena
Beach Resort & Spa on June 18
A workshop by World bank
which was to run from May 15 to
20 at Mombasa Serena
ITF conference which was to
hosted by Travellers Beach Hotel
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Page 10 / NATIONAL NEWS Wednesday, May 21, 2014 / The Standard
By GATONYE GATHURA
Women who crave for and eat
stones when pregnant may be irrepa-
rably hurting their childrens health
and their ability to learn, according to
medical researchers in Nairobi.
Researchers say it can ruin the
childs learning ability and possibly
their chance of success in life.
A national study commissioned by
the African Federation for the Gifted
and Talented claims to have found a
link between a childs learning ability
and its mothers habit of eating non-
food items such as stones.
The habit, otherwise called pica, of
pregnant women craving and eating
nonfood items such as clay, chalk,
dirt, or sand, is quite common in the
country regardless of a womans eco-
nomic status.
A team led by Prof P O Ngozi of the
University of Nigeria and published in
the East African Medical Journal
found the habit to be quite prominent
Researchers say
expectant mothers
eating nonfood items
can ruin childrens
learning ability
with the stones.
Most consumed, the researchers
said, was a type of light yellow soft
stone, which is excavated from Kajulu
hills in Kisumu County and cut into
small pieces for distribution and con-
sumption.
The eating of the stone, locally
known odowa, has spread to many
towns and is sold at roadsides in small
markets and shopping malls in all ur-
ban centers, says the study.
The team had warned that the
stones can hinder the absorption and
retention of useful minerals, affecting
both mother and child.
Eating non-food items, they said,
can actually prevent the body from
absorbing the proper minerals and
nutrients.
This could mean the baby is not
receiving proper nutrition, increasing
the risk of a variety of complications,
including low birth weight, pre-term
labour and stillbirth, said the re-
search.
Majority of those found ingesting
non-food items were using soft stones,
followed by different kind of soils,
charcoal and ash, and then soap pow-
der, in that order. A small fraction was
found to crave for the odour from
their husbands dirty work cloths.
More than half were ingesting dif-
ferent types of substances.
This morning Prof Humphrey Ob-
orah, the president of the federation,
will at a media brieng in Nairobi
present the ndings and plead to such
women to break the habit.
An earlier study carried out among
1,071 pregnant women attending the
Pumwani Maternity Hospital in Nai-
robi found 800 of them to be eating
soil, stones and other nonfood
items.
With the new ndings, women
may consider dropping the habit,
something Prof Ngozi found quite
possible though sometimes difcult.
About a quarter of the Pumwani
women said although they had at one
time or the other experienced strong
cravings they had stubbornly refused
to give in.
Study: Eating stones during
pregnancy hurts children
Kericho Governor Paul Chepkwony. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]
SOURCES OF THE STONES
In Nairobi, the main staging area
for distribution is Gikomba Mar-
ket, which receives about four
tonnes of odowa every Monday
from as far as Eldoret, Kisii and
Tana River
A small stone at Mama Mbogas
can go for about Sh10 while in
city supermarkets a sachet of
200 to 100 grams goes for be-
tween Sh30 and Sh60
By MOSES NJAGIH
The Senate has now been sum-
moned for a special session on Friday
to deliberate on the impeachment of
Kericho Governor Paul Chepkwony.
The House, which is currently on
recess, is expected to convene for the
Speaker to communicate his recep-
tion of the impeachment apparatus
against Chepkwony from the County
Assembly of Kericho.
The governor who is the second
to be impeached by his county assem-
bly after Embus Martin Wambora
was removed over alleged abuse of
ofce and outing of procurement
rules as contained in both the Public
Procurement and Disposal Act and
the Public Finance Management Act.
Senate Deputy Speaker Kembi Git-
ura, who has been overseeing pro-
ceedings in the absence of Speaker
Ekwe Ethuro who is out of the coun-
try on an ofcial function, and Major-
ity Leader Kithure Kindiki yesterday
conrmed the call for the special ses-
sion at 2.30pm.
The communication has been
made to all senators, with an indica-
tion that the special session is purely
over the impeachment of the gover-
nor of Kericho County, said Kindiki
yesterday.
The Tharaka Nithi senator said Fri-
days session will deliberate on the
formation of a special committee that
will probe the allegations made
against the governor and report to the
House on its ndings.
The committee will after listening
to the allegations and also giving the
governor a chance to defend himself,
make ndings on whether the claims
that led to the impeachment are sub-
stantiated and if there is gross viola-
tion of laws that meet the threshold
for impeachment, he added.
Senate to sit over Chepkwony ouster
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Bill seeks to
create fund to
boost industries
By ALLY JAMAH
A Bill will be introduced in the
Senate seeking to set up a special
fund to nance development of in-
dustries in all the 47 counties to gen-
erate jobs and lift people out of pov-
erty.
Sponsored by Nyandarua Senator
Muriuki Karue (right), the Bill pro-
poses to create County Industrial
Development Fund in which donors
and the National Government will
avail funds for industrial undertak-
ings in the counties.
Through the fund, counties will
be encouraged and assisted to estab-
lish industries.
Under the Bill, the fund will be
managed by the County Industrial
Development Board, which will re-
ceive applications from county gov-
ernments for nancing of county in-
dustrial projects.
The board is charged with the
mandate of helping county govern-
ment develop viable projects.
PRIORITY PROJECTS
Among the projects the board can
consider include those for process-
ing, value-addition and manufactur-
ing goods that have the potential to
create employment in the county.
The Bill also creates County In-
dustrial Development Committee
headed by respective elected sena-
tors and whose membership in-
cludes nominated senators in the
county, MPs, Governor, Speaker of
the County Assembly and a repre-
sentative of the National Govern-
ment.
The committee will spearhead in-
dustrialisation in the county by se-
lecting priority projects. It will con-
sider project proposals from
constituencies, county executives
and private investors.
Approved projects will be submit-
Proposed law by
Nyandarua Senator to
create kitty supported
by donors and the
National Government
ted to the county executive for im-
plementation.
Also in the committee is the coun-
ty executive committee member re-
sponsible for Industrialisation and
chairperson of the County Assem-
blys committee responsible for in-
dustrialisation The committee is re-
quired to meet at least two times in
a year.
The Bill also seeks to establish the
Constituency Industrial Committee
led by area MP and comprising nom-
inated MPs of the area and MCAs,
which will consider project propos-
als from the wards. But wards will not
have committees but forums.
The Bill allows county residents
to own stakes in projects being de-
veloped but the county government
is required to maintain majority
shareholding.
The Bill requires county govern-
ments to encourage and facilitate
private projects and such projects
may win part funding from the pro-
posed fund.
Industrial projects from external
investors must be approved by the
County Industrial Development
Committee to ensure that only proj-
ects deemed benecial to the county
operate.
INDUSTRIES TO BE
CONSIDERED
Through the fund, counties
will be encouraged and as-
sisted to establish industries
Among the projects to be
considered are those for pro-
cessing, value-addition and
manufacturing goods that
have the potential to create
employment
The Bill also creates County
Industrial Development Com-
mittee headed by respective
elected senators
The Bill allows county resi-
dents to own stakes in proj-
ects being developed but the
county government is re-
quired to maintain majority
shareholding
Ministry will increase funds
for free education, says PS
By AUGUSTINE ODUOR
The Government will increase pri-
mary schools capitation per child by
Sh500 in the next nancial year once
the proposed budget is passed.
Education Principal Secretary Bel-
lio Kipsang said free day secondary
school capitation per student will al-
so go up by about Sh3,000.
This means that each pupil will
now be allocated Sh1,520 up from the
current Sh1,020.
This is, however, way below what
teachers and other education stake-
holders have been demanding.
Primary and secondary school
head teachers have been pushing for
the capitations review that would see
amount per child in primary schools
tripled and that for secondary schools
doubled.
Dr Kipsang, however, said the in-
crement is a step towards the review
process.
He said the ministry has been al-
located Sh13.76 billion up from the
Sh9.9 billion the ministry had re-
quested. Some 9.4 million pupils in
primary schools will benet.
The PS said each student in day
school will now receive Sh13,000, up
from Sh10 265.
He said the ministry has been al-
located Sh27.8 billion against the
Sh22.6 billion it had requested. Some
two million secondary school stu-
dents will benet from the incre-
ment.
MAJOR IMPACT
These increments will have a ma-
jor impact on the quality of education
because it has been a major issue, he
said.
The PS spoke yesterday when he
appeared before the House Commit-
tee on Education, Science and Tech-
nology.
Also appearing before the com-
mittee was Teachers Service Commis-
sion Secretary Gabriel Lengoiboni
and the Higher Education Loans
Board Chief Executive Ofcer Charles
Ringera.
House chair Sabina Chege had
summoned the ofcials to discuss the
budgetary allocation and also to ex-
plore possibilities of reallocating the
monies to urgent and pressing areas.
Mr Lengoiboni said the Sh2.25 bil-
lion allocated towards employment of
additional teachers was not enough
as the teacher gap now stands at
74,000.
This money will only employ 5,000
teachers and this means that we shall
still have a decit of 69,000, he said.
The commission had requested to
be allocated some Sh9 billion towards
recruitment of 20,000 teachers.
Lengoiboni also said the sector
could face another strike if the second
phase of commuter allowance is not
factored in the budget.
He said only Sh3.8 billion was allo-
cated to implement the second phase
of the teachers negotiated deal, leav-
ing a decit of Sh2.1 billion. The total
amount requested was Sh5.9 billion.
The rst phase of teachers com-
muter allowance was paid last July.
The second phase is due in July this
year, Lengoiboni said.
Education Principal Secretary Bellio Kipsang speaks when he appeared before the House Committee on Education, Sci-
ence and Technology yesterday. [PHOTO: BONIFACE OKENDO/STANDARD]
MP wants top court to stop his
prosecution over fund misuse
By KURIAN MUSA
Nyando Member of Parliament Fred
Outa has asked the Supreme Court to
set aside the decision of the Court of
Appeal that recommended his prose-
cution over alleged election malprac-
tices.
The MP, through his lawyer Francis
Wasuna, argued that the recommenda-
tion for prosecution were powers vest-
ed in the High Court and the Director
of Public Prosecutions ofce.
We submit that by misusing Nyan-
do CDF, committee members and
funds, the appellant voluntarily forfeit-
ed the privilege of leadership of hold-
ing public ofce as Member of Parlia-
ment, said lawyer Issa Mansur for
Jared Okello who is challenging Outa.
Supreme Court expended the or-
ders granted on May 5 to stop the IEBC
from conducting any elections in Nyan-
do till case is determined.
By ISAAC MESO
and IMMACULATE AKELLO
The Central Organisation of Trade
Unions (Cotu) has condemned recent
calls on the Government to abolish
minimum wage to end unemploy-
ment crisis.
Cotu Secretary General Francis At-
woli said calls by Cabinet Secretary for
Industrialisation and Enterprise De-
velopment Adan Mohammed were
unfortunate.
His comments that the current
system used by Kenyas employers to
reward labour creates an environment
for mediocrity is regrettable, he said.
The Cotu boss noted that mini-
mum wage xing is a global require-
ment through the International La-
bour Organisation since it had been
ratied by the Kenya Government and
could not be abolished.
What the Cabinet Secretary is call-
ing for is to convert Kenya into a coun-
try of slaves and individuals who cant
afford even the slightest of the basic
needs when in fact our Constitution in
section 41 (5) is clear that every person
has the right to engage in collective
bargaining and competitively negoti-
ate for his/her pay, he said.
Atwoli tells off CS on wages
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Lack of equipment made
Mandera attack possible
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A
n ambush in Mandera left at least 14 people
dead; two civilians, two regular police and
ten police reservists.
Needless to say, the country has lost dedicated
officers in their line of duty.
While endeavouring to rescue abducted Kenyans,
the gallant officers were waylaid and killed by the Al
Shabaab insurgents. To add salt to injury, the militia
took away the bodies of those killed and burned a
vehicle they could not take with them.
The inference one gets from this incident (other
than the callousness of the assailants) is that the
officers were overpowered because they were few
and had rudimentary equipment. Mandera, which is
a preferred gateway into Kenya from Somalia by the
insurgents, is a volatile area that needs proper
attention not just in terms of staffing, but the
facilitation of movement of the officers when need
arises. Security chiefs have continued to decry the
lack of adequate funding for the police. Clearly, this
limits the operations of the police in the pursuit of
criminals. The war against crime and terrorism will
not be won unless proper equipment fitted with
modern technology are procured and provided to the
officers. Police officers are sitting ducks in an area as
dangerous as Mandera where Al Shabaab militia,
who seem to have fairly sophisticated weapons,
strike at will. It is sad that the officers went after the
insurgents in an open-top truck.
Needless to say, Mandera qualifies for a combat
zone, which calls for the immediate provision of
armoured patrol vehicles to accord some safety to
our security officers. Additionally, patrol helicopters
can act as deterrents and offer safer and quicker
responses in times of emergencies.
The long and short of it is that the security docket
needs a bigger budgetary allocation to allow for ease
of operations and eliminate excuses when the enemy
strikes, if ever they do, again.
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BAHAMAS:
WERE SET
FOR EVENT
Team Kenya, ofcials and
Safaricom Marketing Director
Rita Okuthe during the
send-off luncheon on Monday.
[PHOTO: JENNIFER WACHIE /
STANDARD]
Team Kenya jet out today
for the World Relays
BY JONATHAN KOMEN
The Kenyan team leaves tonight for the inaugural IAAF
World Relay Championships that runs in Nassau, Baha-
mas, on Saturday and Sunday.
The team, which comprises 28 athletes and ten of-
cials, will depart Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
enroute Paris then connect to Miami in USA and before
proceeding to Bahamas.
The squad that has a mix of youth and the old guard
will be seeking to stamp the Kenyan authority in middle
distance and, perhaps, bring back past medal win in sprint
races as they compete in six events.
Men will compete in 4x200m, 4x400m, 4x800m and
4x1500m while women line up in 4x800m and 4x1500m.
Head coach Sammy Rono said he had high hopes and
the middle distance team can stop any aggression: We
have an experienced team as most of them have won med-
als or competed in big championships. Those in 4x800m
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Gone without a
trace ... and found
It was an emotional re-union for
a mother and her daughter who
was snatched at birth 47 years
ago, P.3
Besides teaching us to be the
best, he taught us how to speak
in public; how to stand before
people, the rst words to say and
when to pause for effect
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