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Nairobi | Monday, May 26, 2014
No. 17950
Kenyas 4x1,500
metres womens
relay team cel-
ebrates after set-
ting a new world
record during the
IAAF World Relays
Championships in
Nassau, Bahamas.
From far left to
right are Mercy
Cherono, Faith
Chepngetich,
Irene Jelegat and
Hellen Obiri. The
mens 4x800
metres team won
gold.
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The new world record that the
Kenya women 4x1500 metres
team set in World Relays
Championshiop in Bahamas.
DAY OF GLORY | Kenyan athletes break world record
Cord bosses drum up
support for Raila rally
POLITICS | Opposition leader to address gathering at KICC on return after two-month absence
African giants
ready for Brazil
Samba Kick Cameroon,
Ghana carry hopes of a
continent in World Cup
No plan to impeach
Waiguru, says ODM
P.6 Opposition claims motion
to oust Planning and Devolution
minister is a government aair
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News P. 2-11, 16, Back Opinion P. 12-13 Letters P. 14 County P. 18-23 World P. 26-31 Business P. 32-36 Sport P. 58-63 INDEX

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CRIME
LENKU BLAMES LAND ROWS
FOR NJENGAS SHOOTING
Njenga is being fought by rivals
over control of plots in Kitengela,
says Cabinet Secretary. P.5
AFRICA
CONCEDE DEFEAT, MALAWI
PRESIDENT BANDA TOLD
Ex-Zambia leader Rupiah tells
President to do the right thing P.26
>> Kalonzo to lead partys campaigns in city ahead of Starehe by-election
in build-up to former PMs return from US >> Supporters told to keep o
airport due to security fears >> Coalition to be tough on Jubilee Page 2
Why childcare
crisis has hit
middle class
CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
BY CAROLINE NJUNGE
cnjunge@ke.nationmedia.com
W
ho runs your home? Were a
poll to be conducted today,
it would probably reveal
that most Kenyan homes are run by
house helps.
Todays parents are too busy build-
ing their careers, pursuing higher
education after work, running side
businesses and networking with
other professionals in the race to
get ahead.
And in the pursuit of nancial and
professional fullment, they delegate
parenting and home management du-
ties to their househelps, many of who
are too young, or too inexperienced for
the responsibilities that they have to
discharged, including deciding what
the family will eat, supervising the
Coalition to step up
ght against Jubilee
BY NATION
CORRESPONDENT
Cord leaders have vowed to
push the Jubilee administra-
tion to the extreme end as
they cited its failures after
one year in power.
They said Jubilee had blun-
dered in ordering payment of
Sh1.4 billion to Anglo Leasing
rms. They criticised the coa-
lition, saying it had failed to
deal with unemployment and
insecurity.
Speaking at a rally in Baba
Dogo, Nairobi, yesterday, the
leaders called for a new direc-
tion for the country. They said
the security system should be
overhauled.
Kakamega Senator Boni
Khalwale said the challenges
being faced by the government
were mounting by the day. He
castigated some Luhya leaders
for supporting the government,
which had sacked ocers from
the community from govern-
ment positions.
Any leader from the Luhya
community who supports the
government should ask himself
whether the government has
been an equal opportunity
employer, he said.
At the same time, the Cord
leaders called for a national
dialogue on the reconstitution
of the Independent Electoral
and Boundaries Commission
(IEBC), saying it can not be
trusted to hold future elections
if it remains as it is.
Siaya Senator James Orengo
said Cord leader Raila Odinga
must be involved in the recon-
stitution so that the opposition
can be certain that future elec-
tions will be free and fair.
Homa Bay Senator Otieno
Kajwang said IEBC as cur-
rently constituted had no
capacity to deliver free and
fair elections and should be
disbanded.
The amount which the govern-
ment has paid Anglo Leasing
companies
Sh1.4bn
BY ISAAC ONGIRI
@ongiri2
iongiri@ke.nationmedia.com
AND BERNARD NAMUNANE
@nobewe
bnamunane@ke.nationmedia.com
C
ord leaders have been holding
political rallies in the city as
they prepare their supporters
to welcome coalition leader Raila Od-
inga on his return from the United
States on Saturday.
The former Prime Minister is
scheduled to address a rally at the
KICC grounds.
The meeting was initially earmarked
for Uhuru Park but the Opposition had
to change the venue because the park
has been booked for a rehearsal by the
military in preparation for Madaraka
Day celebrations on Sunday.
Mr Odingas deputy in the coali-
tion, former Vice-President Kalonzo
Musyoka, will on Wednesday lead
a rally in Mathare, which will also
be used to drum up support for the
opposition candidate in the coming
by-election. The rally is meant to pre-
pare Cord followers for the return of
their leader.
A team led by acting Cord leader
Anyang Nyongo and Nairobi Gov-
ernor Evans Kidero is expected to
meet today to draft the nal itiner-
ary and diary for Mr Odinga once
he arrives.
Yesterday, Kibra MP Kenneth
Okoth, who is accompanying Mr
Odinga in the US, said the former
Prime Minister had proposed that
party supporters congregate at the
Kenyatta International Conference
Centre.
In a statement, Mr Okoth said the
aim was to keep the crowds out of the
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
for security reasons given the tough
measures the government has taken
to deal with escalating insecurity.
Only a delegation of coalition lead-
ers headed by Mr Musyoka will be
at the JKIA to welcome Mr Odinga
when he arrives aboard an Emirates
ight.
Mr Odinga will arrive in Nairobi
from Dubai. The public have been
advised not to go to the airport but
to congregate at KICC, where proper
welcome celebrations and thanksgiv-
ing will be held, said Mr Okoth.
Cord Chief Whip Jakoyo Midiwo
said: We are expecting about two
million people. They cannot be
stopped because we have already
booked the venue.
The coalition has rolled out ver-
nacular adverts on FM stations to
mobilise supporters to turn up for
the rallies.
Yesterday, Suna East MP Junet
Mohamed said Mr Odinga deserves
an elaborate homecoming since he is
a respected statesman.
He is the remaining icon of Afri-
can democracy after Mandela. Thats
why his return is important, said the
ODM MP.
The Nation, however, learnt that
there was disquiet over Mr Railas
homecoming plans, with some MPs
saying the hype was unnecessary.
Cord ocials said the party will
hold major rallies in Nairobi, Mom-
basa and in Western regions starting
Saturday to engage the people on
corruption, insecurity, government
dysfunction and attempts by the
Jubilee administration to scuttle
devolution.
Last week, Cord launched an audit
of the Jubilee government in which
they criticised President Uhuru
Kenyattas government for failing
to fulll some of its core campaign
promises.
There is huge concern that this
government is going to destroy this
economy beyond expectations, said
Mr Mohamed. With signs of eco-
nomic sabotage and the underhand
business deals with the Chinese gov-
ernment we may be the Zimbabwe of
East Africa in coming days.
A decline in security, corruption and
an appetite for huge business deals
and tenders under the Jubilee govern-
ment are some of the issues that the
Cord leadership is planning to address
in their countrywide rallies.
Flagbearer
However, besides Machakos Senator
Johnstone Muthama and Mr Musyoka
most Wiper Democratic Movement
MPs have given the events a wide
berth. Some of the partys MPs have
in the recent past been pushing Cord
to back Mr Musyoka as its agbearer
in the next General Election.
The team preparing for Mr Odin-
gas return has held rallies in Kibera,
Mlolongo and yesterday they were in
Ruaraka.
The opposition that has been on a
lull for several months is taking ad-
vantage of Mr Odingas homecoming
to relaunch itself. However, criticisms
of its performance in and out of Par-
liament, initiated by the Suna East
MP targeting Senate Minority Leader
Moses Wetangula and his National
Assembly counterpart Francis Nyenze
appears to have triggered the opposi-
tion into action. Since last week the
party has been active with a series
of activities already held and more
planned for this week.
Party supporters told to
keep o airport as rally
venue is changed from
Uhuru Park to KICC
Cord in build-up rallies for Railas return
HOMECOMING | Former PM has been on a two-month absence in the United States
EVANS HABIL | NATION
Siaya Senator James Orengo addresses a Cord rally at Baba Dogo Grounds in Nairobi yesterday.
The public have been
advised not to go to the
airport but to congregate
at KICC, where proper
welcome celebrations and
thanksgiving will be held.
Kibra MP Kenneth Okoth
NTV KENYA

DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
2 | National News
BY JOY WANJA MURAYA
jwanja@ke.nationmedia.com
N
ewborns and children under
the age of two with kidney
failure have been handed a
lifeline after Italian scientists devel-
oped a miniature dialysis machine
suitable for them.
The innovation known as Carpe
Diem (cardio-renal pediatric dialysis
emergency machine) replaces the
lost function of the kidney by remov-
ing excess uid and urine from the
body in children with kidney com-
plications.
Though the promise it oers is
music to the ears of thousands of
patients and their parents globally,
it may take a while before the machine
is available in Kenya.
The machine costs Sh4.3 million
but there are not enough sponsors to
fund its commercial production.
At the Kenyatta National Hospital,
adult patients with kidney complica-
tions pay Sh5,000 per session. The
cost is much higher in private hos-
pitals.
Dr Anthony Were, who heads the
renal unit at KNH, welcomed the new
technology saying it will shed more
light on how to manage newborns and
infants with kidney failure.
The new innovation allows the use
of a much smaller catheter which
could prevent damage to blood ves-
sels in babies, the study says. The
machine is suitable for infants who
weigh between two and 10 kg.
We created the new device and as-
sessed it with in-vitro laboratory tests,
completed its development to meet
regulatory requirements, and obtained
a license for human use, read part
of a paper authored by Prof Claudio
Ronco from the International Renal
Research Institute at San Bortolo
Hospital in Vicenza. The paper was
published in the May 24 issue of The
Lancet, a leading medical journal.
According to the researchers, who
took ve years to complete work on
the innovation, dialysis machines used
by adults can cause complications
when used in very young children.
The machine was rst used on a
baby born prematurely with multi-
ple organ failure after a complicated
delivery.
In the paper titled, Continuous renal
replacement therapy in neonates and
small infants: Development and rst-in-
human use of a miniaturised machine
(Carpediem), the researchers reported
on the progress in treating a newborn
with kidney failure. The described the
ndings as incredible.
When the machine was authorised
last year, Prof Ronco rst used it on a
newborn who remained on treatment
for 20 days after which the medical
team attending to her discontinued
its use after she regained full organ
function.
According to the researchers, eight
babies have been successfully treated
using the technology in Italy. Another
10 have been treated across Europe.
Hope for babies with kidney failure
FILE | NATION
A specialist attends to a patient undergoing dialysis at the Nakuru General Hospi-
tals renal unit last year. Italian researchers have designed a machine that can help
treat renal complications in infants.
HEALTH | New innovation proves eective after eight infants with renal complications healed
Machine which costs
Sh4.3 million promises
to change medical world
but is yet to reach Kenya
The kidneys
are two
bean-shaped
organs, each
about the size
of a st.
They are
located just
below the rib
cage, one on
each side of the spine.
Every day, the two kidneys lter
about 120 to 150 quarts of blood
to produce about one to two
quarts of urine.
The kidneys work around the clock.
Between birth and the age four,
birth defects and hereditary dis-
eases are the leading causes of
kidney failure in children.
MORE INFO
How kidneys clean
the body
5,000
What it costs to put an adult
patient on dialysis per session
at the Kenyatta National Hospi-
tal. The cost is much higher in
private hospitals.
20 rms
put under
tax probe
BY NATION REPORTER

The Kenya Revenue Authority
is investigating more than 20
companies in connection with tax
evasion.
The firms, which are mainly
multi-nationals are being inves-
tigates for possible tax evasion
through transfer pricing, Com-
missioner for Domestic Taxes
Pancrasius Nyaga had said.
In an interview with the Daily
Nation, Mr Nyaga said the audit has
been going since 2009 and aims
at ensuring that all companies are
brought to the required tax compli-
ance levels.
However, he did not name the
aected rms, citing client con-
fidentiality. He only named the
sectors aected.
So far we have made good
progress in the past three years in
the ower, tea and manufacturing
sectors and audits are also being
expanded to include mining, oil and
gas sectors because of the high-risk
prole of the export-oriented busi-
nesses, he said.
Transfer pricing is a tax evasion
system where multi-nationals move
prots from Kenya, which they con-
sider to be a high tax country, and
declare them in low-tax countries
or tax havens.
Two weeks ago, a report by the
US-based Global Financial Integ-
rity revealed that Kenya loses more
than Sh131 billion to tax evasion
year through dubious practices by
importers and exporters.
So far, we have made good
progress in the past three
years in the ower, tea and
manufacturing sectors
Commissioner for Domestic
Taxes Pancrasius Nyaga
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
National News 3
New police
system for
counties
BY NATION REPORTER
AND CORRESPONDENT
A new security organ to be
established in counties will
involve communities in the
ght against crimes.
It is the governor or his
representative who will chair
the County Policing Author-
ity (CPA).
Interior Cabinet Secretary
Joseph Ole Lenku said dur-
ing a consultative meeting
with governors in Naivasha
on Friday that the CPAs will
ensure the county government
and the regional governments
worked together in the ght
against crime.
Security problems
The meeting whose theme
was Filling the gaps: Inte-
grated approaches to crime and
violence prevention and safety
in devolved government, was
also attended by Interior Prin-
cipal Secretary, Mutea Iringo
and the Inspector-General of
Police, Mr David Kimaiyo.
Mr Lenku noted that the
country was facing challenges
in ghting crime following con-
tinued terrorist attacks.
He identied other problems
in the security sector as cor-
ruption, unemployment and
radicalisation of youth.
He warned that if the public
failed to help police in restoring
peace, the government would
be forced to allocate more re-
sources to ght crime instead
of directing the same funds to
development.
Mr Kimaiyo said the CPAs
will monitor progress in meet-
ing set goals.
Over 300 held in
swoop as hotels
ask for tax relief
BY DANIEL NYASSY
@dnyassy
dnyassy@ke.nationmedia.com
AND MWAKERA MWAJEFA
@mwakeramwajefam
mwajefa@ke.nationmedia.com
P
olice arrested more than 300
people in night swoops on
Mombasa Island over the
weekend as security forces stepped
up their crackdown against terrorists
who have been blamed for grenade
attacks that have led some tour rms
to evacuate tourists.
The arrests came as a grenade was
found in a eld between the Jesus Heal-
ing and Miracle Ministries Church and
Malandini estate in Tononoka.
Most of those arrested were seized
from Majengo, Bondeni and Ganjoni
areas which are suspected to be used
as hideouts for terrorists.
Mombasa county commissioner
Nelson Marwa said the swoop was
meant to clear the targeted areas of
criminal elements.
(We) netted two prime suspects
that we are currently interrogating
and we are hoping to make a major
breakthrough on recent attacks, he
said.
However, the swoops attracted criti-
cism from a cross-section of people
including those arrested.
A village elder from Bibi wa Shu,
Mzee Mohamed Omar, criticised the
police for not involving them before
embarking on the crackdown.
We held a meeting with the ad-
ministration last month at Kiziwi
and resolved that in all subsequent
police swoops, village elders should
be fully involved because we know who
criminals are and who are not, he said
and claimed that police had arrested
innocent youth.
He warned that the crackdown would
strain relations between the police and
the public.
Mr Abdulmajid Salim said his wife
was arrested while attending a wedding
at Sargoi near Mwembe Tayari.
They also arrested the groom and
bridegroom, all of who had national
identity cards, he said.
Mr Ali Awadh Said from Hindi in
Lamu County said he was attending
the wedding when police raided the
venue between 4.30 and 5 am and
loaded everybody onto lorries.
Waiver on VAT
Mrs Jackline Amondi said her
husband, Mr Gilbert Odhiambo, who
works at Salambo Nightclub, was
arrested as he was going home at
Magongo at 5.30 am.
He had not arrived home by 8 am
which is unusual. He later called me
to tell me he was at the police station,
she said. At the same time, players in
the tourism industry have asked the
government to consider a waiver on
Value Added Tax for hotels at the Coast
for the next one year to cushion their
operations due to low business.
The situation has worsened follow-
ing the recent travel advisories issued
by the US and UK and the subsequent
withdrawal of more than 500 tourists
from hotels in the South Coast.
Yesterday, Amani Tiwi Beach
Resort deputy general manager Mus-
tafa Lekishon said a VAT exemption
would enable hoteliers to meet their
overheads and maintain their workers
during the low season instead of send-
ing them on compulsory leave.
Though we support the Presidents
action in his statement to revive the
sector, he only reduced the landing
fees but did not talk about opening air
transport for more airlines to operate
and land in Kenya which will encourage
more travellers, he said.
TERRORISM | Crackdown criticised but county commissioner says two key suspects were seized
KEVIN ODIT | NATION
Police carry out a swoop at Casablanca
Club in Mombasa yesterday. Over 300
people were arrested in the crackdown.
Advisories: Four countries the
US, the UK, France and Australia
issued travel warnings earlier this
month sparking the evacuation
of British tourists from the South
Coast last weekend.
Attacks: On Thursday night, a
grenade was hurled at a police
ocer who had arrested a sus-
pected terrorist. And on Satur-
day, a grenade was found near a
church and detonated.
Incentives: Last week, the
President gave a raft of directives
aimed at encouraging local tour-
ism and reducing losses for hotel
operators.
MORE INFO
Mixed fortunes
in war on terror
Among those arrested
are a bride, bridegroom
and a guest at wedding
near Mwembe Tayari
Additional reporting by Bozo Jenje
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
4 | National News
Lobbying
for visitors
goes online
BY NATION
CORRESPONDENT
Kenyas world-famous resorts
and lodges have launched an
online campaign urging tour-
ists to visit the country, saying
it was not only safe for 40 mil-
lion Kenyans but for all.
In their campaign dubbed
#keepcalmandvisitkenya
they said travel advisories
should be ignored and tour-
ists given a chance to spend
their money while devouring
Kenyas unrivalled natural fea-
tures and wildlife which have
seen several resorts win inter-
national recognition.
Leisure and business
Ol Pejeta, dubbed the 2013
best kept not-for-prot wildlife
conservancy, said terrorism is
a global threat and not unique
to Kenya and we offer our
deepest sympathies to our
fellow Kenyans who have
been caught up in the recent
incidents.
#Kenyahakunamatata also
reached out to tourists from
all over the world as well as
investors to seriously think of
visiting Kenya for leisure and
business. Other campaigns
were launched through
#KeepCalmAndGoToKenya
#Kenya @maratriangle while
@HeerKapoor1 @safriyaf puts
a thumbs up sign for Kenya.
Tourists booking hotels
ahead of Mara spectacle
BY NATION
CORRESPONDENT
A section of Western
tourists have ignored travel
advisories to make hotel
bookings at the Maasai Mara
Game Reserve ahead of the
wildebeest migration.
Hoteliers said they had
received bookings, with few
cancellations, from European
tourists hoping that lodges
and camps will remain booked
until late October when the
season ends.
The proprietor of Loita
Plains and Riverside Campsite
Resort, Mr Kipeen ole Sayialel,
said preparations were in top
gear to receive the tourists in
the annual high season that
starts with the migration of
wildebeest from Serengeti
National Park in Tanzania to
the Kenyan side across the
Mara River. We have not re-
ceived any cancellations yet
but bookings are streaming
in from our agencies here in
Kenya and abroad.
We are proud of our regular
visitors who have shrugged o
the threats and it is our hope
that the government will
boost security across all air-
ports, ports and in our cities
to keep the tourists coming,
said Mr Sayialel.
Road repairs
He added that the ongoing
repairs on the Narok-Mara
Road would hasten movement
of tourists to and from the re-
serve and hoped the work will
be completed before the peak
season begins.
Maasai Mara remains a
safe place to visit and as a
county we have increased
funding for improvement of
roads leading to the sanctuary
and to various conservancies
as a way of boosting tourism,
said county executive for
Tourism Allan Tuala. Tour-
ism contributes 12.5 per cent
of the GDP.

Maasai Mara
remains a safe
place to visit and
we have increased
funding to
improve roads to
the park
Narok executive for
Tourism Allan Tuala
12.5pc
Percentage of the GDP
contributed by tourism
Faithful pray
under guard
after ambush
BY NATION REPORTER
AND CORRESPONDENT
Security was tight at former
Mungiki leader Maina Njengas
church in Kitengela a day after he
escaped death in a gun attack.
Administration Police officers
kept vigil in two vehicles parked at
the entrance of Hope International
Ministries Church in Kitengela town
as 50 men from the congregation
stayed alert for any trouble.
The church conducted its Sunday
service normally, although it was
not as full as usual.
A pastor said that some of the
faithful had visited Mr Njenga in
hospital.
Mr Njenga survived when his
convoy was attacked in Nyahu-
ruru on Saturday. Five people in
the motorcade were killed but he
sustained gunshot wounds.
Meanwhile, Interior Cabinet
Secretary Joseph ole Lenku has
revealed that some police ocers
attempted to buy sections of land
in Athi River said to be at the centre
of gang clashes.
He said the land belonged to the
government and warned the ocers
against buying it.
Portland is government land
and will not be allowed to fall into
private hands, he said yesterday
at Christ is The Answer Ministry
Church in Ngong town.
BY SAMWEL BORN MAINA
@Bornmaina
sborn@ke.nationmedia.com
F
euds between Mungiki members
and their rivals seeking control
of plots in Kitengela have been
blamed for the shooting of former sect
leader Maina Njengas vehicle.
The Saturday incident near Nya-
hururu town left ve people dead,
with Mr Njenga sustaining bullet
wounds.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph
ole Lenku yesterday said: He (Mr
Njenga) is being fought by his rivals.
His claim that police were behind his
shooting is not true.
Mr Lenku said Mungiki members
were trying to extort money from the
public whom they promised to give
parcels of land in Kitengela.
He warned that action would be
taken against the culprits.
The land which Mungiki is trying
to subdivide belongs to the govern-
ment. Security ocials have been
directed to protect the land by all
means possible. Anyone eyeing gov-
ernment land is a criminal, said the
minister.
Security ocers and Mungiki mem-
bers are said to be seeking control
of the 2,000-acre land in Athi River,
bordering Kitengela.
Mr Lenku said the Portland Cement
land, and Sheep and Goat Ranch were
government property not subject to
sub-division.
He warned anybody eyeing the
parcels of land, including security
ocers, that they will face the full
force of the law.
Yesterday, Mr Peter Njoroge dis-
missed claims that there was bad
blood between him and his brother,
Mr Njenga.
Great inuence
He accused ocers from the Na-
tional Intelligence Service of trying
to create division so that it appears
he was responsible for his brothers
shooting.
They want to assassinate my
brother. He is a target of the police
because he has a great influence
among the youth, Mr Njoroge told
the Nation.
He added: Some have claimed
that I am the one who is after my
own brothers life. Others have said
it is Mungiki. The truth is that it is
the police who want to eliminate
him because of his large youth fol-
lowing. He was being pursued by
two vehicles.
He said Mr Njenga has always
feared for his life for a long time and
Saturdays incident was a conrma-
tion of what he dreaded.
Lenku blames Maina rivals for attack
BILLY MUTAI | NATION
A congregation at Hope International Ministries Church in Kitengela yesterday.
Tension has gripped the church after its leader Maina Njenga was attacked on
Saturday.
SHOOTING | Five die and former sect leader sustains gunshot wounds
Former Mungiki leader
is being fought over
control of plots in
Kitengela, says minister
Mr Maina Njenga was on his
way to visit his brother in Laikipia
when his car was ambushed by at
least seven people, who sprayed
bullets at his car.
We had actually spoken ve
minutes before the incident. He
had told me that they were about
to reach my place, said Mr Peter
Njoroge, Mr Njengas brother.
BACKGROUND
Vehicle sprayed
with bullets
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
National News 5
BRIEFLY
MACHAKOS
Rutos URP on a
mission to rebrand
The United Republican Party
has embarked on a rebranding
campaign ahead of the 2017
General Election. URP chair-
man Francis ole Kaparo said the
new initiative had so far seen the
party open and revive oces in at
least 32 counties. He was speak-
ing during a retreat at Maanzoni
Lodge in Machakos County at-
tended by party delegates among
them MPs and senators. Speak-
ing to the Nation, delegates said
that the idea behind the initiative
is to see President Kenyatta vie
in 2017 on a URP ticket.
NYAMIRA
Counties told to form
local anti-graft teams
Governors were yesterday
asked to form committees that
will assist the Ethics and Anti-
Corruption Commission to ght
graft in the counties. EACC as-
sistant commissioner David Too
and western region coordina-
tor Charles Rasugu said it was
through such teams that graft
could be identied and addressed
at the devolved units. Speaking at
Uhuru Garden in Nyamira during
a meeting with residents, the o-
cials said there was need to have
EACC oces in the counties to
handle local graft reports.
NYAMIRA
Funeral rites blamed
for low exam scores
Governor John Nyangarama
has blamed funeral rites that run
for days for the deteriorating
education standards in Nyamira
County. Mr Nyangarama said
students lose a lot of time while
attending the ceremonies. Most
families take bodies of their
loved ones home on Fridays and
they lie in state for two days, he
added. Burial is not conducted
on a Saturday or Sunday. The
majority of schoolchildren end
up spending school days at home
taking part in the ceremonies,
said the county boss.
MERU
Women reps push for
fund to ght poverty
Women Representatives have
continued with their push to
have a kitty that will help them
initiate social development activi-
ties. The leaders argue that the
development fund will be used
to tackle social ills that mostly
aect women and youth. Ms
Florence Kajuju (above) (Meru),
Ms Priscilla Nyokabi (Nyeri)
and Mrs Mary Seneta (Kajiado)
on Saturday at a fund-raiser in
Michogomone in Buuri Constitu-
ency said they need a separate
fund to tackle issues like poverty.
BY NATION TEAM
newsdesk@ke.nationmedia.com
T
he Opposition has dis-
tanced itself from plans
to impeach a Cabinet
Secretary, saying it was an
internal feud between Jubilee
coalition partners.
But even as Cord chief whip
in the National Assembly Ja-
koyo Midiwo said this, Igembe
Central MP Mithika Linturi
vowed to push for Devolution
Cabinet Secretary Ann Waigu-
rus impeachment in spite of
pressure from high places
to abandon the motion.
Mr Midiwo said Cord was
not ready to be sucked into
the motion of impeachment
of Ms Waiguru. The motion,
he argued, was a product
of the differences between
President Uhuru Kenyattas
The National Alliance (TNA)
and his deputy William Ru-
tos United Republican Party
(URP).
It (the impeachment mo-
tion) is a war between Uhuru
and Ruto. We as a coalition
are not involved in the feud
between the Jubilee partners,
he said in Nairobi.
Suna East MP Junet Mo-
hamed reminded URP leaders
who were complaining against
the transfer of Mr Kiplimo
Rugut from the NYS to the
Sports ministry that Presi-
dent Kenyatta was the only
appointing authority.
This is not a shared gov-
ernment because President
Kenyatta is the only appoint-
ing authority. Those who are
complaining of being shortch-
anged are still suering from
the nusu-mkate (half a loaf)
mentality, he said.
He spoke as the initiator of
the motion who has already
collected 160 signatures from
MPs, Mt Linturi, said he had
come under pressure from
individuals in high places
whose identities he de-
clined to give to abandon
the motion against the Cabi-
net Secretary.
He said he was still visit-
ing various MPs to collect
signatures to move a petition
against the minister.
Only one of the signatories
has withdrawn, and we are still
going on. I will not abandon
the motion until she either
resigns or we force her out,
he said.
Cord has no plan
to impeach Waiguru
POLITICS | Opposition says motion is a Jubilee aair
Linturi vows to
remove CS despite
pressure from high
places to stop plan

We are not
involved in the
feud between the
Jubilee partners,
CORD chief whip
in the National
Assembly Jakoyo
Midiwo
Ruto warns leaders
against hate speech
BY NATION REPORTER
AND DPPS
Deputy President William
Ruto has warned political
leaders against inciting
their communities to vio-
lence.
Mr Ruto said such leaders
would face the full force of
the law.
Speaking yesterday dur-
ing a Sunday service at St
Arnesens High School in
Uasin Gishu County, he said
it was the responsibility of
leaders to preach peace and
promote harmony among
Kenyans.
All of us are elected to
unite and work for Kenyans
irrespective of ethnic or po-
litical aliation, he said.
The government would
not hesitate to take stern
action against leaders
undermining peace and
national security, he said.
Let us speak the way
we want but we should
be responsible for what
we say.
Mr Ruto said leaders
must not allow violence
similar to that which fol-
lowed the 2007 elections
to occur again as every
Kenyan had a constitutional
right to live and own prop-
erty anywhere.
Never again will we
allow politicians to divide
Kenyans on ethnic or politi-
cal backgrounds.
He also dismissed the
Opposition for criticising
the ongoing registration
of voters, arguing that the
law provided for continuous
registration of voters.
Senate Majority Leader
Kithure Kindiki and Elgeyo
Marakwet Senator Kip-
chumba Murkomen dared
Cord to try to remove Presi-
dent Kenyatta from oce.
They said leaders cannot
be impeached in funerals.
We have some leaders
who have never uttered a
word on the oor of Par-
liament but they are good
at addressing night rallies
undermining the work of
other leaders, said Mr
Murkomen.
JACOB OWITI | NATION
Deputy President William Ruto attends prayers at Kericho
Central Full Gospel Church yesterday. He urged leaders to
unite to confront the challenges facing Kenyans.
We have some leaders
who have never
uttered a word on the
oor of Parliament
but they are good at
addressing night rallies,
undermining the work
of other leaders,
Elgeyo Marakwet
Senator Kipchumba
Murkomen
REACTION
Opposition
criticised
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7
childrens homework and choos-
ing what their bosses will wear to
work the following day.
Nowadays, both parents
work, meaning they have to get
someone to help them with the
day-to-day running of the home,
says counselling psychologist Jane
Onyango. That means they have
to nd someone else to raise their
children.
Enter the househelp.
If most working class women
were to be honest, it is their help
who decides what they will eat
for supper, when shopping will
be done, and even what will be
bought, and when some even
determine what their employer
will wear to work the next day,
says Ms Onyango
In many households, she notes,
it is the house help who assists
the children with the homework,
even signing the diary.
One could therefore argue
that these women, who are in
many cases paid too little, have
become surrogate parents to our
children.
Ms Sally Moraa is a typical
working class mother and wife.
On any given week day, she is out
of her house by 6.30am, to beat
the trac jam on her way to work
in the city centre.
By the time she leaves her
house, her two children a
three-year-old in kindergarten and
a one-year-old, are still asleep.
It is, therefore, her househelps
duty to make breakfast and ensure
the school-going child is dressed
and has eaten breakfast by the
time the school van picks him
at 7.30pm.
Ms Moraa normally leaves
the oce at 5pm, and heads to
a university across town, where
she is pursuing an MBA degree.
The classes end at around 7pm.
Depending on how bad the trac
jam is, she manages to get home
at around 8.30pm on a good day.
By that time, however, her chil-
dren are either asleep or about to
go to bed. Her husband, who has
an equally demanding schedule,
comes in later.
Such a scenario, says counsel-
ling psychologist Jane Onyango,
is common among middle class
families.
Obviously, judging from this
scenario, househelps are indis-
pensable, and this explains why
they are in high demand and why
good ones are hard to come by.
The problem, as Ms Miriam
Waweru, who runs a house girl
bureau said, most women dont
bother to do a background check
on the people they employ.
Ms Waweru has been in the
business for six years, and says
most women simply walk into her
oce and inform that her they
want a girl.
Many have no specications;
they just want someone who is
ready to go with them at that
moment, she says.
Others ask questions such as
where the woman comes from,
her age, whether she has worked
in another household before, and
how old children in that house-
hold were.
These are important ques-
tions, but if you cannot ascertain
whether the answers are factual,
then they become useless, be-
cause the applicants could be
lying, she says.
Such women are often desper-
ate to get someone to leave their
children with, especially in a case
where the house help they had just
woke up and left as happens all
too often.
This desperation, Ms Waweru
warns, may turn out to be dan-
gerous.
Some of these women are not
really looking for a job some
work in cohorts with robbers,
some are looking for children to
steal, while others are unstable.
The latter, she says, are the
ones who end up mistreating
your children, or even harming
or killing them in a t of anger.
Before you settle on her,
insist that she gives you her
former employers number. One
who hesitates to give it to you or
gives excuses about why she does
not have it could be hiding some-
FILE | NATION
A class in session at Maarifa, a rm in Nairobi which specialises in training househelps how to provide better
services in the homes where they work.
Kenyas childcare crisis: Why parents trust
KNOW YOUR HOUSEHELP | Potential employers are advised to conduct thorough background checks
Nowadays both
parents work,
meaning they
have to get
someone to
help them with
the day-to-day
running of the
home ...
Jane Onyango
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Some of
these women
are not really
looking for a
job some
work in
cohorts with
robbers,
some are
looking for
children to
steal, while
others are
unstable.
Miriam
Waweru,
Househelps
bureau
manager
DOMESTIC WORKERS
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Monday May 26, 2014
8 | National News
total strangers to run their homes
thing, warns Ms Waweru.
It also does not hurt to ask her
to provide you with a certicate
of good conduct.
A woman she knows takes
every house help she employs
to a police station near where
she lives, and has her finger
prints and other vital details
recorded.
Other precautions to take
include having her write down
a relatives mother, father or
siblings phone number. Pref-
erably, call to ascertain that the
numbers are genuine, says Ms
Waweru.
For those with small children,
Ms Waweru insists that it is
important for the child and the
potential house help to rst in-
teract. This means having the
interview at your home, where
you can watch how she acts with
your child, or how you child re-
sponds to her.
Counsellor Veronica Mbatia
advises parents to pay attention
to their childrens cues.
She advises the busy parent
to deliberately set aside time for
their children.
Activities like bathing your
child will tell you whether he is
being physically or even sexually
abused, she says.
To be continued tomorrow.
Readers are invited to share
their experiences through mailb
ox@ke.nationmedia.com
BY MARYANNE GICOBI
mgicobi@ke.nationmedia.com
H
e returned home one Saturday at
2am, only to find his wife, Jane
Wairimu, lying dead in a pool of
blood, with multiple stab wounds on the
neck and head.
In interviews following the March
incident, Mr Moses Muchoki said that
the househelp, who he only knew by one
name, Beatrice, had worked for them for
just three weeks.
The father of three says he did not know
much about the suspect only that she was
was from western Kenya and had lived in
Kiambui, in Nairobis Buru Buru estate.
A few weeks later, the suspect was arrested
in Kinyona Village in Muranga County, a
short distance from where Ms Wairimu was
being buried. In her possession was a cell
phone belonging to Ms Wairimu.
According to court reports, Beatrice,
is actually called Mary Khabetsa Matekwa.
On April 30 she was arraigned in court,
where she pleaded Not Guilty. Her case is
set for hearing on November 26 and 27
this year. She is remanded at the Langata
Women Prison.
But this is just one of the many worrying
cases about househelps who turn on either
their employer, or on the children left in
their care; they either kill, maim, mistreat
or abduct the children.
In 2012, a househelp was convicted for
stealing a two year-old-boy and later killing
him. When Elispher Muthoni heard on the
radio that the police were searching for the
boy she had stolen, she and an accomplice
strangled him to death and threw him into
a pit latrine.
Sexuallt transmitted disease
Muthoni is now serving a 30-year prison
term.
In another shocking case earlier this year,
a boy in Juja was infected with a sexually
transmitted disease by the woman employed
to look after him, a mother of ve.
Recounting her story in the media last
month, the boys mother, Njeri, said that
the woman was a model worker, and not
once did the two quarrel.
I considered myself lucky to have found a
girl who was keen on following instructions
and was extremely clean, she said.
There was a catch however. Her son
did not like the woman, yet he had been
free with all previous househelps, but no
alarm bells went o, not even when her
son adamantly refused to be given a bath
by the help.
A few months later, her son started
complaining of pain when passing urine.
There was also a foul smell coming from
his genitals. Samples of his urine showed
that he had an infection.
However, the medication given seemed in-
eective, and Ms Kinyanjui decided to seek a
second opinion. By then, her househelp had
already left, after insisting that she needed
to visit her children in Kisii, where she had
told her employer she came from.
The second doctor informed her that
the bacteria causing the symptoms were
resistant. Apparently, her son had a rare
sexually transmitted infection that combines
dierent types of bacteria.
It is then that her son confessed that the
househelp had been sexually molesting him.
She would lock him up in the bathroom as
she showered, and force him to stare at her
naked body. She would then rape him. She
is yet to be arrested.
What exactly would drive such normal-
looking women to commit such heinous
acts?
According to psychologist Loise Noo,
such monstrous acts are often motivated
by these womens past experiences, nega-
tive and disappointing experiences that
they carry within. Their acts, she says, are
triggered more by internal issues, rather
than by external ones.
Psychologist
says
monstrous
acts of
househelps
are often
motivated
by past
negative and
disappoint-
ing
experiences
FILE | NATION
Two-year-old Nicolette Wanjiku who was ab-
ducted by a househelp in February is reunited
with her mother at the Kamukunji Police Sta-
tion in Nairobi.
What employers
need to look out
for in househelps
BY NATION CORRESPONDENT
Ms Grace Muchiri, who runs a house-
help training school says it is impossible
to tell a good house help from a bad one
just by talking to them.
A thorough background check, is
a vital rst step to take before hiring
someone.
The story she gives you should ow
for instance, if she tells you that she
dropped out of school, ask her which
one, what year, and why. Probe as much
as you can. How they react to your ques-
tions will tell you a lot about the kind
of people they are.
Besides this, insist on a copy of their
national identity card, and also nd out
where exactly they live. It is also neces-
sary to have the phone numbers of their
next of kin.
Simple questions like do you love
kids? can also tell you a lot about the
person.
If this question is met with a lopsided
smile, or a fake one, or the househelp
rolls the eyes and
instead asks how
old the child is,
then may be that is
not the best person
to leave your child
with, she says.
How would a
parent know that
their children are
being abused?
Psychologist,
Loise Noo, says
that a major sign
that a child is
being abused is
their tendency to
get frightened, tense, or nervous while
in the presence of someone. But you
need to be an observant parent to notice
such reactions.
The child will mostly get frightened
when you call out the househelps name,
and could also behave in the same fright-
ened way when that person touches
them, says Dr Noo.
She also urges parents to be on the
lookout for any shift in the childs be-
haviour. If your child has always been
playful and cheerful, only to become
withdrawn and dull, chances are the
child could be experiencing some sort
of abuse, she says.
Ms Kitetu adds that most children
subjected to physical abuse could start
bullying others or become rough when
playing with other children.
Be concerned
when a child
gets frightened
when you
call out the
househelps
name,
Psychologist
Loise Noo
DOMESTIC WORKERS
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BRIEFLY
MAKUENI
Driver, two passengers
die in road accident
Three people died on the spot
while one sustained injuries in
a road accident in Kiangini
along the Makindu-Wote road
in Makueni on Saturday night.
The dead were the driver of the
Toyota Fielder car and his two
passengers. A third passenger
survived and is hospitalised. Con-
rming the accident, Kathonz-
weni OCPD Muganda Kisaka
said the vehicle rolled several
times after a tyre burst.
SIAYA
Villagers chase away
chiefs in changaa raid
Provincial administrators con-
ducting a crackdown on illicit
brew were yesterday repulsed
by angry villagers in Central
Asembo, Rarieda. Chief Al-
phonce Omolo Ayoma and his
two assistants Maurice Omondi
(North Ramba) and Habill Obago
Oloo (South Ramba) were chased
from Lumba village after fail-
ing to produce a search warrant.
They called for police reinforce-
ments and continued the raids.
KIAMBU
Proprietors want pubs
for elderly patrons
A group of bar owners wants
special bars and restaurants
licensed to cater for senior citi-
zens. Limuru Bar Owners chair-
man Patrick Mbugua said exist-
ing outlets come with loud music,
are known for rowdy behaviour
and therefore suit only youth.
We will request the Kiambu gov-
ernment to make a law licensing
bars for senior citizens who also
need to meet and enjoy a drink,
he said at a meeting yesterday.
NAKURU
Get certied potato
seeds, farmers told
The Kenya Plant Health In-
spectorate Service has advised
farmers to buy certied potato
seeds to keep at bay a bacterial
disease ravaging the crop. Certi-
ed seeds are inspected to make
sure they are not mixed with
other varieties to prevent trans-
mission of bacterial or viral dis-
eases. We strongly advise farmers
to look for Kephis labels when
buying the seeds, said Kephis
boss Dr Joseph Onsando.
BOMET
Give Jubilee time to
deliver, says Biwott
Former minister Nicholas
Biwott yesterday asked critics of
the Jubilee government to give
President Kenyatta and his dep-
uty William Ruto time to work.
Mr Biwott said Jubilee should
be given a free environment to
delivers services to wananchi.
We welcome positive criticism
but not the kind of insults we
are witnessing today, said the
National Vision Party leader at a
fundraiser in Chepalungu.
BY THOMAS KARIUKI
@njoroge19
TKariuki@ke.nationmedia.com
N
airobi Senator Mike
Mbuvi Sonko claims
that his life is in
danger following an alleged
confrontation between him
and Nairobi Woman Repre-
sentative Rachael Shebesh
in a bar on Saturday night.
The senator made the al-
legation in a Facebook post
hours after the brawl in which
gunshots were red.
The same night, he re-
corded a statement at the
Kilimani police station over
the alleged death threat.
Directed to report
However, the two city politi-
cians were directed to report
to the Divisional Criminal
Investigations Officer in
Kilimani today.
Photographs said to be of
the senator and the womens
representative in compromis-
ing situations were recently
circulated in social media.
The two leaders rubbished
them as photoshop work or
digitally manipulated, even as
they alleged foul play.
In the Facebook post, Mr
Sonko says he had requested
his friends and family to join
him for a thanksgiving dinner
after the burial of his familys
driver.
I told people who had
escorted me to the funeral
to meet me at my usual joint
on Azalea Wood Avenue for a
thanksgiving dinner.
Caribea Bar near Yaya
Centre, Nairobi, was the
place where the two leaders
clashed.
Mr Sonko said he was
shocked to nd a politician
well known to him with some
30 people who shouted at him
and threatened him.
Their bodyguards engaged
in a scue and it was alleged
that several gunshots were
red.
Revellers who had been
peacefully enjoying their
drinks were taken aback
when the senator arrived with
a group of women in eight
buses who were chanting
slogans against Ms Shebesh,
according to a security guard
at the premises.
Efforts to reach the two
politicians yesterday were
unsuccessful.
Sonko and Shebesh
clash in Nairobi bar
SCUFFLE | City politicians confront each other in pub
Senator reports
death threat claim
to police in city
Some attendants and
revellers hid under the
table when they heard
several gunshots,
guard who witnessed
the scue between the
politicians supporters
Mr Sonko Ms Shebesh
Counties deny holding
development money
BY NATION REPORTER
County governments have
denied holding billions of shil-
lings even as Kenyans cried
for development.
Wajir Governor Ahmed
Abdullahi said reports that
counties failed to spent
Sh66.6 billion in the 11
months to mid-May were
erroneous.
Mr Abdullahi (below),
who spoke to the Nation on
the phone, accused Treasury
of late disbursement of funds
and technical hitches on the
payment system after alloca-
tions.
The payment
system control-
led by the
Tr e a s u r y
and Cen-
tral Bank
of Kenya
w h i c h
c o u n t y
govern-
ments must
use, always
hangs when
the disburse-
ments are
about to be
made, but works
well after-
wards, a thing we think is
done deliberately by Treas-
ury, he said.
Mr Abdullahi, who is also
the chairman of the Finance
and Economic committee of
the Governors Council, added:
In Wajir, for instance, the
payment of Sh300 million
has been held in the system
until now ... interfering with
payments to suppliers and
other county operations.
The governor said the
Treasury also released 90
per cent of March, April and
May allocations at once, creat-
ing an impression that money
was lying idle in county ac-
counts.
After the money
is released to the
County Revenue
Fund, Mr Abdul-
lahi explained,
the Control-
ler of Budget
also has to
approve the
amounts that
go to devel-
opment and
operations of the
units, a proc-
ess that takes
two to three
weeks.
POLITICAL JIG | Cord holds rally
EVANS HABIL| NATION
Cord Senators James Orengo and Elizabeth Ongoro
dance during a rally at Baba Dogo grounds in Nairobi
yesterday. They asked the President to resign for pay-
ing Anglo leasing. See related stories on Page 2
Kimaiyo visits hospitals and
malls to assess state of security
BY NATION
CORRESPONDENT
Inspector-General of Po-
lice David Kimaiyo yesterday
visited main hospitals and
malls in Nairobi to assess
security measures.
The police boss said
some areas had uncoordi-
nated security checks and
experienced lapses that
could cost many lived if not
improved.
Arrangements at the Keny-
atta National Hospital, the
biggest referral facility, were
found to be inadequate.
Mr Kimaiyo directed Nai-
robi County Commander
Benson Kibue and Kilimani
OCPD Peter Kattam to beef
up security at the medical
institution.
He further urged all hos-
pitals to be vigilant to any
security threat.
Security agents have been
on high alert following spo-
radic attacks that have killed
scores of innocent people.
Intelligence reports indi-
cate that malls, bus stations
and hospitals are among
places under threat.
Others are the Parliament,
Kenyatta International Con-
ference Centre, Times Tower
and other crowded buildings
in the city centre.
The police boss also made
impromptu visits to many
other places.
He found the Nairobi Hos-
pital adequately secure and
applauded the institutions
arrangements.
He also urged Kenyans to
be alert and report to police
any suspicious characters.
Security is our collective
responsibility, he said. To
make our country secure, in-
form the police so that they
can accord you the necessary
protection.
He visited Lavingtone
Green Shopping and
Nakumatt and Uchumi su-
permarkets.
He also visited churches
including Don Bosco Catho-
lic Church in Upper Hill and
AIC Milimani.
The Inspector-General
further inspected buildings
on Mombasa Road, Uhuru
Highways, Waiyaki Way, Riv-
erside Drive, James Gichuru
Road and Ngong Road.
The tour was meant to
monitor police deploy-
ment and capability of
handling any emergency.
70
Those who were killed
in the terror attack on
Nairobis Westgate
Mall

Security is
our collective
responsibility.
Inform police
Inspector-General
of Police David
Kimaiyo
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BY KITAVI MUTUA
@KitaviM
kmutua@ke.nationmedia.com
T
he Higher Education Loans
Board could soon be converted
into a bank-like institution, if
a proposed Bill sails through Parlia-
ment.
Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob
Kaimenyi said the government plans
to restructure the student loans board
to respond better to growing demand
for higher education nancing.
Prof Kaimenyi (above) said univer-
sity students will in future be required
to provide collateral for loans in a
drastic move intended to minimise
defaulting but insisted that interest
rates will remain low.
The loans board will in future
operate like a bank, whose enhanced
revolving fund will have structured
ways of recovering monies given to
students, the minister said at the
rst graduation ceremony of South
Eastern Kenya University in Kitui.
He said the government was in talks
with development nanciers to set up
a credit line through local banks to
fund the expansion of universities and
raise more than Sh10 billion needed
for student loans.
The credit line is among the strate-
gies being considered to bankroll Helb
into a new nancing model, one that
can substantially increase interest
payable on tuition loans, especially
for postgraduate students.
Responding to concerns by leaders
that public universities want to raise
fees, the Cabinet Secretary said the
ministry only wants to create other
loan products beyond the State annual
allocations and recoveries.
Former Vice-President Kalonzo
Musyoka and other Cord leaders
urged the government to consider
other ways of making university
education aordable to most Kenyans
especially those who solely rely on
Helb to nance their studies.
Plan to convert Helb into bank
HIGHER LEARNING | Proposal to restructure loans board to respond better to student needs
Bill expected to enhance
recovery of cash from
beneciaries and attract
non-State nancing
Education ministry is
working on modalities to
transform Helb to a bank
to make it more eective
with a Bill to be tabled in
Parliament to help recover
loans from defaulters.
According to Helbs stra-
tegic plan for 2013-2018,
the board is seeking to
charge at least 8 pc on all
loans to undergraduates
sourced outside State
funds from June next year.
FINANCING UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
Strategic plan
Hospital sta
seized over
biscuit theft
BY NATION CORRESPONDENT
Three Mandera General Hospital
workers were arrested at the week-
end for allegedly stealing biscuits
meant for malnourished children.
The three are being held at
the Mandera Police Station for
interrogations following the dis-
appearance of 1,100 cartons of the
nutritious biscuits from the health
institution.
Mandera East police boss Jackson
Rotich said it was unfortunate that
ocials entrusted with food meant
for drought victims could conspire
to steal it in a bid to enrich them-
selves.
The biscuits are usually sup-
plied by humanitarian agencies
in drought-stricken areas in the
north-eastern region to improve
the health of tens of thousands of
malnourished children under the
age of ve.
However, the biscuits sometimes
do not reach the targeted children
but end up in the local market.
A box with hundred biscuits is
sold at prices ranging between
Sh2,500 and Sh3,000.
The police boss said that the
three suspects, who were ar-
rested on Saturday, will be taken
to court today to answer to theft
charges.
The biscuits are popular with
miraa chewers, who use them in
the place of groundnuts.
Number of cartons of the nutritious
biscuits that were stolen from Man-
dera General Hospital, leading to
the arrest of three workers
1,100
CALL FOR PROBE | Student leaders want Waiguru questioned over NYS directors transfer
University on Nairobi
student leader Babu
Owino (right) and his
Maseno counterpart
Charles Juma yesterday
when they said that
Devolution Cabinet
Secretary Anne Waiguru
should be subjected to
a parliamentary scrutiny
over the transfer of
former National Youth
Service director Kiplimo
Rugut. They were speak-
ing at the University of
Nairobi grounds yes-
terday.
BILLY MUTAI | NATION

DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
National News 11
T
he landslide victory
of Narendra Modi in
the Indian elections
comes as no surprise. Signs
of disaection with the
last coalition government
headed by economist
Manmohan Singh and led
by the dynastic Congress
Party have been evident for
some time.
Although the former
Prime Minister is credited
with ushering in rapid
economic growth in the
1990s, the dream of a
Shining India began
evaporating in the last
decade as his government
faced increasing criticism
for tolerating corruption and
fostering bad governance.
The new Prime Minister
promises a clean and less
predatory government that
will replicate the economic
successes of his home state
of Gujarat, of which he was
Chief Minister, and which
has seen agricultural and
industrial productivity soar
in recent years.
Modi appealed to
conservative forces,
including the business
community, in India when
he declared: I believe
government has no business
to do business. Minimum
government, maximum
governance.
Analysts say that Modi
appeals to the countrys
largely youthful population,
which is fed up with the
countrys corrupt old ways
and which is convinced that
a market-led trickle-down
economy will elevate India
to an economic powerhouse.
In an apparently
ungovernable country,
where many revere the
author of Mein Kampf for
his tremendous will to
power and organisation,
he has shrewdly deployed
the idioms of management,
national security and
civilisational glory, says
Indian writer Pankaj Mishra.
The reference to Hitler
is not accidental. Modi
is a lifelong member of
the neo-fascist Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
which believes that India
belongs to Hindus only,
a notion that would have
mortied Indias founding
father Mahatma Gandhi
who spent a lifetime trying
to reconcile Indias Hindus
with its Muslim population.
Modi has reassured
Indias increasingly
nationalistic majority
Hindus that he will not
kowtow to minority
interests, and will pursue
an agenda that recognises
the supremacy of Hindu
ideology and philosophy,
unlike the Congress
Party, which has since
independence pursued a
secularist approach.
Critics of Modis
Bharatiya Janata Party say
that its right-wing Hindu
nationalist outlook could
make life dicult for
minorities such as Muslims
and Christians, who have
been locked out of the
party simply because it has
presented itself as one open
mainly to Hindus.
Modi has already
been criticised for not
condemning anti-Muslim
riots that took place in
Gujarat in 2002, and which
killed more than 1,000
people. Muslims in Gujarat
say they are discriminated
against in terms of access to
land and housing.
Modi is unlikely to have
any Muslims in his Cabinet,
a rst in Indias history.
This could strain relations
between India and Pakistan.
Perhaps Modis victory is
a sign of the times. In many
countries experiencing
economic decline or
social upheaval, voters are
choosing leaders who appeal
to peoples xenophobia.
When times are hard,
people begin to view
nationalism in terms of
race, religion, tribe or clan.
Fascist leaders nd a ready
audience among young
frustrated populations
hungry for change. Value
systems get distorted.
It would be interesting
to see if Modi can rid his
country of age-old sexism
and casteism, two scourges
that have held India back.
India remains a country
where it is extremely risky
to be born a girl. Female
infanticide is common and
incidents of violence against
women are soaring.
The repressive Hindu
caste system may become
more acceptable under a
government led by Hindu
fundamentalists.
Modi will also have to
deal with an India that has
failed to eradicate grinding
poverty and cultural norms
that resist modernity. The
country that is known for
producing nuclear scientists
and software engineers
still clings to superstitious
beliefs and customs that
have no place in a modern
society.
This explains why the
Ganges, Indias most holy
river, remains one of the
most polluted water bodies
in the world.
India needs to modernise,
but with Modi at the
helm, it is likely that the
modernisation project will
deepen rifts in society as
issues of social justice are
placed on the back-burner.
rasna.warah@gmail.com
Modi appeals to the
countrys largely
youthful population,
which is fed up with
the countrys corrupt
old ways
HINDU HEGEMONY? | Rasna Warah
Indias new Premier could deepen
rifts in an already divided society
Code: Teachers should
not have been ignored
W
hile some of the clauses in the proposed
code of conduct for teachers are noble, the
Teachers Service Commission would have
done better if it had consulted the teachers and
their unions before publishing the proposals.
Now, the stage has been set for a conict between
the teachers and their leaders on one hand and
their employer on the other, solely because TSC
came up with the proposals without involving them.
And this problem is not conned to TSC.
Many times, government institutions come up
with proposals with far-reaching ramications
but fail to involve stakeholders into debating and
owning them, thereby causing unwarranted friction.
Besides the fact that unions were not consulted,
there are also some proposals in the code that
could be discriminatory. For instance, although
civil servants are generally allowed to engage in
prot-making enterprises, TSC has proposed that
teachers be barred from doing business.
This is a curious proposal and can only work if
other civil servants are similarly barred. The feeling
among teachers is that they are not adequately paid
and denying them an opportunity to run businesses
on the side will be unfair.
However, the proposal that teachers should
not voice political opinions in public is noble and
should be adopted because the law prohibits public
servants from active engagement in politics.
Teachers, being inuential, can swing political
opinion by virtue of their position. If other public
servants are not allowed to voice political opinions,
the same should apply to teachers.
The way to ensure that a code acceptable to all is
passed is to engage with the teachers themselves
and with the public so that their input can inuence
the nal product.
Team Kenya excelled
T
eam Kenyas performance at the just-ended
inaugural World Relays in Bahamas is
inspiring.
The team of Mercy Cherono, Faith Chepngetich,
Irene Jelagat and Hellen Obiri not only won
womens 4x1, 500m but also improved the world
record by more than half a minute to 16:33.58.
It was the third time within two months that
Kenyan teams were breaking the world record.
Another Kenyan quartet could have failed to
break Kenyas own World Record but they set a
Championship Record time of 7:08.40.
Kenya expects more victories in the mens 4x1,
500m and 4x800m at dawn today.
However, what excited most was the performance
by the 4x200m team. They reached the nal and
nished fth, sending a clear message to Athletics
Kenya that they should be taken seriously.
The sprint teams were poorly prepared despite
the millions spent by Safaricom on sponsorship.
It is not clear why Kenya didnt have teams in
the womens 4x400m and 4x200m despite the
enormous talent.
AK should in future concentrate on relays
ahead of the World Relays rather than wasting the
athletes time on straight races.
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Monday May 26, 2014
12 | Opinion
O
ver the past few weeks, I have
received many questions regarding
my position as an atheist. Most
of these questions point to the fact
that many Kenyans have a distorted
understanding of Atheism.
I have also observed that Atheism, even
in Kenyas liberal atmosphere, is still
somewhat unacceptable. I will attempt
to address some common questions that
have been posed to me.
So what is Atheism?
Theism is dened as the belief in
a god or gods. The prex a means
without, so the term a-theism literally
means without theism, or without belief
in a god or gods. Atheism, therefore, is
the absence of theistic belief.
One who does not believe in the
existence of a god or supernatural being
is properly designated as an atheist.
Atheism is not Satanism; nor is it devil
worship.
Why am I an atheist? I am an atheist
because the god proposition does not add
up for me. It is that simple. Any logical
and rational examination of religious texts
and creeds would lead one to refute the
god proposition.
Having grown up in a Christian setting,
I am conversant with the biblical text. A
keen examination of the biblical creation
story, for instance, exposes a god who
is obsessed with sacrice, is vengeful,
and unreasonable. I cannot reconcile
the often preached goodness of Yahweh
with his murderous character in the Old
Testament.
Most religious people imagine that
nobody needs to question god or religious
beliefs. Yet even if one was to imagine a
god exists, you would have to grapple with
the logic of him creating a hell of burning
re for the sinners, instead of forgiving
them.
Where do I go after I die? Well, if I get
buried, I decompose. I cease existing. I
stop living. Religious people like to think
that we have a soul that goes to heaven or
hell. I think there is no proof of such an
abstract concept such as the soul, heaven
and hell.
I try to make the best out of my life
without expecting supernatural rewards or
punishment after death. And this makes
me free to explore what the world has to
oer.
Where do I think the universe came
from? I am fascinated by some of the
theories that explain the origin, like the
big-bang theory. The evolution theory
is also very compelling. I, however, do
not nd the creation story sucient in
explaining the universe and lifes diversity.
At best the creation story sounds like
a fable, originated by illiterate Jews. A
garden, a talking snake and a forbidden
fruit do little to explain the origin of this
amazing world.
Finally, what do I believe in, if I do not
believe in a god?
I believe in goodness. I believe in
equality, democracy; I want poverty
eradicated. I believe in a good education.
I believe in hard work. But I reject the
god proposition. One can live a full life,
a meaningful life without the belief in an
invisible sky god.
Mr Mumia is the President, Atheists In
Kenya (harrisonmumia@live.com)
*This debate on atheism is now closed
Editor
ABSENCE OF BELIEF | Harrison Mumia
Atheism greatly misunderstood in Kenya
Even if one was to imagine a god
exists, you would have to grapple
with the logic of him creating
a hell of burning re for the
sinners
SAGACIOUS DEAL | Bob Wekesa
A
s the dust settles on
the visit by Chinese
Premier Li Keqiang to
Kenya, now is as a good time
to reect on the lessons Kenya
can draw from the emerging
Oriental superpower.
Unsurprisingly, the $327
billion East Africa Standard
Gauge Railway deal signed
between Premier Li and
President Kenyatta with
Ugandas President Museveni,
South Sudans Salva Kiir and
Rwandas Paul Kagame in
attendance, hogged most of
the publicity.
The railway deal was,
indeed, the highlight of
Premier Lis rst trip to Africa
on at least two scores. First, it
constituted the biggest deal in
monetary terms compared to
the other agreements signed
during the Premiers trip to
Kenya, Angola, Nigeria and
Ethiopia.
Secondly, the deal speaks
to Chinas resurgent interest
in playing a role in the pursuit
of the dream for connecting
the hinterlands of Africa. This
is a dream that has remained
on ice since Cecil Rhodes
proposed the Cape to Cairo
road or railway between 1853
and 1902.
However, Kenyan policy-
makers and analysts would do
well to understand the factors
that enable China to spread
its economic, political and
cultural tentacles throughout
the world.
Whether by default or
through a careful study of the
Chinese model, one of the
planks in President Kenyattas
press statement provides a
pathway for learning from
China. He said: A critical
lesson we have drawn from
Chinas remarkable growth
over the last three decades is
that prosperity is achievable
with proper planning and
prudent investment.
Of all the 17 deals inked,
the deal for the establishment
of a China-Africa Research
Centre best dovetails with
the Presidents planning and
prudent investment.
Early indications are that
the centre will focus on
infrastructure technology. This
is perhaps the most signicant
of the long-term China-
Kenya agreements beyond
the anticipated roll-out of the
signed agreements.
It is not as if Kenya has
not generated some great
plans in the past. Shelves at
the Kenya Central Bureau of
Statistics and other archives
are creaking under the weight
of plans unfullled.
For instance, when it
was launched on June 10,
2008, Vision 2030 quickly
became the rallying call
as Kenyans trained their
sights on becoming a newly
industrialising, middle-
income country. These days,
one hears little of Vision
2030, with some indicating
that this plan may have given
way to other urgent Jubilee
government objectives.
Chinese planning, on the
other hand, is a study in the
art and science of acting
only when plans have been
subjected to the most rigorous
of analyses.
Kenyan planners who wish
to learn from China would
do well to seek partnerships
with the foremost Chinese
research and planning agency,
the National Development and
Reform Commission (NDRC).
A legacy of the centrally
planned and controlled
economy, the NDRC is the
rst port of call for anybody
seeking to understand where
the powerhouse is headed.
Premier Li came calling
to our shores, not merely
on a mission to announce
project nancing, but also
to implement the Chinese
governments plans.
Kenya, and many African
countries, do not have the
equivalent of Chinas NDRC.
Many think our National
Economic and Social Council
is no more than a talk shop.
As Tanzanias founding
father Julius Nyerere pointed
out after his maiden visit
to China in the 1960s, the
relationship between China
and Africa is one of unequal
equals.
With regard to research and
planning, China is exceptional
in that the plethora of state-
funded research agencies all
speak to each other with their
output captured in the NDRC.
Indeed, you lose count of
state-funded research entities
in universities and research
institutes, the ruling party and
provincial governments.
The situation in Kenya
is that government funded
research activity is badly
under-funded, which is made
worse by poor coordination
between the researchers.
It does not help that our
political system is such that
we view things short-term in
stark contrast to the Chinese
practice of planning for 100-
year periods and then breaking
that into short-term goals as
the building blocks. It is with
this in mind that the proposed
China-Africa Research Centre
should be given as much
thought as the other deals.
Mr Wekesa is a PhD candidate
at Communication University
of China, and Research
Associate at the University of
Witwatersrand, South Africa
(bobwekesa@gmail.com)
Pact with China to launch research
centre an example of forward planning
Chinas Preime Minister Li and
President Kenyatta during the
premiers fruitful visit to Kenya
Central Police Station in Nairobi
THE CUTTING EDGE
BY THE WATCHMAN
TERRORISM PUZZLING. The current spate of
sporadic terrorist attacks are more puzzling than
scary, says Kanyi Gioko, adding that the situation has
been compounded by the evacuation of tourists from
hotels at the coast. But Kanyi is particularly upset
about the Western travel advisories. When you shout
re and people walk out of a building, there is no way
you can turn round and claim you didnt want them
out. But also puzzling is the fact that Al-Shabaab has
not claimed responsibility.
E-mail: watchman@ke.nationmedia.com
or write to Watchman,
POB 49010, Nairobi 00100.
Fax 2213946.
PLEASANTLY SURPRISED. Expecting the worst
when she was arrested recently, Jane Omondi says she
was pleasantly surprised to nd the cells at Nairobis
Central Police Station clean. And there were more
surprises. The OCS, Chief Inspector Ngei Ngundo,
came at night and asked each one of us why we had
been arrested, and oered advice and education on
our rights. He told us to shun police ocers asking for
bribes and to always attend court if released on bail.
This is the kind of professionalism and service Kenyans
expect from the police, she concludes.
DID YOU GET LAPTOP? On the night of Thursday,
May 15, at the JKIA, Moses Wambua found a laptop
that had been left on a luggage trolley at the car
park opposite the international arrivals terminal and
handed it to an attendant from a security rm to pass
it on to Kenya Airports Authority. However, he adds,
he sensed some hesitation from the attendant and has
since had this gnawing feeling that the computer was
probably never passed on to the KAA. Can the KAA
drop him a line through wambua.moses@gmail.com to
conrm whether or not they recived the laptop?
WE ARE ON TOP OF IT. Kenya National Highways
Authority (KeNHA) ocial Charles Njogu says he
did acknowledge in an earlier response sent to
Watchie that the Gitaru-Kamandura stretch of the
Nakuru highway is, indeed, in a pathetic state, but
the information was left out. He adds: The authority
awarded a contract for routine maintenance on May
5, last year. However, we did some emergency sealing
of major potholes, but the contractor is now about to
start the major construction of the road.
UP YOUR GAME. Can Nairobi Water Company
conrm that its 20557 special code SMS service for
billing queries and meter readings is working? urges
Sheila Masinde. After sending several text messages
and receiving no response, Sheila is convinced it
may be faulty. To add insult to injury, she reports, the
customer care numbers on the rms web site, are
never answered, while the 0735 is o. Can they
update their web site with new contacts? she pleads.
IMMIGRATION WOES. Something is not right at
the Immigration Department, says Elizabeth Chater,
a non-citizen, who is having troubles with her ocial
documentation. About a year ago, she applied and
paid for a permanent residents certicate, providing
all the required papers, conrming that she is the
widow of a Kenyan citizen, and a resident of Kenya
for 74 years. I am still waiting for a response, but
every Immigration ocer I speak to says, Youre more
Kenyan than I am! Her contact is chater.elizabeth@g
mail.com.
Have an ecient day, wont you!
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
Opinion 13
SATURDAYS QUESTION
What are your views on the Sh3bn bill from Anglo Leasing?
JAMES NJAU: Im now waiting for
the next presidential directive. Why
care? We have has a good attorney
cum mortician.
ERICK NDOMBI: When I hear the
term ghost company, my under-
standing is that the rms are not
real but imaginary. So how can real
money be given to imaginary recipi-
ents? How can existent persons make
transactions with ghosts?
BENARD OOKO: Lets pay the bill.
We gave in at rst on the grounds
that the money was rightfully theirs.
They should be right this time too.
PATRICE LUMUMBA: Let the
directors total up the money they
needs from Kenyans, so that we pay
once and for all. We want to remain
good to the international community.
ODHIAMBO OBARE: The Presi-
dents decision to pay the initial no-
tice of claim of Sh1.4 billion opened
the door for the demand of a further
Sh3 billion and maybe many more.
USHA SHAH: The people behind
the demand have found in Kenya a
cow which they can milk at will.
DEBATE QUESTION
Should teachers
be barred from
engaging in any
other business?
Send your comments to:
mailbox@ke.nationmedia.com
A
recent editorial titled Too
many queries on SGR re-
quire answers (Nation, May
14), took a largely negative bent.
The editorial questioned the
future relationship between the
project and the existing metre
gauge railway, whether any feasibil-
ity studies have been undertaken to
determine the viability of railway
extension to Uganda, Rwanda and
South Sudan, and the nancing
requirements.
It also questioned whether any
lessons had been learnt from
Tazaras purported failure to
achieve its most conservative
objectives.
Our view is that the editorial is
based on a gross misunderstanding
of the project.
First, the interface between the
SGR and the existing railway at the
operation stage has been clearly
spelt out in the supplemental and
amending deed of the interface
agreement and the Kenya conces-
sion agreement.
This document, which has been
signed by the governments of
Kenya and Uganda and the con-
cessionaire, Rift Valley Railways,
recognises the rights of the parties
during and after SGRs develop-
ment.
There is currently a Joint Railway
Committee (JRC) consisting of
senior government ocials from
Kenya and Uganda which guides
the concession. In addition, the
relevant agreements provide for
the setting up of a joint technical
committee consisting of represent-
atives of the concessionaire and the
government of Kenya that will deal
with interface issues during the
construction and operation stages
of the SGR project. Outstanding
matters will be referred to the next
hierarchy for decision-making.
Secondly, the governments of
Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and South
Sudan have decided to build the
SGR connecting the four countries
and have signed agreements to that
eect.
Already, the government is un-
dertaking a feasibility study and
preliminary design for the Nai-
robi-Malaba/Kisumu section that
will connect the SGR to Uganda.
In turn, Uganda and Rwanda and
Uganda and South Sudan are
jointly procuring consultants to
study the Kampala-Kigali and
Tororo-Juba sections.
It is estimated that transport
costs now account for 45 per cent
of the cost of goods and services
due to the deployment of the more
expensive road transport.
On existing trac growth esti-
mates, we are convinced that the
studies will return a positive ver-
dict on the commercial, and more
importantly, economic and social
viability of the SGR.
On nancing, this is ultimately a
regional project. Subsequently, the
regions leaders are committed to
seeking nancing support jointly.
ATANAS MAINA, MD, Kenya Railways
To the editor
The editor welcomes brief letters on topical issues. Write on e-mail to: mailbox@
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SHORT TAKES
TALKING POINT
Nation editorial was based on gross
misunderstanding of the SGR project
FILE | NATION
President Uhuru Kenyatta with other leaders during the launch of the stand-
ard gauge railway line at Changamwe, Mombasa last November.
Emails from correspondents
Corruption and ineciency are not inherently African
Charles Omondis article about incompetent Afri-
can leadership (Nation, May 22) raised an interest-
ing point. Its pretty much the same thing we have
in Kenya electing bad leaders from our tribes and
scorning good leaders who are not. The current gov-
ernment came into oce thanks to tribal voting.
However, I think corruption and ineciency are
not inherently African. The main problem is lack of
strong institutions to safeguard professional govern-
ance. There was a time things were working. When I
was growing up, Nakuru Town was always clean; gar-
bage vans were regular features in estates, while post
oces, hospitals or schools were functioning quite
well. The fact that this was run down during the Moi
era does not make Kenyans incompetent or inher-
ently evil. Its just that the culture of mediocrity, self
centredness and corruption permeated society and
evil people took control of the systems. Its become
extremely hard to wrestle the governance instruments
away from these evil cartels
The new constitution was a struggle to clean up our
politics. I believe all is not lost and Kenya will one day
retrace its steps to a modern and thriving democracy.
Unfortunately, given our level of polarity, it may take
some little war to cleanse the country.
I also believe the media has so much to learn from
SA. There is too much politics in our newspapers.
DANIEL NJAGA, Nairobi
The never-ending Anglo Leasing
saga continues. At this rate, we are a
long way from settling the controver-
sial payments totalling Sh125 billion.
President Kenyatta said settling
the Sh1.4 billion was meant to open
the way for a smooth oatation of
Sh130 billion Euro Bond for budget-
ary support .
But the shilling is weakening,
which will make foreign loans more
expensive. The traditional foreign
exchange exports like Tea and Tour-
ism are badly aected. Tax revenues
remain a depressed 30 per cent.
My two cents worth to the Presi-
dent is: Stop digging this Anglo
Leasing hole. Nobody sell any of our
embassies because the Geneva con-
vention of 1961 prohibits this.
KARIUKI MUIRI, Karatina
Treasury must stop
paying Anglo Leasing
Wide ranging measures an-
nounced by President Kenyatta will
give the tourism industry the much
needed impetus to recover from the
worst slump in decades. With a 12
per cent contribution to the GDP,
the sector cannot be ignored.
Stakeholders had voiced their con-
cerns regarding some of the policies
which had negative impact, such as
imposing VAT on tourism, increased
Visa fees and high park entrance
fees. Good policies should stimulate
and not suppress the industry.
There is need to come up with
long-term policies. Knee jerk reac-
tions to crises will not help. We need
not be an expensive destination.
BERNARD AMAYA, Nairobi
Tourism policies must
not suppress the sector
On Friday Nation, Mr. Malik
Sumba in his letter to the Editor has
raised issues about the ongoing con-
tinuous voter registration by IEBC.
But theres a dierence between
biometric voter registration devices
(BVR) and electronic voter identi-
cation devices (EVIDS). The BVR
machines worked 100 per cent. The
EVIDs partially failed.
Our constitution says registration
of voters and revision of the register
shall take place at all times except
90 days to the General Election.
The 2013 elections were free and
fair and its high time people redi-
rected their energies to nation build-
ing. The ongoing voter registration
is beyond reproach.
AMOSI N CHILAI, Tetu
Current voter listing
is beyond reproach
BACK PEDDLERS: The latest
article by Luis Franceschi in the
Nation makes good mention of the
nonsense that has been visited on
Kenya in the past week. There are
more examples. Sonko called the
President and put him on speaker
phone. Then the Cabinet Secretary
gave in to the demands of Sonko and
his folks. Then we had Babu Owino
at the University of Nairobi threaten-
ing yet another Cabinet Secretary.
One Cabinet Secretary after another
has had to make a decision, then go
back on their word after pressure.
ABIERO MATHEW, Nairobi
BANNING BUSINESS: The pro-
posed revised Code of Conduct and
Ethics by TSC is timely as it meant
to streamline the teaching profession
in line with the current Constitution.
However, there are sections of the
proposed document that should not
be allowed to see the light of day.
For instance, stopping teachers from
engaging in private business is ask-
ing too much from teachers whose
meagre pay can hardly sustain them.
Why should teachers be targeted and
not other civil servants? TSC should
rst drastically improve pay.
PHILIP MBINDYO, Ukwala
SECRET REGISTRATION: So voters
registration was going countrywide
secretly until the media discovered
the secret! And there was no money
to create awareness on the exercise
hence it had to be done quietly. This
is according to the Vice Chair per-
son Ms Mahiri Zaja . Now that the
registration is going on openly after
the discovery of its secrecy. How did
the registered-voters come to know
that the exercise was going on so
that they could go and register? Was
someone going from house to house
to tell them?
NASHERA KODAWA, Taveta
INHUMAN POLICE: The sad news
of the two minors sexually abused
at Ahero police station should be
taken with the necessary weight and
the ocers who locked the boys in
a cell with sex pests dismissed and
charged accordingly. Instead of the
minors being taken to a childrens
remand home, they were locked up
for the simple reason of transport
unavailability to a childrens home.
The children were not criminals and
even if they were, the law requires
that they be remanded in childrens
remand homes. It was inhuman and
an act of negligence on part of the
police to lock up the boys.
KAMAU GITAU, Kiambu
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
14 | Letters
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Monday May 26, 2014
15
BRIEFLY
TURKANA
Free Wi-Fi on the way
for Lodwar residents
The county government is
set to roll out free Wi-Fi in Lod-
war to open up communication
among locals and boost their
access to information. Deputy
Governor Peter Lokoel observed
that county residents have been
left behind in terms of access
to basic information due to lack
of coverage of the area by the
countrys mainstream media
outlets. Speaking at the weekend
in Lodwar, Mr Lokoel said that
the county has brought on board
experts to oversee the project.
KISUMU
MPs dier over voter
registration by IEBC

Kisumu MPs have diered over
the move by the Independent
Electoral and Boundaries
Commission (IEBC) to roll
out voter registration without
making a public announcement.
Muhoroni MP James Koyoo and
his Kisumu East counterpart
Shakeel Shabbir faulted the move
saying voter registration should
not be launched silently. But
Kisumu West MP Olago Aluoch
defended IEBC, saying there
was no secrecy in the matter. He
attributed the IEBC approach to
nancial constraints.
NAKURU
Student appeals to
DoD over payment
A 15-year-old student has
petitioned Chief of the Kenya
Defence Forces General Julius
Karangi over her fathers unpaid
insurance claim. According to
Miss Catherine Cherop, her fa-
ther, Corporal Willy Kiplangat,
died in the line of duty in Baringo
14 years ago but his claim has not
been paid to date. As I write to
you, I have dropped out of school
due to lack of fees. My future lies
squarely in your hands, said the
Form One student at Ol-Rongai
Secondary School.
KISUMU
Former MP Kanindo
dies after long illness
Veteran Nyanza politician
Phares Oluoch Kanindo is dead.
The former MP died on Saturday
night at the Aga Khan Hospital in
Kisumu after a long illness. Im
deeply saddened by the news of
Mr Kanindos death. I send my
heartfelt condolences to the fam-
ily, friends and relatives of Mr
Kanindo. Migori County has lost
a man of charisma and a hard-
working leader who stood rm
on peace and unity in the region,
said Migori Governor Okoth
Obado. Mr Kanindo at one time
served as Education assistant
minister. Friends and relatives
yesterday thronged his home in
Komolo Rume, Awendo town.
WHO assembly lifts 10-year yellow fever jab limit
BY NATION REPORTER
A World Health Organisation con-
ference has adopted a resolution to
make yellow fever vaccination a once-
in-a-life time requirement.
The 67th World Health Assembly,
which ended in Geneva on Saturday,
resolved to upgrade the vaccine from
the current 10-year limit.
The assemblys members revised
the limit based on the International
Health Regulations (2005) which
presented evidence that a yellow
fever-vaccinated person does not
need repeat doses.
Some countries require proof of
vaccination for the disease from
travellers as a condition for entry.
The meeting discussed other con-
ditions such as autism, psoriasis,
obesity in children and other health
matters including violence against
girls and women, disability, palliative
care and antibiotic resistance.
Psoriasis, a little-known skin con-
dition that has been associated with
suicidal tendencies among patients
largely due to stigma, was tabled to
global health leaders for inclusion as a
non-communicable disease by 2015.
The assembly discussed the condi-
tion due to trends that have indicated
that it increases the risk of acquiring
other conditions such as diabetes,
obesity, heart attack, stroke and
liver disease among other lifestyle
diseases.
It is estimated that 800,000 peo-
ple in Kenya suer from psoriasis but
fewer have been diagnosed or are on
appropriate treatment.
Titled The Link Between Climate
and Health, the assembly noted that
climate change had altered social and
environmental determinants of health
such as clean air, safe drinking water,
sucient food and secure shelter.
8,000 Mbo-I-Kamiti shareholders allocated land
BY NATION CORRESPONDENT
At least 8,000 shareholders of the
controversy-ridden Mbo-I-Kamiti land
buying company were at the weekend
allocated plots at its last farm in Ruiru,
Kiambu County.
This paves the way for the formal
winding up of the rm founded in the
early 1970s by Kiambu farmers and
which went on to acquire property
valued at billions of shillings.
The chairman, Dr Thuo Mathenge,
said the settlement of plot owners at
Twiga estate o the Thika Superhigh-
way heralds the dissolution of the
company which has been steeped in
controversy and murders over land
disputes.
This is the end of Mbo-I-Kamiti as
a company since shareholders have
taken over their property; it also
marks the end of wrangles which
have led to loss of lives, Dr Mathenge
said after presiding over a balloting
exercise for the 1,075-acre land.
He said it was unfortunate that
several people including three former
directors were killed over the land
adding: All that is now history.
The chairman said the company
also allocated shareholders ve other
parcels within Kiambu.
The balloting, overseen by Ruiru
police commander Isaac Thuranira
and other company directors includ-
ing vice-chairman Gabriel Njure and
treasurer George Njuguna, took place
under tight security amid fears that
squatters evicted from the farm in
December 2012 planned to disrupt
the exercise.
Sub-division of the farm came
shortly after 4,000 squatters lost a
case in which they were challenging
their eviction during which three
people were shot dead by police and
several others injured.
BY GEORGE SAYAGIE
@Gsayagie
gsayagie@ke.nationmedia.com
A
nti-alcohol agency boss
John Mututho was yes-
terday taken to task by
angry leaders and residents of
Narok when he toured the area
following the death of four peo-
ple who had drunk bottled liquor
at a local pub.
The National Authority for the
Campaign Against Alcohol and
Drug Abuse (Nacada) chairman
was presented with empty bottles
of the two alcoholic brands that
the four men allegedly consumed
at Endonyo Narasha village in
Narok South on Friday.
But Mr Mututho said the
drinks were counterfeit and
packed in bottles of licensed
brands and called on residents
to be on the lookout.
These people were suffer-
ing from the same symptoms
of intoxication and behaving
weirdly.
Unfortunately, they died from
excruciating pain as relatives
sought for means to ferry them
to Tenwek Mission Hospital,
he said.
Mr Mututho said 60 per cent
of all alcoholic drinks outlets in
the country sell fake or adulter-
ated products to unsuspecting
buyers. There were more than
900 unlicensed factories in the
country that manufacture alco-
holic beverages.
He said the crackdown on
them was being hampered by a
conict of interest among law
enforcement agencies including
his own outt.
We are calling for fresh vet-
ting of these liquor companies
and those found to be contra-
vening the law should be closed
down, and Nacada boss should
be held responsible for this, said
Mr Kassim Farah, the Narok
County Commissioner.
The commissioner said three
sellers of the brews were ar-
rested and found with brewing
licences acquired through dubi-
ous means.
He said the dealers produced
a letter certied by Nacada chief
executive ocer that the brands
are t for human consumption.
Kenya Bureau of Standards also
gave the drinks a clean bill of
health.
Latest deaths
The latest deaths bring to
six the number of victims who
have succumbed to death after
drinking bottled liquor bearing
Kenya Bureau of Standards
and Kenya Revenue Authority
approval marks.
We have come to learn that
the victims bought the liquor
from Ewaso Ngiro trading cen-
tre before heading back home
with take-away liquor packed
in 250ml plastic bottles, Mr
Farah said.
Addressing the press after
touring some bars in Narok
town, Mr Mututho directed
all alcoholic drink outlets to
submit their business permits,
proprietorship PIN/Tax reg-
istration, liquor licences and
public health certicates to their
respective county commission-
ers by Wednesday this week for
proling.
He said the move is aimed
at taming economic losses
that stand at more than Sh300
billion annually in unpaid taxes
from alcohol sale.
Most alcoholic beverage
manufacturers evade paying
Stamp Duty, Value Added Tax
(VAT) and income tax to the
Exchequer, he said, adding that
the sector has the potential of
remitting more than Sh1 trillion
annually.
Most bars, wines and spirits
outlets are owned by policemen
and my ocers. This has made
the war on illicit liquor dicult
to win. We are going to take
action against them because
of the conict of interest, Mr
Mututho said.
He asked county commis-
sioners and police to close all
bars and nightclubs operating
in residential areas and near
learning institutions.
He also warned Nacada of-
ficers behind what he called
haphazard issuance of operat-
ing licences that they would be
disciplined.
Anger as licensed
liquors kill four
NAROK | Leaders demand fresh vetting of brewers to root out those who acquired licences illegally
Nacada
boss tours
county
following
death of
four men
who had
consumed
bottled
liquor last
Friday

Most bars, wines and spirits outlets


are owned by policemen and my
ocers
Mr Mututho
BILLY MUTAI | NATION
National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse
chairman John Mututho checks samples of alcoholic drinks submitted
by brewers to Nacada for tests. The Nacada boss has declared that only
drinks that meet the required standards would be licensed.
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
16 | National News
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
17
Two more governors in trouble as
impeachment wave gathers pace
BY ERICK NGOBILO
engobilo@ke.nationmedia.com
AND MOSES ODHIAMBO
@AliwaMoses
mogada@ke.nationmedia.com
B
ungoma Governor Kenneth
Lusaka and his Kisumu coun-
terpart Jack Ranguma have
joined the list of county bosses who
are ghting to remain in oce.
More than 40 of Members of
Bungoma County Assembly have
threatened to move a motion of
impeachment against Governor
Lusaka for alleged violation of the
Constitution and the Public Pro-
curement Act.
In a statement to the press signed
by 40 MCAs , the Leader of Major-
ity, Mr Majimbo Okumu, said MCAs
drawn from Cord and Amani coalitions
were unhappy with the goings-on in
the County Executive.
The MCAs faulted a move by the
County Executive to implement the
county policy framework for agri-
culture input support to smallholder
farmers before debate and approval
by the County Assembly.
Mr Okumu said the decision by
the Executive to roll out the project
without the approval of the County
Assembly and input of MCAs was
against the law.
Implementation was done before
the Assembly had debated and ap-
proved the policy framework. This is
against the law, said Mr Majimbo.
Mr Majimbo said the policy paper
was rst supposed to be debated and
approved by the Assembly before pro-
curement was started.
The MCAs said purchase of the
above inputs at Sh108m was contrary
to Article 227 and Public Procurement
and Disposal Act.
The Sh108 million tender has
never been advertised for competi-
tive biding. This is against the law,
said Mr Majimbo.
But reacting to the claims, Mr
Lusaka termed them cheap propa-
ganda.
He said the money for ongoing
projects was provided for in the
budget and it was the duty of the
Executive to implement them.
Once the money was budgeted
for and the budget approved by the
Assembly, it was up to the Executive
to implement, he said.
Mr Lusaka said the law allows for
single sourcing and Athi River Mining
being the only manufacturer of the
Mavuno fertilizer that was recom-
mended had to be given the tender
in the farm inputs projects.
Jobs bias
On allegations of bias in employ-
ment, Mr Lusaka said he had nothing
to do with the function as it was the
duty of the Public Service Board.
He told the County Assembly not to
try to micro-manage the Executive.
They can report to the relevant
government agencies or seek redress
in court if they feel the law has been
violated, he said.
In Kisumu, Mr Ranguma has come
out ghting following revelations of
a plot by a group of politicians and
activists to initiate his removal.
The groups, working under the
names Kisumu Leaders Caucus
and High Tide, have been holding
meetings to rally forces against the
governor.
Mr Ranguma yesterday told the
Nation that he had learnt of the
scheme but urged Kisumu residents
to ignore them.
He said his government has trans-
formed the road and water supply
networks and revamped healthcare
provision in the county.
We want the people of Kisumu to
dismiss such calls as we are here to
do better than what we have achieved
so far.
More work will be done on roads,
agriculture, bursaries for needy stu-
dents, industrialisation and revenue
collection, said Mr Ranguma.
Former Nyando MP Onyango
Midika and Luo Council of Elders
chairman Riaga Ogalo have also
thrown their weight behind Mr Ran-
guma, terming the plot to remove him
the work of busy bodies.
This is the work of people who
believe Mr Ranguma has stood in their
way and blocked looting from Kisumu
County coers, said Mr Midika.
They join a growing list
of county chiefs facing
impeachment moves
by ward representatives
over various accusations
JACOB OWITI | NATION
Former Regional Development minister Mathew Onyango Midika (centre) and
other Kisumu elders at a press conference over the weekend. They condemned
attempts to impeach the governor.
Violation of Public Procurement
Act: Single sourcing in agricul-
ture input support programme
targeting farmers
Unilateral nancial allocations:
The Executive has not sought the
Assemblys clearance before al-
locating funds for projects
Irregularities in sta recruit-
ment: Nepotism by employing
his cronies and relatives in vari-
ous positions in the county ex-
ecutive establishment
Failure to consult Assembly:
Implementing projects without
allowing Assembly to debate and
approve them
WHATS ALLEGED
MCAs case
against Lusaka
POLITICS | Bungoma and Kisumu county chiefs face sack
BARINGO
Gideon backs Kericho governor against ouster plan
BY NATION
CORRESPONDENT
Baringo Senator Gideon Moi
has thrown his weight behind
embattled Kericho Governor
Paul Chepkwony and termed
as shallow allegations against
him .
Mr Moi (left) faulted the move
by the Kericho County Assem-
bly, saying that the allegations
against the governor do not meet
the threshold of impeachment.
As much us we appreciate
the MCAs oversight role as
enshrined in the Constitution,
we call on our county representa-
tives to give governors time to
work and implement policies in
their various County Integrated
Development Plans, said the
Senator when he flagged off
food donated by the Geother-
mal Development Company
to be distributed in Tiaty and
Baringo North sub-counties.
Speaking to the Nation over
the weekend, he vowed to defend
Prof Chepkwony in the Senate
when the impeachment debate
comes to the House.
The Senate Energy commit-
tee chairman urged senators,
governors and MCAs to work
as a team and bury their dier-
ences. He noted that they were
the ones to ght for the welfare
of the 47 counties and should
not ght each other.
KISII
IEBC bars don from
Bonchari by-election
A Narc-K candidate in Bon-
chari parliamentary by-election
suerd a blow after he was barred
from running for the seat on
grounds he did not resign from
public oce in time. Independ-
ent Electoral and Boundaries
Commission ocials said Prof
Charles Okioga was disqualied
from the June 23 contest because
he did not leave oce six months
prior to the elections as required
by law. Prof Okioga has been a
lecturer at Kisii Universitys Fac-
ulty of Business Management.
TRANSITION AGENCY BACKS
COUNTIES IN ECD DISPUTE
Ocial says devolved units are
right to hire early childhood
teachers. P.23
THE COUNTIES
NAKURU
Two boys drown in
estate water tank
Police are investigating the
drowning of two minors in an
underground water tank at Barut
in Nakuru town. Ocers want to
determine who could have left the
tank open, exposing the children
to danger, Nakuru Divisional Po-
lice Commander Bernard Kioko
said yesterday. The bodies of the
two minors, Zolo Alukwe, 6, and
Moses Keah, 5, were found oat-
ing in the tank during a frantic
search after their parents failed
to nd them outside their houses
where they were playing earlier.
BRIEFLY
EMBU
Lobby wants law to
curb torture enacted
A lobby has wants the govern-
ment to fast-track enactment of
laws to curb torture. Independent
Medico-Legal Unit said it drafted
a Bill to guide the country in the
eradication of torture and extra-
judicial killings by police over a
year ago, but Attorney-General
Githu Muigai was yet to push for
its tabling in Parliament. Speak-
ing to the Nation in Embu, Imlu
advocacy ocer Joseph Muthuri
said though the Police Service
Act sets a jail term of up to 15
years for torture perpetrators, the
law doesnt dene what torture is.
NYERI
MP defends security
organs over tribalism
An MP yesterday defended
security organs against accusa-
tions that they were dominated
by one tribe, terming the accusa-
tions leveled on the government
by the opposition as trivial. Tetu
MP Ndungu Gethenji who is also
the Chairman of a Parliamentary
Committee on Defense and For-
eign aairs said the calls by the
opposition to have some security
chiefs sent home was parochial as
it amounted to suggestions that
people from a certain region did
not deserve to be in leadership.
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
18 |
NYAMIRA
Assembly members set to elect new Speaker today
BY NATION CORRESPONDENT
Six candidates will battle it out
for the Nyamira County Assembly
Speakers post today.
The six, who were shortlisted from
18 applicants, seek to replace Mr Peter
Kingoina who was kicked out over
nancial impropriety.
Mr Kingoina was removed from of-
ce for his involvement in irregular
award of an insurance tender.
The Assemblys legal ocer, Mr
David Ombego, who is also the acting
clerk, yesterday said four lawyers are
among the shortlisted candidates.
They are Mr Job Nyasimi Momanyi,
Mr Naftali Masara Okwanyo, Mr Denis
Anyoka Moturi and Mr Eric Omariba.
Others are Dr Grace Nyamongo and
Mr Joash Nyamoko, an engineer.
Mr Nyasimi, Dr Nyamongo and
Mr Nyamoko had vied for the gov-
ernors, Woman Reps and Borabu
parliamentary seats respectively in
the last General Election, but lost.
Shortlisted candidates have been
informed and will appear before
the Assembly on Monday to know
their fate through MCAs votes, Mr
Ombego, who chaired the shortlisting
panel, said.
However, Mr Kingoina had moved
to court to bar the Assembly from
replacing him, arguing that he had
been condemned unheard. His case
will be heard on May 30.
Court orders sought
Mr Kingoina, through a voter,
moved to Kisii High Court last week
to bar the Assembly from removing
him from oce.
The former speaker was kicked out
over claims that he was involved in
the irregular awarding of a Sh30 mil-
lion controversial insurance tender, a
claim he has denied.
The MCAs took advantage of the
courts reluctance to issue the orders
and quickly declared the seat vacant
and advertised it.
The Assembly Service Board also
advertised the clerks post which was
left vacant after Mr Duke Anyari was
kicked out on similar allegations.
KWALE
Traders set to receive
Sh23m in cheap loans
Residents of Kwale are set
to receive aordable loans for
businesses from the county
government. This comes after
the county assembly passed
the Trade Revolving Fund Bill
2014, which now awaits Gover-
nor Salim Mvuryas approval.
The draft law has set aside Sh23
million that will be given out to
individuals as loans to launch in-
come-generating projects. Firms
are also eligible for the funds.
NANDI
Counties accused of hiring youth based on tribe
BY NATION CORRESPONDENT
County governments have been
accused of locking out youth from
employment based on their tribes.
Youth Alliance national chairman
Meshack Kimutai urged counties to
address the high unemployment rates
among the youth who have completed
their tertiary education. He added that
many were being locked out of jobs
due to nepotism and tribalism.
Mr Kimutai alleged that those who
got jobs were cronies or friends of
chief ocers who helped governors
to win the elections last year. He de-
manded that County Public Service
Boards stop the nepotism and cor-
ruption to ensure bias is wiped out
of county employment.
He said: The rate of unemployment
is high because counties are hiring
sta based on tribal lines and youth
who have graduated from college have
not been given a chance to serve be-
cause nepotism is rampant.
Cronies rewarded
Speaking during a youth forum
at Kapsabet Deliverance Church in
Nandi County yesterday, Mr Kimutai
said devolution was supposed to help
solve the problem of unemployment,
but since county governments as-
sumed oce, most of those rewarded
with jobs and tenders were cronies of
top ocials.
The youth lobby boss asked coun-
ties to set aside funds for the coming
nancial year to empower youth to
start businesses and ght poverty in
rural areas. He said counties should
also ensure proper use of public
funds.
SIAYA
Woman found dead
as father kills himself
A 70-year old woman was
found dead in a bush over the
weekend. Mama Angeline Aumas
body was discovered in a bush
at Bar-Okwiri, Bondo . She was
found dead by her grandchildren,
hours after she went missing.
Bondo police boss Paul Kiarie
said the body had panga cuts. In
the same area, Mr Patrick Omolo,
27, committed suicide due to
what police called a quarrel with
his wife.
MOMBASA
Students awarded
Sh260m scholarships
Twenty-three Aga Khan Acad-
emy Mombasa graduates have
been awarded scholarships worth
US $3 million (Sh260 million)
to join universities overseas.
The International Baccalaureate
graduates will join New York Uni-
versity, University of British Co-
lumbia, Dortmund College, War-
wick University, among others.
The scholarships were announced
by Aga Khan Academies director
Salim Bhatia.
KISUMU
County to light up
town at Sh6.9bn
The Kisumu County Govern-
ment intends to spend Sh6.9
billion on a solar power project to
generate 200 megawatts of elec-
tricity daily. The project, which
will be run by Solar Stream -- an
energy company -- will help the
town to light up its streets, mar-
kets and other public places be-
sides providing aordable energy
to residents, County Executive
for Energy and Natural Resources
Barrack Abonyo said yesterday.
SIAYA | Employees used to work for local authorities
Inherited sta give
governors headache
BY EVERLINE OKEWO
@ivaachieng
eokewo@ke.nationmedia.com
I
ncompetent workers in-
herited from the defunct
local authorities have be-
come a political hot potato for
governors.
Most of the workers lack
skills for the new county roles,
but governors, most of whom
have conducted sta audits,
are reluctant to send them
packing for fear of a political
backlash.
We are caught in a big di-
lemma because retrenching
these workers is politically
suicidal. The bitter truth is
that the skills these workers
have dont match the ones
we require. We have found
ourselves in a dicult situ-
ation, said Siaya Governor
Cornel Rasanga.
Mr Rasanga said his admin-
istration is currently dealing
with staff rationalisation
to establish the required
number.
A report released by Ernst
and Young in March shows
that the majority of council
workers were primary school
leavers.
They used to perform the
roles of mayor, clerks and
housekeepers, among oth-
ers.
Trans Nzoia Governor
Patrick Khaemba said most
of the former council work-
ers are not qualied for the
new roles.
Those with degrees are very
few and their skills do not
match the ones required for
county functions, he added.
If you do a proper ration-
alisation, you realise that most
of these workers dont t the
new dispensation, said the
county boss.
At the same time, Baringo
Governor Benjamin Cheboi
said he is currently tasked
with training the workers to
enable them to realise their
full potential. The county has
employed 70 workers in dif-
ferent departments.
However, some governors
have deed orders from the
top and gone ahead to sack
these workers.
Other county bosses have
inherited them and are plan-
ning to train them to improve
their skills.
Kakamega Governor
Wyclie Oparanya told the
Nation in a telephone inter-
view that besides queries over
the competence of the former
council workers, the county
government is facing the chal-
lenge of ghost workers.
Rationalisation
We have a very competent
Public Service Board, which
has done a head count and
staff rationalisation. My
administration realised that
there were 200 members
of sta we didnt need, he
said.
Mr Oparanya said the na-
tional government worsened
the situation when it sent sta
to counties.
Our audit has revealed that
we have 421 ghost workers
and we have stopped their
salaries, he said.
What I nd ridiculous is
a directive by the national
government that we pay the
ghost workers or the money
will be deducted from the
countys allocation.
Workers lack skills
for new roles but
county bosses cant
sack them for fear
of political reprisals
200
Number of workers
in Kakamega County
which the administra-
tion does not require

We are caught
in a dilemma
because
retrenching
workers is
politically unsafe

NYERI | Thanksgiving service
JOSPEH KANYI | NATION
Members of the disciplined forces from Kenya Police,
Administration Police, Kenya Prisons, Kenya Wildlife
Service and Kenya Forest Service march to Our Lady of
Consolata Cathedral in Nyeri for the annual thanksgiving
service yesterday.
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MERU
Residents demand
transfer of police boss
Ocers at Laare police sta-
tion in Igembe North sub-county
yesterday were forced to tear gas
demonstrators who were calling
for the transfer of their com-
mander after the protest turned
violent. Protesters paralysed
activities at the station with
residents hurling stones at the
ocers. A resident, Mr Ayub Mu-
gambi, accused the police chief of
harassing traders and arresting
boda boda riders arbitrarily.
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Monday May 26, 2014
20 |
BY FAROUK MWABEGE
fmwabege@ke.nationmedia.com
AND NELCON ODHIAMBO
NOdhiambo.ke@nationmedia.com
T
he Transition Authority
has supported employ-
ment of Early Childhood
Education teachers by county
governments.
The recruitment has been op-
posed by the Kenya National
Union of Teachers (Knut), which
led a suit to determine if counties
had the mandate to hire nursery
school teachers.
However, Mr Simon Pkiyach,
a Transition Authority ocial,
yesterday said early childhood
development education was a
county government function.
Addressing journalists in Kwale
Town, he said the dispute between
Knut and the regional govern-
ments was not necessary.
With the devolution of ECD,
even the aspect of employment of
its teachers was also devolved,
he said. This is according to
my understanding and how the
law states.
Even if counties employed the
teachers, the Teachers Service
Commission (TSC) would remain
in charge of their registration, he
argued.
He urged the teachers union
and the devolved governments
to nd a common ground on the
matter, saying their dierences
would do more harm that good.
The dispute is pending in
court, which recently ordered
counties to stop employing the
ECD teachers until the case is
determined.
Separately, Knut Secretary-Gen-
eral Wilson Sossion threatened
to sue governors who ignore the
court order.
Mr Sossion, who spoke during
Knut Siaya sub-branch annual
general meeting, said county
bosses who hired nursery school
teachers had broken the law.
He said employment of the
teachers was TSCs responsibility.
I advise the governors to stick to
their Constitutional mandate or
else we will sue them for contempt
of court, he said.
The regional governments
should engage in formulation of
policies and infrastructure de-
velopment but not employment
of teachers, he said. Knut was
ready to support governors to
push for complete devolution of
infrastructure development.
EVANS HABIL | NATION
From left: Kuppet ocial Catherine Wambilyanga, secretary-general
Akello Misori, Knut secretary-general Wilson Sossion and Uasu boss Muga
Kolale during a meeting at a Nairobi hotel last Wednesday.
Transition
Authority
ocial
says the
devolved
units are
right to
hire early
childhood
teachers
and the
dispute
over the
matter is
needless
Counties backed in ECD dispute
EDUCATION | Teachers union threatens to sue governors if they continue to hire nursery teachers
Some counties vowed to
continue recruiting Early
Childhood Education teach-
ers despite opposition from
Knut.
In Kwale, County Assem-
bly Education Committee
Chairman Antony Yama
pushed for employment of
450 teachers. He argued
that devolution had created
a chance for counties to
employ their own people.
BACKGROUND
Kwale diered
with Knut
TURKANA
400 homes
set ablaze
over dispute
BY NATION CORRESPONDENT
More than 400 manyattas were
set on re at Nakuse and Lokwar
villages of Turkana South sub-
county, as a fresh row over land
erupted.
The land in dispute is at the
boundary between the Turkana
and Pokot.
Kaputir chief Charles Lopuya
said the manyattas belonged to
1,200 residents who ed on May
6 in fear of retaliatory attacks after
three Pokot herders were killed at
Lokwar.
Return plans
Mr Lopuya said the villagers
settled at Kaputir trading centre
where they have been relying on
relief supplies and were planning to
return to their homes to continue
farming.
After razing manyattas, the at-
tackers who were said to be from
Kasses and Kaarun broke into
Nakuse Primary School. They
stole school food usually supplied
by the World Food Programme,
said the chief who noted that calm
had returned.
The two communities are often
in conict and after the incident,
Turkana leaders accused their
West Pokot counterparts of slow-
ing down peace talks.
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GARISSA| Others suer serious injuries
Two villagers killed in
fresh ethnic violence
BY ABDIMALIK HAJIR
@Abdimalik4
ahajir@ke.nationmedia.com
T
wo people have been
killed and two others
injured in separate clan
clashes in Garissa and Man-
dera counties.
In one of the incidents,
a middle-aged herder was
shot dead and his colleague
seriously wounded in the
troubled Qabobey village,
Garissa County, in renewed
ghting between the Auliyahan
and the Abdiwak on Saturday
morning.
County Commissioner
Rashid Khator said the two
clans are locked in a row over
pasture and water.
He said more security oc-
ers had been sent to the area
to stem the hostilities.
We also had a meeting
with peace committees from
both sides so that they can
resolve the dispute amicably
and avoid more trouble, said
Mr Khator.
The ocial said no arrests
had been made yet but police
were pursuing the culprits.
More than 10 people were
killed in sporadic fighting
between the two clans in
Qabobey since the hostilities
between the two clans ared
up a year ago.
In March this year, scores of
people, especially women and
children, were displaced after
21 houses were burnt down in
Qabobey village.
Early this month, a herder
was killed in the area when
raiders struck.
On Friday evening, a middle-
aged woman was killed and a
teenage boy seriously injured in
Garre village, Banisa, Mandera
West sub-county.
The woman was shot when
a suspected Degodia militia
invaded the village.
The killing has pushed the
death toll in the clash-torn
Mandera County to 17.
County police commander
Noah Mwivanda said the boy
was taken to a hospital in
Rhamu District.
The village is so remote that
security ocers could not ac-
cess it using a vehicle, said Mr
Mwivanda.
Victim in Garissa
incident was a
herdsman while
woman died when
militias attacked area
21
Number of houses burnt
down in Qabobey village
in March

We also had a
meeting with
peace committees
from both sides
so that they
can resolve the
dispute amicably
and avoid more
trouble,
Garissa County
Commissioner Rashid
Khator
UASIN GISHU
Road being
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land, says KFS
BY NATION CORRESPONDENT
Construction of a ve-kilometre
road that is expected to decongest
Eldoret town has run into con-
troversy after the Kenya Forest
Service claimed it encroached on
protected land.
The forest agency has accused
Uasin Gishu Governor Jackson
Mandago of allowing the construc-
tion across Kapseret forest land in
the outskirts of the town.
However, County Managing
Conservator Paul Karanja said
the state corporation was not op-
posed to the project.
More prudent
We are not against the idea
of construction of this road as
we know and understand that it
will decongest Eldoret town, but
it would have been more prudent if
Uasin Gishu County had consulted
with the relevant stakeholders be-
fore embarking on the project, Mr
Karanja said.
He said the agency intended to
convert the aected block into a
public recreation park. However,
Mr Mandago said the county
government would proceed with
the project as planned.
We want to open up all the
roads for the benet of our peo-
ple, he said.
HOMA BAY | Im still chairman
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at Milimani SDA Church in Kasipul Constituency at the
weekend. Mr Kajwang said he was still the ODM chairman
in the region and dismissed attempts to oust him.
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23
LAIKIPIA
Ban on livestock movement lifted
BY NATION
CORRESPONDENT
The ban on movement of
livestock which was imposed
in Laikipia East after an
outbreak of foot and mouth
disease in September last year
has been lifted.
County director of veteri-
nary services Peterson Njiru
said the quarantine was lifted
on May 2 after the disease was
contained.
Beef ranchers are free to
exhibit their animals in the
show since we have managed
to contain the disease through
continuous vaccination of ani-
mals, Dr Njiru said.
This follows concern by
ocials of Mt Kenya region
Agricultural Society of Kenya
show, which will be held be-
tween May 29 and 31, that
livestock exhibitors might
keep o due to the ban.
Beef producers could not
exhibit in last years fair be-
cause of a similar quarantine,
chairman of the show Charles
Wanyoike said.
Since the ban was lifted, 20
beef producers have already
indicated that they will be
exhibiting at the show this
year, Mr Wanyoike said.
The outbreak was attributed
to movement of livestock by
herders from Isiolo, Samburu
and Baringo who come to the
county in search of pasture.
NYERI | Give us medical cover, say pensioners
Retirees want their
pension increased
BY STEPHEN MUTHINI
@stevemuthiny
smuthini@ke.nationmedia.com
P
ensioners who retired
from the Civil Service
in the 1990s have urged
the government to review their
pension to reect the current
rates.
The retirees said the meagre
pension they were receiving
was not commensurate with
what other civil servants who
retired recently are getting.
Kenya Association of Retired
Ocers (Karo) said they had
proposed to the Salaries and
Remuneration Commission
(SRC) to increase their pen-
sion from Sh3,000 to Sh15,000
for the lowest earners.
Karo secretary-general John
Wachira said salaries of civil
servants had been greatly im-
proved in the recent times and
it was necessary to also review
the pension of those who had
retired.
Every time civil servants
pay is reviewed it is necessary
to review pension upwards
because pension is based on
salary, said Mr Wachira during
a meeting at Greenhills Hotel
in Nyeri at the weekend.
He said there was no equity
in payment of pension given
that civil servants who retired
recently in the same job group
with those who had retired be-
fore them were getting more
pension benets.
He noted that while he used
to earn Sh30,000 as a senior
ocer in the human resource
department, current office
holders in the same job group
and post were now earning
more than Sh120,000.
Karo executive officer
Karuga Gichoi said the asso-
ciation, which was formed in
1997, had presence in all the 47
counties with about 200,000
members.
He asked the government to
take care of its pensioners by
providing them with free and
comprehensive medical care.
Mr Gichoi noted that while
current civil servants were pro-
vided with medical care under
NHIF, this stopped once they
retired.
The association urged the
salaries commission to formu-
late a national pension policy
to address the inequalities in
payment.
It also called for a review of
the widows and orphans pen-
sion scheme.
Retired civil servants
have asked the
salaries commission
to increase the
amount to Sh15,000
from Sh3,0000
200pc
Pensioners say salaries
have gone up by this
much since they retired
in the 1990s
200
Thousands of retired
civil servants who are
members of Kenya As-
sociation of Retired
Ocers
NAIROBI | Women leaders back Waiguru
Women leaders
during a meeting
at a Nairobi hotel
over the week-
end. They backed
Devolution
Cabinet Secretary
Anne Waiguru
against impeach-
ment threats she
is facing.
EVANS HABIL I NAI-
ROBI
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
24 | Coumty News
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
25
Three dead as
Champions
League fans
attacked
ABUJA, Sunday
A massive explosion on
Saturday night hit Nigerias
central Jos City, where more than
118 people were killed in a similar
incident on Tuesday.
At least three people were killed
in the explosion targeting football
fans watching the European
Champions League final, the
authorities said.
The blast came just days after
a twin car bomb attack ripped
through a crowded market in the
city raising fears of a spread of
Boko Haram Islamist violence
from the restive northeast.
So far, we have three dead,
three injured, Chris Olakpe,
the commissioner of police for
Plateau state, of which Jos is the
capital said.
State police spokesperson
Felicia Anselm said the incident
was suspected to be a suicide
bomb attack, noting the explosion
occurred near the University of
Jos, along the express way leading
to northeast Bauchi State.
Other sources said a lifeless
body of the suicide bomber was
found some 20 meters away from
a football viewing centre.
There was no immediate
indication of who was responsible
for the explosion but Boko Haram
Islamists have previously targeted
football fans watching matches
at big screen venues before.
(Xinhua)
BY JAY DESHMUKH
CAIRO, Sunday
E
x-army chief Abdel Fattah
al-Sisi, lauded for ousting
the Islamist president but
feared as a potential autocrat,
is poised to sweep Egypts elec-
tion on the back of a yearning
for stability.
The election tomorrow and
Tuesday caps three years of
political turmoil that have seen
two presidents ousted following
mass protests, thousands killed
in clashes and militant attacks,
and an economy left in tatters.
The now retired eld marshal
is expected to trounce his only
rival, leftist leader Hamdeen Sab-
bahi, amid widespread calls for
a strong leader who can restore
stability in the Arab worlds most
populous country.
But true democracy, the ideal
millions rallied and fought for in
a 2011 uprising that overthrew
strongman Hosni Mubarak, will
have to wait, perhaps for a couple
of decades, Sisi has said.
Instead, he says he will work
hard to restore the economy and
ght terrorism.
Sisi has called for a high turn-
out in the election, billed by the
military-installed authorities and
the West as a milestone toward
elected rule in the country of 86
million people.
You need to go down now
more than any other time in
(the countrys) history. Go
down, show to the entire world
that there are 40, 45 (million) or
even more voters casting their
ballots, Gen Sisi said as cam-
paigning closed on Friday.
The military and police are
being deployed heavily to se-
cure polling stations across the
country, which saw a surge in
militant attacks after Morsys
overthrow.
On Sunday, the jihadi group
responsible for the deadliest
attacks on soldiers and police
denied a top commander had
been killed in an ambush, as
reported by security ocials.
Ansar Beit al-Maqdis said
Shadi al-Menei was still alive,
and it published a picture on
Islamist Internet forums of the
militant reading a report about
his death on a laptop.
The picture could not be im-
mediately authenticated.
With the economy in sham-
bles, sporadic bloodshed on the
streets and in militant attacks,
Sisi has said voters will have to
prioritise stability over demo-
cratic reforms.
Sisis sole election rival Sab-
bahi, a veteran dissident, has
vowed to defend the democratic
aspirations of the 2011 revolt.
We swear to God that sym-
bols of corruption and despotism
(from the Mubarak era) will not
return, he said in a Cairo speech
on Friday.
Sisi, indicating he will not
tolerate protests, has raised
fears that Egypt could see more
repression than under Mubaraks
regime.
What tourist would come to
a country where we have dem-
onstrations like this? he asked
Egyptian newspaper editors.
You write in the newspapers:
No voice is louder than freedom
of speech! What is that? he
asked.
The interim authorities have
justied the overthrow of Morsy
by saying the army heeded mass
street protests against the divi-
sive Islamists one-year rule.
Since Morsys overthrow,
police has cracked down on his
Muslim Brotherhood, which had
swept all elections since the fall
of Mubarak.
Sisi pledges that the Broth-
erhood, now blacklisted as a
terrorist group, would cease to
exist under his presidency.
The crackdown has cost at
least 1,400 lives over the past
11 months, including hundreds
of pro-Morsy protesters killed on
a single day last August when
security forces demolished their
street camps in Cairo. (AFP)
WORLD
BOWING OUT
Somali minister quits after attack on
Parliament P.28
Election
set for
Monday
and
Tuesday
caps three
years of
political
turmoil
You need to go
down now more
than any other time
in (the countrys)
history. Go down,
show to the entire
world that there are
40, 45 (million) or
even more
Presidential candidate
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
PURGE | Police have cracked down on Muslim Brotherhood, which had swept all elections
Strongman Sisi poised to stroll
to victory as Egypt poll opens
PHOTO | AFP
Supporters of Egyptian ex-army chief and leading presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pose with his
portrait during a rally to support him at the weekend in the coastal city of Alexandria.
BRIEFLY
JOHANNESBURG
SA names rst black
nance minister
South African President Jacob
Zuma on Sunday tapped former
junior minister Nhlanhla Nene
to become the countrys rst
black African nance minister.
Zuma made the announcement
after being sworn in for a second
term, and promising radical social
and economic transformation
in the next ve years. In the 20
years since South Africa strug-
gled free from the fetters of rac-
ist apartheid rule, the economy
remains predominantly in white
hands, despite a raft of empower-
ment programmes. Mr Nene had
served as an understudy to inter-
nationally respected nance chief
Pravin Gordhan. (AFP)
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
26 |
BY MICHAEL CHAWE
NATION Correspondent
and Agencies
LUSAKA, Sunday
Z
ambias former President Rupiah
Banda has urged Malawis President
Joyce Banda to concede defeat.
Mr Banda, 76, lost power to President
Michael Satas Patriotic Front in a 2011
poll that dislodged the Movement for Multi
party Democracy-MMD from power after
a 20-year rule.
Mr Banda handed over power to Presi-
dent Sata, 76, peacefully although some
quarters said he planned to resist, an al-
legation he vehemently denies.
In his comments to journalists dur-
ing Zambias celebration of the Africa
Freedom Day Mr Banda said: When you
hold elections, especially when youre
in government, learn from this stupid
man, he said, referring to his decision of
September 2011.
Concede and proceed. Move on.
Mr Bandas decision to hand over power
peacefully after serving only three years
was widely praised as democratic.
Like Malawis case, he ascended to power
after his predecessor, Levy Mwanawasa,
who appointed him Vice-President died
in France.
Meanwhile, early today, Malawis elec-
toral authorities said they will re-open
ballot boxes after finding evidence of
irregularities, as the country was thrown
into a constitutional crisis over the dis-
puted poll.
In the course of vote tallying, there
are cases being discovered where the
total number of votes cast is more than
the total registered voters for the centre,
Mr Maxon Mbendera, chairman of the
Malawi Electoral Commission, said in a
statement.
It has been agreed with political parties
that this can be resolved by opening the
ballot boxes and doing a physical audit,
he said. The recount could start this week
after an implementation plan was thrashed
out on Sunday with political parties.
On Saturday, President Banda declared
the election null and void, claiming
there were serious irregularities with
the poll.
She issued a decree that vote counting
should stop and called for fresh elections
in 90 days.
But just hours after her announcement,
Malawis high court issued an injunction
preventing the president from annulling
the poll.
President Banda alleged that people
had voted multiple times, ballots had
been tampered with, presiding ocers
arrested, and the computerised voter
counting system collapsed, but her main
rival Peter Mutharika called the decision
to annul the election illegal.
On Sunday, electoral ocials told AFP
that in four districts vote numbers did not
appear to match the voting register.
A heavy police presence continued today
in the commercial capital of Blantyre, with
scores of riot police on alert at the tally
centre. Everybody entering the building
was checked by police for an ID authorised
by the Malawi Electoral Commission.
Party leaders appealed for calm.
Mbendera said despite the ndings his
sta will not abandon the current vote
counting exercise.
This will be pursued to the end but the
results will not be announced until the vote
recount outcome is known and compared
with, he said.
The commission said it had counted 62
per cent of the votes from half of the 4,445
polling centres spread throughout the tiny
southern African state.
With about a third of the votes counted,
Mr Mutharika, 74, had 42 per cent of the
vote, while Mrs Banda has 23 per cent,
according to preliminary results an-
nounced by the electoral commission
late on Friday.
Ex-Zambia president urges
Banda to concede defeat
PHOTO | AFP
Malawi Electoral Commission workers and other stakeholders recount votes during the
ongoing national elections, at the weekend at the National Tally Centre in Blantyre.
ADVICE | When you hold elections, especially when youre in government, learn from this stupid man
In the
course
of vote
tallying,
there are
cases being
discovered
where
the total
number of
votes cast is
more than
the total
registered
voters for
the centre
Mr Maxon
Mbendera,
chairman of
the Malawi
Election team
The percentage of votes already counted
by the election commission
62
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
Africa News 27
BY ABDULKADIR KHALIF
NATION Correspondent
MOGADISHU, Sunday

A
bdikarim Hussein Guled,
the Somali Minister for
National Security, resigned
late yesterday hours after mili-
tants loyal to Al-Shabaab launched
an attack on the Federal Parlia-
ment of Somalia.
After twenty months in oce,
I hereby announce my resigna-
tion from the ministerial portfolio
I have been holding for the nation:
The ministry of national security,
said Mr Guled.
He made the announcement
through Raadiyo Muqdisho
(Mogadishu Radio), a state run
broadcaster.
Mr Guled served under former
Prime Minister Abdi Farah
Shirdon and current premier
Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed.
Mr Guled was considered one
of the closest allies of President
Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud.
His departure is likely to reduce
a mounting political pressure on
President Mohamoud who him-
self has recently been facing calls
from a section of the legislators
to resign.
The MPs have openly chal-
lenged the president to justify
action on the ground that the
security across Somalia, par-
ticularly in the capital has not
been deteriorating.
They cite among other security
failures the Al-Shabaab assaults in
Mogadishu on the Courts build-
ing in April 2013, UN compound
in July 2013 and the Presidential
palace in February this year.
Talking to Mogadishu Radio
from Pretoria where he is attend-
ing the swearing in of the South
African President Jacob Zuma, the
Somali leader promised a radical
change in the security sector.
The sudden shake up in the So-
mali government comes after a
bloody assault on the federal par-
liament by a group of Al-Shabaab
fanatics from the elite al-Istishaad
(suicide unit) on Saturday.
An hour of gunre
The incident prompted more
than an hour of gunre around the
building and the death of all the
attackers and some of the forces
defending the institution.
The MPs were all reportedly
evacuated through a back door.
Only three of the legislators sus-
tained some minor injuries.
Late today, Premier Ahmed
released a statement stating his
acceptance of the resignation by
Minister Guled. It is a coura-
geous act, the premier stated.
Rare move as ocial was one of
the closest allies of president who
is under pressure to end attacks
Somali minister quits after attack
PHOTO |AFP
A nurse examines wounded Somali Member of Parliament, Farah
Awad Jama as he receives treatment at the Madina hospital in Mogad-
ishu, yesterday after the attack on parliament. The attack left at least
10 people dead.
BOWING OUT | Bloody assault on the federal parliament by a group of Al-Shabaab fanatics
After twenty
months
in oce,
I hereby
announce my
resignation
from the
ministerial
portfolio I
have been
holding for
the nation
Mr Guled, ex-
minister
Mugabe likely
to relax rules
on foreign rms
BY KITSEPILE NYATHI
NATION Correspondent
HARARE, Sunday
Zimbabwe is reviewing its
controversial economic empow-
erment policies to make them
more exible for investors, in a
move described as a major climb
down by State media today.
President Robert Mugabes
government has over the past
ve years been pushing hardline
economic policies that include
the seizure of controlling stakes
in foreign owned companies.
The Indigenisation and Eco-
nomic Empowerment Act compels
foreign owned companies to hand
over 51 percent of their stakes to
locals.
Foreigners were also given up to
January this year to exit economic
sectors reserved for locals such as
retail, beauty salons, milling and
agriculture.
The law was criticised for
scaring away investors and is
blamed for Zimbabwes worsen-
ing economic problems.
Former Reserve Bank of Zimba-
bwe governor Gideon Gono was
one of the critics of the policy and
opposed the takeover of foreign
owned banks operating in the
country. The State owned Sunday
Mail newspaper said the policy u-
turn was an apparent victory for
moderates such as Dr Gono, who
retired last year.
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29
C
hina has in the past
demanded proof of US
charges its military en-
gages in economic espionage
to support the countrys indus-
trial sector.
A week today, the US
claimed to oblige. Chinese
ocialdom wasnt amused by
what amounted to whining. US
Attorney General Eric Holder
told a news conference a fed-
eral grand jury had indicted
ve Chinese military ocials
on charges of economic es-
pionage the Department of
Justice described as 21st
century burglary.
The range of trade secrets
and other sensitive business
information stolen in this case
is significant and demands
an aggressive response, Mr
Holder said on Monday. He did
not explain how the US gov-
ernment will haul the Chinese
spies to a federal court.
The ve companies are lead-
ers in nuclear power, metals
and solar product industries.
They make the US economy
tick locally and abroad.
Apparently to thwart a
Chinese response the US
spies expansively on other
nations, Holder drew a line.
He said the indictment in-
volved a state sponsored
individual, using intelligence
to gain commercial advantage,
and that is what makes this
case dierent.
Another dierence is that
while the US has indicted
individuals on economic es-
pionage, it has never done
so to foreign military ocial,
identied by name at that.
Chinese authorities obvi-
ously denied any wrong doing.
The Defence ministry was es-
pecially vocal. In a statement,
it said The claims of so-called
commercial cyber-espionage
and so on have been spun out
of thin air and accused the US
had nefarious motives.
The Foreign Ministry
chimed: The US confuses
right and wrong and accuses
us when it has been doing
something wrong itself,
spokesman Hong Lei said.
They are hypocritical on
cyber security issues, he
added, warning that unless
the charges were dropped,
China would take further
action in accordance with
the situation.
China and the US are in
competitors, economically
globally, and militarily and
diplomatically, especially in
nations in and lateral to the
Pacic Ocean. Its a truism
to expect them not to spy on
each other in practically every
aspect. Its simple. Any com-
petition is won largely through
knowledge of the other sides
capabilities, strength and
weaknesses. In any case, na-
tions with weak economies
dont win wars, support allies
or inuence other states.
Economic espionage has
been around for a long time.
Take Father Francois Xavier
who in early 1700s is reputed
to have revealed to Europe
Chinese porcelain manu-
facturing techniques. The
French were at it in Britain
during the Industrial Revolu-
tion, ad innitum.
(cmbitiru@hotmail.com)
US-China spy
row escalates
THERE AND ABOUT | Chege Mbitiru
Information theft
has been around
for a long time
The range of trade
secrets and other
sensitive business
information stolen in
this case is signicant.
Eric Holder, Americas AG
Alex Fergusons wines sell for almost $3.87m
HONG KONG, Sunday
Wines from legendary
former Manchester United
manager Alex Fergusons
(right) private collection sold
for almost HK$30 million
($3.87 million) at an auction
in Hong Kong yesterday, with
a single bottle purchased for
more than HK$1 million.
The wines being auctioned
around 5,000 from his
collection are worth an
estimated 3 million ($5 mil-
lion) in total, and are being
sold in London, Hong Kong,
and online.
The auctions include rare
and sought-after wines such
as Domaine de la Romanee-
Conti Burgundies, and Finest
First Growth Bordeaux from
Chateau Petrus and Chateau
Late, ranging from 1986 to
2011 vintages. Saturdays sale
at Christies Hong Kong saw
around 90 per cent of 257 lots
sold, the auction house said.
The rms pre-sale estimate
was between HK$26 million
and HK$32 million.
The top lot, a six-litre bottle
of 1997 Domaine de la Roma-
nee-Conti, including a card
signed Best Wishes, Alex
Ferguson sold for $158,001,
including buyers premium, to
a bidder in the room.
All of the top ten sales at
the auction of Fergusons
wines were for Domaine de la
Romanee-Conti, Mr Elswood
said, adding that it is one of
the most sought after in the
world at the moment.
Six bottles of the same wine
from 1999 were sold at HK$1.1
million. (AFP)
UKRAINE CHECK | Tricky ballot
PHOTO\AFP
Ukrainian soldiers check a passing vehicle as they stand guard
at a checkpoint outside of Slavyansk, yesterday. Ukraine be-
gan voting on Sunday in a presidential election seen as the
most important in the countrys history as it grapples with a
deadly pro-Russian rebellion in the east.
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
30 | International News
Building
peace is
dicult,
but living
without
peace is a
constant
torment
Pope Francis
BETHLEHEM, Sunday
P
ope Francis invited Israeli
President Shimon Peres
and his Palestinian coun-
terpart Mahmud Abbas today
to his home in the Vatican for a
heartfelt prayer for peace.
I wish to invite you, president
Mahmud Abbas, together with
President Shimon Peres, to join
me in heartfelt prayer to God
for the gift of peace, he said at
the end of an open-air mass in
Manger Square in the West Bank
town of Bethlehem.
I oer my home in the Vatican
as a place for this encounter of
prayer, he said.
Building peace is dicult, but
living without peace is a constant
torment. The men and women
of these lands, and of the entire
world, all of them, ask us to bring
before God their fervent hopes
for peace.
As Francis entered the square
to conduct the mass outside the
Basilica of the Nativity, he was
welcomed by 10,000 cheering
pilgrims, who waved ags and
sang hymns and carols as he
drove up in a white open Jeep.
Earlier, he urged an end to the
increasingly unacceptable Is-
raeli-Palestinian conict, calling
on leaders to show courage to
achieve a peace based on a two-
state solution.
The time has come for eve-
ryone to nd the courage ... to
forge a peace which rests on the
acknowledgement by all of the
right of two states to exist and to
live in peace and security within
internationally recognised bor-
ders, he said on meeting Abbas
at his presidential palace.
The main stage set up for the
ponti, who arrived early today
by helicopter from Jordan, was
adorned with a giant tableau
depicting Jesuss birth in Beth-
lehem. From dawn, wave upon
wave of pilgrims had ooded into
the buzzing square, through bar-
riers and metal detectors set up
by watchful Palestinian security
forces.
Francis had insisted his three-
day visit to the Holy Land would
be purely religious, but he
irted with the regions sensi-
tive politics by climbing out of
his jeep in Bethlehem before the
mass, as his convoy passed near
the controversial separation wall
erected by the Israelis.
Flanked by anxious Palestin-
ian security guards, he walked
over to the eight-metre high
concrete barrier topped by a
guard tower.
Bowing his head in silent
prayer, he paused for several
minutes in front of the grati-
daubed barrier, his right hand
and forehead resting against
the concrete.
Pope we need to see someone
to speak about justice. Bethle-
hem look like Warsaw ghetto.
Free Palestine, read one bit
of grati in English. Pilgrims
said they hoped that Franciss
presence here could bring real
change on the ground in a vola-
tile region. (AFP)
PHOTO | AFP
Pope Francis is greeted by children from nearby Palestinian refugee camps yesterday during
a visit to the Deheisheh camp in the outskirts of the biblical city of Bethlehem.
Pope invites
Peres, Abbas
to the Vatican
I oer my home in
the Vatican as a place
for this encounter
of prayer, he says
GESTURE| Pilgrims say they hope that presence of Francis in the Middle East could bring real change
BRIEFLY
BAGRAM AIR BASE
Obama in surprise
Afghanistan visit
US President Barack Obama
landed in Afghanistan late Sun-
day on a surprise visit to salute
the sacrices of US troops in
Americas longest war. Obama
slipped out of the White House
after dark on Saturday and ew
in secret across the globe, land-
ing at Bagram air base outside
Kabul in late evening. He planned
to meet top US military com-
manders and civilian leaders in
Afghanistan during a short visit,
but there were no plans to see
Afghan President Hamid Karzai
or either of the candidates in
Afghanistans runo presidential
election. President Obamas trip,
pulled o under extraordinary
security precautions, was purely
devoted to spending time with
troops. (AFP)
TEHRAN
Iran jails editor, writer
of a banned daily
An Iranian court convicted on
Sunday the editor and a contribu-
tor of a banned newspaper over a
series of charges, including lying
about Islam and spreading anti-
regime propaganda, reports said.
The media watchdog banned the
reformist Bahar daily in October
2013 after it published an article
the authorities deemed as an in-
sult to Shiite Islam for question-
ing one of its core beliefs. (AFP)
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
International News 31
BUSINESS
RWANDAS METHANE LAKE KIVU
NOW SOURCE OF FUTURE POWER
Plans in place to pump out enough gas
that would double countrys electricity
capacity. P.36
BY RAMENYA GIBENDI
rgibendi@ke.nationmedia.com
AND MUTHOKI MUMO
mumumo@ke.nationmedia.com
L
ack of a regulatory body
in Kenyas real estate
industry is frustrating
eorts to establish whether the
sectors rapid growth is being
fuelled by illegal money.
Financial Reporting Centre
legal advisor James Manyonge
said the institute has found it
hard to enforce compliance to
the proceeds of Crime and Anti-
Money Laundering Act in the
industry due to the fragmented
nature.
It is a challenge to monitor
suspicions transaction in the
real estate sector due to lack
of a uniform and recognised
regulatory body, he said.
He was speaking during a
sensitisation workshop on the
role of journalists in combating
terrorism nancing and anti-
money laundering organised by
the Kenya School of Monetary
Studies.
The Financial Reporting Cen-
tre (FRC) is an arm tasked with
assisting in the identication of
proceeds of crime and combat-
ing money laundering through
working with regulatory bodies
in the country.
The centre works with banks,
nancial institutions, cash deal-
ers and members of professional
bodies who are required to
report transactions deemed
suspicious and cash transac-
tions that exceed $10,000.
We are trying to establish a
mechanism of enforcing compli-
ance but that is going to take
time due to the fragmentation,
said Mr Manyonge.
Kenyas real estate sector has
been experiencing phenomenal
growth with land and property
prices shooting up, but there
is a feeling that the high prices
could be a result of criminals
using the sector to clean ill-
gotten money.
Last month, a survey by The
Mortgage Company and Has-
sConsult, said that only a fth
of Kenyans living in urban areas
can aord a home loan priced
at Sh1 million and above.
It means that out of the coun-
trys nine million households,
only two million can aord a
Sh1 million mortgage. This begs
the question, who is driving up
demand in the business?
In 2012, CBK governor
Njuguna Ndungu lamented
over the Countrys low mort-
gage growth despite the market
tripling in size between 2006
and 2010. There are currently
only 20,000 mortgage accounts
in Kenya.
Contrary to the FRCs con-
cerns, however, the World
Bank, United Nations and
Interpol report last year ruled
out pirate cash inows as being
behind Kenyas real estate boom
instead saying the business is
primarily driven by money
from bank loans and diaspora
remittances.
Somali pirates
The trio were investigating
how the Sh35.1 billion ($413
million) that Somali pirates
made between 2005 and 2012
mainly from hijacking ships in
Indian Ocean was spent after
reports emerged that the cash
was being cleaned through
real estate.
The FRC was constituted
in 2012 at a time when Kenya
was facing international trade
restrictions due to deciency
in its anti-money laundering
and terrorism nancing legal
framework.
Mr Manyonge said that since
then, the level of compliance
among reporting institutions
has been growing. In 2013, 110
suspcicious transaction reports
were led, most of which came
from commercial banks and tel-
coms. Following completion of
investigations on 59 of these re-
ports, 53 have been forwarded
to law enforcement agencies
for action.
The number of reports of cash
transactions of over $10,000 so
far this year already surpasses
those made in 2013.
Mr Manyonge said Kenya is
well on its way out of the Fi-
nancial Action Taskforces list
of high risk countries.
Lack of regulator in
real estate frustrates
plan to monitor deals
Suspiscion is rife
that sky-high
house prices are
being fuelled by
criminals keen on
cleaning money
STUDY | World Bank report ruled out pirate cash inows
2m
Kenyans who can aord
Sh1 million mortgage

It is a challenge to
monitor suspicious
transactions in real
estate sector,
Financial Reporting
Centres James
Manyonge
BY NATION REPORTER
A local real estate rm will stage
an expo in New York targeting Ken-
yans in the diaspora keen on owning
property back home.
In an interview, Kings Pride direc-
tor Karanja Karau said his company
has entered a joint venture with local
banks for Kenyan investors in the di-
aspora to access mortgages.
Mr Karau said the three-day Kenya
Diaspora Homes Expo is expected to
attract a huge interest among Kenyans
living in the US.
Implementation platform
The expo was founded for the
chief purpose of linking the diaspora
directly to the local real estate indus-
try and other investment corporations
in Kenya. We will be showcasing af-
fordable investment opportunities in
Kenya and provide implementation
platform through our partners and
banks, said Mr Karau.
The expo is open to other housing
stakeholders including banks oering
tailor-made products in the construc-
tion industry and is set to take place
during the Labor Day weekend in
August.
We are seeking to reduce costs
to Kenyans who intend to invest
back home while abroad but have
no know-how on what and where to
invest. The expo will be a one-stop
package both to the exhibitors and
the diaspora, where the seller/buyer,
developers, nanciers, insurers, sup-
pliers will share a common platform
and identify opportunities in real
estate said Martha Kanyumba who
is coordinating the expo.
Exhibitors
Currently, we are recruiting the
exhibitors who will be participating.
We have nearly 15 banks which have
shown interest.
The venture seeks to address
frustrations and delays for Kenyan
citizens who entrust their investments
on relatives only to get a raw deal,
she noted.
Data shows Kenyans abroad sent
home Sh100 billion ($1.177 billion)
in the 11 months to November last
year, exceeding the total remittances
of 2012.
Expo targets Kenyan diaspora keen on owning property back home
Drug supply rm plans Sh1.7bn
warehouse to meet high demand
BY NATION
CORRESPONDENT

Pan African healthcare
company, Imperial Health
Sciences, plans to put up a
Sh1.7 billion drug store in
Nairobi to meet increased
demand.
The company is targeting
to start distributing drugs
and other medical supplies
to county governments that
have now resorted to sourc-
ing the products from private
rms due to the constrained
capacity at Kenya Medical
Supplies Agency (Kemsa).
According to company
managing director, Dr Iain
Barton, this is part of the
firms efforts to deliver
healthcare and storage fa-
cilities in areas where there
is a dire shortage of ware-
housing.
Healthcare practition-
ers in underserved areas
are faced with a growing
burden of complex disease
management, aggravated
by ageing infrastructure and
unreliable supply of essential
medicines, he said.
He argued that there is
need for reliable warehousing
and supply chain systems to
allow healthcare practition-
ers to access safe, secure,
reliable supply of medicine
in line with best-practice,
quality standards.
The company will now be
seeking to closer ties with
the public and private health
sector, wholesalers, doctors,
pharmacies, hospitals and
rst moving consumer goods
with the new warehouse.
Located on Mombasa
Road, in Nairobi, the store
will be 9,564 square metres
in and will oer 5,361 phar-
maceutical pallet locations, as
well as 3,978 consumer and
466 cold chain pallet loca-
tions. Construction is set for
completion next year.
The Constitution has
devolved health services in
a move that medical prac-
titioners faulted. Counties
were also initially expected
to procure medical supplies
only from Kemsa, but they
also argued that drugs pro-
cured from the entity were
highly priced.
Some counties are, how-
ever, buying medical supplies
from third parties in what is
opening up a new frontier for
competition.
Imperial has outlets in
Kenya, South Africa, Ghana,
Nigeria and Malawi as well as
agents in 26 countries on the
continent.
Medical supplies storage
space in square metres that
Imperial Health Sciences will
set up in Nairobi by next year
9,564
BUMPY RIDE | Spare parts dealers decry high import duty
Mr Sam Mureithi,
a motor vehicle
spare parts dealer,
checks a steering
wheel cover for
a customer at his
shop in Nyeri. Trad-
ers in the segment
say high cost of im-
port duty is a major
challenge facing
the business.
JOSEPH KANYI | NA-
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BY ZEDDY SAMBU
zsambu@ke.nationmedia.com
T
he World Bank is set to
help Kenya develop a
new petroleum master
plan that will guide invest-
ments in the nascent oil and
gas business.
Last week, the bank said
it has appointed auditing
rm, PricewaterhouseCoop-
ers (PwC), to undertake the
consultancy during the second
half of the year.
The plan shall dene how
Kenya will commercialise oil
and gas resources. It will also
set out future petroleum in-
frastructure requirements and
guide on investments which to
date have been haphazard.
It could also recommend
options for the Mombasa re-
nery that remains shut since
September 4, last year.
The nal report on a pe-
troleum master plan that will
culminate in an implementation
roadmap for the government is
expected in December, said a
statement by Energy ministry
ocials.
Officials from the Treas-
ury, Energy and Petroleum,
Devol ution and Pl anning,
Transport and Infrastructure
ministries, relevant parastatals
and departments will work
closely with the private sector
downstream and upstream and
players under the Petroleum
Institute for East Africa.
Investment roadmap
Kenya Oil and Gas Asso-
ciation will take part in the
steering team.
The document will act as
a roadmap for investment in
processing, pipelines, storage
and distribution.
A master plan maximises the
value for projects by prevent-
ing duplication of investments
and guides relevant arms of
government to provide for es-
sential amenities such as land
and right of way for future de-
velopment.
Dynamic model
The master plan will also
identify options to monetise
oil and gas, point out the un-
certainties related to size of
reserves discovered as well as
the market opportunities. The
project seeks to integrate Ken-
yas oil and gas value chain.
A dynamic model that can
be updated when new data
becomes available will be
developed upon the comple-
tion.
Consultants are now being
shortlisted by the World Bank
before they submit proposals.
PwC will prepare the master
plan covering up to 2040 cov-
ering evaluation of domestic,
regional and global export mar-
kets for oil and gas from both
current and future demand
perspective.
Kenya to develop oil,
gas investment model
AIM | Document will maximise value for projects in sector
Country seeks help
of the World Bank
to come up with
petroleum industry
master plan

The nal report on


a petroleum master
plan... is expected
in December,
Energy ministry
Ministry steps up marketing to
woo tourists from South Africa
BY NATION
CORRESPONDENT
Kenya is eyeing South
Africa in its mission to in-
crease tourist arrivals from
the continent.
According to Kenyas High
Commissioner to South Af-
rica, Mr Patrick Wamoto,
Nairobi has stepped up
marketing and awareness
campaign to woo more tour-
ists into the country.
With the recent travel
advisories against visits to
Kenya by key traditional tour-
ism source markets, contacts
have been increased in South
Africa to market the countrys
potential in the sector, Mr
Wamoto told the Presiden-
tial Strategic Communication
Unit at the weekend.
President Uhuru Kenyatta,
who is the chair East Afri-
can Community, is among
the invited Heads of State
and government who are
expected in the occasion.
Traditional markets
The campaign, aimed at
courting other key tour-
ist markets, is part of the
governments strategy to
diversify visitor sources
without abandoning the
traditional markets.
He said South Africa is
the leading source of tourist
to Kenya after Uganda with
40,000 arrivals last year.
Meanwhile, Commerce and
Tourism Cabinet secretary
Phyllis Kandie has noted
that the funds expected
from the Treasury to support
tourism recovery committee
will not be enough to run the
project.
Speaking at a press brief-
ing in Nairobi, Ms Kandie
noted that the ministry is
lobbying the Treasury for
more money to help revive
the ailing industry.
Wait for funds
We are, however, doing
our best to make use of the
resources we have at the
moment to revive the sec-
tor as we wait for the funds
from Treasury, Ms Kandie
added.
MANAGEMENT
Merali retires from
Airtel Kenya post
Mr Naushad Merali (right) has
retired from being the chairman
of Airtel Kenya after 15 years of
service. His retirement was an-
nounced on Friday. He founded
Kencell and has overseen the
telcoms ownership change from
Celtel, to Zain then Bharti Airtel.
I take this opportunity to
thank the entire board for the
support extended to me during
my tenure as chairman. I will
always be available to assist the
board and the company when-
ever I am required to do so, Mr
Merali said. The 63-year-old is
also the founder of the Sameer
Group, a business conglomer-
ate with interests in transport,
construction, agriculture, dairy,
telcoms, nance and other indus-
tries where he will now focus his
energy.
BRIEFLY
STRICTLY RESERVED FOR YOUTH, WOMEN AND
MARGINALISED GROUPS.
TENDER NO. KCG/SPORTS/001/2013-2104 PROPOSED
REHABILITATION OF THIKA MUNICIPAL STADIUM,
KIAMBU COUNTY.

The County Government of Kiambu hereby invites sealed bids from bidders for
the above tenders Bid.Tender documents may be obtained from the office of
procurement located at the Temporary Offices, Town hall, Kenyatta Highway,
Thika, Ground floor room 15B during normal working hours upon payment of
a non-refundable fee of Kenya Shillings One Thousand Shillings only (KShs.
1,000/=) .
Completed bid documents in plain sealed envelopes bearing no indication of the
name of the firm bidding with the contract number and name clearly marked on
top should be deposited in the Tender Box located the ground floor, Town Hall,
Room 15B or if by post to be addressed to:-

County Secretary
County Government of Kiambu
P.o. Box 2344-00900 Kiambu
So as to reach him not later than 10.30 am on 12
th
June 2014 at which time
the bid documents will be publicly opened at the chambers in the presence of
bidders who choose to attend.
WILSON MWITA MAROA
CEC- INTERNAL ADMNISTRATION & PUBLIC SERVICE
AG.COUNTY SECRETARY
COUNTY GOVERNMENT OF KIAMBU
INVITATION FOR TENDERS
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
34 | Business News
BY YVONNE KAWIRA
@KawiraYvonne
ymurori@ke.nationmedia.com
T
anzania and Burundi have
edged closer to rolling out
one-stop border post in a
bid to boost trade.
This follows the construction of
a temporary structure and installa-
tion of the required ICT systems, a
project that was funded with sup-
port from TradeMark East Africa
(TMEA).
The two countries signed the bor-
der post bilateral deal in 2011 but
were yet to implement the system.
But with the temporary structure
at the Kabanga-Kobero border, the
clearing authorities will run the sys-
tem on a pilot basis as they await a
legal framework and the set-up of a
permanent structure.
According to the customs ocials
in both countries, on average, the
border serves between 50 and 70
trucks per day, with more trac
moving from Tanzania to Burundi.
Sometimes we attend to more
than 100 trucks, said Mr Bigirimana
Felix from Burundi who also works
at Kobero border post.
Ful l y fl edged operati ons at
Kabanga-Kobero post will start
when the construction of permanent
structures is completed.
According to the tentative time-
table released during a recent
bi-lateral meeting between Tanza-
nia and Burundi, the pilot border
post operations basis could start
on June 7.
Cutting cost
The launching of the transactions
at the border will be a huge relief to
travellers and traders from the two
countries as they will now only stop
once for customs clearance instead
of twice, thereby cutting cost and
time spent at the border.
One stop border post set to open
TRADE | Kabanga-Kobero crossing handles between 50 and 70 trucks per day
Tanzania
and
Burundi
edge closer
to opening
key oce
to boost
trade

Sometimes, we handle
more than 100 trucks,
Mr Bigirimana Felix, a sta
at Kobero border post
Cl earance wi l l al so
improve following auto-
mation of the deals.
Under the deal, people
entering Burundi will by-
pass the Kabanga border
post (Tanzania customs
and immigration office)
and proceed to Kobero in
Burundi where Tanzanian
customs and immigra-
tion sta will work side
by side.
Likewise, those enter-
ing Tanzania will by-pass
Kobero and stop only at
Kabanga where officials
of both countries will be
working from.
The construction of
permanent facilities at
Kobero on the Burundi
side has not started but
the country could con-
tinue to use the modest
building currently used
for pilot project, said
TMEAs manager for bor-
der post operations, Mr
Israel Sekirasa.
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Push to plant trees on
Mt Kenya goes online
Africa Point, an online travel
agent, has joined up with
Tupande Pamoja group in a bid
to conserve Mt Kenya. In May,
2011, Africa Point and its partners
pledged to donate a seedling for
every tweet, Facebook like or
share as well as each website
mention. And to start the cam-
paign, the rm planted 5,000.
The goal is to plant 100,000
trees. The rm is organising a
communal tree planting event on
May 16, together with all its part-
ners and the local communities.
BRIEFLY
COUNTY GOVERNMENT OF MOMBASA
MOMBASA COUNTY ASSEMBLY SERVICE BOARD
TENDERS NOTICE
S/No TENDER NAME /DESCRIPTION TENDER NUMBER
1
PROVISION OF MEDICAL COVER TO THE
ASSEMBLY STAFF
CAM/PRO/T/01/2014 2016
2
PROVISION OF INSURANCE COVER TO THE
ASSEMBLY BUILDING AND ASSEMBLY MOTOR
VEHICLE
CAM/PRO/T/02/2014-2016
The County Assembly of Mombasa Invites bids from interested and competent bidders for the above
tenders.
Interested eligible candidates may obtain further information and inspect tender documents at Head of
Supply Chain management, County Assembly of Mombasa, Town hall between 9.00 am to 12.00pm
and or between 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm upon payment of a non refundable fee of ksh 1000 paid in cash
or bankers cheque payable to the Clerk of the County Assembly at the cash office /Banking hall located
in the Ground floor between 9.00 am to 12.30 pm and 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm during working days.
Interested bidders should note that only those meeting the criteria below as minimum supported by
relevant document at submission will be considered for further evaluation:
a) Fully filled and signed Confidential Business Questionnaire and Forms of tender
b) Provide financial standing (audited account and bank statements) for the last three
years.
c) Provide valid tax compliance certificate.
d) Provide PIN and V.A.T certificates.
e) Business registration Certificate/ Certificate of Incorporation
f) Name at least three clients supplied with similar items/works.
Tenders must be accompanied by a bid bond of 2% of the quoted price in form of bank guarantee
from a reputable bank or insurance company recognized by (PPOA) and must remain valid for 120
days from the date of opening/closing tender. Tender documents in plain sealed envelope clearly
marked with Tender Number and Description should be addressed to:
The Clerk
County Assembly of Mombasa
P.O. Box 90440-80100
Mombasa

and/or be deposited in the tender box situated at the entrance of the Clerks Office, County Assembly
Building, Room No. 114 on or before 18
th
June, 2014 at 10.00 am.
Submitted bids will be opened immediately thereafter in at 10.30am on 18
th
, June 2014 in the
presence of the candidates or their representatives who may wish to attend. Late bids will be returned
unopened

The County Assembly of Mombasa reserves the right to accept or reject in whole or in part any tender
and is not bound to give reasons for its decision.

Atego Chrispine
Senior Supply Chain Offcer
For: COUNTY ASSEMBLY CLERK
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
35 |
Rwanda, Sunday
B
eneath the calm waters
of Lake Kivu lie vast
but deadly reserves of
methane and carbon dioxide,
which Rwanda is tapping both
to save lives and provide a lu-
crative power source.
Plans are in place to pump
out enough gas for power that
would nearly double Rwandas
current electricity capacity, as
well as reducing the chance of
what experts warn could be
a potentially catastrophic
natural disaster.
The glittering waters of the
inland sea, which straddles
the border of Rwanda and
the Democratic Republic of
Congo, contain a dangerous
and potent mix of the dis-
solved gases that if disturbed
would create a rare limnic
eruption or lake overturn,
expert Matthew Yalire said.
Levels of carbon dioxide
(Co2) and methane are large
and dangerous enough to risk
a sudden release that could
cause a disastrous explosion,
after which waves of Co2
would suocate people and
livestock around, explained
Yalire, a researcher at the
Goma Volcano Observatory,
on the lakes DR Congo
shore.
Right now the lake is sta-
ble, but for how long? asked
Yalire, who believes that ex-
tracting potentially explosive
methane is one way to help
stabilise the lake.
Near the town of Rubavu, a
pilot project of the Rwandan
government is already produc-
ing about two megawatts of
electricity from the methane
in the lake.
But a new, additional plant
is being built on Kivus east-
ern shore, where the US-based
power company ContourGlo-
bal plans massively to boost
production.
Our team is focused on
extracting methane from the
lake to generate electricity
that will expand household
access to power, lower costs,
and reduce environmental
hazards,
ContourGlobal said. Its
$200 million project aims to
lessen the natural threat of
an explosion, while turning
the deadly gas into a source
of energy.
On the lakes Rwandan
shoreline and at the foot of
green hills dotted with ba-
nana plantations, hundreds
of construction workers are
building a platform due to be
installed on the lake by the
end of the year.
Rather than being a drill
platform, it will instead suck
up the methane trapped in
the depths.
There is no drilling, gas is
pumped from the lower layers
of the lake that are saturated
with methane, the KivuWatt
projects chief, Yann Beutler,
told AFP.
Rwandas methane
lake source of power
Plans in place to
pump out enough
gas that would
double countrys
electricity capacity
INVESTMENT | US rm has pumped $200m in electricity project
MOTORING | End of the road for Indias iconic car maker
A man washes a white
Ambassador car in
Kolkata, India. The maker
of Indias Ambassador car
has suspended produc-
tion, citing debt and lack
of demand for the iconic
vehicle which came to de-
ne the countrys political
class, a company ocial
said. Hindustan Motors,
Indias oldest car maker,
shut down its factory at
Uttarpara in West Bengal
state, where it has been
making the Ambassador,
based on Britains long-
defunct Morris Oxford,
since 1957.
DESHAKALYAN CHOWDHURY|
AFP
Our team is focused
on extracting methane
from the lake to
generate electricity
ContourGlobal
Gas deal a symbolic victory for Russia
MOSCOW, Sunday
The $400 billion gas deal
Russia signed with China was
a symbolic victory for Moscow
as it is locked in a dispute with
the West over Ukraine, but the
scale of the deal is not as mas-
sive, says analysts.
The volumes to be shipped
east wont cut Russias de-
pendence on selling gas to
the West, nor would they lead
to shortages in Europe. Under
the 30-year deal signed on
Wednesday, Russias Gazprom
will begin supplying Chinas
CNPC with up to 38 billion
cubic metres of gas per year
from 2018, with the agreement
said to be worth some $400
billion.
Symbolic
Russia President Vladimir
Putin and Gazprom chief Alexei
Miller didnt lose any time in
hailing the deal which is the
largest in the state-controlled
gas companys history.
However analysts at Capital
Economics said the impor-
tance of the deal is largely
symbolic.
The London-based outfit
said the benets to the Rus-
sian economy from the $400
billion deal... are likely to be
smaller than most seem to
think.
The sum will be spread
out over 30 years, making it
an additional $13 billion in
exports that reached $593
billion last year. Although
this is signicant, it is hardly
a game changer, said Capital
Economics. (AFP)
NOTICE
TO: ALL FULL MEMBERS IN GOOD STANDING OF IMPALA CLUB
.
Moses Gitau
Honorary Secretary
23
rd
May 2014
IMPALA CLUB
TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Article 48.2 of the Constitution of Impala Club, the Annual General Meeting of Impala Club shall be
held on the 27th day of June 2014 from 7.00 pm at our club premises along Ngong Road, Nairobi to consider the business set out in
the subjoined Agenda as set out in Article 48.3.
TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that pursuant to Article 48.4 you must give notice to the Honorary Secretary in writing, duly signed by a
Proposer and a Seconder, of any Motion you wish to have placed on the Agenda, and such notice must be received not less than 21
days prior to the date of Annual General Meeting.
TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that pursuant to Articles 33.2, nominations for the election of Office Bearers must be transmitted to the
Honorary Secretary not less than 21 days prior to the date of Annual General Meeting, and the Proposer and Seconder must be full
Members in Good Standing of at least three years. Pursuant to Article 33.1, candidates for the office of Chairperson must have served
in the Management Committee for at least two years in the past, and all other candidates must be full Members in Good Standing of
at least three years.
NB: Pursuant to Article 33.4, the vacancies available are for the offices of Chairperson, Honorary Secretary, Honorary Treasurer,
Social Secretary and Youth and Coaching Coordinator.
TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that pursuant to Articles 40.2, nominations for the election of Trustees must be transmitted to the
Honorary Secretary not less than 21 days prior to the date of Annual General Meeting, and the Proposer and Seconder must be full
Members in Good Standing of at least three years. Pursuant to Article 40.1, candidates for the office of Trustee must, amongst other
requirements, be full Members in Good Standing of at least ten years and be at least 45 years old. The retirement age for the office
of Trustee is 63 years.
NB: Pursuant to Article 39.1.2(a), there is one vacancy available in the Board of Trustees which must be filled by a lady Member.
AGENDA
The business of the Annual general Meeting shall be:
a) To confirm the minutes of the previous Annual General meeting and the Minutes of any outstanding Special (or Extraordinary)
General Meeting.
b) To consider matters arising from the Minutes.
c) To receive the Annual Report of the Management Committee.
d) To receive the Annual Report of the Board of Trustees.
e) To received any other additional Reports it may have directed preparation of at the previous Annual general meeting or that the
Management Committee deems necessary.
f) To receive the Auditors Report and the Statement of Accounts.
g) To appoint the Auditors for the ensuing year.
h) To elect the Office Bearers of the Club in accordance with the Constitution.
i) To elect Trustees in accordance with the Constitution if there are any vacancies in the Board of Trustees.
j) To consider such Motions as may be placed on the Agenda circulated to Members in accordance with Article 48.4.2.
Note:
(i) This notice has been sent by email and all subsequent communications shall be by email only. Pursuant to Article 23.3.1, it is the
duty of each Member to supply the Club Manager with his/her latest electronic address.
NOTICE & AGENDA OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING SCHEDULED FOR 27TH JUNE 2014
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
36 | Business News
Business Pictorial
GDC boss Silas Simiyu distributes maize to Baringo County residents.
The rm donated over 2,000 bags of maize and beans to Baringo and
Turkana counties in response hunger that has gripped the area.
From left: Ranger Motors Arbi Mussani receives a cheque from Equa-
torial Commercial Bank Abigael Mutemi, Shamira Dostmohamed and
Elizabeth Kamau in support of upcoming Rhino Charge event.
Co-operative Banks retail banking director Sam Birech (right)
presents Sh1 million cheque to Inspector General of Police David Ki-
maiyo to support the Kenya Police annual athletics contest 2014.
Truworths customer, Mr John Sulubu, presents books to Truworths
Sarit branch customer relationships boss Rose Atieno. The ongoing
Deacons book donation campaign is in its second year running.
Car and General
regional sales
director, Mr B S
Balaji (centre),
explains how
Cummins genera-
tors and associat-
ed products work
to maintenance
technicians John
Kamau (right), for
Total and
Stephen Mwan-
gangi during a
seminar held at
Panari Hotel.
Exclamation Marketing head, Ms Susan Omanga (right), at the launch
of Dr Jennifer Ririas A History of Higher Education in Kenya. On the left
is former KWF board chairperson Beatrice Maingi.
MTN Business Kenya head Tom Omariba presents Business TV cat-
egory prize to NTVs Abby Agina during the Media Council Journalism
Award. MTN sponsored the category to a tune Sh200,000.
The University of Nairobi chancellor, Dr Vijoo Rattansi (fourth right),
with the varsitys top managers visiting the UNEs stand during the 5th
University of Nairobi Open Day.
Mission for Essential Drugs and Supplies boss Paschal Manyuru (right)
gives a bag to St Lukes Mission Hospital monitoring and evaluation
head Haron Sitienei for attending the organisations forum in Nyeri.
Scania EA boss Per Holmstrom hands over Scania F310 luxury school
bus to Kisumu Girls High School principal, Ms Akinyi. The bus features
the latest in music system and LED screen experience.
Left to Right: Asset Finance chiefs Benson Bikuri and Eli Roimen re-
ceive the second runners-up Best Micronance Bank certicate dur-
ing the Think Business banking awards.
Left to right: Privatisation Commission chair Peter Kimuyu, board
member Mugambi Nandi, investment secretary Esther Kiomett and
CMA chairman Kungu Gatabaki during a stakeholders forum.
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
37
TENDER NO. TENDER DESCRIPTION ELIGIBILITY
MC/1/2014-2016 Supply and delivery of Perishable and Non-perishable
foodstuff.
Youth ,Women
Groups & PWD
MC/2/2014-2016 Supply and delivery of timber and related items Open
MC/3/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for Supply and delivery of
Uniforms and protective clothing.
Open
MC/4/2014-2016 Supply and delivery of building, construction and hardware
materials.
Open
MC/5/2014-2016 Supply and delivery of farm inputs and animal feeds. Open
MC/6/2014-2016 Supply of general stationery and computer consumables. Open
MC/7/2014-2016 Supply and delivery of electrical items and fitting Open
MC/8/2014-2016 Supply and delivery of P.O.L and Firewood and cooking Gas Open
MC/9/2014-2016 Supply and delivery of pipes and fittings. Open
MC/10/2014-2016 Supply and delivery of Tires, Tubes. Open
MC/11/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for supply and delivery of
motor vehicle spare parts and batteries
Open
MC/12/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for the repair and servicing of
G.K vehicles, Cycles and Generators
Open
MC/13/2014-2016 Supply and delivery of cleaning materials. Youth ,Women
Groups & PWD
MC/14/2014-2016 Supply and delivery of paints and thinners Open
MC/15/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for repairs and servicing of
office Machines and computers.
Youth ,Women
Groups & PWD
MC/16/2014-2016 Provision of courier services and supply of airtime. Youth ,Women
Groups & PWD
MC/17/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for building works (Must be
registered with National Construction Authority.(NCA 7 and
above)
Open
MC/18/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for water, Borehole /irrigation
construction works (Must be registered with Environment,
Water and Natural Resources).
Open
MC/19/2014-2016 Pre-qualification for electrical for Electrical works Open
MC/20/2014-2016 Provision of printing and binding of documents service. Open
MC/21/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for the supply & delivery of
office Machines, equipments.
Open
MC/22/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for the supply and delivery of
office.furnitures & other fittings
Open
MC/23/2014-2016 Provision of insurance services. Open
MC/24/2014-2016 Provision of tree planting and beautification (of Towns)
services.
Youth ,Women
Groups & PWD
MC/25/2014-2016 Supply and delivery of firefighting equipment. Open
MC/26/2014-2016 Pre-qualification for the supply, delivery and commissioning
of streetlights. (Open for firms registered with Kenya energy
regulatory authority)
Open
MC/27/2014-2016 Provision of cleaning and garbage collection services. Youth ,Women
Groups & PWD
MC/28/2014-2016 Provision of Transport Hire(saloon Cars,Buses,Lorries ) and
Towing services.( attach logbooks to prove ownership)
Open
MC/29/2014-2016 Supply and delivery of Pharmaceuticals Open
MC/30/2014-2016 Supply and delivery of non-pharmaceuticals Open
MC/31/2014-2016 Supply and delivery of Laboratory Reagents and Glassware Open
MC/32/2014-2016 Supply and delivery of vetenary Drugs Open
MC/33/2014-2016 Supply of Sport Equipment, Protective Clothing and
Uniforms.
Youth ,Women
Groups & PWD
MC/34/2014-2016 Provision of Air Ticketing Services(IATA registered firms only) Open
MC/35/2014-2016 Pre-qualification for Provision of Fumigation and Pest Control
Services.
Youth & Women
Groups &PWD
MC/36/2014-2016 Pre-qualification for Provision of Cleaning Services (including
Curtains, Carpets, etc).
Youth ,Women
Groups & PWD
MC/37/2014-2016 Pre-qualification for Provision of Exhaustion Services (for
Septic Tanks and Pit Latrines).
Open
MC/38/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for Provision of Legal
Services.
Open
MC/39/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for Provision of (property/
assets/land ) Valuation Services
Open
TENDER NOTICE
MC/40/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for Provision of Environmental
Impact Assessment and Audit Services.
Open
MC/41/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for Provision of Sanitary
Services.
Youth ,Women
Groups & PWD
MC/42/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for the Provision of Hotels,
Conference and Accommodation Services
Open
MC/43/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for the supply and delivery of
ICT Equipment and accessories.
Open
MC/44/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for Provision of Public
relations, Advertising Agency and Media Management
services.
Open
MC/45/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for Provision Repair and
Maintenance of Office Furniture and Fittings services
Youth ,Women
Groups & PWD
MC/46/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for Repair and Maintenance
of Air Conditioners.
Youths
MC/47/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for roads construction and
maintenance works.( Labour based)
Youth ,Women
Groups & PWD
MC/48/2014-2016 Hire of Trucks, Bulldozers, Graders, shovels and excavators
for road works, garbage collection and transportation. (Attach
logbooks as prove of ownership.)
Open
MC/49/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for the Supply and delivery of
power Generators.
Open
MC /50/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for Provision of mechanical
and plumbing works.
Open
MC/ 51/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for Supply and delivery of tree
seedlings, dry manure, red soil and Seedling polythene bags.
Youth ,Women
Groups & PWD
MC/ 52/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for Provision of Digital
Advertising services
(Open)
MC/ 53/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for provision of security
services
Open
MC/ 54/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for provision of collection and
recycling of waste papers, polythene bags and metals.
Youths
MC/ 55/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for road works. (Must be
registered with NCA category 7 and above.)
Open
MC/ 56/2014-2016 Pre-qualification of contractors for fencing of markets,
construction of market water bone toilets and pit latrines
Youth ,Women
Groups & PWD
MC/57/2014-2016 Supply and delivery of X-Ray and Dental Materials. Open

Documents with detailed information can be obtained from the County Headquarter/Sub county
Supply Chain Management Offices (Awendo, Kuria west,Kuria East,Uriri,Migori, Rongo and
Nyatike upon payment of a Non-refundable fee of Kshs. 1,000/= per set of document.
Interested applicant must:
a) Attach a copy of Business Registration Certificates.
b) Attach a copy of PIN and VAT Certificates (where applicable.)
c) Attach copy of valid tax compliance certificate (where applicable).
d) Women groups, Youth groups and PWD MUST attach registration certificates, Group
constitution and introductory letter from their respective sub-county social service officers.
The price quoted where applicable, MUST be inclusive of All Government taxes (VAT AND OTHERS)
and shall remain valid for at least 90 days from closing date of the Tenders.
Complete tender document in plain sealed envelope bearing no identification of the tenderers and
clearly marked tender No..should be deposited in the Tender Box situated at the entrance
to the respective Deputy Commissioner Offices or sent to:
Interim County Secretary
P.O BOX 195-40400
Suna-Migori
So as to reach him/her on or before Thursday, 10
th
June 2014 at 10.00 a.m. The tender will be
opened immediately thereafter and applicants or their representatives who wish to attend are free to
witness the opening.
The Government reserves the right to reject or accept any Tender in whole or in part and it is not
bound to give reasons thereof.
Interim Head, Supply Chain Management Services
For: Governor
MIGORI COUNTY
Tenders are invited from registered and competent contractors for the supply and delivery of Goods, Works and Services to the Migori County Government institutions. AS
and WHEN REQUIRED for the Financial Year ending 30
th
June, 2016
MIGORI COUNTY GOVERNMENT
MIGORI COUNTY, P.O BOX 195-40400,SUNA-MIGORI KENYA
Telegrams: MIGORI COUNTY, Tel:+254-059-20928, E-mail:migoricountygov@gmail.com
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
38 |
UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
TENDER NOTICE
http://procurement.uonbi.ac.ke
The University of Nairobi invites interested and qualied bidders for the following tenders;
CATEGORY A
Tender Number Tender Name Tender Fee
(Ksh.)
Bid Bond
(Ksh.)
Closing Date
UON/T/49/2013-2014 Supply of Re-roong Materials for the department of Animal
Production, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences.
1,000.00 10,000.00 Tuesday 10
th
June 2014 at
10.30am
UON/T/50/2013-2014 Supply, Installation & Commissioning of Equipment for Embryo
Laboratory Project for Department of Clinical Studies.
1,000.00 10,000.00 Tuesday 10
th
June 2014 at
2.30pm
UON/T/51/2013-2014 Supply, Installation & Commissioning of a Histopathology
Tissue Processor at the College of Agriculture and Veterinary
Sciences.
1,000.00 10,000.00 Wednesday 11
th
June 2014
at 10.30 AM
UON/T/52/2013-2014 Supply, Installation and Commissioning of Two (2) Heavy Duty
Photocopying Machines at the Main Campus.
1,000.00 10,000.00 Thursday 12
th
June 2014 at
10.30 am
UON/T/53/2013-2014 Proposed Refurbishment of Physics Laboratory at Chiromo
Campus
1,000.00 10,000.00 Friday 13
th
June 2014 at
10.30 am
UON/T/54/2013-2014 Supply, Installation and Commissioning of Generator at the
Dental Plaza.
1,000.00 10,000.00 Monday 16
th
June 2014 at
10.30am
UON/T/55/2013-2014 Proposed Structured Cabling at UNES Head Ofce. 1,000.00 10,000.00 Tuesday 17
th
June 2014 at
10.30 am
UON/T/56/2013-2014 Supply, Installation and Commissioning of Digital VHF Radio. 1,000.00 10,000.00 Wednesday 18
th
June 2014
at 10.30am
UON/T/57/2013-2014 Supply, Installation and Commissioning of Broadcast Equipments
for the School of Journalism & Mass Communication.
1,000.00 10,000.00 Thursday 19
th
June 2014 at
10.30am
UON/T/58/2013-2014 Tender for Supply of Cleaning Materials to the University of
Nairobi Business Center.
1,000.00 10,000.00 Friday 20
th
June 2014 at
10.30am
CATEGORY B
Tender Number Tender Name Closing Date
UON/T/59/2013-2014 Pre-qualication of Suppliers for the Supply of common food stuffs to Various
SWA Kitchens
Monday 23
rd
June 2014 at 10.30am
UON/T/60/2013-2014 Pre-qualication of Consultants. Tuesday 24
th
June 2014 at 10.30am
UON/T/61/2013-2014 Pre-qualication of Contractors for Small Works. Wednesday 25
th
June 2014 at 10.30 am
UON/T/62/2013-2014 Pre-qualication of Suppliers for Supply of General Hardware materials,
timber, Building Materials and Plumbing Items.
Thursday 26
th
June 2014 at 10.30am
UON/T/63/2013-2014 Pre-qualication of Suppliers for General Printing Services Friday 27
th
June 2014 at 10.30am
UON/T/64/2013-2014 Pre-qualication of Suppliers for Book Printing Services. Monday 30
th
June 2014 at 10.30am
UON/T/65/2013-2014 Pre-qualication of Suppliers for Supply of Ofce Furniture. Tuesday 2
nd
July 2014 at 10. 30am
UON/T/66/2013-2014 Tender for Supply of Cleaning Materials to the University of Nairobi Business
Center from the Youth, Women and Persons With Disability.
Wednesday 3
rd
July 2014 at 10.30am
The tender documents in category A with further detailed information may be obtained from The Procurement Manager University of
Nairobi, Main Campus, Main Administration Block 1
st
Floor Room A104 during normal working hours from Monday to Friday between
8:00am and 5:00pm, upon payment of a non-refundable cash fee deposit of Kshs 1,000.00 (Kenya Shillings one thousand only) at
Barclays Bank Ac. No. 094-8245531 Queensway House Branch and thereafter obtaining an ofcial receipt from Gandhi Wing Room
G4.
Tenders in category A should be accompanied by bid bonds as stated above in the form of bank guarantee or Insurance Company
guarantee approved by the Public Procurement Oversight Authority, or a letter of credit or guarantee by a deposit taking Micronance
institution, Sacco Society, the Youth Enterprise development fund or women enterprise fund which must be attached to the tender
document.
Tenders for Prequalication of Suppliers Shall Be Under a Two Years Contract
Prices quoted must be NET, inclusive of all applicable taxes, levies etc. and delivery charges to the University of Nairobi and MUST
remain valid for One Hundred and Twenty Days (120) days from the closing date of the tender.
All pre-qualication documents shall be downloaded FREE OF CHARGE from Website: procurement.uonbi.ac.ke. Bidder(s) who
download the document(s) must immediately forward their names and contact details to: managerprocurement@uonbi.ac.ke. They are
also advised to regularly visit the above website to obtain any additional information/addendum on the tenders.
The completed tender documents must be submitted in plain sealed envelope marked with tender Number and description to: The
Procurement Manager/Secretary, University of Nairobi Tender Committee, P. O. Box 30197- 00100, Nairobi. The tender documents
should be placed inside the Tender Box at the reception area, Administration Block, Main Campus on or before the closing date.
Opening will be done on the same day thereafter at the Council Committee Room in the presence of tenderers or their representatives
who choose to attend.
Late bids will be rejected and returned unopened. The University of Nairobi reserves the right to accept or reject a tender in whole or in
part. Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualication
PROCUREMENT MANAGER
UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT NAIROBI
MILIMANI COMMERCIAL COURTS
HIGH COURT CIVIL CASE NO. 998 OF 2002
MOBIL OIL KENYA LIMITED .................................. PLAINTIFF
-v e r s u s -
JOHN KHAMISI SHABAAN .............................. DEFENDANT
SUBSTITUTED SERVICE BY ADVERTISEMENT
(Under Order 5 rule 17 of the Civil Procedure Rules & Pursuant to an Order of the
High Court of Kenya, Commercial &Admiralty Division made on 3rd April, 2014)
TO: JOHN KHAMISI SHABAAN
MOMBASA
TAKE NOTICE that a Notice To Show Cause Why Execution Should Not
Issue against you has been issued by the High Court of Kenya, Commercial
& Tax Division at Milimani Commercial Courts Nairobi in Civil Suit Number
998 of 2002, in which you are named as the Judgement Debtor. Service of
the said Notice To Show Cause on you has been ordered by means of this
advertisement. A copy of the Notice to Show Cause may be obtained from the
High Court, Commercial & Tax Division, Milimani Commercial Courts Nairobi
Registry P.O.Box 30420 Nairobi.
AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that unless you attend the said Court on
Thursday 26th June, 2014 for the Hearing of the said Notice To Show Cause,
execution will issue against you your absence notwithstanding.
DATED at Nairobi, the 26th day of May, 2014
AMIN & COMPANY
ADVOCATES FOR THE PLAINTIFF/DECREE HOLDER

Drawn by:-
Amin & Company
Advocates
Nairobi HiltonBuilding, First Floor
Mama Ngina Street
P.O. Box 25241-00603
NAIROBI
The International Peace Support Training Centre
(IPSTC) is a Research and Training institution
focusing on regional peace support capacity building to
respond to conflicts through preventive, management,
recovery and peace building measures.
PROJECT MANAGER
IPSTC is seeking for an experienced and highly
motivated person to fill the above mentioned position.
For full application details go to:
http://www.ipstc.org/careers.aspx
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
DAILY NATION
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39
UNDP Kenya invites applications for the following Expression of
Interest (EOI).
Position Information
Post Title:
Agency:
Contract Type:
Direct Supervisor:
Duration:
International Individual Consultants
UNDP Kenya
Individual Contract
Team Leader
Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention
Programme
One(1) Year Long Term Agreement,
renewable subject to performance
Date of Issue:
Closing Date:
26 May 2014
6 June 2014
Please see the Terms of Reference, the P11 form, the Individual
Contract Proposal form and the Terms and Conditions of
Individual Contracts by visiting the UNDP Kenya Website:
-http://www.ke.undp.org/content/kenya/en/home/operations/
procurement; or the UNDP HQ website;
http://procurement-notices.undp.org
UNDP Kenya reserves the right to accept or reject any
submissions.
United Nations Development Programme
Vacancy Announcement
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI) FROM INTERNATIONAL
INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANTS
BUILDING COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP CAPACITY FOR
GOOD GOVERNANCE
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT NAIROBI
ELC NO. 319 OF 2010
MANASSEH YAMINA SASIDA...........................................................................PLAINTIFF
-VS-
JANE K. ISANDA ...................................................................................1ST DEFENDANT
ALFRED MATHENGE NGARI ...............................................................2ND DEFENDANT
CITY COUINCIL OF NAIROBI ...............................................................3RD DEFENDANT
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ..................................................................4TH DEFENDANT
SUBSTITUTED SERVICE BY ADVERTISMENT (ORDER V RULE 17
(Pursuant to orders of the court granted on 8th April, 2014)
To: Jane K. Isanda, NAIROBI
Alfred Mathenge Ngari, NAIROBI
TAKE NOTICE that a Plaint has been filed in the Registry at Milimani High Court ELC
section at Nairobi Civil case No. ELC No. 395 of 2010 in which you are named as the
1st and 2nd defendants. Service of summons to enter appearance has been ordered by
means of this advetising. A copy of the Plaint can be obtained from the registry at the High
Court of Kenya ELC section Milimani Law Court.
TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that unless you enter appearance within 15 days from the date
hereof the suit will be heard notwithstanding your absence
DATED at Nairobi this 23rd day of May 2014
KHAMINWA & KHAMINWA
ADVOCATES FOR THE PLAINTIFF
DRAWN AND FILED BY:
Khaminwa & Khaminwa, Advocates,
George Padmore Road, Off Marcus Garvey,
P.O. Box 43758- 00100, NAIROBI
CAVEAT EMPTOR
LAND REFERENCE NUMBER 330/56 - NAIROBI

TAKE NOTICE that our clients PETER IGIRIA MUTHIORA and PAULINE
WAMAITHA IGIRIA both of Post Office Box Number 54674, Nairobi are the
sole registered proprietors of ALL THAT PIECE OF LAND known as L. R.
No. 330/56 Gitanga Road, Lavington, Nairobi.
It has come to our clients information and knowledge that a certain
individual using a fake Conveyance dated 5th May 2004 has obtained a
fake title and is fraudulently passing himself off as the owner of L.R 330/
56 - Nairobi comprising One Decimal Nought Four Two (1.042) acres or
thereabouts.
Our clients have been informed that the said individual is in the process of
purporting to sell the said parcel of land to unsuspecting members of the
public.
Members of the Public are hereby warned that any purported sale of L.R.
Number 330/56 - Nairobi shall be fraudulent and of no effect whatsoever.
Members of the public are further warned that the matter of the acquisition
of the title fraudulently is presently being investigated by the police.
TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that our clients have not authorized any
person to deal with the parcel of land known as L.R. No. 330/56 - Nairobi
or any part thereof whereof by sale, lease or otherwise howsoever. Any
person entering into any dealings regarding the said parcel of land without
the express consent of our clients aforesaid, the registered proprietors will
be doing so at his/her own risk and our clients will not be liable to such
persons for any consequences arising out of such dealing.
DATED at NAIROBI this 21st day of May 2014
KIMANI KAHIRO &ASSOCIATES
ADVOCATES FOR PETER IGIRIA MUTHIORA AND
PAULINE WAMAITHA IGIRIA
DRAWN BY:
KIMANI KAHIRO & ASSOCIATES
ADVOCATES
PENSION TOWERS, 14TH FLOOR
LOITA STREET
P. O. BOX 8325-00100
NAIROBI
UNDP Kenya invites applications for the following short
term consultancy with Business Call to Action (BCtA):
Position Information
Post Title:
Agency:
Contract Type:
Direct Supervisor:
Duration:
National Individual Consultant
UNDP Kenya on behalf of BCtA
and partners
Individual Contract
BCtA Program Manager
Nine (9) months
Date of Issue:
Closing Date:
26 May 2014
4 June 2014
Please see the Terms of Reference, the P11 form, the
Individual Contract Proposal form and the Terms and
Conditions of Individual Contracts by visiting the UNDP
Kenya Website: - http://www.ke.undp.org/content/
kenya/en/home/operations/procurement
UNDP Kenya reserves the right to accept or reject any
submissions.
Vacancy Announcement
NATIONAL INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT
OUTREACH ACTIVITIES FOR THE BUSINESS CALL TO
ACTION (BCtA)
INDU FARM (EPZ) LTD
PUBLIC NOTICE
Indu Farm (EPZ) LTD wishes to notify all our suppliers, customers and
general public that Julius Magiri Mburunga ID No.7410035, Shadrack
Kimani Muthiga ID NO. 10658999 whose pictures appear here are no
longer employees of this company and they ceased to serve as Field
Coordinators effective of August 2013.
They are no longer authorized to transact any business on behalf of the
company neither will we be responsible nor liable for any transactions
purportedly executed by the mentioned persons.
Shadrack Kimani Muthiga
ID NO. 10658999
Julius Magiri Mburunga
ID No.7410035
THE PRESIDENCY
MINISTRY OF INTERIOR AND COORDINATION OF NATIONAL
GOVERNMENT MACHAKOS COUNTY
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
SUB COUNTIES - MACHAKOS, MWALA,ATHI RIVER, KANGUNDO, KATHIANI
AND MATUNGULU.
TENDER NOTICE (2014 2015)
Tenders are invited from interested and eligible bidders for the supply /provision
of goods, works and services on, AS and WHEN REQUIRED BASISto National
Government Departments and Institutions within Machakos County for the financial
year 2014-2015 ending 30
th
June 2015.
MKS/COU/1/2014-2015 - Supply and Delivery of Dry foods, fresh Fruits and Vegetables
MKS/COU/2/2014-2015 - Supply and Delivery of Meat, Chicken and Eggs
MKS/COU/3/2014-2015 - Supply and Delivery of Farm inputs, Animal feeds,Veterinary
drugs and Human Medical Drugs.
MKS/COU/4/2014-2015 - Supply and Delivery of (POL), Petrol, Oils, Lubricants, Gas
and Wood fuel.
MKS/COU/5/2014-2015 - Supply and Delivery of Motor Vehicle Batteries, Tyres, and
Tubes
MKS/COU/6/2014-2015 - Supply and Delivery of Detergents and Cleaning materials
MKS/COU/7/2014-2015 - Supply and Delivery of Natural Building materials, Cement,
Timber and Paint.
MKS/COU/8/2014-2015 - Supply and Delivery of Stationery and Assorted Toners
MKS/COU/9/2014-2015 - Supply and Delivery of Hardware, Tools and Watertanks
MKS/COU/10/2014-2015 - Supply and Delivery of Pipes, Fittings andElectrical Appliances
MKS/COU/11/2014-2015 - Supply and Delivery of Seedlings, Manure and Red soil
MKS/COU/12/2014-2015 - Supply and Delivery of Hair Dressing and Beauty Therapy
Materials and Equipment.
MKS/COU/13/2014-2015 - Supply and Delivery of Uniforms and Protective Equipment
MKS/COU/14/2014-2015 - Provision of Security Services
MKS/COU/15/2014-2015 - Provision of Meals (Police Cells)
MKS/COU/16/2014-2015 - Prequalification for the Supply of Office Equipment, Computers,
Printers and Accessories
MKS/COU/17/2014-2015 - Pre-qualification of Contractors for Repair and Service of Office
Machines, Computers and Photocopiers
MKS/COU/18/2014-2015 - Pre-qualification of Contractors for Repair and service of G.K
Vehicles, Motor Cycles, Plant and Equipment
MKS/COU/19/2014-2015 - Prequalification of Works for Maintenance and Renovation of
Government Houses
MKS/COU/20/2014-2015 - Pre-qualification of Contractors for Supply and Delivery of Spare
parts for G.K Vehicles, Motor Cycles, Plant and Equipment
MKS/COU/21/2014-2015 - Pre-qualification of Contractors for Building Construction, Water
Works and Drilling of Boreholes
Tender documents with detailed specifications may be obtained from the office ofThe County
Procurement Offices, Machakosupon payment of a Non refundable fee of Ksh. 1,000
(One Thousand shillings) in cash at the Machakos County Treasury,OR,bankers Cheque
payable to The County Commissioner, Machakos County.
NB: Prequalification documents are free. (Bring along a flash disk).
Interested eligible bidders MUST attach Certified Copies of:
(i) VAT & PIN Certificates,
(ii) Valid Tax Compliance certificate
(iii) Certificate of Business Registration and/or Incorporation.
(iv) Valid business permit
(v) Certificate of Registration from the Directorate of Procurement under AGPO.
Prices quoted MUST be net inclusive of all applicable taxes and must remain valid for 120
days from the closing date of tender. Bidders interested in Tenders for Building Construction
and Water works MUST be registered with the National Construction Authority. Proof of
registration MUST be provided.
Completed tender documents in plain sealed envelopes clearly marked, Tender No.
.,addressed to:
THE COUNTY COMMISSIONER
MACHAKOS COUNTY, P.O. BOX 1 - 90100, MACHAKOS
and be deposited in the Tender Box situated at the County Commissioners office, on or
before Monday,16
th
June 2014 at 11.00am.
Tenders will be opened immediately thereafter in the presence of bidders or their
representatives who may wish to attend at the County Commissioners Boardroom.
HEAD, SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SERVICES
FOR:COUNTY COMMISSIONER, MACHAKOS COUNTY
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EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY
LAKE VICTORIA BASIN COMMISSION SECRETARIAT
Tel: 254-57-2026324
Fax: 254-57-2026324
E-mail: lvbc@lvbcom.org
P.O. Box 1510-40100
KISUMU, KENYA
INVITATION TO TENDER FOR THE PRE-QUALIFICATION/SUPPLY FOR/OF
PROVISION OF GOODS AND SERVICES FOR THE FININCIAL YEAR 2014-2015.

REFERENCE: LVBC/2014-2015/PQGS

Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) is a specialised institution of EAC that responsible for
coordinating the sustainable development agenda of the Lake Victoria Basin.
The Commission has set aside funds for Pre-qualification for Provision/procure goods and services
and would like to invite tenders for the supply of the Goods and Services for Financial Year 2014-
2015.
Tender Conditions:
1. Tenders will provide the following information: Company Name, Physical and Postal address,
Current Trading Licence, Certificate of Registration/Incorporation, Tax Identification Number
and VAT Certificate.
2. Tenders shall be quoted in United States Dollars (US$) and prices should be inclusive of VAT,
handling and delivery to lake Victoria Basin Commission Stores located on the 6
th
Floor of Re-
Insurance Plaza Building. The Commission will not pay or reimburse any expense incurred by
any entity intending to bid in response to this tender.
3. Any request for clarification must be received by the Commission in writing at least 7 days before
deadline for submission of tenders.
4. Sealed bids must be submitted in original and one copy accompanied by a CD ROM/ flash disk
filled according to schedule for requirements and price
5. Your sealed bids in plain envelop, clearly marked INVITATION TO TENDER FOR THE SUPPLY
OF --------MENTION THE TENDER accompanied with non-refundable tender fee of USD 50 in
bankers Cheque.
6. The closing date is Wednesday 25th June 2014 at 15.00 hours, local time followed by public
opening for bidders or representatives who choose to attend.
7. Please note, the Commission is not bound to accept the lowest or any other bid and any
canvassing will be used as ground for disqualification.
8. You may collect hard copies of detailed Tender documents at the reception on the address
indicated below starting from Thursday 29
th
May 2014.
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
LAKE VICTORIA BASIN COMMISSION
P. O. BOX 1510-40100
KISUMU, RE-INSURANCE PLAZA BUILDING 6
th
FLOOR
e-mail- lvbc@lvbcom.org, Fax + 254 57-2026324, Tel + 254 57 2026344
Note: The bankers Cheque should be drawn to Lake Victoria Basin Commission Secretariat.
EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY
LAKE VICTORIA BASIN COMMISSION SECRETARIAT
Tel: 254-57-2026324
Fax: 254-57-2026324
E-mail: lvbc@lvbcom.org
P.O. Box 1510-40100
KISUMU, KENYA
Invitation for Bids (IFB)
THE PROPOSED OFFICE REMODELLING, PARTIONING AND INTERIOR FIT OUT
AT THE NEW NYANZA PROVINCIAL HEADQUARTERS IN KISUMU (12th and 13th
FLOOR)
TENDER No. LVBC/SITC_NYANZA/05/14
1. The East African Community / Lake Victoria Basin Commission (EAC/LVBC) has received financing from the Partner
States towards the cost of remodelling, partitioning and interior fit out at the 12
th
and 13
th
floor at the new Nyanza
Provincial Headquarters in Kisumu.
2. The Lake Victoria Basin Commission Secretariat now invites sealed bids from eligible and qualified bidders for the
remodelling, partitioning and interior fit out at the 12
th
and 13
th
floor at the new Nyanza Provincial Headquarters in
Kisumu as detailed in the Tender Document.
3. Bidding will be conducted through the National Competitive Bidding (NCB) procedures as per the EAC procurement
guidelines and is open to all bidders. Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information from The Secretary,
LVBC Tender Committee, Lake Victoria Basin Commission Secretariat, e-mail bateta@lvbcom.org or
mwinjaka@lvbcom.org and inspect the tender documents at the address given below from Monday to Friday 8.00
am to 5.00 pm.
4. Qualifications requirements include: The bidder should be registered in an eligible country, have at least three years
experience in remodelling, partitioning and interior fit out. The bidder should also demonstrate experience in building
works, electrical Installation, mechanical installation, structured cabling and associated works. He / she must have
a strong background in fit out and joinery works and must be registered with the National Construction Authority in
Category NCA4. Additional details are provided in the Bidding Documents. A complete set of Bidding Documents
in English may be purchased by interested bidders on the submission of a written application to the address below
and upon payment of a non refundable fee of Kenya Shillings 5,000. The method of payment will be by Bankers
Cheque, drawn in favour of Lake Victoria Basin Commission. The Bidding Documents may be collected from
LVBC Secretariats Offices located at Oginga Oginga Street, 6
th
floor, Reinsurance Plaza, Kisumu, Kenya or sent by
courier at the bidders expense.
5. Bids must be delivered to the address below at or before 10.00 a.m. on Friday, 20
th
June, 2014. Electronic bidding
will not be permitted. Late bids will be rejected. Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders representatives,
who choose to attend in person at the address below at 11.00 a.m. on Friday, 20
th
June, 2014. All bids must
accompany by a Bid Security in Kenya Shillings or equivalent in a freely convertible currency as described in the Bid
document.
The address referred to above is:
Executive Secretary
Lake Victoria Basin Commission
Re-insurance Building, 6
th
Floor,
P.O. Box 1510-40100, Kisumu, Kenya
Phone: +254 57 202 6344
E-mail: mwinjaka@lvbcom.org
Website : www.lvbcom.org
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Sudoku with Steers
ACROSS
1 Noticed train replaced
coach (12)
8 Keep umpire before
shower (7)
9 A French monsieur of
French team turned straight
(7)
11 Simple stone surrounded
by gold before (7)
12 Urgent court sessions
start for ushers (7)
13 Impulsive grass crossing
good man (5)
14 One adds extra weight to
ass (9)
16 Laces a gin cocktail
relieving pain (9)
19 Declare money reserve (5)
21 Pub drink, say, for one of
us (7)
23 Least quiet at rear of car
(7)
24 Most grisly wounds ringing
one toreadors head (7)
25 Embraced by lover, rangers
overwhelmed (7)
26 Corsican with Etna
erupting
over the sea (12)
DOWN
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new works (7)
2 Covering music by Queen in
empty display (7)
3 Criminal suspect almost
supported by American
agreement (9)
4 Slice right on using new
driver initially (5)
5 Nearly dead on time with
large gure (7)
6 Conveyance of burden in
charge of sailor (7)
7 Spectacular that explodes in
disintegration (12)
10 Emerge in sad shambles
with time dierence (12)
15 Break down code some
altered penning page (9)
17 In case of accidents more
secure with him? (7)
18 Researched turning up
information about old sh (7)
19 Is youth able to drink
bottle? (7)
20 Scam bricklayers pinching
material (7)
22 Real tailor oddly giving
proportion (5)
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being open and honesty
7. Holy song or hymn
especially those in the Old
Testament
8. Medicinal preparation
spread on cloth and applied
to the body
10. A rocky peak of a hill
11. To cease motion, labour
or exertion
13. Energy, vigour
14. Nought
16. A small moist lump as
of butter
18. Bad name or reputation
(3-4)
20. Thick unleavened
dough, boiled and served
with a sauce
21. Administrative capital
of Uganda
DOWN:
1. Member of the ancient
Christian church of Egypt
2. To get close to
3. To make a selection
between two or more
alternatives
4. Utilisers
5. Infrequent
6. A particle of soot
9. A theatre box
12. To shut as a door
violently and noisily
13. W. African river owing
through Ghana and
draining into the Gulf of
Guinea
14. Zimbabwean African
Peoples Union (abbrev.)
15. Peril
16. Computer information
17. 2nd letter of the Greek
alphabet
19. To beat or thrash
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AQUARIUS | JAN 21 - FEB 19
Its a day when you will either free blocked by
matters beyond your control or be forced to
make a move that you have been thinking about
for some time. If the later is true I think you will
agree that its about time, so get cracking and
then when this evening comes you will have
reason to celebrate.
PISCES | FEB 20 - MAR 20
You feel oppressed or inhibited by the stars
right now but the only way they can hurt you is
through your Achilles heel and luckily you are the
only one who knows exactly where that is. This
is an ideal time for dealing with basic thoughts
within yourself.
ARIES | MAR 21 - APR 20
There is a rather unexpected and perhaps tense
feel about this day. However what transpires
is likely to be important for the remainder of
the month so stay alert and be ready to grab
opportunities should they arise..
TAURUS | APR 21 - MAY 20
You may not be able to move quite as quickly
as you would like today, but you should at least
be able to take one step and that is better than
nothing. It looks as if you will want to advance
further but in order to do so it seems that you
need to pass some kind of test. You must set
your life on a new path.
GEMINI | MAY 21 - JUNE 21
This is an important time to let talents shine
through but dont expect those in positions
of power to stop and take notice. Dont be
disheartened because the situation will soon
change and then you will be able to participate in
some sensible discussions .
CANCER | JUN 22 - JULY 22
You may begin the day feeling quite restrained
and self - controlled but as the hours pass you
feel less inclined to hide your intentions or even
your emotions. The people closest to you might
be just as upfront, but at least you will take
action rather than sitting around waiting for
others to act,
LEO | JULY 23 - AUG 22
If you happen to have any friends or contacts
abroad they are likely to be getting in touch with
you. Further more, this is an excellent time for
those involved in higher education, because your
mind is working at the speed of light, and it is
also ecient.
VIRGO | AUG 23 - SEP 23
Your thinking will be much more straight forward
than it has been for a while. Furthermore, any
short trips you want to take will be less fraught
with aggravation and even your car or bike
seems to be in A1 condition for a change.
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when you get stuck in a rut, you dont do it by
halves.
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PURPLE ROYAL AUCTIONEERS
Krishna Mansion, 1st Floor, Suite 14, Moktar Daddah Street, Opp.
Jevanjee Gardens P.O. Box 26093-00100 Nbi.
Tel: 020-313696, 2243932 Mobile: 0713-562094 Email:purpleroyaltd@yahoo.com
PUBLIC AUCTION
Under instructions from our principals the chargee, we shall sell by public auction the under
mentioned property with all the improvements and developments thereon.
ON TUESDAY 10
TH
JUNE, 2014 at 11.00.AM OUTSIDE POST OFFICE KANGEMA TOWN.
All that parcel of land known as L.R. LOC 9/KIRURI /563. KANGEMA DISTRICT,
MURANGA COUNTY Registered in the name of MAINA KANYONYO of P. O BOX
39748-00623 NAIROBI.
The property is situated in Kamakwa Village of Kiruri Location in Kangema District, Muranga
County. It lies about 250metres off Kiruri-Gatara Road, approximately 1kilometre to the south of
Kiruri Boys Secondary School and 4 kilometers to the South East of Kiruri Shopping Centre.
The parcel measures approximately 1.44 of hectare or 3.56 acres. It is a rectangular red soil of land
with two road frontages. The land is usually utilized for cultivation of subsistence food crops situated
in a tea growing zone in upper Kangema on eastern slopes of Abadare Ranges. The land is ideal
for growing tea. The immediate access road is earth-surfaced but connects to the gravel-surfaced
Kiruri-Gatara Road. The property is undeveloped and held on free hold interest.
CONDITIONS OF SALE
1. All interested buyers are requested to view the property and verify the details as these are not
warranted by the auctioneers. 2. A deposit of 25% must be paid in form of banker`s cheque at the
fall of the hammer. The balance will be payable within thirty days to the chargees. 3. The conditions
of sale may be obtained from our offices. 4. The sale of the properties is subject to a reserve price
and Land Control Board where applicable.
Duly instructed by our principals the chargees, we shall sell by public auction the under
mentioned properties together with all the improvements erected thereon.
COMMERCIAL (HOTEL) /AGRICULTURAL PROPERTIES WITHIN
RUKANGA AREA OF MAKUTANO KIRINYAGA COUNTY
TO BE SOLD ON FRIDAY 30
TH
MAY 2014 AT 11.00AM AT SAGANA TOWN NEAR
THE POST OFFICE.
(i) Title No. KIINE/RUKANGA/1989 registered in the name of Paul Gichimu Waweru
Guarantor to Mark Farm Fresh Ltd.
NOTE: Freehold property measuring about 0.60 HA (1.4826 Acres) situated along
Makutano - Nyeri road about 1.5KM due North of Makutano Junction in Makutano
town. Erected thereon is a hotel/commercial building (under construction) consisting
of kitchens, shaded restaurant, a swimming pool, wash rooms, a water processing
plant building, staff quarters and other out buildings. Mains water and electricity are
connected.
(ii) Title No. KIINE/RUKANGA/1583 registered in the name of Paul Gichimu Waweru
Guarantor to Mark Farm Fresh Ltd.
NOTE: Freehold property measuring about 2.02 HA (4.99 Acres) situated about 400M
due South East of Ngothi shopping centre that lies about 2.5KM off and to the East of
Makutano Nyeri road. This is an agricultural cum residential plot characterized mainly
by medium scale horticultural and subsistence farming. Mains water services are
connected to the property. There are no structural developments thereon.
(iii) Title No. KIINE/RUKANGA/1633 registered in the name of Paul Gichimu Waweru
Guarantor to Mark Farm Fresh Ltd.
NOTE: Freehold property measuring about 2.42 HA (5.98 Acres) situated about
2.5KM off and to the West of Makutano-Nyeri road branching off at Meved Farm
Shop. It is along Tana River in Rukanga area. The farm is planted with banana trees,
tomatoes, pawpaws and oranges.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY WITHIN MEMBLEY ESTATE OFF THIKA
SUPER HIGHWAY KIAMBU COUNTY
TO BE SOLD ON WEDNESDAY 11
TH
JUNE 2014 AT 11.00AM AT OUR OFFICE
BLESSED HOUSE 2
ND
FLOOR DOOR NO. 5 NGARA ROAD OPPOSITE NGARA
POST OFFICE NAIROBI.
Title No. RUIRU/RUIRU WEST BLOCK 3/1009 registered in the name of Alice Njoki
Ndirangu and Charles Ndirangu Gitonga.
NOTE: Leasehold property for a term of 99 years from 1
st
May 1997 measuring about
0.0297 H.A. situated within Membley Estate about 1.5KM off Thika road deviating at
Kenya Clay factory. It is located a few metres from Safaricom booster and Shepherd
Hardware along Dar salaam road. Erected thereon are 4-bedroom maisonette and a
double storey guest wing. Boundaries are marked by natural stone perimeter wall and
entrance is via a steel gate. Mains water and electricity are connected.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY WITHIN TIMBONI AREA OF WATAMU -
MALINDI DISTRICT.
TO BE SOLD ON WEDNESDAY 18
TH
JUNE 2014 AT 11.00AM AT MALINDI TOWN
NEAR THE POST OFFICE.
Title No. KILIFI/MBARAKA CHEMBE/570 registered in the name of Sammy Japhet
Kavuku.
NOTE: Freehold property measuring about 0.1080H.A. situated within Timboni area of
Watamu in Malindi District Kilifi County off Gede-Watamu road about 400M to the South
West of Giriama Lodge. Erected thereon are 2No. detached single story residential
buildings accommodating four 2-bedroom units, Two 1-bedroom units and four (4)
bedsitters. Mains water and electricity are connected.
CONDITIONS OF SALE
All interested purchasers are requested to view the properties and verify all the
details as these are not warranted by the auctioneers.
A deposit of 25% must be paid at the fall of the hammer in cash or by bankers cheque
and the balance within 30 days to the chargees.
The sale of the properties is subject to the reserve prices.
The auctioneer has a right to reject a bid without giving any reason whatsoever.
Blessed House 2nd Floor Door No. 5, Ngara Road, Ngara
Estate, Opp. Ngara Post Office. P. O Box 32229-00600,
Wireless: 0572513078, Mobile: 0722 705027
Email: info@antiqueauctions.co.ke
rwaweru@antiqueauctions.co.ke
PUBLIC AUCTION
Under instructions received from the chargees advocates, we shall sell by public
auction the under mentioned properties together with buildings and improvements
erected therein.
1. PRIME RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY IN LAVINGTON ESTATE,
NAIROBI
ON TUESDAY THE 3
RD
DAY OF JUNE 2014 AT 11.00 A.M AT OUR OFFICES IN
MUHU HOLDINGS HOUSE
All that parcel of land known as L.R NO. 3734/1101 (I.R 55035) LAVINGTON
ESTATE, NAIROBI registered in the name of JAYNE WANJA MIRITI c/o
SHARLIMON FOODS, P.O BOX 1083-00618 NAIROBI. The subject property is
identifiable as House No. 3L and lies at a cul-de-sac of Njumbi Lane off Njumbi
Road off Chalbi Drive. It is adjacent to Kwetu Villas situated within Lavington
Estate some 9 kms from Nairobi City Centre. It measures approximately 0.1073
of a hectare (0.2651 of an acre) and is developed with part single part double
storey four-bedroomed (master en suite) house, a garage and domestic staff
quarters. The title is freehold interest and mains electricity, piped water and trunk
sewer services are connected to the property. The outstanding rates and accrued
penalties as at 21.11.2013 amount to Kshs103,073
2. PRIME RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY (MAISONETTE) IN
LAVINGTON-NAIROBI
ON TUESDAY THE 27
TH
DAY OF MAY 2014 AT 11.00 A.M AT OUR OFFICES IN
MUHU HOLDINGS HOUSE
All that parcel of land known as L.R NO.5/153 (ORIG. NO. 5/45) MAISONETTE
NO. 2 JIPE CLOSE- OFF KABARSIRAN AVENUE LAVINGTON NAIROBI
registered in the name of ANTHONY MUTHUMBI WACHIRA & BERNADINE
NANJALA MUTHUMBI c/o P.O Box 32243-00600 Nairobi. The property is situated
on Jipe Close, off Kabarsian Avenue, Lavington, approximately 10 kms from the City
Centre of Nairobi. Our subject property is Maisonettee No. 2 (pproximate plinth area
is 3,194 sq.ft.) located in a compound of 15No. similar semidetached maisonettes
collectively known as Jipe Villas and is developed with five-bedrooms (four en
suite), a detached self contained servants quarter and a carport. A common
swimming pool and gate House are also provided. The mother title is leasehold
interest for a term of 99 years w.e.f 01.10.2004 at a revisable annual ground rent of
Kshs83,325 and mains services are connected.
NB: The chargee may finance the successful highest bidder subject to such a
bidder making prior arrangements with the company.
3. PRIME AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY (VACANT LAND)
IN KIANGUA IMENTI SOUTH DISTRICT (WITH RIVER
FRONTAGE)
ON MONDAY THE 9
TH
DAY OF JUNE 2014 AT 12.00 NOON OUTSIDE THE MAIN
POST OFFICE IN CHUKA TOWN
All that parcel of land known as TITLE NO. IGOJI/KIANGUA/2053 IMENTI SOUTH
DISTRICT registered in the name of GEORGE IRERI MUKINDIA T/A GIM FRESH
c/o P.o Box 1181-10400 Nanyuki. The property is in Kiangua Area, Imenti South,
District, Meru county. It is situated off and to the right of Kionyo-Chogoria tarmac
Road, approximately 80 metres East of EAPC Kiangua. It measures approximately
0.51 hectares (1.26 acres) and is undeveloped. The title is freehold interest and
mains water and electricity services are available while drainage would be into a
pit latrine. About
1
/
8
acre upper part of the parcel is taken up by young coffee
bushes while the remaining parts are under tea bushes where smooth
plucking table has been maintained at 2 1 feet high. The property borders the
permanent Maara River.
4. PRIME COMMERCIAL PROPERTY IN JOMO KENYATTA
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT NAIROBI
ON TUESDAY THE 10
TH
DAY OF JUNE 2014 AT 11.00 A.M AT OUR OFFICES IN
MUHU HOLDINGS HOUSE
All that parcel of land known as L.R NO. 9042/583 OFF NORTH AIRPORT
ROAD-JOMO KENYATTA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT NAIROBI registered
in the name of AFRICAN AIRLINES INTERNATIONAL LIMITED c/o P.O Box
74722-00200 Nairobi. The property is situated approximately 70 metres off Airport
North Road within Embakasi area of Nairobi City. It lies adjacent to Kenya Airways
Headquarters and within the extended compound of Jomo Kenyatta International
Airport (JKIA). It measures approximately 1.00 hectare (2.471 acres) and is
developed with a (i) four-storeyed office block whose accommodation comprises:
ground floor: 8no. covered parking lots, reception area, 5 no. small offices first
floor: captains office, 4no. offices, prayer room, kitchenette, gents/ladies each with
WHB and WC, corridor second floor: 8no. small offices, classroom, kitchenette,
gents/ladies each with WHB and WC, corridor third floor: Open plan office, 2 no.
offices (approx. plinth area 8,228 sq ft) (ii) a partly double storeyed workshop
block whose accommodation comprises: ground floor: store with 9No. small
compartments, workshop hall, resting room, 3No. toilet rooms first floor: 9No.
offices, store, corridor (approx. plinth area 7,080 sq ft). The title is leasehold for a
term of 99 years w.e.f 01.06.1995 at a revisable annual ground rent of Kshs400,000
and mains services are connected.
5. PRIME RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES (VACANT PLOTS) IN
NGOINGWA ESTATE THIKA
ON TUESDAY THE 10
TH
DAY OF JUNE 2014 AT 11.00 AT OUR OFFICES IN
MUHU HOLDINGS HOUSE
All these parcels of land known as TITLE NOS. THIKA MUNICIPALITY BLOCK
20/2763 & 2764 NGOINGWA ESTATE THIKA MUNICIPALITY KIAMBU COUNTY
both registered in the name of MICHAEL MWANGI KIMANI & LUCY GATHONI
MARIGA g/t TOP CARE FEEDS c/o P.O Box 8312-00100 Nairobi. The properties
are situated at the cul-de-sac of Gathima Avenue-off Mangu road in Ngoingwa
Estate of Thika Municipality in Kiambu County. Approach is along Gathima Avenue
off Mangu road. Plot No. 2763 measures approximately 0.0342 of a hectare
(0.0845 of an acre) while Plot No. 2764 measures approximately 0.0354 of a
hectare (0.0875 of an acre) and both are undeveloped. The two title are freehold
interest and mains water and electricity services are available for connection while
drainage would be into septic tanks. These are two (2) prime contiguous vacant
plots ripe for development purposes.
6. PRIME AGRICULTURAL (VACANT PLOT 12 ACRES)
PROPERTY IN ISINYA, KAJIADO
ON TUESDAY THE 10
TH
DAY OF JUNE 2014 AT 11.00 A.M AT OUR OFFICES IN
MUHU HOLDINGS HOUSE
All that parcel of land known as L.R NO. KAJIADO/KAPUTIEI-NORTH/9315
ISINYA KAJIADO COUNTY registered in the name of REUBEN MUTUGI
NDEGWA g/t MUTHAIGA VIEW LIMITED c/o P.O Box 3132-00506 Nairobi and/or
c/o P.O Box 55552-00100 Nairobi. The property is situated approximately 600
meters off Pipeline Road, approximately 3 kms to the west of Isinya Town, Isinya
Kajiado County. It measures approximately 4.850 hectares (11.984 acres) and
is undeveloped. The title is freehold interest and mains electricity is available for
connection, water is from a borehole while drainage would be to septic tank.
7. PRIME RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY (VACANT PLOT), IN THE
OUTSKIRTS OF NYERI TOWN
ON WEDNESDAY THE 11
TH
DAY OF JUNE 2014 AT 12.00 NOON OUTSIDE THE
MAIN POST OFFICE IN NYERI TOWN
All that parcel of land known as TITLE NO. THEGENGE/KARIA/2864 NYERI
COUNTY registered in the name of SAMUEL KIBUI MAINA c/o P.O Box 12173-
10100 Nyeri. The plot is situated within Corongi area in the outskirts of Nyeri
Municipality. This is along Ruringu-Kimunyu murrum road, approximately 300
metres off the old Nyeri- Rurungu-Othaya road.Ruringu-Kimunyu road branches off
the old Othaya tarmac road at approximately 3.5 kms from Classic Hotel, along the
new Nyeri-Othaya road. It measures approximately 0.1058 of a hectare or 0.261 of
an acre and is undeveloped. The title is freehold interest and mains electricity and
piped water are available for connection while drainage would be to septic tanks.
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CONDITIONS OF SALE
(1). All intending purchasers are requested to view the property and verify the details as these are not warranted by the auctioneers. (2). A deposit of 25%
must be paid in cash or bankers cheque at the fall of the hammer. The balance will thereafter be payable within thirty (30) days and ninety (90) days for
property No. 2 to the chargees advocates. A bidding deposit of Kshs1million (by way of bankers cheque) will be mandatory for property No.1, 2,
4 & 6 (3). For all the aforementioned property, details of encumbrances including names addresses e.t.c. together with user and any other restrictions plus
rates/rents payable will be made available on request at our offices. (4). Sale of the above property will be subject to reserve prices and land board consent if
applicable. (5). Conditions of sale are available on request at our offices and viewing of property is possible during normal working hours by prior arrangements
with ourselves.


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PUBLIC AUCTION
Under instructions received from our Principals, we shall sell by Public Auction the under
mentioned properties together with all improvements erected thereon.
ON TUESDAY, 10
TH
JUNE 2014 AT 10:30A.M. AT OUR OFFICES NACHA
PLAZA, 3
RD
FLOOR, ROOM 19 ALONG KIJABE ROAW IN NAKURU TOWN
NAKURU HCCC NUMBER 303 OF 1999
DAVID WANJOHI KAMAU =VERSUS= JANE WANJA GACHIENGO
1. A RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY IN BONDENI ESTATE, NAKURU TOWN
All that piece or parcel of land known as TITLE NUMBER NAKURU MUNICIPALITY
BLOCK 13/166 BONDENI ESTATE, NAKURU TOWN. The property is situated
within Ojuka Estate of the expansive Bondeni Estate, Nakuru Town and located
approximately 60m Southeast of the Bondeni Police Station and 20m to Bondeni
Market and approximately 100m to the East of Baharini Primary School. The property
measures 0.0240 Hectares or 0.06 Acres approximately. The property is developed with
a permanent single storey residential building comprising 2No. family units with each unit
accommodating 1No. bedroom. Mains electricity and piped water are connected to the
property while effluent disposal is to a public sewer line. The property is situated in an
area zoned for commercial=cum=residential developments and enjoys close proximity
to Bodeni market and the Bondeni Police Station. The Title is Leasehold interest for
a term of 99 years w.e.f. 1/01/1956 and is registered in the name of JANE WANJA
GACHIENGO.
2. A COMMERCIAL PROPERTY IN NAKURU TOWN C.B.D
All that piece or parcel of land known as TITLE NUMBR NAKURU MUNICIPALITY
BLOCK 10/19 NAKURU TOWN. The property is situated off Mburu Gichua-Bondeni
roads directly opposite Langalanga Matatu Stage within the Nakuru Central Business
District turning East at Bondeni Shell Petrol Station along an access tarmac road for
approximately 65m to reach the subject property which is easily identified as KIRATHIMO
PLAZA. The property measures 0.0237 Ha. or 0.0585 of an Acre approximately. It is
developed with a double storey commercial building with accommodation as follows: -
Ground floor: Small store, a small meter room, 5No. shops each with WC/shower, 2No.
chemists shops each with WC/WHB and stairs up.
Upper Floor: Stairs to landing, 9No. small shops, 4No. standard shops, 3No. WC/
bathrooms, Balcony/walkway.
Mains electricity and piped water are connected to the property while drainage is to the
main sewer. Road of access are tarmac surface. This is a prime commercial property
situated in the central hub of Nakuru Town. The neighbourhood is developed with similar
structures mostly used as Guest houses, Hotels, Supermarkets, Petrol Service Station,
Bus parks and Banks. The Title is Leasehold Interest for a term of 99 years w.e.f. 1/01/
1960 and is registered in the name of JANE WANJA GACHIENGO and FELISTA
W. THEURI.
CONDITIONS OF SALE
1. All intending Purchaser(s) are requested to view and verify the details for these are not
warranted by the Auctioneer or our clients.
2. A deposit of 25% MUST be paid by CASH or BANKERS CHEQUE at the fall of
the hammer and the balance be paid to the Chargees Advocates within a Period
of Thirty (30) Days from the date of sale.
3. The Sale is subject to a Reserve Price and Land Control Board Consent (where
applicable).
4. Conditions of Sale are available on request at our offices and viewing of the properties
is possible during normal working hours by prior arrangements with ourselves.
Duly instructed by our clients, chargees we shall sell the under mentioned property by Public Auction
ON THURSDAY 12/6/2014 AT OUR AUCTION MART NEW KIREITA BUILDING,
KIRINYAGA ROAD AT 11:00AM
All that parcel of land known as L.R. No. NKUENE/ MITUNGUU/2649 measuring 0.0148Ha and
registered in the name of MARGARET KANINI guarantor to FREDRICK GITOBU GILBERT both of
P.O.BOX 750-60202 NKUBU. The Property is situated at Mitunguu Township approximately 15Kms
east of Nkubu town Meru County and it is vacant.
CONDITIONS OF SALE
1. All intending purchasers are required to view the property and verify the details by themselves as
these are not warranted by the Auctioneer or our clients.
2. Arefundable deposit of Kshs 100,000/= must be paid to obtain a bidding number. Please note that
NO bidding whatsoever without a bidding number.
3. Adeposit of 25% must be paid in cash, Bankers cheque or RTGS at the fall of the hammer and the
balance within 30 days from the date of the auction to the charges advocate
4. Sale is subject to a reserve price.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Under instructions received from the under mentioned court we shall sell by public auction the
undermentioned property.
ON FRIDAY 6
TH
JUNE 2014 AT KERUGOYA TOWN NEAR THE MAIN STAGE COMMECING AT
10.30AM
All that piece or parcel of land known as L.R.NO MUTITHI/CHUMBIRI/1355 registeredin the name
of John Mwea Muyu measuring approximately 0.77 hectars situated in Kirinyiga County near Mutithi
Town
CONDITIONS OF SALE
1. All interested purchasers are requested to view and verify the details for themselves as these are
not warranted by the auctioneer. 2. The highest bidder so declared at the public auction sale shall be
required to pay 25% of the purchase money in cash or bankers cheque and to pay the balace within
fifteen days from the date of sale. ALL ARE WELCOME
PUBLIC AUCTION SALE
PROVIDENCE AUCTIONEERS
COURT BROKERS,COURT BAILIFFS ,OFFICIAL BROKERS,REPOSSESSORS,
INVESTIGATORS & GENERAL AUCTIONEERS,
VAT Reg.No 0111191R , PIN No A00230044X, CELL: 0722332416
HEAD OFFICE: VERA TOWERS, P.O BOX 683 10100, TEL O61 -2030384, NYERI
BRANCH:Veona House P.O.Box 2153-20300 Tel 065-22736 NYAHURURU
Email :wanjirawaruingi @yahoo.com
Court Brokers, Bailiffs, Repossessors and Debt Collectors
PUBLIC AUCTION
Under instructions received from the chargees we shall sell the following properties and goods.
PRIME COMMERCIAL SECONDARY SCHOOL IN KAOYENI
MALINDI MUNICIPALITY
1. ON 11
TH
JUNE, 2014 AT 11.00 A.M. AT THE OFFICE OF MALINDI AUCTIONEERS
MIJIKENDA BUILDING OPPOSITE FIRE STATION MIJIKENDA UTALII ROAD MALINDI
TOWNSHIP.
All those piece or parcels of land known as L.R. NO. 13424 & 13430 KAOYENI, MALINDI
MUNICIPALITY measuring 0.4 HA i.e 1.0 acres each. The property is situates about a kilometre
off Tsavo road and approximately 4.4 kilometers from Kenyatta Road, west Malindi Town within
Malindi minicipality and identified as ROYAL FOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL and registered in the
name of KESREC AGENCY LIMITED. The development comprises a new secondary school with
classrooms, dormitories, kitchen block, and toilet blocks with some still under construction.
PRIME RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY FOR SALE IN CHWELE TOWN CENTRE
2. ON 18
TH
JUNE, 2014 AT 10.30 A.M. OUTSIDE THE POST OFFICE BUNGOMA TOWN
CENTRE.
All that piece or parcel or land known TITLE NO. BOKOLO/CHWELE/1874 AND BOKOLI/
CHWELE 1873 I.N.O MUNICIPALITY measuring 0.15 acres approximately. The property is along
Chwele / Makhonge Motorable track for about 200 metres then turn to the left hand side along a
motorable track for about 50 meters to reach Chwele Academy, proceed along the road for another
50 metres to reach the subject property known as BOUHAUT WETS LIMMERS and directly
opposite Ebenezer Shop Building and registered in the name EVERLYNE NALIAKA WANYERA.
The development comprises of a store building, a shop building and an ablution block.
PRIME PROPERTY IN BUTULA DISTRICT BUSIA COUNTY
3. ON 26
TH
JUNE, 2014 AT 11.00 A.M. OUTSIDE POST BANK BUSIA BRANCH BUSIA
TOWNSHIP.
All that piece or parcel or land known as TITLE NO. MARACH/BUMALA/1201 measuring 0.084 of
hectares or 0.21 acres approximately. The property is situated at Bumala Division of Butula District,
access from Bumula Commercial Centre along Bumala / Kisumu highway for about 3 kilometres
to reach Nyamwanga Primary School and registered in the name of JULIUS OWOUR OJOWU.
The development comprises of a shop building, two (2) residential houses but one constructed up
to lintel level and a pit latrine.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY IN MUMIAS MUNICIPALITY
4. ON 26
TH
JUNE, 2014 AT 10.30 A.M. OUTSIDE POST BANK BUSIA BRANCH BUSIA
COUNTY.
All that piece or parcel or land known as TITLE NO. SOUTH WANGA/EKERO/2677 measuring
0.40 hectare or 0.99 acre approximately. The propety is located some 3km to the south of Mumias
town within Lusumu area of Mumias Municipality, at about 200m to the west of Mumias Kids Centre
School of Mumias Water Supply and registered in the Name of SHEBAN MOLA SAKA.
RESIDENTIAL-CUM-COMMERCIAL PROPERTY IN BUSIA
5. ON 26
TH
JUNE, 2014 AT 10.30 A.M. OUTSIDE POST BANK BUSIA BRANCH BUSIA
COUNTY.
All that piece or parcel or land known as TITLE NO. SOUTH TESO/CHAKOL/2048 measuring
0.089 hectares, an equivalent of 0.2225 acres approximately situated in Adungosi market of Teso
South District along the road to the police station and identified as NZOIA SUGAR SHOP. The
property is registered in the Name of FREDRICK EBITAEBWAPIT. The development comprises of
shop building, three (3) residential houses and the pit latrine.
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY IN ANGOROMO DIVISION TESO COUNTY
6. ON 26
TH
JUNE, 2014 AT 10.30 A.M. OUTSIDE POST BANK BUSIA BRANCH BUSIA
COUNTY.
All that piece or parcel or land known as TITLE NO. SOUTH TESO/AMUKURA/3028 measuring
3.03 hectares an equivalent of 7.575 acres approximately. The property is situated in Amoni area,
Kamolo location, Amagoro division of North Teso County and registered in the name of NOAH
ETYANG OSIROMO.
PRIME PROPERTY IN KITALE 44 ACRES IN BIKETI FARM
KOLONGOLO LOCATION KWANZA DIVISION
7. ON 3
RD
JULY, 2014 AT 10.30 A.M. OUTSIDE THE POST OFFICE KITALE TOWNSHIP.
All that piece or parcel or land known as TITLE NO. KOLONGOLO/KOLONGOLO BLOCK 2/
BIKETI/69 measuring 17.6 hectares or 44 acres approximately.The property is situated in Biketi
farm, Kolongolo location kwanza district of Trans Nzoia County and registered in the name of
STEPHEN WANGUSI FEDHA. A relatively large Agricultural land good for sunflower, millet, maize
and even livestock farming.
PRIME PROPERTIES IN KITALE MUNICIPALITY
8. ON 3
RD
JULY, 2014 AT 10.30 A.M. OUTSIDE THE POST OFFICE KITALE TOWNSHIP.
All that piece or parcel or land known as TITLE NO. KITALE MUNICIPALITY BLOCK 16/167 AND
16/168 measuring 0.091 Ha or 0.225 acre, approximately. The subject properties are located within
the vicinity of imani radio within Mountain View Estate of Kitale Municipality at about 5km to the
South of Kitale town and registered in the name of ALFRED WANJALA KOKONYA.
9. ON 4
TH
JUNE, 2014 AT 10.00 A.M. AT LEAKEYS STORAGE LTD UNGA LUNGA ROAD
INDUSTRIAL AREA NAIROBI.
REG. NO. MAKE COLOR Y.O.M TO BE VIEWED AT
KBA 454H Mercedes Benz C180 Metallic Silver 2001 Leakeys Storage Ltd
KBS 653W Prime Mover White 2006 Leakeys Storage Ltd
CONDITIONS OF SALE
All interested purchasers are requested to view and verify the details as the financiers or
the Auctioneers do not warrant these. A deposit of 25% must be paid in CASH or Bankers
Cheque at the fall of the hammer and the balance within 30 days. Viewing of the property can
be done between 10.00 Am to 4.00 Pm and conditions of sale to obtained from our offices.
Sale is subject to a reserve price. And Cash at the fall of the hammer for item no. 9.
NO VEHICLE NO. MAKE
1 KAZ 463C MITSUBISHI LANCER
2 KBH 528Y TOYOTA RUNX
3 40UN 139K NISSAN NAVARA
4 KAP 920T BENZ
5 KBL 176A TOYOTA LAND CRUISER
6 KAN 128Q TOYOTA LEXUS
7 KBW 264A SUBARU
8 KAM 687N TOYOTA COROLLA
9 KBJ 430T MERCEDES BENZ
10 KBW 018D SUBARU FORESTER
11 KBX 038V TOYOTA BELTA.
12 10 CD 4K LANDROVER DEFENDER
13 KBW 938W TOYOTA NZE
14 KBS 596J TOYOTA WISH
15 KBX 923K PEUGEOT 206
16 KBB 536T LANDROVER FREELANDER.
17 KBR 331Q TOYOTA NZE
18 KBJ 191F TOYOTA L/C PRADO
19 KBL 475P PROBOX
20 KBN 780J TOYOTA RAUM
21 KBU 040E SUZUKI SWIFT
22 KBL 941K NISSAN XTRAIL
23 KBC 046J NISSAN WINGROAD
24 KBM 345D VWPASSAT
25 KBV 468X MAZDA VERISA
26 KBX 586V NISSAN TEANA
27 KBU 815B TOYOTA RAUM
28 KBH 810Y BMW
29 KBW 373G NISSAN PICK-UP NP200
30 KBP 285V TOYOTAALLION
31 KBP 112W NISSAN LIBERTY
32 KBU 273F TOYOTA IST
33 KBY 076A ISUZU D MAX
34 KBQ 737A TOYOTAAVENSIS
35 KBV 293W TOYOTA WISH
36 KBT 348X TOYOTAALLION
PUBLIC AUCTION
Popman Hse, Behind Khoja Mosque, 3rd Flr Suit 3.09, Moi Avenue,
Nairobi, Kenya. Box 21841-00100
Tel: 0706759242, 0735778161 Email: josrickmarch@gmail.com
Under instructions received from our principals, we shall sell the under mentioned
property by Public Auction.
PRIME PROPERTY AT NGONG - KAJIADO COUNTY
ON THURSDAY 12
TH
JUNE 2014 AT OUR OFFICES POPMAN HSE -11.00AM
All that parcel of land known as TITLE NO. NGONG/NGONG/ 7666 registered I.N.O.
WILLIAM NJUGUNA WANJIKU of P.O Box 100441 00101 Nairobi measuring 0.1
hectares or thereabouts. The property is in Kibiku Area, it is situated along Colonel
Ngere road, approximately 110 metres from the junction of the said road and Ngong hills
road,about 1.5 km to the North of Ngong Town Kajiado County. Elected on the plot is a four
bedroom bungalow, Garage/Store.The boundaries are marked by live kei apple hedges.
Mains electricity and piped are connected to the subject property.
CONDITIONS OF SALE
1. All intended Purchasers are required to view and verify the details of the property for themselves
as these are not warranted by the Auctioneers or the chargees. 2. A Refundable deposit of Ksh.
100,000 to obtain bidding No. prior to the auction 3. A deposit of 25% must be paid in cash or
bankers cheque at the fall of the hammer and the balance to be paid within 30 days. 4. The
Auctioneer has the right to reject any bid without giving any reason. 5. Sale is subject to reserve
price and the necessary Land Control Board consent where applicable.
PUBLIC AUCTION
Popman Hse, Behind Khoja Mosque, 3rd Flr Suit 3.09, Moi Avenue,
Nairobi, Kenya. Box 21841-00100
Tel: 0706759242, 0735778161 Email: josrickmarch@gmail.com
Under instructions received from our principals we shall sell the under mentioned motor vehicle.
AT NEO MAKUPA GARAGE - MOMBASA ON FRIDAY 6
TH
JUNE 2014 11.00A.M
REG NO MAKE BODY TYPE
KBU 248P M.BENZ AXOR PRIME MOVER
CONDITIONS OF SALE
1. All intending purchasers are requested to verify the details for themselves.
2. A refundable deposit of Ksh. 20,000/= to obtain bidding number prior to the auction
3. Viewing can be done through arrangement with ourselves
4. The auctioneer has the right to reject any bid without giving any reason.
5. Cash at the fall of the hammer.
6. Sale is subject to reserve price
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Notices 51
NUMBER VEHICLE LOCATION
1 KBF 624H ISUZU DMAX ASSOCIATED MOTORS - ELDORET
2 KBC 023C TOYOTA RAUM AUTO CRAFT-ELDORET
3 KBH 622N NISSAN BLUEBIRD AUTO CRAFT-ELDORET
4 KBA 464M TOYOTA PREMIO AUTO CRAFT-ELDORET
5 KBS 924Y MITSUBISHI LANCER CS2A AUTOMOBILE WAREHOUSE-NAKURU
6 KBS 893E TOYOTA IPSUM AUTOSKILLS LTD
7 KBH 233V LAND ROVER FREELANDER BUENA MOTORS- NAKURU
8 KBC 284S ISUZU NKR66L CHECK-IN MOTORS
9 KBU 324A TOYOTA NOAH CORNCODE MOTORS - KILIFI MSA
10 KAP 912Q TOYOTA CARIB FORANGE AUTO & ALLIED SUPPLIES
11 KAZ 050T MITSUBISHI LANCER C2KA GEORGE GARAGE - MERU
12 KAW 317T MITSUBISHI LANCER HAJI MOTORS
13 KBQ 306T TOYOTA PASSO INDEPTH AUTO GARAGE - THIKA
14 KBP 805U TOYOTA VITZ JAFFERY MOTORS - MSA
15 KBS 588Q HONDA STREAM RN1 JEET MOTORS- KERICHO
16 KBS 819R LANDROVER FREELANDER TD4 KHALSA MOTORS, KISUMU
17 KAY 444B TOYOTA HARRIER KHALSA MOTORS, KISUMU
18 KMDA 715Q M/BIKE TVS MAX 4R LEAKEYS STORAGE
19 KBM 084P MERCEDES BENZ C180 LEAKEYS STORAGE
20 KBP 186H NISSAN XTRAIL LEAKEYS STORAGE
21 KBP 074T MITSUBISHI LANCER LEAKEYS STORAGE
22 KBQ 672E TOYOTA HILUX LEAKEYS STORAGE
23 KBK 717S TOYOTA FIELDER LEAKEYS STORAGE
24 KBS 903B TOYOYA CALDINA LEAKEYS STORAGE
25 KAV 415W MITSUBISHI GALANT V6 LEAKEYS STORAGE
26 KAV 974Y SUBARU FORESTER LEAKEYS STORAGE
27 KBV 709Q HONDA LEAKEYS STORAGE
28 KBM 674Z MARK II LEAKEYS STORAGE
29 KBS 458Q PEUGEOT PARTNER LEAKEYS STORAGE
30 KAX 452D TOYOTA DUET LEAKEYS STORAGE
31 KBN 254H MAZDA FAMILIA LEAKEYS STORAGE
32 KBD 650J MITSUBISHI LANCER CS2A LEAKEYS STORAGE
33 KBN 316F FORD RANGER LEAKEYS STORAGE
34 KBN 350B SUBARU FORESTER LEAKEYS STORAGE
35 KBQ 533C TOYOTA HILUX LEAKEYS STORAGE
36 KBU 092V TOYOTA TOWNACE LEAKEYS STORAGE
37 KAK 662E VOLKSWAGEN POLO MOTOR CARE
38 KBS 563Y TOYOTA MURANGA MOTORS - THIKA
39 KBH 724W NISSAN SUNNY OLMAA ENGINEERING WORKS -NAROK
40 KBL 173C TOYOTA NZE OMARI GARAGE
41 KAN 480K PEUGEOT 206 RAGATI AUTO- NYERI
42 KAR 385K TOYOTA CARINA RELIANCE AUTO GARAGE -KSM
43 KAH 360A VOLKSWAGEN GOLF RELIANCE GARAGE
44 KBD 857K MITSUBISHI LANCER SAM WALKER AUTOMEC MERU
45 KMCC 760H KING BIRD SETLAK MOTORCYCLES
46 KBH 342U TOYOTA FIELDER ST AUSTINS
47 KBX 685V TOYOTA NZE STANTECH MOTORS
48 KBX 753X TOYOTA PREMIO STANTECH MOTORS
49 KAM 065Y SUZUKI ESCUDO STANTECH MOTORS
50 KAW 412T MITSUBISHI LANCER STANTECH MOTORS
51 KAY 346Y TOYOTA PRADO STANTECH MOTORS
52 KBL 729U NISSAN SUNNY STANTECH MOTORS
53 KAZ 056G PEUGEOT 405 STANTECH MOTORS
54 KBS 603M PEUGEOT 206 COUPE STANTECH MOTORS
55 KAW 868H MAZDA FAMILIA STANTECH MOTORS
56 KAZ 758J TOYOTA PRIUS STEPHENS AUTO ENGINEERING
57 KAY 960F MITSUBISHI LANCER STEPHENS AUTO ENGINEERING
58 KAL 564T SUBARU LEGACY BFA STEPHENS AUTO ENGINEERING
59 KBA 054B NISSAN SUNNY N16 SUNSHINE AUTOMOBILES - KSM
60 KAV 238F LANDROVER FREELANDER TOP JOB
61 KAY 997Y MITSUBISHI TOP JOB
62 KMCR 538G YAMAHA YD110 TOP JOB
63 KBA 005Z TOYOTA VIOS TOP QUALITY
64 KAV 670Z TOYOTA COROLLA TOPFLY MOTORS BOMET
65 KAA 292R BMW TOP JOB MOTORS
66 KAW 944B NISSAN TIIDA UNITY AUTO
67 KMCR 560V YAMAHA YAMAHA /TOYOTA
68 KBT 932H TOYOTA HIGH LANDER V6 ECHO KENYA
69 KAS 443B CHEVROLET OPTRA GENERAL MOTORS
PUBLIC AUCTION
Duly instructed by our principal (the financier), we shall sell by
public auction the under mentioned Motor Vehicles on Friday
30
th
May 2014 at our Offices along Kijabe Street next to
Universal Church starting at 10:30 am.

REG. NO. MAKE MODEL Y.O.M TO BE VIEWED AT
KBQ 858B TOYOTA MARK II 2004 Kyevaluki Services Ltd
KBN 735A NISSAN NAVARA 2010 Kyevaluki Services Ltd
CONDITIONS OF SALE
1. Viewing can be done at the indicated location to verify
details as these are not warranted by the auctioneers or
our principals.
2. All interested bidders are required to pay a refundable
deposit of Kshs. 100,000/= to obtain a bidding number
at our office in form of a BANKERS CHEQUE
3. Sale is subject to reasonable reserve price.
Duly instructed by our principals, THE WORLD BANK, we shall sell by public auction a
LARGE ASSORTMENT of Executive Offce Furniture and Equipment on THURSDAY
29
th
MAY 2014, AT LEAKEYS STORAGE LIMITED, LUNGA LUNGA ROAD NAIROBI
STARTING AT 11.00 A.M.
Fridges
Microwaves
Executive Office Desks
Executive Rolling Arm Chairs
Straight back chairs
Shredders
Fire extinguishers
Filing Cabinets
Book Shelves
Partitioned work Stations
Executive Chairs
Office tables
Conference table
Cupboard
Printers
Photocopiers
EXECUTIVE OFFICE FURNITURE ON AUCTION
CONDITIONS OF SALE:
1. Viewing of the goods to be done as from Friday 23
rd
May 2014 to the date of auction
to verify the details, as these are not warranted by the Auctioneer or our principals as the
sale is on as - is where is basis.
2. Interested bidders are required to pay a refundable deposit of Kshs. 20,000.00 in form
of a BANKERS CHEQUE in the name of LEAKEYS AUCTIONEERS to obtain a bidding
number.
3. All payments of the purchased items must be done by close of business Friday 30
th

May 2014 through a bank deposit to our account which will be provided during the
auction day.
4. Purchased items MUST be removed by close of business Friday 30
th
May 2014.
No cash transactions
Digital weighing machine
Assorted plastic waste bins
Metallic cabinets
Wooden and Metallic Book Racks
Wooden cabinets
Wall maps
Digital weighing machine
Waste Bins
Curtains
Office floor carpets
Trolleys
White boards
Coat hangers
Orthopedic chairs
And many other items
Duly instructed by our principals, AFRICAN SALIHIYA CARGO
AND CLEARING LIMITED, UNDER THE UNCOLLECTED
GOODS ACT CAP. 38, we shall sell the under mentioned huge
assortment of goods, furniture, clothes, Electronics and
many others by public auction on: TUESDAY 3
RD
JUNE 2014
STARTING AT 11.00 AM, AT LEAKEYS STORAGE LIMITED,
LUNGA LUNGA ROAD INDUSTRIAL AREA - NAIROBI.
1. Television Sets
2. Phone accessories
3. Electronics &
Electrical Appliances
4. Speakers
5. New and used clothes
6. Pairs of shoes
7. Diapers
8. Mattresses
9. Beds
10. Sofa sets
11. Chairs
12. Tables
13. Boxes of toys
14. Floor tiles
EXECUTIVE FURNITURE, GOODS, CLOTHES AND
ELECTRONICS ON AUCTION
CONDITIONS OF SALE:
1. Viewing of the goods to be done on the day of auction to
verify the details, as these are not warranted by the Auctioneer
or our principals as the sale is on as - is where is basis.
2. Interested bidders are required to pay a refundable deposit
of Kshs. 20,000.00 in form of a BANKERS CHEQUE in
the name of LEAKEYS AUCTIONEERS to obtain a bidding
number.
3. Cash at the fall of the hammer.
4. Purchased items MUST be removed on the same day of
auction.
5. Sale is subject to reasonable reserve prices
No cash transactions
15. Building materials
16. Tyres
17. Gym equipments
18. Trolleys
19. Floor carpets
20. Washing machine
21. Cookers
22. Fridge
23. Weighing scales
24. Hanging Wires
25. Air conditioners
26. Air compressors
27. Spare parts
28. Stationery
29. And many other items
New Kireita Building
Kilome Road / Kirinyaga Road, First Floor, P.O.
Box 75185 00200, NAIROBI, KENYA Cell: 0722 530
515 / 0737 910 180,
Email:immediateauctioneers@gmail.com
Repossession & Realization of Charged Securities
PUBLIC AUCTION
REG. NO. MAKE VIEWED AT
KBL 066Q TOYOTA IST KAREN AUTO GALLERY
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
CASH AT THE FALL OF THE HAMMER
Duly instructed by our principals, the FINANCIERS we shall sell by PUBLIC AUCTION
the under mentioned motor vehicle on TUESDAY 3RD JUNE, 2014 at KAREN AUTO
GALERY NEXT TO HILLCREST SCHOOL ADJACENT TO TOTAL PETROL STATION,
KAREN / LANGATA ROAD starting from 11.00am
BANK -VS- FAITH MBULA SILA MUTUNGI
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52 | Notices
A109 Lost
LOST title deed No. Kjd/
Loodariak/123 for Sangiri Ole Kiok
NAIROBI &
UPCOUNTRY
A167 Acupuncture
DIABETES - Disorders and Pains.
3744885, 0737540562, 0721170217
MEMORY - Tiredness and Moods.
3744885, 0737540562, 0721170217
MENSIZE and Failure / Low Desire.
3744885, 0737540562, 0721170217
SMOKING - Stop all Addictions.
3744885, 0737540562, 0721170217
STROKE, Paralysis and Weakness.
3741179, 0737540562, 0721170217
WEIGHTLOSS - Firm up and Slim
up. 3745861, 0737540562, 0721170217
A181 Beauty
0722542568 Aromatherapy W/lands
NEW Upperhill Aroma 0720-701703
PARKLANDS pedi 0722763034
TOWN Pedicure 0729677559
Westlands Barber shop 0735737450
A230 Health
REFLEX Centre Call: 0731252262
A244 Herbal Medicine
ABBAS Mohamed , services offered
to all in need, call only for serious
problems or cases: Mobile:
0704469249
HAKIM helps in love affairs business
boost lost items etc for more
information call 0700697893
A265 Medical
PERSONAL NOTICES
B664 Farm Services
TEA Bushes 7acre 4hire 0715291817
B671 Fertilizers, Seed & Seedlings
STRAWBERRY splits 0722 721677
PERSONAL SERVICES
A988 Dogs & Dog Training
GSD puppies 4 sale 0722287290
B001 Livestock
DAIRY farm visits 0707999364
B015 Poultry
96E Incubators 20K 0722229364
KUROILER/Kari chicks 0702411633
Kuroiler chicks on sale 0706351010
B462 Business for Sale
EXECUTIVE Salon for sale
Community area 0708142840
SALE!!! Classic Salon CBD Nairobi
serious buyers only 0718-478790
SPARE part shop on sale 1.3M
0722749501
B469 Business Offers
!Phd/Masters proposals 0712633928
B476 Business Opportunities
LOOKING FOR JOINT VENTURE
We are a financially sound company
in NAIROBI KENYA into several
businesses dealing in Commercial
Kitchen Equipment, Bitumen
and Tyres for past 30 years. We
are looking fot an International
Trading Partner to bring in new
ideas and develop the company.
If you are interested contact us on:
Email: businessplan234@gmail.com
EARN 8%-20% pm 0719-523375
INVEST 100K to 500K @30% p.a
payable quarterly 0722105254
B485 Business Services
BUSINESS proposal & plans 0721261236
CHURCH Fundraising proposals
church project plans marketing plans
business development proposals and
general marketing consultant contact
Nyawira 0722-892304 for all your slns
A826 Computer Services
DATA backup for KSH 25 /= PER GB
Call 0711 051 000 Email:
info@eadatahandlers.co.ke
DATA RECOVERY EXPERTS www
.datarecovery.co.ke 0711051000
SPY on any mobile phone Read all
SMS, listen to calls, read all WhatsApp
messages call 0722518610
www.juju.co.ke
B603 Chemicals
INDUSTRIAL
CHEMICALS FOR SALE
We have a wide range of industrial
chemicals available at competitive
prices both ex-stock Nairobi and
Mombasa as well as regular direct
imports.
Contact Details:
0715 444816, 0722 499115,
+254 20 210 7202/81
Ask for Phillip
B525 Financial
020-10010, 0722-632287 Loan on
Cars, iPads, Laptops & house holds
0703621523 Cash on cars laptops
ornaments leds tvs tablets
Advance cash on cars, hse 0722534960
INSTANT Loans on your car or
logbook Call 0710590517
IS your car on loan and you are stuck in
repaying? We buy off your loan and
remit the balance tel: 0722739739
LOANS 10-50k on cheques +
guarantor Call 0739365331
LOANS Available, with logbook or
title deed call us on 0714-862000,
0735-599524, 0732868556, 0739334083
WE finance buying of new saloon cars
(Probox/NZE/Premio etc) dep 30%.
balnc 48 months 0721-914458
B546 Machinery for Sale
USED British Woodworking machines
0722892719
B827 Web Hosting/Design
WEBHOSTING +Free domain
www.sasahost.co.ke 0713478555
EUROSINGLES SMS 0721504855
CHEATING Spouse?
www.little-spy.com 0722735768
A808 Boats
COOKS and cleaners wanted NRB
0717-183920 & trptws@gmail.com
A822 Computers
CISCO 2951 v/bundle 0722724822
SACCO software free WWW.LT.CO.KE
A836 Electrical Appliances
POWER bk up inverters 1.5KVA
-8KVA auto 10hrs f/inst 0722747246
A871 Miscellaneous
A538 Restaurants
For: Business lunches:
4 course buffet @ 950/=
Business breakfast:
Full English breakfast
from 6.30am @750/=
Tusker Party 24/7@ 150/= Only
NHC House, Mezzanine Flr, Aga Khan Walk
Contact:0725941656, 0202064809
Email:info@berbersoasis.com
BERBERS OASIS RESTAURANT
Conference & outside catering available
(Book lunch delivery)
A571 Hotels
GLORY Palace Hotel 1000/- per
person call: 0723176777, 0726427267,
SEASONAL OFFER !!!
Hotel Ambassadeur
Freedom to stay your way
SINGLE BO: 2,300 | DOUBLE BO: 2,800
Conference And Meeting Rooms
Bar & Restaurant | Free wi-fi
For reservations please call:
+254 202246615/6 | +254724259829
Email: ambassadeurhotel@hotmail.com
Website:www.hotelambassadeurkenya.com
SERENE Gardened surrounding
luxurious affordable rooms
www.sironahotel.com 0722747158
B894 Tour Services
MADARAKA Day 3days Masai Mara
offer 12,500 0721943166
A607 Catering Services
CAKE boxes all sizes and take away
coffee cups call 0720802994
A614 Confectionery
EDIBLE Cake Photos from 350 City
Centre 0700-304050 Mon - Sat
B250 General
BAHRAIN Hotel jobs waitress,
waiters, Cooks, Motorbike, rider,
Cashier. Call 0724312834
DSM Marketing Kijabe street needs
200 Form four leavers for Sales,
Marketing & Promos. Earn 7000/=
weekly. Free Interviews & Training
Call 0725401272 or 0750939424
FIELD Sales Jobs SMS 0720751389
High school Engilsh/literature:
biology/geography teachers
required.To strart immediately.send
CV toresearchconsultku@gmail.com

JOBS: www.jobsworld.co.ke
MRKT & Sales mgr 4 TV co. 0738863191
QATAR : Waiters interview on
Wednesday 28/5/2014. Come to
Madonna House 3rd floor room 302
REQUIRED Store keepers good
English School Certificate Email
tradeconbi@gmail.com with CV
SALES people with IT wanted call
Evans 0719-699270 Accra rd
URGENT Part-Time Jobs SMS ur No.
& Grades to 0728-674322
VACANCIES St. Mary Academy
baby class- pre-unit,class 1-7, sec.
Form1-3. 0729612770 & 0722731581
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B249 Recuitment Agencies
QATAR housekeeping & ladydriver
passport medical & visa free skill visa
in Malaysia & Australia. Call
0788328478. Visit us at Sonulux Bld
8th fl Suite 805 Moi Avenue Nbi
B277 Domestic/Casual Jobs
Housegirls available 0703621523
JUAKALI garage needs workshop
supervisor 10yr exp mechanic grade1
Call 0728-010330
B284 General
WANTED: Godly, Professional, well
experienced housegirls. Living near
Kileleshwa preferred. Job in top
homes in Kenya with good salary
guaranteed. Call Harriet now
0727227861 or 0728406345
B403 Colleges
ICDL, CCNA DeepAfrica Tech
Eldoret 0712 500500
KIWAN Computer College offers all
job oriented computer courses Tel
0722453607 Information Hse 2nd Flr
B383 Education
PHD Mba Proposal Analysis 0701-735366
B049 Car Hire
EDEN Rent a car, special Rate,
Saloons, 4x4, Prados, Limousines, Pick
-ups, Voxy, 0723719444, 0733758503
0700128555 rav4, Voxy, saloon new,
modern, f/ld, variety from 2500/- p.d
0721144998 new cars from 1500/=
0722633708 new cars 2500pd
Blessed tour needs cars 30-150
0723351172
CAR TRACK @ 10K 0727246257
A116 Marriage
STABLE WOMEN 0727574565
ADVANCE selling ur car 0722833300
B227 Containers
CONTAINERS for sale 20ft @200k
each. Call 0720713627 Utawala Nb
LADIES PRODUCTS:
Ladies liquid & powder
B-Firming & enlarging
Wild growth / Grey hair oil
Hip Boosting & Weight gain
Dark spots/pimples/scars
Grey hair in weeks
Quick slim / weight loss
For Free Delivery and Priv. cons. call NBI 020 2245564, 0723408602,
Nacico Chambers 2nd Flr Rm. 1, Opp. Imenti Hse, Moi Ave. Kisumu,
Eldoret, Gilgil, Nakuru 0723957189. Mombasa - Kapacee Building,
Ground Flr, Stall No. 2, Opp. Post Bank Hse Moi Ave, 0723957189
Kisii, Naivasha, Kakamega, Bungoma, Thika: 0723408602
Guaranteed Results
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MENSMAX
PRODUCTS
INCREASE:
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Recovery Frequency
Lasting Ability
Pick Time
@0202245564 cash on ipads&iphone5
020-2245564 spot loans on Toshiba,
Macpros& HP Laptops btwn 20K-50K
LOANS on the spot between 15-40K
with laptops as security, 0723408602
Lptop&Mac*repair i buy dead 0721486136
(10) BCE Driver, T/boy & office cleaners
Rockwood Biva Hse 0706861384
AU-PAIR/Nanny training & placement
centre Tel 0729421785
CVS: WE Design cvs: Sms 0704759438
PHARMACISTS /
PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGISTS
required to work in Nairobi CBD.
Suitable candidates must have at
least 2yrs working experience in a
busy retail / wholesaling Pharmacy.
Must be registered with PPB
Interested persons
to Apply online to
info@prestigestores.com before
Thursday, 29/5/2014.
LIBYA /Lebanon /Jordan: hsekeeping
Free visa SMS 0729-421659
QUALIFIED cooks & waiters
urgently needed at Kiserian. mobile
0716878925, Email CV & certificates
to samwelongeri@yahoo.com
URGENTLY needed: Clerks,
Drivers, nurses, accon, sec, trs, msgrs
etc send your E-mail to 0700103666
0722516342, 0721834778 trained h/g
INCUBATORS Auto imported
52Eggs@50k at Thika 0711344702
SHIFT job avail 0707928283
AGRICULTURE & HOME
PETS & LIVESTOCK
CLEANING SERVICES
FOR SALE OR WANTED
REPAIR &
MAINTENANCE
WHERE TO EAT
WHERE TO STAY
TOURS & TRAVEL
FOOD & BEVERAGE
SITUATIONS VACANT
SITUATIONS WANTED
EDUCATIONAL
MOTORS
MOTORCYCLES &
BICYCLES
HEAVY COMMERCIAL
MOTOR VEHICLES
SHOPPING GUIDE
0722428702 savage power & size sol.
0722428702 slim magic & tumy trimers
0722428702 V-Max/power & rockhard
JOIN www.pawakenya.or.ke
Housekeepers with diploma and 3
years experience. Send CV's to
karuga08@gmail.com or call
0722513176
B263 Women
HEAD teacher and teen councellor
wanted in a girls school located in
Naivasha, 30yrs or above. 3yrs
experience Tel no. 0700402131 Must
be a female
COMMERCIAL
LADIES great opportunity @ www.
americans4kenyans.com
PLANT MECH/OPERATORS FOR
CAT EQUIP 7YRS EXP
BOX12760-00100
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NGONG 1/8, 1/4, 1/2acs 0729038205
NGONG Kibiko 1/4 1/8ac 0722461644
NATION HOUSING
COOPERATIVE SOCIETY LIMITED
PRIME PLOTS IN MBAWANI-Thika
FOR SALE (50x100)
3km from Thika-Mangu tarmac road 1st
left turn after Mary hill SCH
Red soil
Ready for immediate development
Controlled development
Members ksh680,000
Non membersksh730,000
Discounted prices for more than an 1/8
(020) 328 8548, 0719 038548
0732 138588, 0719038552
RUAI KBC 50x100 135K, KBC bypass
40x80, comm 160K, 40x80 140K,
50x100 200K, Joska 50x100 275K,
600K ready title. Viewing Wed 9am,
Sat 10.30am. Hope Realty Tusker hse
0727867432, 0735696835
RUIRU bypass 1/8ac 2m 0722329180
Syokimau 5acres 60M 0722-699131
THIKA Githingiri next to Golf Club
1/4a t/deed 4.7M no agents 0736727838
B747 Parking Space Available
LONGTERM parking in secured
compound Parklands. Reasonable
rate call 0702440489
LONGTERM parking in secured
compound Parklands. Reasonable
rate call 0722747158
B768 Premises, Offices to Let
EQUIPED offices 12K-35K view
park. Tel 0202585384
EQUIPED Office space @ Kshs 200
per day with free internet, secretary,
messenger. Telephone and locker
0722657220, 0722138901
GODOWN Clesoi Rd off lunga
Lunga road 020-2020565
GODOWN Msa rd sale let 0720
770417, 0739265507, 0722580785
HOTEL self contained rooms 200sqft
to let as offices in serene gardened
surrounding 0722747158
HURLINGAM 20-100K 0721577945
MSA RD: Open space with container
opp Ekha Hotel 2,500sqft
0700743299, 0723847301
OFFICE Anpemu House Ngara Road
Tel: 020-2020565
SHOP near Grogon rd 0713-013750
B782 Properties for Sale
A commercial building Ongata Rongai
on tarmac with 6shops and 1 broom
3, and 2bedrooms 4 Ksh26M
0722270313, 0721347080 Nyotu
HOUSE 4 sale 5 Star Phase 2 South-C
16m 0722-380581
IMARA Daima 3br spacious ground
floor apartment behind AA offices 2
balconies ample parking play ground
7M monthy rent 32,000 0722665185
KAREN /OLOLUA ridge 1acre
freehold plot, lovely area 35m o.n.o
Tel 254 0721 412612
KASARANI 5br 20M 0722329180
KINOO 3 units 2b/r 0721235614
LANGATA Ngeno Estate 3bedroom
house sq 13M Call 0722-825166
NGONG3BR 4.5M 0713744370
NGONG 4br houses 0729038205
B789 Properties to Let
1BR Uthiru ILRI 17.5K 0720 716 078,
020 2214860, Ena Property
3BR flat aboretum drive Call Anglican
Church 0729-613779, 0722730352
APARTMENTNrb west0720278101
AT Westlands 1km from Westgate
Peponi rd beautiful 5bedroom
maisonette with Garden, very secure,
150k 0722-852952 Azim
BANANA Flats 7-9K 020 2214860
DonholmPh8 1br 12-13k 0727720945
GITH45 2br spacious10K 0722255173
GROUND Floor Shop & Offices
Westlands Muthithi Rd 0725-794247
KIBERA h/rise 1br 0712116485
IMARA Daima 3br spacious ground
floor apartment behind AA offices 2
balconies ample parking play ground
7M monthy rent 32,000 0722665185
KILE 1,2,3&4 let /sale 0720 770417,
0739265507, 0722580785
L/Kabete 2br Banana 3br 0725817817
LANGATA Cherry Ville 2br apt
35000 2220019, 0722831903
LANGATA Dam2 3&4 brm apt
37&42k respectively 0729957520
LAVI Mbaazi 3br @65k 0714-606405
LAVINGTON Amboseli Rd new
Flats 2brm 35k, Shop 20&12k, Bsitter
8k Call 0727-948196, 020-2395490
MSA rd near JKIA 3brm Apt Let
0724519460, 0722580785
NEXTGEN apts furnished 1br Mom
basa rd 80k 2220019, 0722831903
OLIVE Imara Daima 2 &3 brm @30k
& 40k 0713042048
OLIVE Kikuyu rd 2brm very spacious
35k 0713042048
NOAHNZE 3-2K 24H 0735768989
VICTOR safaris & tours ltd car hire
0720545192, 0722379197
B063 Driving Schools
AT Seniors from Kshs. 6,000/= All
branches. 0707299880, 0729461713
info@seniorsdrivingschool.co.ke
B070 Exhaust Pipes and Silencers
SETLAK Galv 552265, 0722527924
B085 For Sale, Private
CHEAP cars www.jonizwheelz.com
DEMIO07 KBY blu 0715901179
FIELDER 2002 manual black 1800cc
770k 0721439443
FIELDER KBX blac 0715901179
HONDACRV 06 re3 1.8M 0721577945
ISUZU FRR 33L School Bus KAV
270E, year 2006, 51 seater, Good
condition. View bus at Maliku Girls
Secondary School Kitui County to
make quotations Call 0722-254362 or
0789-476765
ISUZU NHR salvage 0722-503268
LEXUS RX300 06 2.5M 0721577945
M/Benz 200-124 650K KYX 0722382848
MATATU BP 29 pass 0722587068
MATATU KBT 29pax and KBR
26pax Gigi Motors Call 0725-045941,
0723-975286
MERC C200 KBY 07 2.9m fully loaded
0720445569 v/clean new shape
MIT Canter FH/Fighter new & used
deposit from 500K blnc financed in 48
mnths. 0722293903, 0721914458
MITS Canter KBK 4Ton ksh.1.5m
negotiable. 0720428325
MITS O/lander 4wd 1.38m 0702554550
N/Liberty 7 str KBD 480k 0721616062
N. Adv 06 o/shape 530k 0722883481
NAVARA D/Cab KBM blue 890k
0738363005
NIS Homy KAM diesel 480k 0722-260243
NIS Xtrail KBL 04 0720723563
RANGE Sport Black v/clean 07&06
Trade-In OK 4.3m 0722-797787
SUZUKI Vitara 06 1.7m 0721577945
T/Fielder 02 BJ silver v/clean 0723355120
T/MARK X, 07 KBY 1.35M 0722705175
T/Premio BP slv 680K 0735793338
T/shark 7L KBY dsl 1.75m 0722616632
T.ALLION 07 KBY 1m 0733739325
T.Field 06 n/shape 1m 0722883481
T.PREMIO 06 KBW 1m 0733739325
TATA 609 v/clean 470k 0711-851078
TOY NZE Probox Wish Fielder dip
250K balance 12-36 months
0722113757, 0733417012
T/SHARK KAQ 37OK O721794163
X-TRAIL 07 KBY 1.5m 0733739325
XTRAIL n/shape 08 model KBV-E
gun metalic. v/clean 2M 0736727838
B103 Lorries for Sale
ISUZ FSR KAU-V owner 0725657009
B740 Land, Plots for Sale
1/2acre Ongata Rongai Nkoroi 5m
0722270313, 0721347080 Nyotu
1*2 acres land for sale, isinya, by the
roadside next to Kenchic. Call
0722983204/0728090879
1 Acre, 2acre Magadi road Tinga town
0722270313, 0721347080 Nyotu
3.5acres Industrial plot Mombasa
Road 45m per acre 0722270313,
0721347080, 0756347080 Nyotu
3.74 Acres second row South Coast
Pungu fuel near upcoming bypass 20M
Call Githieya 0722-306039
4.5acre old Muthaiga 350m per acre
0722270313, 0721347080 Nyotu
7.5acre Kileleshwa 250m per acre
0722270313, 0721347080 Nyotu
8.5 acres Industrial plot Mombasa road
behind Nice & lovely with stone wall
55m per acre net 0722270313,
0721347080, 0756347080 Nyotu
BYPASS plots titles ready Ruiru
Pamoja Investors. Cash/12mons. Insta
llments 0719-595757, 0735-489037
EMBAKASI Ranch Ruai 1/4, 1/2ac
plots from 750k to 3m 0722346935
EXCELLENT 1 acre plot Ongata
Rongai, developing Estate 5kms from
Africa Nazarene Uni. Contact
0722818255
GARDEN Estate 1/2acres plots quick
sale 22m 2220019, 0722831903
JOSKA on Murram 2km from Kang-
undo Rd 50x100 @500,000 T/D. Tel
0722705101, 0722985712, 2219459
JUJA 1/8ac 800K 0722329180
JUJA plot 40x80 for sale Call
0720-796616
Kahawa Sukari 1/4ac 7m 0733233995
KAMULU 50x100 dep. 50,000 bal
4mths. Ready titles. 0202-164920,
0712-013550, 0788-953862 Sideway
Properties Ltd. Vedic Hse 7th Floor
KAYOLE partly dev. 1.7m 0722260243
KIKUYU/Ndiuni 1/8 25K 0708313106
UTAWALA 1 ACRE
Along Eastern By-Pass next to
Benedicta Academy suitable
for Petrol Station / Mall
Price Kshs. 120M
Call Owner: 0722 705101
KITENGELA 50x100 @650000 T/D
1km from Namanga Rd 0722985712
KOMA near shrine along Kenol rd
50x100 @350000. Tel 0722705101,
0722985712, 2219459
KOMAROCK plot Call 0720359960
LONGONOT Gate 10ac prime plot
next to Inka Homes 0711497529
MARAGUA Samar 44ac 0723488507
MOMBASA Rd 2 acres near Nyayo
Stadium no agents please 0718799974
MURANGA prime plots 50*100
maragi 2kms from mukuyu mkt water
elect title 450k call owner
0722517698
NGONG 1/4ac ideal 4flats 0729038205
MERCEDES C200 KBX 0725514565
N/Xtrail KBT 05 black1.2m 0733507120
RUAI at Joska dev. prime 50x100 2km
from rd water & title 600,000/=; 3km
from rd 400,000/=; JOSKA 150,000
(s/offer); ISINYA 50x100 3km from
Pipeline 150,000/=; KISAJU 50x100
4km from road next Jamii Bora.
400,000/=. Truelands, Reli Co-op
Hse, Mfangano st., Rm 404 0720
738141, 0734800400, 0710343334 or
visit www.truelands.co.ke or Email:
info@truelands.co.ke
HIGHRISE 2br flat 0722256345
KASARANI 3br bung+sq 0722256345
NGUMBA smart 2bedroom
maisonette, Ksh. 20,000 0722700319
NGUMO2br15k 0728282530 ownr
MERC Benz Tipper KBD ask 2.9M
0716032972
N/Advan KBR 05auto 395k 0714805753
JUJA Farm 3.3acr 0735769696
KITENGELA 100 5 2ac 0722416118
KILELESHWA 5BR all ensuite Penthse
+dsq, swimming pool 0731-682577
GIGIRI Whispe Avenue bungalow
wing 2br dsq 1/2acre 0725883388
B148 Tyres, Spares and Accessories
1KZ engine for Toyota Prado, surf,
regiusKsh350,000Call 0723524419
WORK/STUDY
abroad/scholarships
www.mystudylink.org
T/NZE BT slv 660K 0701712742
B761 Premises, Offices for Sale
FOR sale 2-sided restaurant only 12M
serious buyers only. Call 0710389090
walk in walk out
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will
that we announce the promotion to Glory
of Joseph peter Njoroge Kamau on the
morning of May 22nd 2014 while undergoing
treatment at the Avenue Hospital after a
challenge of cancer of the white cells.
Son of the late Charles Kamau Kigondu and
the Late Martha Njoki Kamau. Husband
of Jannet Wanjiku Njoroge, Father of
Faith Njoki Njoroge (Protel Studios), the
Late Charles Kamau Njoroge and Joyce
Wamaitha Njoroge. Son-in-law of the late
Albert Njoroge & Joyce Wamaitha Njoroge
Brother of Judith Waithera Mathenge,
Robert Josiah Mwangi, Samuel Kigondu
Kamau (JKUAT & Align Architects), Kennedy
Wanjau Kigondu (St.Austins Motors),
Nancy Wambui Kaula (Shekinah SACCO
Ltd),Michael Ngaruiya Kigondu(Tropikal
Brands), Mercy Wangu Agbajee (USA),
Alexander Kabue Kigondu ( Serena Hotels,
Nairobi), Lucy Muthoni Chihi (Kampala)
Joseph Peter
Njoroge Kamau
7/07/1958 22/05/2014
Promotion To Glory
Charles Kamau
Njoroge
28/05/1984-22/05/2014
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will
that we announce the promotion to glory
of Charles Kamau Njoroge on May 22nd
following a Cardiac Arrest brought upon by
the pressure of his Fathers death on that
very day.
Son of the Late Joseph Peter Njoroge and
the late Elizabeth Njoroge. Brother of Faith
Njoki Njoroge (Protel Studios Ltd) and
Joyce Wamaitha Njoroge, Step- son of Jannet
Wanjiku Njoroge.
Nephew of Judith W. Mathenge, Robert Josiah
Mwangi, Samuel Kigondu Kamau (JKUAT and
Align Architects), Kennedy Wanjau Kigondu
(St. Austins Motors), Nancy Wambui Kaula
(Shekinah SACCO Ltd), Jayne Mercy Wangu
Agbajee (USA), Michael Ngaruiya Kigondu
(Tropikal Brands), Alexander Kabue Kigondu
(Serena Hotels, Nairobi), Lucy Muthoni
Chihi (Kampala), Henry Njuguna Karanja,
Nyambura,Wanjiku and Wambui.
Friends and family are meeting daily at their residence in Jericho 09/3305 near Jericho Social
Hall and will be meeting at St. Andrews Church starting on Monday to Thursday from 6pm for
prayers and funeral arrangements.
The corteges will leave Kenyata University Funeral Home on Friday, 30th June 2014 at 8:30 am
for the funeral service & Burial at the familys farm in Muranga County, Kiharu Division, Mbiri
Sub-location, Mukuriahungu Village. Contact Kigondu 0722-788826, Njoki 0726-691604.
T/Prado KBZ blk 07 3.6m 0722616632
T/Probox BS 04' 430K 0721147362
TOY AE91KAN 80K 0728992435 OW
T/SHARK BH 750k 0735684700
T/WISH 800k KBT 071235617
RESIDENTIAL &
BUSINESS PROPERTIES
KAMULU- JOSKA at KBC Dev area elec
50x100 210,000/- 0733582208
KAMULU-JOSKA at KBC prime Dev.
50x100 800m 345,000/- 0722312387
KAMULU- JOSKA at KBC Special offer
50x100 310,000/- 0722-312387
KAMULU- JOSKA near Green Hse.
50x100 plots 225,000/- 0733-582208
KAMULU- JOSKA at KBC near
Church & sch 50x100 250k 0722312387
KITENGELA 10KM from tarmac @
KCA 50X100 230,000 0722-312387
KITENGELA 13KM ICT city Malili
50ftx100ft 220k 0722-312387
KITENGELA 15KM ICT City Malili
50ftx100ft 200,000 0733-582208
RONGAI LANGAU 40X80 WITH
TITLE 950K CALL 0726721055
RUAI at Joska touching outer by-pass
develped 50x100 170,000 0724717438
RUAI at KBC 2km from tarmac
50x100 300,000/- titles 0724717436
RUAI at KBC 50x100 500m from
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DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
54 | Classied/Transition
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we
announce the promotion to glory of Janet Kanyiva
Nyakundi which occured on 16/5/2014 at Family
Health Care Hospital. Wife of Fred Nyakundi of
Selecta Kenya. Mother of Shanice Kwamboka of
Newlight Senior Girls, Audrey Kemunto of Benedicta
Academy and baby Angel Janet Kanyiva. Daughter of
Simon Muthama and Susan Mueni Muthama. Daughter-
in-law of late Nyakundi Raro, late Ann Kwamboka
and Sibia Nyakundi. Sister of Jacky Muthama, Joseph
Muthama and Joan Muthama. Cousin of Musembi,
Moses, Nthenya, Kitheka, Muoka, Ndunge, Fred Sorobi,
George Momanyi, Evans Okemwa, Morara Onsongo,
Mainda Okemwa and Mainda Okinyi. Sister-in-law of
Kennedy Nyakundi, Andrew Motugutwa, Col. Agwata
of Forces Memorial Hospital, Jane, Alice Nyaboke,
Irene, Nyanchama, Rhoda, Teresa and Bogonko. Niece
of Sorobi Mainda, Momanyi Oyugi, Wilfred Mainda,
Agwata Mainda, Esther Onsongo among others. The
cortege will leave Umash Funeral Home on 1/6/2014
at 8.00am for Nyamwetureko village, Nyamira
County. Burial will be held on 2/6/2014. Family and
friends are meeting daily at Garden Square for funeral
arrangements. Final harambee will be held on Tuesday
27/5/2014 at Professional Centre from 5pm.
Blessed are the dead who died in the Lord...They will rest from their labour for their
deeds will follow them.
Janet Kanyiva
Nyakundi
Death Announcement
Fondly remembered by Husband
CK Kamau, Daughter Christine
and Caroline, Mum, Brothers
and Sisters, In-laws and Friends.
May God grant you His mercies
until we meet again.
In Gods hand you rest, In our hearts you live
forever. AMEN.
Anne Wanja Kuria
In Loving Memory
It is now a year since the passing on of our
beloved, Zachary Ndungu, and we thank
God for giving us strength and peace.
We the family of the late Zachary Ndungu
Runo would wish to pass our appreciation
to all those who stood with us during the
sudden loss of our beloved brother, father,
husband and friend, Zachary. We wish to
thank God for the time we lived with him.
We wish to thank PCEA Ihwa
church,clergy, PCMF and members for
joining us in giving Zachary a betting send
off. We wish to thank the family members
(ushirika group especially), the neighbours
and friends.
Kindly accept this our gesture and God bless all of you.
Memorial And Appreciation
Zachary Ndungu
It is with deep sorrow and humble acceptance of Gods will
that we announce the sudden death of Mrs. Judith Apiyo
Ayieko of YWCA Kisumu branch. Daughter of the late
Raphael Ayieko Rambira and Mama Helen Akoo of Seme
Kakelo. Beloved wife of Mr. James N. Sonye of ASSTRA
Sacco Kisii, co-wife of Beatrice Sonye (Ogango Primary).
Daughter-in-law of late Malaki Sonye Owuor and Mama
Roselinda Sony of E. Asembo Omia-malo Kayoo Village
Alara School. Loving mother of Hosea Owuor (Kampala
University), Grace Furness (MTC Homabay), George
Harrison (Moi University), Wendy Hellen (Ngiya Girls
High School), Wycliffe Harun and Rachel Lucy (both of
M.M Shah primary). Sister of Peter Odede, Carolly O.
Ayieko, Margaret Adhiambo, Christine Aoko and Daniel
Andam. Step-sister of Herine Achieng, Jacob Ouma and
Stephen Juma. Cousin of Fr. Carolly Achok (Ukwala
Catholic Mission), Maurice Achok (Kadawa) and Benter
Olewe (Nyakach), Julius Okore, Patricia Nyagweth, Agnes
Okwiri. Sister in law of Gordon Sonye, Justus Sonye, Benter
Sonye and Alice Adero. Friends and family are meeting daily
for funeral arrangements at her home in Buoye. Major
fundraising will be on Tuesday 27/05/2014 at YWCA from
2pm to 5pm.The cortege will leave Star Hospital Mortuary
on Thursday 29/05/2014 for an overnight stay at her Buoye
home thereafter the body will be moved to East Asembo
Omia-malo for burial on Saturday 31/05/2014.
May the good Lord keep her soul in eternal peace.
Promotion To Glory
Judith Apiyo
Ayieko
We announce the passing-on of Penina
Gathoni Kimani. Daughter of late Githinji and
Wangui. Wife of late Charles Kimani Kihato.
Mother of Mary Wangari Kibugi, David Kihato
Kimani, the late Jane Wangui Gichuhi,Teresia
Nyanjugu Kangethe of Kiganjo, Peter Kihiu
Kimani, Naomi Ngendo Gakuya, Dr. James
K. Kimani (Makuha) of Githinguri and Agnes
waithira.
Sister of the late Naomi Ngendo Gitonga,
late Phylis Nyamweru and Kiruthi Githinji of
Muruka. Grandmother of many and a great
grandmother of many. Family members are
meeting at her home at magumu village and
in Githunguri, Kiambu daily. Prayers and funeral
arrangements are being held daily at her home
Magumu Village, Nguna sub-location Gatundu North, Kiambu County from
4pm and in Githunguri town Dr. Kimani (Makuhas) home.
The cortege leaves Bishop Okoye Funeral home on Thursday 29/5/2014 at 9.00am.
for prayers at her home Magumu Village, Nguna sub-location Gatundu North.
Koma thayu maitu/cucu.
In Gods hand you rest but in our hearts you live forever.
Penina Gathoni
Kimani
Death and Funeral Announcement
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we
announce the death of Mzee Nahashon Okumu
Raongo which occurred on May 3, 2014 at Homa
Bay Hospital.
Husband of the late Lusia Obondo, the late Pascalia
Osiru, Margaret Owuor, Susanna Akello, Rosa Okello,
the late Esther Akeyo, Yunia Adhiambo, the late
Monica Auma, and Lilian Auma.
Father of Joyce Atieno, Paul Okumu, James Adek,
Geoge Otieno, Samuel Ongore, the late Risper
Atieno, Samson Okumu, Jennifer Adoyo, Isca Atieno,
Emily (Grace) Okumu, Simeon Otieno, Silas Otieno,
Ascar Akinyi, the late Pamela Atieno, Monica Achieng,
Alphonse Moses, Eucabeth Okumu, Daniel Okumu,
Elly Otieno, Joseph Ogalo, Maureen Okumu, Dick
Onginjo, Monica Anyango, Ben Okumu, Calvin Omondi,
Everline Okumu, Cynthia Anyango,Tyson Okumu,
Sharon, and Clinton Ochieng. Broher of Conrnel
Agogo, Tenga Raongo, Patrick Owaga, Damaris Oturu,
Odera Raongo, Sampoda Ochungo, Sampoda Raongo and Consolata Auma.
A fund raising event to defray medical and funeral costs will held on Tuesday 27/5/2014 at All
Saints Cathedral at 5 pm.
The cortege leaves Rapcom (Awendo) Mortuary on Friday 30/5/ 2014 for his rural home in
Kaguria. Burial will be on Saturday 31/5/2014 at Kitanda village, Kaguria Location, Ndhiwa in Homa
Bay County.
Nind Gi Kue WuoNyaramba.
Mzee Nahashon
Okumu Raongo
Death and Funeral Announcement
It is with great sadness that we
announce the death of Maryline
Atieno Odera, a fth year Engineering
student at JKUAT and an Equity Bank
scholar.
She passed away at the Nairobi
Hospital ICU after a brave ght.
Loving daughter of Ruth Auma Odera
of Habitat for Humanity and the late
Dr. Jerim Odera and dear sister of
Winfrey Odera. Niece of Joan Odera,
Jane Odera, George Odera. Cousin of
Jackie Ochieng, Juliet Odera, Annabel
Odera, Sam Odera, Paul Ochieng, Allan
Ochieng, Elvis Opiche, Linda Atieno,
Kennedy Omondi, Kennedy Ayieko,
Lydia Ayieko, Caleb Ayieko.
Aunty of Millicent Ivy Atieno.
Friends and family are having daily meetings at CITAM Valley Road Church
(NPC), minor hall 2 and the family home in Kahawa Sukari at 5.30pm to
make funeral arrangements and also planning for a harambee to offset the
huge medical bill of Ksh 5.3 million that has overwhelmed the family.
The harambee will be held at All Saints Cathedral on 27th May 2014 at
5.00pm. There will be a funeral service at St. Peters Church, Kahawa Sukari,
Nairobi on 29th May 2014 at 2pm. The body will be transported for burial
on 31st May 2014 at Gem location, Luanda Kagina village near Dudi market
at Mzee Gordon Odera home.
Maryline A. Odera
Death and Funeral Announcement
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we
announce the sudden death of our beloved son kingori
(kings) which occurred on 21st May, 2014 at Kampala
Uganda. He was a nal year student of Architecture at
Makerere University, Uganda. Fianc of Agnes Ayebare
(Chyna) of Rukungiri,Western Uganda. Son of the late
Thomas Thitu Minjire and Esther Thitu of KTTC Gigiri.
Brother of Patrick Thitu(Technobrain ltd) and Edwin
Thitu (Multimedia University). Uncle of Marsha and
Tom Minjire. Nephew of Munyiri, SP and GM Gachanja,
Waruhiu, Mrs Mbae, Lucy Kingori, Agnes Kingori,
Nancy Maina, Mr. and Mrs. Njanjo Kingori. Brother-in-
law of Anne Minjire and cousin to many.
Family and Friends are meeting daily at KTTC, Hse
no. C17 Gigiri from 6.00 pm for prayers and funeral
arrangements.
The cortege leaves Kenyatta University Funeral home
at 7:00 am on Wednesday 28/5/2014.
The Funeral and burial service will be held at 10:00am
at their Githima farm Ithekahuno Sublocation, Aguthi
Location, Nyeri County.
In Gods Hands You Rest, in our Hearts You Remain Forever.
Death and Funeral Announcement
Kenneth Kingori
Thitu (Kings)
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that
we announce the passing on of James Mwaniki
Kamengere (Gichire), which occurred on 22nd May
2014, after a short illness. Son of the late Kamengere
Muraguri and the late Leah Mwihaki. Husband of
Jacinta Wangu Gichire. Father of Joyce Mwihaki
Nderu, Ruth Nyambura Maina, Josephat Kagwanja,
Mercy Wairimu, Alice Njeri, Samuel Muraguri,
Stephen Macharia and Simon Mutonyi. Brother of the
late Charles Muraguri (Wakamee), Gladys Wangui of
Kiptangwanyi, Meshack Muraguri (Kamweru), the late
Lucy Wairimu Mwangi,Wangechi Karungu and Nancy
Wanjiru Manyeki. Uncle and grandfather of many.
Prayers and funeral arrangements are being held daily
at his home in Kihoya Village and at Silvermine Hotel,
Accra Road from 6pm. The cortege leaves Kenyatta
University Funeral Home on Saturday 31st May,
2014 at 8:00am.
Funeral service will be held at ACK St. Barnabas
Church Kihoya at 11:00 am. Burial will take place at
his home Iruraini Village, Kihoya thereafter.
May God rest his soul in external peace.Amen
Death And Funeral Announcement
James Mwaniki
Kamengere
(Gichire)
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we
announce the passing-on of Benson Apollo Olwande
which occurred on 16th May, 2014 at KNH. Son
of the late Meshack Oiro and Dada Joyce Oiro of
Ramba Asembo. Son-in-law of the late Mr & Mrs
Walter Arek of Luoro. Husband of the late Millicent
Arek. Father of Lordvick, Wendy, Joy and Emilly.
Father in law of William Omondi. Brother of the late
Francis Odhiambo, Sam Oiro, Margaret Awinda, late
John & Godfrey, Phoebe Hakim, Miriam Ongonga,
Ruth Otieno & Jesca Sunday Olewe. Brother in-law
of Adda Odhiambo, Lydia Omondi, Benard Awinda,
Hakim Ongalo, Stephen Ongonga, Maurice Otieno
Orege-EPC, Gerald Olewe Ateto, Dorothy Arek,
among others. Meetings and prayers are on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Friday at the Seasons Restaurant,
Uchumi House Agakhan Walk starting at 5pm. and at
home in Ramba daily.
There will be a Fundraising at All Saints Cathedral
on Wednesday 28th May 2014 starting at 5pm. The
cortege leaves KNH Mortuary on Friday 30th at
7.00am for his home in Ramba where he will be laid
to rest on Saturday 31st May. Funeral service will be
held at the gravesite.
A brief service will be held at KNH Chapel before departure on 30th at 7am.
Celebrating a Life Well Lived
Benson
Olwande Oiro
Renowned Tera Cota Sculptor
It is with the acceptance of Gods will that we
announce the promotion to glory of our beloved
daughter Sharon Aoko Opondo who went to be with
the Lord on 23rd May 2014.
Daughter of Rebecca and Pastor John Opondo
Masini. Sister of Karen Csizmadia, Peace and Nashah.
Granddaughter of Pastor Eunice and the late Bishop
William Masini; Hellen Murugi and the late Alexander
Eshitemi and Teresa Osundwa. Niece of the late Mary
Otieno, David, Jemimah, Enos, Jacob, Beatrice, Evelyn,
Ann, Mary, Jacklyne, Selly, Rose, Richard and Johnson
and Timothy among others. Prayers will be held on
Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th at All Saints Cathedral
at 5.30 p.m in Nairobi, and daily at their Mumias Town
Residence.
The cortege will leave Montezuma Funeral home on
Thursday 29th May 2014. The Church Service will
be held on Friday 30th at Jesus Celebration Centre,
Mumias.The burial will take place on Saturday 31st at
Musango Village, Kakamega County.
I am the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of valleys. Song of Solomon 2:1
Celebration of Life
Sharon Aoko
Opondo
We regret to announce the demise
of Raphael Kanyi Charagu of Kiptoi
village Cherangani division. Retired
senior sergeant Kamiti maximum prison.
Husband of the late Mary Nyambura
Kanyi,son of James Charagu Gichuhi and
Elizabeth Wanjiku Charagu.
Son-in-law of the late Gideon
Muraya Thuo (retired S.A.C.P prisons)
and Florence Njeri Muraya. Father of
Stephen Charagu Kanyi (Kitale medium
prison), Christopher Muraya Kanyi
(Nairobi), Jane Wanjiku Kanyi (Gatanga),
Mercy Njeri Kanyi (Kitale) and the late
Peter Gichuhi Kanyi.
Father-in-law of Faith Nyokabi Charagu
(Kitale), Florence Njoki Muraya (Nairobi),
and Peter Kinyanjui Kaba (Kamiti maximum
prison).
Brother of John Gichuhi, Flora Wanjiru, Michael Ngiciri, Rebecca Wambui, John
Njau, the late Esther Wanjiku, the late Ruth Wambui, Hannah Wairimu and
Samuel Wainaina. Grandfather of many.
The cortege leaves Kenyatta University Mortuary on Wednesday 28/5/2014 at
9.00am and later a mass and funeral to be held at his
fathers home at Kaburugi, Kanjiru (Naaro Location) at 12.00 noon.
We give thanks to God for the time we stayed with him, may his soul
rest in eternal peace.
Raphael Kanyi
Charagu
Death And Funeral Announcement
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we
announce the death of George Gaturu Njoroge. Son
of the late Allan Njoroge Mwathi, the late Wataro
Njoroge. Step-son Virginia Njeri Njoroge. Beloved
husband of Florence Wangui Gaturu and Mary
Wangari Gaturu.
Loving father of Allan Njoroge, James Kimari, Mary
Wangari, Emma Wataro, the late Grace Wamaitha
and Allan Njoroge. Brother of Mary Njeri Baiya,
Jeremiah Kinyanjui, Jacinta Wanja, Veronica Muthoni,
Simon Mwathi. Uncle of the late Samuel Wathiru
Baiya, Grace Wamweru Kiarie, Njoroge Baiya (MP
Githunguri), Amos Njoroge, Stella Wataro, Simon
Kiraba. Father-in-law of Samuel Mbugua among
others.
Family and friends are meeting daily at his home Ihiga
Village near Githiga Boys High School. The cortege
leaves Nazareth Hospital on Thursday 29th May at
9am for burial at his home Ihiga Village, Githiga, Ikunu
Divion, Githunguri, Kiambu.
Death and Funeral Announcement
George Gaturu
Njoroge
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
Transition 55
It is with regret that we announce the death of Mr. John Ochoro Adongo of Kenya National
Highways Authority (KeNHA) North Rift Region, on 17/05/2014 at Reale Hospital in Eldoret.
Loving husband of Jane Kwamboka. Caring father of Hellen (USA), Winnie (Moi University),
Emily (Hill School) and Seth (North Gate School). Son of the late Jectone Adongo and Martha
Adongo. Step son of Enos Doho. Brother of Akinyi, Ann, Mary, Salome, Grace, Ken, Onyango,
Jeff (JKUAT) among others. Uncle of John (Elgon View College), Joshua (Berlin), Edna (Dubai),
Geoffrey (BRITAM), Brian (Maseno),Vladmin (KU) among others. Nephew of Peter and Prisca
Anasia (Elgon View). Brother in law of Paul, Yobesh Oyaro (MSA) Abdalla Matoke (MSA),
Truphena (MSA), Hellen Nyabuto (Sironga Girls), Hellen Obino (Foreign Affairs) Hellen (MCA-
Migori County Government), Harun Nyambane (Moi University). Father-in-law of Ken (UK).
Cousin of Benson Wanga (Moi University). Friends and family are meeting daily at his residence
in Kenya-Re Kapsoya Estate daily, fundraising will be held on 28/05/2014 at Wagon Wheel Hotel
from 5.00pm. The cortege leaves Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital Mortuary on 30/05/2014
at 10.00am for viewing at his residence at Kenya Re - Kapsoya Estate thereafter proceeds to
Uriri village Migori County. Funeral services and burial will be conducted by Eldoville SDA
church Eldoret at his farm in Uriri Village Migori County on 1/6/2014.
In Gods hand you rest, in our hearts you live forever amen.
Celebration of life well lived
John Ochoro Adongo
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we announce the promotion to
glory of Christopher Waweru Muturi, the renowned author of Solving Problems:
KCSE Mathematics, on Sunday 18th May 2014. Beloved husband of Julia Muthoni,
Father of the late John Weru, Priscilla Wangari, James Weru, Peter Muriithi, Charles
Maina, Nancy Wandia, Mary Chris Wambui and Jesse Mwangi.
Brother of Juliet Nyaguthii, Mary Wambui, Ann Wamuyu and Cecilia Mumbi (UK).
Brother-in-law of Patrick Chieni, Geoffrey Mwangi and Mick Lawrence (UK). He
was a pastor with Reconciliation Christian Church.
Friends and relatives are holding prayers daily in Kanyama Village at 4.00 P.M. The
cortege leaves PCEA Tumutumu hospital Mortuary on 28th May 2014 at 8.00 a.m
for the burial in Kanyama Village, Mathira West District, Nyeri County.
We love you Dad but God loves you more.
May your soul rest in eternal peace.Amen.
Celebration of A Life Well Lived
Pastor Christopher Muturi Weru
(C. Muturi)
17/10/1948 - 18/5/2014
The Meru County Government, Meru Level 5 hospital and Kenya Medical Association, Meru
Branch wish to announce the sudden death of Dr. Albert M. Obiri following a carjacking
incident on 20th May 2014. Untill his death he was a Senior Surgeon at Meru Level 5 Hospital.
Son of the late Benard Obiri and the late Sabina Kemuma Obiri. Husband of Miriam Mochama
Wairimu, father of Nelly Kerubo Mochama, Joan Njeri Mochama and Brian Obiri Mochama.
Brother of Rev Fr. Aloys T Manyange, the late John Onsongo, Luke Obiri, the late William
Onsare, the late Bartholomew Odieki, Robina Kerubo Abuya, Salome Moraa Bosire and Jane
Florah Kwamboka.
Friends, family and well-wishers are meeting at his Meru Home (Forest View Estate/Kenya
Re/Site) from 4:00pm, Meru County Hotel at 5:00pm, Kisii Home (Botori Village, Kisii Town) at
4:00pm and at Residents (Convention Center) at 5pm.
A requiem mass will be held at Meru Cathedral on Wednesday 04th June, 2014
The funeral ceremony will be held at Getembe Primary school (next to Nubia Village/Kisii town
chief s ofce) 2km from Kisii town and the burial will be held at Botori Vilage, Kisii District, Kisii
County on Friday 6th June, 2014.
Contributions towards the funeral arrangements can be deposited at Equity Bank, Meru
Branch, A/c Name: KMA Meru Division; A/c No.0140101413772.
For more information kindly contact: Pius-0711403036 or Titus- 0720773914
Death and Funeral Announcement
Dr. Albert .M. Obiri
The Meru County Government
We regret to announce the untimely demise
of Lt Col (Rtd) Julius Charo Baya formely of
KDF. Husband of Gladys N. Baya. Son of the
late mama Mary Mwenda and Harold Thoya.
Father of Grace Kathithe, Emily Mwenda,
Guthrum Kenga and Gideon Mbuya. Brother
of Karisa, Juma and the late Tabu Baya. Son
in-law of the late Major (Rtd) G.M Nakhungu
and late Mama Emily Mbuya all of Kitale.
Brother In-law of Sidi, Mrs. Juma, Christine,
Robert, Judith, Jemimah, Rosline, Geoffrey,
Jesca, Andrew, Jacquiline, Evans and Uncle
of many.
The cortege left St. Francis Mission Hospital
Mortuary Nairobi on Friday May 23rd 2014,
for Kili County. His remains were laid to
rest on 24th May 2014 at his home Kidemu
village, Bandari Location, Bamba Division in
Kili County.
Death and Funeral Announcement
Lt Col (Rtd)
Julius Charo Baya
1961 - 2014
Friday 23rd May 2014 marks two years since you rested
in the Lord. We have realized that when a loved one
becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.
Our Lord God has been our comfort, refuge, strength,
hope and very present help in time of need. He has been
our shepherd and Lord. He has never left us nor forsaken
us. This far it has taken His hand & we glorify His Holy
name.We Mbatias family take this opportunity to sincerely
appreciate our family members, church members especially
Zimmerman S.D.A Church, our beloved friends, relatives,
neighbours, former colleagues who worked and knew
Charity and well wishers who have supported us physically,
socially and spiritually. May the Almighty Lord who sees in
all secrets bless you abundantly and remember you in his
Kingdom. Charity you are fondly missed by your dear loving
husband Geoffrey, daughters Tabby and Maxine, brothers
and sister, unties, uncles, parents in law, brothers and sister
in law friends and relatives. As a family we continue to
honour you and remember and cherish your last prayer
on earth that May God Almighty remember you in His
Kingdom. For us we shall remain faithful and serve the
Lord all the days of our lives as we wait upon that blessed
hope of eternal Kingdom when we shall meet again on that
beautiful shore.
In Gods hand you rest in peace, in our hearts you live forever. For if we live, we live to the
Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord,Therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lords.
For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead
and the living. Romans 14:8,9
2nd Anniversary/Appreciation
Charity Mukiri
Mbatia
It is with acceptance of Gods will that we
announce the sudden demise of our beloved
sister in Christ Lucy Wanjiku Njuguna (Nyina wa.
Judy) on Wednesday 21st May 2014. Daughter of
Mr. Joseph Nayu Kongo and Rahab Wairimu of
Nairegia Enkare Narok. Sister of Naomi Wambui
Macharia (Kabuku), Jane Njeri (Narok), George
Kongo (Narok) among others. Wife of Mr. George
Njuguna Kanyari (Formerly of Muthaiga Country
Club). Beloved mother of Judy Wanjiru of Prime
Bank, Nancy Wairimu, Margaret Wambui, Naomi
Wambui, Mary Wairimu and Irene Wabai. Mother-in-
law of Elly Arengo, Elvins Ayodi and Mwaura. Loving
grandmother of Michelle,Victoria and Kelvin.
The cortege will leave Tigoni District Hospital
Mortuary on Wednesday 28th May 2014 at 9.00am
for a funeral service at St. Johns ACK Kabuku
starting at 11.00 am. Thereafter she will be laid to
rest at her family farm at Kabuku Nyenji Village at
2.00 pm.
May God rest Her soul in Eternal Peace.
Celebrating a life well lived
Sister in Christ
Lucy Wanjiku Njuguna
(Nyina wa Judy)
It is with profound shock that we announce the
sudden death of Juliet Wamaitha Ngata which
occurred on Friday 16th May 2014 at M.P. Shah
Hospital after a short illness.Wife of Simon Ngata.
Mother of Eunice Mumbi (USA), Maureen Njoki,
and Felistus Wambui (Pleasant view Academy).
Daughter of the late Kamau Kagwa (Songo),
Ruth Njoki. Sister of Edith Wairimu, Lydia
Wanjiku, Nicholus Kagwa, Jennifer Nyokabi the
late Peter Njoroge, late Daniel Njoroge, Rose
Wambui (Gawa Cosmetics), David Gachie,Wilson
Murungu and John Wanyoike.
Friends and relatives are meeting daily at her
home Mururi-ini, Gathiru-ini at 3pm. The cortege
leaves M.P. Shah Hospital Mortuary on Tuesday
27th May 2014 at 8.00am for funeral service at
PCEA Gathiru-ini Church thereafter the burial
will take place at her home Mururi-ini farm.
In God hands you rest, in our hearts you live forever.Amen
Death and Funeral Announcement
Juliet Wamaitha
Ngata
With humble acceptance of Gods will that we announce
the death of our beloved Ednah Kerubo Oriku which
occurred on 17th May, 2014 at K.N.H, a teacher at
Nyondonyo Sec. School-South Mugirango of Motagara,
Nyamira County. Daughter of Mzee Benson Ondari Oriku
and Alice Bikeri Ragira of Jogoo township, Kisii County.
Sister of Erick, Everline (MMU), Harrriet-Nyachenge Poly.,
Ruth, Kenphilip (Moi Uni.) & Nyamweya Nyambaria
High Sch. Granddaughter of Late Japheth Oriku Ondari,
late Bochaberi Oriku, Hellen Oriku, Late Samuel Ragira
Sindiga, Hellen Ragira, Nathan, John, Richard Osoro Sindiga
(E.A.C), Amb. Daniel Sindiga, Samwel Onyiego, Dr. Ben
Ototo. Niece of Arita, Ongechi, Tom, Obita, Joshua, Sindiga
Gisemba, Adv. Obure, Samson Kenyosi, Onsomu, Mburu,
Bundi, Nyakundi, Kayaga, Onditi,Yukabet, Keziah, Florence,
Hellen, Jemimah, late Lydia, Late Joyce,Vane, Jackline (U.S.A),
Lydia, Marysela, Esther, Rebecca among others. In-law of
Fracisca, Jared,Tom, Lewis, Charles, Geoffrey,Wilter, Ronald,
Mamwancha. Cousin of Edward, Roselyn, Pamela, Mongare
(Canada),Morara (Mozambique), Judy, Eric, Dr. ratemo, Dr.
Oigara, Innocent, Kennedys, Magomas, Saranges, Mokobis,
Onyiegos, Magangi among others. Family & friends are
meeting daily at Garden Square from 6.p.m. The main
fundraising is tomorrow Tuesday, 27th/5/2014 at Professional Center - Nairobi from 5.p.m & Camp David
- Kisii from 2.p.m. The cortege leaves K.N.H private wing on Thursday 29th /5/2014. The funeral & burial
service will be held at Jogoo township Kisii County on Friday 30th/5/2014.
Till we meet again please know that we will miss you our dearest Edna (Omoganda)
Death and Funeral Announcement
Ednah Kerubo
Oriku
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we announce the passing
on to glory of Mzee Allan Kairu Ndere on the 18th May 2014 at Tigoni
District Hospital after a short illness. He as the husband to Peninah Waceke
Kairu (Kabuku) and Damaris Wakonyo Kairu (Banana Hills). Brother to
John Kihangu Ndere (Mangu - Nakuru). Father to Professor Edward Kairu,
Rosemary Wagithire, Charles Njonjo, Rachel Waweru, Hellen Kairu, Robert
Kihangu, John Kairu, Hellen Njoroge, Zacharia Ndere, Rosemary Nyagathu,
Rachel Nduta, Salome Wambui and the late Rahab Njokabi. The late Allan
Kairu was blessed with 36 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.
The service and funeral will be conducted on Tuesday 27th May 2014 in his
Kabuku home (near St Pauls University Limuru) starting at 11am.
As we celebrate his life as well as the many legacies and blessings that he has
left behind, we his family and friends, thank God for the opportunity and the
gift of having Allan Kairu Ndere for all the 90 years that he was with us.
May God rest his soul in everlasting peace.
Hebrews 11: 1; Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and
certain of what we do not see.
Death and Funeral Announcement
Allan Kairu Ndere
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
56 | Transition
It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death
of Mrs. Margaret Wanjiku Thindi Kabaya, through
gunshot by thugs which occurred on 19th May, 2014.
Beloved wife of Mr. John Thindi Kabaya, mother of
Cynthia Njeri of Four M Insurance Brokers and Paul
Kabaya of Time Auctioneers. Daughter of Mr&Mrs.
Nathaniel Kariuki Mathu of Kigumo. Sister of Elder
Samuel Mathu (Matuguta), Wairimu,Njeri, Nyambura,
John Macharia (KPLC), and Maria. Daughter In-law of
the late Mr&Mrs Paul Kabaya. Sister in-law of the late
Peter Kabaya,Willie, Ruth, Ngere among others.
Prayers and funeral preparations are taking place daily
from 5:00pm at P.C.E.A, Kiambu Town Church behind,
Kiambu Primary School.
The cortege leaves Kenyatta University Mortuary on
Tuesday 27th May 2014 at 9:00am. Funeral service will
be at PCEA Kiambu Town Church at 11:00am. Burial
will follow at the family farm, Ihiga, next to Githiga
High School, Githunguri, Kiambu County.
Physically gone, but alive in our hearts.
Gone too Soon
Margaret Wanjiku
Thindi Kabaya
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we announce the death of Mrs Grace
Wairimu Njoroge, Director Dangai Herbal Limited that occurred on 19/05/2014 after a
long illness bravery borne.
Beloved wife of Bernard N Kariuki (Director of Dangai Herbal Limited). Daughter of late
Stanley Gathekia and Margaret Wanjiru. Daughter in-law of Joseph Kariuki and Cecilia
Nyambura.
Mother of Joseph Kariuki, Faith Nyambura Stanely Gathekia Caroline Wanjiru and Nellie
Muthoni. Grandmother of Sophie Wairimu. Sisiter of Nellie Karatu, Kariuki Mucheru
Wambui, late Mugo, late Ngugi, Wangui and Kanyanga.
Sister-in-law of Lucy Esther DK, Mary Jane Njeri Babu Purity George & Wanjema. Aunt
of many.
Relatives and friends are meeting daily at her Blue Valley Home and Highway Court Hotel
Embu town from 5.30pm for prayers and funeral arrangements.
The cortege leaves Umash Funeral Home at 8.00 am on Tuesday 27/05/2014 for a funeral
service at Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church, Embu and thereafter burial at her
Difathers home, Kamunyange location, Kirinyaga County.
In Gods hands you rest, in our hearts you live forever. Blessed be the Name of the Lord.
Grace Wairimu Njoroge
Celebration of a Life Well Lived
We wish to announce the promotion
to glory of Mrs. Grace Wanjiku Kamau
on 19th May, 2014. Wife of the late
Edward Kamau Munyua (Mwalimu).
Daughter of the late George Nyoro
Gicini and the late Mrs. Rachael Mumbi
Nyoro. Mother of Mercie Mulumba,
Charity Muthoni, Faith Njenga, Peace
Njoki and Hope Kamau. Mother-in-law
of Fred Mulumba, Michael Njenga and
Eric Munyoki. Grandmother of Esther,
King, Dennis, Tamira, April, Jude and Sifa,
and great Grandmother of Ethan. Sister
of the late Francis Kagia, the late Evans
Njahia, James Nyoro (Narok), George
Kangethe and others.
Friends and relatives are meeting daily at her home in Rironi, Limuru and
at St. Andrews Church starting at 5.30pm.
The funeral service will be on Tuesday 27th May from 10.00am at P.C.E.A.
Langata Parish and burial at her home in Rironi, Limuru thereafter.
M-Pesa contributions to 0723 709701
Mum, you have fought the good ght, you have nished the race,
you have kept the faith.
Grace Wanjiku
Kamau
Celebration of a Life Well Lived
It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we announce
the death of Elder Samuel Gathecha Njoroge of PCEA
Githunguri Parish-Rev. Ayub Kinyua Memorial Church,
Githunguri. He hailed from Thakwa village, Githunguri,
Kiambu County. Son of the late Harun Njoroge Gakami and
the late Susan Wanjiru Njoroge. Husband of Elder Keziah
Wangui Gathecha. Father of Lucy Wanjiru Ngigi (State Law
Ofce) and Josphat Ngigi Kihiro, Elder Zipporah Mwende
Gitau and the late Barthlomew Gitau Ngugi, Priscilla Wanjiku
Gathecha (TSC), Harun Njoroge Gathecha and Nancy
Nyandia Njoroge (UK).
Brother of the late Priscilla Wanjiku Njuguna, Elder Ruth
Wambui Wairia, the late John Thuo, Esther Ngonyo Kimani,
Elizabeth Mwihaki Harun and Albert Chege Gakami. Son-in-
law of the late Stephen Mwaura Kiguru, the late Zipporah
Kamwende and the late Peninah Wanjiru Mwaura. Brother-
in-law of Karen Mumbi, Florence Mumbi, Mary Ngure, Naomi
Manyara, Henry Kiguru, Joe Mwaura, Grace Mwaura and
Willie Mwaura.
Grandfather of Keziah Wangui Ngigi, Samuel Gathecha
Wanjiku (UAP Insurance), Tabitha Njeri Gitau (Equity Bank),
Samuel Gathecha Njoroge (UK), Samuel Gathecha Ngigi, Jeff
Kioi Njoroge (UK), Keziah Wangui Njoroge (UK). Great-
grandfather of Faith Wambui Wangui (AIC Pipeline Academy).
Uncle of many.
Friends and relatives are meeting daily at his home Thakwa from 4.00 pm for prayers and funeral arrangements.
The cortege leaves Kenyatta University Funeral Home on Wednesday, 28th May, 2014 at 8.00am for funeral
service at PCEA Rev. Ayub Kinyua Memorial Church, Githunguri at 10.00 am and thereafter burial at his home
Thakwa village.
Rest in peace.
Elder Samuel
Gathecha Njoroge
Celebration of A Life Well Lived
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
Transition 57
AK will feel vindicated, though, by
their decision to oer wild card selec-
tion to Africa 3,000m record holder
Hellen Obiri and continental cross
country champion Faith Chepngetich
Kipyegon as the pair played crucial
roles in the record-breaking 4x1,500m
race alongside World 5,000m silver
medallist Mercy Cherono and 2011 All
Africa Games winner Irene Jelagat.
Kenyas gold medallists in the
mens 4x800m were Ferguson Rot-
ich, Sammy Kibet, Job Kinyor and
Alfred Kipketer.
In the womens 1,500m race, the
crowd at the stadium had their eyes
trained on the clock, looking to see
if Kenya would shatter their world
record that stood at 17 minutes, 5.72
seconds, set in Nairobi last month at
the national trials for the event.
Cherono threw down the gauntlet
doing a great job in leg one with
Chepngetich stretching Kenyas lead
from 20 metres to 30 and eventually 60
when she handed the baton to Jelagat
who was equally delightful, stretching
the lead to 150 metres.
And when anchorwoman Obiri took
over the baton, it was just a matter
of keeping inside world record pace,
which she did with ease, stopping the
clock sub-17 at 16: 33.58.
USA (16:55.33) a l s o
dipped into the former record
for silver as Australia, who put some
early pressure on Kenya, taking the
bronze in 17:08.65.
We had planned very well to at-
tack the world record and knew we
just needed to each run 4:10 to get a
16-something time, said Obiri, who is
fresh from breaking the Africa 3,000m
record earlier this month at the Doha
Diamond League meeting.
I knew it was going to be a world
record when I turned in for the nal
100 metres, added the Kenya Defence
Forces servicewoman, Obiri.
The atmosphere was great, police-
woman Jelagat chipped in. Mercy and
Faith ran very well and I just ran to
stay in the lead.
We had a lot of fun and the atmos-
phere was great with the music and
the people cheering us, Cherono said.
The race was ran at 7.51pm local time
(2.51am on Sunday, Kenyan time).
WORLD RELAYS CHAMPIONSHIPS | The atmosphere was just great with lots of fun, says Jelagat
Record-breaking night for Kenya
MIKE SEGAR | REUTERS
Kenyas 4x800m team, from left Sammy Kibet, Job Kinyor (front), Ferguson Rot-
ich and Alfred Kipketer, after winning the event at the World Relays Champion-
ships in Bahamas, on Saturday. Womens team set new 4x1,500m World Record.
BY ELIAS MAKORI
emakori@ke.nationmedia.com
In Nassau, Bahamas
K
enyans showed no
mercy for their
opponents on a
record-breaking night
at the Thomas A.
Robinson Stadium in
Nassau, Bahamas on
the opening day at
the two-day, inau-
gural IAAF World
Relays Champion-
ships on Saturday.
Kenya woke up to the news
that the national track team bagged
gold in the mens 4x800 and fol-
lowed through with another one in
the womens 4x1,500 metres.
The only blot was that
Kenya failed to progress
in the 4x400m that was
once the countrys speci-
ality with a gold medal at
the 1972 Munich Olympics
coming after a silver at the 1968
Games in Mexico.
The mens 4x200m team made it to
the nal and nished a commendable
fth overall despite being earlier locked
out of the event by Athletics Kenya.
But AK would succumb to pressure
to give the sprinters a chance after
they displayed great potential in the
National Relays Series.
Obiri steers womens
team to new time as
men take honours in
4x800m in Bahamas
16:33.58
New World Record Kenyan womens
team set in the 4x1,500m race at the
Bahamas World Relays championships
We had planned to attack the
world record and knew we
just needed to each run 4:10
to get a 16-something time
Hellen Obiri
Paris
Roger Federer kicked o his 16th
consecutive French Open with a 6-
2, 6-4, 6-2 win over Slovakias Lukas
Lacko yesterday, his rst victory since
becoming a father of twins for the
second time.
The 32-year-old Swiss, who won his
only Paris title in 2009, was watched
by wife Mirka and older twins Myla
and Charlene but not three-week old
Lenny and Leo. The triumph was
also his 59th at Roland Garros, tying
eight-time champion Rafael Nadal as
the tournaments win specialist.
Federer was never troubled by the
world number 88 who has not won a
claycourt match for three years.
Breaks in the fifth and seventh
games of the opening set followed
by another in the third game of the
second put the 17-time major winner
in total control. Federer broke again
in the rst and fth games of the
third set against the hapless Lacko
to seal victory in just 84 minutes, a
performance highlighted by 40 win-
ners. Federer goes on to face either
Portugals Gastao Elias or Diego Se-
bastian Schwartzman of Argentina for
a place in the last 32.
It was important for me to attack
and stay aggressive, said Federer. I
also served well.
Also joining the second round by
Canadian eighth seed Milos Raonic
who unleashed 27 aces in his 6-3, 7-6
(7/1), 6-3 win over teenage Australian
wildcard Nick Kyrgios. (AFP)
Childs play as Federer and Raonic breeze through in Paris
It was important for me to
attack and stay aggressive
Riger Federer
OUTSIDE EDGE |
Clay Muganda
W
hen Gary
Kirsten
coached
India to a World Cup
win in 2011, he was
hailed as the rst and
only South African
to have won the title. This was in
reference to sad reality of Proteas
notoriety of failing at advanced
stages in international tourneys.
After his stint with India, he became
his countrys coach and under him,
South Africa became the top team
in the International Cricket Council
Test rankings.
Hailed as one of the best coaches,
Gary was in high demand for inter-
national assignment after leaving the
South African coaching job in August
2013, but he instead signed a three-
year deal to be the head coach of Delhi
Daredevils, a franchise in the Pepsi
India Premier League (IPL) whose
league stage ended yesterday.
No doubt he is a top-rated coach,
but in the IPL, his charges performed
dismally and nished at the bottom of
the eight-franchise table after winning
only two matches in 14, with the latest
loss coming yesterday at the hands of
table toppers Kings XI Punjab.
Disappointing run
A disappointing run for a rst time
coach in charge of an IPL franchise,
but it is highly unlikely that he will
despair or swear o cricket. Instead,
the loss might just inspire him to work
harder and prove himself next year.
The moral of the story is that in
cricket, no one can lay claim to being
invincible or the best, or even the
worst as the mighty can fail and the
weak can rise to greater heights.
But that principle seems to not have
sunk in the minds of local players and
ocials after Kenya failed to qualify
for next years World Cup and lost the
One Day International status too.
Looking at local creases, despair
and ailing of arms are the sights one
sees. The subtle message is that all
is lost, forever, never to be regained.
Kenyan cricketers and ocials need to
have faith, and condence, and work
on their failures, for, if they think they
have lost everything, then they will
never win anything.
All is not lost,
Kenyan cricket
can rise again
Kenyan cricketers need to
have faith, and condence,
and work on their failures
Clay Muganda
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Monday May 26, 2014
58 |
Monte Carlo
N
ico Rosberg turned his con-
troversial pole position into
faultless victory for Mercedes
yesterday when he regained the lead
in the drivers world championship by
winning the Monaco Grand Prix.
The 28-year-old German came home
9.2 seconds clear of nearest rival and
team-mate Lewis Hamilton who coped
with loss of vision in one eye as he held
o Australian Daniel Ricciardos Red
Bull in the closing laps.
It was Rosbergs second consecutive
victory in his home event, his second
win of the 2014 season and the fth
win of his career.
Fernando Alonso nished fourth for
Ferrari ahead of Nico Hulkenberg of
Force India and Jenson Button who
nished sixth for McLaren.
Felipe Massa came home seventh for
Williams, Jules Bianchi was eighth for
Marussia ahead of fellow-Frenchman
Romain Grosjean of Lotus and Kevin
Magnussen nished 10th in the second
McLaren.
Did not make contact
Rosbergs win carried him to 122 points
in the title race ahead of Hamilton,
who was only half a second ahead of
Ricciardo as they crossed the line,
on 118.
Its another special day for me, for
sure, said Rosberg. Lewis drove well
and pushed me massively hard. The
pressure was on but I kept it cool and
pulled a bit of a gap at the end because
of the refreshed tyres.
On an overcast afternoon in the
Mediterranean principality, with an
air temperature of 20 degrees Celsius
and a track temperature of 28, there
was palpable tension in the air before
the start.
Following Saturdays controversy,
after Rosberg had gone down an escape
road on his nal lap, and Hamiltons
threat to take a leaf out of Sennas
book, reworks were expected.
Hamilton did not in public at any
rate congratulate Rosberg or make
any contact with his teammate on
the podium.
Given the drama of 24 hours earlier
Hamilton and his Mercedes team-mate
delivered a damp squib when the lights
went out, Hamilton following Rosberg
down to Ste Devote.
As the two Mercedes streaked clear,
separated by less than a cars length
on the opening lap, Raikkonen made
the most of a fast start in his Ferrari
to take fourth place. (AFP)
Rosberg regains lead in Monaco
FORMULA ONE | Hamilton holds o Red Bulls Ricciardo in last lap to wind up second
Mercedes driver claims
thrilling race and returns
to the top of standings
Its another special day for
me, for sure. Lewis drove well
and pushed me massively
hard
Nico Rosberg, Mercedes driver
ALLEXANDER KLEIN | AFP
Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg
leads the pack during Monaco
Formula One Grand Prix in
Monte Carlo yesterday. He won
the race.
1. Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) 1hr 49min
27.661sec,
2. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) at 9.200sec
3. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS/Red Bull) 9.600
4. Fernando Alonso (ESP/Ferrari) 32.400
5. Nico Hlkenberg (GER/Force India) 1 lap
6. Jenson Button (GBR/McLaren) 1 lap,
7. Felipe Massa (BRA/Williams) 1 lap
8. Romain Grosjean (FRA/Lotus) 1 lap
9. Jules Bianchi (FRA/Marussia) 1 lap
10. Kevin Magnussen (DEN/McLaren) 1 lap
Overall standings:
1. Nico Rosberg ( 122.0pts)
2. Lewis Hamilton (118.0)
3. Fernando Alonso (61.0)
4. Daniel Ricciardo (54.0)
5. Nico Hlkenberg (GER) 47.0
6. Sebastian Vettel (GER) 45.0
7. Valtteri Bottas (FIN) 34.0
8. Jenson Button (GBR) 31.0
9. Kevin Magnussen (DEN) 21.0
10. Sergio Perez (MEX) 20.0
TOP 10 IN MONACO
BY DEJA VU
sportsdesk@ke.nationmedia.com
Bolt (Lesley Sercombe) justied
the clamour of his namesake when
gliding past Manly Wharf by a com-
fortable four lengths credit in the
Beryl Markham Trophy.
A large syndication of Lively
Lads broke their own sound-barrier
with admiration for trainer Patsy
Sercombe, whose mind was already
bracing for Westonian in the Dela-
mere Gold Vase.
Ngong results
12.50 pm - First Race - The Jill Harley Memorial
Trophy (1,200m):
1. King of Burma (J Muhindi) (Mogok/Born Noble)
2. Royal Silk (Patrick Mungai)
3. Espionage (David Miri)
4. Royal Glint (Daniel Tanui)
Distance: 1.75/1/0.75/7.5. Time: 1:14:1/10 secs. Favorite:
Royal Silk. Runners: 6. Owned by Doctor Joe Wanjui
and Captain Mutiso. Trainer Surat Mohammed Noor
1.25pm - Second Race - Lake Naivasha Handicap
- (1,400m):
1.Shakara Man (Charles Kimani)
2.African Dream (Richard Kibet)
3.Carla (James Muhindi)
Dist: nose/1.5/2.5/head. Time: 1:27:8/10 secs. Fav:
Tiger In The Woods. Runners: 7. Owner: T. Oruya.
Trainer: Joe Karari.
2pm - Third Race - The Beryl Markham Trophy
- (2,400m):
1. Bolt (L Sercombe) (Ashtontown/Majestic Wind)
2. Manly Wharf (Henry Muya)
3. Hunting Call (Paul Kiarie)
4. Rankin (Charles Kimani)
Dist: 4.5/1.5/nose/half. Time: 2:38:7/10 secs. Favorite:
Lucky Mascot. Runners: 7. Owned by The Lively Lads
Syndicate. Trainer: Patsy Sercombe.
2.35pm - Fourth Race - The Delamere Gold Vase
- (2,060m):
1. Westonian (L Sercombe) (Bezrin/Western Truth)
2. Mpowered Mpire (Patrick Mungai)
3. Irish Garden (Daniel Tanui)
4. Parting Shot (Richard Kibet)
Distance: 1/2.5/3.5/2.4. Time: 2:12:3/10 secs. Favourite:
Winner 1-5. Runners: 7. Owned by Mim Haynes. Trainer
Patsy Sercombe.
3.15pm - Fifth Race - Lake Turkana Handicap
- (1,200m).
1. Jabal Aswad (Josphat Kultiang)
2. World of Approval (James Muhindi)
3. Mean Mistress (Richard Kibet)
Kaptivate withdrawn
Dist: nose/1.75/3.5/3.5. Time: 1:12:3/10 secs. Favourite:
World of Approval. Runners: 7. Owner: Sheikh Hamid
Butt, Doctor Patrick Musimba. Trainer Joe Karari.
3.50pm - Sixth Race - Lake Nakuru Maiden
(900m):
1. Wildest Dream (Henry Muya)
2. Ashmore (Richard Kibet)
3. Manzhouli (Peter Lesengei)
Distance: 0.75/nose/1.4/3.5. Time: 0:55:1/10 secs.
Favourite: Nothing specic. Runners: 9. Owner: Joe
Muya and Hans De Boer. Trainer Julie McCann
4.25 pm - Seventh Race - Louis Cup (2,800m):
1. Almeria (David Miri) (Winter Romance/Paloma)
2.Blossom Hill (Lesley Sercombe)
3. Barbados (Paul Kiarie)
4. Trifecta (Daniel Tanui)
Dist: half/2.4/4/1.5. Time: 3:07:6/10 secs. Fav: Noth-
ing specic. Runners 11. Owned by Runye Karlsen.
Trainer: Julie McCann
4.55pm- Eighth Race - Lake Victoria Maiden (1,400m):
1.River King (James Muhindi)
2.Out of Africa (Richard Kibet)
3.Take Pride (L Sercombe)
Dist: 9/1/1/5. Time: 1:28:8/10sec. Fav: Out of Africa.
Bolt gallops
to Markham
Trophy glory
MARTIN MUKANGU | NATION
James Muhindi rides King Of Burma during
the Jill and Harley Memorial Trophy race at
Ngong race course yesterday.
ahead of some of the fastest drivers
like Baldy (Chager) to emerge as a
driver to be taken seriously in future
competitions. I thank the entire team
for working hand in hand with the
commission, said Soin.
Frank Tundo did a fantastic job
by running a good event. I must thank
the entire team for working hand in
hand with my commission, added
Soin, the head of the body running
motor sports in the country.
The Classic Class was won by
Jonathan Somen in a Ford Escort
with 13th overall place. For the sec-
ond straight event, Alasdair Keith won
Group S with eighth overall place.
Nanyuki will host the next KCB rally
on July 27 and 28.
BY ABDUL SIDI
abdulsidi@gmail.com
Rajbir Rais maiden victory at the
KCB Nakuru Rally at the weekend
marked the birth of a new star in the
Kenya National Rally Championship
(KNRC) series.
And Lee Rose, one of the quickest
drivers to grace the series before mi-
grating to South Africa, said he was
impressed by Rajbirs rise.
Im happy with Rajbirs quick rise.
Its good news for Kenyan rallying. Its
good to see new talent coming through
to the top of rallying in Kenya. I con-
gratulate Rajbir on his maiden victory,
Rose told Daily Nation Sport on phone
from South Africa.
The 23-three-old Rajbir ended his
long wait for maiden victory after
staying in the shadows of veterans
Ian Duncan, Carl Tundo, Baldev
Chagger and Alstair Cavenagh who
have dominated past rounds of the
KNRC series.
Despite winning his rst national
rally, Rajbir acknowledged that he
cashed in on Duncans misfortunes.
Duncan led from start to the fourth
competitive stage before his Mit-
subishi Lancer suered a puncture
and finished third behind Baldev
Veteran Rose happy with Rajbirs quick rise in rallying
Im happy with Rajbirs quick
rise. Its good news for Kenyan
rallying. Its good to see new
talent coming through to the
top of rallying in Kenya
Lee Rose, veteran rally driver
Chager. Clerk of course Carl Tundo
tipped Rajbir for future glory. The
face of the national championship
has changed with the emergence of
Rajbir as a promising driver. He is a
brilliant youngster who will achieve a
lot in the KNRC, said Tundo. Similar
sentiments were echoed by Sup Soin,
chairman of the Rallies Commission
of the Kenya Motor Sports Federa-
tion who imparted navigational skills
in Rajbir.
Rajbir has done the sport proud. He
was consistent all the way by staying
ANWAR SIDI | NATION
Jonathan Somen and navigator Richard Hechle power their Ford Escort in last
weekends KCB Nakuru Rally. They won the Classic Cars category.
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DOWN MEMORY LANE | Cameroon drew 1-1 with eventual champions Italy and 0-0 with both Poland and Peru
T
hough not unusual con-
sidering the consuming
passions of the beautiful
game - and though to be ex-
pected after the nal whistles
of the knockout stage matches
in Brazil next month - the act
of one heartbroken Bangladeshi
woman shortly after Cameroon
and Italy drew 1-1 in the last
Group 1 game of the 1982 World
Cup still reverberates across the
football universe.
She leapt out of a balcony
window leaving a suicide note
that read: With Cameroon out
of the World Cup, I also take leave
of the world.
Millions of people around
the world who didnt go where
she went still acutely felt where
she was coming from. And
they mourned they mourned
Cameroons exit even as they
comforted themselves with mem-
ories of the stellar performance
that had seen the Indomitable
Lions go out without losing a
single match.
No other World Cup has lled
me with stronger emotions than
1982; my heart ached for my
favourite teams, Cameroon and
Brazil, and it ached for Algeria,
victims of one footballs worst
conspiracies. 1982 was the year
I came clean with myself I was
a man who loved football rst
and was only afterwards a sports
journalist. I let my feelings ow.
I was a fan.
Blind devotion
In his first-rate essay titled
Hopelessly Devoted describing
his blind devotion to Liverpool
FC since he was a child, Time
Magazine journalist Michael El-
liot wrote: What on earth makes
this lets admit it pretty un-
sophisticated devotion to the
fortunes of men Ive never met
and dont really want to so pow-
erful? Fandom the obsessional
identication with a sports team
is universal.
We fans like to describe our
passion in religious terms, as if
the places our heroes play are
secular cathedrals. Its easy to
see why. When you truly, deeply
love a sports team, you give your-
self up to something bigger than
yourself, not just because your
individuality is rendered insig-
nicant in the mass of the crowd,
but because being a fan involves
faith. No matter what its current
form may be, your team is worthy
of blind devotion or will soon
redeem itself. Belief is all.
With the passage of time, some
peoples belief gets shaken. But
for others like me, it hardens like
concrete. Like 1982, all three
teams which made my spirits
rise and fall with their fortunes
Cameroon, Algeria and, of
course, Brazil are on the big
stage. Lets remember 1982 for
each one of them:
Cameroon. Those of us for-
tunate to witness the Canon
Yaound team that wrecked an
8-0 destruction of Gor Mahia
in the 1979 Africa Cup Winners
Cup final had no doubt wed
seen the best ever from Africa
club or national. Eight of those
players turned out for the In-
domitable Lions. By Spain 82,
due to age and other attrition,
ve remained and they formed
the teams bedrock.
The five players who be-
witched us at the City Stadium
and proceeded to capture the
worlds imagination in Spain
were goalkeeper Thomas
Nkono (The Black Spider or
The Jaguar of Yaound), Em-
manuel Kunde, Theophile Abega
(captain, The Doctor), Jacques
Nguea and Ephraim Mbom.
Playing a brilliantly open
and enterprising game with en-
chanting ball control and crisp
passing, Cameroon drew 1-1
with eventual champions Italy
and 0-0 with both Poland and
Peru. They only couldnt make
the next round on the basis of
having scored fewer goals than
Italy with both teams having an
equal goal dierence. Poland, the
group leaders, and Italy qualied
over Cameroon and Peru.
Out Cameroon went with their
heads held high but the world
had been introduced to the
pride of Africa. With a seventh
appearance at the World Cup
in Brazil, Cameroon are way
ahead as Africas most successful
World Cup team. Ive been a fan
of Cameroon since 1979 and I
will be following their progress
with intense interest.
Already, I have become a nui-
sance to those around me who
dont think Pepe Kalles soaring
song, Roger Milla, a product of
their trailblazing run in 1990,
must be played over and over
again. Sorry, I cant help it.
Algeria. One of footballs
worst crimes was committed
against Algeria in 1982. The
culprits were West Germany, a
title favourite, and Austria. This
match spawned a new legend in
sarcasm and nally drove the ever
conservative FIFA into changing
a key rule. In Germany, it became
known as Nichtangrispakt von
Gijn (Non-aggression pact of
Gijn) or Schande von Gijn (Dis-
grace of Gijn). Gijon is the city
in Spain where it took place.
The Desert Foxes, for that is
the nickname of Algerias national
team, pulled o one of the World
Cups greatest upsets by defeating
European champions West Ger-
many 2-1 in a Group 2 match.
Algeria played their nal group
game the day before Germany
and Austria met for their own last
match. Both teams went into it
knowing that 1-0 win for Germany
would qualify them both while a
bigger German victory would
qualify Algeria and Austria. A
draw or a win for Austria would
qualify Algeria and Austria and
eliminate the Germans. Knowing
thus, the teams got into their infa-
mous conspiracy. After Germany
scored their rst and only goal,
the teams simply stopped play-
ing. They just kicked the ball
aimlessly around. A German tel-
evision commentator asked his
viewers to switch o their sets
and then stopped commentating.
A German fan burnt his national
ag in disgust. From the stands,
Algerian supporters waved bank
notes at the players.
Constellation of stars
Writing for The Guardian ahead
of World Cup 2010 in South Af-
rica, Paul Doyle remembered the
scandal: The reigning European
champions had stomped imperi-
ously into the nals, winning all
eight qualiers with a goals for-
against record of 33-3. They had
a constellation of stars in their
squad Paul Breitner, Karl-Heinz
Rummenigge, Uli Stielike and so
on and were so certain of victory
over Algeria that they entertained
themselves in the pre-match press
conferences by ridiculing their op-
ponents.
We will dedicate our seventh
goal to our wives, and the eighth
to our dogs, quipped one player,
while the manager, Jupp Derwall,
promised that if his team con-
trived to lose he would jump on
the rst train back to Munich.
One player even said that he
would play against us with a cigar
in his mouth, said Algerias full-
back Chaabane Merzekane, who,
as it transpired, was made man of
the match. Some of us wondered
if this was just a psychological
ploy, whether they were only
saying these things to lull us
into thinking that they werent
going to take us seriously after
all, who has ever heard of a Ger-
man team that doesnt do its
homework?
Germany eventually faced
Italy in the nal and pre-match
discussions were dominated by
the feelings in Algeria. A German
victory, many said, would be met
with derisive laughter across the
vast desert land. Italy won
3-1 and some sort of jus-
tice was seen to be done.
But most important is
what Fifa did immedi-
ately after the World Cup.
It decreed that nal group
games would henceforth be
played simultaneously.
Paul Doyle asked Algerias full
back Chaabane Merzekane if the
Algerian players took oence at
the conduct of the two European
teams. He said: Not at all. We
werent angry, we were cool. To
see two big powers debasing
themselves in order to eliminate
us was a tribute to Algeria. They
progressed with dishonour, we
went out with our heads held
high.
And their star forward, Lakh-
dar Belloumi remarked: Our
performances forced Fifa to make
that change, and that was even
better than a victory. It meant
that Algeria left an indelible mark
on football history.
Brazil. Brazils footballers are
not only the greatest on earth,
they are also the nest poets and
musicians. If you want to know
about them and the country that
is hosting this years World Cup,
read the book Futebol, The Brazil-
ian Way of Life by Alex Bellos.
Scrates Brasileiro Sampaio
de Souza Vieira de Oliveira, or
just Socrates to millions of peo-
ple around the world, was the
medical doctor who captained
the greatest team never to win a
World Cup the Brazilian Selecao
of 1982.
After their defeat by Paolo
Rossi (bad boy!) and Italy, some
of us just became sick for the rest
of the year and needed years of
psychological therapy a book
here, a documentary there, a drink
over there, a hug now, a song in
the evening, etcetera, etcetera, et-
cetera - to get over it all. Do you
know the pain of mentally trying
to undo the done thing? The pain
of trying to reverse the clock and
start afresh? Yes, that one.
In Futebol, Socrates writes: I
am absolutely enchanted in all
senses of the word by passion.
It is what guides us through the
unknown like an experienced
commander; angry seas never
scare us when we face them with
the madness of love.
Of all nations, none has a
people that loves and falls in
love more than mine. We are
surrounded by exaggeration, hap-
piness, spontaneity and creation.
The expression of hope on our
faces is the trade mark even of
By ROY GACHUHI
CONTINUED ON PAGE 62
No other World Cup has lled me with
stronger emotions than 1982; that was
the year I came clean with myself I was
a man who loved football rst and
was only afterwards a sports journalist.
I let my feelings ow. I was a fan
Ive been a fan of
Cameroon since 1979
and I will be following
their progress with
intense interest
Roy Gachuhi
PHOTO I AFP
Brazil midelder Zico celebrates his goal against Argentina during a
round match of the 1982 Fifa World Cup in Spain.
Bitter-sweet memories of 1982 World Cup
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60 | Sport
Expect AFC
to return from
Sudan stronger
W
hichever arithmetic one
uses, it is crystal clear
that the best Ingwe can
achieve in the rst leg this season
is 23 points. That is assuming
they win their remaining three
matches against Western Stima,
Bandari and our noisy neigh-
bours.
Personally, I will do with two wins
and one defeat or one win and two
draws because all the three teams
are worthy opponents. Besides, the
new manager Hendricks Pieters de
Jongh is just settling down in his
demanding job.
I spent the better part of Saturday
evening trying to catch up with pro-
ceedings at the ongoing Nile Basin
tournament in Sudan where Ingwe
opened its campaign with a 2-0 win
over their Rwandese opponents.
From the bits and pieces of in-
formation I gathered from Sudan,
Ingwe controlled the game through-
out, showing the attacking flair
weve all become accustomed to.
Ive never doubted the quality
of Dutch managers - from the
architect of the tiki-taka brand of
soccer Barcelona is renowned for
Johan Cruy to Guus Hiddink, Louis
van Gaal, Frank Rijkaard, Frank de
Boer, Danny Blind and the legen-
dary Clemens Westerhof, who was
in charge of the Super Eagles during
their most successful era and now
our very own Hendricks.
We must all appreciate that the
team Hendricks took to Sudan is not
our strongest. If anything, only Paul
Were, Noah Wafula, Edwin Wafula
and Jackson Saleh can break into the
starting eleven on a good day. The
rest are at best bench warmers.
For varied reasons, first team
players including Allan Wanga, Jacob
Keli, Wyclie Kasaya, Abdalla Juma,
James Situma, Anthony Kimani and
Edwin Seda remained behind. Skip-
per Martin Imbalambala travelled
but sat out because he is just return-
ing from injury.
From what I gather from my
contacts in Sudan, the prospects
are good; Ingwe may as well go all
the way and lift the trophy. That
will be important not because of
the monetary rewards at stake but
because a good outing will go a long
way in raising the condence levels
in the team.
Furthermore, Hendricks could use
the two week tourney to inculcate his
football philosophy in the team.
This will put us in good stead
to challenge for the league title. I
must remind our noisy neighbors
that their current form is temporary,
Ingwes class permanent.
pmutibo@ke.nationmedai.com
INGWE DEN |
Peter Leftie
2-0
AFC Leopards victory over Rwandan
club Enticelles in the Nile Basin Cup
Winners tournament on Saturday
KOGALO CORNER | Tom Osanjo
There is more than meets the eye in Gors current troubles
A
n advertisement that really
stood out in the past week is
the one touting the re launch
of Nation FM from Easy FM. As
a certied advert addict this one
could not escape my eyes more
so because it had my beloved Gor
Mahia as the subject.
In that advert, two men are seated
on a bench presumably at a public
park. The first man says: Waah!
Imagine what will happen when the
taxman closes Gor Mahia because
of taxes. Gor fans will really cry this
time round. To which the second man
responds: Mmmmh. But imagine
what would happen if the more than
1 million KOgalo fans contributed
Sh200 each. They would pay their
debt and probably start a KOgalo
Junior Club.
This is a brilliant advert by any
standards and the copy writer must
be commended. However, the writer
erred in the small matter of a junior
club because we already have one that
is emulating their big brothers by post-
ing impressive results. An apple never
falls far from the tree, so they say.
Today I am revisiting the issue of
the Sh118 million tax arrears which
Kenya Revenue Authority is alleging
we owe them. As my friend Murithi
Mutiga wrote in his weekly column a
few weeks back, the matter needs to
be looked at afresh.
I am not saying that KRA played a
political hand in the matter but for the
average KOgalo fan the coincidences
are just too much. First, Brookside,
a company closely associated with
the presidents family terminates its
sponsorship deal for a club whose
patron is Raila Odinga, President
Kenyattas nemesis.
Immediately after that, KRA slaps
Gor with the huge tax arrears claim.
The taxmans claim that it was target-
ing other clubs as well remains hot air
because so far we are yet to see another
club slapped with such a ne.
I think it is time KRA told us how
they arrived at the gure and come up
with a way of solving this impasse. Of
course de-registering Gor can never
be part of such proposals.
Mine is a simple advice to the Green
Army; sit tight, this is a storm we will
ride out. Perhaps the most dramatic
of the many headwinds that Gor has
survived in the past was the order by
former president Daniel arap Moi for
the club to change its name.
According to Ambassador P.R.O.
Owade, it took the dramatic action
of former club chairman David Opar
to foil the move. The story goes that
Opar convened a Special General
Meeting and as the meeting was
about to pass a resolution, he sud-
denly feigned a t by collapsing while
swearing that he could never preside
over Gors death. He was rushed to
hospital. Soon after, former foreign
aairs Minister Robert Ouko had a
moment with Moi at the airport and
the head of state exempted the club
from his presidential decree.
tomosanjo@yahoo.com
OFF THE PITCH | Moses Ojuang
O
ver the past few
season we have had
midweek matches
played under oodlights
just when the anti-football
brigand are stuck in jams in
a futile attempt to get home
early.
The midweek xtures are
still there though they come
in early. They were made to
take place during daylight
hours after some crackpots
began throwing bombs like
rungus in our midst. It was
precisely after the infamous
Westgate attack that the
midweek matches were
stopped over concerns of a
terrorist attack.
The move to have the
games played during the day
was understandable at that
time but it is causing some
discomfort now when we an-
nounce to the whole world
that our country is safe and
that nobody should clamp
travel advisories on us. It is
pointless to direct our ire at
foreign embassies for the
losses we are currently swal-
lowing in the tourism sector
and at the same time put
up our matches at daytime
when most of the spectators
are at work under the um-
brella of insecurity. That is
hypocritical to say the least.
Political voices have been
rendered hoarse trying to
assure the foreigners that we
will soon rein in the rotten
apples that keep exploding
around us but our sports
voices must also now put up
a fresh shout in aid of our
leaders.
At a time when our teams
are nding themselves un-
able to pay their players in
time; at the juncture when
they have just been jolted
into the reality that they
must just like everybody
else pay taxes; on the oc-
Bring back mid-week evening ties
When matches
are played
during the
weekend, the
big boys like
Gor Mahia and
AFC Leopards
can rake in a
considerable
chunk when
you leave out
the numbskulls
who sneak in
without paying
Moses Ojuang
casion where sponsors are
becoming scarce and teams
are forced to resort to beg-
ging from their fans for
funds; you must admit that
it is time we start asking the
hard questions about gate
collections.
When matches are played
during the weekend, the big
boys like Gor Mahia and
AFC Leopards can rake in
a considerable chunk- when
you leave out the numb-
skulls who sneak in without
paying and the gate ocials
who receive Sh100 and
let in people into the VIP
lounge in terms of gate
collections for their home
matches.
This too can be repli-
cated during the midweek
matches if they were to be
played under oodlights.
This is the cardinal sin we
are committing when we
schedule the matches in
the afternoon. Many of the
fans are still at their work
stations and thus cannot at-
tend the matches.
I know one KOgalo fan
who becomes restless and
irritable at work when Gor
is playing in the afternoon.
Watching a match and re-
ceiving up-dates about it
are two very dierent and
incongruous acts.
Only the knave; the word
of mouth football lover can
substitute up-dates with
a live match. Watching a
match on TV just makes
one an armchair supporter;
someone who just feigns
enthusiasm for football but
is not worthy of talking
about it.
The true fan goes to the
stadium and pays the entry
fee thus helping his club
nancially.
Also, his shout on the
stands is potent and can in-
vigorate his side to a win.
Now when matches are
played in an empty pitch, it
neither brings in money nor
does it create the atmos-
phere requisite for a true
game of football.
Another reason why
evening midweek matches
are good is that, the sta-
dium hoards a large number
of passengers and car
owners who may have con-
tributed to the maddening
city trac jam.
This makes it just a bit
free for those who must
rush to their abodes early
and later those watching
football can also go home in
relative comfort. It is trite
but true that some of those
Kenyans who perished with
the deadly brew might have
been fewer had there been
a midweek match that kept
them from the dens. After
the matches, even hard-
ened drinkers never indulge
much in binges.
mojuang@gmail.com
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
Sport 61
Madrid
R
eal Madrid fans decked in
meringue white erupted in
joy in the Spanish capital
Saturday as they snatched their
10th Champions League title in
a dramatic come-from-behind 4-1
victory that left local rivals Atletico
Madrid in tears.
Delirious Real supporters who had
been following the Lisbon match
on giant screens or on television
ooded onto Madrids streets, set
o recrackers, beeped car horns
and surged into the city centre to
celebrate the end of their 12-year
wait for the Decima a 10th
European trophy.
Fans who had packed into Real
Madrids 81,000-capacity Berna-
beu stadium roared in delight as
they watched the win in a live
relay. Millions of other Spaniards
followed the action on television
in overspilling bars and cafes or
family living rooms. Tens of thou-
sands of Real Madrid fans danced
to thumping rock music in the city
centres Cibeles Square, waiting for
their heros to return from Lisbon
for a victorious welcome in the
early hours of yesterday morning.
In 2002 I was there to celebrate
Reals ninth Champions League
win. So I could not miss this one,
said Jorge Rodriguez, a 30-year-old
nurse who was wrapped in a Real
Madrid flag. Awaiting the Real
Madrid players, the city set up a
white ramp marked Champions
leading to the squares emblematic
fountain, which features the Greek
goddess Cybele, a traditional focal
point of the teams victory parties.
I am going with the whole family
to take a photo with Cibeles and
enjoy it, said 43-year-old public
sector worker Jose Luis Perez.
Led until the 93rd minute
We have been waiting a long time,
12 years.
Some 1,250 police deployed in the
Spanish capital to prevent clashes,
cutting o trac in the city centre
and setting up check-points to
search fans entering the zone.
Across town in Atleticos Vice-
nte Calderon stadium, many of the
55,000 fans left in tears. Atletico
supporters stared in silence at the
giant screens relaying a story of de-
feat. One Atletico fan leaned against
a car outside the stadium and wept
openly. Another walked away briskly,
tears streaming down his face.
The pain was all the greater be-
cause Atletico had been leading 1-0
until the 93rd minute. (AFP)
Real fans party as Atletico weep
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL | Delirious supporters ood onto streets beeping car horns
Tens of thousands dance to thumping rock
music in city centre to celebrate their victory
PHOTO | AFP
Real Madrid players on board the team bus celebrate their Uefa Champions League nal win with fans at Cibeles Square in Madrid on Saturday night.
PHOTO | AFP
Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo
celebrates with the trophy in Lisbon.
Madrid
Atletico Madrid boss
Diego Simeone (inset)
insisted his side must
raise themselves from
the disappointment of
being minutes away
from winning the
Champions League
and come back even
stronger next season.
This match doesnt deserve a sin-
gle tear, said the Argentine. When
you give everything you cannot ask
for more. There is another team and
other players out there and that is
football.
Now we have to rest, relax and pre-
pare ourselves to compete and bother
the big teams again next season.
It is part of the game. You can win,
or you can lose and today it is our
turn to lose but at least
knowing that we have
given it everything.
This will make us
better. It gives us the
chance to keep improv-
ing and now the rest of
the world knows that
Atletico can compete.
Simeone ended the
game enraged, though,
as he marched onto
the eld to confront Real defender
Raphael Varane after the Frenchman
appeared to kick the ball towards the
Atletico bench.
He booted the ball towards me and
I got annoyed. That is why, he is young.
I didnt think it was a good reaction
and mine probably wasnt either.
He is great player and with experi-
ence he will learn because he has a big
future ahead of him. (AFP)
Simeone sheds no tears
Real Madrids Cristiano Ronaldo
set a new record for Champions
League goals in a single season
after the 4-1 win over Atletico.
Top scorers for 2013/2014 season
17: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
10: Ibrahimovic (Paris SG)
8: Messi (Bara), Diego Costa (Atletico)
6: Agero (Man City), Lewandowski
(Borussia Dortmund)
5: Reus (Dortmund), Negredo (Man
City), Vidal (Juventus), Bale (Real),
Benzema (Real), Mller (Bayern )
CR7 BREAKS RECORD
Spains press yesterday hailed Real
Madrids 10th European title but high-
lighted the cruel fate dealt to Atletico
Madrid, whose lead was snatched
away in a painful reminder of their
last such nal 40 years ago.
The cruelest nal, again, for Atletico
Madrid, ran a headline in the top-
selling Marca sports daily. Atletico
Madrid again suered the cruelty of
football in a continental nal.
The 4-1 result echoed the last time
Atletico reached the European nals
in 1974 when Bayern Munichs Hans-
Georg Schwarzenbeck equalised 1-1
in the 119th minute. Two days later
they played a deciding game, which
Bayern won 4-0.
Forty years later, Atletico Madrid
loses a European cup nal, again.
Forty years later, they do it follow-
ing a very similar script to that of
1974 when a goal by Schwarzenbeck
forced a deciding game in which Bay-
ern had no opposition, said an arti-
cle in Barcelona-based daily Mundo
Deportivo. Spains leading daily, El
Pais, delivered a similar verdict.
The European cup was historically
important as it crowned Real Madrid
for the 10th time, its king of kings,
and condemned Atletico in as cruel
a fashion as it did four decades ago,
the paper said. This time it was not
a tall German who would frustrate
Atletico but Sergio Ramos, who is
a Real Madrid player in his genes.
Major sports daily AS said Ramos
goal helped to make up for an error
by Reals goalkeeper captain Iker
Casillas, who was criticised for letting
in Atletico defender Diego Godins
header in the 36th minute.
The Decima has to be special and it
was. It could not just be another Cup,
a win like others, or a similar happi-
ness, said AS sports writer Juanma
Trueba.
WHAT THE PRESS SAID
Papers highlight cruel fate for Atletico
BY KENNEDY KIMANTHI
kkimanthi@ke.nationmedia.com
Tusker beat Gor Mahia 1-0 in
their Kenyan Premier League Top
8 semi-nal, rst leg at Kinoru
Stadium, Meru yesterday.
Tuskers Brian Osumba (above)
scored the only goal of the match
in the 46th minute The keenly
contested tie promises reworks
in the second leg.
Both teams missed several
scoring chances in a match that
attracted a huge crowd of vuvuzela-
blowing KOgalo fans together with
many local fans including Meru
County Governor Peter Munya.
Tusker created the first real
chance of the match 10 minutes
on when midelder Kevin Kimani
dribbled past Gors defense but
narrowly missed his attempt on
goal. Osumba then scored the
all-important goal after a great
team eort that involved Cliord
Alwanga.
Gor Mahia played without their
head coach Bobby Williamson and
his assistant, John Bobby Ogolla.
Williamson is away in his home
country Scotland to attend his
mothers funeral while Ogolla
is sick.
Tusker edge
Gor in Meru
BY DAVID KWALIMWA
dkwalimwa@ke.nationmedia.com
Tournament organizers Council
for East and Central Africa Foot-
ball Associations (Cecafa) have
taken exception to the decision
by AFC Leopards to travel for the
inaugural Nile Basin Cup without
a team doctor.
Hendrik Pieter de Jonghs team
had to borrow the services of
Zanzibar club Police FC team
doctor Mohammed Said in their
opening game of the competition
against Rwandan club Enticelles,
where goals from Noah Wafula and
Jackson either side of the break
gave them a comfortable 2-0.
Cecafa provided 25 tickets to all
participating teams, at least ve of
these had to be ocials, so there is
upto now no clear explanation as
to why they (Leopards) could take
such a risk of travelling without a
medic, a statement signed by the
organisers media liaison ocer
Rodgers Mulindwa said.
Leopards Chairman Allan Kasa-
vuli however shifted the blame
back to the organizers citing a
confusion of names.
Our doctor left for Sudan
yesterday (Saturday) evening.
These people (Cecafa) misspelt
his name on the air ticket and as
a result he wasnt admitted to the
ight when the team was leaving,
Kasavuli claimed.
Leopards return to the pitch
this evening for a match against
Tanzanias Mbeya City.
Touring AFC
minus medic
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62 | Sport
Memories
of Spain 82
World Cup
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 60
those who have never received the
tiniest advantages of society.
We devotedly believe in the
new world and in the beautiful
humanity we know we will con-
struct, without the muzzle that
can take our freedoms away or
the whips that try to frighten
us. Our populace that was born
enslaved frees itself every day
with a soaring voice in search of
the truth.
Its truth. That which bases its
strength in an irremovable culture
because it comes from the soul,
from the aura, from the smile, and
where whites and Indians, blacks
and the poor, migrants and the
young delight in lifes pleasures.
And what pleasures!
I dont want to recall how Socra-
tes, Zico, Falcao, Toninho Cerezo,
Junior, Oscar, Paulo Isidoro, Eder,
Luizinho, Edevaldo, Dirceu, Ren-
ato and Leandro failed to win the
World Cup. I might sink into a
depression all over again.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Many people have asked me
who I think will win the World
Cup. Here is my answer - and for
the avoidance of doubt, I will use
language that is familiar to every
Kenyan. The World Cup has its
owners, and England is not one
of them. Neither is any African
country.
These suffer stage fright on
the big platform when they most
need their composure, resilience
and courage. They also tend to be
unlucky and as every experienced
footballer or coach will tell you,
you cant win without a healthy
dose of luck. Please ensure that
you have not forgotten your luck
in your hotel or dressing room.
Always take your luck with you
to the pitch.
So dont mention Peles predic-
tion, made in 1997, that an African
team will win the World Cup by
the year 2000 - 14 years later, it
is still way over the horizon. The
World Cup is like the nuclear club;
you can do plenty of knock, knock
at the door but the management,
which reserves the right of admis-
sion, bristles with hostility at your
very presence, your erontery. Ask
Iran. You will have to break down
that reinforced door, like North
Korea.
Spain did. For years, it was the
underachieving boy of world foot-
ball despite its enormous talent.
Then Vicente del Bosque came
along and infused the qualities
listed above. The rest is history.
Spain is now a full member of the
prospective World Cup winners
club. Others are, as we always like
to say, the usual suspects: Brazil,
Italy, Germany and Argentina.
One of these will do it and the
rest will assume their customary
escort responsibilities.
Having said all that, let me reg-
ister my eternal sadness for The
Netherlands. They should have
won in 1974, and to a slightly
lesser extent, 1978. But Johan
Cruy, Johan Neeskens, Johnny
Rep and Willy van de Kerkhof left
the stage a long time ago.
I loved Holland, the team that
gave the world the unforgettable
concept of total football. But sadly,
every good thing must come to
an end...
gachuhiroy@gmail.com
Road to Brazil 17 Days to G -AL!
Colombia wait on injured Falcao
WAITING GAME | Ill wait until the last day, until the last hour, the last minute, says coach Peckerman
PHOTO
| FILE
Colombias Radamel Falcao
celebrates scoring against Chile in a
World Cup qualier on October 11 last year.
Zurich
Fifas enforcement arm yesterday
warned fans heading to the World Cup
not to buy match tickets from touts,
whether virtual or physical, saying they
could end up out of pocket and unable
to see the matches they want.
MATCH Enforcement, the divi-
sion of Zurich-based rm MATCH
Hospitality that monitors such fraud
for FIFA, said it had even seen black
market tickets on oer for almost
$40,000, as the June 12 kick-off
looms for the tournament.
Ticket mark-ups are one of the main
risks that fans face when purchasing
from illegitimate, unauthorised or
illegal sources, in that they will be
paying highly inated prices for tick-
ets which are very likely to be invalid
or counterfeit, a MATCH spokesman
said. We have repeatedly seen fans
reporting to us as having paid two to
three times the face value on the ticket
prices published by Fifa, he said.
In some cases, ticket sellers are try-
ing to squeeze even more out of fans.
In the online marketplace viagogo.com
which connects sellers with would-
be buyers of concert, sports and
theatre tickets World Cup tickets
have been marked up by almost 500
percent, according to MATCH.
To date MATCH
Enforcement have identied
around 150-170 websites
worldwide engaging in
unauthorised ticket resales
MATCH spokesman
Fifa warns fans over ticket touts
London
England captain Ste-
ven Gerrard (inset) has
hinted he could retire
from the international
stage after the forth-
coming World Cup in
Brazil.
Gerrard will lead Roy Hodgsons
side to south America in June, where
they face group stage xtures against
Italy, Uruguay and Costa Rica. The 33-
year-old is hopeful England can defy
their underdog status at the tourna-
ment and make a serious challenge
for their rst World Cup crown since
1966.
But the Liverpool midelder, who
turns 34 next week, acknowledges
this could be his last taste of the
international scene. With Liverpool
back in the Champions League next
season, Gerrard knows
the demands on his body
will be even greater and
he could well decide to
step away from England
duty to prolong his club
career.
Im not going to leave
anyone hanging, Gerrard
was quoted as telling several English
newspapers yesterday. Dont worry,
as soon as the World Cup is over Ill
sit down with the manager at the right
time and Ill make the decision. I can
be open and honest with you now that
I havent made that decision because
I havent had the chance to chat with
the manager at length over it.
But Ill be chatting to (Liverpool
manager) Brendan Rodgers, Roy
Hodgson and a few important people
around me whose opinion I respect,
players Ive played with. (AFP)
Gerrard hints at England exit
Bogota
C
olombia will wait until the last
minute to decide whether to pick
recuperating striker Radamel Fal-
cao in their nal World Cup squad. Falcao,
28, is recovering from surgery after
damaging knee ligaments while
playing for Monaco in a French
Cup tie in January.
He is still in Monaco
while the national squad
are in Argentina. Colombia
coach Jose Pekerman, 64,
said: Ill wait until the last
day, until the last hour, the
last minute.
In preparation for Colom-
bias rst nals appearance
since 1998 they play Senegal
on 31 May and Jordan on 6
June.
Pekerman must name his nal
23-man squad by 2 June with the
World Cup starting 10 days later
with Colombia facing Greece, Ivory
Coast and Japan in Group C.
Former Atletico Madrid forward
Falcao has previously said it would be
fantastic if he can play in Brazil, but also
added I wont be 100% even if I make the
World Cup. Elsewhere, Spain manager Vi-
cente del Bosque on Sunday put o until at
least May 31 naming his full World Cup squad
to monitor the tness of key Real Madrid
and Atletico Madrid players.
Del Bosque announced a list of 19 players
for the World Cup holders friendly against
Bolivia on May 30 and said he would name
the nal World Cup squad of 23 the day
after that. He has until June 2 to nalise
the list.
Perfect physical condition
We want to be sure that they will be in per-
fect physical condition to play in the World
Cup, Del Bosque told a news conference.
We hope that on June 2 all those who are
going to play in the World Cup will be able
to train. Barcelona winger Gerard Deulofeu
won a call-up for the Bolivia match despite
not being on the 30-strong long-list already
announced for next months World Cup in
Brazil.
Sundays list left out for the time being
players from the two Spanish teams in Satur-
day nights Champions League nal in which
Real Madrid beat their city rivals Atletico
4-1 in extra time. They include Real Madrid
goalkeeper Iker Casillas and defender Sergio
Ramos, a hero of the Lisbon nal after his
Recuperating striker
in race against time to
be t for World Cup
93rd-minute equaliser sent the match into extra
time before Real scored three more. Midelder
Xabi Alonso and defender Dani Carvajal are the
two other Real players concerned.
Among the others are Spains Brazilian-born
striker Diego Costa, who started for Atletico in
Lisbon on Saturday night but was replaced after
nine minutes due to an ongoing hamstring injury.
Costa had surprisingly been passed t to start
the Champions nal after reportedly undergo-
ing a special horse placenta treatment in Serbia
earlier in the week.
Also among those waiting to conrm his place
on the plane to Brazil is his Atletico teammate
Juanfran Torres, who nished Saturdays match
with an ankle injury, and two other Atletico play-
ers, Koke and striker David Villa.
Del Bosque omitted from his list of 19 the
Manchester City striker Alvaro Negredo and
Juventuss Fernando Llorente, raising hope for
Chelseas Fernando Torres who made it into the
squad to face Bolivia.
Manchester Uniteds Juan Mata and Negredos
City teammate David Silva also made Sundays
list, but a third Manchester City player, forward
Jesus Navas, must wait until after the Bolivia
match. No one is ruled out, except the already
injured Bayern Munich midelder Thiago
Alcantara, Del Bosque
said. (AFP)
RONALDINHOS BUSINESS
Sh1.3m-a-night house in Brazil
Looking for somewhere to stay in Rio de Janeiro
during the World Cup? Ronaldinho can help if
you can aord $15,600 (Sh1.3 million) a night.
The 34-year-old former Brazil and Barcelona star
has joined the ranks of his countrymen who are
hoping to cash in on next months footballing ex-
travaganza by renting out their homes to foreign
visitors.
Former world footballer of the year Ronaldinho
took to Twitter to post an Airbnb advert for his
seven-bedroom, six-bathroom mansion in the
upmarket district of Barra da Tijuca.
This is for those people who dont believe I am
renting my house, Ronaldinho commented on
his Twitter feed linking to the ad. The property
boasts a swimming pool, extensive gardens, a
terrace, a childrens playhouse and a stage for
musical performances.
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FORMULA ONE
ROSBERG TRIUMPHS
AS HAMILTON LOSES
German driver recovers to
snatch lead from Mercedes
team-mate in Monaco. P.59
SPORT INSIDE
BITTER-SWEET MEMORIES OF 1982
Roy Gachuhi reects on the high and low
moments of three teams at the World Cup
32 years ago. P. 60
BY BERNARD
NAMUNANE
@nobewe
bnamunane@ke.nationmedia
.com
T
he government would
have paid Sh1.4 bil-
lion for two Anglo
Leasing type of contracts in
instalments had its ocials
stuck to their ground.
Correspondences and
minutes of negotiations
between government o-
cials and representatives of
two companies show that
Kenya was willing to settle
the First Mercantile and
Universal Satspace claims
in two instalments.
The documents, circu-
lated by the Law Society
of Kenya, indicate that the
government proposed to
pay half of the Sh1.4 billion
to the two rms, which are
owned by Sri Lankan bil-
lionaire Anura Perera.
The meeting, which was
held on March 28, was at-
tended by Treasury Cabinet
Secretary Henry Rotich,
Attorney-General Githu
Muigai, Solicitor-General
Njee Muturi, lawyers Muin
Malik and Henry Ongicho,
Postal Corporation Com-
pany Secretary Jane Otieno
and Deputy-Solicitor Gen-
eral Muthoni Kimani.
Ethics and Anti-Corrup-
tions Michael Mubea sent
an apology.
Kenyas offered to pay
the principal amount
minus the interest in two
instalments: US$ 4,698,905
(Sh413.6 million) for First
Mercantile, US$5,893,500
(Sh518.6 million) and US$
7,600,000 (Sh668 million)
for Universal Satspace.
The rst option was to
deposit Sh350 million upon
signing of the agreement
and the balance paid in July
or in two instalments in two
nancial years, according to
the minutes.
Mr Malik, for the two
rms, rejected the proposal
and instead pushed for the
payment of the principal
and 50 per cent of the
interest.
Eventually, the Sh1.4
billion was paid to the two
rms through their London
lawyers following an execu-
tive directive by President
Kenyatta.
Ocials oered
to pay debt in
instalments but
that was rejected
Treasury wanted
Sh1.4bn debt split
ANGLO LEASING | LSK releases minutes of talks
28
The date in March
when a meeting on
the debts was held

The Republics
oer was to pay
the principal
amount
minus the
interest in two
instalments
Minutes of
negotiations
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Sorry dear, it wont
happen again!
Men brag that they are testosterone-charged toughies who wear
their super-maleness on their chests like a badge of honour, but
Francis Onyiso has shown them a new type of tough
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BY JACQUELINE KUBANIA
Twitter: @jacqui_jade
jkubania@ke.nationmedia.com
P
aulina Akelo is just 16, still a
girl by anyones standards.
However, the year is 1956
and girls marry young. She is
just about to arrive in Nairobi from
Kisumu and her husband, Martin Were,
is waiting for her at the bus stop.
Paulina is pregnant and, because
she is still in the early stages, morning
sickness is yet to give her a break.
She is nauseated and exhausted, her
tummy heaving with every lurch the
bus makes. She could not have been
happier when the bus nally pulls up
at the Machakos Bus Station and she
spots Martin in the waiting crowd.
Like any self-respecting wife, Paulina
has not arrived empty-handed. She is
laden with bags of food because, for
some reason, people upcountry often
think that Nairobi folk are on the verge
of starvation. Once she alights from
the bus, she greets Martin, picks up all
her luggage from where the conductor
has placed it, hoists it on to her head,
and follows Martin out of the crowded
bus station to begin her new life in
Nairobi.
Yes, Martin knows his wife is
pregnant. Yes, he knows her luggage
is heavy. No, he does not lift a nger
to help her. And, no, he is not a mean,
cold-hearted man. It is just that his
culture dictates that a man has no
business helping a woman in such
matters as carrying her luggage. In
fact, had he oered to help, Paulina
would have been offended. What
kind of woman imposes luggage on
her man?
Paulina and Martin are the chief
protagonist and antagonist in Marjorie
Oludhe Macgoyes Coming to Birth,
a novel that mirrors Kenyas political
upheaval in the pre- and post-colonial
period. It was also an English literature
set book in Kenyan secondary schools
between 2006 and 2008.
Acceptable to carry owers
A lot of progress has been made
in the dynamics of the male-female
relationship since Martin and Paulinas
time. We have just got to the age where
it is acceptable for men to carry owers,
cakes and teddy bears all over town
as gifts for their signicant others on
special occasions.
We have just started getting used to
men taking their wives or girlfriends
to salons and holding their handbags
as they try on clothes at the shopping
mall. Actually, if a couple with a small
child is walking along the streets,
chances are the man will be the one
carrying the baby these days.
Quite progressive, we have been.
And it had started to look as if Kenyan
men could compete quite favourably
with any Alejandro in any Mexican
soap; everyone was happy... until a
man named Francis Onyiso threw
the spanner in the works (or raised
the bar to an impossibly high level)
by posting an apology to his wife in
one of the local dailies.
And now, gentlemen, a new standard
has been set. Forget flowers and
diamonds; if you want to get out of the
dog house, start nding out how much
advertising space costs in the papers...
because she will not forgive you until
she and the rest of the country sees
your heartfelt apology splashed on
a prominent page. And not in the
classieds section, where no one will
see it, thank you very much.
Or at least that is what the internet
will now have us believe. However,
truth be told, everyone is still reeling
from what Onyiso did. What does it
mean for the tenuously equal power-
sharing arrangement that couples have
enjoyed until now?
A colleague describes this
memorandum of understanding in
a very interesting way: A man is like
the president of the country and the
woman is like the chief of the defence
forces. The woman salutes the man
because he is the head of the family
but the man knows that his woman
can very easily initiate a military coup
and overthrow him. This shared fear
(tension) is what keeps the relationship
balanced.
Remember our couple from Coming
to Birth? Martin did not apologise to
Paulina, not even after he beat her until
she miscarried. Did Paulina expect an
apology? Her neighbours, who were
witnesses to the beatings, certainly
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A new way
of saying
sorry, and
a chorus
of nays
from men
This public apology business, men have been singing
since Francis Onyiso splashed his in a newspaper last
week, just does not sit well with our Africanness. It is
not how we are socialised, it is not what we are used to,
they have been arguing. Men are supposed to be stoic,
rational, coldly logical, and never emotional. They do
not cry at funerals, let alone weddings. They certainly
do not show any weakness in public, and denitely not
in the shape of a public apology. And Onyiso is not just
any man; he is an army man, a sergeant in the 81 Tank
Battalion of the Kenya Defence Forces. The toughest of
the toughies!
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did not.
Apparently, in the days of
yore, not only did men not
carry their wives luggage,
they were also expected to
discipline their errant
spouses, a practice so common
that it might as well have been
in the Constitution.
Back to Onyiso and his public
apology: Did he inadvertently
tip the scales in favour of
women, forever condemning
his fellow men, who can only be
forgiven if they grovel in public,
to second-class status?
This public apology business,
the men have been singing
since Onyiso splashed his,
just does not sit well with our
Africanness. It is not how we
are socialised, it is not what
we are used to, they have been
arguing.
Men are supposed to be
macho, testosterone-charged
toughies who wear their super-
maleness on their chests like a
badge of honour. Stoic, rational,
coldly logical, never emotional.
They do not cry at funerals, let
alone weddings (but they do at
football matches).
They certainly do not show
any weakness in public, and
denitely not in the shape of
a public apology. And Francis
Onyiso is not just any man.
He is an army man, a sergeant
in the 81 Tank Battalion of
the Kenya Defence Forces.
The toughest of the toughies.
He says he made the grand
romantic gesture to convince
his wife that he was serious
We sat down and talked over
it, and I am condent that we
shall be able to work through
our problems, Onyiso says.
On why he chose to go public
with the apology, he says he was
convinced that the use of the
media would go a long way in
making the message big and
convincing.
I dont think its a big deal
advertising in the newspaper.
My aim is just to show my wife
that I love her and to say sorry
over the matter.
Yes, we have come a long
way since Paulinas time.
Relationships have changed,
and they continue to change.
Certainly, it is no longer
acceptable for any man to beat
his wife. She is not a child who
needs to be disciplined, but an
equal partner in an adult union
that must be respected.
The society has come far
enough that male chauvinists
are labelled pigs and looked
upon as misfits who are
intimidated by the idea that
a woman has rights equal to
those of a man.
However, there still
remain the subtle, nuanced
undercurrents that define a
mans actions. Usually, they
take the shape of his ego, which
is fabled to be indestructible,
yet, is surprisingly fragile. Have
things changed so much that
the male ego has taken a back
seat to the reality of modern-
day dating and marriage?
Ms Mary Wahome, a
psychologist, certainly thinks
so. Men are no longer the
demi-gods they were some
years ago. They have lost their
clout and women have claimed
it, she says.
How so?
More empowered
Women are increasingly
becoming more empowered
and they have started taking
the place of men in society,
she explains. So what we have
now is a breed of lost men who
have no idea what to do with
themselves now that women
are fast replacing them in all
aspects of life.
Ms Wahome predicts that the
future does not augur well for
men if current trends prevail.
She points out that, at the
moment, most of the social
programmes in place are
geared towards empowering
the girl and that, for men to
reclaim their past glory, society
needs to start empowering the
boy as well.
Another psychologist, Mr
Nelson Ondari, agrees, but
only up to a point. He says that
while it is true that gender roles
have changed over time, men do
not have to face an extinction of
sorts. They can stop their self-
sabotage by coming to terms
with the fact that women are
now empowered and agreeing
to compete with them on an
equal playing ground.
Men feel lost because
they can no longer subjugate
women, says Mr Ondari. The
sooner they accept women as
equals and treat them as such,
the better for them.
Interesting sentiments, but
what does the (crushing of
the) male ego have to do with
Sergeant Onyiso taking out an
ad to apologise to his wife?
Winjoy Kawira, a 24-year-old
Nairobi resident we randomly
picked for a comment, thinks
the sergeant must be a whipped
man who has lost all power to
his wife. But psychologist
Ondari thinks dierent. I do
not think that ad diminished
Onyisos masculinity in any
way, he says. In fact, it is an
indication of just how much
male-female relationships
have developed, and I think
that it should be okay for men
to express emotion in any way
they please.
Ms Wahome thinks that the
public apology is an example
of just how much ground men
have conceded. She is, however,
quick to admit that an apology
does not necessarily mean
that one has owned up to the
mistake; it might as well have
been a well-orchestrated move
to foster peace in the union.
She is particularly suspicious
of an apology that is done
in the public realm because,
according to her, that takes
away its authenticity. Sorry
for the sake of sorry.
A genuine apology comes
from an inner reflection
of self, she says. It is not
ostentatious and showy, but
quiet and private.
The jury is out on what
Sergeant Onyisos action
means for the male-female
dynamic. Is it time for men to
shelve the curt Sorry, wont
happen again sort of apology
and start hiring billboards, or
should we all just take a chill
pill and stop over-analysing the
BY WAGA ODONGO
wodongo@ke.nationmedia.com
The Japanese had no
problem apologising for an
American plane crashing in
a joint military exercise, but
could not bring themselves to
do that over the enslavement
of Korean women for
comfort purposes in World
War II. Clinton said sorry for
the American governments
experimenting on African-
Americans with syphilis,
but hesitated to say a word
on Monica Lewinsky. Tony
Blair talked about the Irish
potato farming that happened
hundreds of years before
his time, but would not say
anything about the Iraq war in
which he was involved.
Francis Onyiso has taken
matters to a new high by
apologising to his wife in a
paid advertisement in a local
daily. The message only had
the names of the parties. There
was no mention of the oence
in question. For Nairobis
rumour-mongers, it was as
empty as words can be, telling
them nothing juicy, a sort of
failed denouement. A tease
that failed to deliver. Yet, as
any good Catholic would tell
you, you cannot merely say
Forgive me father, for I have
sinned. You must adequately
describe the transgression in
vivid detail and, thus, enable
the priest to vicariously relive
it with you before forgiveness
is even contemplated.
The ad did not even have
the phrase I apologise
unreservedly. I can imagine
some women wondering
whether he had any
reservations concerning his
apology. There will always
be the feeling that this was
not enough and next time
there is always a next time
a television message will do.
Onyiso will start an arms race
concerning the most elaborate
and public act of contrition.
The two parties are turning
what should be a private
inconvenience into a public
spectacle. They are inviting
tabloids, blogs, and the sordid
twitterati to speculate on the
matter. It is a sort of invasion
of your own privacy, putting
yourself, your children, and
your spouse in the crosshairs.
The advertisement invites us
to speculate on the nature of
the oence. What wrongdoing
could be so grievous that it
requires an apology in the
classieds, assuming that the
oence is not something the
police ought to be involved in?
Throw in a uniform, a former
international football career,
and a 20-year-old marriage
and you have enough material
to run a soap opera. Let the
conjecture begin.
Men have dierent
gestures to indicate their
level of contrition, all of them
calculated to admit as little
responsibility as possible
ranging from shrugs to facial
expressions to dinner dates
and staring at the ground
but they tend to struggle to
say sorry.
While for women saying
sorry is a conversational
ritual, for men it is a chore as
the word alone short-circuits
the process of contrition, an
attempt to cut through the
Gordian knot of complexity of
human relationships.
Forgiveness, brothers, is
earned through a penance of
good works, not a short-cut of
one word. Contrition can never
be distilled into a single word
or one action. It is an ongoing
process.
Sorry is not a destination.
It is a journey. Even if a man
were to say sorry to a woman
soon after a perceived oence,
she would be left wondering
whether he meant it. You
cant just say sorry, you must
apologise. To a woman, that
statement is not a tautology
or a repetition, it is the truth.
A truth that men should be
reminded of.
Francis Onyiso (below) is a 42-year-
old sergeant at the 81 Tank Battalion
of the Kenya Defence Forces based in
Nakuru. An outstanding footballer and
household name, he made his debut
in the Kenyan Premier League in 1992
for Ulinzi Stars, where he stayed until
he retired in 2005. He made his debut
for the national team in 1996 and went
on to become the rst-choice keeper
for Harambee Stars until 2005. He
turned out for Kenya in the Africa Cup
of Nations in Tunisia, where Kenya won
one game and lost two. Early this year,
he was appointed interim coach for
Ulinzi Stars before Robert Matano took
over, with Onyiso as his deputy.
Friends, sorry is not a word, it is a journey!
commentary
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Monday
May 26, 2014
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Hello Sir,
I am a reader of your column and
I must admit that the family is in a
shambles. Thank you for oering this
platform to help people like us.
I am 18, just completed high school,
and my results were not that good. Not
that I was surprised.
I want to start all over again, but
none of my family members seems to
share my sentiments. I come from a
pretty dysfunctional family, in which
mother is the breadwinner and keeps
complaining about my father, who has
anger issues and an inated ego. I have
two brothers, but we are not particu-
larly close. Communication skills in my
family are unheard of; even saying a
simple good morning is dicult.
I am addicted to pornography and
masturbation, and can feel anger start-
ing to well up within me. I have suicidal
thoughts every now and then. I have -
nally decided to seek help before things
get out of hand. I believe you can help
me or refer me to another counsellor
for help.
Hi,
Our education system tends to reward
and open up opportunities for those who
excel more than those who do not do
exceptionally well. Sadly, most parents
seem to believe in this trend. As a result,
many students are made to believe that
their less-than-perfect performances
mean that they are failures and, there-
fore, will not make it in life.
I encourage you not to look at the
results of the exams as something that
should dene who you should become.
There are many people who failed or did
not perform well in exams but still suc-
ceeded in life because they were focused
and determined. Do not allow your peers
or dysfunctional family background to
make you to give up. Your father chose
to live the life he is living and there is
very little you can do to change that.
However, be the hope that your mother
has been working hard for so that you
can put a smile on her face. Giving in to
suicide is not only defeatist, it is also a
sign of giving in to fear.
Finally, remember that you were cre-
ated you for a purpose and that it is only
you who can make that purpose a reality.
The porn and masturbation are some
of the ways you are using to cope with
the feelings assailing you. Discussion
on masturbation and pornography is
varied. The problem with masturbation
is that it can become a habit. Men and
women often engage in pornography and
adulterous fantasies in order to achieve
sexual satisfaction.
It is important to note that masturba-
tion obscures the understanding of the
role of sex in marriage as something
that is intended not only to give pleas-
ure, but also to express love, unity, and
commitment to each other. From this
perspective, masturbation becomes an
act of self-gratication rather than a
part of giving gratication and pleasure
to ones marriage partner. The practice
has many dangers that include: 1) A ten-
dency to isolate one psychologically and
socially. 2) It has the potential to deprive
one emotionally, meaning that those who
engage in the practice might nd it hard
to experience the full extent of emotions
involved in real sex. 3) It can reduce
responsiveness and, hence, detract one
from having normal sexual relations
when married. Choose life. You can make
a dierence. Do not give up hope.
My mistress has gone
quiet all of a sudden
Dear Philip Kitoto,
First, I would like to commend you
for the good work you are doing for
families that are experiencing problems.

TO OUR READERS: Many counsellors now believe that the Kenyan family, the building block of our society and nation, is in a crisis. There is unhappiness and discord where there should be love
and joy. We have put together a diverse team of experts, family and marriage counsellors, led by Mr Philip Kitoto, to help heal the family by oering advice and support. Readers questions will
be answered on these pages and online at www.nation.co.ke. Send your questions to dn2@ke.nationmedia.com, or to The Editor, DN2, P O Box 49010, GPO 00100, Nairobi.
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RELATIONSHIPS
philip
kitoto
There are many people who failed or
did not perform well in exams but still
succeeded in life because they were
focused and determined. Dont allow
your peers or dysfunctional family
background make you give up. Your
father chose to live the way he is living
now and there is very little you can do
to change that.


Our education system tends
to reward and open up
opportunities for those who
excel more than those who
do not do exceptionally well.
Sadly, most parents seem
to believe in this trend. As a
result, many tell their children
who do not excel that they
will not make it in life.
RELATIONSHIPS
My cranky family is driving me crazy
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DAILY NATION
Monday
May 26, 2014
BY MICHELLE DIBO
dibomichelle@gmail.com
M
ary Njoki expected to graduate two years
ago. She has not. Reason? Something
known in university parlance as miss-
ing marks.
This refers to the phenomenon where stu-
dents examination results disappear without a
trace. The problem has become so widespread
that many students get nervous as they wait for
their marks after end-of-semester exams as the
possibility of not getting the results of one or
two units is real. It is even more worrying that
this is happening in both public and private
universities.
That is what befell Njoki. All attempts she and
her family have made to retrieve the results for
one unit have failed. The problem has delayed
her graduation for two years.
She is hoping to graduate this year after the
chairman of the department promised to have
the problem resolved.
With employers asking fresh graduates to
produce both transcripts and nal certicate,
getting employment has become a challenge
for Njoki.
She is not the only one in this predicament.
Many other students are aected. In some
universities, the procedure for nding redress
can be a long and winding journey. The stu-
dent has to go through a bureaucratic system
to get a solution, says a senior lecturer
a t a public university who requested
anonymity because he is not au-
thorised to speak for the institution.
The student, he explains, has to write
a complaint letter to the lecturer con-
cerned, who should respond within two weeks.
The lecturer will then establish if the student
is indeed in the class registry, then proceed to
conrm that the aected student sat for the
said exam.
If all this is ascertained, the student is referred
to the responsible examination ocer. This is
the person whose responsibilities include taking
custody of marked exam booklets.
Should the examination ocer fail to trace the
students answer booklet in question, he/she will
refer the student to the chairman of the depart-
ment. If the matter is not resolved at that level,
it is escalated to the dean of the school.
At every stage, the student has to wait for at
least two weeks to get a response. The procedure
can, therefore, take months or, for the unlucky
ones like Njoki, more than a year.
At the end of the long road, if the the dean is
satised that the student has a case, he orders
the lecturer to ensure that the student gets
marks for the aected unit or units. Once so
directed, it is up to the lecturer to decide how
to go about awarding the student marks.
Each student has to sign in during an exam.
So, if the student indeed sat for the paper and
signed for it, then the lecturer has to come up
with marks for the student, says the senior
lecturer.
This may introduce the issue of forged exam
results. One lecturer decided to give me an A
The Springb0ard
A peek into Kenyas education
Monday, May 26, 2014
Each time university students
await their marks after end of
semester exams, the possibility
of not getting the results
for one or two units is real.
When it happens, a series of
bureaucratic events to have
them traced follows
Scandal of missing
marks in varsities
P. 2 > Youve got
to be patient and
fearless like Elphas
Bitok to hack it as a
wildlife biologist
SO YOU WANT TO BE...
SPECIAL REPORT
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
I am sure the owner of those
results is missing some marks and
the lecturer will probably have to
forge results for them
Fridah Langat, who was awarded
marks for subjects she did not take
FILE | DAILY NATION
Renewed purpose
USIU unveils new identity
and fresh degree studies
The United States International University (USIU)
has announced a major shift in its strategy, involving a
change of brand identity, the building of a new school,
and introduction of new programmes.
The university, which has its roots in USA, recently
unveiled a new logo before a gathering of parents,
students, and sta.
USIU Africas Vice Chancellor Professor Frieda Brown
said the change of identity came at a time when the
institution was planning to introduce scientic and tech-
nology courses to rm up its presence in the region.
USIU Africa, with 15 per cent of its student population
being foreign and representing 67 nationalities from
across the world, recognises this as an opportunity to
not only strengthen its brand in Africa but also world-
wide. The university is stationed in Nairobi.
The rebranding coincided with its 45th anniversary
in the region.
USIU Africa is hoping to revamp its activities and
programmes to facilitate transformation through sci-
ence, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
courses to improve Africas competitiveness in techno-
logical developments, according to a communiqu from
the university.
In line with this, the university is constructing a
School of Science and Technology at a cost of Sh500
million. The 7500 square feet building will house eight
classrooms, eight laboratories, two lecture theatres, two
meeting rooms and 28 oces. The building is scheduled
for completion in September 2014.
Strategic partnerships
Ms Brown said: We are investing in strategic struc-
tures that will ensure that we meet our responsibility of
contributing positively to Africas development.
Plans are underway to launch new programmes that
include Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, Bachelor of
Science in Commerce, Bachelor of Science in Finance
and a Master of Arts in Communication Studies.
The institutions MBA programme will also launch a
new study in Global Sustainable Social Entrepreneur-
ship (GSSE), which will be oered in conjunction with
the Colorado State University. The GSSE programme
will also be oered as a postgraduate diploma with the
aim of helping entrepreneurs in the region to start suc-
cessful and sustainable ventures that not only focus on
the bottom line but also help to improve the continents
social challenges.
At the core of the revamped USIU Africas strategy
is enhanced investment in strategic partnerships with
industry leaders. Prof Matthew Buyu, the Deputy Vice
Chancellor for Academic Aairs explains: Ensuring that
opportunities for applied research are created will help
to reduce the gap between academia and the needs of
the market.
With the renewed purpose, promoting its brand
worldwide will also be a focus of the university, as con-
rmed by Ms Rita Asunda, the Deputy Vice Chancellor
of Student Aairs and Enrolment.
We have found that sharing of diverse ideas brought
about by dierent backgrounds enhances creativity and
discovery of innovative ideas that result in a positive di-
rection towards problem solving. Investing in exchange
programmes is therefore an important direction we shall
continue to explore, she said.
The Guest of Honour, Mr Kiprono Kittony, emphasised
the need for universities in Africa to desist from copying
curriculum from developed countries, saying they should
instead deliver education that reected the continents
circumstances. He further stressed the need for con-
tinuous innovation, especially in technology, to remain
competitive as a region.
Universities must aim at giving graduates relevant
curriculum, Mr Kittony said.
BY PAULINE KAIRU
pkairu@ke.nationmedia.com
IN THE NEWS
No end to scandal of missing marks in varsities
for a unit because he could not trace
my marks. Some students are not
so lucky. Many lecturers prefer to
give a C, says Fridah Langat, cur-
rently in her third year at a public
university.
According to the senior lecturer we
spoke to, various factors that can lead
to misplaced or missing marks.
The lecturer could be withholding
the results for one reason or another.
Rose Njeri, a student, alleges that
sometimes that happens when the
concerned lecturer wants to use the
marks as bait for sexual favours from
a particular student.
Believe me, it is happening. The
lecturer does not propose to the lady
when still teaching her. They with-
hold the marks and ask for sexual
favours two or three months after
the she has completed the unit,
Njeri alleges.
In one university, students are
suspicious of a particular lecturer,
whom they claim has several cases
of missing marks. The lecturer,
the students claim, is notorious for
withholding the marks of female
students in order to use them to
solicit sexual favours.
We could not independently es-
tablish these allegations.
Sometimes the answer booklets
are fairly misplaced. It is common
to nd answer booklets from one
department in a dierent depart-
ment. Because each department
takes care of their own marks, you
nd that these booklets are ignored
and with time, they are thrown out.
The marks are not recorded and the
students aected end up missing the
marks, says the lecturer.
This is further complicated by the
digitisation of the results, adds the
senior don.
The duration between the time
the lecturer marks the exams and
the time the marks are fed into the
system can be long. Once the pa-
pers have been reviewed by internal
examiners, they are re-examined by
an external exam ocer. In many
of the public universities, the exam
ocers review all the exam papers
once a year. Therein lies a problem,
according to the don.
He says: If I administered an
exam in January and the external
exam ocer comes in September,
chances that some answer booklets
might be lost are high.
The subsequent uploading of
results onto the school server for
online access then follows with its
own challenges in the form of mix-up
and other errors.
Ms Langat says she has results
for subjects she did not take. I am
sure the owner of those results is
missing some marks and the lecturer
will probably have to forge results
for them.
SPECIAL REPORT
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
BY PAULINE KAIRU
pkairu@ke.nationmedia.com
A
herd of buffaloes charge
towards us. Luckily, we
are in the safety of a Kenya
Wildlife Service (KWS) vehicle as-
signed for the night duty. The driver
puts on the headlights, and all of a
sudden, the animals stop.
But they dont go away. They
stand there, staring at us anxiously.
I look around, and notice that I am
the only one shaking. The three KWS
personnel are calm.
I quickly learn lesson number
one: You have to be fearless to do
this job.
Meanwhile, Mr Elphas Bitok,
the KWS research scientist, and
one of his assistants, are busy with
spotlights, shining beams across the
elds in search of any lions.
Conducting a lion census
Bitok is conducting a lion census
at the Nairobi National Park. Using
varied pre-recorded sounds on a
computer, the team tries to summon
the lions through a loud speaker on
the roof of the vehicle.
It is the sound of a wailing bualo
calf purportedly under attack by a
pack of lions. Actually, thats the
call that brought out the charging
bualos, thinking that one of their
own needed help.
We wait for the lions for almost
an hour. None shows up, and Bitok
announces that it is time to move
to another side of the park.
Later, Bitok plays the sound of
a squealing pig, and then that of a
wounded lion. But three or more
hours go by and there is no sight
of the king of the jungle.
Lesson number two: It takes
colossal amounts of patience to do
Bitoks kind of job.
Yet, this is just another of the
various upsets that he has to put
up with.
He explains it is easy for him to
spend considerable time in the eld
gathering data and studying animals
in their natural habitats because he
has a passion for helping them enjoy
better life.
Todays activity, Bitok announces,
is part of a surveillance exercise for
lions in this national park.
He says: My job entails surveil-
lance on endangered animal species
like the rhino, cheetah, and lion.
In short, his is all about the pres-
ervation of wildlife species and the
enhancement of their habitat.
Bitok is a wildlife biologist. He
conducts scientific research on
wildlife, considering their physical
characteristics, behaviour, their
natural habitats, and the impact
humans have on them. He uses the
studies to advise KWS on how best
to manage the animals.
The job helps to conserve the
animals and to protect them from
conict with human communities.
We have to keep track of wildlife
so that in case they stray beyond
the parks boundaries to where they
may be attacked, we alert our animal
protection and control department
to take action.
Successful reproduction
The rapid extinction of many
species of animals is an increasing
concern. Bitok has to deal with the
complex ecological, sociological,
and sometimes political problems
that may cause the extinction of a
species.
A wildlife biologist is responsible
for preserving lands in a condition
that wildlife can use for successful
reproduction.
Animals cannot live in an area
that does not provide proper food,
cover, water, and special needs, so
we are the ones who see to it that
the habitat is ideal for the animals,
including the capacity it carries in
terms of their number and food,
Bitok further explains.
Impact assessments
Also, because developments
within and in the vicinity of the
park alter habitats to the detriment
of some wildlife, Bitok carries out
environmental impact assessments
(EIA) to detect any negative out-
come on the wildlife.
He has a Bachelor of Science de-
gree in wildlife management from
Moi university, plus several certi-
cates in related elds, such as EIA,
ecological monitoring and radio
tracking of collared wildlife.
Degrees in environmental studies
and natural resource management,
he advises, can also give entry into
his line of work.
Monday, January 11, 2010
DAILY NATION
CAREER
Elphas Bitok
conducts scientic
research on wildlife,
considering their
physical characteristics,
behaviour, their natural
habitats, and the
impact humans have
on them
True test of patience and courage
Animals cannot live in
an area that does not
provide proper food,
cover, water, and special
needs, so we are the
ones who see to it that
the habitat is ideal for
the animals, including
the capacity it carries in
terms of their number
and food
Elphas Bitok, wildlife
biologists
SO YOU WANT TO BE A WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST...
COURTESY | DAILY NATION
TECHNICAL BOOST
BY ANITA CHEPKOECH
achepkoech@ke.nationmedia.com
The selection of students joining university and
colleges through the new Kenya Universities and
Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) is
expected to help revamp technical vocational edu-
cation and training (TVET) institutions, according to
expert analysis.
The chairman of Kenya Association of Technical
Training Institutions (KATTI), Mr Edwin Tarno, says
that through KUCCPS selections, TVET institutions,
which initially ran on low capacity, are beginning to
see increased number of students.
Through the involvement of the government,
the public now has condence in polytechnics and
technical colleges, and the numbers are increasing.
This will translate positively to a learned society,
said Mr Tarno.
This is in tandem with the governments plan to
expand and regulate TVET programmes by increas-
ing and sustaining a gross enrolment ratio (GER) of
20 per cent by 2023, and by monitoring the mount-
ing of training programmes, as provided for under
TVET Act 2013.
The regulation, says Mr Tarno, will secure quality
technical and vocational skills.
Kisumu Polytechnic registrar, Mr John Okumu,
agrees that the selection of students through KUC-
CPS and the regulatory activities will be helpful to
TVET institutions, which provide important alterna-
tive education and training of human capital for the
country. We have good expectations about KUC-
CPS. It is set to create awareness about polytechnics
and market our courses to Form Four leavers, who
have little knowledge about us, says Mr Okumu.
Through KUCCPS, Kisumu Polytechnic expects
920 students in the September intake, compared to
565 enrolled at the same time last year.
Recently, Education cabinet secretary Prof
Jacob Kaimenyi, noted that the government had
established an organised technical and vocational
career path, where students could rise from youth
polytechnics and technical schools to universities to
pursue technical degrees in their respective areas
of interest.
TVETS are viable pathways for career growth
and development, as their courses require much
skills and dexterity. That is why employability
is much higher for students who took technical
courses even at advanced levels, than those who
took the academic education, he said.
According to Sessional Paper No 14 that seeks
to reform education and training, technical and
vocational programmes guarantee a strong link
between the skills learnt and the needs of the la-
bour market, by producing graduates with superior
employability.
The policy further seeks to provide quality and
inclusive TVET, especially to disadvantaged groups,
including learners with disabilities and marginalised
rural populations. It aims to also improve gender
equality and strengthen TVET teaching standards to
reect realities in industry.
However, eorts to integrate technical vocational
education and training in the formal academic and
professional learning still faces challenges.
Mr Tarno says that the delay in implementing the
TVET Act 2013 has slowed down the development
of vital recommendations targeted at boosting
these institutions. One of the recommendation is
that the examination of students be rescheduled.
Usually, the transition between one module and
the other takes about six months, so you nd that
a programme meant to take three years now takes
ve, he explains.
The schedule also makes it dicult to synchronise
the Higher Education Loans Board (Helb) calendar
with that of TVET institutions, therefore inconven-
iencing students who wish to benet from the kitty.
However, the Kenya National Examination Coun-
cil, says Mr Tarno, has promised to release the results
early enough to enable students from TVET schools
to enter and exit programmes conveniently and ap-
ply for Helb loans at the right time.
TVET gains
govt support
in new policy
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DAILY NATION
Monday
May 26, 2014
BY MAHUL SHAH
mahul@aec-australia.com
W
e all play sports at school,
and possibly for clubs.
Sports are a big business
globally, with some sportsmen earning
extraordinary incomes.
In Kenya, footballer McDonald
Mariga is an example. However, out
of the thousands of football players in
the country, only one or two will make
it to where Mariga has been. So then;
what happens to the rest?
If you are truly excited about sports
and you want a career out of it, look
at all the aliated support and allied
services.
Sports employs coaches, trainers,
dieticians, masseuses, managers,
marketers, and psychologists, among
others. All these people play an im-
portant role, either for an individual
or a team, and are actively in contact
with sports.
There are formal qualifications
for these careers. Most of them are
very challenging, but all of them are
rewarding.
A coaching course in sports concen-
trates on the methods and strategies
for training of players. It teaches
techniques, rules and dynamics of the
game, human psychology and physiol-
ogy, as well as tness, and diet.
A coach spends a lot of time with
players, and need to have a good level
of tness and passion for the particular
sport they are involved in.
Sports management is all about the
business side of it. It is usually part of
a business degree, so that graduates
understand nance, people manage-
ment, public relations, sociology of
sports and marketing skills.
The use of case studies is vital, as
it gives the student a stronger under-
standing of what they are learning.
Sports managers are involved with
contracts, marketing, public relations
and communications, nance and ac-
counts, and general management, be
it team or individual.
Sports science goes deeper. It cov-
ers the maintenance of individual
and community health. For example,
at Curtin University, students cover
exercise and sports physiology, biome-
chanics, motor control, motor learning
and skills acquisition, as well as exer-
cise and sports psychology.
Sports science can lead to working,
not only with athletes, but also with
people of limited abilities, helping to
restore their health.
Nutrition and diet play a vital role in
sports. For a sports person to perform
well, they must be aware of when their
body is at its healthiest state. Diet is
key to this. Helping athletes to plan
and maintain an appropriate diet is as
important as training.
The role of a sports nutritionist is to
teach rather than to prescribe, so the
athlete can make life-long choices.
Quality sports marketing helps
the players or athletes to earn good
money. Whether you are working for
an individual, a team, or a league,
promotion means awareness, which
leads to good endorsements and sales.
Sports marketing should include pub-
lic relations, advertising, media and
communication studies. It is all about
portraying a positive image.
An athlete needs very many dierent
types of health professionals. These
include physiotherapists, chiroprac-
tors, and sports masseuses, who all
use manipulation to help the athletes
body, including muscles and joints.
Now, we read about sports every
day, watch matches on TV, and hear
about it on radio. Sports journalism is
a specialised eld in media.
All sporting events need to be co-
ordinated. An events coordinator, as
the name suggests, does this.
They look after all the behind-
the-scenes activities, such as venue
management, ticket sales, promotion,
security, media support, and more. A
general events management degree
could lead to this career.
So, keep playing sport and dream-
ing, but remember that one day, you
will need to make a decision. If a pro-
fessional career as an athlete does not
work out, explore what else you can do
that will keep you close to the pitch.
The writer is a director at the Inter-
national Education Centre, Nairobi
CAREER
Try sport jobs; youll be spoilt for choice
KNOWING THE OPTIONS
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Monday
May 26, 2014
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BY KAHENYA KAMUNYU
kahenya@ablehq.co.ke
A
White Paper prepared by
GSMA in November 2013,
titled The Mandatory Regis-
tration of Prepaid SIM Card Users,
states: While there is no doubt that
criminals and terrorists use prepaid
SIM cards to help stay anonymous
and avoid easy detection, to date
there has been no empirical evidence
to indicate that:
1. Mandating the registration of pre-
paid SIM users leads to a reduction in
criminal activities; and
2. The lack of any registration
of prepaid SIM users is linked to a
greater risk of criminal or terrorist
activities.
In 2010, the government valiantly
argued that SIM card registration
would help safeguard the public from
criminal activities that are assisted by
the mobile phone. The applicable array
included aspects of public
safety, organised crime,
terrorism and at that
time, the more signicant
hate speech.
As the GSMA report states, that may
have all been irrelevant, since no real
evidence exists to justify the act.
Countries like Mexico, in the middle
of a bitter drug war, ended up repeal-
ing registration three years after
enactment, after it failed to produce
results.
It is safe to assume the same applies
here, since crime and acts of terrorism
have not abated.
However, another crime is silently
happening, and the alleged legal prec-
edent is cloaked in a few cobbled up
lines obfuscated in barely related Acts
in the Constitution, guaranteeing they
always exist.
DUSKPALLET/Mystic
Our feeble attempt at defending
our civil liberties as well as our ide-
ology of true sovereignty have been
severely undermined by a multitude
of organisations, from the gun-toting
thugs who freely and openly call and
text each other in the commission of
a crime, to terrorists who somehow
operate invisible cells and execute or-
chestrated crimes through registered
SIM cards. Then there is the silent
thief who wants to know everything
about you, regardless of your inno-
cence. The intelligence.
DUSKPALLET has become the
grossest violation of citizen sover-
eignty and national dignity. Currently,
it is being used to record the metadata
of every phone call made in Kenya.
Metadata, in this case, refers to your
number, the person you called, where
you were at the time of the call, where
the receiver was at the time of the call,
what networks you used, how long the
call lasted and innumerable details of
the call, thus building a pattern of your
communications.
The future threat is that it will be
used to record every phone call in the
country. After all, Mystic was used to
record virtually every phone call in the
Bahamas with the data stored for 30
days, with the possibility of innite
storage.
Your smartphone makes it even eas-
ier for intelligence agencies to access
your data without proper authorisa-
tion, gain access to your passwords,
location, and other bits of data you
generate inadvertently.
Local versions
With acts of terrorism growing in
Kenya, the government is putting its
intelligence gathering into high gear.
Using Mystic as a benchmark, it is safe
to assume that all our phone calls and
messages are about to be recorded and
stored for later scrutiny.
The data to be collected will range
from our personal lives to who we send
money to, owing to our unique and
famous peer-to-peer mobile money
platform.
Worse, as Kenyans, ethics, morality
and accountability are not our strong-
est traits, so misuse of this platform by
overzealous analysts, politicians, and
other connected parties for purposes
other than legitimate intelligence is
inevitable. No assurances by govern-
ment can guarantee otherwise.
Without proper procedures, man-
aged by a solid accountability system
with realistic mandates being executed
by experienced sta, then the great-
est violation of our civil liberties will
freely happen in the name of crime
prevention. Our privacy will no longer
be guaranteed.
INSTITUTIONS
TECHNOLOGY
SIM card listing
has not killed
crime but privacy
Countries like
Mexico, in the middle
of a bitter drug war, ended
up repealing registration of
SIM cards three years after
enactment, after it failed to
produce results
FILE | DAILY NATION
COMRADE LIFE
BY MERCY NJOKI
mercy100innocent@gmail.com
Just as you would tell a comrades year
of study by their behaviour, it is also pos-
sible to tell a students course of study from
their general conduct.
Somehow, the contents of a course not
only changes a comrades way of thinking
but also their style of doing things.
You see, law students are known for
carrying piles of books, and among them
will always be a copy of the Constitution of
Kenya. They have crammed several pages,
articles and chapters of the supreme law,
such that each time they want to impress
or they feel that their rights are threatened,
they quote the relevant chapters and follow
up with an explanation.
And these students study. In law, its
either you fully understand a concept or
you dont. There is no middle ground. Law
students are the majority among those who
leave the library because it is being closed.
Engineering and mathematics students
share similar characteristics. Remember
that a majority of them are male. That,
plus the fact that most of them arent well
groomed, suggests that things are pretty
rough in there.
To them, time is a big problem. They are
always in lecture halls, laboratories, elds
and never at one time idling.
Combing their hair is work they would
rather not do, or is it that too much think-
ing and calculating make them scratch their
hair every so often?
They rarely get free days, and you will
never nd them in their hostel rooms be-
fore 7pm. They are ever carrying comput-
ers, rulers and laptops, walking in small
groups and discussing concepts of the
previous lecture.
The few girls in the school of engineering
hardly wear make-up or heavy jewellery.
They surely have no time for that.
Students of medicine spend much of
their time in white lab coats. A majority of
them wear glasses. I wonder why.
They too carry loads of books, and it
wont be unusual to nd a skull or two in
their bags.
They are generally well groomed though.
They seem to enjoy wearing watches. Fe-
male medicine students are not the type
that display their cleavage and thighs. For
them, good dressing is a requirement.
Students of medicine are not talkative.
Rarely will you nd them in an argument.
Partying is not their thing either. They pre-
fer a warm sleep instead, after an eventful
day.
And for the Bachelor of Arts students,
sometimes teased as Baba Alinituma
(my dad sent me over), they are the drama
kings and queens of college. They are the
ones who really live life in campus.
For a majority of them, weekends start
on Thursdays afternoon. It is alleged that
they are usually the ring leaders behind
every campus strike.
The girls are known to spend hours on
mirrors, trying dierent clothes and make
up. BA students are the most active in co-
curriculum activities.
They are also easily hired as campaigners
during university student leaders elections.
Some become agents on voting day.
They spend hours in computer libraries,
on Facebook, Twitter and other social sites
uploading pictures, videos, chatting and
following gossip.
Their actuarial science counterparts
burry themselves in books, the BA com-
rades cant wait for Culture Week to arrive.
How to tell
a students
degree study
BY LILIAN OCHIENG
laochieng@ke.nationmedia.com
JumpStart, a digital learning software, has
become one of the latest acquisitions that
a child could use to enjoy learning from a
tender age.
A creation of two American tourists, Ms
Alinda Ware and Mr Ken King, the digital
software draws children from the ordinary
classroom to a playful world where learn-
ing languages and arithmetic is fun.
Research shows that the best students
in tertiary classes are those whose back-
grounds were well laid in kindergarten,
all the way to the nal stage of primary
school.
According to Auckland University Profes-
sor, majority of students who take best
positions during their higher learning are
those who played enough and had the best
skills exposed to them at an early age.
The same sentiments are echoed by Ms
Ware and Mr King. It was with this under-
standing that they were able to tell the
problem in the Kenyan learning environ-
ment with a simple visit to the country
some years back.
It was devastating that Class Eight results
announced in 2011 locked out many pupils
from the 200 mark out of 500. The Kenya
Certicate of Primary Education might
have been dicult, I thought, Ms Ware
recalls.
The two then adapted the American learn-
ing system to Kenyas, seeking to have a
feel of how exams would be aected by
the digital learning incentives.
dSchool was then formed with a special
touch for Kenyas education system. It
is now operated by the two, and has its
regional headquarters in Western Kenya. It
has managed to provide American educa-
tional software suited for children of varied
ages, right from age two.
The programmes are designed in the spirit
of learning through play and learning
through doing, acting on the philosophy
that learning should be fun and the best
games are those that encompass the two
simultaneously.
dSchool, the digital rm, manufactures
and manages software called Jumpstart,
which makes learning interactive. The rm
has also come up with ways of spreading
the incentives countrywide. dShool booths
have been set up in various counties and
computers pre-installed with the software.
These centres provide aordable learning
stopovers for pupils and students who can-
not aord to buy individual software. The
materials are appropriate for use at home
and in school by the teacher and pupil.
According to Microsoft IT Academy pro-
gramme, online learning incentives have
the power to help teachers deliver forma-
tive feedback that learners can use to im-
prove work in class.
Combining the physical and virtual class-
rooms brings about best skills in learners,
the journal, issued during this years Micro-
soft in Education Global Forum in Barce-
lona, further states.
These software come at a time when the
government is facing a decit in learning
material and skills to complement its lap-
tops for class one project.
According to education principal secre-
tary Mr Belio Kipsang, Kenya has so far
trained 150, 000 teachers in preparation
for governments plan to adopt e-learning
in schools.
This, coupled with the right digital content
that has been approved by Kenya Institute
of Curriculum Development (KICD), will re-
sult in a whole new era of pupils with very
sharp learning skills, says Mr Kipsang.
Jumpstart has however taken a completely
dierent approach to learning by integrat-
ing games into education.
dSchool has further launched software
that is compatible with android operat-
ing system, to reach the masses who use
smartphones.
Mr Wycli Kibisu, the regional operator of
dSchool, says that that the digital mate-
rial comes with math blaster and reading
blaster for ages two to four.
We have Jumpstart pre-school, Kinder-
garten, grade 1 to 6, said Mr Kibisu, This is
enough to lay a childs foundation. Experts
have proved that children learn best using
songs, rhymes and games.
This software uses the natural learning en-
vironment to teach every basic skills from
spellings, math and English.
dSchool has successfully put to use the
concept of anytime anywhere learning
where students watch videos on the bus,
work remotely with classmates in the eve-
nings, and submit homework assignments
electronically.
DIGITAL LEARNING
Here comes school software that adds play to learning
4
DAILY NATION
Monday
May 26, 2014
about unconditional love and for-
giveness. He was a servant leader
who served and expected noth-
ing in return.
I urge you to take time to pray
and write down the issues that ail
your marriage. Arrange to have
a meeting with your wife and
make time to dialogue. Start by
arming her before bringing out
any issues that you feel require
her attention. More importantly,
try to see how you might have
contributed to her acting the way
she does.
On the issue of her agreeing
with you then backing out, I feel
that could be connected to a
feeling of being dragged into the
decision or her agreeing just to
avoid conict.
Finally, remember that sex is
a relationship of intimately ex-
pressing your love and aection
for each other that involves your
deepest emotions. Therefore,
it cannot be just a physical act
without any emotional attach-
ment. Consequently, the two of
you must reactivate your com-
munication because it is the fuel
you need to re your sexual life
back to life.
I am 29 years old and a frequent
reader of your Monday column. My
problem is that, four years ago, I
met this extremely beautiful girl in
my hometown, where she had come
to work. I used to admire her, then
one day I approached her to get to
know her. We became friends since
she was employed by a friend of mine
who works in the same eld as I do.
She used to visit my oce on o-
cial matters but after some time, we
began dating. She is eight years my
junior but I am okay with that. One
thing that I made her understand was
that I was married, and that I had a
daughter, but I had a crush on her
long before I got married.
She is a born-again Christian and
strongly believes in herself. As we
dated, she told me all about her life
and background: She told me she
was an orphan and that she did not
know where any of her family mem-
bers lived since they had left when
she was very young. She said she
depended on the goodwill of well-
wishers, an issue that haunted me so
much that I got close to her in order
to help her. We got close and ended
up falling deeply in love and even had
sex. I have never abandoned my fam-
ily since I still love my wife and child
and take good care of them.
In 2012, this girl enrolled for a
medical course at a popular institu-
tion in Thika town. This led to our
being separated for some time. I felt
abandoned and lonely but this did
not aect my family. Recently, I vis-
ited her at the institution and she was
very happy.
I have made a lot of sacrices to
help her with expenses like meals,
hostel fees, and personal eects. To
cut a long story short, I consider this
girl to be my wife and sincerely love
her. In fact, we have promised each
other that we will get married.
Then recently, she went all quiet.
I am sure she loves me. What could
be wrong? She might have changed
a little but I have no doubt that she
still loves me. Should I continue help-
ing her because she has no one to
turn to? What about my wife? I do
not want to spill the beans because
I want a peaceful life while keeping
them both. What should I do?
Hi,
I really empathise with her and pray
that she will nd proper support in
life. It is tough being an orphan, es-
pecially when you have no relatives to
depend on. Family relationships are
important in life. That said, I wonder
whether your initial reason was only
to listen to her and oer her support.
When you realised that she was an
orphan, you should have realised that
the girl needed for emotional support.
Meanwhile, keeping the relationship
behind your wifes back is both unfair
and a recipe for disaster. It is time to
weigh what you prefer.
As far as this girl is concerned, you
cannot force a particular decision on
her. Besides, you will have to take your
childrens reaction to your choices into
account.
I cannot tell why the girl has gone
quiet, but there must be a reason that
has something to do with you.
My question is whether you are not
trying using you nancial capabilities
to try to seduce this girl.
It might be awkward to realise that
a person you consider to be a friend is
trying to buy your love.
If you truly want a peaceful life, I
pray that you count your blessings.
Can I get a man to love
me?
Dear Kitoto,
I am a 38-year-old single mother
Hi,
I have been married for
eight years and have two
children. Our marriage was
solemnised in church before
we had sex.
I am 38 and my wife is about
same age. I noted two years
into our marriage that she is
disrespectful and does not
care how I feel. She is control-
ling, which I strongly resist. I
have a feeling that this mar-
riage will not work, that she
is living with me for conven-
ience and will leave once the
children have grown up. As a
born-again Christian, I know
divorce is not an option. I feel
trapped in this marriage. We
cannot agree on anything to
work on together. When we
decide on a project and get it
rolling, she pulls out although
she is a housewife. I have in-
vested hundreds of thousands
of shillings, which she looks
down on.
Help, because I am losing
my mind, struggling alone
without any help.
Hi,
I realise that one of your
basic issues is communication.
The two of you need to revisit
how you view each other be-
cause this has aected many
things: 1) The way you view
someone aects the way you
receive their input. 2) The way
you talk to each other reveals
whether what you say makes
you feel validated or not. The
two of you have one great
thing in common you are
Christians. I pray that you will
allow your faith to lead you to
communication that validates
each one of you, releases free-
dom, cultivates honesty and
trust in the relationship, and
makes you protective of each
other.
I encourage you to try using
servant leadership. Sure, your
wife might be controlling, but
you cannot win by being de-
manding or manipulative by
thinking: You must toe the
line because I have spent a
lot on you yet you are only a
housewife. This attitude will
only drive you apart and end
up hurting you. Christ taught
How do I handle my controlling wife?
RELATIONSHIPS
of a 12-year-old boy. Since 2002, I
have not found a man to love me.
I feel lonely and wonder what is
wrong with me.
My question is, are there men
out there? Can I get a man to love
me?
Hi
I believe that both marriage and
being single are a gift. For that
period we have been endowed with
that gift, we need to be proud of it,
enjoy it, and live it with pride and
responsibility.
When the time comes for us to
get into marriage, we should have
lived our single life well and be
ready to live responsibly in our new
station.
The problem is when we do not
behave in a manner worthy of the
station we have been called to.
Each station has it blessings, de-
mands, and pains.
I encourage you to live your sin-
gle status with pride and honour.
Be the best that you can be and
seek to reach your potential.
Though necessary, marriage
does not necessarily complete us.
We were created whole and able to
reach our full potential.
Your feelings of loneliness should
not be so urgent that they make
you get less than you deserve or
compromise your values.
Live in such a way that when
that man nally comes around, he
should nd you at your best. Never
let a man think that you are desper-
ate or despondent.
Of course, a man can love you.
Just be ready and make yourself
lovable.
Is it wrong to get
another man?
Hi,
Let me call myself CJ. I have
never missed reading your an-
swers in the Nation. I am 36 years
old and a mother of three children,
two of whom live with their father.
I live with the third child, who is
four years old. My problem is that
I am lonely and want a man in
my life. He should be between the
ages of 36 and 40. Is it wrong to
search for a man?
Hi,
I am not sure how to respond
to your question since you have
not given me enough informa-
tion to enable me to give you an
informed opinion. However, as a
single mother, a lot has happened
along the way to get you to where
you are. I suppose you have found
time to deal with all that baggage
and sought healing. Being in a
relationship will be demanding
and stressful for you and the child.
Already, your children are suering
because of separation and cannot
enjoy the love of both their parents.
Besides dealing with baggage
and healing, you need to ask your-
self what kind of future will add
value to you and your children.
Getting another man to avoid
feeling lonely will not necessar-
ily mean living a fullled life. Any
future relationship you want to
build will, therefore, depend on
several factors, including the ones
above. Ones priorities, faith, and
values play an important role in
determining the kind of future and
relationships they build.
DAILY NATION
Monday
May 26, 2014
5
T
he central idea in many religions
is that the body and the mind are,
somehow, made of dierent stu.
We are told that we are animated
by some ethereal substance and are literally
ghosts trapped in a eshy machine. We are
corpses, but for some holy ghost that acts
as a puppeteer. This idea of our supposed
dual nature is important for all of us to
consider because it partially feeds the idea
that we are not the masters of our bodies,
but merely stewards.
The claim of spectres trapped in cadavres
is testable and scientic advances make
it deceptively easy to look for a soul and
determine whether it is there or not.
Indeed, CAT and MRI scans have localised
various areas in the brain which control
our emotions, movements, and biological
processes. Damage to certain areas of the
brain can render us mute or unable to read,
showing that they almost denitely control
these processes. Damage to the parietal
lobe, for example, makes it impossible for
a person to spell. Dierent moods can be
altered by chemical and electrical impulses.
Our minds arise entirely from the product of
physical phenomena, and there is no reason
to think otherwise. Sadly, there is no space
in our heads for the soul to inhabit, and no
job left for it to do.
Everything inside us obeys the immutable
laws of physics. I think that, as an
explanation-loving species, we were so in
awe of our physical and mental construction
that we had to imbue ourselves with magical
qualities to explain it.
Talking about the spirit is not only an
unnecessary distraction, it is also downright
lazy and ignorant. Your body is a temple,
but not one of spirit.
Our bodies are us. The mind is as the
brain works and is merely a creation of
neural pathways. Indeed, there is nothing
beyond our world of matter, no spirits caged
in our bones.
I do not have a body; I am a body. Our
bodies are us. My body is both me and
mine.
Ultimate sovereigns of ourselves
If our bodies are ours and us and not
gifted to us, are we not, then, ultimate
sovereigns over ourselves? Who should
have a greater right than yourself to tell
you what to do with your body? If you do
not own the very meat that clings to your
bones, what do you own? Can anyone
renounce your own infallibility towards
managing your body?
If you own your body, why, for example,
should there be a law against using it sexually
for money or any other consideration? What
moral reason does anyone have to tell you
what to do with your body?
A friend of mine has been through a
traumatic year. Her mother had cancer
and began wasting away before her very
eyes. She had a particularly aggressive
form of the disease that ate her from the
inside out. The medicines they were using
to treat her also had horrible side eects.
Her skin was inamed and turned red due
to radiation. She complained of immense
pain. My friend talked of the challenges of
mothering ones own mother. It made me
appreciate just how wretched disease can
be, how painful and helpless some illnesses
can render us.
In the end, her mother was a human
tub: You put food and nutrients at one
end and it passes out through the other.
It was a hopeless endeavour. By the time
death came, she was already gone. It was
all about stopping the pulse. The family
suered hellishly. Suering does not make
us better or improve us in any way. In a
moment of weakness, my friend hoped that
her mothers suering could be shortened
or stopped. Of course, her entreaties were
directed to some unspecied god to end
the suering, which she later regretted.
There is an interesting scene in the
documentary, How to Die in Oregon. After
legally buying a lethal concoction that was
prescribed for him by a doctor to end his
life, a patient is told by the attendant to
have a good day. The choice of words
seemed odd addressed to a person who
had chosen to euthanise himself. Death is
a logical conclusion to life that we should
not be afraid of facing.
The indignity of human suering from
disease makes the ability to decide when we
want to go a necessity. We should all have
a painless opt-out clause and our existence
and preservation of life should be questions
we are able to discuss without religious
doctrine cropping up. There is nothing
noble about human suering.
I, for one, fear the mental decay and
rotting from the inside. As a materialist
through and through, I know that the
carbon in me, the carbon that is me, will
once again be absorbed by other organisms
and will ow back into a great cycle of life.
My constituent parts have been around for
billions of years. After they are no longer in
me, they will be parts of other organisms.
Perhaps one day the carbon that is me will
even rise through the food chain back to
the perch occupied by our primate species.
Non-existence does not bother me because
I was not around for the rst 4.6 billion
years of the earth. And I will not be around
for the next billion. Death should not be
and is not a worry, but pain is. It can
be pointless and excruciating. It can kill you
without making you stronger. There is no
dignity in valiantly ghting your disease to
a gory conclusion. There is more to life than
merely having a ickering pulse. Quality of
life is important.
We reserve the right to be able to organise
our aairs and, in cases of terminal illness,
organise our exit from this world
i n a safe environment. There
should be an option to carefully,
medically, and painlessly
manage the end of the lives of
terminally ill patients. The
person best able to decide whether a life
is worth living is the person living it. It is
your body and you should decide when you
no longer want to be in it or be it.
The government should not have the right
to tell you how to use your body.
Let us now look at abortion, another
contentious issue. In determining whether
abortion is right or wrong, we should
consider what is known as the obstetrical
dilemma. This is simply the conicting
trends in evolution that have made human
females walk upright while the size of our
craniums kept getting bigger. These two
conflicting paths have made sure that
humans have terrible odds when it comes
to giving birth. Humans are more likely to
die in childbirth than any other primate.
Humans also need much more assistance
while giving birth compared to other
animals. For humans, pregnancy is very
dangerous, potentially lethal, and a horrible
experience.
Dierent goals and competing interests
We have an idealised concept of
motherhood, but the truth is that it is not
as pretty as we pretend it is.
The human placenta is dierent from
those of other mammals and fuses the
mother and the fetus. While it is designed
to increase nutrients to the foetus, the
connection also means that the foetus can
actively manipulate the mothers system
to ensure that its supply of nutrients is
prioritised.
During pregnancy, mother and child have
dierent goals and competing interests. The
mother wants to preserve her nutrients
for the future, while the foetus ensures
that she cannot prioritise her life over its
own. A foetus usually pumps the mothers
bloodstream with hormones to ensure that
it receives more nutrients than it requires.
It then passes along the fathers genetic
material so that the mother ends up having
dierent sets of genetic material. This is a
selsh action to ensure that it is harder for
a woman to have children with other men
apart from the father of her present child.
The relationship between a mother and a
foetus is more parasitic than symbiotic, if
we are to be honest.
A pregnancy is a personal issue. Our
evolution makes pregnancy even more
dangerous than for other species. We are
lucky that the cause of all our problems, our
big head, is also the solution to the problem.
Medical science has made it easier to assist
women in childbirth. A pregnancy is risky
and must be entered into freely. It happens
in someones body and it should be that
persons decision whether it is carried to
term or not. The foetus, as we have seen,
ruthlessly promotes its own interests and
that of its father to the detriment of the
mother. The mother should be allowed
to consider whether she wants to carry a
pregnancy to term.
Motherhood is perhaps the greatest act
of altruism there is, but it is still dangerous
and we should not force someone down
that path.
We could talk about the fact that
abortion is banned and women are dying
because of lack of access to an essential
reproductive procedure. The religious will
not allow sex education or contraception or
advertisements on contraception. Nor will
they allow abortion. They will not listen to
anything you have to say about euthanasia
but let people suer horrible indignities
before they die. They will not allow you to
use your body in a manner you see t.
There is a feeling of religious sacredness
attached to our bodies, that life is a gift
from above, that we should think that life
is sacred. These feelings are not true. I am
a body and the master of it. We are chained
to a corpse because we are the corpse. No
one should have the right to tell you what
to do with the body that is you
thewag
Our bodies
are us. The
mind is as
the brain
works and
is merely
a creation
of neural
pathways.
Indeed,
there is
nothing
beyond
our world
of matter,
no spirits
caged in
our bones.
My body is mine,
so what I do with
it is my business
THE WAG
waga
odongo
FILE| DAILY NATION
For humans, pregnancy is very dangerous, potentially lethal, and a horrible
experience. The relationship between a mother and a foetus is more parasitic than
symbiotic, if we are to be honest.

Death should not be and is
not a worry, but pain is. It can
be pointless and excruciating.
It can kill you without making
you stronger. There is no
dignity in valiantly ghting
your disease to a gory
conclusion. There is more
to life than merely having a
ickering pulse. The quality
of life is very important. The
person best able to decide
whether a life is worth living is
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For example, to a young
person who seems to be
giving up, we may give the
following advice:
Kinda ne omiyo Opuk
oyombo Apuoyo, that is,
Persistence led Tortoise to
victory over Hare.
In fact, Oginga, himself,
was very persistent. He always
stuck to his principles. Later in
life he even opposed friends
who chased after wealth
when many people around
them had nothing.
The stories he heard also
taught him that blind anger
and senseless cruelty lead
to destruction, and Oginga
was always very gentle when
thinking about the welfare of
people.
Ogingas parents taught
him the importance of
democracy. He fought for
what was right not just for
himself but for all Kenyans.
As we shall see later, this got
him into trouble and he was
arrested and jailed, not once
but several times.
Your history teacher
may have taught you about
colonialism in Kenya. At
the time that Oginga was
born, the British had already
colonised Kenya.
Kenyans were no longer
free in their own country and
the British imposed great
hardships on them.
One of these hardships
was the hut tax. This
meant that every family
had to pay the colonial
government some money
for every hut they had in
their compound. If they did
not have money, they had
to pay in crops and animals.
Many people could not
aord this.
This adversely aected
the African way of life. For
instance, some people pulled
down their huts and had to
sleep in the same hut with
their children. Some people
were beaten and even jailed
for failing to pay this tax.
Young Oginga saw that this
was wrong and wanted to do
something about it. And, as
we will see, he did!
I am now in need of a
break and must rest for some
time. Later, I will tell you more
about this eminent son of
Kenya.
Grandfather put down his
pen, gathered his things and
went into the house
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What makes leaders
tick in a new normal
of market turbulence
It has been 12 solid months since we published
last years edition of this annual supplement on
corporate leadership.
During that period, a lot has happened in Kenyas
business landscape.
Last years edition was, for instance, published
just as Kenya emerged from a prolonged and gru-
elling general election whose outcome stretched
even more nerves with devastating effects on the
business environments.
But that did not stop great leaders from exercis-
ing their vision, getting their team to share and
work towards that vision.
As many businesses put their investment or ex-
pansion plans in the freezer, most of the men and
women we prole here today took the contrar-
ian route and empowered their teams to look
beyond the tidal waves and do just that: invest
and expand.
While many of their counterparts looked inwards
for avenues of cost-management, the broad-
minded leaders we prole today spent millions of
shillings on innovation and launch of new service
and product lines.
As the performance of the businesses they lead
has proven, they were right in the decisions they
took.
In a business environment where turbulence has
become the new normal, old scripts about crisis
management and navigation of challenges in
the business landscape have been made totally
irrelevant.
In fact, as one of the articles carried in the
magazine says, the world of tsunamis, hurricanes,
oods, earthquakes, terrorist threats and crip-
pling nancial crises demands a new style of busi-
ness leadership.
That leadership has three main pillars including
the building of business defences, especially in the
area of risk management.
Second, these leaders have learned the art of
going on the offensive, which some management
gurus have dened as developing a platform that
recognises that risk capital is one of the scarcest
resources and exercising it judiciously.
The third, is keeping an eye on the shift from
nancial-market risks to reputational risks, includ-
ing technology, cyber security and many types of
more qualitative risk management.
The men and women whose stories we carry have
exercised at least one of these dening leadership
abilities in the past year. Enjoy!!
OCHIENG RAPURO
A leader is best when people barely
know he exists, when his work is
done, his aim fullled, they will say:
we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
Where there is no vision, the
people perish.
Proverbs 29:18
I must follow the people. Am I
not their leader?
Benjamin Disraeli
The rst responsibility of a leader
is to dene reality. The last is to say
thank you. In between, the leader is
a servant.
Max DePree
Leadership is the capacity to
translate vision into reality.
Warren Bennis
Lead me, follow me, or get out
of my way.
General George Patton
Before you are a leader, success is
all about growing yourself. When
you become a leader, success is all
about growing others.
Jack Welch
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
You dont need a title to be a leader.
Multiple Attributions
My own denition of leadership is
this: The capacity and the will to
rally men and women to a common
purpose and the character which
inspires condence.
General Montgomery
In this issue
8 Are politics and tyranny bedfellows in leadership?
Most Kenyans
are moulded into
politics from a very
early age. Right from
the early beginnings
of lifes often long
journey, Mummy has
a variety of ways to
explain, in every con-
versation the relations
and connections to the
latest political celebrity, patriotism, racism, rules of social life and so on. It
is a mark of wisdom.
10 Mapping the career path for top
executives in big companies
Executives in the highest ranks of
management have become increasingly diverse
in recent years, and the number of lifelong em-
ployees has continued to decline.
14 Leading the company when disaster strikes
Throughout the world, cor-
porations have been hit by a series of
disasters over the past 10 years natu-
ral and nancial that have caused
tectonic shifts in thinking about risk
planning and readiness. These disasters
include the nancial crisis of 2008 and
such extreme weather events as the
Indian Ocean and Tohoku earthquakes
and tsunamis, and hurricanes.
20 Act like a leader before
you are one
If you want to become a
leader, dont wait for the fancy title
or the corner ofce. You can begin
to act, think and communicate like
a leader long before that promo-
tion.
29 Six tips to improve CEOs
reputation during a crisis
CEOs often have to make tough decisions involv-
ing mergers, acquisitions, layoffs, salary freezes and
more. Certain events, even when they are the best
decision for the long-term health of the company,
can generate widespread fallout, including damaging
the reputation of the CEO.
34 Making the right leadership
choice: The dos and donts
When the board selects the wrong person
for the job, consequences abound. All too
often, these failures can be traced to inad-
equate due diligence on part of the board
when vetting candidates.
CONTENTS

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Group Managing Editor Mutuma Mathiu
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BY JEANINE PRIME AND ELIZABETH SALIB
I
n a global marketplace where problems
are increasingly complex, no one person
will ever have all the answers. Thats why
Googles senior vice president of people
operations, Lazlo Bock, says humility is one of
the traits hes looking for in new hires.
Outstanding leaders are
always humble leaders
If there is humility in
the leadership of an
organisation, the em-
ployees feel wanted
and apply greater ef-
fort in their work
terised by:
1. Acts of humility such as learning from
criticism and admitting mistakes;
2. Empowering followers to learn and de-
velop;
3. Acts of courage, such as taking per-
sonal risks for the greater good; and
4. Holding employees responsible for re-
sults.
Employees who observed their managers
acting altruistically also reported being
more innovative, suggesting new product
ideas and ways of doing work better. More-
over, they were more likely to report en-
gaging in team citizenship behaviour, such
as going beyond the call of duty and pick-
ing up the slack for an absent colleague -
all indirect effects of feeling more included
in their work groups.
Our research also allowed us to isolate
the combination of two separate, underly-
ing sentiments that make employees feel
included: uniqueness and belongingness.
Employees feel unique when they are rec-
ognized for the distinct talents and skills
they bring to their teams; they feel they
belong when they share important com-
monalities with co-workers. Its tricky for
leaders to strike the right balance, and em-
phasizing uniqueness too much can dimin-
ish employees sense of belonging.
But we found that, almost across the
board, altruism is one of the key attributes
of leaders who can maintain this balance
for their employees. Overall, our study
raises one common, and perhaps univer-
sal, implication: To promote inclusion and
reap its rewards, leaders should embrace a
seless leadership style.
Here are some concrete ways to get start-
ed, based on both our current research and
our ongoing study of leadership develop-
ment practices at one company, Rockwell
Automation:
Share your mistakes as teachable mo-
ments: When leaders showcase their
own personal growth, they legitimise the
growth and learning of others; by admit-
ting their own imperfections, they make
it OK for others to be fallible, too. People
tend to connect with those who share
their imperfections and foibles - they ap-
pear more human. Particularly in diverse
work groups, displays of humility may help
to remind group members of their com-
mon humanity and shared objectives.
Engage in dialogue, not debates: Another
way to practice humility is to truly engage
with different points of view. Too often
leaders are focused on swaying others and
winning arguments. When people de-
bate in this way, they become so focused
on proving the validity of their own views
that they miss out on the opportunity to
learn about other points of view. Inclusive
leaders are humble enough to suspend
their own agendas and beliefs. In doing so,
they not only enhance their own learning,
but also validate followers unique per-
spectives.
Embrace uncertainty: Ambiguity and un-
certainty are par for the course in todays
business environment. So why not em-
brace them? When leaders humbly admit
that they dont have all the answers, they
create space for others to step forward
and offer solutions. They also engender a
Your end goal, explained Bock, is what
can we do together to problem-solve.
Ive contributed my piece, and then I step
back. And it is not just humility in creating
space for others to contribute, says Bock -
its intellectual humility. Without humility,
you are unable to learn.
A recent Catalyst study backs this idea up,
showing that humility is one of four critical
leadership factors for creating an environ-
ment where employees from different de-
mographic backgrounds feel included.
In a survey of more than 1,500 workers
from Australia, China, Germany, India,
Mexico and the US, we found that when
employees observed altruistic or seless
behaviour in their managers, they were
more likely to report feeling included in
their work teams. (Incidentally, this was
true for both women and men.) That al-
truistic or seless behaviour was charac-

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Advertising Feature III
The Young Leader behind Chandaria Industries
By EVANS ONGWAE
eongwae@ke.nationmedia.com
A
saying in Chinua Achebes literary
classic, Things Fall Apart, aptly
describes Darshan Chandarias
standing in the corporate world. In this
great book, Achebe says that, if a child
washed his hands he could eat with
kings.
Not only has the youthful CEO streamlined
operations from factory to market, he has
ensured the rms products are easily avail-
able to consumers, wherever they are.
One, he has insisted that the company bench-
marks against global quality standards, not
Kenyan or East African ones.
Two, he has ensured that the rm continu-
ously invests in its manufacturing processes
to ensure that we have the latest, state of
the art technology deployed throughout our
operations, as he explains.
Thirdly, the Group has created excellent rela-
tionships with its suppliers and supply chain
partners.
Mr. Chandaria explains: I have really focused
on our distribution network to try and ensure
that our products are available to end con-
sumers anytime, anywhere! We have done
this by increasing the number of outlets that
stock our products, either by supplying more
outlets directly or through our channel part-
ners. This has not only helped us grow the
sales of our existing products but it has also
helped us in opening up new markets/outlets
to supply a diverse range of other consumer
products.
Mr. Chandaria believes a good leader has the
ability to develop and effectively communi-
cate a vision of what the organization wishes
to achieve.
A leader must also be able to inspire and em-
power all the team members of the organi-
zation to make a meaningful contribution in
pursuit of that vision.
He argues that self-condence is important
to a leader. The higher the self-condence
of the leader, the more likely it is that he or
she can perform that function successfully,
he asserts. A mind that distrusts itself can-
not stimulate the best in the minds of others.
Nor can a leader inspire the best in others
if their primary need, arising from personal
insecurities, is to prove themselves right and
others wrong, says Mr. Chandaria.
To ascend to the top of the ladder in the con-
glomerate that Chandaria Industries is dem-
onstrates that, indeed, the youthful Darshan
has, as Achebe had put it, clearly washed his
hands and so he eats with kings and elders.
At the tender age of 28, having been with
the family business for only ve years, Dar-
shan Chandaria has transformed Chandaria
Industries in Kenya and Tanpack Tissues in
Tanzania into two of the most impressive
Fast Moving Consumer Products (FMCG)
businesses in East Africa.
He has quickly become an inspirational lead-
er and a role model for young people in the
corporate world.
His vision for diversication has seen Chan-
daria Group enter into food and beverage,
real estate and most recently, solar energy
generation, through their purchase of an eq-
uity stake in Astoneld Renewables, a global
solar energy generation and services busi-
ness.
Mr. Chandaria introduced Maccoffee, an in-
stant coffee brand, into the Kenyan market
in 2010. Within just four years, it has grown
and secured the third largest market share in
the coffee category.
He, however, considers commitment the
most important saying a leader could have a
vision, a great team and self-condence but
if you expect people to work hard and meet
deadlines, you must lead by example.
In his view, leadership in todays world faces
different challenges from those experienced
in the past.
According to him, one of the most signicant
is the technological revolutions we have all
experienced. Today we are all equipped with
smartphones, tablets and various other de-
vices that allow us to access any information
we want anywhere and at any time! Consider
that there has been more information pro-
duced in the last 30 years than during the
previous 5,000 and that the information sup-
ply available to us doubles every ve years.
Therefore, todays truly successful leaders
are dened not by how much information
they can access, but by how they can access
the most relevant information and differen-
tiate it from the masses of non-relevant in-
formation.
Technology advances have also greatly re-
duced the costs of reaching multiple, geo-
graphically dispersed markets. This is the
reason we have seen the creation of massive
multinational organizations through merg-
ers and acquisitions. As this trend of globali-
zation continues, I believe we will see even
more merger and acquisition activity. There-
fore, if todays leaders are to continue, prof-
itably expanding their businesses they must
focus on scaling their businesses across mul-
tiple markets, advises Mr. Chandaria.
Having grown to lead a number of busi-
nesses within the group at a young age, Mr.
Chandaria is passionate about mentoring fu-
ture leaders. He often nds himself mentor-
ing entrepreneurs and professionals who are
older than himself, but its great as we share
mutual respect for one another.
He spends a lot of time with his employees
within the companies he runs who are com-
mitted to developing themselves or pro-
gressing their professional careers.
Chandaria Industries has focused on creat-
ing an open door culture. This means that
any employee from the cleaner to a machine
operator can come and see me to discuss
any new ideas or issues they may be facing.
This tremendously increases the interaction
I have with employees from every level of the
organization and enables me to identify tal-
ent directly, Mr. Chandaria explains.
Mr. Chandaria is a member of a number of
business organizations. The African Leader-
ship Network (ALN), has in particular allowed
him to interact with and subsequently men-
tor a number of talented entrepreneurs.
He says in future, he will be providing the
seed capital to talented entrepreneurs to
start their businesses because he has often
come across individuals who have great ide-
as and are committed to making their ideas
a reality but lack the start-up capital. This,
he says, is a big hindrance to the economic
development of Kenya.
Modern leadership challenges notwithstand-
ing, Mr. Chandaria has eyes set on taking the
Group he heads into the rest of Africa.
He points out that there is no doubt that
Kenya and Africa at large is the next frontier.
We have seen the entry of a large number of
multinationals in the last two years and the
growing international interest in Kenya and
East Africa, he says.
Adds Mr. Chandaria: The growing middle
class and urbanization across African coun-
tries will be a major catalyst for increased
consumer demand of various products and
services, making Africa the most nancially
lucrative destination for business over the
next three years. Coupled with this is the
fact that the US and European markets are
performing poorly at the moment, this sup-
pressed consumer demand is creating a push
factor for these companies to look for new
markets. This will inevitably mean that com-
petition across Africa will intensify further.
We currently have manufacturing opera-
tions in Kenya and Tanzania, therefore for
regional business like ours the key to success
will be determined by our ability to develop
market leading positions across as many Af-
rican countries as possible and as quickly as
possible, says Mr. Chandaria.
For Mr. Chandaria, caring for others runs in
the family.
In his own words: My grandfather, my dad,
brother and my family in general have made
it their responsibility to give back to the peo-
ple and society around us and I think that
this is a very important responsibility that I
carry.
I spend quite a lot of my time personally
supporting a number of schools, NGOs and
institutions across Kenya and East Africa.
I really focus on supporting education and
healthcare institutions because I believe that
these are the two critical necessities any
individual must have as a starting point in
their life. I offer support both nancially and
in various other ways.
Opposite our head ofce in Ruaraka, we
have built a primary school, M.M. Chandaria
Primary School, which is named after my
grandfather. We pay all the expenses for the
running of this school from teachers salaries
to text books and every day over 1,800 chil-
dren are educated at this school.
Outside his job, Mr. Chandaria has interests
in real estate and absolutely loves modern/
contemporary architecture and visits unique
property developments all over the world. He
enjoys meeting new people and networking.
A handicap 6 golfer, he also plays tennis and
other sports. A food lover, he enjoys eating
out at new restaurants.
Darshan Chandaria,
Director
Mr. Darshan Chandaria donates Velvex Sanitary Pads and
Chandaria Industries hampers to School Girls
Mr. Darshan & his brother Neer Chandaria ag off a truck
load Donation to Kenya Red Cross
The higher the self-
condence of the
leader, the more likely
it is that he/she can
perform successfully.
A mind that distrusts
itself cannot stimulate
the best in the minds
of others. Nor can
a leader inspire the
best in others if
their primary need,
arising from personal
insecurities, is to prove
themselves right and
others wrong,

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BY EVANS ONGWAE
ngwa@k.natnmda.m
Calling to serve God and country through The Kingdom Bank
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Monday May 26, 2014
Advertising Feature VII
BY GEORGE NJENGA
M
ost Kenyans are moulded into poli-
tics from a very early age. Right from
the early beginnings of lifes often
long journey, Mummy has a variety of ways
to explain, in every conversation the relations
and connections to the latest political celeb-
rity, patriotism, racism, rules of social life and
so on. It is a mark of wisdom.
Are politics and tyranny
bedfellows in leadership?
Though a leader
is born with
innate qualities,
they have to be
sharpened and
moulded into
shape.
Business executives at a meeting. FOTOSEARCH
all the political problems, on behalf of our
politicians, without necessary going to the
Press or the courtroom (although this is
slowly changing for the better!).
This happy aptitude towards politics is quite
alive in boardrooms and businesses. Com-
menting on politics, identifying the MP of
your friends region and inking relations with
past politicians are signs of good customer
relationships and good conversation. Very
frequently we ask whether leaders are born
or made. The fact is that it is both. A leader is
born with innate qualities, but they have to
be sharpened or moulded.
It must however be said that leadership and
politics was meant for the wisest in society
not the less endowed because leadership
at the highest level demands not just intel-
lectual quotient but also virtuous and value
content. Leadership is a science to be left to
the best trained and most virtuous.
The reason is simple; politics is the art of
inspiring and aspiring oneself and others
towards the path that leads to the great-
est good for the individual and society as a
whole and ultimately for the universal socie-
ty. Personal good and the common good are
all bound up together.
Sadly, leadership in the art of the Kenyan
government and in the art of Kenyan insti-
tutional builders is controlled by the very
opposite characters and character traits. Po-
litical and institutional leadership is largely in
the hands of those manipulative and astute
democrats. The end result is chaos. Chaos
and anarchy are frequently described as de-
mocracy and consensus building. The leader-
ship has therefore become the mainstay of
the tyrant. What best describes the tyrant is
the fact that he or she manipulates money
and power for own good and consequently
destroys the common good.
The tyrant will use any means however atro-
cious to convert public goods into private
goods.
By private goods I mean that the politician
will turn the common good into his personal
good or into his institutions goods or into his
communitys goods.
Selshness, greedy institutions, tribalism
and racism ensue as a consequence! A good
leader on the other hand should learn from
the greatest leaders.
One cannot gain say the dire need for good
leadership schools scattered throughout out
our communities or counties. Each should
have one. The best teachers and collaborates
should be sought to ensure good content
and experience.
Good leadership with a view towards the
common good necessarily demands a very
good engagement with others in the public
sphere. This is democracy truly speaking. It
is common knowledge that it will be to the
common advantage to communicate good
decisions or discuss good decisions to those
one governs. One wise man can make human
mistakes and turn himself or herself into a
tyrant.
However, discussing and happily dialoguing
with others eliminates the tendency towards
tyranny.
The leader has to be a source of unity. Lead-
ers as sources of unity connect the people
in an institution or country or community
rather than disaggregate them. The wisdom
of a leader is measured by how much he or
she unites those under his sphere of inu-
ence into a common effective army of do
gooders.
Continuity
A leader trains his and educates his follow-
ers continuously! A government and a leader
who is not educative of his followers is cer-
tainly a lone tree that leaves no continuity in
society. Africa has tended to kill continuity
by killing and maiming the best people on
the basis of destroying competition -- just
like their colonial predecessors did.
Education is a continuous thing because
change is continuous and any leader has to
be sure his collaborators are at the vanguard
of science and technology and new informa-
tion. Good education also enables a leader to
be ambidextrous and adaptive to new situ-
ations.
Very closely connected to continuous edu-
cation is the art of coaching and mentoring
the future leaders. The latter must be well
selected.
Leaders are certainly born with natural he-
reditary capacities. It is up to the leader to
ensure these natural foundations are focused
into powerful leadership characters. An insti-
tution or society that does not mentor and
coach its future leaders and give them good
experiences internationally will in effect have
cronies and narrow minded followers.
But most of all, a leader often manifests the
culture of a community and a society and an
institution.
It is leaders that show to the world who the
people are and what values they espouse.
I am afraid that with the leaders we have, it
is frequently hard to show pride in the people
of Kenya.
Sadly, we do not train our leaders and we
have left them to the basest of attributes.
They are drunkards, thieves, full of tribalism
and separatist mentalities, greedy, racists,
and other similar adjectives.
The effect is that, whether we like it or not,
we do not appear to the world as stars of
good human values.
Leaders strive for great purpose, for them-
selves and their societies, all in one whole
function.
Neither of the two should be separated. I am
because we are says our Ubuntu philoso-
phies. A leader should shun power and po-
sition and money if undertaking responsibil-
ity will lead him or her to the base qualities
aforementioned.
Dr Njenga is the Dean, Strathmore
Business School in Nairobi
Daddy comes home, slips into a regular at
position on his seat, and makes consistent
grunts every ve minutes on the deplorable
state of politics in Kenya.
Trying to escape this ragged and confused
world of politics, the little one comments on
the latest intrigues of Scooby Doo! But the
conversation is silent and politics continues
to reign in every corner of the house, home,
car, matatu, bed, bar and club. By the time
the little one is a teenager, his training is
complete. He willingly follows his parents
footsteps into posterity.
In these classes offered freely within the
nascent educational institute called the fam-
ily, one often sees and hears grunts and
groans and happy critiques of our politicians,
share one common line: politicians are self-
centred, avaricious, boastful, arrogant, irre-
ligious, proigate and savages running our
resources.
It is necessary for one to pin point and solve

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Advertising Feature IX
E
xecutives in the highest ranks of man-
agement have become increasingly
diverse in recent years, and the number
of lifelong employees has continued to de-
cline.
Researchers found that rms should
expect a return to less internal
mobility and more job hopping.
Mapping the
career path for
top executives in
big companies
Those are some of the conclusions drawn
from a new study. Titled Whos Got Those
Top Jobs? the US-based study looks at the
career paths and qualications of the top
10 leaders in each of the Fortune 100 com-
panies. It has been suggested that another
way to summarise the ndings, is to para-
phrase a well-known saying: The future is
more like the past, only more so.
Indeed, the study shows an executive pro-
le that continues to evolve. In 2005, the
researchers looked at similar data from
2001 and compared it to data from 1980.
This latest research extends the analysis to
2011. And while some of the teams ndings
were heavily inuenced by the 2008 reces-
sion, especially in the area of job mobility,
the strong feeling is that the trends begin-
ning in 1980 are going to continue to play
out. The researchers looked at four areas
within the Fortune 100s senior ranks: Ca-
reer trajectory, education, diversity and hi-
erarchy. Among the key ndings:
Careers: Interchangeable Executives
The relatively steep decline in the number
of lifelong employees is evident despite in-
creases in executive development and suc-
cession planning. According to the study,
less than one third of the executives in 2011
had started their careers with their current
employers, down from 45 per cent in 2001
and more than 50 per cent in 1980. At the
same time, the executives length of tenure
has increased i.e., they are tending to stay
longer at the rm than they did in 2001, a
nding that reects the impact of two re-
cessions on the reluctance of employees at
all levels to leave the security of their cur-
rent jobs. Leaders shot to the top fastest at
Google, where it took only 14 years to rise
from an entry level position to the execu-
tive suite, while it took 32 years at Hewlett-
Packard and ConocoPhillips.
The recession and prolonged recovery have
had other noticeable repercussions on the
Fortune 100s elite group, Wharton man-
agement professor Peter Cappelli notes. On
average, it took the 2011 executives a year
longer than their counterparts in the 2001
group to get to the top due to slower ad-
vancement throughout their careers. In ad-
dition, outside studies suggest that turnover
among chief executives has dropped since
2001; moreover, since 2008, large com-
panies have been more inclined than they
were in 2001 to ll vacancies from within.
The researchers provided some recession-
related specics throughout the study. For
example, because the 2008 recession af-
fected the nancial services industry more
than others requiring them, in some
cases, to restructure to avoid bankruptcy
long-established entities like AIG, Bank
ic differences in these numbers depending
on the individual company. Leaders shot
to the top fastest at Google, where it took
only 14 years to rise from an entry level po-
sition to the executive suite, while it took 32
years at Hewlett-Packard and ConocoPhil-
lips. Age is a factor as well. Members of HPs
2011 executive team were over 58, on aver-
age, while at Google, they were 46.
Education: A League of Their Own
The study documents an upsurge in edu-
cation over the last 30 years, with about
65 per cent of the leaders in 2011 holding
graduate degrees compared to 62 per cent
in 2001 and 46 per cent in 1980. Those
companies that had the most MBAs among
their executives included Sears (75 per
cent), Sunoco (70 per cent) and the Walt
Disney Co. (63 per cent).
As for college degrees, the proportion of the
Fortune 100 executives with an Ivy League
en and (individuals) born and educated
outside the US than leaders in previous
years, although both groups are still far
from achieving parity with U.S. men, the
researchers found. For example, 17 of the
Fortune100 companies still have no women
in their top 10 jobs. Those women in the
2011 group who had secured executive po-
sitions had not all ended up in the bottom
tier of senior management, the research-
ers write. But few of them rose to the very
top, as was true for the 2001 group. Only
ve per cent of the women had made it to
the highest-level positions compared with
17 per cent of the men.
Women executives in the 2011 group
reached their top-tier positions slightly
faster, on average, than men 28 years ver-
sus 29 years while women in middle-tier
positions had taken 23 years to get there
compared with 26 years for men. They had
been promoted sooner in each previous job
after an average of four years, compared
with ve years for men. This was also true
in 2001.
Well-rounded, Well-schooled
In short, leaders at the very top are ve
times as likely as those at the bottom of
the executive suite to have earned an Ivy
League undergraduate degree, and three
time as likely to have earned an Ivy League
MBA. Those with these Ivy League creden-
tials are likelier to be hired from the outside
rather than promoted from within. As the
researchers note, if the Ivy League confers
gold collar status, it appears to do so
mainly through outside hiring.
Nor is it surprising that the executives at
the very top of their companies have taken
considerably longer to arrive than those
in the lower tiers, the researchers write.
They have held more jobs along the way,
which has given them the exposure and
grooming needed for general management
roles, plus more familiarity with operating
authority. Executives in the middle or bot-
tom tiers more likely worked in functional
silos on their way up.

of America and Freddie Mac are bringing


in more outsiders to ll higher-level execu-
tive jobs than they did a decade ago. By
contrast, companies whose businesses are
more stable including Caterpillar, Procter
& Gamble and UPS have tended to pro-
mote leaders from within.
All that said, notes Cappelli, we have no
reason to think that these recession-related
developments will continue as the economy
improves. Indeed, the trend that began 15
to 20 years ago in which executives (and
other employees) are seen as more inter-
changeable than they were in the past will
continue, despite some backing away from
it since 2008. In other words, expect a re-
turn to less internal mobility and more job
hopping. The researchers also note dramat-
bachelors degree dropped from 14 per cent
in 1980 to 10 per cent in 2001, but then
held steady.
Those with bachelors degrees from private
non-Ivies lost considerable ground to
graduates of public universities, although,
as the researchers point out, most of the
2011 executives attended college in the
1970s when the resources and status of
state schools were near their peak. At the
graduate level, the Ivy League roared back.
Almost a quarter of the executives holding
MBAs graduated from business schools at
Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard,
the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
or Yale.
Diversity: Riding a Different Elevator
Leaders were much more likely to be wom-
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Monday May 26, 2014
Advertising Feature XI
The Nairobi Securities Exchange
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especially in the last three years.
Peter Mwangi, Chief Executive, shares
what has gone behind the major
transformations at the Exchange.
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By MILLICENT MWOLOLO
mmwololo@ke.nationmedia.com
M
TN Business Kenya is known for
technologies that ease global
business communications, bright-
ening enterprises. This has greatly con-
tributed to the growth of key sectors in
the country.
Tom Omariba,
Managing Director MTN Business
MTN Business thrives on seamless
communication innovations
of 100 kms in Nairobi and its environs. It
has no down times as its network has been
structured with learning from those who did
theirs earlier.
To further enhance customer experience,
MTN Business enhances their clients back
up power for at least 12 hours.
The multinational communication solutions
provider is known for its Global Multi-Pro-
tocol Label Switching (Global MPLS) Virtual
Private Network (VPN) a secure network
which is good for nancial institutions be-
cause it comes with in-built security.
Global MPLS has been available in Kenya
for over 10 years, enabling clients with glo-
bal operations to easily communicate glo-
bally. It is a First World kind of a service and
data travels securely, says the MD. Clients
are able to prioritize their communication
trafc, ranking their data, voice and video
connectivity needs. MTN Business intends to
deploy Global MPLS in over 32 countries in
Africa by the end of the year. Currently, 17
countries in Africa have the Global MPLS
infrastructure.
For the last four years, MTN Business has
been running Managed IP PBX a xed voice
service, the rst of its kind in Kenya. Man-
aged IP PBX is an intelligent system that will
transfer calls from landline to desktop, lap-
top, tablet and cell phone; and even to your
home telephone. The client does not incur a
bill for IP PBX, since they have already paid
for internet connectivity. So, the risk of in-
curring huge telephone bills doesnt arise.
Managed IP PBX can be a reasonable service
for the Kenyan Government which pays Sh.4
billion in a month for telephone bills. To in-
stall the system, a client only needs to buy
the gadgets.
Mr. Omariba is the modern democratic CEO
who gives his team the freedom to deter-
mine the best ways to attain the companys
goals. His team is guided by complete can-
dour, accountability, active collaboration and
getting it done. He attributes the success
of MTN Business to teamwork, good services
and customer support.
Outside the ofce, Mr. Omariba is your ordi-
nary guy next door. I am very comfortable
out there, be it a nyama choma place or a
ve-star hotel. I lead an ordinary life, I am a
father, a husband and a citizen, he says.
He gives back to society, but keeps it as pri-
vate as it could be. However, MTN Business
has been running several Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Among them
is fundraising to help children with hearing
impairment. The rm also supports Kwa
Watoto Childrens Home in Kayole and other
homes for vulnerable children and the eld-
erly.
MTN Business will soon realize a digital
library for children at a school in Maralal
the initiative dubbed e-Kitabu will see over
3,000 school children access learning materi-
als through laptops and i-pads.
However, it is continuous innovation in prod-
ucts and solutions that has kept MTN Busi-
ness ahead of the market curve, says Mr.
Tom Omariba, the Managing Director at
MTN Business, Kenya. This has seen the mul-
tinational grow its portfolio of customized
business solutions.
MTN Business stands out for their distinct
customer experience. In the service indus-
try, it is the quality of services that makes
the difference, Mr. Omariba says. In deed,
MTN Business is the only player in the com-
munications industry who is on stand by to
offer technical support 24/7. We attend to
our customers on phone, no matter the day,
Mr. Omariba says.
Earlier in the year, MTN Business invested
approximately $9-million (Sh.800 million)
towards the expansion of its Metro bre in
Kenya. Metro bre network covers a radius
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
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part of Visas value proposition and brand
promise.
We worry a lot about system down time,
and we manage to very, very high stand-
ards. Those concerns have paid off: Visa
has suffered only two minutes of total
system down-time over the last 10 years,
says Richey, adding that We worry about
it, so we have this very elaborate system
of controls.
At Morgan Stanley, noted Hotsuki, a key
risk-management lesson from the eco-
nomic crisis has been the importance
of the connectivity effect. When Lehman
(Brothers) went down [in 2008], many of
the banks felt, Im OK, because their di-
rect exposure to Lehman was very man-
ageable. But what all of us underestimat-
T
hroughout the world, corporations
have been hit by a series of disasters
over the past 10 years natural and
nancial that have caused tectonic shifts
in thinking about risk planning and readiness.
These disasters include the nancial crisis of
2008 and such extreme weather events as
the Indian Ocean and Tohoku earthquakes
and tsunamis, and hurricanes.
Leading the company when disaster strikes
Company executives need to learn how to manoeuvre and tackle risks.
Firms must be
ready to confront
challenges
immediately they
occur.
To analyse some of the ways companies
are responding, Howard Kunreuther and
Erwann Michel-Kerjan of the Wharton
Risk Management and Decision Processes
Centre, and Michael Useem of the Whar-
ton Centre for Leadership and Change
Management, are co-leading an ongoing
study, Effective Leadership and Govern-
ance Practices in Catastrophic Risk Man-
agement, that looks at the ways business
executives can build and sustain practices
to reduce the likelihood and consequenc-
es of catastrophes.
The Wharton team recently brought to-
gether close to 100 leaders from S&P 500
companies to present the research nd-
ings and facilitate discussion on Corpo-
rate Strategies for Managing Catastroph-
ic Risks: Linking Intuitive and Deliberative
Thinking.
The conference programme featured
several panels, among them Leading the
Company When Disasters Strike, with
panelists from three top nancial services
companies: William Egan, global head, -
nancial institutions group corporate and
investment banking at Bank of America-
Merrill Lynch; Keishi Hotsuki, chief risk of-
cer at Morgan Stanley, and Ellen Richey,
chief enterprise risk ofcer at Visa.
The discussion focused rst on the vari-
ous risk-management processes compa-
nies have been adopting in response to
these recent disasters. Egan began by
noting that at BoA-ML, the risk reporting
we have to do, the risk meetings we have
to do [are] much more signicant than
the days when Merrill Lynch had a differ-
ent balance sheet (from BoA.)
At Morgan Stanley, Hotsuki noted, we
(now) have much more stringent risk
testing and analysis. Before the nancial
crisis, the chief risk management execu-
tive at many Wall Street rms mostly had
reported to the CFO.
Now, however, the majority report to the
CEO. In my case, I report to both the CEO
and the board, and we spend between 25
and 30 hours with the board per year fo-
cusing on risk management. Thats a lot
of time.
The past ve or six years, Hotsuki added,
have been marked by three major devel-
opments at his rm. The rst was to re-
build our defence, post-nancial crisis.
Obviously, the industry has lost some
credibility around risk management, so
we had to rebuild the defence of knowing
where the risk is and how to monitor it,
and making sure there are no surprises.
The second trend involved going on the
offence, which meant developing a plat-
form that recognises that risk capital is
one of the scarcest resources. We have
to maximise our return on equity. Risk
has started to be used as an optimization
tool to improve the rms return on capi-
tal.
The third theme, which has emerged
more recently, is a greater focus on enter-
prise risk management. Hotsuki said that
the challenge facing the nancial sector
now is gradually changing from nancial-
market risks to reputational risks, includ-
ing technology, cyber security and many
types of more qualitative risk manage-
ment.
Visas Richey noted that the rm faces a
very different set of disaster risks. Visa
is probably one of the least understood
well-known brands because many peo-
ple including millions of Visa cardhold-
ers mistakenly think of Visa as a credit-
card company. We do the processing for
the technologies of Visa, but we are not a
credit card company.
Nevertheless, she added, We are a very
young company with a lot of risks. From
a risk perception, we have such an incred-
ibly valuable brand and highly concen-
trated processing risk. We are not a bank;
[but] we were previously owned by banks,
and so Visa inherited a lot of risk assess-
ment practices from the banks before it
became independent six years ago. What
kind of nightmarish scenario keeps Visa
executives up most at night? The com-
pany, noted Richey, pays a lot of attention
to avoiding system down time.
In such a scenario, people would go to
use their Visa card, and if it suddenly
didnt work for a period of time, we would
consider that a big blow. Reliability is
Stanley, we do have board members who
are familiar with complex technology
risks, such as cyber security.
Signicant
Hotsuki warned that while a lot of good
processes are being developed and the
system is much safer than before, there
is an ever-present challenge that the risk
will move somewhere else beyond those
targets that executives have identied as
priorities. Are board members in these
companies approaching risk management
executives in search of solutions? Are the
strategies for addressing these risks be-
ing developed or ne-tuned in partner-
ship with the boards?
These were some of the questions posed
to the panellists. Visas Richey said that
her companys board members want us
to be able to articulate for them in, say,
a maximum of a one-hour period, a prob-
lem that they can engage with us in part-
nership to resolve.
Visas board has become a bit more inter-
ested in delving into the specics of risk
management, which creates a signicant
challenge, Richey added. This process
can involve what she called a translation
challenge, when senior management and
the board get together to discuss issues
of cyber-security risk.
The overall challenge is to get the right
level of information to the senior execu-
tives at the right time, and out to the rest
of the organisation. At Morgan Stanley,
the board has a different perspective.
Noted Hotsuki, The board is very engaged
because our management is not just en-
gaged in issues of how much they could
lose [as a result of risk], but [because] in
the investment banking world, risk is a
source of income. It is not just about how
much we could lose, but also what kind of
risk we are taking to make money.
ed was the indirect second- or third-order
negative connectivity effect.
The under-assessed complexity of the -
nancial system created a cascade effect
that could bring everyone down. That
came as a surprise, and the situation got
worse every hour, every day, according to
Hotsuki.
The cumulative factor and the complex-
system issues are denitely something
that we need to focus much, much more
on. The historical cases of (this sort) are
not frequent and therefore we need to
think a great deal about the lessons
these cases offer for risk-management
specialists. He added that at Morgan

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acquired a 3.59 per cent stake in Decem-
ber 2012. All these initiatives require top
leadership and execution skills that the
men and women prole here have effec-
tively provided.
KCB Group, National Bank, BAT, KenolKo-
bil, NIC Bank, KenGen, Total Kenya, Bar-
clays Bank, and Kenya Power are among
the rms that appointed new chief execu-
tives in recent months.
NIC, NBK, Barclays, and Standard Char-
tered all hired bankers working outside the
country to replace their CEOs who retired
or left for other roles in the private and
public sectors.
Their stories make great leadership and
management reads that we have compiled
and served in this report.
BY VICTOR JUMA
vjuma@ke.nationmedia.com
C
orporate Kenya ushered the largest
number of new CEOs in the past one
year driven by the search for fresh
ideas that can power growth in an increas-
ingly tough operating environment.
The case for new brand of leadership in Kenya

Companies that have either expanded or


are seeking to venture into more markets
in the continent include nancial services
rm Britam, I&M Holdings, CIC Insurance,
Jubilee Holdings, and Diamond Trust Bank.
East African Breweries Limited (EABL),
Centum Investments and Safaricom re-
main the most active on the product inno-
vation front while KenolKobil, TransCen-
tury, and Pan Africa have stepped up their
investments in their existing operations.
Britams recent Sh1.3 billion acquisition of
Real Insurance through a mix of cash and
share swap will give it a presence in Tan-
zania, Malawi and Mozambique.
Yield Synergies
This is expected to yield synergies for the
company whose direct operations have
been limited to Kenya, Uganda, and South
Sudan. Other major insurers have also
stepped up their regional expansion drives,
with CIC Insurance recently entering Ma-
lawi as part of medium term plans that will
see it also set up operations in Tanzania,
Uganda and South Sudan.
Jubilee Holdings, the parent of Kenyas
largest insurer Jubilee Insurance, has an-
nounced plans to enter four new markets
in the region to widen its insurance foot-
print.
Bankers are also growing their regional
presence, with I&M Holdings set to make
an acquisition in Ugandas banking indus-
try to complete its presence in East Africa.
The company has operations in Kenya,
Rwanda, Tanzania, and Mauritius and
sees a wider footprint in the continent as
a growth opportunity that also serves to
diversify dependence on the local competi-
tive banking market with 43 players.
The same strategy is also being pursued by
DTB, which is eyeing new markets such as
the Democratic Republic of the Congo and
Madagascar.
While geographical expansion has become
a growth imperative for nancial services
rms, manufacturers and telecoms are
focusing on product innovation to grow
sales. EABL is set to launch several new
products in its liquor business that has
expanded to offer tens of beer, wines and
spirit brands.
Fighting aggressively
Safaricom is aggressively ghting for a
larger share of Kenyas cashless payments
market with its recently introduced Lipa
na M-Pesa service. This will see it take on
MasterCard and Visa that offer plastic card
settlement, with the telecom operator ex-
panding M-Pesa to offer more than just
money transfer services.
Investment rm Centum is also expanding
into new business lines, with its multi-bil-
lion-shilling property complex under con-
struction along Nairobis Limuru Road set
to host the countrys largest mall.
The company has signed lease deals with
several international retailers including
Dubais Majid Al Futtaim that will bring the
Carrefour franchise to Kenya for the rst
time.
Protability
Oil marketer KenolKobil is back in the in-
vestment scene, spending hundreds of mil-
lions of shillings to build new fuel depots
and stations in the region after returning
to protability. TransCentury is rearing to
make new investments, including a new
geothermal power plant in Menengai as
it deploys the Sh3.8 billion it earned from
its recent divestiture from Rift Valley Rail-
ways.
Pan Africa Insurance has upped its invest-
ments in the banking sector, seeking to
raise its stake in Family Bank where it rst
At least 11 publicly traded companies hired
new CEOs to ll voids left by the previous
ofce holders who left for a variety of rea-
sons including retirements, promotions,
and appointments to public ofce.
National Bank, BAT, KenolKobil, NIC Bank,
KenGen, Total Kenya, Barclays Bank, and
Kenya Power are among the rms that
have appointed new chief executives in re-
cent months.
The widespread changes in the executive
suites came amid increased competition in
the local and regional markets, especially
in manufacturing, retail, and nancial
services sectors.
New threats to business also emerged in
the form of increased insecurity that has
hit the tourism and retail industry besides
raising the cost of insurance.
New Challenges
The new challenges add to last years de-
pressed demand for goods and services
owing to electoral uncertainty that only
cleared nearly halfway into the year with
the Supreme Courts upholding of Presi-
dent Uhuru Kenyattas election.
These challenges have made the protec-
tion or expansion of market shares, cost
containment and increased investments
in new products or markets a top priority
for businesses to keep the growth engine
running.
Widespread
changes in
the executive
suites came
amid increased
competition in the
local and regional
markets, especially
in manufacturing,
retail, and nancial
services sectors.
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Eng. Kidenda charts new highways
to fast track development
K
enya National Highways Au-
thority (KeNHA) is an autono-
mous roads agency whose
vision is to be a leading High-
ways Authority committed to provid-
ing quality, safe and adequate national
trunk roads in the country.
including Mariakani, Mlolongo, Gilgil and
Busia among others to prevent axle loads
breach by truckers.
The authority is currently working towards
eliminating trade barriers in the EAC region
by constructing One Stop Border Posts at
Namanga, Taveta, Lunga Lunga, Moyale, Bu-
sia and Malaba.
The Director General Eng. M.O. Kidenda has
steered the agency ably to greater heights,
making it one of the agencies of govern-
ment that has left a mark in the transporta-
tion sector. The agency is headquartered in
Bluesheild Towers, Nairobi.
As the pioneer Director General, Eng. Kiden-
da introduced a hands-on approach, a move
that has paid dividends for the Authority.
The DG has inculcated a high level of pro-
fessionalism at KeNHA, making it one of the
most visible Government agencies in Kenya.
KeNHAs responsibility includes manage-
ment, development, rehabilitation and main-
tenance of international trunk roads linking
centres of international importance and
crossing international boundaries or termi-
nating at international ports (Class A road),
national trunk roads linking internationally
important centres (Class B roads), and ba-
sically roads linking provincially important
centres to each other or two higher-class-
roads (Class C roads).
As its mission states, KeNHA aspires to con-
struct and manage national trunk roads that
enhance socio-economic growth and pros-
perity for the benet of Kenyans. Its core
functions include constructing, upgrading,
rehabilitating and maintaining Class A, B, C
roads besides implementing road policies in
relation to national roads and generally en-
suring adherence to the rules and guidelines
on Axle Load Control prescribed under the
Trafc Act and any regulations under this
Act. The agency thus ensures that the qual-
ity of roads works is in accordance with such
standards as may be dened by the Cabinet
Secretary for Transport and Infrastructure.
Since inception in 2007, KeNHA has played a
tremendous role in many roads projects the
most outstanding of which is the ultra mod-
ern Thika Superhighway which has gone
along way in easing trafc congestion plagu-
ing Nairobi city and its environs. KeNHA has
seen to it that modern footbridges have been
put up at appropriate sections of the super-
highway and other road networks in the
country to ensure pedestrians among them
school children, traders, and persons with
disabilities cross the busy highways safely.
The agency operates several weighbridges
Despite the complex and challenging nature
of road projects, KeNHA, under Eng. Kiden-
das leadership managed the construction of
Thika Super Highway, the only such facility in
East and Central Africa.
The upgrade of Isiolo-Merille highway to in-
ternational trunk road standards, various by
passes in the City of Nairobi, Athi River- Na-
manga road are some of the major projects
completed under Eng. Kidendas leadership.
When it comes to delivering turn key projects
on time, KeNHA takes the lead. A case in
point is the LAPPSET project. KeNHA was
able to consctuct access roads to the Port
in record time, making it possible for former
President Mwai Kibaki, Salva Kiir of South
Sudan and former Ethiopian Premier Meles
Zenawi to ofcially launch the project.
KeNHA , cognizant of the key role transpor-
tation plays in economic development, is
committed to expanding the road network.
The development and expansion of the road
network in Kenya has been tremendous since
independence compared to other countries
in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This is pri-
marily due to the catalytic role the roads play
in affording fast travel between various des-
tinations, thus facilitating the efcient and
quick exchange of farm produce and various
commodities to reach far wider areas which
would have not been accessible by the other
modes of transport. At the present, roads are
the most important of all modes of transport
in terms of their extent and the level of serv-
ice offered to the travelling public in Kenya.
Since independence in 1963,the road net-
work has expanded as a result of various
government efforts and more so since KeN-
HA was formed. The paved road network has
expanded from 1,811 kms in 1963 to 11,600
kms in 2008. All provincial headquarters are
now connected by bitumen roads to Nairobi
City thanks to KeNHAs sterling performance
and initiative. Kenya is connected to Uganda
and Tanzania by good bitumen roads at Mal-
aba, Busia and Isabenia, Namanga and Lunga
Lunga respectively.
The Kenya-Sudan road is bituminized up to
Lokichoggio which is about 26 kms from the
Kenya Sudan Border. The major road link
between Kenya and Ethiopia is bituminized
from Nairobi up to Merille River (the remain-
ing section between Merille River-Moyale,
a distance of approximately 375 kilometres
is currently being tarmacked) and the main
road to Somalia is bituminized up to Garissa
(currently Garissa-Nuno, 20km is being bitu-
minized).
Despite these impressive achievements,
Kenyas road network is characterized by
poor pavement surface of all types, with con-
sequent adverse effect on service levels and
vehicle operating costs. About 40% of paved
roads are in good condition, the balance be-
ing fair, poor and very poor. For the unpaved
roads the situation is worse with only 14% in
good condition.
As a public sector institution, KeNHA is dedi-
cated to excellence and provision of high
quality professional services to the public.
The values that have guided the agency in
achieving its vision and mission are: Qual-
ity Service: KeNHA is committed to delivery
of the best quality services to customers and
stakeholders at all times through regularly
trained and dedicated staff.
Its good policies have ensured that KeNHA
has embraced and practiced good corporate
governance and social responsibility. In this
regard, it ensures that its processes and pro-
cedures are characterized by efciency, ef-
fectiveness, transparency and integrity. KeN-
HA strives to build and maintain the trust of
the public and stakeholders through profes-
sionalism and team work and partnership. It
has ensured that all its actions and interac-
tions maintain ethical behavior, professional
etiquette, honesty and timeliness. The agen-
cy fosters a teamwork environment marked
by inter-departmental consultations, good
working relations with other Government
institutions, private sector, non-Government
organisations and international bodies.
With innovativeness and creativity KeNHAs
activities have stood out as the agency ini-
tiates more projects and adapts to change
and focuses ahead in line with Kenyas Vision
2030.
Most importantly, KeNHA has ensured en-
vironmental stewardship to ensure that it
develops, manages, rehabilitates and main-
tains national trunk roads taking into consid-
eration the necessary environmental safe-
guards.
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DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
Advertising Feature XVII
Through strategic investment
in Innovation, Kili and his team
at Laptrust provided innovative
solutions to recurring challenges
in the Nation that would
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Monday May 26, 2014
XVIII | Advertising Feature
DT Dobie: The vehicle that drives the nations transport industry
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DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
Advertising Feature XIX
Act like a leader before you are one
BY AMY GALLO
I
f you want to become a
leader, dont wait for the
fancy title or the corner
ofce. You can begin to act,
think and communicate like
a leader long before that
promotion.
Even if youre still several levels down and
someone else is calling all the shots, there
are numerous ways to demonstrate your
potential and carve your path to the role
you want.
What the experts say
Its never foolish to begin preparing for a
transition no matter how many years away
it is or where you are in your career, says
Muriel Maignan Wilkins, co-author of Own
the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice
to Master Your Leadership Presence.
Michael Watkins, the chairman of Genesis
Advisers and author of The First 90 Days
and Your Next Move, agrees.
Not only does the planning help you de-
velop the necessary skills and leadership
presence, it also increases your chances of
getting the promotion because people will
already recognize you as a leader.
The key is to take on opportunities now,
regardless of your tenure or role. You
can demonstrate leadership at any time
no matter what your title is, says Amy
Jen Su, co-author of Own the Room.
Here are several ways to start laying the
groundwork.
Knock your responsibilities out of the park
No matter how big your ambitions, dont
let them distract you from excelling in
your current role. Focus on the present as
much as - or more than - the future. You
still have to deliver results in your day job,
says Jen Su. Adds Maignan Wilkins: You
always need to take care of todays busi-
ness so that nobody - peers, direct reports
or those above you - questions your per-
formance. Thats the rst step to getting
ahead.
Help your boss succeed You have to ex-
ecute on your bosss priorities too, says
Watkins. Show her that youre willing to
pick up the baton on important projects.
Maignan Wilkins also suggests you lean
more towards yes than no whenever your
boss asks you to help with something new.
Find out what keeps your manager up at
night and propose solutions to those prob-
lems.
Seize leadership opportunities, no matter
how small . Make sure your let me take
that on attitude extends beyond your re-
lationship with your boss. Raise your hand
for new initiatives, especially ones that
might be visible to those outside your unit.
This will give others a taste of what youll
be like in a more senior role, says Maignan
Wilkins. It doesnt have to be an intense,
monthslong project. It might be something
as simple as facilitating a meeting, offering
to help with recruiting events, or stepping
Skills, experience
and powerful
networks clear
the way for
pioneers to enter
the boardroom.
DO:
Look for every opportunity to demonstrate
your leadership potential, at work and out-
side the offce.
Support your boss in reaching goals.
Find people in positions you aspire to and
study what makes them successful.
DONT:
Let your ambitions distract you from doing
your current job well.
Exert authority where you dont have any;
use infuence to prove your leadership
chops.
Openly discuss your ambitions; its safer to
take a show, dont tell approach.
-Harvard Business Review
in to negotiate a conict between peers.
You might nd opportunities outside of
work, too. You can sit on the board of a
local nonprot or organise your commu-
nitys volunteer day. These activities send
the signal that you aspire to leadership po-
tential, Watkins says.
Look for the white space. Another way to
prove your potential is to take on projects
in the white space. These are problems
that others arent willing to tackle or dont
even know exist.
Every organisation has needs that no-
body is paying attention to, or people are
actively ignoring, Maignan Wilkins says.
For example, you might be able to identify
a customer need that isnt being met by
your companys current product line, and
propose a new one. Or you could do a quick
analysis of how much a specic change
would save the company. When you take
on a task that no one else is willing to do,
you make yourself stand out.
Dont be a jerk. Theres a ne line between
being ambitious and acting like youre too
big for your britches. Dont try to exert au-
thority when you dont have it, says Wat-
kins. Practice what he calls steward lead-
ership: Focus on what your team wants
to accomplish instead of putting yourself
rst. Jen Su recommends humble con-
dence, showing appropriate modesty in
your role, while having the self-assurance
to know that you will rise to the next level.
Be cautious when sharing your ambitions.
Its appropriate to raise your ambitions
with your manager if you have a trusting,
solid relationship, but frame them in a way
that focuses on whats best for the com-
pany. Jen Su suggests you lay out your ac-
complishments for the past year and then
ask something like, As we look further
out, where do you see me continuing to
make a contribution? Watkins warns that
these conversations shouldnt come off as
being all about you.
Instead, engage in a two-way conversa-
tion with your boss. If you have the kind
of boss who may feel threatened by your
aspirations, its better to keep your ambi-
tions quiet and prove your potential.
Find role models. Look for people who
have the roles you want and study what
they do - how they act, communicate and
dress. Pick someone at the next level,
someone similar to you, and nd a way to
work with them, says Watkins.
Volunteer for a committee theyre spear-
heading or offer to help with one of their
pet projects. Identify behaviors that you
can emulate while being true to yourself.
You dont want to fake it, says Maignan
Wilkins. It might also help to study people
who are stuck in their careers as examples
of what not to do, Watkins says. Are they
clumsy politically? Do they disrespect the
lines of authority? Do they fail to make
connections between departments?
Build relationships. Theres an old adage,
Its not who you know, its who knows
you. When youre evaluated for a promo-
tion, its unlikely your boss will sit in a room
alone and contemplate your potential.
Shell rely on others to assess your ability,
which means you need supporters across
the organization - people who are aware of
the work youre doing. If you nd yourself
walking down the hall with the most sen-
ior person at your company, be prepared
to answer the question, So what are you
up to? Maignan Wilkins says, Dont take
lightly any interactions that may seem in-
formal.
Treat every situation as an opportunity to
demonstrate the value you bring to the
organisation and your knowledge of the
business.
-HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW

PRINCIPLES TO REMEMBER
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
XX | Advertising Feature
BY EVANS ONGWAE
ngwa@k.natnmda.m
Today, Postal Corporation of Kenya
is a transformed organization.
Last year, it posted a revenue of
Sh.3.6 billion for the rst time
whereas in the previous seven
years its income had stagnated at
Sh.3.2B.
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DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
Advertising Feature XXI
Winning business best
practices that pay big dividends
BY MILLICENT MWOLOLO
mmwololo@ke.nationmedia.com
T
odays businesses are confronted with
emerging challenges and opportunities
on a regular basis. Running a company
requires the ability to look outside the box for
solutions, ideas, and best practices.
A best practice is the process of nd-
ing and using ideas and strategies from
outside your company and industry to
improve performance and achieve busi-
ness objectives. This is best done through
benchmarking. Benchmarking with the
best in the industry elsewhere in the
world allows companies to compare their
business with other successful businesses
and to highlight areas where theirs could
improve.
Big businesses have used best practice
benchmarking over decades and realized
billions in savings and revenues in all ar-
eas of business operations and sales. Small
business can reap even greater rewards
from best practices.
Leading companies have well structured
business plans that address the business
objectives as well as changing economic,
industry, and regulatory environments.
They also have clearly dened areas of re-
sponsibility. Assign responsibility. Business
leaders in winning companies delegate
authority to deal appropriately with the
organizations goals, objectives, operating
functions, and regulatory requirements.
Smart business organizations stay close to
their customers. They are there when you
need them. With digital technology today,
such businesses are at your nger tips.
Smart businesses are responsive to con-
sumer needs and any complaints that may
arise. They position themselves to make
things right. There is clearly a cost to this,
though one that builds customer loyalty.
Leading companies care about their cus-
tomers. Increasing competition has seen
many business organizations become ex-
tra keen on the little things that matter
most to their customers.
Winning companies know their nature of
business and are passionate about their in-
dustry. They attend trade shows and expos
and stay on the cutting edge of the latest
trends.
In todays workplace, performance im-
provement and the role of performance
management have taken an intense focus.
Business pressures are ever-increasing
and organizations are required to become
even more effective and efcient, execute
better on business strategy, and do more
with less in order to remain competitive.
Forward thinking companies are taking
steps to successfully implement perform-
ance management through innovative so-
lutions that ensure processes deliver real
results and improve performance. They
have well-established performance objec-
tives and conduct regular appraisals for all
employees. The level of competence need-
ed for particular jobs in requisite skills and
knowledge requirements is clearly speci-
ed and communicated to all personnel.
This makes them aware of their respon-
sibilities and expectations for the units
activities.
As such, they see performance manage-
ment as a continuous process, which is
more than employee performance ap-
praisal or review. An effective performance
management process enables managers to
evaluate and measure individual perform-
ance and optimize productivity by:
Aligning individual employees day-to-
day actions with strategic business ob-
jectives.
Providing visibility and clarifying ac-
countability related to performance ex-
pectations.
Documenting individual performance
to support compensation and career
planning decisions.
Establishing focus for skill development
and learning activity choices.
Creating documentation for legal pur-
poses, to support decisions and reduce
disputes.
Successful companies are those that at-
tract, develop, motivate and retain the
best people. A company will get the most
benet from their employees if they have
key strategies for doing so. Many of the
practices that support performance also
positively impact job satisfaction, employ-
ee retention and loyalty. These include:
Delivering regular relevant job feed-
back.
Setting and communicating clear per-
formance expectations.
Linking performance to compensation
clearly.
Identifying organizational career paths
for employees.
Evaluating performance and delivering
incentives in a fair and consistent man-
ner.
Providing appropriate learning and de-
velopment opportunities.
Setting targets, recognizing and re-
warding achievement.
Involving employees in the development
of the business.
Communicating with employees.
Adopting exible working and policies
that encourage equality and diversity.
Offering employee development and
training.
As such, leading companies too provide
the appropriate training, cross-training,
and resources to help personnel perform
their duties successfully. This ensures that
duties are assigned to individuals who have
been properly trained, can make sound
judgments, do not have conicting duties,
and fully understand what is expected.
Employees are often in a position to see
where improvements to working methods
can be made or when market demands are
changing. Thus, production staff will be
aware of inefcient production processes,
while customer service staff will know
common sources of complaints.
Winning businesses have open communi-
cation channels. This facilitates the ow
of information across all departments and
to those who need the information. Their
leadership and management consult exter-
nal expertise to make informed decisions.
Successful companies support the com-
munity through events sponsorships, fund-
raisers for the local schools or non-prots.
These are interesting times for many of the
local businesses as the resources available
today allow them to compete against even
the most successful national event brands.
They know too well that supporting the
community may be the most vital differen-
tiating factor for their success in the mar-
ket. If funds are tight, being a contributing
member of Rotary or the local Chamber of
Commerce is equally effective.
Benets of Best Practices
BY MILLICENT MWOLOLO
mmwololo@ke.nationmedia.com
Reduce Costs
Small companies often do not have the
deep nancial pockets of big business to
re-invent the wheel. By learning what
other companies have successfully done,
a small business can save money without
testing new ideas.
Avoid Mistakes
Solving business problems on your own
can result in costly errors. Learning what
others have done can keep your business
in business.
Find New Ideas
Learn to borrow the best from beyond
your company and adopt it. This gives the
business new ideas. These could be: use
of technology more effectively, reduction
of waste and improvement of quality and
responding more quickly to innovations in
own sector industry. Once implemented,
such ideas give the company a new lease
of life that it needs to perform better and
survive the competition in the market.
Improve Performance
When a company looks for best practices
outside their business, it raises the bar of
performance and sets new standards of
excellence to propel it to move forward.
This improves on their efciencies. A best
practice strategy can help any business to
become more competitive, increase sales
and develop new markets and improve
the skills of your workforce
The success of business best practices is
that tools such as benchmarking, busi-
ness planning and performance monitor-
ing helps companies to compare their
business performance with that of their
peers and competitors and against their
own business objectives. Where neces-
sary, a company can introduce new ways
of working to improve competitiveness
and business efciency. Having accurate
and up-to-date information about their
business performance will also help fu-
ture planning and change management.
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
XXII | Advertising Feature
BY EVANS ONGWAE
ngwa@k.natnmda.m
It is important to nurture the
family side. They always give
you the best support you need. I
always create time for my family.
That is where the next generation
will come from
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DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
Advertising Feature XXIII
By SANDRA CHAO
T
eams drive organizational pro-
ductivity, yet developing and
leading a high-performing team
in a highly competitive environment is
one of the complex challenges facing
any one in a leadership position today
explains Geoffrey Kiarie the Manag-
ing Director and C.E.O of Haco Tiger
Brands. Upon his appointment, he
knew that transforming Haco Tiger
Brands into a customer centric organi-
zation is the silver bullet to achieving
market share growth and protability.
Attracting, retaining and developing
critical talents, product innovation,
sustaining market share growth af-
fordability and availability are critical
if you are to achieve and sustain com-
petitive edge, reiterates Geoffrey.
Haco Tiger Brands was founded in
1974 and its principal shareholders
are the renown Kenyan industrialist
and business Mogul- Dr Chris Kirubi
and South African consumer Goods
Giant -Tiger Brands Ltd. Dr Chris Kiru-
bi is the chairman of the company.
Everyone will agree with me that
brands turn us on. We love products
that are well positioned, are in touch
with the latest trends and speak our
language. Haco Tiger Brands range
of products comprising foods, sta-
tionery, hair care, home care and
skin care depicts our commitment
to our mission of adding value to everyday
life not only in Kenyan market but also the
greater Eastern African Region.
It is no secret that sustained organiza-
tional productivity is underpinned by
creating a sense of ownership amongst
the employees to work effectively as
part of a team for results; this he
adds can only be done if employees
feel fully engaged and valued. At
HTB we provide an environment
where employees are valued,
know the role they play, the results to
be delivered, the signicance of keep-
ing tab on the dashboard and most im-
portantly never to throw in the towel.
We have created a never give up inno-
vative culture.
The end game is signicant growth in
Revenues and market shares and ulti-
mately creating more wealth for our
stakeholders. We have indeed dou-
bled our protability in a tough envi-
ronment characterized by high cost,
competitors from hell, cheapies, con-
trabands, terrorist among other chal-
lenges says Geoffrey.
In order to survive in todays dynamic
business environment, clear vision and
purpose, anticipating future trends,
creating dynamic teams and rallying
their energies towards agreed destina-
tion is a must for any CEO. Haco Ti-
ger Brands in pursuit of diversication
strategy, has ventured into the foods
sector with brands like All Gold Toma-
to Sauce, Tastic Pasta and Purity baby
food. We have grown into regional
markets such as Ethiopia, Cameroun,
DR Congo, Burundi, Rwanda and Ugan-
da. By entering these markets, we have
seen a more than 100 percent growth
particularly in Ethiopia and Uganda
markets.
In order to sustain this ambitious
growth, the company has put in place
mechanisms to weave together talent,
internal brand, engagement, work, leadership, rec-
ognition, rewards, behaviors, and other elements
to attract, retain, and engage employees within the
work environment, we strive to provide requisite
resources and promote work life balance through
wellness program.
As a person, It is my conviction that Everybody has
potential to be the best that they can be and most of
the time all they need is a bit of encouragement to
succeed. I love interacting and building young peo-
ple because they are full of freshness of ideas, drives
and vitality. You can be what you want- just dream it
and just do it he adds.
Transforming Haco Tiger Brands
Into customer centric organization
Geoffrey Kiarie,
Managing Director Haco Tiger Brands
You need to
encourage and
develop the skills
set required of your
workforce so that
you can depend on
them to give the
best output

DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
XXIV | Advertising Feature
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DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
Advertising Feature XXV
Corporate Top Guns: What they have in common
How to attract and keep you customers
BY MILLICENT MWOLOLO
mmwololo@ke.nationmedia.com
W
hen we talk of successful Chief
Executive Ofcers (CEOs) in Kenya
today, the name of Safaricoms CEO
Bob Collymore comes into mind. Other CEOs
who have transformed their businesses, but
who may not be making so many millions in
prots follow-suit. Good business leaders the
world over may not be cut from the same
cloth; but they have a common streak.
So, what is it that corporate top guns share
in common? CEOs who have steered their
companies to success (whether through
organic growth, acquisition, or an IPO have
got some common leadership and business
attributes. These include:
Having a Vision
Being at the top of the pyramid, a great
leader is able to clearly communicate the
vision of the company in order to inspire
staff, investors and customers. As the
company ag-bearer, all eyes turn to the
CEO for direction and example. He/she is
forward thinking actualizes the future to-
day while focusing on the present.
Macro Management
The best CEOs do not get dragged into the
seductive lure of micro managing granular
details. This is even though it is key for the
CEO to understand the every-day activities
of the organization and how all the parts t
BY MILLICENT MWOLOLO
mmwololo@ke.nationmedia.com
The two most important business practices are
attracting and keeping customers. Advertising
brings customers in the door, all right, but bad
customer service sends them right out.
A balance must be realized. Advertising is essen-
tial to promote your business and bring paying
customers in the door. Once there, customer
service will keep them loyal and make them life-
long repeat customers.
However, according to PriceWaterhouse Coop-
ers (PWC) 16th Annual CEO survey, the modern
consumer is becoming more aware and more
choosy and with diverse expectations. This has
made the competition to attract and keep cus-
tomers tough, and it is not getting any easier. In
the current economic climate, customers are be-
ing more selective about when and where they
spend their money. When they do commit, they
expect value for money and a level of service and
experience on a par with what they receive from
their favourite companies - no matter what the
industry or sector.
Customer trust and commitment is also at an
all-time low in many industries and the ever
increasing use of digital allows customers ac-
cess to a wide range of information to research
and compare companies, products and prices.
Through social media, customers also have the
ability to share their own thoughts and experi-
ences with many other potential or existing
customers amplifying the impact of good or bad
experiences.
Organizations must act now if theyre going to
deliver on short-term growth ambitions and dif-
ferentiate themselves over the longer term
reads part of the report. Success means achiev-
ing protable growth and to do this compa-
nies need to attract new customers, sell more
to existing ones and above all understand who
are their valuable customers and how to keep
them.
Tips to win customer loyalty
Customers are the lifeline of your business, so
it is crucial to maximize customer satisfaction.
When customers are satised, they will not only
return to support your business, but will also tell
others what you have to offer. This could be your
best marketing tool. It costs about ve times
more to bring in a new customer than to keep
an existing one.
The key to winning is to put todays and tomor-
rows customers at the heart of your business.
This means aligning marketing, pricing, sales
and service functions around the customer
needs and behaviours and in particular;
Offer quality products. This is likely to win
you repeat sales.
Know your customers, their behaviours,
needs and attitudes. By knowing what cus-
tomers want you can change production
or presentation strategies to benet their
wishes. Understand the true value of your
products and services to your customers
and then structure prices accordingly.
Use attractive packaging. Any holiday sea-
son may provide an opportunity to spice up
your regular product with a special touch.
Go above and beyond to deliver differenti-
ated customer experiences. For example:
if you sell products that require batteries,
tuck a pack of double As in the bag - free-
of-charge! In dollars, it will cost you about a
buck in referrals and good will, it will repay
you over and over.
Place innovation at the heart of your global
customer strategy. Be willing to change as
customers are always looking for new prod-
ucts. Once in a while, offer something new
or different to attract customers.
Embrace digital as more than just a chan-
nel.
After each purchase, write a short note or
postcard thanking the customer for their
patronage and asking them to call on you
again.
Align your employees and culture around
your customers.
Let customers try out samples. Taking a new
taste of product might convince someone
that price really doesnt matter for a really
great-tasting item.
together to move the company forward.
Instead, they maintain a highly trained
management team that is fully capable of
handling these tasks. This enables the CEO
to remain focused on the primary duties
of increasing revenues, and meeting the
goals identied in the vision.
Leveraging Industry Trends
Leading CEOs stay on top of industry
trends through reading, attending confer-
ences and joining trade associations. This
ensures that the direction and vision for
the company is on course. The ability to
see into the future is invaluable for steer-
ing clear of potential threats and capital-
izing on future opportunities.
This is especially important in the constant-
ly evolving technology industry where the
CEO needs to determine which changes
will have long-term impact and which are
merely fads with little real value.
Develop a Foundation of Strength
Winning CEOs know how to mentor and
acknowledge the accomplishments of their
own team members. This helps to keep
them motivated, involved and on track to
meet the business goals of the company.
No CEO is successful without a strong
management team. Each member must be
a leader that knows and is accountable for
his or her job responsibilities.
Customers are at the Core
Successful CEOs look beyond their raw
technology and focus on nding ways to
help customers solve their problems. They
describe their products in terms of how
they address the needs and challenges of
their customers instead of listing product
capabilities.
Through weekly meetings with customers,
CEOs have an endless supply of anecdotal
situations to share with stakeholders that
help create a better product and a more
thorough understanding of the customer.
Courage to take risks
Successful CEOs have a willingness to take
calculated risks. Business leadership is
about taking well-calculated business risks
and this calls for courage.
Without courage, you can never be a good
business leader. Successful business lead-
ers like J. Paul Getty, Mike Adenuga and Ri-
chard Branson have exhibited exceptional
courage.
It is courage that allows successful chief
executive ofcers (CEOs) to turn obstacles
into opportunities, making winning busi-
nesses.
Self Control
The worlds most effective business lead-
ers exercise self control and have a bias
toward thoughtful action.
Good sense of Judgment
One attribute of good business leadership
is the ability to discern right and wrong.
Deniteness of Decision
Worlds best CEOs know too well that the
buck stops with them and that they have
to live with the consequences of their deci-
sions. Good business leaders are not only
rm in their decisions but are quick making
calculations and arriving at a conclusion.
Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor
Company was a leader respected for his
rmness and deniteness of decision.
Skillful Planning and Intrepid
Skillful planning is another attribute of
good business leadership. Good leaders
are known to be tactical planners and plan
executors..
Understanding
The ability to efciently read people is an-
other essential trait of good leadership.
You need understanding to decode signals
sent across to you by your followers.
Responsibility
Business leaders are responsible and ac-
countable for the entire actions of their
team.
Team work
Good business leaders have the ability
to achieve success through others. Good
business leaders dont work alone; they
bring on board people who are smarter
than they are and delegate duties to these
smart individuals.
Good Personality
Good business leaders have good charac-
ter. This entails having integrity, charisma,
self-condence and smart appearance
Humility
Business leaders direct teams towards
achieving the desired goal. Many business
teams comprise very smart minds, per-
haps For the CEO to lead such individuals
of high intellect; they not only have to be
sharp but also humble.
Success means achieving
protable growth and to
do this, companies need
to attract new customers,
sell more to existing ones
and above all understand
who are their valuable
customers and how to keep
them.

DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
XXVI | Advertising Feature
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BY EVANS ONGWAE
ngwa@k.natnmda.m
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Today Beta healthcare has footprints
in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania,
Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia,
Djibouti, Malawi and Zambia.
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Monday May 26, 2014
Advertising Feature XXVII
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XXVIII | Advertising Feature
C
EOs often have to
make tough deci-
sions involving merg-
ers, acquisitions, layoffs,
salary freezes and more.
Certain events, even when
they are the best decision
for the long-term health of
the company, can generate
widespread fallout, including
damaging the reputation of
the CEO.
Communications consultants David John-
son and Don Middleberg offer the following
tips to help CEOs handle negative reputa-
tional issues:
1. Review social media to determine where
the problem is coming from (employee,
media, vendor or customer
2. Evaluate whether your rm has been im-
pacted by the negativity and gauge the
level of the situation.
Six tips to improve CEOs
reputation during a crisis
3.Determine whether the complaints or
comments are valid.
4. If the situation is damaging, respond pub-
licly and quickly; if not, do not respond
publicly because you could make the situ-
ation worse.
5. If a singular employee is responsible for
unwarranted discontent, meet with that
person and remove him or her from the
company.
6. Spend just as much, if not more, time
communicating with employees as you
do with outside parties. Conduct frequent
meetings, ranging from large town hall-
style to small groups and one-on-one dis-
cussions, and invite questions.
Bad publicity, either internally, externally
or both, can affect the culture of an entire
company, including hurting employee mo-
rale and productivity. There is only one way
for a CEO to handle a negative situation,
and thats with full transparency, says
Middleberg, CEO of Middleberg Communi-
cations. If the company is transparent in
everything it does and communicates well
with employees, negative situations will be
less likely to escalate.
Your employees hear and see the media, so
Johnson cautions CEOs to monitor the com-
pany culture.
If you always communicate the company
vision and are transparent regarding where
the company is going and why certain ac-
tions are being taken, employees will get
their information from you rather than
the Press, and bad publicity will quickly die
down.
Consider Glassdoors latest rankings of
CEOs with the worst reputations. While this
is only one organisations purview, it serves
as a great jumping off point to pose the
question: During a negative publicity situ-
ation, how well do you communicate with
your employees. CEOs today, while they
dont carry the title, are the chief commu-
nications ofcers of the rm, and need to
be public and visible, Middleberg feels. Em-
ployees and others have to understand who
their leaders are and what theyre about,
Middleberg says. If youre a good guy, you
need to have that come across in a public
way.
Mary Barra, who joined GM as CEO in Janu-
ary and has been dealing with a restorm
of bad publicity ever since as a result of a
recall debacle, has done an excellent job of
communicating with employees about the
ongoing situation, says Johnson, CEO of
Strategic Vision. She related as a mother
and long-term employee of GM. She gave
the employees a feeling of ownership of
where the company was going and what
was being done.
-chief executive.net
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
Advertising Feature XXIX
The changing art of doing business in the global village
Ten tips to increase operational efciency
BY MILLICENT MWOLOLO
mmwololo@ke.nationmedia.com
O
ver the past few years, technology has
taken over the world. Technology, the
Internet and everything in between
has changed the way companies and indi-
viduals do business. The digital revolution
has congregated the world into a small global
village, making it faster, easier and more ef-
cient to conduct business.
e-commerce has become a hugely suc-
cessful part of the internet and technology
as a whole. It has sprouted many online-
only companies and e-tailers. Through
online-only companies and e-tailers, goods
and services have changed hands with real
money without even leaving home. It is
evident that e-commerce has changed the
trade industry, nearly wiping out tradition-
al shops on high street.
Business today is faster
Today, the world of business moves a lot
faster than ever before. Contracts can
be signed electronically (instead of hav-
ing to wait for them to arrive in the post,
be signed by hand, and then posted back).
Deals can be made online, and transac-
tions can take place electronically. Theres
almost no need to travel to remote ofces,
or sit on hold on the telephone for ages.
Everything can be done via email, or in the
web browser.
BY MILLICENT MWOLOLO
mmwololo@ke.nationmedia.com
Both local and international case studies have
shown that businesses that are run efciently
make the most prots and are likely to grow. Ef-
ciency, productivity and competitiveness are
linked. Better productivity means increased ef-
ciency which results in a higher level of com-
petitiveness.
Efciency is about making the best possible use
of resources. Efcient rms maximize outputs
from given inputs, and so minimize their costs.
By improving efciency, a business can reduce
its costs and improve its competitiveness.
Staff productivity depends on their skill, the
quality of machines available and effective man-
agement. Productivity can be improved through
training, investment in equipment and better
management of staff. Training and investment
cost money in the short term, but can raise long-
term productivity.
To remain competitive, businesses must boost
operational efciency wherever possible. In
many cases, simple changes can help businesses
to attain their potential.
10 Tips to Increase Operational Efciency
1. Provide employees with secure, consistent ac-
cess to information
A secure, reliable, self-defending network based
on intelligent routers and switches provides
your business with maximum agility by pro-
viding reliable, secure access to business in-
telligence. This provides the necessary foun-
dation for a number of efciency-enhancing
technologies and solutions, such as IP com-
munications.
2. Deliver anytime, anywhere access to mobile
employees
Technologies enabling ubiquitous access in-
clude virtual private networks (VPNs), which
securely connect remote workers to the
company network, and pervasive wireless
networks, which enable workers to stay con-
nected to the network while roaming about
an ofce building or campus.
3. Create effective business
processes with partners
Some large enterprises make efcient, secure
business processes a prerequisite for doing
business with them. To develop efcient busi-
ness processes that meet the requirements of
your partners, your business needs a secure,
reliable network infrastructure. This will posi-
tion your company better for strategic part-
nerships.
4. Make it easy to collaborate
Effective, interactive collaboration between
employees, partners, suppliers, and custom-
ers is a sure-re way to boost efciency while
also reducing costs.
5. Enable employees to take their
phone systems wherever they go
Missed calls create any number of business
challenges, including operational inefcien-
cies (from trying to reach absent colleagues),
project delays, missed opportunities and lost
revenues. An IP communications solution
enables your workforce to have one phone
number that simultaneously rings on multi-
ple devices, greatly increasing the chances of
being reached on the rst try. Workers can
access their entire communications system
wherever they go and can check e-mail, voice
mail, fax and pages all in one inbox, among
other benets.
6. Streamline communications
with customers
Interacting with customers efciently and
knowledgeably helps keep them satised
and few things are as important to your bot-
tom line as satised customers. Linking an IP
communications system to a customer rela-
tionship management (CRM) solution is one
way to enhance customer communications.
When a customer calls, a pop-up window of
the customer contact record appears on an
employees IP phone screen, computer screen,
or both. Before the second ring, the employee
answering the call has access to information
about the customer calling, such as orders
pending and recent returns.
7. Reduce unproductive travel time
Any time spent traveling, particularly by air-
plane, can dramatically reduce operational ef-
ciency. An IP communications solution that
offers rich-media conferencing, such as video
conferencing, helps reduce the need to travel
to offsite meetings and training sessions. The
time saved from traveling can be better spent
on more productive pursuits. Also, reducing
travel saves money.
8. Outsource IT tasks
Outsource an IT service provider to manage
your network security or IP communications
system. A service provider has the expertise
that your business needs but may lack, with-
out the need to spend time or money devel-
oping that expertise in house. Outsourcing
enables employees to stay focused on produc-
tive activities related to your businesss core
competencies. That helps to keep the busi-
ness competitive and to improve customer
satisfaction.
9. Improve employee retention
and satisfaction
When your business has inefcient processes,
such as antiquated phone systems or a slug-
gish network, employees can get frustrated,
because they cant get their jobs done with
the tools provided. Customers may perceive
that frustration and lose condence in your
business. Even worse, valued employees can
become burned out and decide to move on.
To help ensure employees are productive and
satised, your business needs, at a minimum,
a secure, reliable, always-available network.
10.Develop a long-term technology plan
Whenever you replace hardware that has be-
come obsolete or ineffective, it is disruptive
to workersand that results in low productiv-
ity. You can minimize or eliminate such dis-
ruptions by carefully determining short- and
long-term business objectives and the care-
fully mapping technology solutions to those
objectives. The companies which have a plan
and keep it updated are most likely to stream-
line their operationsand outperform their
competition.
The world is getting smaller
Until a few years ago, companies tended to
hire people that lived close to their ofces.
Remote working or doing some of your job
from home was not an option (unless you
were a high level executive). Outsourcing
to foreign countries was also unheard of.
Today, more and more companies are al-
lowing people to work from home a few
days every week. Mobile workers are able
to collaborate with people based out of an
ofce, and a lot of work can be done from
anywhere as long as you have access to a
power port to charge your laptop, and a
decent mobile signal.
Communication
This has now spread from computer-only,
to being available on tablet computers and
smartphones. Cell phones have become
small business necessities for owners and
employees. These devices are lifelines for
staying in touch when on the road and re-
sponding to customer inquiries in a timely
manner. Smartphones raise the bar with
access to the Internet, email and business
applications in a small hand held device.
Email, text messaging and social network-
ing are other advances in communication
that keep small businesses connected to
their customer bases and improve internal
communication within the company.
Privacy doesnt exist
While the easy access to information is a
good thing for investors and consumers, it
has its downsides. Unless youre willing to
live like a hermit, its unlikely that youll be
able to control what appears about you on-
line. Anything you post online is out there
to be archived, indexed, reposted, and
shared with complete strangers, and any
embarrassing photos that other people
take of you are likely to get passed around
online too. One episode of bad judgement
(or one out-of-context photo) could ruin
your career for many years to come. It is
time for businesses to behave well
Marketing
The biggest way technology has changed
the way we do business is by allowing busi-
ness people connect with consumers they
normally wouldnt be able to connect with.
Such is the power of internet connectivity.
Email marketing is an effective and low
cost method to reach a large group of peo-
ple with a newsletter, coupons or business
updates. Mobile marketing is a relatively
new frontier that reaches people through
text messaging, advertising on mobile
applications and offering branded appli-
cations that tie customers into what is
happening with the business in a fun and
entertaining way.
Productivity and business growth
New technology makes production faster
and increases efciency, by helping busi-
nesses get tasks done more quickly, in-
creasing productivity. As the speed of the
business, the company makes more mon-
ey, leading to growth of the economy. As
such the most successful businesses today
tend to be the rst to adopt new techno-
logical trends.
Customer service
Technology brings businesses closer to
customers. Businesses use email to an-
swer questions, offer online chat to help
customers that are visiting the business
website, and equip call centres with the
latest phone equipment that makes cus-
tomer service agents more efcient.
Telecommuting
Many small businesses now offer telecom-
muting and ex time as benets. Col-
leagues can stay in touch from different lo-
cations through virtual ofces, even when
working different hours, by using email,
online collaboration tools and mobile com-
puting devices..
Teleconferencing
Teleconferencing over the phone is one of
the simplest conferencing methods, but
advancement in recent years have brought
web conferencing to the fore. Web confer-
encing can bring together web cams, audio
and collaborative online meeting spaces to
create an extremely interactive environ-
ment. Participants can see each other,
work together on documents and recre-
ate the in-person meeting experience no
matter where they are in the world. This is
one way that small businesses can extend
their reach to include global customers
and workers.
Innovations in technology have improved
operations at companies of all sizes and
helped turn small local businesses into glo-
bal businesses.
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DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
Advertising Feature XXXI
Change or perish like the dodo
BY MILLICENT MWOLOLO
mmwololo@ke.nationmedia.com
N
ot a single business today has been
left untouched or affected in one
way or another by technology. Those
that have embraced it and continue doing so
continue realizing phenomenal growth while
those not quick on the uptake fall by the
wayside.
Here are ve of the biggest business
models that have been greatly affected
by technology.
Travel
Travel has always been and always will be
a huge industry even though it has seen a
lot of changes due to the internet. In the
past, the only easy way to book a vacation
or an extended business trip was through
a travel agent, unless you chose to do
it on your own which required a decent
amount of time on the phone and other
time to plan everything so it all worked
out without a hitch.
This has all changed now with so many
different websites out there that can help
you easily book a trip within a matter of
minutes, and that includes booking eve-
rything too ight, hotel, car rentals and
much more can all be done with a few
clicks and a credit card.
This has seen a decrease in travel agen-
cies, although there are some out there
and there are people that still use them.
But it is not a popular career choice for
the younger generation now because it
can be a struggle since so many people
choose to use the web to do it all them-
selves with little or no fees or charges.
Video Rentals
Technology has dramatically changed the
video rental business. Many video stores
are out of business, going out of business,
or struggling to stay aoat.
Video streaming has become extremely
popular and many people are choosing to
pay so they can stream new movies right
from their homes, computers, tablets,
and even smart phones.
Pirating of movies on the internet has
also hurt video rentals and movie theat-
ers since many movies hit the web shortly
after they arrive in theaters and millions
of people are illegally downloading them
to watch for free at home.
The Music Industry
First it was CDs wiping out cassettes and
over the last couple of years we have seen
CDs starting to die out because of MP3
players and digital music downloads.
The music industry has been good about
embracing the legal side of digital music
and you can easily nd anything you want
in MP3 format so you can purchase right
online and download full albums right to
your computer and onto your MP3 play-
er.
One of the bigger problems the music
industry faces are the pirated copies of
albums that millions of people take ad-
vantage of.
Newspapers
The newspaper industry is one of the busi-
nesses that have been greatly affected by
technology since many people get all of
their news right on the internet for free.
Many of the larger newspaper companies
have gone online and are still able to stay
in business because they are able to get
the news out for free but monetize their
websites with advertisements and paid
subscriptions.
Book Stores
Book shops are also experiencing big
challenges because of technology curtsy
of the e-readers which are starting to re-
place the old fashioned book.
It is not just the e-readers themselves, but
also the app formats which allow people
to buy and read books right from their
smart phones and tablets.
There are some still doing alright because
they have embraced technology and
came out with their own e readers and
apps which has enabled them to still prof-
it from modern technology. Around the
world, many of the book stores that are
still in business are struggling, and sadly
many will not be able to last much longer
as more and more people start buying
Kindles and other readers.
The times are changing and many busi-
ness models need to nd new and innova-
tive ways to embrace technology or they
will soon be as extinct as the dodo.
Five businesses that have been
greatly affected by technology
One of the bigger problems the music industry faces are the pirated copies of albums that millions of
people take advantage of.
Video streaming has become ex-
tremely popular and many people are
choosing to pay so they can stream
new movies right from their homes,
computers, tablets, and even smart
phones
Book shops are also experiencing big challenges because of technology curtsy of the e-readers which are starting to replace
the old fashioned book.
DAILY NATION
Monday May 26, 2014
XXXII | Advertising Feature
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hen the board selects the wrong
person for the job, consequences
abound. All too often, these failures
can be traced to inadequate due diligence on
part of the board when vetting candidates.
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To match
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Take Yahoo!, which by 2012, had appoint-
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activist Daniel Loeb, manager of the $9
billion Third Point fund, to mount a proxy
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gued that the companys directors did not
have the talent to help the rm grow its
revenue from advertising or even really to
understand the market challenges faced
by management.
While performing its due diligence on Ya-
hoo!, Third Point discovered, shockingly,
that the current CEO, Scott Thompson,
had claimed two college degrees from
Stonehill College, when in fact, he had only
earned one. To make matters worse, it was
revealed that the director who led that
CEO search, Patti Hart, had herself incor-
rectly stated college credentials.
In the wake of that news, Thompson re-
signed and Hart announced that she would
not stand for reelection. Yahoo! agreed to
bring three Third Point director nominees
onto the board and two months later, that
board recruited Marissa Mayer, a former
Google star.
By March 2014, it was reported that the
stock price of Yahoo! had doubled over the
14 months since Mayers appointment. Col-
lege degree verication is one of the most
basic of due diligence requirementsyet
Yahoo!s board missed it.
Preventing human capital shortfall by en-
suring the selection of the right CEOone
whose capabilities and skills properly align
with the job to be doneis among the
boards most fundamental risk-manage-
ment responsibilities.
Nothing can fully make up for the choice of
the wrong CEO. B oards that lead in mak-
ing this important judgment are careful
not to over-rely on their search partner, as
the HP board seems to have done in hiring
Louis Apotheker, who was then replaced
by Meg Whitman, one of their own direc-
tors.
In some cases, the board simply fails to
match the right person to the job. That
was clearly evident when Sandy Weill and
the Citigroup board chose to hand the CEO
baton to Charles Prince, passing over the
more experienced operations manager,
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of COO. But the plan only worked as long
as Willumstad stayed.
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Prince assumed the COO responsibilities in
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clear that the CEO did not bring the en-
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and the outside in a more unpredictable
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sense of interdependence. Followers understand


that the best bet is to rely on each other to work
through complex, ill-dened problems.
Be a role model by positioning yourself as a fol-
lower: Inclusive leaders empower others to
lead. By reversing roles, leaders not only facili-
tate employees development but also model the
act of taking a different perspective, something
that is so critical to working effectively in diverse
teams.
At Rockwell Automation, a leading provider of
manufacturing automation, control and infor-
mation solutions, practising humility in these
ways has been essential to promoting an inclu-
sive culture - a culture Rockwells leaders see as
critical to leveraging the diversity of its global
workforce.
One of the key strategies the leaders at Rock-
well adopted to model this leadership style is the
shbowl, a method for facilitating dialogue. At a
typical shbowl gathering, a small group of em-
ployees and leaders sits in circle at the centre of
the room, while a larger group of employees is
seated around the perimeter.
Employees are encouraged to engage with each
other and leaders on any topic and are invited
into the innermost circle. In these unscripted
conversations, held throughout the year in a va-
riety of venues, leaders routinely demonstrate
humility - by admitting to employees that they
dont have all the answers and by sharing their
own personal journeys of growth and develop-
ment.
At one shbowl session, shortly after the com-
pany introduced same-sex partner benets in
2007, a devoutly religious employee expressed
concerns about the new benets policy - in front
of hundreds of other employees. Rather than
going on the defensive, a senior leader skillfully
engaged that employee in dialogue, asking him
questions and probing to understand his per-
spectives. By responding in this way, the leader
validated the perspectives of that employee and
others who shared his views.
Other leaders shared their own dilemmas and
approaches to holding rm to their own religious
beliefs yet embracing the companys values of
treating all employees fairly. Dialogues such as
these have made a palpable difference at Rock-
well Automation. Employees have higher con-
dence in their leaders, are more engaged and
feel more included - despite their differences. As
the Rockwell example suggests, a seless leader
should not be mistaken for a weak one. It takes
tremendous courage to practice humility in the
ways described above. Yet regrettably, this sort
of courage isnt always rewarded in organisa-
tions.
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Outstanding leaders are always humble leaders
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JUNE 12 - JULY 13
God will be
on the pitch
BY ROSIE DAWSON
sportsdesk@ke.nationmedia.com
WHEN THE HOSTS of the 2014
World Cup take on Croatia in the
opening match on June 12, God will
also be on the pitch. And whoever
opens the score sheet for Brazil, its
likely that Jesus will get the credit.
Everyone knows that football is a
religion in Brazil, but religion itself
nds its expression in the game, and
the players behaviours on and o the
pitch reveal much about the countrys
changing religious landscape.
You will still see players making
Catholic gestures such as the sign
of the cross, but recent years have
seen more evangelical expressions
of Christianity. After their victory in
the 2002 World Cup nal, the whole
team knelt in a huge prayer circle,
with some players stripping o their
shirts to show T-shirts emblazoned
with the slogan I belong to Jesus.
Brazil has been an overwhelmingly
Catholic country ever since it was col-
onised by the Portuguese in the 16th
Century. As recently as the 1940s, 99
per cent of Brazilians were Catholics.
Today, that gure is 63 per cent.
On the other hand, the proportion
of Brazilians belonging to mainstream
Protestant churches has been rising,
as has the proportion adhering to
Islam, Buddhism and Afro-Brazilian
religions such as Candombl and
Umbanda. The number of atheists
and agnostics has also increased;
according to the 2010 census, eight
per cent of Brazils 200 million people
now say they have no religion.
The real story about religion in
Brazil is the irresistible rise of neo-
Pentecostalist religion. Pentecostal-
ism with its brand of spirit-lled
Christianity, faith healings and exor-
cisms was brought to Brazil from
the United States in the early 20th
Century. In the 1970s, new churches
known as neo-Pentecostal
sprang up on Brazilian soil.
Many of Brazils most famous
footballers are neo-Pentecostal-
ists, committed to spreading the
evangelical message at home and
abroad. Jorginho, part of the Brazilian
team that won the 1994 World cup,
founded his own church in Munich.
AC Milans Kaka has said he would
rather be a pastor than a coach when
he retires. (BBC Sport)
12TH MAN | WAGA ODONGO wodongo@ke.nationmedia.com
Why are Catholics
good at FOOTBALL?
A gigantic statue of Jesus in Rio de Janeiro,
overlooking the iconic Maracana Stadium.
W
hat unites World
Cup winners?
What is the stu
that winners of
the Jules Rimet
trophy are made of?
They are drawn from two
continents and feature devel-
oped countries such as France
to developing countries like
Brazil. They feature democra-
cies like England winning the
title in 1966 and also dictator-
ships such as Argentina in 1978.
Some are ethnically homogenous
like Germany while others
are melting pots of the ethnicities
humanrace, such as Brazil.
At rst glance there seems to be
no shared commonality between
the countries that have won the
trophy. But of the eight mem-
bers of that exclusive club, there
seems to be a shared strand of
Catholicism. All these countries,
save one, have Roman Catholics
as the most prevalent religious
group in the country.
All-Catholic nal
Brazil has ve trophies, Italy
four, West Germany three, Uru-
guay and Argentina two each and
Spain, France and England one.
Take the last World Cup. It
featured an all-Catholic nal, in
which the winners, Spain (69 per
cent Catholic), defeated Italy (the
birthplace of Catholicism).
While western Germany is heav-
ily Catholic, the eastern half is
one of the most atheist places on
earth. Todays Germany has had
far fewer Catho-
lics than
before its reunication in 1990
maybe the reason why it has not
won the trophy since. In fact, they
lost out to Brazil, a more Catholic
country, in the 2002 nal.
Aside from the fact that
Catholics are by a wide margin
the most successful in the World
Cup, isnt it conspicuous that the
country with the highest number
of Catholics, Brazil, also has won
the trophy the most times?
After the language which boasts
the greatest vocabulary on earth,
football is the Englishs gift to the
world. England, of course, cant
play the sport worth a damn. The
English are also-rans in the games
they invented and codied. They
gave us all games worth playing
such as rugby, cricket, golf and
football but they can barely play
any of them.
Cricket is now
more an Asian sub-
continent sport
than an English
one; rugby is better
played by former
British colonies
in the Antipodes;
golf is a sport for
overweight Amer-
icans; and
football
moves to a Latin
beat.
The English Premier
League may be a foot-
balling superpower but the
national team never threat-
ens the established order. In
fact, we all know that 1966
was a blip and England was
never really meant to win the
World Cup.
Unfortunate discrepancy
The nation has been left to
live with this unfortunate dis-
crepancy for the rest of their
lives. The English fans chant of
winning two World Wars and one
World Cup whenever they play
Germany will probably only be
made better by victories in the
battleeld and not by winning a
major footballing trophy.
So, why are countries with a
high number of Catholics domi-
nant in football? Perhaps it is in
the sign of the cross players
perform before they begin
crossing balls across the
pitch. Vatican City, it
seems, has an advance
line on the gods of the
goal line!
It would only be an
inept gambler who stakes
a bet that this years
World Cup will not be won
by a country where at least
45 per cent of the popula-
tion know their Hail
Marys.

Isnt
it
conspicu-
ous that
the the
country with
the high-
est number of
Catholics also
has won
the
tro-
phy
the
most
times?
Perhaps it is in the
sign of the cross
players perform
before they begin
crossing balls
across the eld
Italy captain Fabio
Cannavaro hoists the
World Cup trophy
after their victory
over France in the
2006 nal at Berlins
Olympic Stadium.
The Azzurri won 5-4
in a penalty shoot-
out after 1-1 draw in
extra time.
JUNE 12 - JULY 13
Rooney to roar
with THREE
LIONS
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England forward Wayne Rooney
There will be
no excuses
this time
if I dont perform.
I certainly wont
be looking for
any excuses this time
WAYNE ROONEY
0
Number of
times Rooney
has gone past
the quarter-
nals in the
World Cup
W
ayne Rooney has
said there will be no
excuses if he fails to
perform for England
in Brazil as he seeks
to lead them to their second World
Cup title since 1966.
Rooneys last two World Cups have
been undermined by injuries and he
is yet to score in eight matches at the
nals. But the 28-year-old Manchester
United forward insists he is fully t fol-
lowing a recent groin injury and ready
to play to his maximum in Brazil.
He said: Im in the best condition. I
want to show the world what I can do.
There will be no excuses if I dont.
Rooney went into the 2006 World
Cup nals recovering from a broken
bone in his foot before being sent o in
Englands quarter-nal defeat by Portu-
gal. His build-up to the 2010 tournament
in South Africa was hampered by an
ankle problem, but Rooney says his cur-
rent well-being means now is the time
he must produce his best form.
Obviously Ive been here before and
Ive said what I feel I can deliver and
what I can do and it hasnt happened,
he said. I think this is the one where
I have to show what I can do and I be-
lieve Im in the best
possible shape.
I want to show the
world what I can do and
I really believe this is the
time to do it. Im ready for
it, excited for it. There will
be no excuses this time if I
dont perform. I certainly
wont be looking for any
excuses this time.
Ive no issues whatsoever
and Im ready for this tourna-
ment. I want to give everything, leave
everything on the pitch and, as Ive said
before, I wont have any excuses this
time if it doesnt come o for me.
Yet to get past quarter-nals
Rooney was accompanied by a physio
on a family holiday, after missing the
end of the season with a groin injury,
to ensure he was able to start training
immediately with the England squad
at their camp in Portugal.
Obviously, I missed the last few
games of the season and I wanted to
make sure I was ready and available to
train when the team met up and that
was the reason behind it, he said.
It certainly helped me get up to
speed again and obviously join in with
the team again rst day, where if I didnt
do that
Id maybe
have to do
two or three days
here with the physios
and fitness coaches before I
could join in.
Rooney is yet to get past the quarter-
nals at a World Cup with Germany
beating England at the last-16 stage in
2010. But with manager Roy Hodgson
picking several young players in his 23-
man squad, Rooney is condent about
Englands prospects in Brazil, where
they will face Italy, Uruguay and Costa
Rica in Goup D.
I believe we can go far, he said.
I believe weve got the players and
This is the one, declares forward
out to exorcise the demons
of injury and hand England
their second title since
1966 in his third attempt
our aim is to
win the tourna-
ment.
We dont
want to go
there say-
ing well
be happy
getting to
the quarter-
nal, even the
semi-nal. Our
aim is to win the
tournament and thats
what we are preparing for. Thats what we hope can
happen and with a bit of luck you never know, we
could do.
Everyone can feel the excitement around the squad
that Roys picked. Certainly, Im excited to play with
these players. And to go to the biggest tournament
with such a young squad and so much energy, so much
pace in the squad, which I dont believe weve had in
previous tournaments. It will be great for us and I
believe we can do well. (BBC Sport)
T
he 2014 World Cup, which will be
staged in Brazil from June 12 to July
13, is set to be the most lucrative
and the most expensive in the
tournaments history.
World footballs governing body Fifa said
theevent, for which almost three million tickets
are available, was almost sold out. It has warned
fans to be wary of fake tickets.
Commercial revenues are likely to bring in close
to $4 billion (Sh344 billion), and the organisation
believes it will spend around $2 billion (Sh172
billion) on the tournament. Fifa secretary-general
Jerome Valcke however said: The nancial suc-
cess it is done. We have never sold so many
tickets.
Fifa has already paid $221.6 million (Sh19 bil-
lion) to the Brazil organising committee, with
more likely to follow as disputes over payment
for essential services are resolved.
Earlier this year, the governing body settled a
bill of almost $20 million (Sh1.7 billion) for extra
power generators needed in broadcasting.
The prize money available to the winning na-
tions football governing body is also at a record
level a whopping $35 million (Sh3 billion).
But host nation Brazil must foot the largest
bill ever faced by a country staging the World
Cup, with costs likely to come in at $14 billion
(Sh1.2 trillion).
That huge bill covers the cost of either re-
furbishing or building stadiums for the event,
improving infrastructure and beeng up logistical
and security plans to cope with an inux of well
over half a million visitors.
The cost to the taxpayer of staging the tourna-
ment has sparked protests in Brazil. Many feel that
the money that has gone on hosting the World
Cup would have been better spent on hospitals,
schools and tackling the problems caused by
widespread poverty.
Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari is worried
that the street protests that are planned during
the World Cup could hurt his teams chances of
winning the title.
But Valcke insisted: When Brazil bid for the
World Cup, they had the budget to do so.
Fifa has stressed that it reinvests around 75
per cent of its income into football, with mil-
lions of dollars spent on development projects,
including the provision of pitches and training.
(ESPN Soccernet)
Why Brazil 2014 is the most expensive World Cup
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SAMBAKICK
GRAPHIC NEWS Sources: UNODC, Brazil Office of Public Safety, FIFA, Rio2016.org, Google maps Pictures: Getty Images, Tal Inbar
Despite significant efforts to improve safety in Brazil,
security fears remain over surging street crime and recurring
protests over the cost of staging the World Cup
SECURITY IN FAVELAS
Since 2008, Rio de Janeiro
has established Police
Pacification Units (UPPs),
to drive out gang leaders
from favelas shanty towns
Violence has flared as
drug dealers clash with
police over loss of turf
and police are accused
of using excessive force
Favela
Pacified favela (UPP)
Rio now has 37 UPPs
serving 257 communities
and 1.5m people
Manaus
Arena Amazonia
Manaus
Arena Amazonia
Porto Alegre
Estadio Beira-Rio
Porto Alegre
Estadio Beira-Rio
Rio de Janeiro
Estadio do Maracana
Rio de Janeiro
Estadio do Maracana
Belo Horizonte
Estadio Mineirao
Belo Horizonte
Estadio Mineirao
Salvador
Arena
Fonte Nova
Salvador
Arena
Fonte Nova
Recife
Arena Pernambuco
Recife
Arena Pernambuco
Natal
Estadio
das Dunas
Natal
Estadio
das Dunas
Fortaleza
Estadio
Castelao
Fortaleza
Estadio
Castelao
Curitiba
Arena da Baixada
Curitiba
Arena da Baixada
Sao Paulo
Arena Corinthians
Sao Paulo
Arena Corinthians
Brasilia
Estadio
Nacional
Brasilia
Estadio
Nacional
Cuiaba
Arena Pantanal
Cuiaba
Arena Pantanal
Maracana
Stadium
2
3
1
Galeao International
airport
Copacabana
beach
2016
Olympic
Park
Ipanema beach
3 miles
5km
AT L ANT I C OCEAN
Guanabara
bay
Sugarloaf
Mountain
Tijuca
National
Park
Tijuca
National
Park
City of God
favela
City of God
favela
Santos
Dumont
Airport
Port
Caesar Park hotel
Netherlands
team base
Royal Tulip Hotel
England
team base
Rocinha favela
Mar 21, Manguinhos:
UPP commander shot
and wounded in clashes
FAVELA INCIDENTS
Apr 5, Mare: Nearly
3,000 federal troops
occupy one of Rios
most dangerous drug-
trafficking favelas
Apr 24, Pavao-
Pavaozinho: Man
shot dead as protests
erupt after professional
dancer allegedly beaten
to death by police
1
2
3
SECURITY MEASURES
Border security:
Over 30,000 army, navy
and air force troops deployed
to crack down on drug and
arms trafficking on Brazils
16,900km land borders
Host cities: 150,000 military
and police backed up by 25,000
private guards expected to ensure
security in all 12 stadiums
Israeli Hermes 900
drones will patrol skies
310 miles
500km
BRAZ I L
Amazon
R
i v
e
r
Venues:
No-fly
zones
will be
enforced
over stadiums
during all
64 matches
MURDER RATES FOR
SELECTED COUNTRIES
Per 100,000 pop. (2012)
South Africa 31.0
Colombia 30.8
Brazil 25.2
Mexico 21.5
Nigeria 20.0
U.S. 4.7
UK 1.0 (2011)
0 10 20 30
Host nation will also foot the
highest bill ever of staging the
showcase and already there are
protests against using taxpayers
money for such a purpose instead
of tackling widespread poverty
JUNE 12 - JULY 13
GRAPHIC NEWS Sources: Adidas, Sheffield Hallam University
2014 BRAZUCA Name from
term used by Brazilians to
describe their national pride
Mexico: Designed for
black-and-white TV
32 hand-stitched
leather panels
1970 TELSTAR
Argentina, Spain:
Sealed seams cut
water intake
1978-82 TANGO
Mexico: First
synthetic ball with
improved durability
1986 AZTECA
Italy: Polyurethane foam
layer increases response
and water resistance
1990 ETRUSCO
U.S.: Polyethylene
foam increases energy
return, boosts speed
1994 QUESTRA
France: Syntactic foam
matrix layer further
increases energy return
1998 TRICOLORE
Korea/Japan: Durable
woven chassis and
syntactic foam. Speed
can exceed 130km/h
2002 FEVERNOVA
Germany: 14-panel
thermal-bonded layer.
Surface responds more
uniformly for better control
2006 TEAMGEIST
South Africa: Eight
panels. Aero grooves
improve flight stability
2010 JABULANI
1 Butyl bladder: Retains air
better than latex bladder
2 Carcass: Nylon-wound
to give softer touch
3 Outer panels: Six thermally
bonded TPU panels, each
identical in shape.
Deeper seams
disturb air
flow to
reduce
drag*
*High drag
occurs at low
speed, causing
erratic flight
1
2
3
Why Brazil 2014 is the most expensive World Cup
JUNE 12 - JULY 13
DAILY NATION
Monday,
May 26, 2014
5
SAMBAKICK
GRAPHIC NEWS Sources: www.nicolelislab.net, Duke University, Walk Again Project
A person with paralysis is to deliver the ceremonial first kick at the World
Cup in Brazil wearing a mind-controlled exoskeleton a cutting edge
technology that could one day transform the lives of millions of people
If all goes according
to plan, youngster will
stand up from wheelchair
and kick ball in front of
70,000 spectators
and global audience
of billions of
people
Motorised metal
braces: Stabilised by
gyroscopes, support
and bend kickers legs
Robotic suit:
Built from
lightweight
alloys and
polymers using
3D printing
technology
Sensing legs:
Sensors on foot detect
texture, pressure and
movement
Signals transmitted
to electronic vibrator
on patients arm,
stimulating skin
Over time brain
starts associating
movements of
legs with vibration
in arm patient
develops
sensation that
he has legs
Cap: Fitted with electrodes,
picks up brain signals and
relays them to computer
in backpack
Computer:
Decodes
signals into
commands
for robotic
legs
Battery:
Carried in
backpack,
allows for
around two
hours of use
Electrodes:
Arrays of flexible
plastic conduct
electricity, monitor
thousands of brain cells
Why Brazil 2014 is the most expensive World Cup
JUNE 12 - JULY 13
DAILY NATION
Monday,
May 26, 2014
5
SAMBAKICK
GRAPHIC NEWS Sources: Adidas, Sheffield Hallam University
2014 BRAZUCA Name from
term used by Brazilians to
describe their national pride
Mexico: Designed for
black-and-white TV
32 hand-stitched
leather panels
1970 TELSTAR
Argentina, Spain:
Sealed seams cut
water intake
1978-82 TANGO
Mexico: First
synthetic ball with
improved durability
1986 AZTECA
Italy: Polyurethane foam
layer increases response
and water resistance
1990 ETRUSCO
U.S.: Polyethylene
foam increases energy
return, boosts speed
1994 QUESTRA
France: Syntactic foam
matrix layer further
increases energy return
1998 TRICOLORE
Korea/Japan: Durable
woven chassis and
syntactic foam. Speed
can exceed 130km/h
2002 FEVERNOVA
Germany: 14-panel
thermal-bonded layer.
Surface responds more
uniformly for better control
2006 TEAMGEIST
South Africa: Eight
panels. Aero grooves
improve flight stability
2010 JABULANI
1 Butyl bladder: Retains air
better than latex bladder
2 Carcass: Nylon-wound
to give softer touch
3 Outer panels: Six thermally
bonded TPU panels, each
identical in shape.
Deeper seams
disturb air
flow to
reduce
drag*
*High drag
occurs at low
speed, causing
erratic flight
1
2
3
GRAPHIC NEWS Sources: www.nicolelislab.net, Duke University, Walk Again Project
A person with paralysis is to deliver the ceremonial first kick at the World
Cup in Brazil wearing a mind-controlled exoskeleton a cutting edge
technology that could one day transform the lives of millions of people
If all goes according
to plan, youngster will
stand up from wheelchair
and kick ball in front of
70,000 spectators
and global audience
of billions of
people
Motorised metal
braces: Stabilised by
gyroscopes, support
and bend kickers legs
Robotic suit:
Built from
lightweight
alloys and
polymers using
3D printing
technology
Sensing legs:
Sensors on foot detect
texture, pressure and
movement
Signals transmitted
to electronic vibrator
on patients arm,
stimulating skin
Over time brain
starts associating
movements of
legs with vibration
in arm patient
develops
sensation that
he has legs
Cap: Fitted with electrodes,
picks up brain signals and
relays them to computer
in backpack
Computer:
Decodes
signals into
commands
for robotic
legs
Battery:
Carried in
backpack,
allows for
around two
hours of use
Electrodes:
Arrays of flexible
plastic conduct
electricity, monitor
thousands of brain cells
6
DAILY NATION
Monday,
May 26, 2014
SAMBAKICK
BY FIIFI ANAMAN
sportsdesk@ke.nationmedia.com
I
t is a feeling you cannot explain
satisfactorily a bizarre mental
conict between pessimism and
optimism. The average Ghanaian
football fan claims to be realistic
but, deep down, a strange paradox pre-
vails. Somewhere within, the very same
people who want everyone to know how
impossible it is are also, at the same time,
sure that it is possible. Its paradoxical:
belief lingers deep within; doubts ooze
outwardly.
So why dont Ghana fans profess optimism
freely? Put simply: It is the hope that kills
you, so avoid the hope. It is only when you
expect something that you are disappointed,
so whats the point in setting expectations?
Theres something safe and exciting about
claiming to be the underdog, something
thrilling about secretly
expecting to be proven
wrong. It doesnt make sense,
really, but it works.
Before Ghana were drawn against
Egypt in their World Cup qualication
playo, Egypt were seen by Black Stars
fans as the team to avoid. They were also,
it seemed, the team every Ghanaian, either
unconsciously or secretly, wanted. That is
how messed up it is.
On the one hand, fans knew Egypt were
in form and serious about qualifying for
the World Cup for the first time since
1990, eager to turn years of Africa Cup of
Nations success into a berth at the global
tournament. They were the team everyone
in Africa tipped to make it to Brazil; they
had won all six of their group games and
they were free-scoring too.
The popular consensus was that Ghana
would stand no chance against them. But,
covertly, even the staunchest skeptics knew
and believed that Ghana would pass
the test. In the end, Ghana humiliated Egypt
6-1 in the rst leg in Kumasi. It was, by
all intents and purposes, supposed to be a
surprise, but when it happened there was a
sense that it wasnt.
When Ghana came to know their fate on
December 6, thrown into an incredibly dif-
cult group with Portugal, Germany and
the USA, the outward pessimism erupted so
much so that it looked so real. Here was a
Portuguese team with a decent tournament
record over the past few years and led by
Cristiano Ronaldo; here was a hungry Ger-
Bizarre conict between
hope and doubt as
Appiah
leads World
Cup veterans
to Brazil with
promise to
surprise
the world
If you have
qualied for the
World Cup and
you fear
your opponents
then you might
as well not go for
the competition.
The game has
come of age
and its any mans
game
KWESI APPIAH
Ghana: Dont
believe the
pessimism
man team that craves a trophy after years
of playing second and third ddle; here was
a motivated USA team determined to get
revenge over Ghana for two previous World
Cup defeats.
Amid all the pseudo-realist pessimism
in the wake of the draw, the fact that
Ghanas preparations have been rocked
by one controversy after another certainly
hasnt helped the mood. From the budget
to the teams schedule being shrouded in
prolonged secrecy to a massive hullabaloo
surrounding squad announcement and travel
arrangements for fans and ambassadors,
most Ghanaians seem to have grown tired,
and bitter.
Nonetheless, that has added to the pessi-
mism but not corrupted the inner optimism.
Theres an intriguing disconnect between
the opposing feelings: Ghanaians still
love the Black Stars, after everything,
for one reason or the other. There are
many who believe that the side can
survive Group G, though those same
people have likely claimed countless
times that its a non-starter.
Coach Kwesi Appiah, thankfully, seems
not to care about any of this madness. Hes
in his own world. With him, there seems to
be no latent fear, no conict, no dilemma,
no doubts only condence.
Appiah has let go and is riding on a
refreshing wave of belief, having reas-
suringly said time and again that Ghana
will surprise the world. Yet hes the one
person who stands to lose substantially in
the case of failure, the one person who feels
the heat of pressure more than anyone. If
you have qualied for the World Cup and
you fear your opponents then you might as
well not go for the competition, he recently
told SuperSport. The game has come of
age and its any mans game.
Deep down, most Ghanaians are on the
same page with him but do not have the
guts to announce it publicly. (ESPN
Soccernet)
Ghana star Asamoah Gyan
6-1
Ghanas 2014 World Cup qualifying rst leg
victory over Egypt in Kumasi
JUNE
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SAMBAKICK
JUNE 12 - JULY 13
Cameroon seek to rekindle 90 ame
The Indomitable Lions chunk
of luck, combined with their
uninspiring, nothingness
performances in the group
stages, means concerns about
their quality, or lack of it,
remain
Cameroon captain Samuel Etoo in action;
Inset: Cameroon legend Roger Milla does
his famous jig near the corner ag after
scoring in the 1990 World Cup.
But recent
poor showings,
disorganisation
and disunity
suggest group
stage exit most
likely
BY SALIM MASOUD SAID
sportsdesk@ke.nationmedia.com
A
fter the double-dip
nadir of failing to qualify
for the past two Africa Cup
of Nations nals, there
were fears that the side that
is menacingly dubbed the Indomitable
Lions a sobriquet allocated to Cam-
eroon due to their ability to grind out
results had become domitable. The
level of performance and atmosphere
since the faction-lled 2010 World
Cup campaign has, for the most part,
remained a demoralising constant.
Qualication for the 2014 World Cup
has resuscitated the hopes of the nation.
Despite the diminishing returns on the
continent, Beazil was a non-negotiable
expectation. When you boast of being
the African side that has qualied for
the most World Cups seven people
expect it as the minimum standard.
Following the ignominious campaign
of then Zaire in the 1974 World Cup,
sub-Saharan Africa needed to restore
its reputation. Cameroon would become
the ag bearers, showcasing astuteness
in defence and later in attack. At the
1982 World Cup debut they conceded
only one goal, exiting unbeaten and
on goal dierence after an incorrectly
disallowed goal against Peru. In 1990,
a Roger Milla-inspired side were within
eight minutes of the semi-nals before
a Gary Lineker double meant England
edged past in extra time.
Cameroon won their qualifying group
for this years World Cup partly thanks
to an inadvertent lifeline handed to
them by Fifa. A 2-0 defeat to Togo was
overturned to a 3-0 win after the Spar-
rowhawks were judged to
have elded a suspended
player, putting Cameroon
on top of their group. That
chunk of luck, combined
with their uninspiring,
nothingness perform-
ances in the group stages,
means concerns about
their quality, or lack of it, remain. They
deservedly qualied from their playo
tie against Tunisia. Having escaped with
a 0-0 scoreline in the rst leg, thanks
to the acrobatics of goalkeeper Charles
Itandje, they delivered a scintillating,
near-perfect performance in a 4-1 win
in Yaounde, playing a brand of football
that was not too dissimilar to the proto-
typical, mesmerising one that saw them
warm the hearts and minds of neutrals
in 1990.
Cameroons biggest strength, Samuel
Etoo, is also, paradoxically, their biggest
weakness. The Chelsea striker epitomises
their lax, slow-tempo style. Frustrated by
the swamp of relative mediocrity around
him and the maladministration from
the federation, he continues to endure
a stormy, love-hate relationship with the
team and its powers that be.
When Etoo plays well in his self-
elected, roving left-wing role in their
4-3-3 system, so do Cameroon. The mid-
elders all tough-tackling, hard-nosed
types look to get the ball
out wide to the wings before
making runs into the box.
The squad is full of play-
ers plying their trade at a
good level but the constant
turnover of players, coaches
and tactics over the past few
years means there is little
team chemistry.
So here they are again, in Group A
with Brazil. The consensus is that the
match against the Seleo is a write-
o, but that will be the nal group
xture where, in a utopian world, their
work will be done and dusted.
Coach Volker Finkes mission
is simple: Two wins from the rst
two games against Croatia and
Mexico. If that is completed, it
would be the rst time Cameroon
have progressed beyond the group
stage since the dizzying heights of
1990. But poor showings at recent
tournaments, disorganisation and
disunity when the going gets tough
suggest a group stage exit is most
likely. (ESPN Soccernet)
1982
The rst time Cameroon
played in the World Cup
nals
URUGUAY
can weather
Suarez loss
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May 26, 2014
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JUNE 12 - JULY 13
BY TIM VICKERY
sportsdesk@ke.nationmedia.com
T
he Luis Suarez
injury took every-
one by surprise.
He had arrived in
Montevideo on
Tuesday declaring that he was
ring on all cylinders. Then,
in the warm-up for the next
days training, he felt a sharp
pain in the left knee and the
race against time began.
He had, it seems, picked
up a knock in his nal game
of the season for Liverpool.
Tests detected a cartilage
problem and he underwent
keyhole surgery overnight.
Apparently all went well and
there was optimism in the
camp he could be back in 15
days; Uruguays debut against
Costa Rica was 23 days away.
These are obviously anx-
ious moments for Uruguay.
Suarez is by far their most
important player. Coach
Oscar Washington Tabarezs
strategy is wound around the
striker sit deep, with the
mideld and defensive lines
close together, and slip Sua-
rez on the break with plenty
of space in which to charge.
Four years ago he was the
apprentice to Diego Forlan as
Uruguay pulled o a shock
World Cup semi-nal slot.
A year later when Uruguay
won the Copa America, there
already was more balance be-
tween them. In the World Cup
qualiers Suarez became the
undisputed king of the attack
while Forlan, 35, had to be
content with the bench.
Uruguay are now an old
side; this will be the interna-
tional farewell for much of the
squad that has been together
since the 2007 Copa America.
They will be looking for top
performances from the one
part of the team that is at
the peak of its game: Strikers
Suarez and Edinson Cavani.
To lose Suarez would be
a massive blow. Perhaps the
only upside is that Tabarez
has a couple of weeks to
prepare himself for the worst.
And if Suarez is ruled out or is
unable to play to his potential,
Tabarez is suciently rooted
in the history of Uruguayan
football to know that these
situations often bring the best
out of his compatriots.
Uruguay love doing things
the hard way. Their last World
Cup win came the previous
time it was staged in Brazil,
in 1950. Their preparation
had behind-the-scenes battles
about who should be coach.
At Mexico 1970 they lost
Pedro Rocha, their captain
and outstanding player, to
injury after just 12 minutes of
their opening game. But they
still reached the semis.
Dig deep
Suarez was missing from a
vital qualication game last
June, against Venezuela, di-
rect rivals in the ght to nish
fth in the group and make
the playo against Asian op-
position. Venezuela lay in that
fth slot Uruguay were two
places and three points be-
hind, with an inferior goal
dierence. It was a must-win
match against opponents who
had earned the right to dream
of their rst World Cup. And
Uruguay had to go there with-
out a suspended Suarez.
In their six games prior to
that showdown, Uruguay had
accumulated four heavy away
defeats and two home draws.
But when it really mattered, a
Cavani goal gave them a 1-0
win to set them up for the -
nals as they nished fth, ve
points ahead of Venezuela.
Uruguay, then, know how to
dig deep in dicult circum-
stances. (ESPN Soccernet)
Losing
top striker
would be
big blow but
they are known
to turn the tables
Uruguay striker Luis
Suarez. He is a major
doubt for the World
Cup in Brazil, having
suered a knee injury
in his nal game of the
season for Liverpool.

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