The Standard - 2014-07-21

The National Social Security Funds (NSSFs)
turbulent boardroom politics spilled over to the

public arena with workers representative Fran-
cis Atwoli sensationally claiming Sh1.7 billion
was looted from the Fund and declaring August
4 a national work boycott day to protest his re-
moval from its board and States interference in
its affairs.
Rallying workers unions representatives to
a televised protest meeting against his remov-
al from the board by Labour Cabinet Secre-
tary Kazungu Kambi, Atwoli claimed the mon-
ey was lost in six months and his sacking was a
cover-up. Atwoli has served for long in NSSFs
main decision-making organ by virtue of being
the Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Co-
tu) secretary general. He also alleged a scheme
to ensure the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Com-
mission (EACC) dragged its feet in investigating
the scandal over which he claimed to have re-
corded statements. Atwoli alleged corruption in
CORD restates 13 issues it cited as critical to Kenyans at its Saba
Saba rally on July 7 as justication for its call for a referendum
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Raila team: Why we wont
shut up and wait for 2017
Coalition for Reforms and Democracy
principals Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka
and Moses Wetangula have told the Jubi-
lee government the Opposition will not re-
lent on the push for referendum and will
unveil their road map for what they are ag-
itating for tomorrow.
Reacting to President Uhuru Kenyatta
and his deputy William Rutos demand that
they stop the noise and wait for the 2017
election, the Opposition leaders said CORD
does not believe the issues it is raising can
wait until 2017. The former Prime Minis-
ter, ex-Vice President and Bungoma Sen-
ator argued it
Atwoli claims NSSF lost Sh1.7 billion and calls for national strike
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Extensive County News Coverage
Muslims fury
over curfew
during time
of Ramadhan,
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Assembly
in heated
debate over
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FROM THE
For avoidance of doubt, we restate the issues as insecurity, end of KDF war in Somalia, taming the rising cost of living, end
to mega corruption, electoral reforms, safeguarding devolution, restructuring the Provincial Administration in line with the
Constitution and ensuring national inclusivity in appointments to public service positions, in line with the Constitution
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Raila Orengo Nyongo Wetangula Musyoka
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Controversial lawyer Kethi
Kilonzo will be part of CORDs team
of experts to spearhead the push for
a referendum.
Wiper Party leader Kalonzo
Musyoka said the late Senator Mu-
tula Kilonzos daughter will repre-
sent the party in the committee to
craft the question for the proposed
referendum.
Mr Kalonzo announced
Ms Kilonzos nomination during the
burial of former Mbooni MP Fred-
rick Mulinge Kalulu at his Kitundu
village home in Mbooni West Dis-
trict within Makueni County at the
weekend.
Separately, Ford Kenya lead-
er Moses Wetangula has said the
full technical team and structures
of the proposed referendum will be
unveiled next week.
As Ford Kenya, we shall nom-
inate a technical team of experts
to join nominees of other parties
and stakeholders and we will be
part and parcel of the process,
Wetangula said in Nakuru during
a party meeting.
The party Parliamentary Group
endorsed the push for a referen-
dum and backed the 13 points de-
mand by CORD.
RAISE TENSION
The Senate Minority Leader was
speaking at a Nakuru hotel where
Ford-K top organs held a two-day
retreat to discuss party and nation-
al issues.
The party called for transparen-
cy in the registration of voters say-
ing youths in Western and Nyan-
za were not being registered due to
lack of identity cards.
Wetangula further said Ford-K
would oppose a move by Jubilee to
have the Registrar of Political Par-
ties appointed by the Executive
as proposed by a Miscellaneous
Amendment Bill before Parliament.
Meanwhile, Narok North MP
Moitalele Kenta has rubbished the
demand by CORD for a referen-
dum.
The mood in the country is
against holding a referendum or a
General Election. Holding any of
the two will unnecessarily raise ten-
sion in the country, Mr Kenta said
yesterday.
He was speaking at Masikonde
Primary School in his constituency,
where he opened two classes fund-
ed by the Constituency Develop-
ment Fund.
He urged the Opposition to stop
making incessant demands on the
Government.
Kethi in
CORD team
to push for
referendum
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KIPCHUMBA KEMEI
Deputy President william Ruto presides over the AIC Waunifor Churchs choir
music album in Uasin Gishu County. The DP later ofcially opened a technical
institution. [PHOTO: KEVIN TUNOI/STANDARD]
We wont keep quiet, CORD tells
Ruto over urge to wait till 2017
mu) and James Orengo (Siaya) and
MPs Junet Mohamed (Suna East),
Simba Arati (Dagorreti North) and
Abdulswamad Sharrif Nassir (Mvita)
told off the Deputy President over his
Saturdays remark, and asked him to
read the Constitution and understand
the rights granted in the law.
This is the same song he has been
singing all the time and we are tell-
ing him to stop being emotional and
read the Constitution to understand
our 13 points. Again the Deputy Pres-
ident should read the Constitution to
know the rights of the people and how
the country is run, Nyongo said.
It is Ruto who said that the Con-
stitution was defective, so he cam-
paigned against it. We said we could
fanya marekebisho baada ya ucha-
guzi (improve on the Constitution af-
ter elections) and our side won. We
therefore have the responsibility to
had become clear Jubilee had no over-
all plan for the country on the issues
CORD had raised.
Consequently, CORD will on
Tuesday unveil an all-inclusive road
map to the referendum on the issues
hurting Kenyans, read their joint
statement yesterday.
They gave the statement as oth-
er CORD leaders separately reacted
to the call by Uhuru which was rein-
forced by Ruto on Saturday, insisting
that it is the duty of the Opposition to
keep the Government in check.
The statement by the co-principals
went on: For avoidance of doubt, we
restate the issues as insecurity, end of
KDF war in Somalia, taming the ris-
ing cost of living, end to mega-corrup-
tion, electoral reforms, safeguarding
devolution, restructuring the provin-
cial administration in line with the
Constitution and ensuring national
inclusion in appointments to public
service positions, in line with the Con-
stitution.
Reiterating their resolve to contin-
ue keeping the Jubilee Government
on its toes, the CORD leaders sarcas-
tically said they would however re-
spect Jubilees right to remain quiet
or flip flop on the issues up to 2017.
Elsewhere other CORD leaders
brushed aside calls by Uhuru and
Ruto that they should stop making
noise and politicking, and wait for
2017 General Election, arguing that
they wont keep quite and let things
go bad till Jubilees mandate lapses.
Last week Uhuru and Ruto de-
manded of election losers that they
keep quite and let Jubilee fulfill its
electoral mandate, and wait for the
next round of electioneering. But
the Opposition leaders maintained
they would continue piling pressure
on Uhurus Government to fulfill its
promises to the electorate and would
also intensify their agitation for a ref-
erendum on issues they say have gone
wrong and need urgent intervention
for the countrys sake.
Before the issuance of the state-
ment, Kalonzo had insisted the Oppo-
sitions drive for referendum through
their Okoa Kenya (Save Kenya) move-
ment is legitimate and cannot be
wished away.
The problems facing this country
cannot wait until 2017. The call for na-
tional dialogue is now. It will and must
be peaceful, Kalonzo told The Stan-
dard.
Senators Anyang Nyongo (Kisu-
fulfill our promise, he added.
He accused Ruto of being opposed
to a good or even better Constitution
because he is apparently committed
to his Red card (symbol of No vote
in the 2010 vote on the Constitution).
Orengo said the DP was misguided
by telling them to wait till 2017, add-
ing that it is the governance blunders
by Jubilee that have caused disquiet
among Kenyans. He maintained that
this reinvigorated the Opposition,
which is now determined to push for
reforms.
The referendum can only take
place in between an election. Tell-
ing us to wait is not right. We must do
what we must do as an effective Op-
position since we are now empowered
and we cant afford to wait till 2017
to change things which have gone
wrong, Orengo said.
Nassir said Ruto, and indeed the
Presidents biggest priority, is to de-
liver on their key promises and tell-
ing the Opposition to wait till 2017 is
not among them.
The Opposition will continue to
engage and keep the Government on
its toes and we cannot sit back and see
things go wrong, Sharrif said.
On Saturday, Ruto while address-
ing mourners in Kakamega Coun-
ty asked politicians calling for inclu-
sion in Government to wait for 2017
and fight to form their own Govern-
ment. CORD has several times reject-
ed claims that they are asking for nusu
mkate, (power-sharing) and clarified
their calls for inclusiveness are direct-
ed at appointments to the public ser-
vice.
Ruto is a beneficiary of a flawed
process and he should know that the
business of the Opposition is not to
give them peace but engage them
continuously to ensure that we use le-
gal means to bring change, Arati said.
He added: A referendum is a pro-
cess that is provided for in the Con-
stitution which we can either use Par-
liament or go direct to the people and
since Parliament thinks along tyranny
of numbers, we have chosen the path
of direct exercise of sovereignty.
Junet said: Ruto never voted for
this Constitution since he was the
leader of the No Campaign brigade
that wanted this country to be gov-
erned under the old Constitution that
saw Kenyans suffer under. We are tell-
ing him the time to correct that 20 per
cent is now.
Mombasa Senator Hassan Omar
argued that the demand by Jubi-
lee leaders goes against spirit of the
Constitution, which provides for an
Opposition that checks the excesses
of Government, and provides an al-
ternative agenda and vision for the
country. He said the Opposition must
be dynamic.
Deputy President William
Ruto urged the Opposition to
stop politicking and wait for
the 2017 General Election
The problems facing this
country cannot wait until
2017. The call for national dia-
logue is now. It will and must
be peaceful, Wiper leader Ka-
lonzo Musyoka said
This is the same song he
has been singing all the time
and we are telling him to stop
being emotional and read the
Constitution, Kisumu Senator
Anyang Nyongo said
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SATURDAYS REMARKS
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Deputy President William Ruto
yesterday dismissed claims by the Op-
position that the Jubilee Government
is not inclusive, saying allegations of
biased appointments and service de-
livery are baseless.
Ruto said the State extended its
services to citizens without partiality,
citing programmes such as funds for
the elderly, the Constituency Devel-
opment Fund and infrastructure de-
velopment, among others.
The DP, who was speaking at Wau-
nifor in Uasin Gishu County during a
Sunday service yesterday, defended
the Governments track record, main-
taining they were providing services
in line with the Constitution.
The Jubilee administration is
dedicated to serving every Kenyan
irrespective of party affiliation, be-
cause every citizen has a right to ben-
efit from the Governments services,
he said.
Ruto maintained those purporting
the State was sidelining them ought to
understand a system was in place to
oversee each region in development
matters.
He hit out at Coalition for Reforms
and Democracy (CORD) over calls for
a referendum, saying their demand
could plunge the country into anar-
chy.
CORD should give us a break.
Their demands are not new as they
think. They voiced their demands in
2010 on the need for a new Constitu-
tion that is now in place. Their calls
for the IEBC (Independent Electoral
and Boundaries Commission) team
was also addressed hence they ought
not to complain. They should under-
stand they have no unique interests
and they should allow the Govern-
ment to perform, he reiterated.
He termed the Oppositions de-
mands a common narrative after
defeat in successive elections, and
asked CORD to respect the Govern-
ment.
Elgeyo/Marakwet Senator Kip-
chumba Murkomen also hit out at
CORD saying that a referendum was
not the ultimate solution to challeng-
es facing Kenya.
CORD should desist from misus-
ing the term referendum which is sa-
cred on issues that can be solved am-
icably by all leaders through unity. It
is ironical they are at the forefront in
pointing out the ills of Government
instead of joining hands in seeking
solutions to food and security chal-
lenges, he said.
Government not selective in service delivery, says Ruto
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Mr Arnold Cheloti Ndukuyu, acting IT manager at Nzoia Sugar Company, who is usually mistaken for Deputy President
William Ruto (right). [PHOTOS: DANIEL PSIRMOI AND FILE/STANDARD]
Man who makes heads turn with
his close resemblance to DP Ruto
Ruto. My friends started calling me by
that name way back in 2000 when I
joined college, and the nickname has
stuck ever since, Ndukuyu tells The
Standard.
He resembles Mr Ruto so much
that huge mobs gather around, espe-
cially whenever he visits places out-
side his home area. But Ndukuyu is
not the kind of person who would take
advantage of his looks and always sets
the record straight to those who con-
fuse him for Ruto.
I have been mobbed by boda bo-
da operators in Kisumu town, with
some thinking that the VIP (Ruto) was
trying to walk incognito in the town,
minus the heavy security detail that
always accompanies him, he cites
one example.
But it is not only wanjikus who
mistake him for the man who likes to
associate himself with hustlers and
sufferers. On two occasions, he has
been mistaken for the DP at airports,
and officials have rushed to give him
He stirs excitement, consterna-
tion, confusion and even panic wher-
ever he goes. Apart from those who
know him, is a magnet to passers-by,
most of whom cast stealthy glances
at him, and even stop in their tracks,
open-mouthed in disbelief. What,
they ask silently, would the Deputy
President of the Republic of Kenya be
up to walking casually in the streets of
Bungoma all alone?
But they soon learn that the man
who looks eerily like Mr William Ruto
is neither him nor his brother or close
relative. Those courageous enough to
stop His Excellency and exchange
pleasantries with him soon learn that
they are shaking hands, not with the
Deputy President, but with Arnold
Cheloti Ndukuyu.
The 37-year-old man has received
this kind of attention for over a de-
cade now. Interestingly, his body size,
complexion and even height are al-
most the same to that of the former
Eldoret North MP. And if you think
that that is all, you would be surprised
to learn that he smiles and, to an ex-
tent, even speaks just like the sec-
ond-most powerful man on the land.
Yes, Mr Ndukuyu could easily pass for
Rutos body double.
And as if to confuse people the
more, he even dresses like the man he
has come to admire and respect great-
ly, including donning the distinctive
cap adorned with the Kenyan flags
colours that has come to be associat-
ed with Mr Ruto.
Wherever I go, I hear people whis-
pering behind my back and calling me
He has been mobbed
by people and
even accorded VIP
treatment at airports
after being mistaken
for Deputy President
A group of elders seeking
to invoke the supernatural to
stop construction of the pro-
posed headquarters for Taita-Tav-
eta County at Mgeno in Mwatate
District failed after riot police dis-
persed them.
The 50 elders drawn from
Mwatate, Sagala and Chawia loca-
tions claimed the site was a shrine
and intended to perform a ritual
to protect it from sacrilege.
The elders had a black goat,
traditional liquor and other para-
phernalia which they intended to
use to perform the ritual.
But before they could mount a
tent to perform the ritual, armed
Administration Police officers
led by Mwatate Chief Inspector
Nicholas Mbogho and area Chief
Mwamukonnu Mwanyasi arrived
and dispersed them.
The law requires that you in-
form the police when you want
to hold a meeting, which you did
not. You have broken the law and
if you continue staying here we
will arrest you, warned Inspec-
tor Bogho as he ordered out the
dejected elders.
The angry elders led by Jasper
Ambi later moved to Kipusi, 10km
away, and performed their ritual.
Last month, Governor John
Mruttu had commissioned the
20-acre plot to pave the way for
the construction of the county
headquarters.
Ambi, who is also the chairman
of the Mgeno grazers, said the
Constitution guarantees freedom
of expression, movement and as-
sembly and accused the police of
violating their fundamental rights.
Addressing the Press at Kipu-
si Lwalenyi area on the outskirts
of Mwatate town, the elders crit-
icised the county government of
failing to involve them on the is-
sue.
While denying the elders
claim, Mr Mruttu said all rele-
vant stakeholders were involved
in identifying the new site.
Elders gods
fail to prevail
on project
treatment befitting his status.
I have been accorded preferen-
tial treatment at the airport twice.
The most recent one, being in Eldoret
a month ago, where I was ushered in-
to the VIP lounge. I protested because
I did not want to be accused of im-
personation, but one of the workers
would here none of it. He later pro-
fusely apologised after realising the
mix-up.
Being the DPs look-alike, despite
having its upsides, also brings prob-
lems. He says that despite his clarifi-
cations some people at his work place
he is the acting Information and
Communication Technology manag-
er at Nzoia Sugar Company in Bungo-
ma still believe he is a close relative
of William Ruto.
I joined the company in Septem-
ber 2011, and coincidentally that was
the time the Deputy President be-
came Agriculture Minister. Word went
around immediately among the em-
ployees that the then powerful min-
ister had lobbied for his brother to be
hired at the sugar company, he says
with a chuckle.
On three occasions, Ndukuyu at-
tended functions where the DP was
present, and where the public point-
ed out their uncanny resemblance.
We met face-to-face at a fundrais-
er in 2011 in Webuye where he was the
chief guest. Funnily enough, when I
arose to give my contribution, the
people in attendance started shouting
that I was his brother. He just laughed
it off, says the resident of Makhese
Village in Webuye West Sub-County.
And the similarity is not only in
their looks. Ndukuyu loves politics
and has held several leadership po-
sitions.
I was the head boy in primary
school and held the position in Form
Three at Friends School Kamusin-
ga. I was student representative at
Mombasa Polytechnic and vied for
the student leader position in 2007 at
Egerton.
Key towns in violence-hit Lamu
County were deserted last night as
the dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed
by authorities took effect.
Reports also showed that prices
of farm produce were rising in ar-
eas like Lamu island that depend
on supplies from Mpeketoni.
And officials of the Lamu Coun-
ty Security Committee were said to
be in panic following reports they
would be punished, charged or
sacked following Fridays carnage.
Meanwhile, a top National In-
telligence Service official in Lamu
told The Standard that top Govern-
ment officials from North Eastern
region should be investigated for a
possible role in Lamu and Tana Riv-
er killings.
He warned that the new wave of
violence, especially in Kipini and
Kiunga, could be a revival of the
1963-1967 separatist campaign in
the former Northern Frontier Dis-
trict that included the two counties.
Separately, residents claimed
some Somali herdsmen alleged-
ly arrested in Mpeketoni and Mo-
kowe on July 14 cannot be traced.
In Lamu, local Muslims claimed
the Government was wrongly link-
ing them to the chaos in the area.
Lamu West MP Julius Ndegwa
said he was opposed to indiscrim-
inate arrests which are not based
on any evidence and warned that
the religious obligations of Muslims
should not be interfered with.
Muslim leaders held a charged
meeting at Mkunguni Square in La-
mu town where they vowed to ig-
nore the curfew, claiming it was in-
terfering with Ramadhan prayers.
Meanwhile, local leaders led by
former Garsen MP Danson Munga-
tana have called for arming of cit-
izens in all violence-prone areas to
protect themselves.
If the Government wants to
deal with this problem once and for
all, then it should train locals and
provide them with guns in order to
protect themselves, he said.
Food prices
shoot up as
curfew bites
in Lamu
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Muslims in Mombasa County break their fast at the Islamic Centre on Saturday
evening. [PHOTO: MAARUFU MOHAMED/STANDARD]
Muslim leaders call on State to
lift curfew as Duale protests
han where Muslims all over the world
take time to devote, pray and repent.
We have told the IG to partially lift
the curfew and only enforce it in the
highways but not towns where reli-
gious activities are going on, he said.
Duale added: Muslims should mean-
while defy the order and continue
with whole-night prayers since the
curfew is a breach of the Constitu-
tion.
Supkem Secretary General Adan
Wachu called for the lifting of the
curfew. He (Kimaiyo) needs to put
in abeyance the curfew until end of
the Ramadhan to enable Muslims in
the region operate freely because it af-
fects and impedes their rights and lib-
erties, said Wachu.
Muslim leaders have pressed the
Government to lift the dusk-to-dawn
curfew imposed in Lamu County. The
leaders have argued that the timing
will affect Muslims observing the ho-
ly month of Ramadhan.
Yesterday, the Supreme Council
of Kenya Muslims (Supkem) said the
hours between 6.30pm and 6.30am,
when the curfew is effective, are crit-
ical for believers during Ramadhan.
At the same time, the order by In-
spector General of Police David Ki-
maiyo highlighted divisions in the
Government after National Assembly
Majority Leader Aden Duale termed
it a violation of religious liberty and
even encouraged Muslims to defy it.
Duale took to Twitter to urge Muslims
in Lamu to defy the curfew, which he
described as unconstitutional and an
affront to religious liberty.
Muslims in Lamu County must
go to the mosques for the last 10 days
for Ramadhan prayers despite the
curfew. Our religion supersedes cur-
few order. Maintaining security in La-
mu County is paramount but denying
Muslim faithful their religious obliga-
tion in this holy month is unaccept-
able, Duale tweeted.
Duale posted two tweets soon af-
ter Kimaiyo announced the curfew
following the Friday night attack on a
Lamu-bound bus in which seven were
killed, including four police officers.
When reached for comment
by The Standard, Duale said while
he appreciates the importance
of security, it should not be used
to infringe on the constitution-
al rights, especially on religion.
This week is one of the most im-
portant in the Holy month of Ramad-
Majority Leader
takes to Twitter to
urge Muslims to defy
curfew, Supkem says
last days of Ramadhan
will be afected
Wachu said inasmuch as the Gov-
ernment acted in good faith, many
factors were not put into consider-
ations before announcing the curfew.
But Kimaiyo insisted the curfew,
which was to start last evening, will
be enforced and warned against vio-
lation. We have rolled out our plans
for now and intend to sustain it for
the sake of the locals security, said
Kimaiyo.
Mr Kimaiyo said he issued the cur-
few orders in accordance with Section
8 (1) of the Public Order Act.
Kimaiyo said all residents of La-
mu County should remain indoors
during the curfew period unless one
has a written permit from the County
Commander of Police.
Wachu argued that during the fast-
ing period, Muslims regard the hours
between 6.30pm and 6.30am as crit-
ical.
Speaking on phone, Wachu added
police should ensure the residents
operations are not affected and rath-
er than ban movement, police should
screen people going from their homes
to the mosques and back.
Police can demand identifica-
tion documents to allow those going
to mosques proceed, he said.
Coast Supkem leader Sheikh Muh-
dhar Khitamy pleaded with the Gov-
ernment to allow Muslims attend
night prayers in urban centres which
have not experienced attacks. I urge
security agencies to spare Muslims
time to pray at night in places that
are not affected by insecurity, Khi-
tamy said.
Haki Africa Executive Director
Hussein Khalid said the imposition
of the curfew is unconstitutional.
The curfew is unconstitutional
as it violates the freedom of worship.
Governments failure to provide secu-
rity should not lead to punishing wa-
nanchi who have nothing to do with
the inefficiency of security authori-
ties and how they conduct their busi-
nesses, Khalid said. He urged that the
curfew be lifted forthwith.
The curfew orders come in the
wake of increased attacks in the ar-
ea in which up to 100 people have
been killed and thousands displaced
by gunmen.
BY GEOFFREY MOSOKU AND CYRUS
OMBATI
Kimaiyo had announced on
Saturday: Due to the ris-
ing insecurity in Lamu, I do
hereby issue curfew orders
within Lamu from 6.30pm to
6.30am
The IG said every person
residing within the county is
directed to remain indoors
except under exceptional cir-
cumstances with a written
permit granted by the police
county commander
He also declared Boni and
other adjacent forests to be
prohibited areas
KIMAIYOS DECLARATION
AFTER ATTACKS
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CORD, Jubilee spoiling for
major ght in House
Jubilee and CORD are set for an-
other round of contest on the floor of
the House as the opposition readies
itself to push for its agenda.
The fate of the electoral commis-
sion, amendments to the law seen as
tailored to weaken the land commis-
sion, executive clamour to remove
parliamentary oversight on deploy-
ment of troops within the country and
implementation of a report on histor-
ical injustices are among the friction
points.
Top on the list is the fate of the
Independent Electoral and Bound-
aries Commission (IEBC) whose pe-
tition to disband it has been re-
Grounds for war
include bid to disband
IEBC, implementation
of TJRC Report, KDF
issue among others
jected by the Jubilee-controlled
Justice and Legal Affairs Committee.
Activist Wafula Buke filed the peti-
tion that has been rejected and now
it remains to be seen whether CORD
can marshal enough numbers to over-
turn the verdict and commence the
process of removing the Issack Has-
san-led commission.
But the justice committee said
its task was not to recommend
the dissolution of the commis-
sion but to consider if there were
strong grounds to push the mat-
ter to subsequent legal channels.
Upon due consideration and review
of the presentations, the committee
did not find a prima facie case against
members of the IEBC for violation of
the aforesaid laws, reads the report.
However, CORD MPs registered their
dissenting opinion and vowed to op-
pose the report on the floor of the
House.
Majority Leader Aden Duale says
it is unlikely that CORD can marshal
enough numbers to overturn this ver-
dict given that even its own members
in the committee supported the re-
port.
Governors will be required to
spend 60 per cent of their allocation
on development and 40 per cent on
recurrent expenditure annually if a
proposed law before the Senate is
passed.
The proposed changes to the Pub-
lic Finance Management (Amend-
ment) Bill by Senate Majority Lead-
er Kithure Kindiki, seeks to compel
county chiefs to spend more in de-
veloping their counties rather than
on recurrent expenditure.
Debate on the Bill kicked off with
Senators expressing concerns at the
slow pace in which projects are initi-
ated in the counties as a huge fraction
of the funds goes to payment of sala-
ries and equipment.
The legislators now want gover-
nors to spend money allocated to
them to develop their areas instead
of living in opulence and privilege at
the expense of the electorate.
Counties must ensure 60 per cent
of their resources go to development.
If there is anything we can do to save
this country from self-inflicted strife,
disillusionment and despair, this Bill
must be passed and implemented,
said Prof Kindiki.
He told the House that the objec-
tive of the Bill is to save the country
from what he described as predatory
behaviour and attitudes, where peo-
ple see the public sector as a means
of making money.
He insisted that being in a top po-
sition in the public sector requires
servant leadership and therefore
counties should be seen to devel-
op regions that were otherwise per-
ceived as marginalised rather than as
a source of wealth for individuals.
Senator Boni Khalwale (Kakame-
ga) while seconding the Bill said the
proposed legislation is opportune be-
cause it will instil discipline in the way
counties finances are managed.
I want to assure all the detractors
of this Bill that county governments
will adjust very quickly. The money
seen to be mandatory for recurrent
expenditures will be available for de-
velopment, he said.
National Dialogue is need-
ed and it will be difficult for the
Jubilee Government to dodge it,
Amani Coalition leader Musalia
Mudavadi has said.
Mudavadi, who spoke at the
burial of Mama Selina Jiron-
go, mother of former Lugari MP
Cyrus Jirongo, said there is a lot
of disparity in the country and
national dialogue would help he-
al many wounds.
If you look at the appoint-
ments to high profile jobs in the
country, Central Kenya leads, fol-
lowed closely by Rift Valley, then
the other regions come in at a far
distance. This is what is causing
unrest in the country. We dont
want only two tribes to rule Ken-
ya, Mudavadi said.
MEANS TO TALK
Mudavadi singled out the ap-
pointment of principal secretar-
ies, saying if they are 20 in total,
the Government should make
sure that every Kenyan is repre-
sented.
Mudavadi said leaders have
the means of talking to each oth-
er appropriately without creating
unnecessary tension and blam-
ing each other even for things
that are nonexistent.
We can solve the problems
facing the country now with-
out necessarily creating chaos.
And that is why the national dia-
logue should be held but through
the appropriate means, he said,
adding that CORDs calls for a
referendum are ill-timed and a
waste of resources.
Mudavadi in
fresh calls for
dialogue
CORD is also pushing for the full
implementation of the Truth Jus-
tice and Reconciliation Commission
(TJRC) report after the same justice
committee amended part of the re-
port to expunge the name of Presi-
dent Uhuru Kenyatta. We reject at-
tempts by the Executive through
Parliament to bastardise the TJRC
Report and demand the immedi-
ate implementation of the original
and unadulterated report, reads
the resolution announced by Ka-
kamega Senator Boni Khalwale.
On this, Duale said CORD was play-
ing politics and that if they were gen-
uine, they could have used the House
Business Committee to fast-track de-
bate on the report instead of accusing
the Executive.
The other bone of contention is
the move by the Ministry of Lands
to sponsor amendments that seek to
weaken the National Land Commis-
sion (NLC) and transfer some of the
powers from the commission to Lands
Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu.
The ministry seeks to amend the NLC
Act, the Land Registration Act and the
Land Act, and remove the powers to
Bill seeking to tame expenditure in counties tabled
BY ROSELYNE OBALA
BY ERIC LUNGAI
BY GEOFFREY MOSOKU
A judicial officer has asked
Chief Justice Willy Mutunga to ap-
point special judges to preside over
criminal cases from Lamu and Ta-
na River following recent attacks on
the counties.
This way, the court will be able
to render swift justice in the matter
with a view to punish the perpetra-
tors of the violence, restore peace in
the region and deter future attacks,
while acquitting innocent suspects
who may have been arrested, in-
cluding the accused herein whose
innocence must be presumed by
the court at this point, said Mom-
basa High Court judge Edward Mu-
riithi on Friday.
Diana Suleiman Said was
charged with the murder of 60 vil-
lagers in Mpeketoni and Kibaoni on
June 15 and 16, which he denied,
claiming militiamen responsible
for the murders kidnapped and
dumped him in the vicinity of the
killing fields.
He was arrested after reporting
the alleged kidnap to the police and
receiving treatment at a local State
hospital, but police are challenging
his alibi.
On Friday, Justice Muriithi can-
celled a Sh500,000 bond he had
granted the suspect following an
application by the State which
claims Diana was liable to rejoin
the alleged attackers if set free.
Diana is jointly charged with
Mahadi Swaleh Mahadi alias Jesus.
Last week, Justice Martin Muya
who is presiding over the case said
their trial will begin on November 3.
Set up bench
for Lamu
cases, CJ told
y B WILLIS OKETCH
BOTH COALITIONS STATE THEIR
DIFFERENT OPINIONS
Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale (right)
said CORD will reject attempts by the Exec-
utive through Parliament to bastardise the
TJRC Report and demand the immediate
implementation of the original and unadul-
terated report
But Duale said CORD was playing politics
and that if they were genuine, they could
have used the House Business Committee
to fast-track debate on the report instead
of accusing the Executive
ODM MPs have demanded withdrawal of
KDF, which Jubilee has rejected
Education Cabinet
Secretary Jacob
Kaimenyi presents
a trophy to
students of
Dawamu Second-
ary School during
the Kajiado
Education Day at
the Multi-purpose
Training Hall in
the county over
the weekend. Prof
Kaimenyi has
faulted the Kenya
Union of Post-Pri-
mary Education
Teachers over
their call for a
strike. [PHOTO:
PETERSON GITHAIGA/
STANDARD]
manage public land on behalf of both
the county and national governments
from the Muhamad Swazuri-led com-
mission and hand them to Ngilu.
The Government also through the
miscellaneous amendment statute
seeks to amend the Kenya Defence
Forces (KDF) Act so as to remove par-
liamentary oversight when deploying
the military in internal security oper-
ations. But CORD has vowed to block
this amendment even as they push
for the withdrawal of Kenyan troops
from Somalia, a proposal that Jubilee
has rejected.
During an ODM Parliamentary
Group (PG) meeting held last week
at Orange House, party leader Raila
Odinga led MPs in demanding for a
clear timetable for the withdrawal of
Kenyan forces.
Raila and the CORD brigade claim
the operation is shrouded in mystery,
with the Government not disclosing
the number of causalities even as his
co-principal Kalonzo Musyoka re-
cently claimed the soldiers mandate
had changed from security to illegal
business which includes selling of
charcoal and smuggling of counter-
feits.
Jubilee MPs who chair the Foreign
Relations & Defence and National Se-
curity & Administration teams held a
press conference to rejects calls for
KDF withdrawal. Ndungu Gethenji
and Asman Kamama termed the de-
mands as unpatriotic and hypocriti-
cal.
Tax payers risk losing mil-
lions of shillings in breach
of contract in a row for office
space pitting Mombasa Gover-
nor Hassan Joho against Presi-
dent Uhuru Kenyattas admin-
istration.
The county government
may be compelled to cancel the
tender to renovate new offices
for the governor after the Na-
tional Government reported-
ly reneged on an earlier agree-
ment to donate space at former
coast provincial headquarters.
The county government
said it had reached an agree-
ment with the National Gov-
ernment for space with the the
former being requested to mo-
bilise funds for renovations.
However, the county gov-
ernment said the National
Government later informed it
that President Uhuru Kenyat-
ta would be using the second
floor and thus the governor
could not be accommodated
in the same building.
Johos senior aide Idris Ab-
dirahman said the contractor
was stopped last week from
commencing renovations on
three floors of the Uhuru Na
Kazi Building.
Mr Abdirahman protested
against the decision by County
Commissioner Nelson Marwa,
saying taxpayers will be forced
to foot the bill for breach of
contract.
By the time we had to ad-
vertise and award the tender, it
means we had consulted and
agreed but now we risk paying
forbreach of contract, he said.
The aide said the governor
was working from his private
offices in Kizingo almost two
years after elections.
How can they tell us that
one floor is reserved for the
President yet State House is
barely 100 metres away from
the same building? he asked.
Marwa said Uhuru Na Ka-
zi Building was the property of
the National Government and
the county had other options
for space.
County to lose millions as
ofce reserved for Uhuru
y B GEOFFREY MOSOKU
Cotu Secretary General Francis Atwoli (centre), his deputy George Muchai
(left) and Chairman Rajab Mwondi during a meeting at the Solidarity Building
yesterday. [PHOTO: COLLINS KWEYU/STANDARD]
Atwoli alleges Sh1.7 billion lost at NSSF
NSSF Board.
Kambi retired Mugo and Atwoli
as board members accusing them of
overstaying at the board for 11 and 15
years respectively.
The Labour CS claimed he axed
them in line with the NSSF Fund Act
2013 that states a board member can
only serve for two consecutive terms
that adds up to six years.
The two have been in the board
for too long with Atwoli having served
NSSF and said there is evidence that
in the first six months of this year
some Sh1.7 billion was lost in dubi-
ous deals.
Between January 2014 and now,
the NSSF Board of Trustees has em-
bezzled Sh1.7 billion. An audit report
should be conducted to show where
this money meant for retirees disap-
peared to, Atwoli told a Cotu meet-
ing.
The Cotu boss said despite record-
ing statements together with Kambi at
the EACC, no action had been taken.
He wants an independent investiga-
tion into the alleged missing funds
and the money returned to the work-
ers.
Cotu has issued a two-week strike
notice to protest his removal and that
of Federation of Kenya Employers
(FKE) Chief Executive Jackline Mugo
from NSSF board.
Atwoli said Kambis move may be
related to the controversial Tassia II
housing project and asked the CS to
keep off NSSF matters to allow re-
forms.
Kambi and the Jubilee govern-
ment have forgotten about work-
ers. This is a move to undermine the
workers union. Our efforts to uncov-
er corruption at NSSF is what has led
to our removal, he said.
Cotu said Kambi cannot dictate to
workers who they should choose to
represent them at NSSF.
This is a calculated move by the
Government so that they can employ
and fire whomever they want from the
board so as to control the manage-
ment of the workers pension scheme.
That amounts to unfair labour prac-
tices, reiterated Atwoli during a
meeting with shop stewards and sec-
retary generals from affiliate unions.
He added: If I have broken the law
in any way, then the CS should inform
the workers union because it is the
workers who elected me to this posi-
tion to represent their interests at the
The Cotu boss said despite
recording statements at the
EACC, no action had been
taken over the funds. Atwoli
claimed the money was lost
in six months and his sacking
was a cover-up
Cotu has issued a two-week
strike notice to protest his
removal and FKEs Jackline
Mugo from NSSF board
Mosi Ndiema, of Kenya Avia-
tion Workers union, said the
Government should hold no
authority over the Fund be-
cause meant for workers
THE DISPUTE
for 15 years and Ms Mugo 11 years. I
have therefore retired them from the
Board of Trustees for not complying
with section 10 (3) of the NSSF Act. I
am doing this in compliance with Sec-
tion 8 (1) of the Act, explained the CS.
But Atwoli swiftly dismissed the
claims of serving as board member
for 15 years saying he has served for
just nine years. Mugo said she has
served at FKE for close to seven and
a half years as well as on the NSSF
Board, and not the 11 years claimed
by Kambi.
Both Atwoli and Mugo argued that
in line with the new NSSF Act, which
came into effect in January 10, they
have only served for a period of six
months and do not understand why
Kambi said they have overstayed at
the board.
Cotu pointed out that Atwoli has
the full mandate of the workers as he
was elected and his removal, togeth-
er with Mugos, was unprocedural,
ill-advised and malicious.
The Government has betrayed us
by removing Atwoli and Mugo from
the board and also interfering with
the workers movement, yet the min-
imum wage as promised during the
Labour Day celebration has not been
adjusted. The Government must re-
spect the workers choice, declared
Francis Wangara, General Secretary of
the Sugar Plantation Workers Union.
The Government should hold no
authority over the Fund because that
is meant for workers. How can you re-
tire someone who has been chosen by
the people? We cannot accept that,
said Mosi Ndiema, General Secretary
Kenya Aviation Workers Union.
Cotu wants Kambi to be removed
from office as the Cabinet Secretary
for Labour as well as the dismissal of
the NSSFs Board Chairman Adan Mo-
hammed.
We are not going to sit and watch
as the Government undermines the
workers movement. If Kambi does
not immediately reinstate Mugo and
myself to the board, he will face the
wrath of workers in the country on
August 4, threatened Atwoli.
The union is also demanding re-
spect for leaders in the labour move-
ment by the Government as well as an
end to what they called State interfer-
ence in NSSFs management.
The union has scheduled a series
of meetings from July 24 to August 2
in various parts of the country includ-
ing Naivasha, Nakuru, Kisumu, Thi-
ka, Mombasa, Nyeri, Embu, Macha-
kos and Nairobi, that will culminate
in a nationwide strike on August 4 if
their demands are not met.
Early this year, the NSSF boss de-
fended the viability and transparency
of the Tassia project, saying it got the
boards approval.
Richard Langat, the Managing
Trustee of NSSF told The Standard in
earlier interview: The tender process
and outcome was open, transparent
and above board. The tender docu-
ments are available for scrutiny by
any interested party.
He said there were no objections
raised on the process, accusing Atwo-
li of misleading the taxpayers about
the issue. He added that the cost in-
curred would be entirely recovered
from 5,500 plot owners through in-
dividual contributions of Sh920,000
per plot.
Continued from P1
The Government has betrayed
us by removing Atwoli and
Mugo from the board and
also interfering with workers
movement yet the minimum
wage as promised during the
Labour Day celebration has
not been adjusted
Page 7 Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
Police arrest four terror suspects,
recover bomb-making materials
Four terror suspects were
arrested on Saturday night in
Nairobis Majengo slums.
The suspects were found
with 62 bomb-making pieces
and 11 mobile phones.
Police also seized 34 rolls of
bhang from the suspects.
The officers arrested the
suspects from a house in Ma-
jengo after receiving a tip-off
that they were assembling ma-
terials used in making explo-
sives.
The suspects were identi-
fied as Mohammed Yusuf Gu-
lova, Jibril Kiama Musundi,
Julius Kariuki and Mwanaidi
Wanjiku. They are all Kenyans.
Buru Buru OCPD Rich-
ard Kerich said the officers re-
ceived a tip-off from people
Activists plan
rat protests
against MCAs
Members of the civil society are
planning protests at all County As-
sembly headquarters to condemn
misuse of public funds by Members
of County Assembly (MCAs).
The National Civil Society Con-
gress (NCSC) meeting under Jukwaa
la Katiba accused MCAs of making
unnecessary and extravagant travels
at the expense of development proj-
ects in their respective counties.
We wish to remind MCAs that
counties were not created to help
them become rich. They must provide
oversight so that citizens get the ser-
vices they deserve, said NCSC exec-
utive member, Cidi Otieno at a press
briefing yesterday.
County Reps have
been accused of
making unnecessary
and extravagant travels
The Kenya National Union of
Teachers (Knut) wants all the 47
county directors of education to
undergo fresh vetting.
Knut Secretary General Wil-
son Sossion claimed the Minis-
try of Education did not follow a
competitive process in recruiting
the officials.
Speaking during the induction
day for Kericho and Bomet union
officials at Getarwet Girls Sec-
ondary School in Kericho Coun-
ty, Sossion accused the Education
ministry of filling the positions
without advertising the vacancies.
The Ministry of Education
must advertise for the positions
of county directors of education
because the vacancies were never
advertised and therefore we have
the wrong people in office across
the country. The process must be
repeated and the recruitment do-
ne competitively, he said.
Sossion said though the law
firm that had handled the retire-
ment benefits case for teachers
in 1997 had done a commend-
able job, the tutors must be paid
their dues by the director of pen-
sions and not through the compa-
ny. He said 7,500 teachers are to
be promoted.
Knut wants
fresh vetting
of ofcials
who were familiar with the
movements of the suspects.
We are yet to know what
they were planning to do with
the materials, which experts
term as dangerous. They are
under interrogation, said Ker-
ich.
The suspects were handed
over to the Anti-Terror Police
Unit for further interrogation.
Mobile phones
Kerich said they suspect
the mobile phones were to be
used as detonators for the ex-
plosives.
The arrest came in the wake
of intensified anti-terror oper-
ations in Nairobi and other re-
gions.
Majengo is a major breed-
ing ground for terrorism and
has been cited in various UN
reports.
A number of youths, most
of them Muslim converts, have
been radicalised and recruited
from the area to join militant
groups in their terror activities.
Police crackdowns in Ma-
jengo have also been inten-
sified, leading to disappear-
ance of tens of the youth.
Radicalisation has been
blamed on lack of employment
for youths. Security agencies
have been fumbling amid crit-
icism from various stakehold-
ers.
And in the wake of in-
creased security threats, sev-
eral foreign agencies have
relocated to neighbouring
countries.
Other agencies, including
USAid, are scaling down their
activities over insecurity.
BY NIKKO TANUI AND CHARLES
NGENO
BY CYRUS OMBATI
BY LONAH KIBET
He said most of the expenses re-
ported lack accountability and are
characterised by corruption.
Centre for Multiparty Democ-
racy Treasurer John Wamagata said
they will unleash 10,000 rodents in
the assemblies during a rat cam-
paign dubbed M-Rats to portray
the greediness of the MCAs. Wamaga-
ta, without revealing the exact day of
the protest, assured that it would be
in August.
We have already identified ready
markets for the rats and will buy each
at Sh100. Already, 500 of them have
been received for Nairobi City Hall,
said Wamagata.
Other options being explored in-
clude recall of the county represen-
tatives by collecting signatures and
presenting a valid case with adequate
evidence of misuse of public fund in
a court of law.
They also called on the speedy en-
actment of laws to help curb wastage
of public cash by the counties.
Wamagata said the senators had
two weeks to show progress, failure to
which they would be receiving some
unwanted guests at the Senate.
The Nairobi County government has alleged-
ly failed to submit the names of directors of com-
panies that own large tracts of land in Ruai area.
Leader of Majority Elias Otieno told the
county assembly that the lands department
claimed it did not have the names of in-
dividuals behind the companies that own
1,054.78 hectares of the controversial land.
On Wednesday, House speaker Alex ole Ma-
gelo directed Otieno to inquire about the
owners of the said companies after the mat-
ter arose on the floor of the assembly.
Otieno had alleged that Deputy Presi-
dent William Ruto and former Lugari Mem-
ber of Parliament Cyrus Jirongo were some
of the beneficiaries of the 5,319.9 hect-
ares of land allegedly grabbed from the then
Nairobi City Council and poor peasants.
The assembly has resolved to pass a motion
for formation of an ad hoc committee that
will investigate the companies membership
and high-profile individuals claiming own-
ership of the land. The Speaker ruled that
the motion be tabled next week on Tuesday.
Committee to probe disputed city land
y B JAMES MWANGI
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Salgaa oblivious of the danger he is exposing himself to. Salgaa is one of the
notorious blackspots and has claimed many lives. This year alone, more than
30 people have perished and dozens maimed in accidents in the area. [PHOTO:
KIPSANG JOSEPH/STANDARD]
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Tourism Cabinet Secretary Phyllis Kandie, Mr Patrick Obath and KCB CEO Joshua Oigara with guests
during Transform Kenya Awards held at Windsor hotel Nairobi.
Transform Ke-
nya Award
winners pose
with their
trophies on
Saturday at
Windsor Golf
Club.
Head of DfID
Lisa Philips and
British High
Commissioner
Christian Turn-
er (second left)
with Standard
Group Head of
ICT Robert To-
roitich and oth-
er guests.
[PHOTOS: MOSES
OMUSULA, PIUS
CHERUIYOT AND
MBUGUA KIBERA/
STANDARD]
Comedians cel-
ebrate Dan-
iel Ndambu-
kis win in the
Arts and Cul-
ture category.
Chairman of Chandaria Foundation Hirji Shah (right)
takes the trophy on behalf of Dr Manu Chandaria
who won the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Nelson Mandelas grandson (left) Ndaba Man-
dela discusses with former KCB CEO Martin Odu-
or (right) during the awards ceremony.
Green Award
winner Lorna
Ruto receives
her Trophy
during Trans-
form Kenya
Awards at Wind-
sor Golf Club.
Standard Group
Managing Di-
rector of Print
Operations,
Francis Mun-
ywoki (left),
Nelson Mande-
las grandson
Ndaba Mande-
la and Standard
Groups Chief
Executive Of -
cer Sam Shol-
lei during the
event.
US Presi-
dent Barack
Obamas grand-
mother Sarah
with Mrs Doro-
thy Nyongo.
Ms Nardos Bekele-
Thomas, Resident
Representative of
the United Nations
Development Pro-
gramme, awards
FABLAB director Dr
Kamau Gachigi, the
winner in the manu-
facturing category.
Transform Kenya Awards gala night full of glitz and glamour
The Transform Kenya Awards gala
night at the Windsor Golf and Coun-
try Club where Kenyans with hearts
of gold were feted, was nothing short
of glamorous.
The occasion, organised to cele-
brate persons, organisations and in-
stitutions that have contributed pos-
itively to the transformation of the
lives of Kenyans, was attended by
leaders from various sectors.
Some of the dignitaries who at-
tended the gala included Tourism
Cabinet Secretary Phylis Kandie,
British High Commissioner to Kenya
Christian Turner, Nelson Mandelas
grandson Ndaba Mandela and Pres-
ident Barack Obamas grandmother
Mama Sarah Obama.
The initiative that received Sh15
million from KCB was organised by
the Standard Media Group in part-
nership with Deloitte.
The colourful event saw ten peo-
ple awarded for their efforts in ten
different categories that included the
Lifetime Achievement Award which
was bagged by Dr Manu Chandaria,
the Green category which was won by
Lorna Ruto for her work in recycling
plastic waste and offering an alterna-
tive to timber use.
The Agriculture Award went to
Calvince Okello, who founded an in-
teractive platform that gives farm-
ers information on how to grow and
manage crops and also links them to
transporters and buyers. The third
award under the Health category was
given to Pamela Sombe, a nurse in
Nyando for her contribution to help-
ing expectant women.
Tegla Loroupe won the award un-
der the Sports category while Daniel
Ndambuki aka Churchill won in the
Arts and Culture category. The Rook-
ie of the Year Award was won by Ken-
nedy Odede for his efforts in linking
a girls school in Kibera, offering free
education, to a set of high-value ho-
listic services for all.
The Rookie of the Year Award
recognises a unique achievement for
nominees under the age of 30 years,
explained Standard Media Group
Chief Executive Officer Sam Shollei
before the awards.
According to Martin Oduor, for-
mer KCB CEO and now a Senior Ad-
viser, Financial Services Industry for
Deloitte East Africa, 22,000 nomina-
tions were received.
The emphasis in judging nomi-
nees for these awards was on finding
and paying tribute to Kenyans who do
exemplary things to inspire and facil-
itate better lives for the surrounding
communities, and yet remain uncel-
ebrated, explained Mr Oduor, one of
the judges for the awards.
He explained the criteria used to
judge each shortlisted category, saying
they evaluated them based on remark-
ability which meant something unusu-
al, exceptional, interesting and excel-
Ten people were
recognised during the
ceremony for their
notable contribution in
changing Kenya for the
better
y B MARTIN MUTUA
lent.
T h e
judges also
evaluated the
categories based
on their impact on so-
ciety.
Ndaba said he was glad that the
youth of Africa had realised that
they controlled their destiny, adding:
Only a united Africa can create pros-
Standard Group Director Dr James Mce with the winner of Media Per-
sonality Award Eunice Mathu.
per-
i t y .
T h e
bi ggest
l e s s o n
learnt from
Tata Mande-
la was to continue
the good work of those
who came before us. We are
all going through a transformative
phase in development and we can
only achieve prosperity if we unite,
he said.
Tourism Cabinet Secretary Phyllis Kandie, Mr Patrick Obath and KCB CEO Joshua Oigara with guests
during Transform Kenya Awards held at Windsor hotel Nairobi.
Transform Ke-
nya Award
winners pose
with their
trophies on
Saturday at
Windsor Golf
Club.
Head of DfID
Lisa Philips and
British High
Commissioner
Christian Turn-
er (second left)
with Standard
Group Head of
ICT Robert To-
roitich and oth-
er guests.
[PHOTOS: MOSES
OMUSULA, PIUS
CHERUIYOT AND
MBUGUA KIBERA/
STANDARD]
Comedians cel-
ebrate Dan-
iel Ndambu-
kis win in the
Arts and Cul-
ture category.
Chairman of Chandaria Foundation Hirji Shah (right)
takes the trophy on behalf of Dr Manu Chandaria
who won the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Nelson Mandelas grandson (left) Ndaba Man-
dela discusses with former KCB CEO Martin Odu-
or (right) during the awards ceremony.
Green Award
winner Lorna
Ruto receives
her Trophy
during Trans-
form Kenya
Awards at Wind-
sor Golf Club.
Standard Group
Managing Di-
rector of Print
Operations,
Francis Mun-
ywoki (left),
Nelson Mande-
las grandson
Ndaba Mande-
la and Standard
Groups Chief
Executive Of -
cer Sam Shol-
lei during the
event.
US Presi-
dent Barack
Obamas grand-
mother Sarah
with Mrs Doro-
thy Nyongo.
Ms Nardos Bekele-
Thomas, Resident
Representative of
the United Nations
Development Pro-
gramme, awards
FABLAB director Dr
Kamau Gachigi, the
winner in the manu-
facturing category.
Transform Kenya Awards gala night full of glitz and glamour
The Transform Kenya Awards gala
night at the Windsor Golf and Coun-
try Club where Kenyans with hearts
of gold were feted, was nothing short
of glamorous.
The occasion, organised to cele-
brate persons, organisations and in-
stitutions that have contributed pos-
itively to the transformation of the
lives of Kenyans, was attended by
leaders from various sectors.
Some of the dignitaries who at-
tended the gala included Tourism
Cabinet Secretary Phylis Kandie,
British High Commissioner to Kenya
Christian Turner, Nelson Mandelas
grandson Ndaba Mandela and Pres-
ident Barack Obamas grandmother
Mama Sarah Obama.
The initiative that received Sh15
million from KCB was organised by
the Standard Media Group in part-
nership with Deloitte.
The colourful event saw ten peo-
ple awarded for their efforts in ten
different categories that included the
Lifetime Achievement Award which
was bagged by Dr Manu Chandaria,
the Green category which was won by
Lorna Ruto for her work in recycling
plastic waste and offering an alterna-
tive to timber use.
The Agriculture Award went to
Calvince Okello, who founded an in-
teractive platform that gives farm-
ers information on how to grow and
manage crops and also links them to
transporters and buyers. The third
award under the Health category was
given to Pamela Sombe, a nurse in
Nyando for her contribution to help-
ing expectant women.
Tegla Loroupe won the award un-
der the Sports category while Daniel
Ndambuki aka Churchill won in the
Arts and Culture category. The Rook-
ie of the Year Award was won by Ken-
nedy Odede for his efforts in linking
a girls school in Kibera, offering free
education, to a set of high-value ho-
listic services for all.
The Rookie of the Year Award
recognises a unique achievement for
nominees under the age of 30 years,
explained Standard Media Group
Chief Executive Officer Sam Shollei
before the awards.
According to Martin Oduor, for-
mer KCB CEO and now a Senior Ad-
viser, Financial Services Industry for
Deloitte East Africa, 22,000 nomina-
tions were received.
The emphasis in judging nomi-
nees for these awards was on finding
and paying tribute to Kenyans who do
exemplary things to inspire and facil-
itate better lives for the surrounding
communities, and yet remain uncel-
ebrated, explained Mr Oduor, one of
the judges for the awards.
He explained the criteria used to
judge each shortlisted category, saying
they evaluated them based on remark-
ability which meant something unusu-
al, exceptional, interesting and excel-
Ten people were
recognised during the
ceremony for their
notable contribution in
changing Kenya for the
better
y B MARTIN MUTUA
lent.
T h e
judges also
evaluated the
categories based
on their impact on so-
ciety.
Ndaba said he was glad that the
youth of Africa had realised that
they controlled their destiny, adding:
Only a united Africa can create pros-
Standard Group Director Dr James Mce with the winner of Media Per-
sonality Award Eunice Mathu.
per-
i t y .
T h e
bi ggest
l e s s o n
learnt from
Tata Mande-
la was to continue
the good work of those
who came before us. We are
all going through a transformative
phase in development and we can
only achieve prosperity if we unite,
he said.
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
ISIOLO COUNTY ASSEMBLY
COUNTY ASSEMBLY SERVICE BOARD
RE-INTERVIEW FOR THE PERSONS SHORTLISTED FOR THE UNDERLISTED POSTS
The Isiolo County Assembly Service Board hereby notifies the following candidates who were shortlisted and interviewed to reappear for interview on the dates and time indicated hereunder:-
1. DEPUTY CLERK
NOS NAMES ID/CARD GENDER MOBILE NO DATE OF
INTERVIEW
TIME
1. SALIM BILALI 20095036 M 0723987380 29
TH
JULY 2014 9:30 A.M
2. GUYO DUBA 9559891 M 0713682976 29
TH
JULY 2014 9.50 A.M.
3. JOHNSON MAINA
NGUNYI
9855812 M 0728719375 29
TH
JULY 2014 10.10 A.M
4. ABDULLAHI MOHAMUD 24080909 M 0725152269 29
TH
JULY 2014 10:30 A.M
5. LYDIA K. MUNENE 22331819 F 0729457582 29
TH
JULY 2014 10.50 A.M
6. YUSUF MOHAMED 23826102 M 0729776547 29
TH
JULY 2014 11.10A.M.
2. FIRST CLERK ASSISTANT
INTERVIEW
TIME
1. NICHOLAS MUGAMBI
NTONGONDU
23720709 M 0726904222 29
TH
JULY 2014 11.30 A.M.
2. HAPPI ADAN HAPPI 24413866 M 0711159840 29
TH
JULY 2014 11.50 A.M
3. GOLO ADAN ROBA 24656670 M 0725020066 29
TH
JULY 2014 12.10 P.M.
4. MOSES KAUSO LERUSU 28219563 M 0723603157 29
TH
JULY 2014 12.30 P.M
5. MOHAMED GOLICHA
JARSO
25003693 M 072165390 29
TH
JULY 2014 12.50 P.M
6. DIRE DIKA BILALA 26236556 M 0718200503 29
TH
JULY 2014 1.10 P.M
7. HUSSEIN D. GALGALO 25132549 M 0722124312 29
TH
JULY 2014 2.10 P.M.
8. JACKLINE KANANA 22466480 F 0710411479 29
TH
JULY 2014 2:30 P.M
3. SECOND CLERK ASSISTANT
NOS NAMES ID/CARD GENDER MOBILE
NO.
DATE OF
INTERVIEW
TIME
1. MUSTAFA ABDULLAHI
BONAYA
36307810 M 0723473527 29
TH
JULY 2014 2:50 P.M
2. BORU GUYO TUKE 23949010 M 0723439277 29
TH
JULY 2014 3:10 P.M
3. GODANA ALI HUKA 20984728 M 0720427867 29
TH
JULY 2014 3.30 P.M
4. FRANCIS LEAKEY
LOLKINYATI
26488989 M 0716189514 29
TH
JULY 2014 3:50 P.M
5. NICHOLAS MATHE
LAUKO
A.098373 P.P. NP M 0720921276 29
TH
JULY 2014 4:10 P.M
6. BORU ADAN JIRMA 12542299 M 0726200116 29
TH
JULY 2014 4:30 P.M
7. GOLLO ADAN ROBA A 1598634 P.P M 0725020066 29
TH
JULY 2012 4:50 P.M
8. ALI RACHO GURACHA 9860320 M 0729651241 29
TH
JULY 2014 5:10 P.M
9. JIBRIL GODANA DIBA 24412701 M 0723127452 29
TH
JULY 2014 5:30 P.M
4. PRINCIPAL FINANCE OFFICER
NOS NAMES ID/CARD GENDER MOBILE NO. DATE OF
INTERVIEW
TIME
1. YUSUF MOHAMED
RASHID
23826102 M 0729776547 30
TH
JULY 2014 9:00 A.M
2. RAHMA ATKIYA SORA 27433427 F 0721932619 30
TH
JULY 2014 9:20 A.M
3. HALIMA ABDULLAHI
JARSO
F 072383499 30
TH
JULY 2014 9:40 A.M
4. ABDULLAHI ALI DHIMA 6454641 M 0710354061 30
TH
JULY 2014 10:00 A.M
5. ALI OMAR JIRMA 25832059 M 0727927854 30
TH
JULY 2014 10:20 A.M
6. YUSUF HADIJA 27290834 F 0727401900 30
TH
JULY 2014 10:40 A.M
7. ABDIRIZAK GOLICHA 25934029 M 0724074416 30
TH
JULY 2014 11:00 A.M
5. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT
INTERVIEW
TIME
1. HABIBA GALGALO 22415929 F 0724825579 30
TH
JULY 2014 11:20 A.M
2. ISSADIN MUKATAR DAUD 29537773 M 0720488959 30
TH
JULY 2014 11:40 A.M
3. SAFIA ABDI JILLO 26023617 F 0723531007 30
TH
JULY 2014 12.00 P.M
4. ELIJHA KIARIE NDUATI 21577566 M 0721900520 30
TH
JULY 2014 12:20 P.M
6. PRINCIPAL INTERNAL AUDITOR
INTERVIEW
TIME
1. NURA BONAYA BADDO 25133426 M 0710057384 30
TH
JULY 2014 12:40 P.M
2. BASHIR DIBA ABDI 12684510 M 0720406376 30
TH
JULY 2014 1:00 P.M.
3. MOHAMED ALI MALOW 29285144 M 0720507966 30
TH
JULY 2014 1:20 P.M
7. PRINCIPAL HUMAN RESOURCE OFFICER
INTERVIEW
TIME
1. IBRAHIM CHALA BORU 20657938 M 0720488945 30
TH
JULY 2014 2:20 P.M
2. HUSSEIN BORU GUYO 7873915 M 072223434 30
TH
JULY 2014 2:40 P.M
3. ABUBAKAR ALI BORU 24086512 M 0724646498 30
TH
JULY 2014 3:00 P.M
4. HASSAN JATTANI GUYO 24458268 M 0714641043 30
TH
JULY 2014 3:20 P.M
8. PRINCIPAL PROCUREMENT OFFICER
INTERVIEW
TIME
1. ABDULLAHI HALAKE
SORA
24623667 M 0703358374 30
TH
JULY 2014 3:40 P.M
2. TUNU ABDI TUNU 22891424 M 0727049867 30
TH
JULY 2014 4:00 P.M
3. ABDI ABDULLAHI 26155944 M 0714568803 30
TH
JULY 2014 4:20 P.M
9. SENIOR SERGEANT AT ARMS
INTERVIEW
TIME
1. ABDULLAHI JILLO
DADACHA
23789294 M 0724810185 30
TH
JULY 2014 4:40 P.M
2. BONIFACE ERUPE 23131933 M 0722899910 30
TH
JULY 2014 4:55 P.M
3. ADAN TURE DEMO 12874689 M 0725962604 30
TH
JULY 2014 5:05 P.M
4. ABDI ENO MOHAMED 12874742 M 0720739242 30
TH
JULY 2014 5:20 P.M
10. ICT ASSISTANT
INTERVIEW
TIME
1. SAID IBRAHIM HASSAN 27433380 M 0724010967 31
ST
JULY 2014 9.00 A.M
2. JAMILA ABDINASIR 24897415 F 0728732950 31
ST
JULY 2014 9.15 A.M
3. RAHIMA ABDIKADIR 12874770 F 0723863661 31
ST
JULY 2014 9:30 A.M
4. CRISPUS GITONGA
NJUGUNA
22466227 M 0721932884 31
ST
JULY 2014 9:45 A.M
5. KEN MUTUMA KAARIA 24723152 M 072363575 31
ST
JULY 2014 10:00 A.M
6 AMOS GITONGA MAINGI 20683006 M 0727153615 31
ST
JULY 2014 10:15 A.M
7. SIMON NJUGUNA
WANJOHI
20851212 M 0716654896 31
ST
JULY 2014 10:30 A.M
11. SERGEANT AT ARMS
INTERVIEW
TIME
1. PATRICK K. JERAMANO 11274333 M 0720902623 31
ST
JULY 2014 10:45 A.M
2. ALI MOHAMED ALI 23966855 M 0725870766 31
ST
JULY 2014 11:00 A.M
3. ABDIAZIZ HASSAN 27277003 M 0720834554 31
ST
JULY 2014 11:15 A.M.
4. FATUMA HIBAQ AHMED 8205218 F 0722273355 31
ST
JULY 2014 11:30 A.M
5. DAUD HASSAN HUSSEIN P.P A 1799801 M 0711535545 31
ST
JULY 2014 11:45 A.M
6. ABDUULAHI MOHAMED
BONAYA
11274561 M 0721989531 31
ST
JULY 2014 12:00 P.M
7. ADAN KALLA WARIO 0716424431 31
ST
JULY 2014 12:15 P.M
Devolution and Planning Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru addresses delegates during the opening
of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region special summit on the ght against
youth unemployment in Nairobi yesterday. [PHOTO: DAVID NJAAGA/STANDARD]
y B ALLY JAMAH
Waiguru urges MPs to
approve jobs policy
Unemployment rate
stands at 12.7 per cent
with most afected being
youth aged between 18
and 35
Devolution and Planning Cabinet
Secretary Anne Waiguru has called on
Parliament to fast-track approval of the
National Employment Policy to boost ef-
forts to create jobs for the youth.
Speaking yesterday while opening the
International Conference on the Great
Lakes Region (ICGLR) special summit on
the fight against youth unemployment in
Nairobi, Waiguru said the policy will en-
able the youth to gain from investment
projects.
Once the policy is approved, all ma-
jor investments and projects in the coun-
try will be subjected to systematic anal-
ysis to determine their employment
creation potential before they are adopt-
ed for implementation, she said.
Ms Waiguru alurged MPs to turn the
policy document into a sessional paper
so that it can have more impact, add-
ing that all state departments are being
analysed to determine the number of
jobs they can create.
She said unemployment in Kenya,
which currently stands at 12.7 per cent,
mostly affects the youth between ages of
18 and 35 years, who account for over 30
per cent of the total population.
The youth population in Kenya has
grown from 3.3 million in 1969 to about
16 million today. The statistics show that
Kenya is experiencing a youth bulge, that
is a labour force that is predominantly
youthful, she said.
The summit is meant to come up with
a framework for solving the problems of
unemployment in the continent.
ICGLR Executive Secretary Prof
Ntumba Luaba urged the youth to work hard.
Think outside the box. Walk the road less travelled.
You are the carriers of the future, Prof Ntumba said.
The summit comes after an agreement was passed
in Luanda, Angola in January 2014.
Youth from the Central African Republic have been
unable to make the conference because of the prob-
lems of war. The youth are being misused. This must
stop, said the Regional Multi-functional Youth Forum
Chairman Kennedy Walusala. The Summit will be at-
tended by participants from the 12 member states.
To comment on this
and other stories:
views@standardmedia.co.ke
Teachers want Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob
Kaimenyi to hire a new chief executive ofcer for the Kenya
National Examinations Council (Knec). The position fell
vacant after former CEO Paul Wasangas tenure ended.
Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and Kenya Union of
Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) say the move will
avert interference during national exams scheduled for third
term. Knut Chairman Mudzo Nzili wondered why Kaimenyi
has not acted on names given after interviews.
The Kenya National Union of Teachers has urged
Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi to withdraw
the recently drafted Basic Education Regulations, 2014.
Knut Secretary General Wilson Sossion said the regulations
infringe on the constitutional role of the Teachers Service
Commission (TSC). Speaking during the Trans Mara Knut
Annual General Meeting in Kilgoris, Sossion told Prof
Kaimenyi to expunge ofensive clauses in the regulations
which includes the contracting of head teachers. We
demand that these regulations be redrafted because the
current ones seek to usurp the roles of TSC, said Sossion.
Teachers want new Knec head hired to
avert crisis in national examinations
Knut calls for redrafting of education
regulations to remove ofensive clauses
RoundUp
Page 14 / OPINION Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
Protect citizens rights
during Lamu curfew
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Kambi, Atwoli should save NSSF trauma of wrangles
WHAT OTHER MEDIA SAY...
In its efforts to combat runaway crime in Lamu County,
the government has imposed a curfew between 6.30pm and
6.30am. Making this announcement yesterday at his office,
Inspector General of police David Kimaiyo made it clear to
the people in the affected areas that they had to ensure strict
adherence to these hours as anybody found outside will be
considered hostile.
This follows an audacious attack on a bus in which sev-
en people were killed. Four of the dead were police officers
on duty.
Needless to say, hundreds of people have been hacked or
shot to death while several others are displaced as they seek
elusive safety at government facilities. What boggles the
mind is the frequency and intensity of the attacks.
What drives these criminals has never been established
because those charged with finding out the motive behind
the killings are equally at sea.
Following the bombardment by the air force in Boni for-
est where gangs are suspected to be hiding, there was hope
the criminals would be cowed. That hope, it appears, was
misplaced.
Perhaps the Government has realised it is up against an
organised enemy, hence the need for the curfew to allow it
free movement to carry out raids without the fear of hurting
civilians in the process. If that is what informed the decision,
it is laudable. Citizens must be accorded maximum securi-
ty and courtesy.
On the face of it, curfews might assist in flushing out
criminals from their hideouts if the authorities go about it
professionally.
However, past experiences with curfews paint a different
picture altogether.
There have been reported cases of serious violations of
human rights by security personnel. In most cases, the af-
fected are women who have been raped by security forces
while the men are subjected to torture.
Often, this happens under the guise of house-to-house
searches for criminals.
Curfews must not be confused with a state of emergen-
cy, a situation that denies people their basic human rights.
The peoples constitutional rights must be safeguarded.
The decision by Labour Cabinet Secretary
Kazungu Kambi to fire Francis Atwoli and Jack-
line Mugo from the NSSF board has elicited a
heated debate on the sustainability and legal-
ity of the action.
While maintaining that Mr Kambi had mis-
directed himself in firing him, Mr Atwoli yes-
terday argued he was indispensable and
threatened to withhold workers contributions
to the NSSF.
Kambis leadership of the labour docket has
been mired in controversies and his constant
public bickering with the Cotu boss may be the
abiding image of his performance in the all-im-
portant docket so far.
The National Social Security Fund has been
in the news lately because of questionable
dealings and the increase in workers monthly
contributions to the Fund.
Cotu and the Federation of Kenya Employ-
ers raised the red flag on the Sh5 billion Tassia
Housing Project, which to them was hurried-
ly approved.
From the goings on, one can easily deduce
that Kambi acted precipitously and is trying to
unprocedurally settle scores with those who
have challenged his decisions.
An appointee each from the Central Organ-
isation of Trade Unions and the Federation of
Kenya Employers sits on the board of the NS-
SF.
A new Act, which came into effect this year,
limits the terms to two of three years each. It
was expected that the nominees will serve the
remainder of their terms. Legal interpretations
will vary.
But then, both Atwoli and Kambi agree that
NSSF needs urgent reforms; that reforms are
important and key at transforming a public
corporation that has been in the news most of
the time for all the wrong reasons.
Yet many will agree that the formula used
by the Cabinet Secretary to oust Atwoli and Ms
Mugo does not offer the best solution.
Many will agree that Atwoli is no saint.
There is the feeling that he has overstayed his
time (12 years) and probably it is time he gave
others the opportunity to represent workers.
That is not for Kambi to decide. In fact, Co-
tu holds elections and Atwoli won the last one.
Nevertheless, Atwoli should start preparing
for his exit.
The best leaders are the ones who know
when it is time to hang up their boots.
Looked at differently, many will appreciate
that the Fund needs people like Atwoli who are
willing to take on the Executive without fear.
The Fund has for long been regarded as a
cash cow for politicians and those in positions
of influence.
Time and again, the appointees have acted
at the behest of the Executive whose interests
have run counter to those of the contributors.
Investments in projects with minimal capital
gain, dodgy contract awards and mismanage-
ment has been the hallmark of NSSF.
Many would have hoped that the two would
be finding ways to build confidence in the
Fund and ensure that the increased workers
contributions are protected from itchy fingers.
For NSSFs history is a litany of scandal after
scandal.
The bungled purchase of shares in the col-
lapsed Discount Securities brokerage firm that
could have led to a possible loss of Sh1.5 bil-
lion is one such case.
In the end, therefore, Kambis disdain for
Atwoli and Mugo should not stand in the way
of the urgent needed reforms to take NSSF to
the next level.
For the moment it is impossible to say
with certainty that pro-Russian separatists
red the missile that brought down Malaysia
Airlines Flight MH17 and killed the 298
people on board. However, what is perfectly
clear is that it was the Kremlin that created
the conditions of instability in the region
that led to this tragedy, armed the Russian
separatists, and illegally occupied Crimea,
which was sovereign Ukrainian territory. Had
it respected Ukraines right to govern itself
rather than undermining its independence,
this would not have happened and the
families of the 298 would not be grieving.
This is not to say that Vladimir Putin wanted
this outcome or planned for it. If anything,
in recent weeks he may have been trying to
disentangle himself from his allies in Ukraine.
Before there is any further discussion of
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, its important
that one point be made absolutely clear:
This plane crash is a result of the Russian
invasion of eastern Ukraine, an operation
deliberately designed to create legal, political
and military chaos. Without this chaos, a
surface-to-air missile would not have been
red at a passenger plane. From the beginning,
the Russian government did not send regular
soldiers to Ukraine. Instead, it sent Russian
mercenaries and security service operatives
such as Igor Strelkov the commander in
chief in Donetsk and a Russian secret police
colonel who fought in both Chechen wars and
Vladimir Antyufeyev, the Donetsk deputy
prime minister who led the Latvian KGBs
attempt to overthrow the independent Latvian
government in 1991.
It shouldnt have taken the deaths of 298
airline passengers and crew to concentrate
the worlds attention on the civil war in
Ukraine and Russias role in fomenting armed
resistance to the government there. President
Obama was right to insist that the downing of
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 should be a wake-
up call about the importance of ending this
conict. Russian President Vladimir Putin
has the most control over that situation,
and so far, at least, he has not exercised it. -
President Obama. Questions remain about the
disaster, questions that must be resolved by
an independent and unhampered inquiry. But
it seems clear that the aircraft was shot down
Thursday by a surface-to-air missile launched
from an area of Ukraine controlled by Russia-
supported separatists.
No more games, Mr Putin End of Russias fairy tale If Putin doesnt back down on Ukraine
Page 15 OPINION / Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
Palaver
Between Jubilee and Cord, who
cast the rst stone? You know
there is a problem in Govern-
ment when it has to wait for
the Opposition to act before it
decides what its next move will
be. Early this year when Cord
was minding its own business,
Government was called moribund
by the Government. It awoke
with a thunderous roar from the
underworld and the authorities
got alarmed! Cord has had them
panicky and running around
in circles since then. It is as if
Government has been reduced to
cleaning house.
For the parents loved their booze
so much that they neglected their
own children. This is the lamen-
tation of Mr Sospeter Ojaamong,
Busia Governor. The governor has
decried the tendency by most
parents in his county to drink
themselves silly at the expense of
their ofsprings education. They
are not interested in taking their
kids to school! So incensed is the
governor that he has threatened
to lock them all up. Good luck go-
vernor, you will denitely need it!
The Seattle Fire Department
says a man using a spray paint
can and a lighter to try and kill a
spider started a West Seattle re
that caused $60,000 worth of
damage, reports the Associated
Press. A re spokesman says
no injuries were reported. The
Red Cross is providing tempo-
rary shelter for the homes two
residents.
oped@standardmedia.co.ke
It was only a matter of time befo-
re the imperial County Commissi-
oners showed their
true colours.
The fear by both
the public and the
Opposition that the
obnoxious and op-
pressive Provincial
Administration was back were
not without basis. They are back
and with a vengeance. Gover-
nor Moses Akaranga of Vihiga
County just found out! How, you
ask? Well, he was ordered to
vacate his ofce by the County
Commissioner. That is drama in
the making.
A prophet, they say, is never
recognised in his own homeland.
So it came to pass that while
prophet Dr David Owour was pre-
aching the word of God in Congo,
President Dennis
Sassou Nguesso
got touched and
was saved. Of cour-
se, after repenting,
though we dont
know what his sins
were. As a sign of appreciation,
the prezzo did not want the man
of God subjected to the incon-
veniences of commercial ights
and ofered his private jet. Now,
somebody say hallelujah!
The recruitment of the Kenya
Police Service officers country-
wide is unconstitutional, as far as
the new Constitution is con-
cerned. The criteria used includes
amongst others, profiling of eth-
nic groups.
In some counties, there was to-
tal exclusion of some Kenyan eth-
nic groups. A good example is Isi-
olo County where members of the
Somali, Samburu and other mi-
nority communities were exclud-
ed. In Tana River, many smaller
groups were left out.
The rationale and arguments
used to exclude these communi-
ties are not clear, which raises ma-
ny fundamental questions.
The Constitution in Chapter 4
article 27(4) states that the State
shall not discriminate directly or
indirectly against any person on
any ground, including race, sex,
pregnancy, marital status, health
status, ethnic or social origin, co-
lour, age, disability, religion, con-
science, belief, culture, dress, lan-
guage or birth.
The recruitment of the police
as it is, therefore, grossly contra-
venes the Constitution.
Besides, it creates a very dan-
gerous precedent. Already there
have been complaints from mi-
norities who have been left out of
job opportunities at the county
level.
The minorities now view the
police recruitment (that was su-
pervised by the national govern-
ment) as rubbing salt into raw
wounds.
In a sense, this has reinforced
the perception that county gov-
ernments favour only dominant
groups in their localities. The ex-
clusion of these ethnic groups has
a great bearing on peace and de-
velopment across the county and
country.
Many view it as turning back
the clock, yet the current Consti-
tution was meant to cure those in-
adequacies. In particular, the case
of Isiolo County saddens.
The Somali community of Isi-
olo are one of the earliest inhabi-
tants who settled in the area
during the First World War.
To underscore the linkage the
between historical injustices and
the current discriminatory poli-
cies, we need to flash back to the
colonial era to understand that for
some communities, not much has
changed. Kenyas colonial Gov-
ernment enacted several laws
specifically targeting mainly the
Somali in Isiolo.
The Outlying District Ordi-
nance of 1902 effectively declared
the Northern Frontier District
(NFD - made up of the pres-
ent-day counties of Wajir, Mande-
ra , Garissa, Isiolo, and Marsabit)
a closed area; movement in and
out was only possible under a spe-
cial pass.
The Special Districts (Admin-
istration) Ordinance of 1934, to-
gether with the Stock Theft and
Produce Ordinance of 1933, gave
the colonial administrators exten-
sive powers of arrest, restraint, de-
tention and seizure of properties
of hostile tribes.
The latter legalised collective
punishment of tribes and clans
for the offences of their members.
Kenya is currently hosting the
Special Summit on Youth Em-
ployment under the aegis of the
International Conference on
Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).
In attendance are heads of
state and governments alongside
high-powered government dele-
gations from the Great Lakes re-
gion.
This summit, a sequel to the
5th Ordinary Summit of Heads of
State and Government held in Lu-
anda, Angola in January seeks to
address Youth Employment and
Labour, an agenda that could not
be dealt with then due to un-
avoidable circumstances.
However, given the signifi-
cance and urgency of the topic in
question, President Uhuru Ken-
yatta offered to host his peers
from the region.
The hosting of the summit is
itself symbolic in the sense that
Kenya is keen to lead from the
front in employment and empow-
erment.
Surrounding the quest for
youth employment in this day
and age are several realities that
Why youth employment is key to development
We must
forge ways
of en-
couraging
our youth
to view
work as an
honourable
underta-
king
must be considered when formu-
lating appropriate interventions.
Among these realities is the
fact that today, more than ever
before, information technology
has made it possible for youth
from across the world to share
ideas seamlessly.
This, in effect, means that
world-views shared by the youth
right across the globe affect the
manner in which young people
interpret their world and react to
the various stimuli that demand
changes in perceptions.
Obviously, the whole question
of employment including matters
of job creation and opportunities
for gainful employment are af-
fected by realities created by en-
hanced ability to cross-pollinate
ideas.
The fast-mutating capitalism
alongside changing geopolitical
realities have a direct bearing on
how jobs are created and how rel-
evant the skills our youth possess
remain compatible with modern
realities and challenges.
With this in mind, it behoves
governments and youth empow-
erment champions to be extra
vigilant in ensuring that training
especially of a vocational nature
is aligned with the changing de-
mands of the world economy and
more specifically in our case, with
regional realities and challenges.
In the same breath, training of
young people should now, more
than ever before, embrace con-
tinuing education aimed at up-
dating skills as a key priority.
Even as we equip our youth
with requisite skills in order to
maximise their chances of em-
ployability and capacity to carve
decent living out of their day-to-
day engagements, it is para-
mount that we address the ques-
tion of work ethics and attitudes
among our youth.
I am persuaded that unless
work and its fruit are intertwined
with honour and other forms of
social credit, work and job oppor-
tunities alone will not translate
into the social and economic de-
velopment we envisage.
In other words, we must forge
ways of encouraging our youth to
view work as an honourable un-
dertaking that bequeaths them
favourable status in society.
This meant that the sensibili-
ties we impart on our youth must
address issues of social decorum
and decency alongside commit-
ment to greater good for the soci-
ety as a whole.
It is true that skills, however
specialised, become a mere ap-
pendage when attended to by
poor attitudes.
The question of attitudes to-
wards oneself, others and to-
wards the nation must be empha-
sised if we are to change the
fortunes of the nation and create
harmonious societies.
This summit has the chance
and the means to create a better
horizon to transform the future
prospects of our youth in a sus-
tainable way.

Tere is
one half
of Kenya
about
which the
other half
knows no-
thing and
seems to
care even
less
Bias? No, its history repeating itself
ANNE WAIGURU }
MOHAMED GULEID }
These ordinances applied not on-
ly to the NFD, but also to the pres-
ent-day Tana River, Lamu, Kajia-
do and Samburu districts.
The net effect of this early co-
lonial legislation was to turn the
NFD into a closed zone that had
no contact or relations with other
parts of Kenya. Indeed, other Ken-
yans knew little about it.
This situation continued after
independence and is best cap-
tured by the statement of the
American writer, Negley Farson:
There is one half of Kenya about
which the other half knows noth-
ing and seems to care even less.
Isiolo County was the epicentre of
these draconian measures and
the community that suffered
most are the Somali people who
inhabited the frontier of other
northern Kenya districts.
There is a deep sense of deja
vu between the treatment the So-
mali community confronts today
and the attitude of the colonial
administrators.
The British punished commu-
nities collectively even for crimes
committed by individuals.
My suspicion is that the cur-
rent discriminative practice by
the current regime can be linked
to the assumption that a few dis-
gruntled youth who have joined
militant groups that are bent on
causing chaos in the country can
be used as excuse to punish the
entire community.
Inasmuch as these youths
stand accused and are to be con-
demned at all costs, this does not
justify any collective punishment
for an entire community simply
because a few member of this eth-
nic group have broken the law.
The Somali Community still
faces similar discriminative puni-
tive measures even in todays
Kenya. Ironically, most people of
Northern Kenya enthusiastically
voted for the Uhuru Kenyatta-led
coalition.
They had hoped to get justice
and fair treatment, but going by
the current turn of events, it is as
if the Jubilee administration has
carried on from where previous
regimes left.
Kenyan Somalis in general
complain of discriminatory laws,
regulations, practices and proce-
dures that seem to apply to them
and not to other Kenyans.
This is especially acute in citi-
zenship and immigration - like in
the issuing of birth certificates,
identity cards and passports.
The screening exercise of Ken-
yan Somalis in November 1989 is
also cited as a clear case of dis-
crimination.
Kenyan Somalis feel more like
outsiders because of a system that
is designed to exclude them from
the centre confining them to the
periphery.
With that at the back of their
minds, it is no surprise that Ken-
yans of Somali origin must be feel
that the scales have been tilted
again.
Mr Guleid is the Deputy
Governor
Isiolo County and is vice-chair-
man of the Deputy Governors
Forum
Ms Anne Waiguru is the
Cabinet Secretary for Devolu-
tion and Planning
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State declares one-month
curfew in Lamu County: Instead
of the Government assuring the
people of their safety, now people
are told theres a curfew? What
sort of training or planning do
such a leadership really employ?
Ramadhan month is a month of a lot
of movement. AimKenya
The curfew will adversely afect the
economy of the area, as well as stop
residents from adhering to Ramadhan
prayers in the early morning and in
the evening. Again, not all parts of
Lamu have been afected by the wave
of insecurity and a blanket curfew is
unwarranted.val_long
The curfew is welcome. Scores of
people have lost their lives hence
State has the right to use every
means to stop the senseless killings.
John Kip
Why Kenyan converts have
returned to take charge of
jihadists killings: We should not
involve Islam to this vice. Islam
doesnt teach its followers to murder
innocent people at all. James Ngugi
Years back during the Kibaki
adminstration, I remember the
persistent calls from mothers in
Garissa that somebody was taking
their youth. Given the quiet nature
of Lamu County by then, nobody
gave it a second thought. The matter
was conveniently brushed of as
false alarms. Today, we are reaping
bitterness, death and destruction as
a result of ignoring those calls. From
the time it was established that the
late Fazul operated from Faza, proper
attention and action should have
begun then. Fred Musyoka
Growing unease in CORD over
Alfred Mutuas independence:
As a CORD supporter, I dont advocate
for rigid people. Let party members
be independednt provided its for the
betterment of the common man. Jared
As much as I support Wiper, I wil
vote in Mutua back since he is truly
a leader who is admired across the
country. His actions are no doubt
louder than words. Let Mutua show
them what they should have done
to the community many years ago.
Political destiny in Ukambani is being
engineered by the people in favour
of the governor who is poised to
become the next political kingpin for
the region, of which he enjoys my full
support. Pascal Kioko
Why we must change tact
on police recruitment
Each year, thousands of patriot-
ic Kenyans look forward to serving
their country as police officers.
When the recruitment dates are an-
nounced, these young men and
women, in most cases, start condi-
tioning their bodies given the rigor-
ous exercises the hopefuls pass
through. Meanwhile, other Ken-
yans cross their fingers while some
pray and hope that the recruitment
process will nail men and women
of integrity who are looking to serve
the interests of all citizens and
make Kenya a safe haven.
For as long as I can remember,
the recruitment process is defined
in two outrageous ways; corruption
and a rigorous exercise. While I can
understand that society has accept-
ed and moved on, to the fact that
corruption is part of what defines
who we are and how we carry our
business, I cannot comprehend
why the recruitment process is still
defined by who can run how many
miles. In a digital regime, we ought
to do better. We should be using
modern technology to test the fit-
ness of individuals but moreover,
this should even come as the last
item on the process.
What we need more, during the
recruitment is a keen attention to
details on people who can work for
the force and not against the force.
We need police officers who are
able to make plans and execute
strategies and I want to believe in
all honesty, this can only be at-
tained by a strong, willing mind
ready to serve the country, and not
a person who made it to be an offi-
cer on the basis of paying a bribe or
being a good athlete.
Our current recruitment pro-
cess does not, in any way, consider
taking in people of integrity who
are capable of solving any crime.
Do not get me wrong on this, I am
not saying it is preposterous for po-
tential police officers to be physi-
cally fit, all I am calling for is the re-
tooling of the process. We need a
change of tact, so that the process
is seen to be complimented by a de-
sire to recruit men and women who
can use a sense of reason, logic and
common sense while providing se-
curity to Kenyans. By the way, I am
so proud to note that many police
officers carry their duties with dig-
nity and strive to excel, but it is not
about what the good elements are
doing, its about what the security
force in its entirety is not doing.
Endurance and physical agility
can be trained over time but integ-
rity and sense of reason cannot be
taught. These are some of the basic
concepts missing from the police
today. It is worth noting that in a
country like the United States, be-
fore a recruit is subjected to physi-
cal exercises, he has to go through
various tests that are aimed at
checking the integrity and capacity
to serve in difficult circumstances.
In fact,one has to first pass a poly-
graph before getting to the health
checks. Some people will argue that
a physically strong body is what is
required to secure Kenyans, but in
my research and talking to police
officers in the United States, the
most important requirement is a
strong and healthy mind.
I recently met a friend who
works with the Singapore Police
and in the process of touching base,
our conversation deviated to our
careers. He told me that serving in
Singapore as a police officer is the
ultimate desire of young men and
women, because it is a career that
transcends the daily grind. I can
hope for the day we shall talk in the
same way of our police force. May-
be, just maybe, someday we will,
but we have to change our ap-
proach.
State must get to the bottom of killings
The recent spates of killings in Coast
region that have left more that 100 people
dead and scores injured is a pointer
to a sinister agenda by well organised
criminals operating with impunity.
Coast region has had its share of
political, religious and ethnic intrigues
which are largely to blame for some of
the killings.
Issues of land, ethnic divisions,
religious radicalism and political
machinations cannot be overlooked as
the Government ponders on the spiraling
violence.
Since 1997, Coast region has been
plagued by ethnic and land related
skirmishes. I have in mind the Likoni
clashes where upcountry people sufered
the brunt of the clashes.
Then came the rag-tag groups like
Kaya Bombo, Mlungunipa and the much
demonised Mombasa Republican Council.
Matters have further been aggravated
by the entry of Al Shabaab militants
ostensibly carrying out terror attack in the
country in protest over the continued stay
of Kenyan security forces in Somalia.
All these are pointers that Coast
region is no longer at ease. Tourism,
the economic mainstay of the region, is
virtually dead in the water.
The Government has the necessary
machinery to halt the violence and
restore law and order, but the fact that
more people are losing lives in organised
terror attacks leaves more questions than
answers.
Its not enough for security chiefs to
hold regular press conferences to assure
Kenyans and the world that all is well
while the events on the ground show
otherwise.
As Kenyans, we should demand
thorough investigations into the killings
and stern measures taken to halt them.

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YOUR SAY
It is now or never. President
Uhuru Kenyatta has to listen
to Kenyans and tackle the
Somalia matter with wisdom.
The President ought to change
tact on withdrawal of our
Kenya Defence Forces from
war-torn Somalia. He must
consult widely. He must not
only consult the monied and
the powerful, but everyone
including the ordinary
wananchi. The Government
is no doubt missing a point
by insisting that our soldiers
continue staying in the
battleeld. It is high time KDF
came back home so that Al
Shabaab stops these senseless
killings. The President should
feel no iota of shame when
he gives those orders. Let
Amisom minus Kenya remain
in Somalia. The President
should accuse the Somalia
government of doing little in
stabilising Somalia. {Githuku
Mungai,via mail}
The presence of Kenyan
troops in Somalia has
elicited praise and criticism
in equal measure. Calls for
disengagement, however, have
been getting louder. There are
pertinent questions that need
to be addressed such as; do
we deem Al Shabaab threat
worth the risk of military
entanglement in Somalia,
whether our presence there
has diminished this threat,
if military endeavours in
Somalia are linked to tangible
security interests and lastly,
if it corresponds with public
perceptions of threat.
Counties should
be self suf cient
Tread cautiously on
certicates release
Radio stations are
now losing it
The push for increase in the coun-
ty allocation is ridiculous. Com-
ing against a backdrop of a high per-
centage of government expenditure
that is mainly going to support sala-
ries in this devolved structure, little
amount is left for development.
Such a position spells the need for
counties to probably begin thinking
outside the box and embrace proac-
tive mobilisation of resources within
their localities.
As long as we are all looking at this
one basket to deliver all our needs, it
may never fill fast enough to measure
up to these expectations. Some coun-
ties have already proved that it is in-
deed feasible to raise resources at
their level. It would be great to have
counties greatly increase their self
sufficiency, only requiring minimal
support from Government.
That way Government funds can
be focused on improving health, ed-
ucation and security.This would re-
quire a bold move from county de-
pendency to self sufficiency.

The Governments directive that
all KCSE certificates for former can-
didates who are unable to clear fees
arrears be immediately released is
welcome. The plan aims to see all old
students get their academic docu-
ments with a view to advance their
studies or secure employment op-
portunities. However, the plan should
be cautiously implemented, by in-
volving the key players, particularly
school heads, to avert losses. Educa-
tion experts say there is urgent need
for the Government to consult wide-
ly with the key players to fix loop-
holes.
The plan, which was the brain-
childof former President Kibakis ad-
ministration back in 2006 under
which school heads were ordered to
release the certificates, saw hundreds
of certificates handed out. Later,
school heads expressed concerns
over the huge losses occasioned by
the order.
Radio stations have shifted from
their mandate of informing and en-
tertaining the masses to that of pass-
ing greetings and discussing irrele-
vant and immoral topics. It beats me
why one should make a call to a cer-
tain radio station to ask the presenter
to pass his or her greetings. One won-
ders why the advent of mobile
phones, which are now fairly afford-
able, has not solved this madness. Of
great concern too are the various top-
ics and debates that go on air, many
of which are immoral, not objective
and uncensored, all in the name of
public interest. We seriously need an
overhaul of our broadcasting content
and personnel.
{Martin, via email}
{Mukurima X Muriuki, via email}
{Frankobare, Nairobi}
{Pascal Mwandambo, Voi}
{yonmwonga, viia email}
{Chris Owino, via email}
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Risper: BBA?
No please!
Bootylicious girl-about-town Risp-
er Faith is not hyper about this years
Big Brother Africa (BBA) candidature.
In fact, she is not interested at all.
I dont know where people are getting
the notion that I want in. I have heard
the entire buzz that Risper is a good
candidate for BBA. But am not inter-
ested. I did not even go for the audi-
tions, she told MondayBlues.
She added: I have school and I am not
willing to take a break because of a
BBA. I mean, it is like pitching up a big
risk bet. Not now, probably next year
when am out of school.
Let the best candidate go represent
us. I dont really care much who it is
going to be.

Julianas son passes on
Watch Hollywoods nest
at Sh230
Celebrated Ugandan female
singer Juliana Kanyamozi lost her
baby boy yesterday. The
award-winning star broke the
news via Facebook saying: My
angel has gone to be with the
Lord. What was spreading earlier
was a rumour. He passed away at
10.25 this morning. Hes been
such a ghter. Thank you for pray-
ing for my little angel. I will try
and be as strong as I possibly
can.
Rest in peace Keron. Sleep
well my son, till we meet again,
she added.
Following the announcement,
hundreds of her fans as well as
fellow celebrities poured their
condolences asking her to be
strong during the trying moment.
Among those who condoled her
was singer Bebe Cool.
MultiChoice has of cially
launched BoxOf ce in Kenya, in
what is yet another move to
provide DStv subscribers with
the ultimate in home television
entertainment.
BoxOf ce is a service that allows
subscribers to conveniently rent
and watch the latest blockbuster
movies in the comfort of their
homes, right on their DStv
Explora decoders.
With BoxOf ce, DStv subscribers
can now rent and keep movies
for up to 48 hours, for Sh230 per
movie, and your rst movie is
courtesy of DStv Kenya.
Speaking during the
unveiling event, MultiChoice
Kenya Finance Manager Janet
Oyugi promised that with
BoxOf ce, DStv Premium
subscribers would enjoy the best
and latest of Hollywood and
Nollywood on their Explora
decoders.
DStv services like BoxOf ce
form part of a bigger MultiChoice
strategy to use cutting-edge
technological innovation to help
people enjoy some of the best
entertainment available at a time
thats convenient to them.
And with the all-new Explora
decoder, were taking on demand
video to a whole new level, by
ofering subscribers an
experience that mimics the
Internet, but on a decoder, and
without the high data bills, she
said.
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A Member of a County assembly spent the
weekend behind bars following allegations that
he sexually molested an underage girl.
The politician was arrested mid last week after
the case was reported to police hours after the
said girl was admitted in hospital.
It is not the first time he has been caught in this.
He has been doing this over and over again and
we are not letting this to continue. It is just too
immoral for a leader to do this, a resident who
did not want to be named said.
He has been bribing people every time he is
caught and even this time round, he tried to buy
his freedom with a Sh200,000 police bribe, but
no one could be compromised, he added.

MCA behind bars for
assaulting a minor
GOSSIP OF THE WEEK
High-riding Kenyan band Elani recorded a
new video yesterday, their second this year
following the success of their smash hit Koo
Koo and earlier release Jana Usiku.
The new video is expected out before the end
of this week.
The new project is part of our new album and
we expect it out by the end of this week, the
group announced.
Meanwhile, top producer J Blessing will be
leaving for the United States next month. The
award-winning star will be away for a month.
It is a working tour, he told MondayBlues.
Elani records new video
A
merican Grammy-award winner Be-
yonce has gone gospel with a sam-
pled Kenyan tune of a popular cho-
rus released in 2000. The chorus of
the song When Jesus Say Yes is a ren-
dition of Digit 7 Divine, a gospel group that has
since seen its members take solo music and show-
biz careers. The chorus was the title track of the
groups debut album before it became a popular
church tune across Africa.
The new video by popular American gospel star
Michelle Williams features both Jay Zs Beyonce
and Kelly Rowland and and has clips of dances
donning African dancing costumes.
Among the members of the group then was Mat-
thew Majale, who has been instrumental in rec-
reating the Kenya Prisons Band and, Awusi Beck-
er who is now a Germany-based musician. Two of
the other group members are enjoying a success-
ful music career in the Democratic Republic of
C o n g o .
One official YouTube post of the Michelle Williams
song has garnered over six million views only a
month after it was released. The new release has
become popular in Kenya with radio stations pro-
moting it due to its Kenyan feel.
Beyonce, Michelle
sample Kenyan tune
QuickRead
A new Sh850 million plant to pro-
cess toxic and hazardous wastes seeks
to cushion Kenyans against disease.
This comes as experts are increas-
ingly acknowledging that careless
burying of toxic wastes may be linked
to the high incidences of cancer.
The plant, East Africas first larg-
est hazardous waste treatment plant,
which has a laboratory and safe dis-
posal unit, has a capacity of handling
at least 50 tonnes of hazardous waste.
The plant, owned by Environmental
and Combustions Consultants, will
operate from Stoney Athi in Macha-
kos County.
The companys Chief Executive Of-
ficer Philip Mwabe said they received
a go-ahead on Friday evening from
the National Environmental Man-
agement Agency to begin operations
in processing hazardous wastes that
would be toxic to the environment if
not properly processed and disposed
of professionally.
This plant will ensure dangerous
waste from oil and gas is properly pro-
cessed before being disposed of safe-
ly to protect the health of Kenyans
and the environment. Kenyans need
to benefit from the oil underground
without their health being at risk,
said Dr Mwabe.
Petroleum waste is considered
hazardous because it includes sol-
id waste from underground and also
carries additives in the form of chem-
icals used during drilling and the resi-
dues from oil processing.
Inappropriate disposal of oil drill-
ing wastes is linked to the high inci-
dences of cancer in Isiolo, Marsabit,
Wajir and Mandera counties where oil
exploration activities was high in the
1980s, although no significant strikes
were found. Even oil drilling equip-
ment were left haphazardly exposing
more people to health risks. No for-
mal investigations have been done by
the Government.
Environmentalists say one of
the biggest public concerns now is
oil waste management. Hazardous
waste, characterised by its flamma-
bility, toxicity and reactivity, needs to
be analysed prior to treatment.
Previously, the company has
New Sh850m plant to protect Kenyans from toxic waste linked to cancer
y B ALLY JAMAH
been managing huge amounts of
waste from Government hospitals
across the country. Environmental-
ists and senior consultants in hazard-
ous waste management circles have
claimed that oil waste cannot be bur-
ied in its raw form.
The company will be the sole con-
tractor and plans are underway to in-
stall a similar plant in Uganda to
serve the oil drilling operations there.
Trans-boundary movement of haz-
ardous waste is not allowed according
to international agreements and must
be processed in the country of origin.
Nema in plan
to curb air
pollution
Wahungu added that of the
39 million cases of diseases in
Kenya, about 12 million were
attributed to respiratory sur-
vey, according to the Econom-
ic Survey of Kenya 2012.
United Nations Environ-
ment Programme Division of
Technology, Industry and Eco-
nomics official Ms Jane Akumu
said air pollution in Kenya and
other African cities is linked to
a large number of ailments,
including heart diseases and
acute respiratory diseases,
among others.
She said indoor air pol-
lution is caused by cooking
over coal, wood and biomass
stoves while outdoor pollution
is mostly as a result of trans-
port, industrial and agricul-
tural emissions and residen-
tial heating and cooking.
If air pollution in major cit-
ies is not tackled, low-income
countries will have higher bur-
dens of diseases and huge loss-
es to the economy. This issue
deserves to be tackled urgent-
ly, she said.
A recent University of Nai-
robi study showed econom-
ic loss per year due to vehicle
emission is Sh115 billion.
Wahungu said Nema has
drafted a new Air Quality Reg-
ulations 2014 set to regulate all
internal combustion engines.
The National Management
Authority (Nema) has an-
nounced plans to install equip-
ment to monitor the quality of
air across the country and is-
sue regular updates on pollu-
tion levels.
The environment watch-
dog said air pollution has re-
sulted in the rise of lung and
heart diseases and costing the
economy billions of shillings in
losses every year.
Priority will be given to
major urban centres where air
pollution is highest amid rising
concern over the worsening
quality of air in major cities.
Nema Director General
Geoffrey Wahungu told The
Standard yesterday that check-
ing air quality is urgently need-
ed to enhance efforts to curb
pollution and help Kenyans
make decisions on outdoor
movements.
ECONOMIC BURDEN
Prof Wahungu said the cen-
tres and machines will be in
place in the next few months.
In other parts of the world,
especially China, air pollution
reports are regularly issued to
citizens and on days pollution
levels are very high, people are
advised to stay indoors.
This initiative is very im-
portant since polluted air is
linked to many diseases and a
huge economic burden on the
country.
This monitoring will help
us move forward. The ma-
chines to monitor the air will
be set in Nairobi and all the 47
counties, he said.
Agency will
plant machines
countrywide
to determine
pollution levels
BY ALLY JAMAH
World Health Organi-
sation says air pollution
killed around seven mil-
lion people globally in
2012
A big number of the
deaths happening in Afri-
ca and Western Pacifc
This includes 600,00
deaths per year from
household pollution and
176,000 deaths from out-
door pollution in Africa
EFFECTS OF
POLLUTION
By RENSON MNYAMWEZI
Coast leaders have vowed to push
for the amendment of the proposed
Mining Bill saying it gives the Mining
Cabinet Secretary excessive powers.
The legislators, who include
Coast parliamentary Group Chair-
man Gideon Mungaro, MPs Joyce
Wanjala Lay, Thomas Mwadeghu,
Jones Mlolwa, Andrew Mwadime
and Taita-Taveta County Governor
John Mruttu, said the draft Bill has
grey areas that need to be amended.
The Bill has given the Mining
Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala
powers to control the mining sector.
This is wrong as the minister might
abuse the powers if the Bill is not
amended, Lay said.
Speaking during a one-day
Gemstone Expo in Voi Town
yesterday, the Women Representa-
tive said the mining sector should be
devolved to counties to ensure that
residents in areas endowed with
enormous resources bene t from
the same.
SHOWCASE PRODUCTS
The gemstone expo was spon-
sored by the county government in
conjunction with Tsavo Mineral
Organsation.
It brought together local and
international licensed miners and
dealers who showcased their
products.
We will not allow the central
government to continue controlling
the mining resources. We want such
powers devolved to counties, Lay
said.
Mlolwa, Mwadime and Mwade-
ghu said the minerals found in the
county have never bene ted locals,
adding that the mining industry
should be controlled by counties.
They noted that the Bill, as it
stands, gives the Cabinet Secretary
powers over resource allocation and
distribution.
We will lobby MPs, whose areas
are rich in mineral deposits, to
support our course in ensuring that
a large amount of proceeds are
ploughed back into communities for
rural development, Mlolwa said.
Mungaro disclosed that MPs in
the region would meet next week to
chart the way forward.
As legislators from this region,
we will meet soon to come up with a
common stand over this matter. We
will also bring on board the Mining
Cabinet Secretary to engage him and
discuss the Mining Bill together to
see how best the local community
will bene t from the mineral
resources in the region, he said.
NO MORE
The local community has been
impoverished for many years and we
will not stomach this anymore. We
have to ensure that residents bene t
from the available natural resources
like wildlife, minerals and water
bodies, Mungaro added.
He said they will fully engage Mr
Balala to ensure that the local
community is not exploited by
outsiders who control the mining
industry.
Mruttu announced that his
administration would soon hold a
consultative stakeholders meeting to
chart the way forward on the Bill.
The county government will
contract mining experts to take the
local community through the grey
areas of the Bill and recommend
possible amendments, he said.
We want the Bill to give a stable,
transparent legal framework on the
operations and issuance of mining
licences for the bene t of all
Kenyans, Mruttu said.
At the same time, the leaders said
though 70 per cent of gemstone
mining is carried out in the region,
residents remain poor while the
mines bene t outsiders.
Most mining licences were
issued without the knowledge of the
local community. We want all of
them revoked and issued afresh to
ensure locals also bene t, Lay said.
An exhibitor shows his wares at the one-day Gemstone Expo held in Voi Town
at the weekend. Leaders who spoke during the event expressed their displea-
sure with the proposed Mining Bill currently before Parliament.
[PHOTO: RENSON MNYAMWEZI / STANDARD]
WHAT THEY SAID
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RECONCILIATION: Ten-man
committee to defuse tension
A ten-man committee of elders
drawn from two pastoral communities
has been formed to defuse con ict
between Orma and Somali herdsmen
in Tana River County.
This follows last Wednesdays
clash between herdsmen from the
two tribes at Komorajila manyatta in
Galole division of Tana River County in
which four herders were hurt.
The committee will visit clash-torn
areas and hold meetings with rival
herdsmen to encourage coexistence.
The two groups fought after
quarreling at a water well and set
upon each other with spears, bows
and arrows.
A group that crossed from Ijara in
Garissa County a week earlier with
about 10,000 head of cattle had
caused tension in the area before the
actual outbreak of violence.
The violence spread fear among
ethnic Somali businessmen who,
fearing reprisals, closed their shops
in Hola.
KITUI SEVENS: Sh15m set
aside for rugby tournament
Kitui County Government will
spend Sh15 million to organise the
Kitui Sevens Rugby tournament
that kicks off on May 30 to June 1 at
Ithookwe show grounds.
County Chief Of cer for Youth
and Sports, Titus Kithome, said
the government will renovate
structures at the abandoned grounds,
rehabilitate the murram road and
install proper lighting at the eld.
He was speaking during a tree
planting event at the grounds in
readiness for the annual contest.
Tournament of cial Mumo Mwendwa
said 64 teams, including the
defending champions in the country
Harlequins and Mwamba RFCs, had
con rmed their participation.
He said 16 teams from local
universities are also lined up to take
part in the event where an estimated
8,000 to 10,000 fans are expected to
attend.
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TAITA TAVETA COUNTY
TANA RIVER COUNTY
KITUI COUNTY
Monday, March 24, 2014
By KEPHER OTIENO
The Municipal Council of Kisumu
in conjunction with the trafc police
department has successfully locked
public transport out of the towns
centre. Thanks to the combined forces,
no 14-seater matatu and boda boda
operates in the central business
district now.
And residents have praised the
effort, arguing sanity has been
restored in the CBD and trafc ow
was now smooth.
No matatus or boda bodas are
allowed to pick or drop passengers
at the CBD. The ban also applies to
tricycles and it has been in effect for
the past one week, though amid
protests. Distances shortened
The authorities have also blocked
Oginga Odinga Avenue up to
Standard Chartered Bank junction to
ease trafc ow.
Passengers are now being
dropped at Jomo Kenyatta Highway
and trek to town.
The move follows successful
negotiations between the authority
and matatu operators whose
distances have now been cut short.
We are happy because the plans
have reduced our distance by
one-and-a-half kilometres, said a
matatu operator George Onyango.
According to the town authorities
the plan aims to decongest the city
and will remain in force until 2013.
Thereafter the council will
develop fresh plans to accommodate
the increased number of private cars
in town, a source from the council
said.Already, the number of private
cars streaming in the town has
peaked and the trafc department
anticipates the gure will rise.
The councils enforcement ofcer
in charge of the trafc order Adrian
Ouma said they would not back
down on the move.
WIN-win situation
Eng Ouma said matatu owners
appreciated the directive because
they still charge the same bus fare
despite the distance being short-
ened. It is a win-win situation, the
matatu operators have all the
reasons to smile same as the
council, he said, as he asked them
to co-operate.
Kisumu Mayor Sam Okello
thanked the residents for allowing
them to bring sanity within the CBD.
There have been complaints of
matatu disorder within the CBD,
which have been disrupting smooth
operations of businesses.
With the new measures in force
people can now go about their
business easily without disruptions
by blaring sounds.
Nyanza PPO Njue Njagi promised
to support the council to restore
sanity and warned that those who
resist change would be arrested and
charged. Eng Ouma said matatu owners
Trafc Police ofcer redirects a matatu dr iver at Kisumu Bus Park entry, yes -
terday. Kisumu Municipal Council has re-routed traf c from the central busi -
ness district to de-congest the town. [PHOTO: TITUS MUNALA/STANDARD]
WHAT WAS AT STAKE
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TANZANIA: Two suspects
ashed out of hotel, killed
Two suspected notorious
criminals who have been
terrorising tourists in Masai Mara
have been lynched by a mob
in Musoma, Tanzania. Nelson
Segeria and his accomplice were
ambushed inside a guesthouse in
the town and attacked by an irate
mob, which had identied them
as known gangsters. According
to Mara Triangle Chief Executive
Ofcer Brian Heath, two other
members of the gang escaped, but
security ofcers recovered one
AK-47 rie with 427 bullets.
CORNERED: Two suspects
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Borabu sub-county in Nyamira, says
the disease has reduced maize
production by over 90 per cent. His
10-acre maize plantation remains
deserted after the maize turned
yellow (chlorosis) and later dried up
after two months of germination.
I used to harvest over ten sacks
per acre, but last season I ended up
with less than one bag. The disease
is demoralising and we are seeking
alternative farming activities, said
Rogito.
He said that the Government has
been slow in coming up with a
solution.
ZERO RETURNS
Rose Ongaki, a farmer in
Nyaturago area in Masaba South
sub-county, Kisii, says the disease
has led to a reduction of maize
production in her four-acre farm to
three bags. She has been forced to
buy maize from the nearby Keroka
Market.
A single parent, Ms Ongaki says
she has been forced to transfer her
children to local schools due to lack
of schools fees.
We entirely depend on the
money we get from maize produce.
We have spent thousands in land
preparation and purchase of
seedlings and fertiliser, but the
return is almost zero, said Ms
Ongaki.
Kisii County Director of
Agriculture, Nathan Soire urges
maize farmers to close the season
and do other crops as experts from
the Government conclude their
research. Soire says over the last two
years the three counties have lost an
estimated 30,000 hectares of maize,
translating to over 800,000 bags
valued a Sh3 billion.
We have been sensitising
farmers and we urge them to uproot
and burn all the affected maize to
avoid spreading the disease to other
farmers, said Soire.
By ERIC ABUGA
A major threat on food security in
parts of Nyanza and Rift Valley
looms following the spread of a
disease affecting the maize crop in
the area.
Farmers in parts of Nyamira, Kisii
and Bomet counties are now
counting losses as they ponder on
how to survive as their crops
continue to get destroyed.
The maize disease, identi ed as
Maize Lethal Necrosis disease
(MLND) was rst reported in lower
Longisa in Bomet County in
September 2011, but has now spread
to the neighbouring counties of
Nyamira (Borabu) and Kisii (Nyarib-
ari Chache, Bobasi and Bomachoge),
reducing maize production to
almost zero.
In a survey carried out by the
Kisii Countys Ministry of Agricul-
ture, the disease has attacked 1,847
hectares of maize farms in the
county alone. The survey focused on
morphological symptoms and found
that the growth of the attacked crop
ranges from sixth leaf stage (knee
height) to tenth leaf stage (breast
height).
ISOLATED CASE
When it was rst reported three
years ago and a diagnosis made by
the Kenya Plant Health Inspection
Service (Kephis), many thought this
was an isolated case that would soon
be contained. But the rate at which
the monster disease is spreading
poses the greatest threat to maize
production in the country.
In the Kisii County survey,
varieties attacked most included
H629, H614 and SC TEMBO 73. A
number of farmers in Kisii and
Nyamira counties plant H614 variety
that has been doing well in the
highlands.
Daniel Rogito, a farmer in
An affected maize crop in the farm. A number of farmers in Borabu in Nyamira
County have deserted their maize farms. [PHOTO: ERIC ABUGA / STANDARD]
GRIM SITUATION
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JUSTICE: Women faulted for
not following through cases
Police in Vihiga County say they are
nding it dif cult presenting cases
to court where women and children
are the complainants. County Police
Commandant Sarah Duncan says most
cases involving women and children
are not heard to the end in the law
courts in the region.
In the middle of the case, the
complainants withdraw the cases
after arriving at a consensus. I dont
know why, said Ms Duncan.
She spoke on Saturday at Chambiti
village in the county during the
requiem mass for the four family
members (a mother and her
daughters) who were raped before
being killed in Bungoma recently.
Ms Duncan said it has almost become
impossible to take such cases to court
as the likelihood of being withdrawn
was high and predictable.
DEVELOPMENT: MP roots for
raising of the CDF kitty
An MP from Migori County has asked
the Government to consider raising
the Constituency Development
Funds (CDF) kitty for accelerated
development in the country. Suna
West MP Joseph Ndiege (pictured)
said allocation for the CDF should be
increased to help spur development
at the grassroots. Ndiege said the
kitty has helped in bringing people
close to leadership by being able to
have a say on what they need through
village committees.
The fund has been key in developing
the country and its allocation
should be increased to ensure
more development projects are
undertaken, he said.
Speaking yesterday during the launch
of a bridge within Migori town Ndiege
said the kitty is important for solving
similar problems.
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KISII COUNTY
VIHIGA COUNTY
MIGORI COUNTY
By KEPHER OTIENO
district now.
was now smooth.
ease trafc ow.
and trek to town.
said. Already, the number of private
down on the move.
WIN-win situation
to co-operate.
by blaring sounds.
Trafc Police ofcer redirects a matatu driver at Kisumu Bus Park entry, yes-
terday. Kisumu Municipal Council has re-routed traf c from the central busi-
ness district to de-congest the town. [PHOTO: TITUS MUNALA/STANDARD] WHAT WAS AT STAKE
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FROM
Monday, April 28, 2014
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Nyanza & Western News
By JOSEPH MUCHIRI
Embattled Embu Governor Martin
Wambora is to appear before the
County Assembly today, to answer to
charges of impropriety in manage-
ment of County Government affairs
and gross violation of the Public Fi-
nance Management Act, 2012. Wambora will answer charges of
using public funds to purchase goods
and services without an appointed
County Tender Committee, to alleg-
edly bene t a corruption cartel that
operates from his of ce. Through a letter titled; Notice of
motion for removal of Governor from
of ce by impeachment dated April
23, and signed by clerk Jim Kauma,
Wambora was told to appear in per-
son, or through an advocate or both
at an Assembly plenary at 2:30pm,
where a motion to re-impeach him
will be debated.
In the letter, Wambora is informed
that he will be allocated one hour for
oral defence, which he could choose
to share with his advocates, in ful ll-
ment of the principles of natural jus-
tice and procedural fairness. The Governor is further noti ed he
could present written submissions, if
any to the Assembly a day earlier, on
Monday 28 at 9 am.
FIRST IMPEACHMENT The written summons that has
already been received by the Gover-
nors of ce are seen as an attempt by
the MCAs to ensure the re-impeach-
ment is within the law, unlike the rst
impeachment, which the High Court
in Kerugoya declared null and void. The Assembly has this time round
vowed to follow the due process and
make sure the current motion was in
compliance to the law, said Speaker
Justus Mate.
The MCAs have accused Wambora
of gross violation of the Public Pro-
curement and Disposal Act 2005,
Public Finance Management Act,
2012 and the Constitution. The actual charges include autho-
rising procurement of maize seeds of
variety and quantity other than those
requisitioned by the Director of Agri-
culture and initiating face-lift works
of Embu Stadium, whose budget rose
from Sh8 million to Sh50 million.
Other charges are irregular pur-
chase and registration of a motor ve-
hicle, whose purchase price exceeded
the budgeted, amounting in violation
of Section 26 (2) (a) of the Public Pro-
curement regulations.
THE STALEMATE On Tuesday, Wambora visited Mate
in his of ce to initiate dialogue for
reconciliation with the MCAs and end
the stalemate, but a few minutes later
the MCAs tabled notice of a motion to
impeach him.
On Wednesday, he red County
Secretary Margaret Lorna Kariuki in
what is seen as an attempt to make
the MCAs soften their stand. His reluctance to re Ms Kariuki
on January as per the recommenda-
tions of the Assembly formed the
genesis of his rst impeachment. Various groups in the Embu com-
munity including women, youths,
elders and the clergy have called for
an end to the stalemate facing the
county, saying the citizens are suffer-
ing as a result.
The majority of the MCAs are in
Mombasa on a retreat to learn about
report writing, although their col-
leagues claim they are plotting the
impeachment.
So far, 11 out of the 33 MCAs have
distanced themselves from the fresh
impeachment motion led against
governor Martin Wambora.
Embu County Governor Martin Wambora in court recently. The Kerugoya High
Court reinstated him as governor. [PHOTO: KIBATA KIHU / STANDARD]
ACCUSATIONS

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GRAFT: MCA claims she was threatened over report
A County assembly members says she has been threatened after tabling a report to discuss the conduct of county executive Evans Ondieki in the House. Nairobi County Assembly Transport and Public Works committee chairperson Diana Kapeen told the Assembly last week that she has received numerous threats over the matter, that saw the executive member in charge of Roads and Transport tasked to explain bribery allegations and prove he was in control of his docket.
If anything happens to me Mr. Speaker, know that I have received threat calls and text messages since Tuesday regarding the Ondieki issue Kapeen stated.
On Tuesday the Kapeen-led committee summoned Ondieki over issues regarding his docket.
SPORTS: County to spend Sh15 million for sevens rugby Kitui County Government will spend Sh15 million to organise the Kitui Sevens Rugby tournament that kicks off on May 30 to June 1 at Ithookwe Show Ground.
The Chief Of cer for Youth and Sports Titus Kithome said the Government will renovate structures at the abandoned grounds, rehabilitate the murram road and install street lighting to the eld. The of cer was speaking during tree planting event at the grounds in readiness of the annual contest.
Mwendwa said 64 teams, including the defending champions in the country Harlequins and Mwamba RFCs had con rmed their participation.
Another 16 teams from local university institutions were also lined up to for the event, espected to attract between 8,000 to 10,000 fans.
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EMBU COUNTY
NAIROBI COUNTY
KITUI COUNTY
By KEPHER OTIENO
district now. And residents have praised the
was now smooth. No matatus or boda bodas are
ease trafc ow. Passengers are now being
and trek to town. The move follows successful
said. Already, the number of private
down on the move.
WIN-win situation
to co-operate. Kisumu Mayor Sam Okello
operations of businesses. With the new measures in force
by blaring sounds. Nyanza PPO Njue Njagi promised
Trafc Police ofcer redirects a matatu driver at Kisumu Bus Park entry, yes -
terday. Kisumu Municipal Council has re-routed traf c from the central busi -
WHAT WAS AT STAKE
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criminals who have been terrorising tourists in Masai Mara
AK-47 rie with 427 bullets. Two suspected notorious
AK-47 rie with 427 bullets. Two suspected notorious
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Msambweni MP Khatib Mwashetani (left) arrives at the Mwanguda Primary
School where President Uhuru Kenyatta was expected to preside over a funds
drive. The President, however, did not show up. [PHOTO: GIDEON MAUNDU/STAN-
DARD]
Controversy after Uhuru
skips Iftaar in Kwale
The President cut
short his Kwale visit,
ew back to Nairobi
citing pressing issues
A lavish Iftaar party in Kwale
County skipped by President Uhuru
Kenyatta last Thursday has sparked
controversy and left a bitter taste in
the mouths of those who were not in-
vited and those who felt slighted by
the Presidents absence.
Some sources claimed the Pres-
ident may have snubbed the event
because of the controversy caused by
its organisers, but Mswambeni MP
Khatib Mwashetani, who attended
the function, said the President can-
celled all functions in Kwale includ-
ing the Iftaar and fundraiser at Mwa-
ngunda Primary School due to an
urgent assignment in Nairobi.
Mwashetani told The Standard
the function in Taveta began late but
there was no indication the Kwale
ones would be cancelled until later in
the evening when they were informed
that the President had returned to
Nairobi for something urgent.
The cancellation of these well
publicised functions left Cabinet Sec-
retaries Jacob Kaimenyi, Najib Balala
and Charity Ngilu and Kwale Gover-
nor Salim Mvurya reeling in embar-
rassment.
ATTENDANCE ALLOWANCE
Mwashetani confirmed that the
nature of the urgency was not ex-
plained to guests and that the Presi-
dents donation for the school was de-
livered by Ngilu.
Meanwhile, Sheikh Juma Ngao
of the Kenya Muslim National Advi-
sory Council, said the estimated 300
participants at the Iftaar held at the
Leisure Lodge hotel in Diani, main-
ly from Mombasa County, were paid
Sh2,000 each as attendance allow-
ance.
The Muslim leaders who attended
the Iftaar at Leisure Lodge hotel in Di-
ani told The Standard they were paid
Sh2,000 after the meal. The organ-
isers were accused of sidelining local
Imams and instead ferrying clerics
and Muslims from Mombasa.
Council of Imams and Preachers of
Kenya (CIPK) South Coast chairman
Sheikh Hamisi Banda said he was ca-
sually invited at the eleventh hour
while visiting Mombasa County and
he and his team decided to snub the
function.
For two weeks organisers in
Kwale County collected names and
numbers of national identity cards
of people who would attend the Ifta-
ar but we, the local Imams, were not
invited. I think the President learnt of
the confusion in advance and skipped
the function, Banda said.
LOST MEANING
Banda said the Iftaar turned into a
political event as mainly the rich and
influential individuals were invited
not the poor, orphans and widows as
is the religious norm.
Banda advised President Kenyat-
ta to adopt former President Mwai Ki-
bakis trend of distributing food to or-
ganisations like CIPK to be dished out
to the less privileged members of so-
ciety at the grassroots instead of lav-
ish functions held in beach hotels
where only the wealthy attend.
Iftaar will lose its meaning if or-
ganisers choose to invite the rich and
powerful members of society instead
of the needy, he said.
Kwale county women representa-
tive Zainab Chidzuga however said
the Iftaar was a success since most
elected Kwale leaders attended and
local Muslims were represented.
The dinner was well attended
with Kwales elected leaders present
and ready to receive the President.
As leaders we hope the President will
let us know when he will next visit
Kwale, Chidzuga said.
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KWALE COUNTY
C
oun
cil locks out public
tran
sport from
city C
B
D
Residents received
the move warmly
as matatu operators
protested, but now
council says all is well
By KEPHER OTIENO
centre.
Thanks to the combined forces,
district now.
was now smooth.
protests.
Distances shortened
ease trafc ow.
and trek to town.
said.
Already, the number of private
down on the move.
WIN-win situation
ened.
It is a win-win situation, the
to co-operate.
by blaring sounds.
charged.
ened.
It is a win-win situation, the
Trafc Police ofcer redirects a matatu driver at Kisumu Bus Park entry, yes-
terday. Kisumu Municipal Council has re-routed trafc from the central busi-
WHAT WAS AT STAKE
When the Council announced
the plan to re-route public
transport from the CBD, it was
received with mixed reactions
Residents welcomed it, say-
ing it would help in planning
the town and reduce matatu
noise
At frst, the public transport
operators complied for hours
before they re-grouped to
protest the directive
However, yesterday the
council said operators and
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A meet-the-people tour by a
county of cial in Isiolo that cost
the taxpayer Sh595,500 last year
has been identied as a doubtful
payment by the Auditor General in
the annual half-year audit report
released by the of ce.
The report also identied other
irregularities such as the payment
for vehicles valued at Sh7.8 million
that are yet to be delivered and
payment of Sh790,850 as medical
bills for a Member of the County
Assembly (MCA) at two hospitals.
The meet-the-people tour
had no supporting documents and
was contrary to the government
nancial regulations and
procedures, noted the report.
The report recommended that
in future all payments should be
made for of cial purposes only,
and be supported with relevant
documentation.
Tharaka Nithi governor Samuel
Ragwa has issued a stern warning
to grabbers of public property in
the county.
We have received complaints
from locals that there are some rich
tycoons controlling land, cattle dips,
schools and other public property
without authorisation. I am warning
these individuals that their days
are numbered because soon all that
property will be restored to the
county, he said.
Speaking to The Standard,
governor Ragwa said the county
government will go back to the
1963 records in order to determine
what properties are currently being
fraudulently used.
Ragwas remarks may extend
relief to residents, especially in
Tharaka constituency, who have
allegedly been consistently harassed
by paid goons who raid and even
burn their homes, displacing
families from their homes.
Of cial used Sh595,500 in
meet-the-people tour
Governor puts county
land grabbers on notice
THARAKA NITHI COUNTY
ISIOLO COUNTY
It is alleged the President may
have opted to skip the event due
to disagreements caused by the
organisers
The organisers are being ac-
cused of going against Iftaars
spirit by inviting the rich and
powerful instead of the needy
and disadvantaged in society, as
is the norm
Some however deny this and
say the President left because
he had to attend to an urgent
matter in Nairobi
WHAT HAPPENED
Page 20 / COUNTY ROUND UP Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
Homa Bay Governor Cyprian Awiti cuts the tape to ofcially launch the West Uyoma Kakonyra Traders Savings and
Co-operative Society at Manywanda Chiefs Camp in Siaya. With him (with hat) is Siaya Governor Cornel Rasanga. The
two governors helped to raise Sh1.6 million for the new sacco. [PHOTO: COLLINS ODUOR/STANDARD]
Fans celebrate
after Brother
Beausang Catholic
Education Centre
soccer team from
Kajiado County
beat Nairobis
Upper Hill 2-0
during the
Metropolitan
Secondary Schools
Sports Association
on Saturday at
Kajiado County.
[PHOTO: JONAH
ONYANGO/STANDARD]
Aerial view of Kisumu town.
NYERI COUNTY
MURANGA COUNTY
KISUMU COUNTY
SIAYA COUNTY
KIAMBU COUNTY
BUNGOMA COUNTY
SIAYA COUNTY
KAJIADO COUNTY
Grief as elderly man
is gored by bufallo
Organised saccos
to get contracts
Kisumu to recruit
metro-police
Governors urged to
set up legal dockets
Police arrest 10
foreigners in Ruiru
Sigh of relief for poor
students in Mt Elgon
y B NDERITU GICHURE
y B BONIFACE GIKANDI
y B KASSIM ADINASI
y B LAWRENCE ALURU
y B KAMAU MAICHUHIE
y B DANIEL PSIRMOI
Grief gripped Kihuyo village in
Nyeri County, after a rogue buf-
falo trampled a 60-year-old man
to death as he grazed his cattle.
The buffalo reportedly strayed
out of the neighbouring Ab-
erdare National Park into the vil-
lage where it ambushed Ste-
phen Mwangi and gored him.
Before the 9am incident, Mwangi was
grazing his livestock at a field adjacent
to the park when the buffalo pounced
on him and killed him instantly, af-
ter which it walked back to the park.
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) rangers
arrived at the scene and tracked the
animal for about three hours, found
it within the park and shot it dead.
Nyeri Central Sub-County Commis-
sioner John Marete said the buffa-
lo strayed into the village after it de-
stroyed a section of the electric fence.

The Muranga County government
will contract organised co-operative
societies to implement development
programmes in the region.
Already, Muranga Women Sacco which
has thousands of members, has been
contracted by the county government
to rehabilitate and improve road
networks estimated at Sh30 million.
On Saturday, the group acquired earth-
moving equipment that will be used in
the multi-million project in a move to
promote cooperatives in the county.
Launching the exercise at General
Ihura Stadium, Muranga Governor Mr
Mwangi wa Iria said he will promote
the spirit of cooperatives since it has
been listed as the only strategy that can
develop the region.
HOMA BAY COUNTY
EMBU COUNTY
THE FIGURES
THE FIGURES
Man linked to dads
death arrested
Embu police arrest
suspected deler
706
53
y B JAMES OMORO
y B JOSEPH MUCHIRI
A suspected to have killed his father in
Homa Bay County was arrested while eeing
to Tanzania.
Kennedy Okuta Onyango, 24, allegedly
killed his father Elius Onyango Oiki, 65,
for declining to support him to seek the
services of a witch doctor.
He is said to have later sold the old mans
donkey without his consent to get the cash,
prompting a confrontation between them.
Okuta is alleged to have hit his father on
the head with a piece of wood, killing him
instantly on July 17, 2014, at Nyagwethe
village in Suba Sub-county.
The body was taken to Homa Bay
District Hospital mortuary. Suba OCPD
Richard Kaptum said they liaised with their
counterparts in Migori County to apprehend
the suspect.
Police in Mbeere South have arrested
a 22-year-old man who allegedly deled
a nine-year-old girl in Gikiiro location
a month ago. Gikiiro Chief Eston Ireri
said the suspect deled the Standard
Three pupil while she was at home
and the incident reported to Kiritiri
Police Station. He said the girl was then
examined at a nearby hospital, where
medics were able to establish that
sexual intercourse had taken place.
The man, who comes from
Kivaa area, was employed at the
minors home. He went missing after
committing the heinous crime and was
only spotted on Saturday evening and
we arrested him, Ireri said.
The Chief said the suspect will be
arraigned in court today.
The number of primary schools in
Kisumu County
Number of
dispensaries in
Kisumu County
Kisumu County Government will
recruit Metro policemen and women to
boost security of county leaders. It says
the move will create jobs for hundreds
of youths.
It follows a report by the county
assemblys Budget and Appropriation
and Delegated County Legislation
committees that recommended the
drafting of a law for recruitment of the
Metro Police to battle insecurity.
The Assembly should come up with
a Metropolitan Bill, where only youths
who are disciplined, trustworthy and
tested will be recruited, read the
reports. Other than the Metro Police,
the MCAs will be free to own guns and
have bodyguards.
MURANGA COUNTY
Sh6.5b okayed for
development
y B BONIFACE GIKANDI
Muranga County Government can access
its Sh6.5 billion allocation for development
projects, after the assembly passed
the much awaited Appropriations Bill.
Assembly Majority Leader Mr Peter Kihungi
moved the Motion to allow the county
government spend the allocation from
the national Treasury and local revenue.
The Appropriations Bill was passed after
members withdrew the contentious Ward
Development Bill, which intended to
allocate MCAs millions of shillings in a fund
similar to the Constituency Development
Fund. Kihungi said the county budget, which
was passed in June allocated huge chucks
of money to support irrigation, road and
dairy programmes at Sh500 million Sh700
million and Sh300 million respectively.
Governors have been urged to
establish fully fledged legal depart-
ments headed by county attorneys
who will be at the same level as ex-
ecutive secretaries.
Kenya Law Reforms Commission
(KLRC) chief executive Joash Dache,
said once set up, these legal depart-
ments will help in advising the gover-
nor in his work at the county.
Speaking while paying a courtesy
call on Siaya county governor Cornel
Rasanga, Dache and his team said le-
gal matters are of great concern and
county governments must ensure
they are functioning above the law
at all times.
The county governments are in
a position to make their own legis-
lations and laws. They can manage
this if they have attorneys to offer
the county executives legal advice on
various issues, Dache said.
Police on Saturday night arrested
ten Ethiopian immigrants at a farm
in Ruiru following a tip-off from the
public.
The foreigners were arrested in
Gikumari village as they were being
dropped in a Probox, ready to board
an awaiting lorry.
Ruiru Deputy OCPD Mr Bir-
gen Kiptoo said they conducted the
swoop after a tip-off from the public
on the presence of strangers and sus-
picious people at the farm.
We are yet to know where they
were going but the aliens are held at
Ruiru Police Station as investigations
continue, said Kiptoo.
The foreigners were all men, with
Ethiopian passports. Three Kenyans,
the lorry and Probox drivers and a
turn boy, were also arrested.
Mt Elgon MP John Serut has asked
secondary schools not to send stu-
dents from poor backgrounds home
over school fees. The MP promised
that funds from the area Constitu-
ency Development Fund (CDF) kit-
ty would be used to pay the arrears.
He said head teachers should furnish
the Mt Elgon CDF office with names
of students from poor and vulnera-
ble families, for them to receive bur-
saries.
Speaking at Kipsis Secondary
School over the weekend, Serut said
the Government pays part of school
fees for each student, and it is unfair
for head teachers, especially those
of day schools to send the learners
home. He asked chiefs to work close-
ly with the head teachers to identify
the needy cases.
A man killed his father for refusing
him a cow to sell.
Mwangi wa Iria, Muranga Governor
Page 21 COUNTY ROUND UP / Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
Deputy President William Ruto chats with a worshipper at AIC Waunifor in Uasin Gishu County after presiding over the
launch of the churchs choir music album. Sitted on the right is Ainabkoi MP Samuel Chepkonga. [PHOTO: KEVIN TUNOI/
STANDARD]
TAITA TAVETA COUNTY
UASIN GISHU COUNTY
Activists protest
breakup of demo
Methane linked to
pneumonia cases
Ofcial cautions
on new schools
Boda boda operators in Busia
County have accused police of us-
ing excessive force in breaking up a
demonstration to protest introduc-
tion of a new levy.
Led by Busia County Bodaboda
Association Chairman Eric Makokha,
the boda boda men said it was wrong
for police to apply force in dispersing
the protestors who were seeking an
audience with Busia Governor Sos-
peter Ojaamong.
The demonstration was peaceful
and we intended to deliver a memo-
randum to the governor , said Ma-
kokha.
Makokha, who is in the hiding af-
ter police issued a warrant of arrest
against him for leading the protest,
said the county government violat-
ed the Constitution when it imposed
a Sh300 tax per month on all motor-
bikes without consulting the public.
Kisumu Countys Bio-Energy and
Climate Change official has attribut-
ed an increase of methane gas em-
anating from solid waste to cases of
pneumonia in the county.
Climate Change Chief Officer
Lorna Omuodo said the county pro-
duces approximately 27,094 metric
tonnes of methane gas from solid
waste, which generates approximate-
ly 27,094 metric tonnes of methane
gas that can cause respiratory prob-
lems like pneumonia.
One metric tonne of waste gener-
ates about 62 metric tonnes of meth-
ane per day yet we have approxi-
mately 437 metric tonnes of waste,
she said.
She said the methane gas pro-
duced usually ends up in Lake Vic-
toria, where there are no plants to
absorb it, posing risk to Kisumu res-
idents.
Education stakeholders in Tai-
ta-Taveta County have been asked to
improve the existing infrastructure in
local schools to boost learning.
Speaking in Voi Town, County Di-
rector of Education Jonathan Nyamai
said registering new schools, which
dont have the necessary facilities
and enough teachers may lower ed-
ucation standards in the area.
Increase in the number of
schools must be matched with an
increase in the number of teachers
which unfortunately is still a chal-
lenge. The county still has a shortage
of teachers and we cannot therefore
encourage the establishment of more
schools, said the education boss.
The education official said the
long-awaited laptops project that
had failed to kick off due to procure-
ment bottlenecks would be rolled out
next year.
NYERI COUNTY
HOMA BAY COUNTY BUSIA COUNTY KIAMBU COUNTY KISUMU COUNTY
KERICHO COUNTY
Appeal Court upholds
delement verdict
Conmen extort
new tutors
Kuria, MP clash
over support
Sacked staf told to
vacate premises
y B MURIMI MWANGI
y B JAMES OMORO y B BRYAN TUMWA
y B KAMAU MAICHUHIE
y B PASCAL MWANDAMBO
y B MAUREEN ODIWUOR
y B BOAZ KIPNGENOH AND REBECCA
ABANGA
The Court of Appeal sitting in Nyeri
has declined to free a man jailed for life
for deling an 11-year-old girl in church
premises, in Muranga East District.
Richard Wahome will now spend the rest
of his life behind bars after appellate judges
Alnashir Visram, Martha Koome and Otieno
Odek upheld the conviction.
The court heard that the Class Four pupil
was heading home from school on March 13,
2009, when she met Wahome who dragged
her to an incomplete church building and
deled her.
After the ordeal, Wahome is said to have
threatened the girl that he would kill her if
she disclosed what had happened.
In his defence, the suspect claimed that
he had had a four-month relationship with
the girls mother and accused her of a
frame-up. Wahome had been convicted by a
magistrates court.

Homa Bay County Public Service
Board has expressed concern over a
group of conmen who are trying to
extort money from recently employed
pre-school teachers.
The boards secretary Agnes
MakDwalo said the fraudsters are
sending short text messages (SMS),
purportedly from the board, to the
teachers, asking each of them to pay
Sh170 to facilitate processing of their
pay slips and inclusion on the payroll.
The SMSs have not been sent by
the Public Service Board. This is a scam
and anyone who has received such a
message or fallen victim to the ruse
should report the matter to police,
MakDwalo said in a press statement.
Homa Bay County Government
has employed 1,100 Early Childhood
Eduction teachers across the county.
A TNA legislator publicly clashed
with the partys candidate for Gatundu
South, Moses Kuria, in the forthcoming
by-election. Lari MP Mburu Kahangara,
while addressing a gathering in
Gatundus Kiganjo statdium, also
attended by Mr Kuria, sounded non-
committal to the endorsement of Kuria.
This ignited an exchange between
the two leaders, with Kuria accusing
the MP of trying to misdirect voters,
by refusing to publicly endorse him. It
is not my business to tell you who to
elect as your next MP. However, I urge
you to be careful and elect a leader to
continue the good legacy of the late
MP, Kahangara said.
How can you tell the people to think
and make an informed decision instead
of telling them to vote for me? posed
Kuria.
Industrial Court has ordered workers
who were dismissed by Unilever Tea
Company over allegations of sexual
ofences to vacate the rms premises
immediately.
The court ordered ve workers who
had been dismissed by the Kericho-based
company to move out of the staf quarters.
Justice Byram Ongaya issued the orders
during the hearing of a case led by Kenya
Plantation and Agricultural Workers Union
challenging eviction of the workers.
Unilever legal representative Esther
Opiyo told court that the workers violated
the companys Code of Business Principles
by allegedly engaging in sexual acts which
included harassment of fellow employees.
The company was, however, ordered to
provide housing for the workers pending
hearing and determination of the case in
September.
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Traders wave
bottles with
mnazi brew
during their
meeting at
Jomvu Kuu in
Mombasa
County. Over 50
mnazi brewers
from the county
protested police
crackdown at
their work
place. Mnazi is
a popular local
brew in Coast
region. [PHOTO:
OMONDI ONYANGO/
STANDARD]
Members of the Mombasa Coun-
ty Assembly (MCAs) have accused the
police of harassing palm wine traders
although the brew has been legalised.
During a heated debate in the
County Assembly, the MCAs demand-
ed that the police stop the crack-
down, while others opposed the con-
sumption of the local brew, known as
mnazi, claiming it had ruined many
homes in the Coastal region.
Police are arresting sellers and
users of mnazi when they know that
drinking and selling mnazi is not il-
legal. The brew was legalised by the
same government that is now harass-
Assembly in heated debate over mnazi
ing our people, said nominated MCA
Sarah Nyamvula, who claimed she
was an ardent user of the brew.
Nyamvula also said that palm wine
and the palm tree should be protect-
ed because it was a source of employ-
ment for the Miji Kenda people.
She claimed prominent Miji Ken-
da personalities like the late minis-
ter Karisa Maitha and former MP Dr
Chibule wa Tsuma were educated
through the sale of mnazi.
MANY BENEFITS
When I think of mnazi, what
comes to my mind is the late Karisa
Maitha. If it was not for the brew we
would not have produced leaders like
him or Dr Chibule, said Nyamvula.
She called on the Speaker to form a
committee to visit Malaysia and learn
about the benefits of the palm tree.
Mwakirunge Ward Rep Enock
Mwadziwe said the palm tree car-
ries sentimental value for Coast re-
gion, since the brew produced from
the tree is used during important cel-
ebrations.
But Tononoka Ward rep Saad Faraj
said although he was aware of the
The long-awaited rehabili-
tation of the Yatta Water Canal
will kick off end of August this
year, Yatta MP Francis Mwan-
gangi disclosed yesterday.
The MP said the project,
which is expected to help ad-
dress the water crisis in the ar-
ea, will cost the national gov-
ernment a whopping Sh2
billion.
Presiding over a prize-giv-
ing ceremony at Ikombe Sec-
ondary School where he
donated Sh1million for con-
struction of toilets at the in-
stitution, Mr Mwangangi said
the project will also offer res-
idents jobs.
The MP said the second
phase, which will entail con-
struction of a dam, would cost
Sh3 billion. The initiative will
be sponsored by the African
Development Bank and the
national government.
DEPLORABLE STATE
In a day full of goodies for
residents, the MP at the same
time revealed that the county
government would tarmac the
Katanga/Matuu road that is
currently in a deplorable state.
On national politics, the
legislator castigated those de-
manding for the disbandment
of the Independent Electoral
and Boundaries Commission,
and challenged them to give
up their position if they believe
last years polls were flawed.
If they think the IEBC is
not worth the office, then they
should tell us why they accept-
ed to be put in office by the
same body, said the MP, and
instead called for strengthen-
ing of the body.
He also faulted calls for
withdrawal of Kenya Defence
Forces from Somalia.
Dock Workers Union
(DWU) will present an alterna-
tive community charter for the
port of Mombasa to President
Uhuru Kenyatta in 30 days to
counter the one he launched
last month.
Union leaders claimed the
charter commissioned by the
President was meant to priva-
tise the facility and would cost
4,635 port workers their jobs.
The union leaders said the
Kenya Ports Authority (KPA)
Strategic Plan 2013/2017 also
supports privatisation of the
port.
In a statement yesterday,
chairman Jaffer Kiti, general
secretary Simon Sang and trea-
surer Patrick Atinga proposed
a target-based performance
contract to be signed by work-
ers, as opposed to the existing
Wajibika strategy, which they
claimed was non-committal
on targets.
They also propose to raise
container handling perfor-
mance from the current 19
moves per hour to 30 instead
of the Kenya Ports Authori-
ty (KPA) managements pro-
posed 25 moves per hour tar-
get by 2017.
RAISE PERFORMANCE
Instead of privatising, we
intend to implement reformed
permanent gangs arrange-
ment with agreed performance
target, they said.
Sh2b project to solve perennial water
shortage in Yatta to start in August
Dock workers new charter for Uhuru
trees importance to the peo-
ple in the region, he pointed
out that the brew was known
to have broken many homes.
We know that tree has its
many benefits to the public,
but what we are opposed to is
the aspect of producing drunk-
ards. The brew has wrecked
thousand of homes, leaving
children to fend for them-
selves. As Muslims, we dont
condone alcohol drinking,
not even mnazi, said Faraj,
prompting some members to
query if the MP was against the
brew based on his religion.
Mr Speaker, Hon Faraj is
condemning the brew based
on religion. Just because he
does not drink does not make
drinking mnazi illegal, Junda
Ward rep Paul Onje said.
MCAs want the
palm tree protected
since it is a source of
employment for many
MOMBASA COUNTY
MACHAKOS COUNTY
MOMBASA COUNTY
y B STANLEY MWAHANGA AND
PATRICK BEJA
y B VICTOR NZUMA
y B PATRICK BEJA
Page 23 COAST/EASTERN NEWS / Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
Kilifi Senator Stewart Madzayo has
clashed with Kaloleni District Com-
missioner Fred Dunga over the ongo-
ing crackdown on suspected mem-
bers of the Mombasa Republican
Council (MRC).
At the same time, Kilifi Governor
Amason Kingi (pictured) has accused
Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph ole
Lenku of holding meetings in the ar-
ea without informing the county gov-
ernment
The brawl erupted after Dunga re-
jected a proposal by local politicians
to be incorporated in security meet-
ings, claiming they had no role in se-
curity matters.
The issue of security falls under
the national government and we will
not discuss sensitive security matters
in public. But the politicians are free
to come to our offices for any secu-
rity related information, said Dunga
during a meeting at Mitsikitsini Pri-
mary School in Kaloleni.
HARASSING RESIDENTS
But a furious Madzayo challenged
the administrators stand, adding that
the national government must in-
volve governors and other local lead-
ers in the fight against insecurity.
Officials from the national gov-
ernment are required to involve gov-
ernors in all security matters and we
will not tolerate cases where they are
sidelined, said the senator.
He also accused police conducting
security operations in the county of
harassing residents.
Kili senator
clashes with DC over
MRC crackdown
We have seen cases where inno-
cent residents returning from their
farms are arrested and branded MRC
supporters and we will not accept
that, said Madzayo.
Kingi also said Lenku and the na-
tional government had sidelined his
administration in the war against in-
security and MRC.
And while addressing mourn-
ers during the burial of a local el-
der, Deche Kai, at his home on Satur-
day, Madzayo lashed out at area chief
Baraka Yeri for allegedly imposing an
illegal dusk to dawn curfew.
The chief denied the claim, say-
ing he had only asked mourners at-
tending burials to return home early
to avoid being attacked by criminals.
Kilifi County Commissioner Albert
Kobia recently said the Government
has strong intelligence indicating that
the MRC is re-grouping to cause vio-
lence in the country.
Mr Kobia also said security forces
arrested seven suspected MRC mem-
bers in Kaya Choni Forest early this
month.
KILIFI COUNTY
y B JOSEPH MASHA
Governor promises to turn around
fortunes of Kitui residents for better
KITUI COUNTY
We had
cases where
innocent
residents
returning
from their
farms are
arrested
and
branded
MRC
supporters
and we will
not accept
that.
Kitui Governor Julius
Malombe has reiterated his
commitment to give servant
leadership to change peoples
lives.
Dr Malombe said he does
not encourage noise making
and empty rhetoric and asked
residents from the county
to support his development
agenda.
The governor was address-
ing mourners during the buri-
al of mama Martha Kalondu
Mutinda at her farm in Mise-
wani village, Changwithya East
location, Kitui Central District
over the weekend. The de-
ceased is the stepmother to
former Cabinet ministers Dan-
iel Mutinda and John Mutinda.
Malombe said when he
took office slightly over a year
ago, he undertook to stream-
line the County Government
operations by setting up the
necessary systems and struc-
tures for efficient and effective
delivery of services to the peo-
ple of Kitui.
ONE VOICE
For long, the people of Kitui
County have suffered all kinds
of ignominy. We have cried un-
der pangs of hunger. We have
watched painfully as our chil-
dren cry for water. We have
watched our crops wither and
our animals perish in devastat-
ing famines and droughts, the
governor said.
He said the Kitui-Museve-Wa-
luku road will be upgraded to
enable the residents reach their
destinations with ease and im-
prove their economic status.
The governor further said the
perennial water problem in the
county would be a thing of the
past after the old water pipes
were replaced with new ones.
Kitui Central MP Makali Mulu
said his Wiper Democratic Party
would keep the vow to be sensi-
tive to peoples needs and aspi-
rations.
Mulu said as leaders in
the county they would not
lose focus in addressing the
myriad challenges affect-
ing the residents and called
for cooperation and unity of
purpose.

County Assembly Speaker
George Ndotto said despite
few noises, the majority of
county leaders were unit-
ed and spoke in one voice in
support of Malombe.
y B PAUL MUTUA
WAJIR ANTI-CORRUPTION AND JUSTICE FORUM LOBBY
PRESS RELEASE
Advertisers Announcement
Our attention has been drawn to the Press release by the County Government of Wajir appearing at page 15 of the
Saturday Nation of July 12, 2014 and at page 13 of the Saturday Standard of July 12, 2014 and we now wish to exercise
our right of reply as follows;
We must acknowledge from the outset that much as the Government of Wajir has made effort to acknowledge reading
our petition, we are saddened to note that instead of responding to specifics in the petition, the County Government
of Wajir has resorted to generalized and spurious denials leaving the petition largely unanswered. The purported press
release in answer to our petition reminds us of the famous remarks by the late John Michuki (former Minister of Internal
Security) when he was responding to an outcry over the infamous Standard Newspaper raid by the altur brothers when
he retorted as follows; if you rattle a snake, you must be prepared to be bitten.
The late Honourable John Michuki was then responding to an outcry from the press protesting muzzling of the press
by the Kibaki administration. The Wajir Anti-Corruption and Justice Forum is a voluntary non-governmental organization
operating within Wajir County mainly as an anti-corruption watch for the well fare of the people of Wajir. When we raise
issues on governance and accountability in Wajir County, we do so as a duty within our mandate as an organization and
as residents of Wajir County. We therefore should not be accused of harbouring any malice against the entire government
of Wajir County without pointing out the motivation for such malice.
Turning to specifics in reply to the said press release let us point out the following;
(i) It is a lie that we have no presence in Wajir County it can be confirmed that we have a presence in all the
constituencies in Wajir County with staff fully paid for by the organisation. That is how we managed to put
together the issues in our said petition. Those who live in Wajir County will confirm our presence to the doubting
Thomas.
(ii) Democracy is expensive and if one wants to inculcate a culture of transparency, inclusiveness, openness and
accountability, they must be ready to spend. This is a cost we are not about to abandon and if the Wajir County
Government thinks that by questioning our individual and collective expenditure to inform the public amounts to
illogical and non-sensical, then it better be informed that we are ready to spend even more to bring good order
the management affairs of Wajir County.
(iii) We stand by our petition that the County government of Wajir is a haven of corruption and we are ready to verify
all the issues raised in our petition on oath. We demand that the County Secretary also swears on oath to verify
the defence in the subject press release and we will see who blinks first.
(iv) We still maintain that the Wajir County Assembly is not up to its over sight role and has been reduced to a choir
singing for those who pay for the piper which is the executive in Wajir County. The County Assembly of Wajir is
not independent as envisioned in the Constitution.
(v) We are not saying that the Governor has not appointed Executive Committee members but our complain is that
he has done this in disregard to merit and the law of regional balance and the County Assembly miserably failed
in its role to put the Governor to account but instead rubberstamped his choice. We have given specific instances
in our petition and none of those have specifically been denied.
(vi) On the recruitment of the Director of Public participation, we demand to be told when the same was advertised,
who the applicants were and who the shortlisted candidates were, the results of the interview and date of
appointment and terms of reference. Also provide the schedule of public forums held within the County since
the inauguration of the County government of Wajir.
(vii) We will also demand information on advertisements for tenders of all projects so far undertaken by the
County Government of Wajir, list of bidders, tender evaluation forms and the list of all successful bidders. This
information should include bills of quantities, (where necessary) for these projects and a schedule of payments
for these projects upon completion if the government wants us to take them seriously on adherence to the Public
Procurement and Disposals Act.
(viii) We challenge the Governor to publish; all people recruited , their clan, sub clan, establishment, emolument,
salary, type of service, professional qualification, education, adverts seeking employment, evidence of both long
and short listing, evidence of interview process, score sheet, interview results and letter of appointment for all
County employees.
(ix) We challenge the Governor to publish how much funds have gone to each Sub County or wards, types of projects
undertaken, tender notifications, summary of register for all bidders, directors of the bidding companies, winning
and losing bidders, minutes of both technical and financial evaluations.
(x) We further challenge the Governor to publish how much money was allocated to his office, purpose of allocation,
the list of beneficiaries and the payment vouchers.
(xi) We challenge the Governor to publish the; list of all employees of the County by Names, Clan, Sub Clan, Ward,
and Sub County, academic and professional qualifications, and to specify those who are employed by service
board and those appointed by him directly.
(xii) It is for the people of Wajir to access whether the fruits of devolution are being felt instead of the County
Government blowing its own trumpet. It does not help matter by assuaging the people that what has been done
in the past one year of devolution cannot be compared with the development carried out since independence.
The petitioners acknowledge that something have been done but not in compliance with the law and only to the
benefit of few individuals.
(xiii) Whether the recruitment of 230 health workers, construction of 30 new maternities, 10 new dispensaries and
name it has been done or not is not the question raised in our petition but rather whether all these were done
in accordance with the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, the Constitution and County Governments Act.
Employing, buying or constructing is not a defence to our petition but we expected the County Government to
respond to specific projects undertaken in disregard of the law on Public Procurement and Disposals Act and
the Public Finance and Management Act. Issues of conflict of interest covered in our petition have also not been
specifically responded to.
(xiv) We challenge the Governor to tell the public why a portrait of him bearing his Excellency the Governor of Wajir
County is displayed in every office of the County and some shops if not a criminal offence and/or his arrogant
dictatorial display of power.
(xv) It is not in dispute that there have been inter-clan conflicts within Wajir County as acknowledged by the County
Government, but what have they done for this affected people Much as we are told that the Governor has
established the directorate of peace building and conflict resolution, other than eating in their name and taking
advantage of their suffering. Further was this directorates appointment done competitively and transparently
through the Wajir County Public Service Board? Or are they political appointee for the County Governor who are
used at his whims.
(xvi) The final questions we pause to the County Government of Wajir are as follows; what was the cost incurred by
the County Government of Wajir to put up the subject press release in two local dailies? Was that cost justified?
Who approved the said expenditure? Was it done in compliance with the Public procurement and Disposals
Act? Did the controller of budgets approve the expenditure? Is the expenditure prudent as required under the
Constitution and the Public Finance Management Act? Over to you Mumo Matemu Tsar of the Ethics and Anti-
Corruption Commission.
(xvii) We wish to notify the Wajir Governor and his executive our petition has overwhelming support of the residents
of the Wajir County.
We want to remind the County Government of Wajir that you can buy loyalty to fight our petition, you can
use your officials to cast aspersions on our petition, you can buy all newspapers to deny the people of Wajir
the right to be informed BUT you cannot kill the truth..
We have demanded for publication of information demanded herein in line with the provisions of Article 35
of the Constitution which guarantees right to information under the bill of rights.
We will not be cowed by threats of force, injury or otherwise be intimidated in any way from championing our cause
which is openness; truthfulness and accountability in pursuit of justice and fairness in an open, democratic and free
society which thrives in the rule of law and any ill-conceived defamation claim will be defended on the premise of
justification.
To the County Government of Wajir, may we put you on notice that our Petition has been forwarded to the relevant
authority and agencies for action and please reserve your defence for use in the right forum.
DATED and Signed at Nairobi for and on behalf of Wajir Ant-Corruption and Justice Forum this Sunday 20
th
July, 2014.
Mohammed Abikar, Chairman
P.O. Box 149, Wajir.
Cell Phone: 0707-488 001
www.Wajiranticorruptionlobby.co.ke
wajufo@gmail.com.
PETITION AGAINST THE GOVERNOR OF WAJIR COUNTY
ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF GENERAL
SERVICE OFFICER (GSO) CADET AND SPECIALIST OFFICERS
INTO THE KENYA DEFENCE FORCES
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
Telegrams: DEFENCE Nairobi
Tel No.: +254-20-2721100
Fax No.: +254-20-2725854
Defence Headquarters
Ulinzi House
P.O. Box 40668
Nairobi 00100
The KDF is pleased to announce to the general public that there will be a recruitment of General Service Offcer (GSO)
Cadets & Specialist Offcers. Prospective candidates wishing to apply must possess the following relevant requirements.
1. Requirements
a. Must be Kenyan citizens.
b. Age: Between 18 and 26 years old for GSO Cadets and
upto 29 years for Specialist Offcers.
c. Be physically and medically ft in accordance with the KDF
standards.
d. Have no criminal record.
e. Minimum Height: 5 ft 3 in. (53).
f. Minimum Weight:
(1) Men 54.55 Kg (120 lb).
(2) Women 50.00 Kg (110 lb).
g. Women candidates must NOT be pregnant at recruitment
and during training.
h. Education:
(1) General Service Offcer (GSO) Cadets
A minimum of mean grade B (Plain) in KCSE upto degree
level with minimum subject grade of C+ (Plus) in English,
Mathematics and in any one of the Pure Sciences (Physics,
Chemistry or Biology).Those aspiring to join KDF as GSO
Cadets should note that the initial training period will cover
three continuous years leading to a BSC in Military Science
on successful completion.
(2) Specialist Offcers
A minimum of mean grade B (Plain) in KCSE and an
undergraduate degree from a recognised University/
Institution. Must be registered with the relevant statutory
body, where applicable.
Experience: Minimum of two (2) years working experience
for Specialist Offcers.
2. Vacancies
a. General Service Offcer (GSO) Cadets
b. Specialist Offcers
(1) Medical Offcers
Must have a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
(MBCh.B) degree and be registered with the Medical
Practitioners and Dentists Board (MPDB).
(2) Dentists
Must have a Bachelor of Dentistry degree and be registered
with the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board (MPDB).
(3) Pharmacists
Must have a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy degree and
be registered with the Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB).
(4) Nurses
Must have a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree and be
registered with the Nursing Council of Kenya (NCK).
(5)
Must have a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health
degree.
(6) Medical Laboratory
Must have a Bachelor of Science in Medical Laboratory
Sciences and Technology degree and be registered with the
Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians & Technology Board
(KMLTTB).
(7) Nutritionists
Must have a Bachelor of Science in nutrition and Dietetics.
(8) Clinical Psychologist
Must have a Bachelor in Psychology.
(9) Lawyers
Must have a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree and a
postgraduate diploma from the Kenya School of Law, must
be admitted as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya and
.
(10) Architects

Must have a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) degree and
be registered with the Board of Registration of Architects
and Quantity Surveyors (BORAQS).
(11) Quantity Surveyors
Must have a Bachelor of Quantity Surveying degree and be
registered with the Board of Registration of Architects and
Quantity Surveyors (BORAQS).
(12) Electrical Engineers
Must have a BSc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
or Bachelor of Technology degree and be registered with
the Engineers Registration Board (ERB).
(13) Mechanical/Marine Engineers
Must have a BSc. in Mechanical Engineering or BSc. in
Production Engineering degree and be registered with the
Engineers Registration Board (ERB).
(14) Civil and Structural Engineers

Must have a BSc. in Civil and Structural Engineering degree
and be registered with the Engineers Registration Board
(ERB).
(15)

Must have a Bachelor of Education (Bed) degree.
(16) IT Specialists

Must have a BSc. in Computer Science or BSc. in Information
Technology or Bachelor of Computer Technology (BCT)
degree.
(17) Chaplains/Imams
(a)

Roman Catholic Chaplains

Must have a professional degree and be an ordained
priest.
(b)

Anglican Church Chaplains

Must have a professional degree and be an ordained
priest.
(c)

Muslim Imams

Imam.
(18) Journalists

Must have B A in Mass Communication / Corporate
Communication.

3.
months.
4.
and national ID card must be attached to the application and be
addressed to the:
Assistant Chief of the Defence Forces
(Personnel and Logistics)
Ministry of Defence
Defence Headquarters
Ulinzi House
P.O. Box 40668
NAIROBI 00100
so as to reach him on or before 25
th
July 2014.
5.

Candidates who will be shortlisted for GSO Cadets / Specialist
7
th

Sep 14
th
Sep 2014.
(19) Environmental Impact Assessment Expert
Must have a degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
or Natural Recourse Management and must be registered with The
National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) as Lead expert.
(20) GIS Specialist

Must have a degree in geographic information Systems (GIS) or Degree
in Geographical Survey with a bias in GIS from a recognized University
(21) Physical Planner
Must have a Degree in Urban and Regional Planning and must be
registered with Physical Registration Board.
I
wish to congratulate the Commission for University
Education (CUE) for the launching of the Universities
Regulations, 2014 and ve-year Strategic Plan (2014-
2018) that will guide the operations and actions of
the Commission. This is an important step in the growth and
development of the Commission since its transformation
under the Universities Act 2012. This plan will go a long
way in facilitating the Commission to fulll its expanded
mandate of regulating and registering both private and
public universities as well as foreign institutions operating
in the human resource needs and the realization of the
Vision 2030. As a regulator in this sector the government
takes great interest in the country. The quality of university
education being is important for ensuring that the country
meets work of the Commission.
This is why my Ministry is proud of the accomplishments
and commitment of the Commission to map out its future
strategies and direction as encapsulated in the Strategic Plan
being launched today.
I would like to commend the Commission for the
important role that it is playing in guiding, regulating and
expanding the university sector in Kenya; while maintaining
quality and relevance. The Government will ensure that the
Commission is provided with all the necessary resources and
support for it to play these roles effectively and efciently and also; to and advise the Government
on necessary and important policies that are required for this sector.
The Kenya Vision 2030 and the new Constitution have recognized the importance of research and
knowledge management as important strategies for national growth and development. Our success
in achieving this agenda is greatly hinged on the work of the Commission.
As the Commission launches the Universities Regulations and the Strategic Plan it is my sincere
hope that this will go a long way in improving the work of the Commission.
I congratulate you on this achievement.
U
niversity education holds the key to
any countrys participation in the
increasingly globalized knowledge
society. In Kenya, the growth and
expansion of university education has undergone
tremendous transformation in the recent past.
A notable amendment was the enactment of
Universities Act No. 42 of 2012 which expanded
the mandate of the Commission and ascertained
a level playing ground for both public and private
universities. One of the predominant concerns
has remained that of ensuring that quality is
established and sustained in the universities.
The Commission for University Education is
cognizant of the fact that accelerated growth in
Universities has a direct impact on the quality
of programmes. Universities are encouraged to
develop and institute internal quality assurance
mechanisms that will enhance the quality and
reputation of university education.
The Commission has made great strides
in ensuring the maintenance of standards,
quality and relevance in all aspects of university
education, training and research. The
Commission will continue to mainstream quality
assurance practices in university education by
encouraging continuous improvement of the
quality of universities and programmes. The
launching of this strategic plan (2014-2018)
marks a major milestone in jump starting an
invigorating the activities of the commission
for University education (CUE).
VISION
Accessible, relevant and sustainable quality
university education
MISSION
To regulate and assure quality university
education by setting standards & guidelines
and monitoring compliance for global
competitiveness.
MANDATE
To promote the objectives of university
educati on, by regul ati ng, accredi ti ng
and facilitating university research and
programmes.
Corporate Values and Principles
The values and principles that underpin
the operations of the Commission and provide
operational guidelines for service delivery are:
a. Professionalism
b. Integrity
c. Teamwork
d. Accountability and
e. Responsiveness
QUALITY POLICY STATEMENT
The Commission is committed to ensuring
increased access to sustainable quality university
education and training through planning,
coordination, resource mobilization and quality
assurance enhancement and information.
Est abl i shment and Mandat e of t he
Commission
The Commission for University Education was
established by an Act of Parliament, Universities Act,
No. 42 of 2012 as the successor to the Commission
for Higher Education which was established under
Universities Act Cap 21B of 1985.
FUNCTIONS
1. Promote the objectives of university
education
2. Advise the Cabinet Secretary on policy
relating to University Education
3. Promote, set standard and assure relevance
in the quality of university education,
4. Monitor and evaluate the state of university
education systems in relation to the national
development goals
5. License any student recruitment agencies
operating in Kenya and any activities by
foreign institutions,
6. Develop policy for criteria and requirements
for admission to universities
7. Recognize and equate degrees, diplomas and
certicates conferred or awarded by foreign
universities and institutions in accordance
with the standards and guidelines set by the
Commission from time to time,
8. Undertake or cause to be undertaken, regular
inspections, monitoring and evaluation of
universities to ensure compliance with set
standards and guidelines,
9. Collect, disseminate and maintain data on
university education,
10. Accredit universities in Kenya,
11. Regulate university education in Kenya,
12. Accredit and inspect university programme
in Kenya,
13. Promote quality research, innovation and
university-industry linkages.
14. Perform such other functions and exercise
such other powers as the Commission may
deem necessary for the proper discharge of
its mandate under the universities Act.
Launch of the Universities Regulations and Strategic Plan (2014-2018)
Africa Nazarene University Vice Chancellor Leah
Marangu receives a Certicate of Re-inspection
from the CEO of the Commission for University
Education.
T
he State Department of Education in
the Ministry of Education, Science and
Technology celebrates and congratulates the
Commission for University Education (CUE)
as it launches the Universities Regulations, 2014 and
Strategic Plan (2014- 2018).
This is an extremely important milestone as this
process will help the Commission chart its way forward as
a regulator and policy advisor in the Universities sector.
Our quest to nurture and provide world class universities
solely lies in the work and efforts of the Commission;
to Charter, register and regulate this vital sector. This
launch ensures that the Commission pursues the right
priorities and avails the necessary
resources to meet its goals and objectives.
Commitment and improved service delivery are key
expectations that the Commission should impress when
serving the Kenyan public.
The Ministry is fully aware that for Kenya to
produce high quality manpower and research products
the university education sector requires radical
transformation. There is need to prudently manage
resources, academic programmes, streamline admission
and support relevant research at both public and private
universities. The Commission has an important role in ensuring that this happens. AS a Ministry
we are committed to working with the Commission to improve academic standards and make
our Universities competitive both regionally and internationally.
I take this opportunity to congratulate the Commission on this auspicious launch of their
strategic plan and urge it to live up to its mandate of ensuring that Quality Management Systems
(QMS) that it has subscribed to is adhered to. Once again congratulations.
Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi PhD, EBS
Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of
Education, Science and Technology
Message from the Cabinet Secretary, Education Science
and Technology
Message from the Principal Secretary, State
Department of Education
Dr. Belio Kipsang
Principal Secretary
State Department of Education
Q
uality University Education will be crucial
in the production of the human resources
required for implementing Vision 2030.
The development and review of programmes at the
universities have not kept pace with the merging
social and economic challenges. Moreover, the
growing demand for university education has
triggered the establishment of many institutions and
alternative modes of delivery, some with questionable
quality. The Commissions challenge is to ensure that
these developments do not compromise the quality
of university education and training in Kenya.
The mandate of the Commission is to ensure the
maintenance of standards, quality and relevance
in all aspects of university education, training
and research. The Commission mainstreams
quality assurance practices in university education
and encourages continuous improvement in the
management of the quality of university education.
This is mainly accomplished through a peer process
of audits and reviews. In the past, the work of the
Commission centered on private universities. The
enactment of the Universities Act, 2012 extended
the quality assurance mandate of the Commission
to cover both public and private universities.
The Regulations and Strategic Plan are a positive
step by the Commission in addressing the underlying
challenges facing the university education sector in
Kenya. The sector has multiple and unique issues
which call for a coherent and comprehensive
approach. The plan will guide the Commission in the
delivery of tangible results to its stakeholders for the
next four year, as well as playing its role in achieving
the national goals of the country and society. The
Strategic Plan endeavors to address issues affecting
the sector by providing broad-based strategies that
can give it meaningful opportunities to maximize its
potential in providing services.
I wish to emphasize that the Plan is a statement
of intent. Its key result areas will only be realized if
it is effectively implemented. Responsibility for the
execution of the strategies rests with all commission
staff and stakeholders.
I sincerely thank all those who participated in the
formation of the Regulations and Plan for their ideas
and commitment. As a Commission we shall endeavor
to implement the Regulations to the letter and the
strategies and activities identied in the plan.
Prof. Henry M. Thairu
Chairman
Message from the Chairman
Commission for University Education
Quality: The Agenda
T
he Commission is mandated
to promote the objectives
of university education, by
regulating and accrediting
universities and programmes, among
other functions. To realize this mandate,
we will employ a participatory and
inclusive approach in working the relevant
government ministries, universities,
industries and other relevant stakeholders
in the development of competitive quality
university education, training and research
programmes.
The Strategic Plan articulates the shared
vision, mission, core functions, policy
priorities, strategic objectives and resources
requirements of the Commission for the
period 2014- 2018. In developing these
two vital documents, we have recognized
the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities
and threats of the Commission. Similarly,
CUE has been able to fully appreciate some
of the underlying challenges facing the sector. In realizing its Vision and Mission,
the Commission is guided by its mandate, key result areas and strategic objectives
which also take into consideration the environment within which the Commission
operates.
To actualize the strategies and activities outlined in the Strategic Plan, the
Commission shall continue to engage key stakeholders and partners both locally
and internationally. The operational processes will be reviewed continuously to
provide any necessary strategic adjustments. The Regulations and Strategic Plan are
a commitment by the Commission to deliver high-quality services to all our clients,
collaborators and partners within the strict connes of the Law.
Prof. David K. Some
Commission Secretary/CEO
Message from the Commission Secretary/CEO
T
he Universities Regulations, 2014
operationalize the Universities Act,
No. 42 of 2012. This is in line with
Article 70 of the Act that specically
makes provisions for the making of regulations
that prescribe anything which under the Act
may be prescribed and generally for the better
carrying out of the objects of and purposes of
this Act (Article 70(1) by the Cabinet Secretary
in consultation.
Upon the enactment of the Universities Act,
No. 42 of 2012 on 13th December 2012, the
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology,
in consultation with the Commission for
University Education, studied the Act and
drafted the Universities Regulations aimed ate
operationalizing the Act. In the year 2013, the
draft Universities Regulations were subjected
to stakeholders interrogation, through the
Commissions website and a Stakeholders
Forum, and validated in the said forum held on
28th and 29th October 2013. The Stakeholders
forum comprised of 300 participants, who
included, Vice Chancellors, Deputy Vice
Chancellors, Principals of Colleges, Librarians
and Quality Assurance Ofcers from both
public and private universities, relevant
ministry, parastatal and Semi-Autonomous
Government Agencies (SAGA) representatives
and profession bodies among others. The
Universities Regulations, 2014 were rened,
taking cognizance of the inputs of the various
stakeholders, and gazetted on 12th June
2014.
The Universities Regulations, 2014, which
are currently in force, mainly outline the
interactions between the applicants seeking
to offer, or presently offering, university
education in Kenya; the Commission for
University Education; the Cabinet Secretary
in charge of the Ministry of Education
Science and Technology; and the President
as the country strives towards offering
quality university education. The scope of
the Universities Regulations, 2014 includes
institutional and academic programme related
aspects and covers all universities in Kenya
including public and public universities;
foreign university intending to offer or offering
university education in Kenya; specialized
degree awarding institution; and student
recruitment agency operating in Kenya.
The considerations given in the Universities
Regulations, 2014 address, among other
aspects:
1. Eligibility
2. Application procedures
3. Particulars/conditions required during
application
4. Accreditation/recognition process,
including:
a) Assessment of appl ication for
compliance
b) Selection of an Evaluation Panel based
on laid down criterion
c) Evaluation by Panels, including
verication/inspection of resources
and the compiling of evaluation
reports
d) Consi derati on for approval of
applications by the Commission for
University Education
e) Recommendation to the Cabinet
Secretary for consideration for
establishment of universities (where
applicable)
f ) Recommendation to the President,
by the Cabinet Secretary, for grant
of Charter to universities (where
applicable)
5. Notication to the public on status of
universities in Kenya
6. Monitoring and assessment of universities
and academic programmes of universities,
through carrying out audits for quality
assurance and enhancement
7. Conditions and procedures for winding
up, revocation or variations of institutions
offering university education in Kenya.
8. Requirement that all universities and
university constituent colleges provide
data and information to the Commission
on a regular basis.
The embracing of the Universities
Regulations, 2014, together with the
Universities Standards and Guidelines, 2014,
which further operationalize the Regulations,
shall streamline the provision of quality
university education in Kenya and contribute
towards creating a globally competitive and
prosperous nation with a high quality of life
by 2030.
For further enquiries please contact:
Commission Secretary/
Chief Executive Ofcer
P.O. Box 54999-00200 Nairobi
Physical address:
Redhill Rd. off Limuru Rd., Gigiri
Tel: +254 (020) 7205000
Email: info@cue.or.ke
Website: www.cue.or.ke
THE UNIVERSITIES REGULATIONS, 2014
Strategy and Focus of the Commission
Divisions of the Commission
T
he ever increasing need to regulate, coordinate and assure quality in university
education in Kenya after the enactment of the Universities Act 2012 has necessitated
the Commission to establish more Divisions/Departments in order to accomplish its
mandate. These include the Accreditation (Acc), Quality Audits and Standards (QAS),
Planning Research and Development (PRD) and Finance and Administration (FA) Divisions all
headed by Deputy Commission Secretaries (DCSs).
Mrs. Linah Lilan
Ag. Deputy Commission
Secretary
Finance and Administration
Prof. David Some
Commission Secretary
ex-ofcio Member
Ms. Lucy Wanja Julius
Member
Mr. Abudo Q. Mamo
Member
Ms. Millicent Omukaga
Member
Dr. Belio Kipsang
Principal Secretary
State Department of
Education
Dr. Kamau Thugge
Principal Secretary
National Treasury
Member
Dr. JPR Ochieng-
Odero,
Member
Prof. Wilson K.A Langat
Member
Prof. Henry Thairu
Chairperson
Prof. Anne Nangulu, PhD
Deputy Commission Secretary
Quality Standards and Audit
Dr. Florah Karimi, PhD
Accreditation
Dr. Eusebius J. Mukhwana,
PhD, HSC
Planning, Research and
Development
Members of the Commission
Commission for University Education
Quality: The Agenda
Page 28 / CENTRAL NEWS Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
The Nyandarua County govern-
ment has teamed up with two inter-
national organisations to promote
large-scale production of potatoes in
the area.
The multi-million shilling pota-
to project will involve processing and
marketing of the commodity and is
being undertaken by the Internation-
al Potato Centre and Deutsche Ge-
sellschaft Internationale.
The National Potato Council of
Kenya is also partnering in the project.
Nyandarua Governor Daniel
Waithaka Mwangi urged residents to
take advantage of the investment to
improve their livelihoods.
We are partnering with our
friends to ensure large-scale produc-
tion of potatoes for local and interna-
tional markets. Our friends will work
with co-operative societies to mobil-
ise small-scale producers to take part
in this project, he said.
Mwangi revealed that his adminis-
tration had set aside funds for repair
of rural access roads to ease transpor-
tation of farm produce, adding that
more than 1,000 kilometres of roads
have been graded since he took office.
BAD ROADS
Our farmers have suffered for a
long time because of poor roads, but
this will soon become a thing of the
past, Mwangi said.
The governor also disclosed that
his administration is working with
several organisations to revive the py-
rethrum sector, which collapsed due
to poor management.
Mwangi said they have supplied
farmers in the area with high quality
apple seedlings to boost production
of the crop.
He urged women and youths to
form community-based organisations
to access loans from Uwezo Fund and
the youth development kitty.
My appeal to the youth and wom-
en is that they should form CBOs to
access funding for their activities. This
is the only way we can hope to erad-
icate poverty in this region, he said.
The Governor said his administra-
tion is working with Tana and Athi Riv-
ers Development Authority and oth-
er organisations to rehabilitate all the
222 dams in the area to provide water
for irrigation and domestic use.
Nyandarua Governor Daniel Waitha-
ka Mwangi. His government is work-
ing with several organisations to
boost potato production in the coun-
ty.
Members of the Nyeri County Assem-
bly listen as this years Sh4.6 billion
budget is deliveered. [INSET] Nyeri
County Governor Nderitu Gachagua.
Coffee farmers have lost close to
Sh1 billion due to marketing and mill-
ing blunders by the County Govern-
ment, Nyeri County Assembly was
told last week.
In a report by the sectoral commit-
tee on Agriculture, Livestock, Fisher-
ies and Co-operative Development
tabled in the House, the County Gov-
ernment came under heavy criticism
for the way it handled the milling and
marketing of coffee.
The coffee was not sold when the
prices were high, but when the prices
were as low as 200 dollars per 50 kilo-
gramme, as evidenced in the sale of
Auction Number 20 to 30, the com-
mittee told the House.
The committee claimed Governor
Nderitu Gachagua should be held ac-
countable for the loss and mislead-
ing farmers to join the pool marketing
initiative, spearheaded by the county
government.
In addition, the committee ques-
tioned the ability of Kenya Coffee
Co-operative Exporters (KCCE) to
market the farmers coffee.
KCCE has been the worst per-
former in auction analysis, yet the
governor contracted them to market
farmers coffee, the chairman of the
committee, Joseph Ngunyi, claimed.
He alleged that for a long time,
Nyeri coffee was being hoarded by
KCCE when the prices were as high
as 651 dollars, and later released for
auction when the prices were as low
as 220 dollar per bag.
Mr Ngunyi was responding to a
Marketing
gafe costs
Nyeri farmers
Sh1 billion
question by Majority Leader Ant-
ony Kibuu on how to compensate
the farmers, considering that coffee
farming was the main source of in-
come in the county. Kibuu also want-
ed to know how the produce was mar-
keted and how many bags have so far
been sold.
COFFEE ACT
In addition, he sought to know
how many bags were being held at
Kenya Planters Cooperative Union
warehouse in Sagana.
Ngunyi told the House that despite
selling coffee for more than Sh1.6 bil-
lion, the money was still being held
by KCCE contrary to the Coffee Act,
which states that farmers should be
paid their dues within seven to 14
days after the sale.
On marketing, Ngunyi claimed
the governor decided to market cof-
fee through KCCE instead of an Amer-
ican coffee buying company, the
Green Coffee Vault owned by Timothy
OBrien, as had earlier been planned.
Questions had been raised by
MCAs over the ability, credibility and
capacity of the Green Coffee Vault
company, registered in Missouri, in
the United States, in regards to mar-
keting.
Ngunyi said OBrien and his com-
pany shouldnt be trusted with the
farmers coffee since he had serious
credibility issues, which ought to have
been addressed first.
We know that 116,000 bags from
the county were delivered to Saga-
na millers, but so far only 60,676
bags have been sold at a cost of
Sh1,695,412, the chairman said.
He noted that the farmers should
not expect the Sh130 per kilogramme
KPCU receivership is already over
and it will be taking back its premises
at Sagana, Ngunyi said.
He said according to Coffee Act
2013, marketers are supposed to de-
posit one million dollars with the Cof-
fee Board of Kenya, yet KCCE was yet
to fulfill the requirement.
The Speaker of the Assembly, Da-
vid Mugo, directed the Secretary in
charge of Agriculture and Trade to
appear before the Agriculture com-
mittee to shed more light on the issue.
In a meeting held at Wambugu
Farmers Training Centre on May 10,
Gachagua told farmers they will be
paid on June 30, once all the coffee
stock, which was being held at the
godown, is sold. He urged farmers to
be patient until the end of this month,
when all the coffee under the market-
ing pool initiative would be sold, ei-
ther directly or through auction by the
county government.
as promised by the county govern-
ment. The committee further not-
ed that the county coffee was being
transferred from KCCE warehouse in
Sagana to Dandora, Nairobi to ease
congestion.
LEASE AGREEMENT
Furthermore, the lease agreement
for KCCE to mill and store coffee at
Sagana expired on July 4, this year.
The committee saw no need of re-
newing it.
County to benet from multimillion-shilling potato project
NYERI COUNTY
y B NDERITU GICHURE
A man convicted for defiling an
11-year old girl will spend the rest of
his life in jail after the Court of Appeal
sitting in Nyeri upheld a ruling of the
High Court.
Richard Wahome was charged
with waylaying and defiling the Class
Four pupil on church premises, in
Muranga East District as she came
back from school on March 13, 2009.
Appellate judges Alnashir Visram,
Martha Koome and Otieno Odek
ruled that he had been rightly con-
victed.
In his defence, Wahome claimed
that he had had a four-month rela-
tionship with the girls mother, and
that she framed him after they broke
up.
Wahome had been convicted by
a magistrates court before appealing
the verdict at the High Court, which
upheld the life sentence.
Meanwhile, a man and his 14-year-
old daughter have been charged in
another Nyeri court with jointly de-
filing his 11-year-old daughter.
They denied the charge before Res-
ident Magistrate Phillip Mutua and
were released on bonds of Sh300,000
and 100,000 respectively each with a
surety, pending the continuation of
the case on August 12.
A dispute between a Nyeri prop-
erty firm Mathingira Wholesalers
against retired President Mwai Kiba-
ki, his brother and four elderly men
resumes today.
In the suit, dating back to 2008,
the firm claims the buildings land ti-
tle was still in the name of the six men
who founded the property firm in the
70s. The building in question houses a
leading entertainment joint and rent-
al houses.
Senior counsel Gibson Kam-
au Kuria, who is representing Kiba-
ki and the other respondents, will
be cross-examining witness Sammy
Maina, who wants the contentious
building handed over to the firms
shareholders and deregistered from
the companys founders.
The building and the firm,
Mathingira Wholesalers, are insepa-
rable because it is the only asset that
we own as shareholders, Maina said.
He added: I have been receiving
my dividends which accrue from the
buildings rents until 2008 when this
case started.
The plaintiffs lawyer is Lucy Mwai.
Appeal Court
upholds life
imprisonment
for deler
Kibakis
property
dispute court
case resumes
NYERI COUNTY
NYERI COUNTY
y B MURIMI MWANGI
y B MURIMI MWANGI
y B JAMES MUNYEKI
NYANDARUA COUNTY
Of the 116,000 bags from
the county delivered to Saga-
na millers, so far 60,676 bags
have been sold at a cost of
Sh1,695,412
The cofee was not sold when
the prices were high, but when
they were as low as 200 dollars
per 50kg as evidenced in the
sale of Auction Number 20 to 30
The marketing of cofee from
the county was being handled by
KCCE, whose performance as a
marketing agent was wanting
CONCERNS BY FARMERS
Page 29 CENTRAL NEWS / Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
A wildlife conservationist has
urged political leaders in Laikipia
County to back efforts to resolve the
perennial human-wildlife conflict.
Jim Nyamu, the CEO of Elephant
Neighbours Centre, a wildlife conser-
vation organisation, said the problem
was partly created by politicians who
degazetted a huge chunk of the local
forest that scientists had established
as a wildlife habitat throughout his-
tory.
A place like Marmanet forest has
been a maternity for elephants and
the animals can never have peace
since it was interfered with. Support-
ing mitigation to the problem will
promote conservation since people
will start appreciating the wildlife
more, he said.
Nyamu said human-wildlife con-
flict has been a major hindrance to
conservation work in Laikipia Coun-
ty since 70 per cent of its wildlife lives
outside the protected areas.
DWINDLING NUMBERS
In the past, there were also polit-
ical injustices where Marmanet, Sha-
maek, Rwathia and Rumuruti forest
lands were partly degazetted and giv-
en out to people, he said.
Nyamu was speaking yesterday in
Nyahururus Kenya Wildlife Service
station where he had made a stopover
on his walk whose objective is raising
awareness about poaching. This is the
third edition of his walk and has so far
Call for political
goodwill to boost
conservation
covered 4,000km.
Nyamu, at the same time, urged
leaders and conservationists in the
county to work together.
Laikipia and Samburu have the
second highest number of wildlife af-
ter the Tsavo.
According to the organisations
statistics, Kenya has 26,400 elephants,
a drop from 35,000 in the year 2011.
Mount Kenya forest had 16,000 el-
ephants in 1998 and now has 2,000
while Aberdare forest has 1,900 ele-
phants currently. The walk will end
on July 21 at Kamae forest in Kiam-
bu County.
TSC DIRECTOR
Meanwhile, teachers and and
some officials in Laikipia Coun-
ty have threatened to reject a senior
TSC director who has been posted to
the region accusing him of corrup-
tion and claiming he misappropriat-
ed some activity funds and also ha-
rassed teachers some years ago, when
he worked in the region.
LAIKIPIA COUNTY
y B JAMES MUNYEKI AND JOB WERU
Nyerere professionals score a rst
in Othaya with free medical camp
NYERI COUNTY
y B LYDIAH NYAWIRA

In the
past, there
were also
political
injustices
where
Marmanet,
Shamaek,
Rwathia
and
Rumuruti
forest lands
were partly
degazetted
Over 1,000 residents of Oth-
aya received free drugs and
medical services provided by
an association of Nyeri Profes-
sionals called Unjiru Develop-
ment Network.
Silas Kanyi, the associa-
tions chairman, said they want
to empower the local commu-
nity by focusing on education,
health and agriculture projects.
We came together as a
group of professionals from
Nyeri County in 2009 to pro-
vide residents with an oppor-
tunity to access free medical
care and drugs every year,
Kanyi noted.
He said the medical camp
offered screening for various
diseases, free medical consul-
tation and drugs, but referred
complex cases to appropriate
hospitals.
The network has made ar-
rangements to refer patients to
Othaya Level IV and Nyeri Pro-
vincial hospitals, Kanyi said
adding that the network was
concerned that the number of
people attending the free med-
ical clinics had no alternative
places to access health care.
VISIT HOSPITALS
The number of people
coming to the camp have ris-
en steadily and this year we
have over 1000. Most report
they were at home and unable
to visit hospitals, Kanyi ex-
plained.
The money to pay doctors
and purchase drugs was do-
nated by well-wishers.
Margaret Wambui, a prima-
ry schoolteacher from Witima
village, was one of the benefi-
ciaries.
I was experiencing chronic
back pain but now I have been
treated and they also gave me
the necessary drugs, Ms Wam-
bui said.
And 60-year-old Timothy
Theuri, another beneficiary,
said that before the camp, he
had an eye infection that made
it difficult for him to tend to his
farm.
My granddaughter brought
me to the medical camp and
they have given me drugs for
my eyes, and my arthritis and
am happy that it was for free,
he said.
ELDERLY PERSONS
Peter Ndirangu, the doc-
tor in charge at the camp, said
that most of the residents who
turned up for the camp were el-
derly persons and children.
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
PRESS RELEASE
We want to take this earliest opportunity to correct the unfortunate impression created
by the misleading information published by the Office of the Controller of Budget
through its Third Quarter Budget Implementation Review for the 2013/ 2014 Budget.

It is regrettable and unfortunate that misleading and inaccurate information was irresponsibly
published regarding the sitting allowances of the MCAs of West Pokot County. The Office of
the Controller of Budget (COB) is hereby requested to apologize to the people and friends
of West Pokot County for publishing misleading reports, misrepresenting facts and providing
inaccurate information of the county assembly. The correct position is as follows:
1. The total budget for the salaries and allowances of our MCAs for the whole financial year
of 2013/2014 was Ksh. 120.8million; this is in public domain and can be ascertained
from the county budget in the county website.
2. By the end of the 3rd quarter, which is the period under review by the COB, an amount
of Ksh. 68.7million had been spent for salaries, sitting allowances and air time on our
MCAS as provided by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) guidelines.
This was the figure placed in the report and published. Out of the Ksh.68.7 million (an
amount of Ksh. 48.6million went to salaries alone; Ksh. 14.5 million went to sitting
allowances; Ksh. 4.2million to Management and other allowances; and Ksh. 1.4 million
for airtime).
3. So, if Ksh. 14.5million was paid as sitting allowances, then the average monthly sitting
allowance for the 32 MCAs and the Speaker was Ksh. (14.5m divided by 33) equals
to Ksh. 49,148 per month per MCA and NOT Ksh. 238,564 reflected in the COB report
published. This is merely poor mathematics and poor accounting!
4. This is how the figure of Ksh. 238,564 was arrived at by the COB. Since West Pokot is
among the first 15 counties to impress the newest Government Financial Technology,
i.e. the Integrated Financial Management Sysyem (IFMIS), the officers of the COB
obtained the consolidated figure of Ksh. 68.7 million online and without seeking
clarification from the Accounting Officer regarding the breakdown of the figure,
proceeded to analyze and irresponsibly published inaccurate data. We know for a fact
that most counties are still using the archaic manual system of financial management
and are yet to get to IFMIS. West Pokot is way ahead of that. The figure of Ksh. 68.7
million represents the total salary and allowances for the period. The officers of the
COB took the figure of Ksh. 68.7million and carelessly divided by 32 MCAs (excluding
the Speaker who is also entitled to the allowances, for reasons best known to COB) the
answer becomes Ksh. 238,564. QUESTION IS...why did the COB officers lump up all the
figure of salaries and allowances and called them allowances? Why divide the whole
figure by 32 not even 33 that includes the Speaker? Why not separate allowances from
salaries or even seek appropriate breakdown if they did not know? This could only be
attributed to recklessness, irresponsibility or incompetence on the officers of COB.
5. The information that has gone to the public domain has left the perception that each
MCA earned the figure of Ksh. 238,564 plus separate Salary which is not true and is not
even allowable by law. We also did not have such amounts to be accommodated by
our budget.
6. If what the COB reported was anything to go by, then our budget of Ksh. 120.8million
would have been surpassed. All this information which we now give represents the true
accurate position and is available for cross checking from our records.
7. As leaders of the Assembly, the Speaker and the County Assembly Service Board take
great exception on the motive behind the publishing of the inaccurate information.
The County Assembly of West Pokot requests the relevant Committee of the Senate
to oversight such inappropriate and irresponsible behavior especially coming
from respectable government institutions. This is because the damage that such
misrepresentation and inaccuracies can cause to the affected institutions may be
irreparable. It may unfortunately taint credible institutions that do good work. The
Speaker of the County Assembly has since officially written to the Controller of Budget,
The Auditor General, The TA, and the Senate and copied to Governor West Pokot
County, SRC and the Council of Governors.

In Conclusion, it is now very clearly evident that from the above revelations, West Pokot
County cannot be second highest in the country in terms of sitting allowances paid. The
allowances paid so far reflect prudent use of resources since the MCAs only got what was
duly payable and rightfully their authentic benefit. It is evident that the Members of County
Assembly of West Pokot are very responsible leaders. The Assembly too, has very competent
officers.
Julius Ariwomoi
Clerk of County Assembly
West Pokot County
WEST POKOT COUNTY ASSEMBLY
CLARIFICATION FROM THE WEST POKOT COUNTY ASSEMBLY
In the matter of sitting allowances of Members of
County Assembly (MCAs) - West Pokot County
Page 30 / NYANZA/WESTERN NEWS Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
Lugari MP Ayub Savula plans to
move a motion in Parliament to com-
pel the Government to deploy the ar-
my at the coast to curb insecurity.
Mr Savula complained that insecu-
rity has led to the reduction of tourists
visiting the coastal region, which has
led to massive loss of employment to
Kenyans.
I have read that Al Shabaab
sprayed a public vehicle with bullets.
If gunmen can attack a police station
and kill people in the cells, how safe
are residents living in unguarded vil-
lages? posed Savula.
I want to call upon my fellow
MPs to support my motion to have
the President deploy the army to the
coastal region, the same way it did in
Mt Elgon. Since the police have failed,
it is time for the army, he told The
Standard.
Savula claimed the country was
losing tourists dollar to Tanzania and
Zanzibar. The same goes to local tour-
ism, as people are now forced to go to
relatively safe areas like Naivasha and
parts of the Rift Valley.
It is time the Government took a
decisive action against insecurity, in-
stead of waiting for miracles to hap-
pen, he said.
EMPTY ULTIMATUMS
Last Friday, armed militiamen at-
tacked Lamu, killing seven people,
among them four police officers on
duty along the Mombasa-Lamu high-
way. The other victims had boarded
a bus in Mombasa, headed to Lamu.
This was just one of the many at-
tacks by unknown gunmen witnessed
at the coast in two months, which so
far has led to the deaths of more than
100 people, and several nursing inju-
ries in various hospitals.
In the first incident, the attackers
hijacked two vans and started shoot-
ing people indiscriminately. They later
attacked a police station in Tana River
and Hindi killing over 48 people.
Many people have lost lives, some
are left psychologically injured, yet
Lugari MP Ayub Savula addressing a
press conference yesterday.
Migori Governor Zachary obados supporters welcome him after he won a
court case challenging his victory in last years elections. [PHOTO: NICK OLUOCH/
STANDARD]
Businesses in major towns in
Migori County came to a standstill as
thousands of residents celebrated a
Supreme Court ruling Zachary Okoth
Obados victory as area governor.
Obado, who drove in a convoy of
more than twenty vehicles from Nai-
robi on Friday, arrived in Rongo town
at around 11am to a rapturous wel-
come from his supporters.
WON BATTLE
The governor slaughtered 50 bulls,
more than 10 goats and hundreds of
chicken to feed thousands of his sup-
porters who thronged his Rapogi
home to give him a heros welcome.
I am back. Through Gods power
we have won the battle. It is now time
to forgive our enemies and build the
county, Obado said.
More than 100 vehicles and hun-
50 bulls butchered at Obado victory party
dreds of motorbikes joined the con-
voy that sneaked through the main Ki-
sii-Isebania highway to Isebania town
on the Kenya-Tanzania border.
His friends, including area MPs,
donated the bulls and rams slaugh-
tered in the celebrations.
Obado made stop-overs at Sare,
Rongo, Awendo, Ranen, Uriri, Migori,
Nyabohanse and Isebania towns
where reiterated his commitment to
fast-track the countys growth.
He was accompanied by the Coun-
ty Assembly Speaker Gordon Ogolla,
more than 40 MCAs, county govern-
ment staff, local political leaders and
thousands of supporters.
Ogolla congratulated the governor
for winning the protracted court bat-
tle, and promised him of his and the
assemblys support.
Let us now work as a team to de-
velop the county, he said.
Celebrations at his Rapogi home
were preceded by a church service
presided over by the areas Seventh
Day Adventist Church.
MCAs promised to work with the
governor to fulfill their election pledg-
es.
We are promising before the pub-
lic today that the County Assembly of
Migori will work with the Obado to
develop this county, said Ochieng
Abwao, God Jope Ward Representa-
tive.
FISHING EXPEDITION
The Governor said: We want to
thank all the people who have been
praying for us. We call upon our op-
ponents to join hands with us for the
sake of Migori people.
The Supreme Court on Thursday
last week upheld Okoth Obados win
as the Migori County governor in a
unanimous decision.
The judges faulted the Court of Ap-
peal for engaging in a fishing expedi-
tion by allowing pleadings that were
never sought at trial court.
Obados win was nullified in March
by the Court of Appeal in Kisumu.
MP seeks to have KDF deployed at the coast
MIGORI COUNTY
y B NICK OLUOCH
y B KENNEDY OKWACH
KAKAMEGA COUNTY
Cotu Secretary General Francis Atwoli
has blamed Deputy President William
Ruto for interfering with industrial
relations in the country.
Atwoli, who spoke during the burial of
Mama Selina Jirongo, mother to former
Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo, said the actions
of Labour Cabinet Secretary Kazungu
Kambi to retire him and FKE CEO
Jacqueline Mugo from the board of NSSF
was informed by other forces rather than
the ministry.
I have asked those in TNA to tell me why
the Jubilee Government is ghting me
and workers, and they told me we dont
have a problem with you but it is the
URP wing of government that is ghting
you, said Atwoli before the arrival of the
Deputy President.
I want to tell Ms Kittony, go and tell
the Deputy President that he is behind
the current ghts in the labour sector.
Please go and tell him that when you get
old sometimes you may not even have a
matchbox in your house, Atwoli said.
Nominated Senator Zipporah Kittony
was at the burial.
Bungoma Governor Kenneth
Lusaka has signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with IRTA, an
agriculture research institute owned
by the government of Catalonia, Spain,
keen on technology transfer and
providing funding to the agriculture
sector.
Cristobal Aquilera, IRTAs business
deployment manager said the
partnership will cover sh farming
and provision of agricultural markets,
knowledge-based research to sustain
production through science-based
approaches, fruit farming and
environmental horticulture.
This partnership will be of great
benet to Bungomas farmers, it will
enable them learn about modern
farming methods and the changing
technology that guarantees higher
productivity, which will translate to
increased incomes, the governor said
at the MoU signing ceremony.
Mr Lusaka said the partnership was
in line with his governments eforts to
transform the agricultural sector.
Atwoli blames DP Rutos
URP for his woes at NSSF
Governor secures
agriculture partnership
KAKAMEGA COUNTY BUNGOMA COUNTY
nothing has been done by the Gov-
ernment, apart from offering ulti-
matums in press conferences. Con-
sidering that the attacks continue to
happen despite police presence, it is
time the Government tried the army,
observed Savula.
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y B NICK OLUOCH
A section of Migingo Island. [PHOTO: KABERIA KALUNGE/STANDARD]
Kenya, Uganda strike deal on Migingo
Kenyan and Ugandan govern-
ments have struck a deal that will
see Kenyan fishermen operating in
Migingo Island freely on the Ugan-
dan waters.
In the deal, Ugandan security per-
sonnel will also be allowed to cross
over to Kenyan beaches for food and
medical supplies in a move expected
to help reduce tension on the disput-
ed island.
Speaking from the island, Nyat-
ike Sub-county Commissioner James
Namtala said the agreement was
reached after a joint meeting by se-
nior government and security person-
nel from both Kenya and Uganda.
We are glad that we have found
a solution to this problem. Our fish-
ermen will now be able to go on with
their activities without fear of arrests,
he said.
JOINT UNIT
The leaders also agreed to have a
joint Beach Management Unit (BMU),
which will have officials from both
Kenya and Uganda as opposed to the
current set up where each country has
its own officials.
This had earlier been disputed by
the Ugandan leaders, who had ac-
cused their Kenyan counterparts of
misappropriation of levies collected
from beach users.
Namtalla said that under the cur-
rent arrangement, Ugandan BMU has
been charging the Kenyan fishermen
Sh4,000 per boat.
On security, the two countries al-
so agreed on standard operating pro-
cedures on the island where each side
will now have 12 police officers on the
island, with each team being headed
by an officer of the same rank.
We also agreed that any Kenyan
arrested by the Ugandan police offi-
cers will be handed over to the Ken-
yan police officers. We do not want to
see incidents where Kenyans are ar-
rested, held and charged by the Ugan-
dan officers without consulting their
Kenyan counterparts, he said.
NEW ERA
The two countries also agreed to
form a joint investigation team with
representatives from both countries.
The Ugandan team at the
meeting was headed by Sam-
wel Hasaka, the Resident District
Commissioner for Bugiri, who was
accompanied by several security of-
ficials from Uganda.
Namtalla on the other hand was
accompanied by several officers who
included officials from the Fisheries
and Immigration departments and
the police.
Kenyan fishermen operating on
the island hailed the move and ex-
pressed optimism that it will herald
a new dawn for both Kenyans and
Ugandans on the island.
We are happy that the two coun-
tries have now agreed to address the
issues affecting us. We are confident
that the resolutions reached will lead
to a lasting solution to all problems
affecting the island, said Jack Owiti,
a fisherman operating on the island.
He also called on the officials
from the two countries to hold regu-
lar meetings to ensure the resolutions
are implemented.
The Migingo island row, which
dates back to President Kibaki era,
had strained relations between Kenya
and Uganda, with Kenyan MPs call-
ing for decisive action to protect Ken-
yans on the island from harassment
by Ugandan authorities.
During his inaugural speech, Pres-
ident Uhuru Kenyatta promised to
help resolve the standoff.
MIGORI COUNTY
Nyamira County politicians
have asked the Government to
nullify the Kenya Police Service
recruitment exercise that was
concluded last week.
North Mugirango MP
Charles Geni yesterday led his
colleagues Ben Momanyi (Bo-
rabu), Alice Chae (woman rep-
resentative) and Dr James Ge-
sami (West Mugirango) in
petitioning Johnstone Kavulu-
di to nullify the recruitment,
terming it as shambolic.
Speaking during
fund-raisers in aid of Tombe
and Nyabite SDA Churches in
Kitutu Masaba and West Mugi-
rango constituencies respec-
tively, the
MPs claimed the exercise was
marred with massive corrup-
tion.
COMPLETE SHAM
Those in charge made the
exercise a complete sham and
locked out many qualified
youth. It was shameful that re-
cruiting officers decided to
embrace corruption rather
than fairness. It now appears
that for one to get into to the
police service you must part
with some cash, Geni said.
However, senator Mongare
Bwokongo, speaking sepa-
rately in Borabu constituency,
said some MPs are the ones to
be blamed for the flawed re-
cruitment exercise.
We all wish to see fairness
in the recruitment of police of-
ficers. As leaders, we should
not be seen to be influencing
or coercing government offi-
cials to employ our allies by
canvassing for them, he said.
Ojaamong tells of critics over record
Police recruitment bid discredited
Busia Governor Sospeter Ojaamong has told
off his critics over the poor performance of his
administration.
Ojaamong said his government has done its
part in realising rapid development across the
county despite the many challenges, which he
blamed on the National Government.
I have done a lot since taking over as Busia
Governor, but I am afraid some people have not
seen that. Residents are now fed up with people
who are fond of making noise, he said.
Speaking during a funds drive in aid of Fun-
yula Womens Sacco over the weekend, where he
outlined some of the successes of the govern-
ment since taking office, Ojaamong said his ad-
ministration bought agricultural tractors for
each of the seven sub counties, and that plans
were underway to revive cotton ginneries.
And owing to the introduction of mechanised
agriculture, the county was expecting a bumper
harvest this season, unlike never before.
BUMPER HARVEST
In Budalangi constituency, for example, af-
ter distribution of seeds and fertilisers, farmers
have realised a lot of change in their lives, he
noted.
The governor promised to improve the con-
ditions at Busia Referral Hospital through pur-
chase of drugs and building of a High Depen-
dency Unit so that patients are not referred to
Eldoret.
We have also procured seven modern am-
bulances which have first aid services inside
them and which will be delivered by next week,
said Ojaamong.
BUSIA COUNTY
NYAMIRA COUNTY
y B JANE CHEROTICH
y B NAFTAL MAKORI
We also
agreed
that any
Kenyan
arrested by the
Ugandan police
ofcers will be
handed over
to the Kenyan
police ofcers
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Page 33 RIFT VALLEY NEWS / Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
y B KARANJA NJOROGE
y B RAEL JELIMO
Nakuru Governor Kinuthia
Mbugua recently difered with
two MPs over demolition of ki-
osks in the town.
Nakuru Governor Kinuth-
ia Mbugua has asked leaders
in the county to stop portray-
ing the area negatively through
their utterances.
Mbugua expressed con-
cerned over tendency by some
leaders in the county to dwell
on trivialities, instead of prior-
itising development projects.
He attributed some of the
problems in the county to
such leaders, whom he said
were living in the old ways of
doing things and urged them
to change.
Let us portray our coun-
ty positively and desist from
trivialities. The county gov-
ernment has initiated many
development projects, which
will transform lives, yet some
people dont see it that way,
said the governor.
Mbugua and two Nakuru
town MPs David Gikaria and
Samuel Arama have recently
differed over the demolition of
kiosks and other illegal struc-
tures in the town.
MODERN KIOSKS
Speaking during a Bahati
leaders consultative forum at
the Kenya Industrial Training
Institute(KITI), the Governor
affirmed that the county gov-
ernment was doing well, de-
spite efforts by some people
to tarnish its name.
Dont worry so much
about our county. The image is
not as bad as it was in the be-
Governors
headache over
Nakuru image
ginning, Mbugua said.
Bahati MP Kimani Ngunji-
ri promised to cooperate with
the county government in
finding a way to relocate kiosk
traders in his constituency.
REBUILD STALLS
He said that Bahati Constit-
uency Development Fund of-
fice had set aside Sh10 million
to rebuild modern stalls, once
applications are approved by
the county government.
Meanwhile, police in Nai-
vasha arrested four suspects,
including a popular Naivasha
businessman, who were al-
legedly found robbing a flow-
er farm.
The four were caught ferry-
ing farm chemical worth mil-
lions of shillings from Finlay
Company, which owns one of
the largest flower farms in the
area.
NAKURU COUNTY
UASIN GISHU COUNTY
County ODM leaders
strategise on referendum
The Orange Democratic
Movement (ODM) leadership
in Uasin-Gishu County will
convene a party meeting in El-
doret town today to strategise
on the push for a national ref-
erendum.
Uasin-Gishu ODM chair-
person David Songok said the
meeting will deliberate on
probable modes that will en-
able them to achieve a target
of 200,000 signatures in Uasin
Gishu County alone.
We are convening a meet-
ing to discuss how our par-
ty will carry out campaigns to
collect signatures to push for a
referendum. We are doing this
in complete solidarity with our
coalition leader Raila Odinga,
he said.
Songok took issue with
Deputy President William Ru-
to for dismissing CORD lead-
ers, who are seeking an all-in-
clusive government.
He claimed that the DP is
too comfortable in Govern-
ment, and was insensitive to
the problems facing majority
of Kenyans, and accused him
of showing no support for the
constitutions amendments,
despite wanting gaps.
CONSTITUTIONAL GAPS
Ruto fronted for the NO
referendum call. It is ironical
that since he became part of
the ruling government, he does
not see anything wrong with
the Constitution, said Songok.
The DP who had visit-
ed Nandi, Lugari and Elge-
to-Marakwet Counties over
the weekend told off the oppo-
sition for incessantly seeking
inclusion in the Jubilee gov-
ernment.
CORD seeks to collect one
million signatures to compel
the country to go for a nation-
al referendum.
Kenya National
Highways Authority
Quality Highways, Better Connections
SOUTH SUDAN EASTERN AFRICA REGIONAL TRANSPORT, TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT
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CONSULTANCY SERVICES FOR REVIEWING AND UPDATING OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL &
SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (ESIA) AND RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN (RAP) FOR THE
PROPOSED REHABILITATION OF:
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(ii) MARICH PASS LODWAR ROAD (A1), 196 KM (Contract Package 2)
(iii) LODWAR-LOKICHOGGIO-NAKODOK ROAD (A1), 240 KM
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th
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South Sudan - Eastern Africa Regional Transport, Trade and Development Facilitation Program (SS-EARTTDFP), and intends to apply part of the proceeds of this
credit to payments under separate contracts for the following:
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and (ii) the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP).
Package 2: Marich Pass Lodwar Road: Consultancy Services for Reviewing and Updating of (i) the Environmental & Social Impact Assessment (ESIA)
and (ii) the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP).
Package 3: Lodwar Nakodok: Consultancy Services for Reviewing and Updating of (i) the Environmental & Social Impact Assessments (ESIA) and (ii)
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FOR: DIRECTOR GENERAL
Page 34 / RIFT VALLEY NEWS Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
Baringo County Governor Benjamin Cheboi. He has refuted claims of political
inluence in appointing a task force to oversee the conservation of Lake Kaman-
arok. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]
Criticism has greeted the names of
appointees to the task force formed
by Baringo Governor, Benjamin Che-
boi to look into the controversy sur-
rounding the restoration of Lake Ka-
manarok as a National Reserve.
Residents of Lake Kamnarok
whose farms have been earmarked by
the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) for
eviction to pave way for conservation
have expressed displeasure over what
they described as mis-representation
in the 26-member task force.
They said it was unrealistic and
questioned how the interest of the
5,000 affected would be represent-
ed by only seven people. Present-
ing their grievances, Wilson Kips-
er, a resident said they have been
arm-twisted by the county gov-
ernment to give away their land.
Kipser vowed the task force wont be-
gin their work of collecting views from
the residents until the stalemate is re-
solved.
FRESH TEAM
How can the complainant be lim-
ited on the number of witnesses by
the defendant? Let them know we
are unhappy about how the team has
been constituted, said Kipser.
The residents demanded immedi-
ate disbandment of the task force and
formation of a fresh one through a more
transparent process, which takes in-
to consideration views of the victims.
A resident, Lawrence Kiplagat said
Lake Kamnarok Task Force his being
used by some leaders to reward their
political allies.
We gave a good proposal to the
governor when he held a consulta-
tive meeting with residents in Ketur-
wo, but we suspect some local leaders
have placed him at crossroads on who
to appoint, said Kiplagat.
But Simon Cheplogoi, a member
of the task force dismissed the claims
of political influence saying those
lamenting had vested interests as the
election was entirely a peoples pro-
cess.
SECURITY PERSONNEL
Yesterday, a meeting convened by
residents at Lake Kamnarok Trading
Centre to express their displeasure
failed to take off after the county gov-
ernment deployed security personnel
to man the venue.
Kipser told The Standard that the
police warned them against regroup-
ing adding the county government
has openly assumed a draconian ap-
proach towards addressing the plight
of the people living around the con-
servation area.
In a quick rejoinder, Governor
Benjamin Cheboi exuded confidence
over the success of the task force say-
ing it was constituted fairly. Cheboi
said it was within his powers to ap-
point members of such a task force.
He refuted claims of political influ-
ence saying it was for the good of all
Baringo residents that the controver-
sy is settled once and for all for pros-
perity and posterity.
The task force will swing to action
and present its recommendations to
me in 60 days. If people protest then
that is within their rights and free-
doms, said Cheboi.
Police impound Sh1.5m cedar posts
after tip-of by furious truck driver
Meanwhile Naivasha MP, John
Kihagi has called for the construc-
tion of a pyrethrum store in Nai-
vasha, Nakuru County as a way of
increasing production. The MP not-
ed Naivasha was one of the lead-
ing growers of the crop in the coun-
ty yet there was no store in the area.
He noted farmers were incurring
heavy losses ferrying their produce
to Nakuru and challenged the Pyre-
thrum Board of Kenya (PBK) to act.
Although some farmers uproot-
ed their crops due to non-payment,
Naivasha is still leading in pyrethrum
growing, he said.
Addressing farmers in Kinun-
gi area, the legislator decried lack

Police in Narok yesterday
seized 5,000 red cedar posts
worth Sh1.5 million, sus-
pected to be on transit from
the Mau forest to Nairobi.
The officers attached to
the Criminal Investigations
Department (CID) arrested
the owner of the cargo clas-
sified as endangered tree
species.
Police said the owner,
who is to appear in court to-
day, differed with the driver
of the truck hired to trans-
port the posts from Nkareta
area to the city over the fee
and the latter alerted the de-
tectives who seized the car-
go.
The driver differed with
the owner of the posts over
the amount of money to paid
for transporting the posts to
Nairobi. This prompted him
to alert us about the intend-
ed movement of the cargo,
said Peter Ndubi, the area
CID chief.
RED POSTS
The lorry and posts were
later moved to Narok Police
Station. According to the
County Kenya Forest Ser-
vice Ecosystem Coordina-
tor, James Mburu the latest
seizure brings the number
of red posts that have been
impounded this year to 25,
000.
Mburu said it is sad that
harvesting of posts is taking
place in the block under the
Narok County Governments
management, and asked it
to work with National Gov-
ernment agencies to halt the
Mau forest destruction.
It is sad that all the posts
we have seized are from the
section that is under the
county government. The
team should work with oth-
er agencies tasked with pro-
tecting the Mau complex,
he said.
SQUATTERS OUT
Last month, Narok
County Commissioner Kas-
sim Farah ordered about
1,000 squatters who invaded
Olpusimoru Forest Reserve,
a section of the 400,000
hectare Mau complex un-
der KFS, to move out.
The two-week ultima-
tum that was criticised by
Narok Governor Samuel
Kuntai and his Bomet coun-
terpart, Isaac Ruto, has since
expired.
Mburu said plans to kick
out the squatters are still on
and enough security offi-
cials have been deployed to
in the area in readiness for
the exercise.
Four Senators will sponsor
a Bill to lock up 60 per cent of
funds allocated by the National
Government to counties for
development.
Senate Devolution Committee
chairman, Kipchumba Murkomen
said the Bill will seek to curb
wastage of public funds by county
governments on unnecessary trips.
Senate majority leader Kindiki
Kithure, Nandi Senator Stephen
Sang, Beatrice Elachi and myself are
sponsoring a Bill that will ensure
60 per cent of funds to counties go
to development and 40 per cent to
other operations, said Murkomen.
Students from Sasura Girls High
School in Marsabit County locked
up the night guards and trekked 15
kilometres to protest the schools
management style.
About 200 girls locked up the
two guards they found sleeping
in a room, broke the main door
and marched out at around 2 am
yesterday.
They trekked through the wildlife
infested Mt Marsabit National Park
to seek audience with authorities of
Marsabit Central district.
Marsabit Assistant County
Commissioner, Bernard Keli said
the school was yesterday closed
indenitely, but referred The
Standard to the DEO, Naftali Ombati
for details. Mr Ombati could not be
reached for comment.

Bright but needy high school
students in Kericho County are
set to get over Sh7.7 million to go
towards paying their fees from the
Childrens Department through the
Ministry of Labour, Social Security
and Services.
Speaking during the issuance
of cheques to the beneciaries,
Kericho County Director of Children
Services, Jane Rono said 390
students will benet. Rono said
each of the six constituencies in the
county would receive Sh1.2 million.
Rono said the funds were shared
through public participation and
consultations with social assistance
committees and the principals.
Four senators sponsor
Bill to lock county funds
Students lock up night
guards, trek 15 Km
Needy students to receive
Sh7.7m from ministry
MARSABIT COUNTY
NANDI COUNTY
KERICHO COUNTY
NAROK COUNTY
y B KIPCHUMBA KEMEI
Residents reject Chebois
task force on conservation
y B LEONARD KULEI AND ANTHONY
GITONGA
BARINGO COUNTY
of market for the product adding
that it was discouraging farmers. He
said there was need to urgently lib-
eralise the market so that farmers
could reap more from the produce.
Kihagi praised the National Govern-
ment for pumping Sh300 million to-
wards revival of the sector.
A farmer, John Gwathi accused PBK
of oppressing farmers and welcomed
the move to liberalise the sector.
Due to years of non-payment, some
farmers have switched to pota-
to farming according to Gwathi.
We not received bonuses since 2001
despite supplying the product to PBK
and this has killed our morale , he
said.
BY PEACE LOISE MBAE
T
ourism in Kenya has
grown to be a very
important aspect
to boosting Kenyas
economy. This crucial gold mine
has seen counties in the wake of
devolution rush to own up and map
their tourism products.
Tharaka Nithi is a county known
and recognized as stronghold
during political campaigns, but
the Governor Samuel Mbae Ragwa
says they are unveiling the countys
strength in other ways, which will
elevate its national status as a top
tourist destination.
An interview with the Governor
reveals that Tharaka Nithi has great
potential in tourism, and if well
utilized, the county could soon be
enjoying great fruits with both local
and international tourists streaming
into the county.
Hon. Ragwa says they have
mapped all the county tourism
products that have already been
approved by the Kenya Tourism
Board.
Such products include Mt
Kenya forest, 10 water falls, caves
used in the past ages by the early
man and Mau Mau warriors,
about 20 hills, scenic beauty,
ecotourism, medicinal vegetation,
mountaineering and cycling routes
just to name a few, he said.
The County has begun putting
up signs that mark these areas
and a route map where local and
international tourists can easily find
and visit.
Hon Samuel M. Ragwa
Tharaka Nithi County Governor
The tourism department will soon
re-open the Ura gate, an entry to the
Meru National Park. The gate was
closed down in the past forcing all
tourists to use the alternative Murera
gate in Meru County.
The new route is shorter and less
tedious as visitors, for instance from
Nairobi, will cover only 257 Km instead
of the usual 416 Km as is the case
currently.
This has been included in the
Tharaka Nithi Tourism Circuit, which
begins from the Thuci River that
borders Embu and Tharaka Nithi
County through to Kiamuriuki part of
Mt Kenya Forest. It then goes through
to Kiangondu Forest, where an
investor is putting up a golf course to
Chogoria Kinondoni Lodge and from
there proceed to Tharaka for the crme
de la crme National park.
We appreciate the communities
around these areas who have
supported the various projects initiated
by the County government, said
the governor.
He says those living near the
national park have also been
taken on a tour to neighboring
Boran Communities that have
built tourist huts so that they can
learn and do the same in their
lands that border the park.
The huts will be used to
host tourists, which he says
encourages residents to
appreciate the value of tourism
and also create a better and
welcoming atmosphere for
visitors.
This is just a part of the
sensitization being done to
communities along the tourism
circuit so that they can take
advantage of tourists by selling
cultural goods, food and other
locally produced or made
products.
Mr. Ragwa says promotion of the
sector should begin with domestic
tourists and is therefore encouraging
residents to explore and visit the exotic
places in the county.
I believe so much in domestic
tourism and I know if residents support
us in the process, people will come
from all over the world to see our
countys beauty.
Mr Ragwa urges Kenyans to
embrace tourism and invest in touring
different parts of the country.
People think tourists only visit
places to see wildlife, especially the big
five, but there are those that travel to
see cultural centres, different species of
birds, butterflies and other things. This
is what we will advance in our county,
he explains.
He said as the county government
they plan to start cable cars in
Tharaka Hills, Trout growing in Mt
Kenya, establishment of modern hotels
and identification of unique natural
resources. He said his leadership is in
the process of finding investors that
will help achieve the goal.
We are in the process of building
infrastructure around Mt Kenya, Meru
National Parks and other areas to
improve the environment for tourism.
This includes roads, hospitals, hotels
and security of those areas.
The Governor is encouraging
residents to start appreaciating the
county by starting to travel to the
different sites so as to open up the area
to national and international tourism.
Mr Ragwa says the county has what
it takes to earn itself foreign exchange
and increase local revenues through
such ventures which will help improve
the economy of the county.
He says they will not shy away from
allocating a lot of resources to tourism
since the success of the county largely
depended in the sectors success.
Tharaka Nithi County Tourism
(Above) Elephant
Maternity in Mt
Kenya Forest
Pregnant elephants
prefer the area
owing to its gentle
gradient which
ensures safety of
the animals from
slipping off and
getting injured. there
is also wet swamp
mud essential for
smearing over the
bodies of the young
ones, to protect
them from bites
by insects such as
tsetse ies, bees,
safari ants and
others.
(left). Kibuuka Grand
Fall on Tana River in
Tharaka Nithi County
The County has begun putting up
signs that mark these areas and a route
map where local and international
tourists can easily nd and visit.
the case currently.
County leadership revamps its Tourism Sector
Governor leads in eforts to make County top tourist destination of choice
Word from the CEC for Tourism, Environment
Water and Natural Resources.
T
haraka Nithi
county government
is planning on
establishing a
cultural centre. With assistance
from partners it will provide
a Topographic-Relief map
showing major protected
attractions in the county
including all relief features. This
will be mounted in the Centre
museum as an information
point for travellers and students
about Tharaka Nithis major
tourist attractions.
After being created, the
cultural Centre will partner
with KWS/KFS, to do a research
on the relationship between
wildlife and the five sub-tribes
of Tharaka Nithi . The findings
will be mounted on a panel at
the museum, This is because
wildlife relates to the people of Tharaka Nithi either
as their totems (friendly animals) or taboos.
The Centre will have a museum and networking
bureau for the different communities that reside
within the county, individual sub-tribes will
sponsor their own plaques with brief information
about their history and origins.
Tharaka Nithi cultural centre is set to partner
with leading ICT Universities or resource centres
to build and equip a Multimedia centre and a
recording studio. Through this grant, the Museum
and House of Culture will have equipment that
children, youths, cultural professionals and
visually impaired will use to record and document
their activities and programmes and access
cultural resources.
The grant will enhance the Museum and House
of Cultures capacity to provide opportunities
for target groups to familiarize themselves with
ICT and multi-media technology and use it for
communication, learning and production of
cultural products such as photographs, record
traditional music, dance, video documentaries
etc. On a long-term and with a fast and interactive
website and an equipped state of art recording
studio, the Museum and House of Culture is
expected to be an open public education resource
Centre with well documented, preserved and
accessible cultural heritage resources.
The Centre will provide a performance platform
for young talented artistes from the county,
neighboring counties and from all over the country
that have a desire to showcase what they have
created in Comedy, Drama, Singing, Dance, Poetry
and Junior Modeling. The Centre will frequently
invite young artists to showcase their work to turn
up at the Cultural Centre to register and present their
creativity. Registration to participate will be free.
C
ounty Executive
Committee Member
Albert Mugambi says his
ministry is putting a lot
of emphasis on ecotourism, which
he believes will be a big boost to
opening up tourism in the county.
We have various sites suitable
for tourism, but I believe Tharaka
Nithi is the leading county in
ecotourism only that this has not
been explored.
The CEC says the county
government is planning to achieve
this by planting six million trees
in this financial year, expansive
management of forests and
hilltops, school greening, seedlings
development and conservation of
wetlands.
Mr Mugambi, who is also
in charge water and natural
resources docket, says the county
government has allocated money
for the construction of eleven new
water projects to ensure 30% of
the community in the county has
access to clean water.
We are initiating eleven new
water projects and eleven irrigation
schemes to ensure residents get
food security and better access to
clean water.
The ministry is also working on
registration of small scale miners of
gemstones, quarry stones and sand.
Mr Mugambi says he will open
up the market to the miners by
creating a network for marketing
their products.
We are also planning to
engaging large scale miners in iron
ore at Kithiori and copper at Gituma
in Tharaka South sub county in
order to increase revenue for the
county.
According to Mugambi, it is
important for the county to have
attractive and modern hotels that
assure visitors of their comfort.
We are going to improve
existing hotels like Kinondoni Lodge
in Chogoria near the Mt.Kenya
National Park, and establish
new ones through a partnership
between government and private
investors to ensure tourists have
suitable accommodation in the
county.
The county government believes
that within the remaining four years
of their governance, the county will
have transformed to be a major
tourism destination in the country.
Hon Albert Mugambi,
County Executive Committee Member for Tourism,
Environment,Water,and Natural Resources of
Tharaka Nithi County Government.
Tharaka Nithi Cultural Centre
A front view of Marimanti Baobab Lodge in Tharaka Nithi County. (Inset) KAJUKI ECO-LODGE
Kathure L. Mukuru,
Tharaka Nithi County Government
Principal Information Ofcer.
Ms Lucy Karimi,
C.O of Tourism, Environment, Water, and
Natural Resources of Tharaka Nithi County
Government
The Centre will be an open air-museum, where
among other things, you will see traditional
dwellings of the 5 sub-tribes, namely-Tharaka,
Mwimbi, Muthambi, Mwimbi, Chuka, Mbeere and
the Njuri Ncheke hut.There will be a section for
men and women to sell their traditional art and
craft.
However, the centre will have to portray a
national outlook and depict how they relate with
other neighboring communities and the country
as a large.
The centre will, therefore, display local arts and
crafts, together with those from other regions of
the country for sale and exhibition.
These will include different indigenous
artworks, including human figurines, carvings
of animals, birds, beads, drums, spears, walking
sticks, baskets among others. The centre, will also
display and exhibit, African printed fabrics, tie-
dye and batiks showcasing the county`s cultural
heritage.
The centre will have a subsidized restaurant
(KIJEGE RESTAURANT), offering traditional
delicacies like kithere, ugali, nyama choma, fish
stew/dry, beef stew, goat stew, chicken, kuku
kienyeji, ncabi nthoroko, ndengu etc. You dont
get much more
authentic than
this traditional
food cooked from
recipes passed
down orally from
one generation of
women to the next.
The atmosphere
at the centre will
be friendly and
welcoming
visitors will experience warm Kenyan/Tharaka
Nithi hospitality first hand, making this a great
tourist attraction site in Tharaka Nithi to visit.
Tharaka Nithi traditional dancers
The county is rich in traditions and preservation
of their culture. The dances are characterized
by singing, beating of drums, blowing of horns
and whistles and other traditional instruments.
The five sub-tribes that live in the county; chuka,
tharaka, mwimbi, muthambi and mbeere have
their own unique dances. The county has selected
three groups from each sub tribe to showcase the
cultural diversity during county events and will
be entertaining people at the cultural centre once
established.
Gikwa Grand Fall-Tharaka Nithi County Government is planning to construct a Grand Resort near the water fall on River
Kathita as way to improve tourism sector. Photos: Kibata Kihu.
L
ocated in Marimanti ward, Tharaka
south sub county is Kibuuka water fall
from River Tana. The fall is popularly
known as seven falls due to the seven
sub-falls that look like seven rivers serving the
falls. This happened during the el nino rains that
divided the fall creating the small attractive falls.
Kibuuka falls is historically very important
for the Tharaka community. The community
believes that their prophet, military trainer, who
was a blacksmith, and supplied the area with
weapons for war called Kibuuka disappeared into
the fall. According to the myth, he entered into
the water fall with his wives, daughters, and all
his livestock, protesting against the betrayal of
the Tharaka people for having exposed his only
son to be killed by a rival tribe. He consequently
cursed the community for not appreciating his
contribution.
Mutunguru Tree
Tharaka Nithi is home to Mutunguru tree
that is believed to be one of the tallest in Africa
with a height of 84 metres. This magnificient
tree is located in mutunguruni, karingani ward,
chuka /igambangombe sub county. Although
this has not been verified residents say relevant
authorities should crown it since it is the tallest
with previous records showing the tallest tree to
be an Eucalyptus saligna in Limpopo that stands
at 80 metres high.
Kibuuka Waterfalls
Outline of
Tharaka Nithi
Tourism sites
IGAIRONI
The area located in Tharaka
sub-county is believed to be
where the Meru, Chuka, Embu
and Mbeere people separated
during the migration.
Tharakas believe they are an
original tribe with others like
Chuka,Chogoria,Tigania, being
sub-tribes of the Meru people.
Gaketha Ecosystem
The site around Mount Kenya
is called Gaketha Ecosystem. It
is located within mount Kenya
forest, Maara Sub County in
Tharaka Nithi County.
The project is supported by
itineraries to visit scenic hilltops,
waterfalls, caves, underground
tunnels, unique looking stones,
shrines and medicinal plant
sites.
Gaketha eco-system is
located in a highly tourism
potential area, with sites such
as Solomons caves, which
were very useful to the freedom
fighters (the Mau Mau) as
hideouts and stop-overs
whenever they approached the
village from their operational
areas in the mountain.
The caves were also used as
lodgings where fighters from the
forest would meet their close
family members.
Elephant Maternity, which
is located some five hundred
meters from the rangers station
to the south, at Gaketha section
of Mitheru forest beat are
wonders of the area. Pregnant
elephants prefer the area owing
to its gentle gradient, which
ensures safety of the animals
from slipping off and getting
injured. There is also wet swamp
mud essential for smearing over
the bodies of the young ones,
to protect them from bites by
insects such as tsetse flies, bees,
safari ants and others.
The area has a massive
supply of undergrowth, which
provides ready food for the
mothers and their young ones.
IGAIRONI
Located in Tharaka sub-
county and believed to be where
the Meru, Chuka, Embu and
Mbeere people separated during
the migration.
Upcoming leisure Hotel in heart of Tharaka Nithi County Government
Headquarters. (Inset) Architectural design of Tharaka Nithi Cultural
Centre at Chiakariga
The community believes that their
prophet, military trainer, who was
a blacksmith, and supplied the
area with weapons for war called
Kibuuka disappeared into the fall.
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A H E B 18
F D C E 20
15 20 21 17L
H F D A 13

Solution

No. 1886

2 8 5 4 7 3 9 6 1

6 1 9 8 5 2 3 4 7

7 4 3 6 1 9 8 5 2

5 7 2 9 6 1 4 3 8

8 6 4 3 2 5 7 1 9

3 9 1 7 8 4 6 2 5

4 5 8 1 9 6 2 7 3

9 2 6 5 3 7 1 8 4

1 3 7 2 4 8 5 9 6

YESTERDAYS SOLUTION

STANDOKU

Imejin 1887 MEDIUM

9 3

1 8
7 5
3 9

5 8

2 7 8

9
5
3

4 5

8 1

3 2 7

4 1 6

puzzling
Using all the letters
of the alphabet,
ll in the grid. To
help you, there are
three cryptic cross-
word-style clues:
Top line: Mark has
appealing inecti-
on.(5, 6)
Middle line: During
op, shun cocoa as
somewhat noisy.
(11)
Bottom line: Some
food rm visits
America twice.
(3, 8)
To start you of,
here is one of the
letters.
All rows, columns and 3 by 3 grids
(dened by bold lines ) have the
numbers 1 to 9 appearing only once.
Some of the numbers have been en-
tered. Complete the whole table by
inserting the correct numbers.
Capricorn (Dec 22 - Jan 20)
Wi th l i ttl e pati ence for red tape, you
i nsi st on getti ng ri ght to the heart of
any questi on. You have a knack for
putti ng the feel i ngs of a group i nto
words and may serve as a teacher.
Aquarius (Jan 21 - Feb 19)
Thi s week i s one of acti on and em-
barki ng on new proj ects. You wi l l feel
more and more confi dent and outgo-
i ng. There i s a sense of confi dence that
grows stronger wi th each passi ng day.
Pisces (Feb 20 - Mar 20)
Thi s can be a creati ve ti me i n the bu-
si ness worl d. Your fi nances are begi n-
ni ng to l ook better. You may enj oy and
val ue your own l i fe si tuati on today or
feel especi al l y ki nd towards a fri end.
Taurus (April 21 - May 20)
You may have troubl e getti ng mo-
vi ng today, but once you have a focus,
others better stand asi de. Work may
throw you i nto posi ti ons where you
must deal wi th hi dden i nterests.
Aries (Mar 21 - May 20)
You tend to avoi d i ssues that are
touchy and mi ght resul t i n confronta-
ti on. Your career may be at a rather
del i cate poi nt and under pressure.
Gemini
(May 21 - June 21)
You wi l l prosper through new i nsi ghts,
i nventi ons and an i ndependent poi nt of
vi ew. Your career coul d open up by ta-
ki ng the road l ess travel ed. Communi -
cati ng and getti ng your message across
to others i s at a hi gh.
Courtesy: dailyhoroscopes.com
YESTERDAYS SOLUTIONS
Horoscopes
Sudoku
Codeword Puzzle
(June 22 - July 22)
There is a lot of mental ener-
gy around and it may be hard
to put it to work. Circumstan-
ces may prove dif cult regar-
ding communication, writing
ideas, etc.
DIFFICULT
The letters have a distinct
value between 1 to 9. The to-
tals vertically and horizontally
have been given. Solve all the
values.
NO 5275
NO 5274
A B C D E F G H J
3 6 8 1 9 7 5 4 2
YESTERDAYS SOLUTIONS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
R P H
c
N T I
T X U
Z S W M O F B D Q K
E
V
J
C
L
G
Leo (July 23 - Aug 22)
There is an emphasis on close relationships
and a preoccupation with ideas of fairness
and harmony this monday. You will be con-
cerned with issues of freedom and inde-
pendence far beyond the average person.
Virgo (Aug 23 - Sept 23)
Others may oppose your ideas and
thoughts. You are passionate. This quali-
ty is so essential to your character that all
else revolves around it but your current
situation may demand some reevaluation.
Libra (Sept 24 - Oct 23)
The key to understanding your personality
and the circumstances in which you nd
yourself can be found in your environment.
You are very much the creature of habit
and habitat, the encircling network of fri-
ends, relationships, etc.,
Scorpio (Oct 24 - Nov 22)
Taking care of business is a major theme
where your techniques are concerned. You
will make career gains by your ability to
sense quality and choose accordingly. The-
re are plenty of opportunities to move and
excel in any direction you desire.
Sagittarius (Nov 23 - Dec 21)
This could be an action-lled day when
time seems to slow down around you and
you can accomplish more than you had
thought possible at your own speed. Ack-
nowledgment is easy to nd but you re-
member to stay focused and are surprised
at the results by the end of your workday.
Cancer
A
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puzzling
Across
3 Stops (5)
8 Student (5)
10 Hippopotamus, in short (5)
11 Karate expert (3)
12 Girls name (5)
13 Aquatic bird (7)
15 Bravery award (5)
18 Angry crowd (3)
19 Be on ones guard (6)
21 Questionable (7)
22 Minute particle (4)
23 School furniture item (4)
24 Walks in formation (7)
26 Colour (6)
29 Pelvis (3)
31 Enlist (5)
32 Relegates (7)
34 Change (5)
35 Transgression (3)
36 Statement of beliefs (5)
37 Nip (5)
38 Turnip variety (5)
Down
1 Naked gures (5)
2 Opposite of maximum (7)
4 So be it! (4)
5 Topics (6)
6 Tendon (5)
7 Javelin (5)
9 Chum (3)
12 Natural surroundings (7)
14 Male swan (3)
16 Stuns (5)
17 Unauthorised disclosures
(5)
19 Kill brutally (7)
20 Slice meat (5)
21 One giving blood (5)
23 Down payment (7)
24 Sweet, ripe (6)
25 That man (3)
27 Introduction, in short (5)
28 A lot, informally (5)
30 Fight with swords (5)
32 Action (4)
33 Metallic element (3)
ACROSS: 1, Sweat 6, Feast 9, Contour 10, Slice 11, Rolls 12, Beats 13, Cordial 15, Ace
17, Epee 18, Fester 19, Cheer 20, Stable 22, Halo 24, Eat 25, Adviser 26, Omits 27,
Spine 28, Adage 29, Unhinge 30, Trust 31, Entry
DOWN: 2, Wallop 3, Accede 4, Toe 5, Steel 6, Further 7, Eros 8, Solace 12, Bathe 13,
Cease 14, Resat 15, Atlas 16, Error 18, Feeds 19, Clement 21, Tamper 22, Hidden
23, Ledger 25, Attic 26, Onus 28, Age
SATURDAYS EASY SOLUTIONS
Easy Puzzle
ACROSS
3 A question of who sounds like a
sorceress? (5)
8 He wined incautiously (5)
10 Possibly lower down at heel (5)
11 The sea hawks exclamation (3)
12 Indian lake? (3)
13 Does it disfigure the back of
the car? (7)
15 Cautious about starting early
when tired (5)
18 Question of putting two and
two together? (3)
19 Is heart surgery such a job? (6)
21 Bad old eggs are clearly crook-
ed (7)
22 A swinging club (4)
23 Some of the hired staff are
ruddy radical! (4)
24 To score freely can move you
along fast (7)
26 In Africa one can get to the UK,
British Rail interceding (6)
29 Animal on toast? (3)
31 Playing one can cause a stir (5)
32 Born again Hitlerite, but hes
mostly just gas (3-4)
34 Charges round the Turks Head
for good times (5)
35 A couple excessively men-
tioned (3)
36 Sketches of runners going
round finishing fast (5)
37 The years when one finished in
being sent astray? (5)
38 Improperly takes a bet (5)
DOWN
1 Make fit, as by giving a girl
training (5)
2 Union seemingly leading to
many a fine offspring? (7)
4 Our timely version (4)
5 Cash or credit one possesses (6)
6 Flat stones that shone weird-
ly (5)
7 Its tough out East, weve been
told (5)
9 A question of organisation (3)
12 Put some lemon squash in the
wine and it could be fatal! (7)
14 Pull by the ear? (3)
16 A horsy frame (5)
17 Fungus as yet to be analysed
(5)
19 Passes over wild regions (7)
20 Snatches of sporting activity,
perhaps (5)
21 Do but shuffle with uncertain-
ty (5)
23 Go in for unoriginality? (2-5)
24 Most certain way to return us
the balance (6)
25 Also comes to nothing (3)
27 Theyre utterly piggish! (5)
28 Motorless, theyre surprisingly
fast on the river (5)
30 Gas that puts weight on a per-
son (5)
32 The narrow part is worth sav-
ing (4)
33 An article we reverence (3)
ACROSS: 1, Wotan 6, Pooch 9, Count-ER 10, Pi-lot 11, Lea-NT 12, Tu-N-is 13, Tenners 15, Lea 17, I-ris 18,
Makers 19, Ocean 20, Empire (State) 22, A-Ida 24, Ray 25, Stilt-on 26, S-hut-S 27, Mas-AI 28, Felix
29, Id-eal-ly 30, Wells 31, Osier.
DOWN: 2, O-liver 3, Acorns 4, Not 5, A-NG-U.S. 6, Pelican (crossing) 7, O-res. 8, Canter 12, Trice 13, Tiger
14, Nippy 15, Le-GI-t 16, A-swan 18, Mas-t-s 19, Orchids 21, Manage 22, Alleys 23, Do-CI-le 25, St.-ray
26, Sail 28, Flo.
SATURDAYS CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS
Cryptic Puzzle
WEIRD NEWS
There are no shortcuts to any
place worth going.
Beverly Sills.
They are si mpl e words of
eternal l ove f rom t he l ast
l etter ever wri tten by a young
sol di er ki l l ed i n Afghani st an.
But t he four sentences are
beyond pri ce to Mel i ssa Lamb
who l ost bot h her bel oved
husband and t hei r unborn
chi l d i n 24 horri f i c hours.
For more t han t wo years
Mel i ssa comfor ted hersel f
wi t h t he f i nal words of
Mar ti n, known as Lamby. But
t he paper became so worn
and she was so scared of
l osi ng i t , she had hi s l etter
t attooed on her foot .
I t reads:
I hope you know t hat al l t hat
goes t hrough my mi nd i s you,
Rosi e and bump. I m al ways
t hi nki ng of you al l , mi ss al l of
you so much. I l ove you al l
al ways. Love you babes, l ove
Lamby.
Mar ti n, 27, of 1st Batt al i on,
The Ri f l es, was ki l l ed by a
Tal i ban bomb i n Hel mand
Provi nce i n June, 2011.
Mirror Online
She tatooed husbands last letter on her foot
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Page 40 / TV GUIDE Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
FOX CINEPLEX SARIT CENT RE,
WESTLANDS
SCREEN I HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
2 IN 3D (PG) At 11.00am, 1.45pm, THE
FRUIT IN OUR STARS (U16) At 4.00pm,
HUMSHAKALS (GE) At 6.15pm, EK VILLAIN
(TBA) At 9.00pm
SCREEN II TRANSFORMERS : AGE OF
EXTINCTION IN 3D (TBA) At 11.00am,
2.15pm, 6.00pm, 9.10pm.
PLANET MEDIA CINEMAS - KISUMU
SCREEN I RIO 2 (GE) At 12.30pm,
2.30pm & 4.30pm
SCREEN II GODZILLA (16) At 6.10pm &
8.30pm
NYALI CINEMAX MOMBASA
SCREEN I TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF
EXTINCTION IN 3D, FAULT IN OUR
STARS At 6.30pm HOLIDAY At 9pm,
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION IN
2D At 9.15pm
Cinema Guide
Tv guide
Nairobi 102.7 I Nyeri 105.7
Meru 105.1 I Kericho 90.5
Kisumu 105.3 I Mombasa 105.1
Nakuru 104.5 I Eldoret 91.1 Kitui:
93.8 I Kisii: 91.3
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07:00 Myth Busters
07:50 Dirty Jobs
08:45 Ultimate Survival
09:40 Border Security
10:05 Auction Hunters
10:30 Auction Kings
10:55 How Do They Do It?
11:25 How Its Made
11:50 Dynamo
12:45 The Big Brain Theory
01:40 MythBusters
02:35 Border Security
It is the story of Charlie Bronson, a nice guy
with a questionable past who risks ever-
ything when he busts out of the witness
protection program to deliver his anc to
Los Angeles to seize a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity. Their road trip grows awkward-
ly complicated, when they are chased by
the feds and increasingly dangerous, when
Charlies former pals, a band of gangsters
enter the fray.
YESTERDAYS TRIVIA: Sparkle
TV Quiz
03:30 Auction Kings
04:00 Dirty Jobs
04:55 Ultimate Survival
05:50 MythBusters
05:45 How Do They Do It?
07:10 How Its Made
07:40 Sons of Guns
09:00 Storage Hunters
09:30 Sons of Guns
DStv Highlights
Todays Schedule
5: 00 Pambazuka
6: 00 Power Breakf ast
9. 00 Af rosi nema
11: 30 Naswa
12: 00 Gabri el a
13: 00 Li ve at 1
13: 30 Vi va Brazi l
Fi nal
14. 30 Af rosi nema
16: 00 Ci ti zen Al asi ri
16: 10 Mseto East
Af ri ca
17: 00 Pavi t ra Ri sht a
18: 00 Forever
Yours
19: 00 Ci ti zen Ni pashe
19: 35 I nspekt a Mwal a
20: 05 Wi l d at Hear t
21: 00 Monday Speci al
22: 00 Af ri ca
Leadershi p Di al ogue
22: 30 Af rosi nema
0. 00 Ci ti zen Late
Ni ght
1. 00 Af rosi nema
4:30 BBC
4:55 Morning Prayer
5:00 Aerobics
5:30 Damka
8:00 Good Morning Kenya
9:00 Parliament Live
11:00 Daytime Movie
11:00 KBCc Lunch Time
News
1:30 Moving The Masses
1:30 Grapevine
2:30 Parliament Live
4:30 Spider Riders
5:00 Club 1
6:00 Spiders
7:00 Darubini Live
7:30 Road To Success
8:05 The Platform Live
9:00 Channel 1 News
9:45 National Cohesion
Live
10:30 Bold & Beautiful
11:30 You Are The One
12:00 Club 1
12:45 BBC
5:00 PasswordRpt
6:00 AMLive
9:00 LaPatrona
10.00 MaidInManhattan
11:15 TheYoung&Th
Restless
12:00 RhythmCity
12:30 Scandal
1:00 NTVat1
1:30 Backstage
2:00 TogetherAgain
3.00 Password
4:00 NTVat4
4:15 Tanbihi
4.30 Password Reloaded
5:00 TheBeat
6:00 DestinyRiver
7:00 NTVJioni
7:30 Tujuane
8:30 Mali
9:00 NTVTonight
10:05 PressPass
11:30 Movie:Sweet nShort
01:00 Tanbihi
1:15 CNN
5.00 Command Your
Morning
6:00 Morning Express
9.00 Tendereza
10:00 My Eternal
11.00 National Geographic
12.00 The Enterprenuer
12.30 Gavana
1.00 Newsdesk
1.30 Kick Of
2:00 Afri-screen
4.00 Mbiu Ya KTN
4.10 Kim Possible
4.30 Hulk and the Agent
of Smash
5.00 Baseline
6.00 Los Rey
7:00 KTN LEO
7:30 Ajabu
8.00 Stev Harvey
9.00 KTN PRIME
10.05 Case Files
10.30 Prank My Mom
11.00 The Diary
12.00 IAAF
CNN
5.00 Praiz
6.00 K24Alfajiri
9.00 ItSeemsSoBeautifulRpt
10.00 Naijasinema Rpt
12.00 AlJazeeraNews
12.30 AlmasiRpt
13.00 K24Newscut
13.30 GumbaruSchool Rpt
14.00 KeleleFMRpt
15.00 BrokenVow
16.00 MchipukowaAlasiri
In this weeks episode: Vado Rey starts up a ght that ends all Reys in prison, will they all get out of
prison?
4:00AM Safari na Antony Ndiema
6:00AM Maisha Asubuhi na Alex and Jalas
10:00AM Staarabika na Ann Njogu
1:00PM Konnect na Mwende and Clemo
4:00PM Maisha Jioni na Tina and Zuleka
7:00PM Rhumba Attencion na Mwashumbe
10:00PM Maji Makuu na Ali Hassan and Babu
12:00AM Hakuna Kulala
Pick Of The Day 7.30PM
16.10 TeamRaha
17.30 BeatBox
18.30 K24Mashinani
19.00 K24 SaaMoja
19.35 Almasi
20.05 GumbaruSchool
20.30 KeleleFM
21.00 K24EveningEdition
22.00 Naijasinema: Innocent
Tears
1.30 AlJazeera
Treasury CS Henry Rotich and Korean Minister for Political Afairs Lee Kyung
Soo exchange documents to promote bilateral trade at Treasury recently.
Rotich roots for alternative funding from the East. [PHOTO BY GEORGE NJUNGE]
ternational financial market, where
market conditions are currently fa-
vourable for investors in the country.
The high interest-rate regime
in the country has left commercial
banks reeling under the weight of
Sh80 billion worth of non-performing
loans (NPLs). The situation has been
compounded by the governments in-
creased borrowing from the domes-
tic market to offset perennial budget-
ary deficits.
This has seen commercial banks
scramble to offload their excess li-
quidity in treasury bills and bonds,
thereby starving the private sector
The National Treasury has set its
eyes on Asia and Middle East in its
efforts to diversify the Governments
sources of international funding. The
move is part of the States bid to re-
duce its domestic borrowing require-
ments, control interest rates and sta-
bilise the shilling and exchange rate.
Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich
said the State is working on the mo-
dalities of issuing Samurai (Japanese
Yen denominated) Bonds, Sukuk
(Shariah) compliant Bonds and Di-
aspora bond in the current financial
year (2014/2015). We are exploring
new products as a way of borrow-
ing from the international markets.
We want to look at Samurai Bonds,
Sukuk bonds and Diaspora bonds.
With these, we would have diversified
our market sources for funds, Rotich
told The Standard last week.
This financial year, we are go-
ing to revise our domestic borrowing
downwards, Mr Rotich said. He how-
ever could not disclose the amount of
money to be raised from the interna-
tional markets through the countrys
second sovereign bond saying the
scenarios are still being worked out.
We are still working on the sce-
narios of how much would be raised
through these bonds, he said. This
comes after the Government suc-
cessfully raised $2 billion (Sh176 bil-
lion) from a sovereign bond that was
fully taken up by investors from Eu-
Move aims to diversify
sources of international
funding, reduce
domestic borrowing
and control bank rates
rope and the US. The funds will be
used to fund infrastructure invest-
ments as well as pay off the $600mil-
lion (Sh52.2 billion) syndicated loan
acquired from Citi Bank (London),
Standard Bank (South Africa) and
Standard Chartered Bank (London).
ADDITIONAL PENALTIES
The loans repayment was extend-
ed by three months to August 15, cost-
ing the exchequer an additional Sh1.2
billion in interest and penalties for de-
ferment. The bond is also expected to
act as a benchmark bond to catalyse
private sector participation in the in-
Debt Market
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More work awaits the newly gazetted Task
Force on Tourism Recovery as it meets key in-
dustry stakeholders at the Coast this week. Top
on the agenda will be how to fix the runaway
insecurity in the Coast region, which accounts
for over 60 per cent of all international tourism
arrivals,and restore confidence among tourists.
Kenya Association of Hotelkeepers and Ca-
terers (KAHC) Coast branch chief executive Sam
Ikwaye, while welcoming the engagement of the
task force headed by former Jacaranda Indian
Ocean Beach Resort & Spa General Manager Lu-
cy Karume, said the problems facing the tourism
sector are known.
Ms Karume confirmed the task force will be
moving to Mombasa this week. We still have
key players who have grown up with the prob-
lems affecting tourism, following failure by sub-
sequent regimes to tackle them head-on. We still
have ideas as stakeholders but the Government
remains the bigger stakeholder in tourism, Ik-
waye said. If they understand the value of tour-
ism, they will come up with recovery strategies
to help resuscitate the ailing industry.
Ikwaye said the industry is optimistic that the
strategies mooted will be attainable and that the
task forces work will not be politicised. Cabinet
Secretary for East African Affairs, Commerce and
Tourism Phyllis Kandie, in a special gazette no-
tice dated June 24, 2014, named members of the
task force who will advise the Government on
the recovery of the tourism sector.
They include Kenya Tourism Board Man-
aging Director Muriithi Ndegwa, Robert Ma-
rini, Jaideep Vohra (managing director,Sarova
Group of Hotels and KAHC national chairman)
Taita Taveta Governor John Mruttua Mruttu and
Lawyers Cecil Miller and Donald Kipkorir.
Others are Adam Jillo, Coast hotelier Chris
Modigell, Philemon Mwavala, Equity Bank Chief
Operating Officer Dr Julius Kipngetich, Jostine
Machuma Barmao, Kenya Wildlife Service act-
ing Director General William Kibet Kiprono,
Kenya Airways Marketing Director Chris Diaz,
Alice Mwololo, Nicholas Bondo, Kaplich Barsi-
to and Mary Luseka. The committee will identi-
fy key challenges affecting the sector and come
up with an immediate recovery strategy. This in-
cludes developing a strategy to address under-
lying challenges and position Kenya as a pre-
ferred destination for safari, beach, commercial,
sports, education, health and conferencing des-
tination.
The task force will also promote inclusive-
ness amongst stakeholders in resolving issues
facing the sector as well as develop an integrated
communication campaign. The committee will
lobby and work with stakeholders to re-position
tourism as a major contributor to the economy.It
will also work closely with industry stakeholders
to incorporate resilience into the tourism plan,
Kandie said.
Full tray as new tourism task force heads to Mombasa
Treasury eyes more sovereign
bonds after successful debut
y B JAMES ANYANZWA
We are still
working on the
scenarios of how
much would be
raised through
these bonds,
-Treasury CS Henry Rotich
y B PHILIP MWAKIO
of the critical funds required for in-
vestment. The Central Banks Mone-
tary Policy Committee has repeated-
ly lowered the banks prime lending
rate to promote household and busi-
ness spending but majority of banks
tend to ignore the signals, citing high
cost of funds and the overall cost of
doing business.
Kenyas rating in terms of ease of
doing business worsened last year
after it appeared to have overlooked
key business reform programmes, ac-
cording to the World Banks latest Do-
ing Business Report (2014). Rwanda,
the regions fastest growing economy,
topped the list of 50 world economies
that made significant improvement in
business reform initiatives over the
last eight (2005-2013) years.
According to the report, Kenya
slipped eight positions, falling to po-
sition 129 from 121 last year. A total
of 189 countries were sampled with
Singapore being the best country to
do business in with Chad emerging
the worst.
Samsung Electronics East
Africa has entered into a
distribution partnership with
Hotpoint Appliances Ltd,
one of the countrys leading
household and consumer
appliances distributors.
The partnership aims at
increasing the accessibility
of Samsungs consumer
electronics such as TVs,
refrigerators and sound
systems, among others.
Samsungs Vice President
for East and Central Africa
Robert Ngeru said by
leveraging on Hotpoints
channel and retail strength
through their 250-channel
network across the country,
Samsung will be delivering
on its vision of enriching
peoples lives. Hotpoint
Appliances Managing Director
Shailesh Kanani said addition
of Samsung products into
their portfolio will give their
customers a wide range of
premium products.
Women in Taita-Taveta
County have been challenged
to engage in agribusiness
ventures to boost their family
incomes. Speaking in a two-
day event in Voi Town, during
horticultural production
workshop sponsored by
UNDP, agribusiness specialist
and trainer Janey Oyuke said
the sector is key to poverty
alleviation in rural families.
When we went to Israel,
we discovered that women
were doing much better in
agribusiness enterprises
than us in Kenya, despite
the country is a desert,
said Ms Oyuke. She pointed
out that cottage industries
were key to the realisation
of Vision 2030 and asked
women in the county to form
organised groups and begin
small cottage industries for
products such as aloe vera
and horticultural produce.
The event was closed by
governor John Mruttu.
-Pascal Mwandambo
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Women urged to start
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BAT Kenya representative
Ezekiel Saina (left) and
Manager Nisaar Ebrahim,
(right) explains manufac-
turing processes of tobacco
to the Head of ICT at KRA,
Pancrasius Nyaga, during a
tour of BAT Kenya factory in
Nairobi. The commissioners
toured the factory to inspect
the operations of the
Electronic Goods Manage-
ment System implemented
by BAT Kenya. [PHOTO:
COURTESY]
Factory
inspection
tour
Trouble brewing in counties over proposed pension scheme
The battle over the control and
management of pension contribu-
tions by county government employ-
ees has taken a new direction with
the workers differing with Council of
Governors over a proposed pension
scheme.
The Standard has established that
over 30 County Assembly Boards and
10 County Public Service Boards have
entered into an agreement with Local
Authorities Pension Fund (Lapfund).
Kericho, Homa Bay, Kilifi, West
Pokot, Bungoma, Nyamira, Sam-
buru and Siaya County Public Ser-
vice Boards confirmed the new ar-
rangement had been met, plunging
the pension scheme plan for county
workers into further confusion.
In June, the Council of Governors
wrote to the County Public Service
Boards approving Laptrust (Umbrel-
la) Retirement Fund, now referred to
as the County Pension Fund (CPF),
to offer retirement benefits to Coun-
ty governments staff.
The Councils Chairman, Isaac Ru-
to, through a circular said the move
was in line with the provisions of Sec-
tion 132 of the County Governments
Act 17 of 2012. However, analysts say
the Council of Governors might have
exercised the powers they wish to
have, for such responsibilities lie with
individual counties and their service
boards.
CPF Managing Director Hosea Ki-
li said his organisation had laid suf-
ficient groundwork in providing pen-
sion services to County governments.
Mr Kili observed that the allega-
tions from the Attorney General that
Laptrusts assets were illegally vested
in a private outfit were due to misin-
formation.
We are operating in accordance
with the laws, he said, adding: We
are gradually shifting from relying on
administration services to generating
more income from training and digi-
tisation of data.
Going forward, Kili called for the
merger of administration services of
the two schemes. Underneath these
suggestion, however, is the complex
existence of CPF and the actuarial
deficits the two schemes face.
As at December 31, 2012, Lapfund
Urban housing financier Shelter
Afrique has signed a $9 million loan
agreement with Ugandas Nation-
al Housing and Construction Com-
pany (NHCC). The facility will help
boost the supply of affordable hous-
ing in Uganda.
Shelter Afrique Acting Manag-
ing Director Yekini Olayanju said
the agreement is a step in the right
direction and marks an important
milestone for the two institutions.
We are committed to supporting
the government of Uganda in rolling
out housing projects through a pub-
lic-private partnership that will pave
way for possible increase in capital
subscription to ensure effective in-
tervention for shelter Afrique in the
Ugandan market, he said.
The agreement was signed in
Nairobi by Olayanju and the Nation-
al Housing and Construction Com-
pany Chairperson Agnes Kalibbala,
and witnessed by Ugandas Minister
of Housing Daudi Migereko and the
NHCC Managing Director, Mr Felix
Okoboi.
Migereko lauded the move by
NHCC to engage Shelter Afrique in
its attempts to improve affordable
housing in Uganda and urged the
company to explore other ways of
working with Shelter Afrique.
As a ministry, we are doing a
good job but we have to do more and
in good time. We also have to look
at ways to make the cost of housing
materials cheaper, we have to find
a way to become a part of the val-
ue-chain so we can control the cost,
which has been the prohibitive fac-
tor in acquiring houses in Uganda,
the minister said.
Kalibbala thanked the minister
and the staff of Shelter Afrique for
successfully concluding the loan
deal, adding that this will go a long
way in addressing the housing defi-
cit in Uganda.
The signing is the culmination
of hard work, a very big step and the
beginning of a beneficial relation-
ship between Shelter Afrique and
NHCC, she said.
Housing is one of the biggest
problems in Uganda and Im very
optimistic the project will help the
Ugandan people access affordable
housing, added Kalibbala.
Firm gets
$9m loan
facility
y B CORRESPONDENT
y B KWEMOI KAPCHANGA
The SIM-cards in question are a new revolutionary technology that will allow
users to embed them onto other SIM cards.
Sim manufacturer wades
into Safaricom, Equity tif
A Taiwan-based company that
manufactures Thin SIM Taisys Tech-
nologies Ltd termed the fight between
Safaricom and Equity Bank over the
new Thin SIM technology as un-
founded.
The firm, which is behind the
technology, insists that the Thin SIM
is not intended to disrupt or interfere
with functions of the primary SIM
card and therefore, does not have the
relevant software and functionality to
upset mobile functions.
The Thin SIM, which Equity Bank
intends to introduce through its sub-
sidiary, Finserve operates largely
through superimposition on the ex-
isting SIM card.
Safaricom wrote to the Commu-
nications Authority of Kenya (CAK)
about three weeks ago asking that the
bank be compelled to take a full risk
review of the Thin SIM to address ex-
posures.
Equity hit back saying Finserves
services ....are targeted at poor peo-
ple who cannot afford the luxury of a
duo-SIM mobile phone, but needed
to have access to at least two lines for
various needs.
Taisys waded into the debate say-
ing the Thin SIM works independent-
ly as a second smartcard without in-
terfering with the traditional SIM in
any way. The subscriber must select
which SIM to use (the Thin or the tra-
Safaricom wants
Equity Bank compelled
to take full risk review
of the Thin SIM card
ditional one) and only one SIM (the
Thin or the traditional one) can be
active at any one time. Please note
that the two SIM cards do not talk to
each other,wrote the company in an
e-mail.
In particular, the firm added, sub-
scribers would use Finserves net-
work to access Finserve services and
will only be able to receive calls to the
current active number.
But in its letter to CAK, Safar-
y B KENNETH KWAMA
icom states thus: Any use of Thin
SIM product should be with the ex-
press concurrence of the operator of
the primary SIM card to avoid such
potential infringement of Intellectual
Property Rights. The concurrence of
the operator will also ensure that se-
curity protocols are in place to safe-
guard the information on the SIM
card.
The Taiwan manufacturer of the
Thin SIM says it has a joint venture
in China with the International Fi-
nance Corporation (the investment
arm of the World Bank) to distribute
the technology being contested in
Kenya to banks.
The Thin SIM technology is ac-
tually not new. In fact it had its first
commercial deployment in 2006. Tai-
sys has made commercial deploy-
ments in various countries such as
United Kingdom, United States of
America, China, Singapore, Denmark,
Taiwan, Vietnam, said the company.
The Taiwanese firm, which says it
has been a member of the GSMA-the
association that represents the inter-
ests of mobile operators worldwide,
has explained that the technology
complies fully with the European
Telecommunications Standards Insti-
tute, which produces globally-appli-
cable standards for Information and
Communications Technologies (ICT).
The GSMA had not responded to
our questions by the time of going to
press. The Thin SIM can work along-
side all four mobile operators in Ken-
ya-Airtel, Safaricom, yuMobile and
Orange and its fate now lies with the
regulator who has promised to issue a
response to Safaricoms response this
week. The SIM-cards in question are
a new revolutionary technology that
will allow users to embed them onto
other SIM cards.
had no actuarial deficit but had
Sh3.5 billion in unremitted contri-
butions while Laptrust had Sh1.9
billion actuarial deficit. Total lia-
bilities owed to Laptrust during the
same period amounted to Sh6 bil-
lion.
Lapfund Chief Executive Officer
David Koross confirmed his entity
had inked deals with some counties,
but would not disclose names, add-
ing, We will be signing more bilat-
eral agreements soon. Our goal is to
ensure workers interests and retire-
ment savings are given a priority.
Page 43 TODAY IN BUSINESS / Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
Sisal plantation
Tribunal
picked to hear
REA Vipingo
takeover bid
Capital Markets tribunal
will be constituted for the
first time later this month,
when it will set a date for a
hearing into the takeover
of REA Vipingo Plantations
Limited, Chairman Jinaro Ki-
bet said.
The tribunal expects to
decide on the timing of the
hearing after July 26, when
one of the members who is
currently out of the country
returns to Kenya, Kibet said
in a telephone interview yes-
terday from the capital, Nai-
robi.
The Government ap-
pointed two members to
the arbitrator earlier this
month to form a quorum.
Kenyas High Court halted the
takeover of Africas biggest si-
sal producer on May 21, af-
ter Centum Investment, Ken-
yas largest publicly traded
investment company, chal-
lenged the validity of an of-
fer by REA Trading Ltd, REA
Vipingos biggest shareholder
with a 57 per cent stake.
Centum argues that UK-
based REA Tradings offer
contains a contingency that
violates Kenyas Companies
Act, according to the appeal
submitted to the tribunal.
REA Trading has proposed
buying the 43 per cent of REA
Vipingo it doesnt already
own for Sh70 a share.
It also said shareholders
that accepted the offer would
be entitled to a pro-rata share
of dividends or distributions
of proceeds from the poten-
tial future sale of land for
as much as Sh15 per share.
Centum is offering Sh75 a
share for the company.
Earlier this month, the
Court of Appeal upheld a
High Court decision denying
Vania Investment Pool Ltd, a
closely held Kenyan compa-
ny, from bidding for REA Vi-
pingo after it missed a Febru-
ary 28, offer deadline.
Vania is consulting its
lawyers about the decision,
Dilesh Bid, a director of the
company, said by phone July
14. He declined to comment
further.
Market Value REA Vipingo
was suspended from trading
on the Nairobi Securities Ex-
change after REA
Trading made an ini-
tial cash offer to acquire
the company. The stock last
traded on November 13, at
Sh27.50, giving the company
a market value of Sh1.65 bil-
lion ($19 million).
REA Vipingo operates two
sisal estates in Kenya that
produce about 12,000 met-
ric tonnes a year of the fiber.
Three of the companys
estates in Tanzania produce
more than 7,500 tonnes, ac-
cording to its website.
Bloomberg
High Court halted the buyout of Africas
biggest sisal producer after Centum
challenged the validity of an ofer by
REA Trading Limited, the plantation
rms biggest shareholder
y B CHARLES WACHIRA
Career Opportunity
NEWS EDITOR - KTN
The Assignment Editor will co-ordinate news gathering operations
and ensure the station obtains well researched and most up to
date news on daily events both locally & internationally
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Take charge of news desk operations, overall administration
of the news desk and enriching the daily news bulletins with
relevant features;
Assign duties to reporters, brief reporters and advise on
angles to take on a story and liaise with Bureau Chiefs
for stories from the regions. Ensure that the station is
not scooped and maintain an up to date dairy of news
contacts;
Draw up news plans include story idea, synopsis and
proposed mode of execution and determine running order
in consultation with other TV Editors;
Assess political, social and economic climate and anticipate
likely developments for coverage
Convene and chair editorial meetings in order to share
plans for the day;
Appraise staff, identify training needs and plan for the
team
Sub-edit scripts to ensure that they conform to journalistic
ethics, editorial objectives and house style and rehearse
the bulletins to ensure proper pronunciations of words and
names of people and places
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
Basic University Degree
Diploma in Journalism / Mass Communication
5 - 7 years work experience
Ability to work long odd hours
Editing & people management skills.
Good command of the English language
To co-ordinate news gathering operations, obtain well
researched and most up to date news on daily events both
locally & internationally.
In charge of news desk operations, overall administration
of the news desk and enriching the daily news bulletins
with relevant features
Assigns duties to reporters, briefs reporters and advises on
angles to take on a story and liaises with Bureau Chiefs for
stories from the region
Draws up news plans includes story idea, synopsis and
proposed mode of execution and determines running order
in consultation with other editors and news producers
Assesses political, social and economic climate and
anticipates likely developments for coverage
Convenes and chairs editorial meetings in order to share
his plan for the day.
Manages reporters
Ensure that the station is not scooped and maintains an up
to date dairy of news contacts
Diploma in Journalism / Mass Communication
5 years work experience
Ability to work long odd hours
Editing & people management skills.
Good command of the English language
The job holder will distribute news coverage assignments
to reporters and writers and oversee the production of the
Kiswahili news bulletin.
Assigns reporters brief reporters and advise on angles to
take on a story
Liaises with the news editor to ensure that the station
is not scooped and maintain an up to date dairy of news
contacts;
Supervises and trains on reporting, intros, adverts, graphics
and captions in Kiswahili
Sub-edits Kiswahili scripts to ensure that they conform to
journalistic ethics, editorial objectives and house style
Rehearses the bulletins to ensure proper pronunciations of
words and names of people and places
Presents news bulletins, commentaries and prepares and
conducts live and or recorded interviews of guests and
reporters
Diploma in Journalism/Mass Communication
5 years work experience
Reporting & presentation skills
Ability to lead a team of reporters
Ability to work long hours
The successful candidate will anchor sports news, ensuring high
quality in presentation in order to maintain KTNs position as the
leading television news channel.
Take instructions and briefs from the News Editor, on sports
stories to be covered and carry out interviews, check out
facts and submit stories within the set deadlines.
Ensure that stories to be aired conform to journalistic
ethics, editorial objectives and house style
To anchor sports news; rehearse the bulletins to ensure
proper pronunciations of words and names of people and
places
Change script as necessary to suit own presentation style
without distorting meaning or outing in-house style
Present sports bulletins, commentaries and prepare and
conduct live and or recorded interviews of guests and
report
Research stories to ensure that the content is legitimate
and truthful
University Degree in Journalism
3 - 5 years working experience
A love for sports
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Page 44 / TODAY IN BUSINESS Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
Judy Maina (left) from Bank of Africa takes DT Dobie Marketing Manager Caroline Wamai (centre) and Hiram Kairu
through a personal motor loan brochure during the DT Dobie open day. The bank facilitates loan facilities for customers
who are interested in purchasing new cars.
APA Director of
Insurance Shashi Shah
(left) hands over a
Sh64 million cheque to
Sai Eden Roc Hotel in
Malindi Ravi Rohra
(second right) being
compensation after
the hotel caught re
and property de-
stroyed. The event was
witnessed by the rms
Mombasa Branch
Manager Simon Ndika
and claims Manager
Ms Florence Wambua
(right).
Old Mutual Kenya
Chief Executive
Rueben Java chats
with Hellen Casey,
head of group
marketing, Old
Mutual Plc during
her visit to the rms
ofces in Upper Hill.
The rm is running a
countrywide
campaign to educate
the public on the
signicance of taking
up insurance and
nancial planning.
From left, Apple Programme Manager for Airtel Africa Dave Rapson, Airtel
Kenya Marketing Director Charles Wanjohi and EMS head of Marketing
MonaimTahour display the iPhone 5s smartphones. Airtel will ofcially stock
the iPhone 5s handset in its outlets.
Equatorial Commercial Bank (ECB) Managing Director
Sammy Itemere and Nakuru Governor Kinuthia Mbugua
during the ECB Nakuru branch opening ceremony recent-
ly. Looking on (left) is ECB Board Chairman Dan Ameyo.
Gigi Motors branch manager James Macharia (left) hands
over one of the vehicles purchased by Nyambari Ever-
green Agencies, Limuru, to the rms manager Muruga
Muiruri (centre) and managing director Paul Ngigi. The
agency is in the process of modernising its eet.
CfC Life Managing
Director Abel
Munda (right)
confers with Re-
tirement Benets
Authority Chief
Executive Edward
Odundo who was
the chief guest
during the launch
of Boresha Mai-
sha Individual Re-
tirement Plan and
Boresha Maisha
Umbrella Retire-
ment Plan in Nai-
robi. The retire-
ment products
cater for both re-
tail and corporate
markets.
Unep Programme Coordinator Ms Wang Zidi (left) and Unep Chi-
na Special Coordinator Prof Li Fengting guided by Nakumatt
Holdings Executive Ms Veronica Wathira (right) admire the re-
tailers reusable bags during the just-concluded rst Unep As-
sembly conference at the Gigiri UN Complex, Nairobi. Nakumatt
is encouraging shoppers to use reusable bags.
Manoj Changarampatt (left), Internet and Mobile Director, Sam-
sung Mobile and Danish Oyugi, country manager-Kenya, Sam-
sung Mobile sample the features of the newly unveiled du-
al-sim-enabled Samsung Galaxy Note 3.
Twiga Chemicals Chief Executive A. Ramamurthy (left) receives
an accreditation certicate from Kenya Accreditation Service
(KENAS) Chief Executive Sammy Milgo after the rm got a
17025:2005 certication.
THROUGH THE CORPORATE LENSE
AU-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur staf and members of Sudans government guide freed Sudanese humanitarian work-
ers. South Sudan army spokesman Philip Aguer has conrmed ghting has broken out in Nasir. [PHOTO: REUTERS]
World
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South Sudanese rebels and gov-
ernment soldiers clashed in the
northern town of Nasir on Sunday,
adding to fears that a shaky ceasefire
agreement signed in May could to-
tally collapse.
Rebel spokesman Lul Ruai Koang
said troops loyal to Riek Machar,
South Sudans former vice president,
launched an assault on the govern-
ment-held town and at dawn liber-
ated Nasir.
South Sudan army spokesman
Philip Aguer confirmed there was
fighting but said the rebels were not
in full control of Nasir, a small town
30km from the Ethiopian border in
the oil-rich Upper Nile State.
POWER STRUGGLE
The rebels have been shelling
Nasir since last night and this morn-
ing at 6am they launched a ground
attack, Aguer told Reuters. There is
still fighting in Nasir but the rebels
dont control Nasir.
Nasir has changed hands several
times since fighting broke out in the
capital Juba between soldiers loyal to
President Salva Kiir and troops back-
ing Machar in mid-December, quick-
ly spreading across the country.
Rebels say troops loyal
to Machar launched
an assault on a
government-held town
S Sudan peace shaky
as rival groups clash
The violence, triggered by a pow-
er struggle between the two men, has
often followed ethnic faultlines, pit-
ting Kiirs Dinka against Machars
Nuer.
European Union and the US have
sanctioned commanders from both
sides for violating the first ceasefire
that was signed in January but swift-
ly crumbled.
Fighting in Nasir follows last
weeks skirmishes between rebels
and government troops in Unity
State, an oil-rich region where the vi-
olence has forced complete shut-
down in production.
The attack on Nasir is the biggest
threat so far to the shaky ceasefire
signed by Machar and Kiir on May 9.
Both sides have repeatedly accused
each other of violations.
This mornings attack by the reb-
els of Riek Machar might put the
ceasefire to an end, Aguer added.
Thousands of civilians have been
killed and more than a million forced
to flee their homes since December,
prompting U.N. warnings of a fam-
ine in some parts of the country,
which declared independence from
Sudan in 2011.
Oil output, South Sudans eco-
nomic lifeline, has been cut by a
third to about 165,000 barrels per
day since fighting began.
Reuters
Rival Libyan militias battled for
control of the capitals international
airport in fighting that killed at least
three people, a security official said.
The week-long fight over the air-
port is being waged by a powerful
militia from the western city of Zin-
tan, which controls the facility, and
Islamist-led militias, including fight-
ers from Misrata, east of Tripoli. The
clashes resumed early Sunday after
cease-fire efforts failed.
A security official said the fighting
killed two militiamen from Misrata
and a civilian who died when a stray
rocket hit his house.
The official spoke on condition of
anonymity because he was not au-
thorised to speak to journalists.
A mortar shell struck a Libyan Ar-
ab Airlines plane and a column of
black smoke could be seen billowing
from inside the airport, which has
been closed since Monday.
Tripoli is witnessing one of its
worst spasms of violence since the
ouster of long-time dictator Muam-
mar Gadhafi in 2011. The rival mili-
tias, made up largely of former reb-
els, have forced a closure of gas
stations and government offices.
OWN OFFENSIVE
In recent days, armed men have
attacked vehicles carrying money
from the Central Bank to local banks,
forcing their closure. The Central
Bank had said banks would reopen
Sunday, but they remained closed as
the fighting resumed.
Renegade Gen. Khalifa Hifter,
who is waging his own offensive
against Islamic militants in the east-
ern city of Benghazi, denounced
what he called an attempt by rem-
nants and agents of terrorism to de-
stroy Tripolis airport and terrorise
the people.
Hifter, who appeared Saturday on
Libyan television, said our troops in
Tripoli have bravely confronted the
aggressive militia attacks and vowed
that the coming few days will be de-
cisive with the escalation of our mil-
itary operations.
In Benghazi, Libyas second-larg-
est city, gunmen killed an army offi-
cer late Saturday while he was driv-
ing home in his car, and early Sunday
a former special forces officer was
shot dead in the downtown Salmani
district, a local security official said.
The official spoke on condition of
anonymity because he is not autho-
rised to brief reporters.

Reuters
The death toll from a brazen at-
tack on a border post in Egypts west-
ern desert along the border with Lib-
ya has risen to 22 troops, including
three officers, the military said.
The attack was deadliest suffered
by Egypts military in recent history.
President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, a
former military chief called the as-
sault a terrorist attack and said it
would not go unpunished. He also
declared a three-day mourning peri-
od.
The military spokesman, Brig.
Gen. Mohammed Samir, posted the
names of the dead on his official
Facebook page. A military funeral
was expected later yesterday.
The heinous crime that took
these brave souls and spilled their
blood will not go unanswered, a
statement from the presidency said.
Terrorism will be uprooted from ev-
ery part of Egypt.
Gunmen armed with rocket-pro-
pelled grenades attacked the border
post in the countrys largest province
al-Wadi al-Gedid, which straddles
the Libyan and Sudanese borders,
before sundown Saturday, causing
an explosion in the ammunition
warehouse. Three attackers were
killed in the brief clashes.
AP
Three killed as Libyan militias ght over airport Death toll rises to 22 in Egypts
deadliest border post attack
French Prime Minister Manuel
Valls has vowed not to allow conicts
between the nations Jews and
Muslims to erupt, even if it means
banning protests. Valls spoke at a
memorial ceremony for the more
than 13,000 Jews rounded up in the
Paris region 72 years ago, with most
held at a cycling stadium before being
sent to Auschwitz. The Vel dHiv
roundup was among the darkest
days for French Jews in Nazi-occupied
France. Valls said, France will not
allow provocations to feed... conicts
between communities. France has
Europes largest Jewish and Muslim
communities.
The Philippine president, a known
smoker, has signed a law that requires
tobacco companies to put scary health
warnings on cigarette packs in a
country where tens of thousands of
people die every year from tobacco-
linked diseases. President Benigno
Aquino IIIs spokesman, Herminio
Coloma Jr, said the Philippine leader
signed the law to efectively instil
health consciousness through graphic
health warnings on tobacco products.
The presidential palace did not
immediately publicise the law but
legislation approved by lawmakers
last month required 50 per cent of
the bottom of cigarette packs, front
and back, to be covered with pictures
and illustrations of warnings such as
damaged lungs.
Labour unions representing more
than 200,000 striking South African
metal workers have submitted a lower
wage demand to employers, a union
representative said, to try to end
the walkout battering Africas most
developed economy. The proposal
is for a three-year agreement with
annual increases of between 8 and
10 per cent, Marius Croucamp, a
spokesman for the Solidarity union,
one of the smaller unions in the
strike, said in a statement. Unions had
previously sought 12-15 per cent.
Agencies
French PM denounces
Jewish-Muslim conicts
Smoker president okays
cigarette pack warnings
Striking SA metal
workers revise demand
RoundUp
JUBA, MONDAY
TRIPOLI, MONDAY
CAIRO, MONDAY
Page 46 / NEWS OF THE WORLD Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
A monk performs a prayer during a special vigil for victims of the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight
MH17, inside a Buddhist temple in Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. [PHOTO: REUTERS]
Bahraini anti-government protesters wave na-
tional ags and carry images of top Shiite cleric
Sheik Issa Qassim, on Saturday. [PHOTO: AP]
Armed rebels take plane crash bodies
Ukrainian ofcials say
they expect to have bodies
eventuallly delivered to
government-held city
Armed rebels forced emergency workers to
hand over all the 196 bodies recovered from the
Malaysia Airlines crash site and then loaded
them onto refrigerated trains bound for a reb-
el-held city, officials and monitors said.
At the crash site Sunday morning, Associated
Press journalists saw no bodies and no armed
rebels. Emergency workers were searching the
sprawling fields only for body parts.
Nataliya Khuruzhaya, a duty officer at the
train station in Torez, 15km from the crash site,
said she saw emergency workers loading bodies
into five sealed, refrigerated train cars.
She said the train was scheduled to head to
the town of Ilovaysk, 35km further east toward
the Russian border, but no instructions had
been given about when it would leave or any
possible destinations beyond Ilovaysk.
RETIRED FLIGHT NUMBER
Russian news agencies said the bodies were
heading to the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.
Ukrainian officials say they expect to have the
bodies eventually delivered to government-held
city of Kharkiv, but its unclear if the rebels will
agree to do so.
All those on board the flight 283 passen-
gers and 15 crew were killed.
Ukraine says Russia has been sending so-
phisticated arms to the rebels, which Moscow
denies. The crash site is close to the Russian
border.
Meanwhile, Malaysia Airline says it is retir-
ing the flight number of the plane that was shot
down over Ukraine.
The carrier said in a statement beginning
Friday, it would no longer use MH17 to identi-
fy any of its Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur flights.
It said it is doing so out of respect for our crew
and passengers who were aboard the plane.
The airline said the new flight number re-
placing MH17 would be MH19.
It also said there would be no changes to
the frequency of its Amsterdam-Kuala Lum-
pur service.
Ukraine and the separatists accuse each
other of firing a surface-to-air missile Thurs-
day at Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 as it flew from
Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur some 10,000 me-
tres above the battlefields of eastern Ukraine.
Both deny shooting down the plane. All those
onboard the flight 283 passengers and 15
crew were killed.
AP
Rebels have recovered the black boxes from
downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and will hand
them over to the International Civil Aviation Organi-
sation, a rebel leader said
Alexander Borodai also said the bodies recovered
from the crash site in eastern Ukraine would remain
in refrigerated train cars at a station in the reb-
el-held town of Torez until the arrival of an interna-
tional aviation delegation
It was immediately not clear if the rebels and the
Ukrainian government were working together or
were at odds with each other
CRASH AFTERMATH
Bahrains Justice Ministry has asked a
court to suspend the activities of the coun-
trys main Shiite Muslim opposition group, a
move that could set back efforts to restart rec-
onciliation talks in the Gulf Arab kingdom.
Bahrain, home to the US Fifth Fleet,
quelled a popular uprising in 2011 when ma-
jority Shiite Muslims led mass protests de-
manding a greater role in running the Sun-
ni-ruled island but low level civil unrest has
persisted.
The ministry asked for a three-month sus-
pension of Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society
so it can correct its legal status, state news
agency BNA reported on Sunday.
The ministry said the group had lost its
legal status after four of its general confer-
ences were annulled due to a lack of dele-
gates and a failure to comply with require-
ments for transparency in convening these
conferences.
OPEN RIFT
The move comes a little over a week after
Wefaqs leader Sheikh Ali Salman and his po-
litical assistant, Khalil al-Marzouq, were
charged with holding an illegal meeting with
a US diplomat.
Tom Malinowski, US Assistant Secretary
of State for Democracy, Human Rights and
Labor was expelled from Bahrain in June, an
incident that has opened a rift between
Washington and one of its main regional al-
lies.
Marzouq had been cleared of terrorism
charges in June, raising hopes that suspended
reconciliation talks between the government
and the opposition could get back on track.
Bahrain asks court to suspend
main opposition blocs activities
MANAMA, MONDAY
Wefaq, which says it advocates non-violent ac-
tivism, had boycotted talks with the government
after Marzouqs arrest in September.
A meeting between Bahrains crown prince
and opposition leaders in January may have
pulled the discussions back from the brink of col-
lapse but mutual mistrust runs deep. Little prog-
ress has been made since then and the opposition
has said talks are frozen.
AP
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Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (left), presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto (centre) and fellow
candidate Joko Widodo during a meeting at the presidential palace in Jakarta, yesterday. [PHOTO: REUTERS]
After an ugly presidential election
campaign, Indonesia is set to declare
the winner tomorrow but that may
not settle a simmering dispute be-
tween the two candidates, both of
whom claim victory.
Unofficial counts by eight polling
agencies of the July 9 election have
given Joko Widodo, the popular and
sneaker-wearing former governor of
Jakarta known as Jokowi, a slim
lead.
But Prabowo Subianto, a former
general with a checkered human
rights record who has drawn voters
with his thundering nationalistic
rhetoric, insists he has polling data
showing he has won, raising specu-
lation that he might may not accept
the results if he loses.
CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE
The tension could threaten Indo-
nesias fragile transition to democra-
cy 16 years after it emerged from the
long and brutal Suharto dictatorship.
The country of 240 million is experi-
encing a slowing economy the
largest in Southeast Asia and
needs leadership to tackle a rapidly
crumbling infrastructure.
Once the Election Commission
announces the winner, it is highly
likely the losing candidate will ap-
peal to the Constitutional Court, the
countrys highest. Judges there will
have two weeks to rule on any com-
plaints before deciding who won.
However, some experts worry
that Indonesias endemic corruption
could affect that decision. Last
month, the courts chief justice was
sentenced to life in prison for taking
a bribe to adjudicate in favour of a
plaintiff in a case related to a disput-
ed provincial election.
That will be a challenge for the
Unofcial counts by
eight polling agencies
have given Joko
Widodo a slim lead
Indonesias democracy faces test
as tallying ends in disputed poll
Constitutional Court, whose image
has already been ruined, said Mo-
hammad Qodari, a political analyst.
Subianto, who has declared as-
sets of $140 million and is on his
third bid for the presidency, denies
any intention to attempt to buy the
vote.
The results could trigger social
unrest such as clashes between sup-
porters of the two candidates. Indo-
nesia has experienced frequent out-
breaks of political, ethnic and
separatist violence during its transi-
tion to democracy. The security situ-
ation across the countrys 18,000 is-
lands has improved markedly in
recent years, but the unprecedented
rancor of the campaign, the first be-
tween just two candidates in the
countrys history, means that ten-
sions are running high.
There were significant smear
campaigns in the run-up to the poll,
and supporters of both men used so-
cial media for personal attacks.
On the Jokowi side there are too
many parasites, they are a danger to
the country, Subianto supporter
and lawmaker Fahri Hamzah tweet-
ed recently. After the 22nd we will
deal with them. Just be patient, he
said, using language that could eas-
ily be interpreted as menacing.
IMPROMPTU VISITS
Widodo, a former furniture mak-
er, is widely seen as untainted by the
often-corrupt military and business
elite that have run Indonesia for de-
cades. He likes to wear casual plaid
shirts, listen to heavy metal music
and make impromptu visits to the
slums.
Subianto, late dictator Suhartos
former son-in-law, is seen by some
as providing stronger leadership and
was endorsed by Islamic-based par-
ties, hard-line Islamic groups and
outgoing President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyonos political party. He was
trailing behind Widodo for months
before the polls but caught up on the
back of a well-organized, well-fund-
ed campaign that was supported by
most of the countrys establishment
political parties. His supporters also
spearheaded a smear campaign
against Widodo, spreading unfound-
ed rumors he is not a Muslim
which could undermine his standing
in this Muslim majority nation.
Voters for Subianto chose to ig-
nore his links to past human rights
abuses. He admits taking part in the
abduction of pro-democracy activ-
ists during the dying days of the Su-
harto dictatorship when he was head
of the armys strategic command,
saying he was following orders. He
was fired from the army as a result,
and spent several years in self-im-
posed exile in Jordan.
AP
Fighting resumed in the Gaza
neighbourhood of Shejaia on Sun-
day, less than an hour after a hu-
manitarian truce was agreed to al-
low the evacuation of those wounded
from the area.
Israels military said its forces
were shot at shortly after the two-
hour truce, facilitated by the Red
Cross, had begun at 1.30pm (10.30
GMT), and that it had resumed com-
bat operations. Hamas had no im-
mediate comment on Israeli allega-
tions it had breached the ceasefire.
Israel had agreed to a two-hour
humanitarian truce on Sunday in a
neighbourhood in the Gaza Strip hit
hard by Israeli shelling.
The ceasefire, requested by the
International Committee of the Red
Cross, was to last from 1.30 pm to
3.30 pm (10.30-12.30 GMT) in the
Shejaia district, where health offi-
cials said at least 50 Palestinians
were killed by Israeli fire.
Hamas said earlier that it would
abide by a temporary truce.
At the same time, Qatar had said
it would host a meeting between Pal-
estinian President Mahmoud Abbas
and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-
moon on Sunday to try to push for
an end to fighting in the Gaza Strip
that has killed more than 300 people.
STRATEGIC PLAYER
Hamas, which controls the Gaza
Strip, has rejected Egyptian efforts to
end the fighting that has killed at
least 370 Palestinians, mostly civil-
ians, saying any deal must include an
end to a blockade of the coastal area
and a re-commitment to a ceasefire
reached in an eight-day war there in
2012. The conditions include the re-
lease of prisoners re-arrested since a
2011 exchange deal with Israel, the
opening of Gaza-Israel border cross-
ings and an end to an Israeli block-
ade on the Gaza seaport, a Hamas
source in Doha told Reuters.
Israel must end all forms of ag-
gression and attacks, Hamas
spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told Re-
uters in the Palestinian Territories.
Western diplomatic sources see
Qatar as a strategic player in reach-
ing an effective ceasefire deal as the
wealthy Gulf Arab state hosts a large
number of exiled Islamists from
across the Middle East, including
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal.

Reuters
The Islamic State extremist group
has claimed responsibility for four
bombings in Baghdad which were
among a string of attacks that left at
least 27 people dead.
The jihadi group has spearhead-
ed the Sunni militant blitz over the
past five weeks that has overrun
much of northern and western Iraq.
It has declared the establishment of
an Islamic state ruled by Shariah law
in the territory it controls spanning
the Syria-Iraq border.
In a statement posted online late
Saturday, the group said two of the
attacks in Baghdad were carried out
by suicide bombers Abu al-Qa-
aqaa al-Almani and Abu Abdul-Rah-
man al-Shami. The names indicate
they were German and Syrian re-
spectively.
The Islamic State group said the
other two attacks involved parked
car bombs. It said the bombings tar-
geted Iraqi security forces as well as
Shiite volunteers who have taken up
arms to try to counter the Sunni mil-
itant offensive. The authenticity of
the statement could not be inde-
pendently verified, but it was posted
on a militant website frequently used
by the group. The attacks were
among the most significant in Bagh-
dad since the Sunni militant offen-
sive began.
AP
Fighting resumes in Gaza amid ceasere deal Islamic State jihadi group
claims Baghdad bombings
Soldiers have killed a wanted
militant suspected of involvement
in a suicide bombing at a Beirut
hotel last month. The National News
Agency (NNA) said special forces
raided an apartment complex to
arrest a man identied as Monzer
al-Hassan. Authorities believe al-
Hassan transported explosives to two
Saudi Arabian suicide bombers, one
of whom blew himself up in the hotel.
The other would-be suicide bomber
was wounded and detained. The NNA
said al-Hassan resisted arrest and was
killed in a shootout, followed by other
gunbattles in Tripoli.
Authorities in Myanmar announced
that the alleged rape of a Buddhist
woman by two Muslim men, that
triggered religious violence in
the central city of Mandalay, was
fabricated. Rumours that teashop
owners had raped one of their
employees set of attacks on Muslims
and mayhem over several days
earlier this month. One Buddhist and
one Muslim man died and 14 other
people were injured, and property
was damaged. A Home Ministry
announcement published in the
Myanmar Ahlin newspaper said a third
Muslim man wanted to frame the two
shop owners.
Spanish police have arrested one
of Colombias most-wanted criminals,
a 40-year-old man nicknamed the Rat
who is one of the leaders of a ruthless
drug cartel linked to 400 murders and
the shipment of the largest amounts of
cocaine to Europe and the US. Hernan
Alonso Villa was arrested Friday while
driving on a highway on the outskirts
of the south-eastern Mediterranean
port city of Alicante, police said in
a statement. He was found carrying
40,000 euros in cash. Police in
Colombia said Villa is the leader of the
military wing of the so-called Envigado
Ofce and the criminal organisation is
linked to more than 400 murders.
Agencies
Lebanese troops kill
militant linked to bomb
Myanmar nds rape case
causing unrest was faked
Suspected cocaine cartel
leader arrested in Spain
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TH
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FOOTBALL: Kitale Youth
lift Copa Coca-Cola title
KARATE: Camps emerge
in battle for chairman
KARATE: Mombasa to
host Tong-IL event
Kitale Youth lifted the Rift Valley
Provincial Copa Coca-Cola Youth
championship after thrashing Bomet
Youth 8-0 in the nals at 64
Stadium in Eldoret over the
weekend. The winners led 5-0 at the
break and in the second half, they
added three more goals. Austin Juma
and Issa Rashid scored a brace each
while Elly Saenyi, Maxwell Kibet and
Kennedy Mwendwa each scored once
for the winners in the one-sided
match. To earn their place in the
nals, Kitale Youth walloped Bocar
Juniors from Central Rift 3-1 in the
semis. Erick Wafula netted a brace
and Rashid Issa once for the winners
with Moses Kathongu replying for
the losers. -Ben Ahenda
Candidates vying for chairmanship
of the Kenya Karate Federation have
split it into two camps ahead of
its national elections in Nairobi on
July 26. The two, former chairman
Enos Muguku and Paul Mukoba,
are playing their cards close to
their chests. Let everybody come
out for himself or herself and say
what positions they are going for
in the national polls, Muguku told
FeverPitch as he met delegates from
diferent parts of the country who
endorsed his candidature recently at
a Nakuru Hotel. Outgoing chairman
Caleb Atemi has said he will not
defend the seat. -Ben Ahenda
Forty countries have been invited
for the annual Mombasa Open
Tong-IL Moo-Do International
Martial Arts tournament set for
next month. Kenya Tong Il Moo do
Federations Chairman Clarence
Mwakio said the invitations have
been extended to countries in
Asia, America, Middle East, Europe
and Africa. He said the event is
an all-styles competition open
to male and female players aged
from ve to 55 years. The event
runs from August 24 to September
1. Participants shall compete in
individual as well as team events
in forms, sparring and special
techniques categories and is open
to both black belts and coloured
belt holders, said Mwakio in
Mombasa. -Ernest Ndunda
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Serene Geisha ridden by P.
Ngugi on the way to win
during Magical Kenya Race
Day at Ngong RaceCourse,
yesterday.PHOTO:BONIFACE
OKENDO/standard
Blossom Hill (Venetia Phiips), treasured a smooth transi-
tion to her premier Alfajiri Nairobi Town Plate post, yesterday
at Ngong. Lucky for her, Magic Star (Lucinda Voorspuy), did a
U-turn when the starter raised his flag to go. That was a cost-
ly 20 lengths to catch up on.
Magic Star was tetchy without stalls and Lucinda did well
to remain in tact.
Full of vim and mojo, Westonian (Lesley Sercombe), tran-
quilised his Mchana Jockey Club Stakes field in a gratuitous,
assured, decisive manner, restraining Mpowered Mpire by
half-a-length.
Happy Times (Charles Mwangi), on the brink of being ex-
iled by King of Burma, grew wings in The Usiku Sir Ali Bin
Salim Stakes.
It was evident most of the eight two-year-olds did not stay
so well, yet still emerged as one of the best races to watch.
Charles Kimani had originally been booked for Happy Times,
but he at least scored on Ravenslass earlier.
NGONG RESULTS
12.35 pm - First Race - The Alfajiri Nairobi Town Plate (2,060m)
1.Blossom Hill (Venetia Philips) (Ashtontown/Vaman Avtar)
2. Almeria (Myra Malina)
3. Rankin (Katherine Bowser)
4. Magic Star (Lucinda Voorspuy)
Distance: 4.5/6/8/8. Time: 2:15:6/10 secs. Favourite: Win-
ner 7-4. Runners: 5 Owned by Mim Haynes. Trainer Patsy Sercombe
1.10 pm - Second Race - Asubuhi Kenya Cambridgeshire - (1,800m)
1. Manly Wharf (James Muhindi) (Russian Revival/Darling Harbour)
2. Hunting Call (Charles Kimani)
3. Go Public (Patrick Ngugi)
4. Carla (Jacob Lokorian)
Distance: 2.4/2.5/3.5/2.5. Time: 1:56:8/10 secs. Favourite: Go Public. Runners: 5
Owned by Sheikh Hamid Butt and Doctor Patrick Musimba. Trainer Joe Karari
1.45 pm - Third Race - The Mchana Jockey Club Stakes - George Drew (2,400m)
1. Westonian (Lesley Serecombe) (Bezrin/Western Truth)
2. Mpowered Mpire (Richard Kibet)
3. Usurper (Patrick Mungai)
4. Shufti (Jacob Lokorian)
Distance: half/2.5/5/2.4. Time: 2:37:4/10 secs. Favourite: Win-
ner 1-9. Runners: 5 Owned by Mim Haynes. Trainer Patsy Sercombe
2.20 pm - Fourth Race - Adhuhuri Maiden - (1,600m)
1. Mean Mistress (Lesley Sercombe)
2. Trifecta (Willy Watetu)
3. Hood (Patrick Ngugi)
Freetown withdrawn under Veterinary Certificate; Distance:
8/4/5.5/8. Time: 1:45:4/10 secs. Favourite: Winner 7-4. Runners: 5
Owned by The Spirit of Pinkey Syndicate. Trainer Patsy Sercombe
2.55 pm - Fifth Race - Alasiri Maiden - (1,200m)
1. Ravenslass (Charles Kimani)
2. Sea Music (Patrick Mungai)
3. Ari G (Patrick Ngugi)
Bay Empress and Cashmere, withdrawn under Veterinary Certificate, Distance:
8/1.75/1.75/1.75. Time: 1:14:00 secs. Favourite: Nothing specific. Runners:10
Owned by Sheikh Hamid Butt and Doctor Patrick Musimba. Trainer Joe Karari
3.30 pm - Sixth Race - Jioni Handicap (1,200m)
1. Glitzern (David Miri)
2. Derek Boy (Josphat Kultiang)
3. Trigger Happy (Lesley Sercombe)
Transformer withdrawn under Veterinary Certificate. Distance: head/2.5/1.75/short-
head. Time: 1:14:2/10 secs. Favourite: Nothing specific. Runners: 10 Owned by Mary
Binks. Trainer Julie McCann
4.05 pm - Seventh Race - Magharibi Maiden (1,600m)
1. Akalat (James Maina)
2. Hectic (James Muhindi)
3. Fulfield (James Kinyua)
Distance: 1.5/1/3.5/5.5. Time: 1:31:8/10 secs. Favourite: Winner 7-4. Runners: 10, Owned
by Darling Dadas. Trainer Surat Mohammed Noor
4.35 pm - Eighth Race - The Usiku Sir Ali Bin Salim Stakes (1,600m)
1. Happy Times (Charles Mwangi) (Casey Tibbs/Young At Heart)
2. King of Burma (Richard Kibet)
3. River King (James Muhindi)
4. Flying Whisky (Patrick Mungai)
Distance: 1/3/1/3.5. Time: 1:43:9/10. Favorite: King of Burma. Runners: 8, Owned by
Col. H. Farah. Trainer Joe Karari
4.50 pm - Ninth Race - Usiku Wa Manane Handicap (1,200m)
1. Serene Geisha (Patrick Ngugi)
2. Monash (Z. Munoru)
3. Tempesta (Peter Lesengei)
Distance: 1.75/neck/3.5/2.5. Time: 1:13:4/10 secs. Favourite: Noth-
ing Specific. Runners: 7 Owned by J. Mburu. Trainer Onesmus Mutua
Next Meeting: August 17 - no clarification as to the programmes.
BY THE SQUIRREL
Sercombe, Karari pack trebles
for season cessation
NGONG
ASSAULT
NGONG
ASSAULT
Page 51 FEVER PITCH / Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
y B ERICK OCHIENG
Pandit tees of to glory in Muthaiga
Abhishek Pandit, 16,
stunned seasoned golfers to
win the second leg of the Sa-
faricom Business Golf Chal-
lenge at Muthaiga Golf Club
on Saturday.
The Oshwal Academy Ju-
nior High School student post-
ed 39 stableford points (15+24)
to emerge overall winner in the
contest that attracted more
than 300 golfers from Nairobi
and its environs.
This is my greatest win
since I joined golf six months
ago, said Pandit, who was ac-
companied by his father Kau-
shik. The course was pristine,
the greens were excellent and
my chippings were marvelous
today, added Pandit, who at-
tributed his win to moral sup-
port from his father and his
coach, Anil Shah.
Shah said the win is an in-
dication that their efforts have
started to pay off. I met him
(Pandit) when he was raw in
the game. We started from ze-
ro. It was just like yesterday
when I was teaching him how
to hold a golf stick and today
he is on the podium receiving
his third win, said Shah.
To build on his success,
Pandit has resolved to take
part in all the remaining 14
Safaricom Business Golf Chal-
lenges spread in the courses of
the year.
I have managed to learn
great skills in golfing and I
know I am on course to mak-
ing it big in the game with good
focus, says Pandit.
Concerning his sons vic-
tory, Kaushik told FeverPitch:
I am glad that my son has
the drive. He is so passionate
about the game. He is the rea-
son I no longer wait to be on a
golf course to watch him play. I
am his number one fan.
Apart from winning the tro-
phy, Pandit was also awarded a
Samsung Galaxy S5; a sleeve of
tailor-made golf balls and Safa-
ricom airtime worth Sh10,000
and Sh10,000 cash.
Tony Tugee (left) and overall winner of the second leg of
the Safaricom Business Golf Challenge Abhishek Pandit at
Muthaiga Golf Club on Saturday. [PHOTO:ERICK OCHIENG STAN-
DARD]
When Eric Njogu, 41, joined ral-
lying last year, little did he know he
would be a force to reckon with this
season despite his lack of experience.
His passion for the game and de-
termination have seen him overcome
all odds to currently come third over-
all in the Kenya National Rally Cham-
pionship (KNRC) S-Class standing.
Due to his good performance in
rally, Njogus employer, Weetabix East
Africa (WEA), has now come on board
as his official sponsors.
It was not a bed of roses when
Njogu decided to do his first-ever
contest at the KNRC Guru Nanak Ral-
ly in Naivasha last September.
Njogu and his navigator Tony Ki-
mondo dropped out of the contest af-
ter their car, a Subaru Legacy, devel-
oped mechanical problems.
Njogu, who did not race in the rest
of the series, went back to the draw-
ing board and did a masterplan for
himself.
He started with an upgrade of his
car to a Subaru Impreza N8 in De-
cember and resolved to do thorough
training every Sunday on the hilly and
challenging terrains of Ngong, Isinya
and Kajiado townships in preparation
for the 2014 season.
The grand plan finally paid off!
Njogu earned his first points in the
first series of the KNRC 2014 season in
the Mombasa Rally in Malindi in Jan-
uary. He added more power in his gear
and improved his ranking in the sec-
ond series held in February in Mach-
NEVER SAY DIE
akos. Unfortunately, he failed to car-
ry on with vigour in the Kiambu leg
in March but managed to capitalise
on the Nakuru leg held in Eldama Ra-
vine in May, which propelled him to
second overall in the standings after
ending the contest in 15th place, his
best finish ever.
I know I would have won the El-
dama Ravine Rally had it not been for
the overheating of my engine, says
Njogu, who is the Route-To-Market
and General Trade Sales Manager at
Weetabix East Africa.
He finished in 24th position in
the Nanyuki series which he says was
a nightmare. I was forced to do the
54km section twice after I developed
a bent suspension arm and a blown
rear shock that relegated me to third
place overall.
Currently, Njogu is putting his car
to numerous tests ahead of the great
Safari Rally challenge on September
12-14 whose venue is yet to be dis-
closed.
I am currently replacing all the
broken parts and will be testing the
car in the Kipeto and Ostrich stages
before the continental contest, he
told FeverPitch.
Njogu believes he will win the
S-Class division this season. He has
plan to move to the more challenging
N-Class which requires deep pockets,
skills and experience to battle the likes
of veteran and champions Carl Tundo,
Baldev Charger and the others.
The late Ben Muchemi and Sebas-
tian Ogier are Njogus role models. Be-
sides KNRC Njogu has now taken up
Autocross and Clubmans rallies to
improve his skills.
I want to build consistency, gain
more speed. Through this I know I
am on the right path to clinching
the KNRC N-Class soon, says Njogu
whose dream is to be a Rally cham-
pion, a Motorsport Entrepreneur and
unmatched Sales & Route-to-market
SME mogul.
Eric Njogu poses next to his Subaru Impreza N8. [PHOTO:ERICK OCHIENG/STANDARD]
Despite many
challenges,
Njogu sets his
sight on a good
nish during
Safari Rally
y B ERICK OCHIENG

Logan Busolo posted a total of 72
nett points to emerge the overall
winner of the Mount Kenya Univer-
sity Golf Day staged at Kakamega
Golf Club at the weekend.
The handicap 10 Kakamega golfer
posted 40 Nett points in the opening
nine and another 42 points in the
closing nine to carry the day.
Im happy that Mount Kenya
University sponsored the tourna-
ment here. I would like to thank Mt
Kenya University Director Prof
Nyamboga and his deputy Thomas
Olinga who organised the event, the
win gives me a reason to train well
and sharpen my golfing skills, said
Busolo.
The runner-up was Ambassador
Madete playing off handicap 15 and
who recorded a total of 75 (43, 44)
nett points.
Third overall was handicap nine
James Mundia who registered 76 nett
(45+42) points.
Handicap 24 Luther Awuor from
Mumias emerged fourth on 76 nett
points after losing on countback to
Mundia.
Shabanji Opukah, playing off
handicap 12, also registered a total of
76 nett points but lost on countback
to Awuor in the event that saw
Charles Omega emerge the first nine
winner on a nett score of 34.5 points.
Eliud Siganga was second nine win-
ner with 35 nett.
Prof Nyamboga said: I would like
to thank Kakamega Golf Club for giv-
ing us an opportunity to market our
institution to the golfers. We promise
to come back next year.
His sentiments were echoed by
his deputy Olinga who affirmed the
institutions commitment to seize all
opportunities in marketing MKU in
the golf course through branding of
the course.
-porwa@standardmedia.co.ke
Busolo
reigns at
Kakamega
Golf Club
y B PHILLIP ORWA
Rana Sultan follows his tee at the par
71 Mumias Golf Club during the KE-
BAY Holdings Golf tournament. [PHO-
TO: PHILIP ORWA/STANDARD]
RESULTS
1. Overall Winner: Abhishek Pandit 39
2. Men Winner: Umang Soni 37
3. Men Third: David Mwindi 37
4. Lady Winner: Yolanda Andersen 39
5. Guset Winner: G.Wainaina 38
6. Junior Winner: Zubair Khan 34
7. Longest Drive Men: Ravi Raval
8. Longest Drive lady: Yvonne Wettstein
9. Nearest to pin: Kimani Mathu
10. Staf Winner: George Makori:
38
11. Staf Runner Up: Tony Tugge 34
12. Piga Mingi: K.S Bhachu 10
Page 52 / FEVER PITCH Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
y B PHILIP ORWA
Velox Shining Hope Open set for Kisumu

Tennis players across
western Kenya region will
this weekend converge in
Kisumu County for the eighth
edition of Velox Shining Hope
Tennis Championships.
The event organised by
Shining Hope Organisa-
tion is sponsored by Velox
Tennis-Australia and co-spon-
sored by Elora Talent &
Leadership Academy, Vic-
toria Tennis Academy and
Friends of Victoria Tennis
Academy across USA and Aus-
tralia.
Speaking in Kakamega
County during the Airtel Ris-
ing Start Term Two Second-
ary Schools Games, Shining
Hope Founder Collins Ag-
wanda said the event will be
used to celebrate the eighth
birthday of Shining Hope in
Kenya.
The championship, to be
staged at Shady Garden Acad-
emy, has attracted top tennis
players across Kisumu, Ka-
kamega, Vihiga, Busia, Ker-
icho, Kisii, Siaya, Migori, Ho-
ma Bay and Nandi counties.
Top prizes include trophies,
medals, certificates and brand-
ed t-shirts.
Meanwhile, Victoria Ten-
nis Academy head coach,
Agwanda has retired from
coaching high school tennis.
Agwanda said he has quit
coaching due to pressure of
work and will now focus on
developing talent at his Elo-
ra Academy to see it partic-
ipate in the 2017 secondary
schools games.
Agwanda further said he
will continue to donate tennis
equipment to schools.
We are proud to part-
ner with Hon Mager-
er Langat and plans are
underway to establish Elora
Academy in Kipkelion, which
will be the Kericho County
Campus, said Agwanda.
Agwanda urged governors
across the 47 counties to work
with Elora Academy in order
to develop and nurture talents
across the country.
By 2030, we will ensure
that Elora Academy opens
its doors across 30 counties.
Turkana, Kericho, Vihiga, Nai-
robi, Mombasa, Kakamega,
Siaya, Garissa and Mandera
counties are the first across
Kenya set to benefit.
Peter Kiboko in action during the Velox Tennis tourna-
ment in Butere Girls High School at the weekend.[PHO-
TO:PHILIP ORWA/STANDARD]
During the just-concluded Fifa
World Cup in Brazil, we all watched
in awe some of the shocking results
ever witnessed at the global sporting
extravaganza.
Who will ever forget that 7-1 drub-
bing of hosts Brazil by the fluid Ger-
man machine in the semis?
There was also the 3-0 capitulation
by the Brazilians against Netherlands
in the third-place playoff; 2010 cham-
pions Spain will forever be haunted by
their 5-1 loss to Netherlands... the list
goes on and on...
It is as if those World Cup tem-
plates were replicated at the just con-
cluded Airtel Rising Stars Northern
Region secondary school games at
Kitui School.
By the end of the four-day cham-
pionship, a lot of inequality in terms
of teams preparation and representa-
tions came to play.
It was not a surprising occur-
rence, for instance, when champions
Kathungi Boys pumped in nine goals
past a hapless Akirangondu Boys
from Meru County.
In fact, had it not been that
Kathungi wasted dozens of chanc-
es that came their way the final tal-
ly would have been flattering, if not
humiliating.
Coached by their principal,
Kithuku Malombe, Kathungi will, for
a long time, remain etched in peoples
minds, thanks to their ball artistry, in-
ventions and prowess.
One fine example was James Mu-
tua. His small body frame truly belies
his ability and command with the
ball. He cared less the number of op-
position he faced at any time.
HAPPY ENDING
Mutuas confidence was awesome
to behold. His dribbling skills left ma-
ny defenders in shock, dismay and
admiration.
His markers would constantly pray
for the final whistle, as the diminutive
dribbler did what he liked best. None
of Kathungis opposition clearly gave
them any scare in the regional games.
In the finals, Suleman Salim scored
one of the fastest goals in the histo-
ry of the Airtel Rising stars champi-
onships as Kathungi successfully de-
fended the Northern Region football
title.
It only took the talented lad mere
40 seconds for him to put his side on
the control tower, as they overcame
Isiolo 3-1 in this years regional finals
at Kitui High School grounds on Sat-
urday afternoon.
After beating his markers, Suleman
Salim sprinted from the left flank and
dropped a sublime cross, which Salim
made no mistake, as the talented
Kathungi took a deserved lead.
It then took the ingenuity of Ken
Mutembei to score his sides second
displaying much aptitude and skill.
Faced with the opposition of Abdul-
wahid Ibrahim and Abdulaziz Hasa
Gedi, Mutembei called for all skill in
his possession and left them for the
dead and slotted home past an ad-
vancing keeper.
Despite having a commanding
lead, Kathungi didnt stop there. Their
onslaught was severe, shots on target
rained with every move forward as the
formidable midfield sprayed passes at
will.
Evidently, teams were not on the
same footing; difference in both phys-
ical and mental strength was there for
all to tell; they were miles apart.
Imagine even our referees are
paid half of what they should be paid
because of this money issue. Schools
didnt have enough money to prepare
for this tournament. In fact, I am sur-
prised by the energy with which
teachers prepared their teams, given
the wanting circumstances he said.
By the end of the games though,
questions were in their numbers, as to
whether some teams were ill prepared
for the games. The final results told it
all. Take, for instance, Loyangalani
Girls. They came into the games as
Marsabit County representatives, but
by the end of the regional games, they
soaked 31 goals in just six rounds of
matches.
Joshua Odhiambo (left) and Edrick Kinara of Brother Beausang Catholic Education Centre football team from Kajiado
County to celebrate after beating Upper Hill from Nairobi County 2-0 in extra time Kimana, Kajiado County during the
Airtel Rising Stars Metropolitan Region Secondary Schools games on Saturday. [PHOTO: JONAH ONYANGO/STANDARD]
Champions
Githungu
defend football
title, march to
national games
y B SAMMY KITULA
World 800m record holder David
Rudisha is among a host of 2012 Lon-
don Olympics gold medallists ex-
pected to light up the 11-day Com-
monwealth Games showdown down
here in Glasgow, Scotland.
Rudisha, who posted a dismal
show at the Monaco Diamiond leg
meeting on Friday night, is the talk
of the city here. The Sunday Mail, the
United Kingdom most read daily, re-
ported that Rudisha skipped most of
the meetings in the global circuit to
focus on the Friendly Games.
Kenyan David Rudisha, the
Olympic 800m champion could have
earned appearance fees, a 24,000
bonus at the end of the season and
much more of the 280,000 available
at each of the 14 Diamond League
events, but has prioritised the Com-
monwealth Games after missing the
last season with a knee injury, re-
ported the Sunday Mail.
It said that the allure of compet-
ing in the Commonwealth Games
that kicks off on Wednesday was
strong for the Olympic champion to
resist. But athletes from home na-
tions have added the incentive of a
competition on British soil soon af-
ter London 2012, but the Queens
Games are entwined with national
identity like no other event, a rare
opportunity to represent Scotland or
Wales, or for small Caribbean island
to celebrate his talent.
At the Commonwealth Games
Athletes Village, the Kenyan charges
have settled down and waiting the
action that runs from Wednesday.
They are seeking to improve the fifth
place in New Delhi in 2010 where
Kenya won 32 medals -12 gold, 11 sil-
ver and nine bronze.
Stephen Arap Soi, the Chief de
Mission, said Kenya were treating in-
to a colourful welcome ceremony
which is a tradition of the Common-
wealth Games to reflect on its status.
Kenyans are focused despite the un-
predictable weather conditions ev-
ery day. Each discipline are seriously
out for medal hunt, said Soi.
Diamond League speedster Jairus
Kipchoge Birech, swimmer Jason
Dunford and Olympic javelin throw-
er Julius Yego were among the ath-
letes beaming with confidence yes-
terday.
Birech, who won the Monaco Di-
amond leg meet on Friday, said they
have a strong team in the water and
barriers race.
We have a strong team and we can
defend our title here, Birech, told
Fever Pitch yesterday.
-jkomen@standardmedia.co.ke
Rudisha
expected
to light up
Glasgow
y B JONATHAN KOMEN ON GLASGOW,

GLASGOW: Club Games
village hit by illness
MUMBAI: Indias Nehwal
pulls out of Glasgow games
CARDIFF: Commonwealth
Games ban for Warburton
The Commonwealth Games
athletes village has been hit by an
outbreak of diarrhea and vomiting
just as competitors are arriving in
Glasgow. Games organizers say they
are investigating 12 cases of the
illness among the workforce at the
village, but there are no reported
cases of athletics or team ofcials
being infected. Organizers said in
a statement that village residents
and workforce have been informed
and issued with health information,
adding that the village is open and
operating as normal. The games start
on Wednesday. AP
Commonwealth Games womens singles
badminton champion Saina Nehwal
has pulled out of next weeks Glasgow
Games due to lack of tness and failure
to recover sufciently from blisters on
her feet. The Indian survived a match
point in the 2010 nal in New Delhi
against Malaysias Wong Mew Choo to
win the gold, which helped the hosts
to second on the medals table, their
best nish at the quadrennial multi-
sport competition. The London Olympic
bronze medallist sufered blisters on
her feet and a groin injury during her
Australian Open Super Series victory in
June. I just have a few issues like not
being t and during Australia I got the
blisters and got injured. I am out of the
CWG, she said. Reuters

Wales middle-distance runner Gareth
Warburton is out of the Commonwealth
Games after being charged with anti-
doping ofenses and provisionally
suspended from all competitions on
Wednesday. The 32-year-old Warburton
had been due to compete in the 800
meters at his third Commonwealth
Games in Glasgow this month. The
governing body for British athletics
said Warburton had been charged with
anti-doping rule violations but gave
no detail beyond citing the presence
of prohibited substances. Warburton,
who nished fourth in the 800 meters
at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth
Games, can have the case heard in
front of an anti-doping panel. AP
FastTrack
Aussies not so bold about Club Games
Australias reign atop
the Commonwealth Games
medals table faces its biggest
threat in decades at Glasgow
and the teams management
has been at pains to prepare
the sports-mad public for the
worst -- defeat by England.
Barring a designer-driv-
en cringe over the athletes
granny-knit uniforms, the
Games have been largely off
the radar for most Austra-
lians, with the soccer World
Cup looming large over the
sporting landscape.
In recent days, howev-
er, the country has gradually
woken to the fact that anoth-
er sporting showdown with
their former colonial masters
is at hand.
Pumping up the tradition-
al Ashes-style rivalry of the
hard-fought cricket series
is generally page one in the
playbook of local promot-
ers where England are con-
cerned.
Losing to England is an-
other matter, however, yet
the near home-ground ad-
vantage the English will en-
joy has had Australias dele-
gation chief Steve Moneghetti
talking down the usual rivers-
of-gold expectations.
I think we will have our
work cut out just to win the
medal tally let alone domi-
nate it, he told local media
this week.
Delhi was in our side of
the world and India took a
high percentage of medals.
There will be a far greater
spread of medals.
(For England) there is the
aftermath of London, the fact
it is basically a home Games,
they have spectator support,
the same weather, so that
ticks about 10 boxes they have
covered and we have one, and
that is that we are just good.
Australia have topped the
medal count since 1990 and
won it comfortably at the 2010
Delhi Games with 74 gold, 55
silver and 48 bronze as En-
gland and other delegations
rested top athletes to prepare
for the London Olympics.
Two years later, Brit-
ain won the battle that real-
ly counted, clinching 29 gold
medals at London while Aus-
tralia managed only seven,
sparking fierce recriminations
Down Under. Reuters
Australian hurdler Sally Pearson competes at the World
Championships in Moscow in 2013. Australia named a
strong team to Glasgow Commonwealth Games. [PHOTO:
AGENCIES]
Olympic champions Usain
Bolt, David Rudisha and Mo
Farah lead a cast of the worlds
leading athletes descending
on Glasgow to compete in the
Commonwealth Games start-
ing in Scotlands biggest city on
Wednesday.
World-record holders, dec-
orated Olympians and novice
participants make up the 6,500
athletes representing 70 Com-
monwealth nations who share
the aim of claiming prizes in
261 medal events in 17 sports.
Scotland hosts the 20th edi-
tion of the multi-sport event for
the third time and instead of
trying to emulate the success
of the London 2012 Olympic
Games, it will offer something
quite different over 11 days of
competition.
Although the Games may
not be held in the same regard
as the Olympics or a world
championship without su-
perpowers such as the United
States, China and Russia, there
will be plenty of household
names and fairytale stories.
Six-times Olympic gold
medallist Bolt will bring a dose
of showmanship to the Hamp-
den Park running track when
the towering Jamaican attempts
to win his first Commonwealth
medal in the 4x100 metres relay.
AVAILABILITY
I am available for relay du-
ty if the selectors feel I can be
an asset to the Jamaican team
in Glasgow, Bolt said. I have
received lots of requests, invita-
tions and messages of support
from my fans in Scotland who
are looking forward to a great
event.
David Rudisha, Kenyas
Olympic 800 metres champi-
on and world record holder,
will return to Glasgow after his
performances at the Diamond
League meeting and New Zea-
lands Olympic and world shot
put champion Valerie Adams
remains unbeaten in her last
53 competitions.
UNIQUE CELEBRATION
Englands double Olym-
pic and world champion Far-
ah, who is fit to take part in
the 5,000m and 10,000m af-
ter recovering from abdominal
pains, will join Bolt in Glasgow
and the pair will be hoping to
perform their customary light-
ning bolt and Mobot celebra-
tions.
The Commonwealth
Games is different from the
Olympics, the 31-year-old
Farah said. In terms of which
countries are involved, you
have everyone at the Olym-
pics so its not going to be the
same, but at the same time its
another title. Im very excited
to compete for England and go
out there.
Australia is expected to
dominate the swimming with
the likes of Cate Campbell,
Christian Sprenger and James
Magnussen, but home favourite
Michael Jamieson will receive
st ong support in his bid to be-
come the 200 metres breast-
stroke champion.
South African Chad Le Clos,
who beat the great Michael
Phelps to Olympic gold in the
mens 200 metres butterfly in
London two years ago, will also
try to add to the five Common-
wealth medals he won in New
Delhi in 2010.
Reuters
FOCUS ON GLASGOW
Kenyas David Rudisha competes to win the mens 800m race during the IAAF Diamond
League athletics meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, on July 12. Rudisha will take part in the Com-
monwealth Games in Scotland starting on Wednesday. [PHOTO:AFP]
Olympic Champions David
Rudisha, Usain Bolt and
Mo Farah headline cast at
Commonwealth Games
LONDON
LONDON
Page 54 / FEVER PITCH Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
NELADOR CROWNED
Kikuyu-based
club stage
a brilliant
comeback to
lift Kiambu
County cup
Nelador FC from Kikuyu
are the champions of the in-
augural Kiambu County Cup
football championship. Nel-
adol came from a goal down
to edge Kiambu Community
Club 2-1 at the Thika Stadium
on Saturday.
With the full support of
their County Representative
Binary Wainana on the
touchline, Nelador charged
past the home team to
emerge the champions.
Nelador coach Danson
Ubingu told FeverPitch that
the substitutions he made
early in the second half
changed the game, steering
them to victory. I had a weak
midfield in the first half. I
made two substitutions and
it worked for us, he said.
Ubingu also attributed his
victory to his ability to read
the opponents game. I
keenly read Kiambu Commu-
nitys game, pointing out
their weaknesses and used
that to beat them.
Ubingu brought in Joe
Onyango in place of Dismus
Omondi and Martin Njoroge
in place of Elijah Njoroge in
the 46th minute. Their efforts
bore fruit a minute later
through a Fredrick Otieno
penalty two minutes into the
y B ERICK WAINAINA
Fill vacant positions, Coast branches urge FKF
The North and the South Coast branch-
es of the Football Kenya Federation (FKF)
have called for election of new officials to
fill the positions that were declared va-
cant after the June 27, 2014 Annual Gener-
al Meeting held in Nakuru.
In a letter signed by chairmen Hamisi
Mwayoyo (South) and John Ngowa (North),
the two officials said the branches have
been greatly affected by the absence of a
Nec member.
We are not getting services as consti-
tutionally required after our National Ex-
ecutive Member (Nec) Hussein Terry was
banned for life from football affairs during
the AGM and we are feeling the effects of
the vacuum, said Ngowa.
The letter addressed to FKF President
Sam Nyamweya reminds him of the im-
portance of the Special General Meeting
scheduled for September 12 and the need
to elect the Vice President and the chair-
man of the Nairobi branch.
During the AGM, all the branch chair-
men, secretaries, KPL Clubs and National
Super League Clubs representatives signed
a letter calling for a Special General Meet-
ing, which was unanimously agreed, said
Ngowa.
We have no problem with Nyamweyas
leadership and we want to commend him
for improving Harambee Stars world Fi-
fa ranking to 95, but there is need to elect
new people to fill the vacant positions,
said Ngowa.
Ngowa said: We need a Nec mem-
ber urgently to represent us and
champion the interests of the foot-
ball fraternity in the two branches.
During the AGM, three officials, Vice Chair-
man Sammy Shollei, Nairobi Branch Chair-
man Dan Shikanda were handed a six-year
ban while Terry was banned for life.
Nyamweya, who chaired the AGM, said
the federations constitution was followed
to the latter and the action taken by the del-
egates was justified.
Ngowa said the constitution was clear
that North and South branches would be
well represented at the national commit
Nelador FC players celebrate after being crowned the Kiambu County Football Tournament cham-
pions at Thika Stadium on Saturday. [PHOTO:ERICK WAINAINA/STANDARD]
second half; after he was
fouled in the box.
Rejuvenated and hungry
for victory, Nelador intensified
their attacks but their striker
David Kamira missed an op-
portunity to put them ahead
after shooting wide in the 49th
minute with only the goal-
keeper to beat.
Midfielder Elijah Njoroge
put Kiambu goalkeeper David
to Njihia to the test in the 52nd
minute through a header at
the edge of the box with Njihia
punching the ball out before
Simon Ngatho scored Kiam-
bus lone goal in the eighth
minute.
Martin Njoroges 59th min-
ute goal was disputed after be-
ing held on the line by goal-
keeper Njihia.
Centre referee Peter Wawe-
ru disallowed the goal but af-
ter consultations with line ref-
eree Stephen Maina, he
awarded the goal.
Both teams wasted clear
chances during the proceed-
ings. Nelador goalkeeper
Njoroge won the Golden Glove
Award while Daniel Mwangi
emerged the Most Valuable
Player of the tournament.
Lucky Boyz of Gachie beat
Twinshooters of Ngewa 3-2 in
post- match penalties to settle
for third place.
The match ended on a 2-2
stalemate in regular time. The
county executive team
trounced the county represen-
tatives team 3-2 in the curtain
raiser.
Kiambu County Youth Af-
fairs and Sports executive
Machel Waikenda said the
tournament was a success and
was just the beginning of bet-
ter sporting events in the
county. This is just a tip of the
iceberg, we are working on
more sporting events for our
youth and we intend to make
them very successful,
Waikenda said.
He added that they will be
hosting the county womens
championships before the
year ends.
-ewainaina@standardme-
dia.co.ke
y B ERNEST NDUNDA
Hamisi Mwayoyo.
tee by a Nec member.
We are happy that the wrangles that
used to dominate Coast branches were
ironed out and we are working as a team,
said Ngowa, adding that football in the re-
gion was in the hands of the right people.
-enzioka@standardmedia.co.ke
plea is for the home fans to turn
up in large numbers and give us the
support we need to go through, he
said.
Technical Director Jacob Mulee
shared the same sentiments even as
he admitted that the players missed
head coach Adel Amrouche who was
suspended for the match after being
sent off against Comoros last month.
It was a tough game for both teams.
Our boys gave it their best but the
absence of Adel Amrouche was felt.
Had he been on the technical bench,
perhaps it would have made a big
difference, said Mulee, who was
in-charge of the team when they last
featured in the Africa Cup of Nations
finals held in Tunisia ten years ago.
Harambee Stars had nothing to show
for their dominance in the entire
first half though it was the hosts who
started strongly as they forced two
quick corners in the opening
minutes.
After that the game changed in
Kenyas favour with Allan Wanga
coming close first in the 11th minute
and then again five minutes later
after his effort was kept out for a
fruitless corner.
But in the 25th minute Aboud
Omars effort was cleared off the line
by Nkau Lerotholi and it was the
best chance for the Stars.
Stars could not maintain their
dominance in the second half as
their opponents came back with a
different strategy which allowed
them to get their first and only goal
of the match.
Stunned by the goal, Kenya made
their first substitution pulling off
Allan Wanga for Jacob Keli. Macdon-
ald Mariga also came on for David
Gateri while Jamal Mohammed
replaced Francis Kahat but it was
still not enough to get Stars at least a
point from this fixture.
Meanwhile, Botswana took a
giant step towards advancing to the
2014 Africa Cup group stage
qualifying phase after defeating
Guinea Bissau 2-0 on Saturday
afternoon at the National Stadium in
Gaborone. A brace by Lemponye
Tshireletso gave The Zebras the vital
home win to take into the return leg
in Bissau to be played during the
weekend of August 2.
The Mochudi Centre Chiefs
midfielder put Botswana ahead in
the 27th minute with a close range
shot. Tshireletso completed his good
day at the office in 39th minute after
firing in a volley from outside the
box.
Stars lose to Lesotho in AFCON
TUSKER GOAL GALORE
Tusker, Muhoroni Youth
and Agrochemicals knocked
out their opponents in a
GOtv Shield Cup knock-out
match at the Kisumus Moi
Stadium at the weekend.
Tusker edged out Naku-
matt 6-2 in a high scoring
GOtv shield match played at
Oserian Stadium on Sunday.
Two goals by Jesse Were
and a goal each by Ismail
Dunga, Ali Abondo, Kevin
Kimani and Lloyd Wahome
ensured the brewers easily
made it to the next round.
Nakumatt were lifted by
goals from David Kariuki
who scored a double.
At Awasi Stadium, two
league losses in a row at
home seem to have been too
much for Chemelil Sugar
and they recovered to edge
out Moyas 1-0 in Sundays
GOtv shield match.
The sugar millers were
coming from an un-expect-
ed losses in KPL to Bandari
and Nairobi City Stars at
home in a move that demor-
alised the team.
But after Meshack Karani
scored two minutes after the
break, the sugar millers can
go into their next league
match somewhat motivated.
At Ruaraka Stadium, Posta
Rangers hit Ulinzi Warriors
4-0 easily making it to the
second round of the compe-
tition.
It was a disappointing
performance by the Warriors
whose senior side Ulinzi
Stars thrashed Mumbi Na-
tionale 6-0 on Saturday.
Victor Ochieng scored a
hat-trick with Hashim
Mukhwana scoring the oth-
er goal to ensure Rangers
had the smoothest of pas-
sage to the next round.
Ochieng opened his ac-
count in the tenth minute
after tapping home a Joseph
Nyaga cross. The goal came
minutes after Joseph Mbugi
had been denied to open the
scores for Rangers.
Rangers remained on top of
things for a good part of the
match even before that goal
came with Fred Ajwangs
long range shot in the 21st
minute flying high.
However, after that Rang-
ers opened the score
through Victor Ochieng and
Mukhwana added the sec-
ond almost after that and
Warriors could not just re-
cover.
At the same venue, So-
fapaka thrashed Rift Valley
United 6-0 completing an-
other high scoring after-
noon.
Shafik Batambuze scored
first for the winners before a
brace each by John Barasa
and Tony Ndolo before
Enock Agwanda completed
the rout. Administration Po-
lice edged out Talanta 2-1 in
the third match played at
Ruaraka Stadium.
In Kisumu, Agro-Chemi-
cals, who were the first to
play beat Nairobi Stima 1-0,
while Muhoroni dismissed
Nyakach United FC 3-1 to
progress to the next stage of
the tournament.
In the Muhoroni game,
the three goals were scored
by Jeremiah Wanjala in the
23rd minute, Enock Ochieng
added the Second goal in the
34th minute while second
half substitute Ronald Otie-
no added the third at the
stroke of the hour. Eugene
Wanga scored the consola-
tion goal for Nyakach United
in the 63rd minute to make
things 3-1.
Earlier, Agrochemicals
FC knocked out Nairobi Sti-
ma FC 1-0 with Michael Mu-
suya scoring the lone goal.
Musuya netted after Collins
Omogo of Nairobi Stima
failed to clear the ball from
the danger zone. Com-
piled by Bosco Magare, Gil-
bert Wandera, Ben Ahenda
and Philip Orwa
Continued From P56
Muhoroni, Rangers and
Sofapaka win GOtv matches
Cresten Mwanzo (left) of Muhoroni Youth and Alfred Onyango of Sony Sugar in action during
their match at Muhoroni Stadium yesterday. The teams drew 1-1. [PHOTO: TITUS MUNALA/
STANDARD]
Harambee Stars Captain Victor
Wanyama in action during the Africa
Cup of Nations qualier match
against Comoros at Nyayo Stadium.

ALGIERS: Gourcuf named
new Algeria coach
LONDON: Wenger positive
but Walcott to miss EPL start
TURIN: Morata joins Juventus
in 20 million transfer
Frenchman Christian Gourcuf was
named the new coach of Algeria on
Saturday, replacing Vahid Halilhodzic
who took the team to the second
round of the World Cup in Brazil
last month. Gourcuf had long been
earmarked to take over after Brazil
but was only formally conrmed after
a meeting of the Algerian Football
Federation leadership in Algiers on
Saturday. The 59-year-old will start the
job on August 1 and has been given
a contract until the end of the next
World Cup in Russia. It means he will
also be in charge over the next two
African Nations Cup editions.
Arsenal forward Theo Walcott will miss
the start of the Premier League season
but should be back in full training
by the end of August and playing
again soon afterwards, manager
Arsene Wenger said. The 25-year-old
England international ruptured the
anterior cruciate ligament in his left
knee during an FA Cup third-round
tie against Tottenham in January and
missed the rest of the season and the
World Cup. We expect him to be back
in full training at the end of August,
Wenger was quoted as saying on the
BBC website. Theo has a good basis,
which is what hes working on now,
added Wenger, who also predicted that
Walcotts return to contention would be
very quick once he was back in full
training. Reuters
Spanish forward Alvaro Morata has
completed a 20 million ($27 million)
transfer from Real Madrid to Juventus.
Juventus announced details of the deal
Saturday, saying that Morata signed
a ve-year contract with the club.
The deal also includes an option for
Madrid to buy Morata back for up to
30 million ($40.6 million) after either
the 2015-16 or 2016-17 seasons with
the buy-back price determined by
how many matches Morata plays. The
21-year-old Morata scored 10 goals
in 37 league appearances for Madrid
in the past four seasons. At Juve,
Morata could be a second option in
attack behind Carlos Tevez and fellow
Spaniard Fernando Llorente. AP
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Agro-Chemical, Muhoroni, Rangers, Tusker and Sofapaka win GOtv matches, P.55
Rudisha, Bolt and Mo Farah headline cast at Club Games, P53
Kenya face a herculean task in the
return match of their Africa Cup of
Nations qualifier after they fell 1-0 away
to Lesotho on Sunday.
Tsepo Seturumane scored the only goal of
the match in the 65th minute, giving his
side a slight advantage going into the
return match.
The result leaves Harambee Stars needing
two clear goals in the return match to be
played on August 2 in Nakurus Afraha
Stadium in order to progress to the group
stages from which they can fight for one
of the two places to play in next years
Africa Cup of Nations finals in Morocco.
Kenyan captain Victor Mugubi expressed
confidence that they can get the results
they want to make it through.
We had a good game in the first half but
we could not utilise our chances.
However, it is not all lost. We still have an
opportunity to make up for it at home. My
By GILBERT WANDERA
CONTINUED ON PAGE 55
Tsepo Seturumane scores lone goal as Kenya face
uphill task in return leg to qualify for the AFCON 2015
Harambee stars Johannah Omollo drib-
bles the ball past Comoross Abduo Nad-
jim during their Africa Cup of Nations
qualier match at Nyayo stadium in
May. Kenya lost out to Lesotho 1-0 in
Maseru yesterday. [PHOTO: DENNIS OKEYO/
STANDARD]
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STANDARD
WITH THE
Oyunga
Pala:
Honey,
I have a
headache,
P.4
Living apart
together
Ignored, bored and frustrated wives whose husbands
are unavailable now live like singles or widows, P.8-9
Pastor in love
charms scandal
with witchdoctor
divorces wife,
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WACKY LEAKS
Manager red for be-
ing nice and civil
Mark Mutahi pokes fun at
Kenyans sense of civility.
He cautions that if Ken-
yans are not careful, lack
of manners will soon be
institutionalised. Which
could be the case current-
ly, anyway.
................................Page 3
POLITICALLY
INCORRECT
Why African teams
performed badly in WC
Peter wanyonyi explains
why African teams did not
do well at the Word Cup.
He further highlights les-
sons they ought to have
learnt.
...............................Page 6
FEMINIST
Secret to success, happi-
ness for women; be mean
Anne Muiruri suggests
that for women to be hap-
py and successful in life
they have to be mean and
tough, lest their dreams
are killed by ever-mean
men.
.............................Page 10
UGANDAN AFFAIRS
Lies, myths about boda
boda riders debunked
Grace Nakato puts herself
in the shoes of boda boda
men and lays bare the lies
and ignorance the rest of
us harbour about them.
.............................Page 14
KAHAWA TUNGU
Pastor, witchdoctor in
love potion scandal
Hamza Babu tickles you
with a nutty tale of a man
of God who was forced to
pay his wifes love potion
arrears to a witchdoctor.
.............................Page 16
In 1 Minute...
myturn
THIKA ROAD VANDALISM
Dear Governor Kidero and Governor Kabogo
under whose jurisdiction Thika superhighway
falls, I am glad to inform you that since the
Head of State said we must do an about-turn
and face East, I suggest you do the same. For
instance, did you know that in Singapore, you
are sentenced to some rather painful caning
(yes, viboko) for vandalism, illegal entry and
overstaying your visa for over 90 days? If you
impose entry visas to Nairobi and Kiambu,
the number of visitors we receive from shags
(where there are functional county govern-
ments and parliaments) there will be fewer
folks opening kiosks on road reserves and
vandalising metal on Thika Road. In Singapore,
they also cane robbers to save on money to
buy bullets, but they hang drug trafckers.
Waheshimiwa, isnt there some reward for this
solid advice on how to manage your counties?
To
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MUTUTHO SAYS SOBER UP AND
WORK! LETS DRINK TO THAT
Unwanted guest: Old boy my foot! Get lost! p. 15
W
hen an American suspects you are about to say or
do something unpleasant or offensive, he or she in-
terjects by yelling, Dont even go there! Which is an
informal warning of grave consequences for going
there. To most Kenyans, there is actually where
Nacada boss John Mututho has gone with his crusade against, among
other things, alcohol abuse.
Nobody, make no mistake, comes between Kenyans and alcohol.
If you risk, mark my words, the consequences are dire. Mututho (party
pooper extraordinaire?) is treading on dangerous ground. Last time he
went there, his constituents punished him severely; he only sees bunge
from the outside after they voted him out. If Kenyans opt to commit slow
suicide with their choice poisons, try to stop them at your own risk. If you
doubt this, recall that just this week, a bunch of youths almost cancelled a
chiefs Christmas just because he attempted to stop them from consum-
ing suspected poisonous brew.
Not long ago, a driver and a turn-boy of an overturned lorry that was
ferrying beer to Nyeri died as youths scrambled for free beer. The de-
ceaseds cries for help fell on deaf ears, seeing as everyone was busy loot-
ing. Police had to teargas them and shoot in the air to disperse them. Well,
Im not about to call for banning of alcohol, and perhaps proposing coffee
to take its place. No! Okay, well, I know coffee, just like alcohol, is a stim-
ulant. But stimulating as a coffee brew may be, it honestly has a long way
to go if at all it will ever try to outdo alcohol in getting a Kenyan high! But
I digress.
Government must moderate Kenyans alcohol intake by regulating
production and consumption. See, beer is not that bad. The problem
with Kenyans is they always try to compete in imbibing it. Look, folks, you
cant compete with alcohol; this thing was here long before you and is first
mentioned in the Good Book of Genesis, and you will leave it behind. You
cant win. No you cant! By press time, the death toll following consump-
tion of poisonous alcohol in Uasin Gishu County was 28. This comes hot
on the heels of yet similar deadly incidents in which more than 100 died
in Central and Eastern Kenya.
We have a suicidal drinking culture, which is having a negative effect
on society. We are increasingly becoming a Drinking Nation. Alcohol is no
longer taken baada ya kazi. In fact, nobody cares about doing kazi itself,
for all we do is drink, drink and drink. We have even made Thursday the
new Friday, just to show how desperate we are for the weekend to be ush-
ered in sooner so we can dash for our favourite tipple until we topple over.
The Kenyan drinker will come up with weirdest excuses to drink on
an odd day (like Monday) or time (such as in the morning). Its common
to hear a drunkard insist on, one last one for the road. At the start of the
week you will hear them use Monday blues as an excuse to drink (fungua
lock); on Tuesday, the excuse will be to release stress after kids, wife and
boss allegedly got on their nerves; on Wednesday he will say he is celebrat-
ing women for it ladies night after all; and of course, Thursday is the new
Friday, meaning the weekend has begun, and alcohol must flow freely!
Mututho, apart from likening Masaku to Sodom and Gomorrah (what
is it about these fabled twin cities and sin?), we support you on this noble
cause. Cheers, mate!
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A
young man in Nakuru
County is reeling from
shock and heartache after
he discovered that a wom-
an he thought was madly
in love with him, and whom he had even
bought an expensive, brand-new mobile
phone, had been taking him for a ride
and playing him with other men.
The young man was so much in love
with her that he offered everything she
requested or demanded. Thus, after her
made-in-China contraption malfunc-
tioned beyond repair, he bought her a
smartphone worth tens of thousands.
The woman works as a waitress at a
restaurant in Nakuru town, and wouldnt
have afforded the phone on her own, if the
peanuts she earned were anything to go by.
What the young man does for a living is not
known, though he was only revealed to this
writer as a hustler.
HEART MELTING
A source close to the young man re-
vealed that he met the woman after he had
gone to eat where she works.
The first day he saw her, her beauty al-
legedly got his heart melting and his knees
weak, and he didnt hesitate to make his in-
tentions known.
He covered her ears with honey-coated
words, and even reinforced his bid for a
special spot in her heart by surprising her
with a tip every now and then.
At some point, she became incommu-
nicado. The young man became anxious
and went to her place of work to check her
out, only to realise that her phone had mal-
functioned.
Eager to please her, the gentleman
found it as an opportunity to impress and
surprise her with a brand-new, original
phone, using money he had saved up for
quite some time; a terrible decision he is
now regretting.
Unbeknown to him, there were oth-
er men tuning the woman. And to make
matters worse, the woman was entertain-
ing his gentlemanly gestures for her selfish
ends, without him being any wiser.
Unfortunately, he swallowed her wiles
hook, line and sinker! It never occurred to
him that he was being used.
Apparently, what was going on in their
relationship was not very clear. So, as the
source intimates, when their daily phone
conversations began waning, he got wor-
ried.
It reached a point where she no longer
replied to his text messages promptly. She
took her sweet time, at times days, to re-
spond.
What really made him suspicious was
the fact that she became unenthusiastic
about him, and never bothered to respond
even after he surprised her with airtime.
To get things back on course, he planned a
meeting with the woman last Sunday.
ROMANTIC MESSAGES
They met at Nakurus Nyayo Gardens in
what was supposedly a patching-up date.
During the date, the young man, out of cu-
riosity, asked her how good her new phone
was.
Meanwhile, he began scrutinising the
phone, scrolling through the various ap-
plications. Hell broke loose when he stum-
bled upon romantic messages from other
men. It got crazier when he dialled his
number and what came on the screen was
the name Nagging Peter.
The miffed young man couldnt take
it any more; he fumbled with the phone
and chucked her SIM and memory cards,
which he flung at her and walked off,
seething with rage.
The woman has neither seen him nor
heard from him since that day.
Micro-blogging company res top
manager for preaching civility
odds&ends/Funny, strange news
A
micro-blogging com-
pany has fired a top
manager in its Kenyan
branch after he had
only served the firm
for a period of less than one year.
No reason was immediately given
for his sacking but speculation is al-
ready rife as to what could have led
to his firing.
One of the reasons being floated
is that he was verbally abused by the
regional head but instead of insulting
back he politely walked away without
engaging his senior.
Calling someone names without
them hitting back is no fun, the re-
gional head is said to have fumed by
those who witnessed the incident.
Who do you think you are, going
against the tradition and DNA of our
company? You are a big letdown you
piece of $#!X!
It has also emerged that the now
jobless man was in the months lead-
ing to his sacking involved in a cam-
paign advocating for civility by the
users of the social media service.
It is said his efforts were beginning
to bear fruit and this is what could
have spooked his seniors, culminat-
ing in his sacking.
Civility on social media? Are you
nuts? The internet is a place of free-
dom without responsibility! a senior
executive at the micro-blogging ser-
vice is said to have rebuffed the for-
mer manager.
Another reason that could have led
to the managers sacking is believed to
be his action to unfollow some of the
well known notorious hate-mongers.
For this he was accused of high-hand-
edness and intolerance.
But if the micro-blogging service
thought it would earn the love of Ken-
yans by its move, it was mistaken. Lo-
cal users of the service immediately
engaged their usual tools of trade and
started throwing insults and jibes left,
right and centre while making the idle
threat to boycott the service if their
fellow countryman was not reinstat-
ed.
ABUSE PEOPLE
The local users only calmed down
and went back to their usual bashing
of each others tribes when they were
told the man had been fired for not
behaving like one of them.
Ah, what a relief! exclaimed
one user once an explanation
had been offered. He was a trai-
tor going against our culture and
traditions. Serves him right!
But even before the dust had settled,
the micro-blogging firm is already
making plans to fill the position left
by the sacked executive. An advert for
the vacant position has already been
published in the local dailies.
Do all your arguments online de-
generate into insults and name-call-
ing faster than you can type? the
advert reads. Does the relative ano-
nymity of the internet mislead you to
believe you can abuse people all you
want? Are you completely incapable
of engaging in civil discourse? If you
were an animal which one would
you be... scratch that... if you were a
human which one would you be? If
this sounds like you, apply now to do
something you love hate.
Reliable sources confide that part
of the interview process will entail ex-
changing insults and hateful postings
with the interviewing panel in keep-
ing with social media traditions. The
only experience required for the job is
having used social media for at least
a few hours. Enough time for anyone
to get acquainted with the online jun-
gle of venom, revealed a source who
is well acquainted with the process.
Love-smitten man dumps girlfriend for
saving him on phone as Nagging Peter
Y B PAUL KARIUKI
wackyleaks/WITH MARK MUTAHI
Yes, men can also have headaches
thesecrazykenyans/OYUNGA PALA FINDS THE HUMAN IN THE KENYAN
I
t is generally assumed
that men cannot wait
to get it up. Girls grow
up with the notion
that men have to be
resisted because all they think
about is sex. But not all men
are built alike. There are some
guys who do not seem the least
bit interested in sex and would
rather watch a good movie.
It gets even more frightening
when the man is a committed
partner and he seems to always
come up with one excuse or the
other for avoiding lovemaking.
Well, here is the thing. Men can
also have headaches.
Why would a gentleman who
treats you okay keep finding
something more pressing to at-
tend to even when the woman
makes it absolutely clear that
she is in the mood.
Whats his problem? Doesnt
he find me attractive? Is he
cheating on me? Is he gay! Not
necessarily. As men get older
and as a result more eligible as
steady partners, they become
more discerning about their
sexual choices. Experience, they
say, is the best teacher, and sex
can be quite the chore when
compatibility is lacking.
EGYPTIAN MUMMY
Boring sex is a mood killer.
Too many good-looking wom-
en spend a great deal of effort
on their outward appearance,
but tend to make no investment
in lovemaking skills. After a
long-winded chase, a man takes
a woman home to discover that
he carted an Egyptian mummy
to bed. Boring sex is like a slow
puncture, diffusing progressive-
ly all the passion and desire in a
relationship.
Another factor that kills de-
sire is the power games some
women play. A man comes home
after a long and stressful day at
the office. All he wants is a hot
meal, some down time in front
of the TV and possibly a little
tenderness between the sheets
afterwards. He walks through the
door and meets a confrontation-
al woman with 101 questions to
ask, Where were you? It is de-
pressing and to expect him to be
interested in make-up sex after-
wards is presumptuous.
Too many women are social-
ised to believe that a man must
plead and beg before he gets
even a peck. It works in high
school but in grown-up circles,
the level of run-around gets old.
When a woman takes on an en-
titled position, treating sex as
a privilege that she controls, it
drives men away. When he re-
alises that sex is totally depen-
dent on his wifes mood, he will
get tired of negotiating and find
a plan B and sometimes, it is as
innocent as making his work his
mistress.
TOES CURL
Then there is performance
pressure. Imagine a 70-year-
old man trying to keep a spir-
ited 22-year-old happy. It is a
heart-stopping affair. The pres-
sure to please and scale heights
until toes curl can get intimidat-
ing. Sexually aggressive women
scare guys off. The reasons could
also be psychological.
The embarrassment of erec-
tile dysfunction and men who
feel that they are not adequately
equipped. Somewhere along the
T
he mark of a true
relationship is
that it does not
rely on Facebook
updates to keep
it thriving. Facebook is a bit
like Hollywood. Every love
story must have a happy end-
ing. Scroll through the daily
updates and you will be awed
by the commitment that some
Kenyan men pay to their wom-
en.
I have seen such sweet and
touchy updates from men that
generate likes from impressed
and envious female digital voy-
eurs by the second. What a sen-
sitive guy! Amazing! The ten-
dency to post mushy updates
is becoming a bit of a clich,
though.
I mean, you stay in the same
house with her, spend the night
together and you still want to
post an update that reads, Just
to wish the love of my life a su-
per day.
Why does every import-
ant life change have to be an-
nounced on Facebook? What
happened to just picking up
the phone? I am always weary
of couples who feel the need to
give strangers a blow-by-blow
account of how happy their rela-
tionships are.
CONFESSIONAL BOOTH
But as a result of this trend,
more men feel pressurised to
join the herd of Facebook ro-
mantics. Facebook is like a dig-
ital confessional booth where
men are trooped in and forced to
declare their love or else! It starts
with simple things. Change your
relationship profile to in a rela-
tionship.
The profile picture is re-
placed with a loving couple shot
to mostly deter any women who
might assume that you are sin-
gle. Before you know it, you have
an entire album of special mo-
ments surrendered to Facebook
How Facebook will kill your relationship
for public consumption.
Then you have to like or re-
spond to every single status up-
date your woman puts up, to
show you truly care. You had bet-
ter not forget any worthy anni-
versaries. While you are expected
to accept the numerous compli-
ments that follow your womans
regular picture and status up-
dates, that level of tolerance does
not always apply to men.
JEALOUSY, INSECURITY
Post a new picture and a cou-
ple of total strangers respond with
something as simple as, Looking
really handsome, Sam. That is
enough to start a confrontation
and it does not help the matter in
the least to say, Babes, I have no
idea who Suzie Hotpants is.
Facebook is a festering ground
for jealousy and insecurity. It can
turn spying on your spouses digi-
tal activity into an obsession. Get
a life. Spend more time offline in
the real world talking to actual
people and not their avatars.
Y B OYUNGA PALA
growth path, a man had shown
up in bed all set and ready and
the girl of the moment had
laughed off his equipment. That
sort of dismissal cuts deep and it
takes years to get over the trau-
ma of inadequacy.
The reason a lot of attached
or married men prefer to mas-
turbate is because it comes
with guarantees and is usually
drama-free. Guys, learn quick-
ly that there is no such thing as
free things in life.
Sex can turn a potentially
easy relationship into an ego
contest, leading to unplanned
parenthood with an alimony bill
attached to it.
Mostly though, the reason
men avoid sex is simply because
he is just not that into you.
Youve never looked slimmer, darling
Ted Malanda draws on the wisdom of his royal Wanga
ancestors to try and understand a world gone mad
lifesacircus
If they ask whether a dress is
okay, and we are dead sure it is
an absolute disaster because it is
meant for a woman who weighs
40 kilos less, we lean back, ap-
praise them with a keen look, our
eyes aflame with desire, and, in
deep baritone, say, Sweetie, no
woman has looked lovelier in a
dress!
I
hold Mzee Mwai Kibaki
in high esteem, particu-
larly his singular ability
to steer clear of a fray.
I mean, who enjoys a
bloodied nose?
I know this prudence was
mistaken for cowardice, till he
became the first command-
er-in-chief in our history to send
our troops into battle in a foreign
country.
Typical of the man, he casu-
ally mentioned it two weeks later
and didnt bother to tell off pesky
foreign experts whose esteemed
view was that KDF would be given
a hiding by jokers who go to war
riding on pickups.
At his retirement, which was
well deserved after 50 years of
public service, none other than
James Orengo, a political foe, paid
tribute, describing him as one of
Kenyas finest legislators.
When Kibaki addressed the
House, there was silence, Orengo
said.
If you have had the misfortune
of watching our Parliament in
session, you will appreciate that
keeping that querulous bunch
quiet is no mean task. I suspect
the small gavel the Speaker keeps
on his table is occasionally used
to bang a few noisy heads when
the camera isnt watching.
FLAUNTING WEALTH
That place is so unruly that
taxpayers even pay a guy called
Sergeant at arms- some kind of
well-paid bouncer in nice uni-
form - to fling noisemakers, trou-
ble makers and brawlers out.
I also like Kibaki because you
Why I am salivating for
Kibakis retirement cows
walkwithme...
Ati there is an international union for professional footballers?
And that they are demanding that FIFA MCAs legislate new rules
compelling any player injured on-eld not to return to the eld of
play. I am sure the MCAs could demand a hefty sitting allowance and
a trip abroad to some other exotic location with nude beach dancers
before acceding to these demands and drop any impeachment
Motion against Mr Sepp Blatter. But, I wonder whether Mr Atwoli is
aware of the existence of this union. Imagine if our very own Francis
was elected to lead such a union so that Harambee Stars can be in
every World Cup!
Not even the wizardry of lion-hearted Messi or the
prayers and smiles of Pope Francis could help Argentina
break through the yellow, black and red tape of the German
ag. In fact, a whistleblower tells us that Pope emeritus
Benedict XVI was spotted doing a backip after the World
Cup nal whistle because some of the players hail from his
Bavaria homecounty. Anyone opposed to the suggestion
that Sarah Serem should review the emeritus fellows
pension for undermining his boss? Voting is underway and
the tally will be announced in this column next week.
But there is some saving grace since even the Germans dont
get to stash the six and-a-quarter kilo of 75 per cent pure 18-carat
gold World Cup trophy in their Berlin or Munich cabinet. They just
hugged and kissed it goodbye in Rio as FIFA ofcials took of with it
for safekeeping. The Germans merely get to keep a gold-plated and
dusted down replica of the real thing. Hehehehe! Reason? Its not
just in Kenya where we even steal chicken, mayoral chains and cash-
in-transit. The ten million-dollar artifact has actually been stolen
and recovered twice before. Talk about fools gold.
If Kate Middleton could be pregnant every time some
tabloid claimed she was, then she would have been the
proud mother of her very own soccer team, complete with
substitutes! And knowing the royalty-crazed British media
and fashion houses, this would be a bigger talking point
than their dour London weather or lackluster performance
in Rio. Get a life folks, and give the poor woman some
privacy so she can outgrow her maiden name and become
the Duchess of Cambridge.
Did you know that all World Cup winners since 1974 have their
countrys name etched at the base of the trophy? After Germany
joins the titans, there remains room for only three more names. Can
we expect any of the Harambee Stars chaps who were shipped of
to Brazil, complete with presidential blessings, to physically see how
the job gets done to give Kenya a wild shot at that trophy? There
will be no scribbling space left after the 100th anniversary of the
tournament at the 2030 World Cup. Get cracking before taxpayers
who remained behind to watch it on TV demand a refund of the air
ticket money, accommodation and allowances. Cmon, a guy can
dream, cant he?
Why is it galling critics that the English have chosen to
allow women to become bishops? What is so wrong since
no one has had a problem with Queen Elizabeth being the
sovereign leader of the Church of England all this time? As it
is, it has taken the Anglicans more than 20 years discussion
since they started ordaining women as priests. And such
a minor change to reect modern realities, the rightful
and pivotal place of women in society in a 500-year-old
institution will benet its 80 million-plus members. Who
are we to judge?
And, my last word on World Cup 2014...
I dont know what tribe Mr Luiz Felipe Scolari belongs to but the
recently sacked Brazil national coach must be haapy there were no
crowds chanting Scolari Must Go, or we storm State House Rio!
In fact, it is a pity there have been no elders from his community
demanding that his exploits of 2002 be recognised and be enraged
that Confederation of Brazil Football is targeting Scolaris tribe.
Kwani who does not know that it was the chants of Saba Saba that
disoriented Scolaris players that they heard strange bells ringing in
their ears until they literally opped on the eld suspiciously nemed
as Belo Horizonte? You shall be hearing from Mr Scolaris lawyers
before close of business today.
They know we are lying our
heads off but who cares? We
know they fake orgasms and lie
for us too: Handsome, you are
as strong as you were 18 years
ago... (Thanks girls.)
WRAP MEAT
Curiously, Maendeleo ya Wa-
nawake didnt bother to issue a
strong statement condemning
Njoki Chege and her pesky col-
umn.
But my moles buried deep
within the National Intelligence
Service whisper that State Com-
munications Unit was itching
to issue a statement on the saga
but could not because someone
used their copy of the newspaper
bearing Njokis column to wrap
meat.
I am, however, reliably in-
formed that investigations have
been launched and that Informa-
tion, Technology and Communi-
cation Cabinet Secretary, Dr Fred
Matiangi, will address the media
once the meat wrapper is fin-
gered and brought to book.
Yours Truly
B
y the time of going
to press, a young lass
called Njoki Chege
was suddenly better
known than Deputy Inspector
General of Police Grace Kaindi.
For one week, women have
discussed nothing else but Njoki
Chege: Not the thrill of women
finally getting the chance to be
elected bishop in the Anglican
Church; Not Margaret Kenyattas
Beyond Zero campaign aimed at
helping mothers and children
survive and thrive; not the high
cost of living; not even the lead-
ership changes at Maendeleo ya
Wanawake.
Heck, they even forgot men
are pigs. You see, young Njoki had
the audacity to insult women by
calling them fat, demonstrating
that she knows absolutely noth-
ing about her own species.
If she had consulted the real
stakeholders, who are men, we
would have informed her that
when a woman inquires whether
her, er, pot is getting smaller, we
ask, Which pot, honey-pie?
would never catch him flaunt-
ing his wealth, or hear that his
kids were drunk and disorderly
in some pub, flashing quid and
racing around in expensive cars
in the wee hours of the morning.
Imagine when he was hospital-
ised in 2003, an aide was photo-
graphed walking to his hospital
room carrying a Bata shoe box!
What a simple, frugal man!
So it was fitting that a man this
illustrious be sent home in style,
and that we did in 2013.
The army didnt disappoint.
They threw a mean bash where
the old man had to inspect a
military parade, something that
seemed to bore him stiff.
After the festivities, they gave
him a Massey Fergusson plough
tractor, a ceremonial military uni-
form, memorabilia of events he
has graced in form of pictures and
four fat pregnant Friesian cows
with massive udders.
The National Oil Corporation
of Kenya flung him a brand new
petrol station, Tanzania threw
in a small road, the government
helped with a small office and a
modest house in Mweiga, just in
case the old man didnt feel like
going back to gichagi in Othaya.
RETIREMENT PACKAGE
Rumour, however, has it that
Mzee Kibaki has not set foot in
the village, which means he is
probably shooting the breeze
in Muthaiga with old friends.
Now, unlike those who have been
complaining that we gave the
Mzee too huge a retirement pack-
age, my only concern as an ani-
mal rights activists is for the four
pregnant Friesian cows.
Frankly, the city is no place
for cows to raise children. Could
the mutongoria kindly consid-
er handing them over to me for,
uh, safe keeping at my Mumias
home?
Maybe he could also throw
in the Massey Fergusson tractor
as well as any gifts Kenya Wine
Agencies Ltd (KWAL) may have
mistakenly sent to the retired
golfer and, er, sipper.

politicallyincorrect/ A skewed look at the political scene
Y
ou cannot, the old
people love saying,
amount to much
if you are not or-
ganised. Todays
young people especially our
digital politicians and their lap-
top-carrying, tablet-toting aco-
lytes and social media warriors
would do well to remember this
little aphorism. Organisation, it
turns out, is everything.
There will have been no better
illustration of the state of African
organisation, than the debacle
of African teams at the football
World Cup; that overrated, over-
priced football spectacle that
brings the entire earth to a stand-
still.
ONE GOAL
The World Cup is like a United
Nations gathering: nations from
all over the earth, each proud
to have qualified for the finals,
speaking a cacophony of languag-
es, ostensibly united on one goal
to play football but in actual
fact having all manner of different
objectives, from sex to spying.
No African country, save for
the European outpost that is
South Africa, can organise and
host a World Cup tournament.
African countries lack the money
and the infrastructure but, even
if they had these, we simply do
not have the organisational acu-
men required to run an event of
that magnitude and not make a
complete mess of it.
Some football wags even con-
tend that the state of a countrys
management can accurately be
judged simply by looking at the
state of its sports management
bodies, and its sports stadia. A
quick look at Kenya bears this
point out we have exactly one
decent sports stadium, with an-
other slowly crumbling away.
The two stadia are poorly
managed, and are occasionally
turned into either a refugee camp
for alleged aliens, or into military
parade grounds on national days.
Both were built by the Chinese,
on grants, and we have never de-
veloped the capacity to repair or
even just maintain them.
The organisations that run
them are corrupt, tribal edifices
dominated by one or other king-
pin, and notions of transparent
elections and actual service to
the sport are not allowed to get
It probably should not
take a foreign trip for our
security services to up their
game. The attacks that have
been going on non-stop in
Lamu and surrounding areas
have gone beyond surprise
and are rapidly approaching
absurdity. How can the same
thugs attack the same place
for weeks on end without the
security services putting
a stop to it? What on
Earth are the police
reinforcements doing
in the area if they cannot
stop these attacks?
Even the attackers are
beginning get tired of killing:
in a recent raid, they just
harvested maize from local
plantations and strolled away
with it. The cheek of it!
in the way of the gravy train. But
perhaps the best demonstration
of the state of African countries
was the chaotic manner in which
our teams bowed out of the tour-
nament.
BAD GOVERNMENT
Cameroon are said to have
thrown all their matches: an
Asian bookmaker predicted all
the goals that Cameroon would
concede, and which players
would be sent off, weeks before
the matches were played. Nige-
ria, ever a byword for chaos and
corruption and perhaps the one
country that best represents the
stasis and unfulfilled potential of
Africa, did not fail to disappoint.
abundant energy
Handed a totally winnable
path through the World Cup fi-
nals, the Nigerians somehow
managed to snatch defeat from
the jaws of victory, their playing
style characterised by abundant
energy but very little evidence of
thought or planning. Ghana have
always flattered to deceive.
Long branded the best-run
African country, with relatively
modest corruption and little in
the way of bad government even
their elections are quite clean
they looked like going furthest in
the tournament, only to be felled
by that perennial African weak-
ness: individualism and greed.
Ghanas players, brimming
with talent and with a real chance
of coming out tops, decided
money was more important than
football. One of them slapped his
coach, and when the manage-
ment sought to punish him, the
others mutinied. Ghanas govern-
ment had to fly cash to the play-
ers - $ 3 million so the spoiled
multi-millionaires could agree to
play! Africa at the World Cup was
just like Africa at home: greedy,
corrupt, chaotic and a complete
failure.
MCAs have set ball rolling; other
leaders too need study tours
Why African teams performed
badly at World Cup, lessons learnt
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S
ome sour souls seek
solace in the most sa-
lacious of accusations.
Unable to get their hold
on the money that has
been poured all over our governors
to develop their counties, some of
our MPs and senators have jeal-
ously demanded that the coun-
ties stop going on their now-fa-
mous trips overseas.
They appear to have a point
at first glance: in one strange
case, a Member of County As-
sembly (MCA) who admitted
to not speaking a word of English
was sent off on a tour of Italys cultur-
al hotspots. Presumably, the Italians
speak Swahili.
But the example has been set much
higher up: our national football team,
Harambee Stars, are perennial under-
achievers. They struggle to beat even
poor old Somalia, and qualifying for
any serious continental or global tour-
nament is definitely out of question for
them.
VALUABLE LESSONS
President Uhuru, clearly an exas-
perated football fan, sent our misfiring
footballers to Brazil to go see how se-
rious football teams do their business.
Presumably, they have absorbed valu-
able lessons in the fine art of winning
football matches for the time that they
have been spending our money at the
Mundial, and we expect an immediate
improvement in results when they get
back to playing football again.
One hopes, though, that none of
them chose to claim asylum in Brazil,
a not-uncommon habit among Afri-
can footballers who go abroad to bet-
ter-run, richer places. As was report-
ed to have happened with a bunch of
Ghanians after the World Cup.
And so on to the governors. If foot-
ballers can step their game up quite
literally by watching other teams
play, imagine how much more our
MCAs, governors and other politicians
can improve their performance by vis-
iting places that are actually run prop-
erly, which look like countries should
look like.
Places where rubbish is collected,
there is permanent electricity and run-
ning water actually gushes out of the
taps. And life is not just one political
rally after the other. Come to think of
it, maybe the president and his Cabi-
net also need a trip overseas!
P
assengers aboard a matatu in
Nyeri were treated to a tick-
ling spectacle when the driver
stopped the vehicle to engage in a
fistfight with his tout, after a heat-
ed argument over cash.
The two had been locked in a heated ex-
change of insults over Sh30, which the driver re-
portedly owed the tout, and had refused to pay
up, calling the tout a poor mathematician, as the
vehicle left the stage.
Witnesses claimed the tout had coaxed pas-
sengers into the Karatina-bound vehicle and ex-
pected to be paid Sh50 for the task yet the driv-
er only paid him Sh20 with a promise to pay the
balance later in the day.
The tout, however, reportedly insisted that
the driver pay him the balance before leaving the
stage, leading to a heated argument that left pas-
sengers in stitches.
And in a rather flagrant portrayal of who the
boss was, the driver arrogantly swaggered into
the matatu and started the engine, ready to ferry
the passengers to Karatina before paying the tout
his full dues.
This angered the tout, who squeezed himself
into the overloaded vehicle and kept nagging the
driver to pay him. Shockingly, the driver gave
him a deaf ear and manoeuvred the vehicle out
of the stage, and eventually stepped on the gas
Angry driver stops matatu to
ght nagging tout over Sh30
ofthewall/Bizarre , weird but true tales
Y B MURIMI MWANGI
pedal en route to Karatina once the matatu hit
the tarmac.
Kai ureciria ndiaga Mahiga mundu? Hee
mbeca ciakwa mani (Do you think I survive on
stones. Give me my money, dude!) snarled the
tout, to the tone-deaf driver who was trying to
ignore him.
The passengers exhorted the driver to pay the
tout his dues, but the driver would hear none of
it, calling his ranting and raving noise.
You are just making noise. You can continue
wasting your time, yelled the driver.
PERSISTENCE PAYS
This angered the hapless tout, forcing him to
return the favour by insulting the driver using
epithets that left the passengers cupping their
mouths in shock and embarrassment.
F*&@ you...%#!$ You have the audacity to
brag about somebody elses vehicle, yet you
dont even own a bicycle. Give me my mon-
ey, you fool! barked the tout, igniting a merry
laughter in the parked vehicle.
The driver warned the tout to desist, but the
latter was just getting started. The tout kept in-
sisting that the driver should first hand him his
dues. When the insults persisted, the driver, an-
gry that he had been insulted in the presence of
his customers, parked the vehicle by the road-
side, strolled to the passenger door and dragged
the tout out by the collar.
He was shocked when the tout insisted that
he would have to hand him the Sh30 and add
something for the travel back to Nyeri terminus
where I operate from before they could nego-
tiate anything.
SCUFFLE ENSUED
The driver unsuccessfully tried to lock the
passenger door and abandon the tout by the
roadside, but the latter would not let him.
A scuffle ensued with the two going ham-
mer-and-tongs at each other. The two fought for
some time, with most of the passengers cheer-
ing them on.
However, an old man who was probably
afraid he would be late for some appointment
offered the tout Sh50 and warned the driver not
to joke with peoples money in future, before the
journey proceeded.
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thisstrangeworld thisstrangeworld
Divided we stand
seems to be the motto
some Kenyan families
live by. Husbands are
too busy for their wives,
pushing the latter to
their wits end, after
which they live and
behave like single
women or widows
within marriage, write
PETER ODUOR and
TONY MALESI
Strange tale of married single mothers
T
here is a growing trend
of extremely busy
husbands who have
absolutely no time or
interest in bringing up
their children, leaving their wives to
do single parenting within the con-
structs of marriage.
Tales have been told of (busy?)
unavailable husbands who are
hardly home with their wives and
children. In some cases, the situa-
tion is necessitated by work. Take
for instance men who work in in-
dustries that involve frequent rede-
ployment.
We have all heard of pilots,
long-distance track drivers or mili-
tary men who stay away from their
homes for so long that upon their
return children hardly recognise
them; younger children even mis-
take them for visitors, and wives
miss them so much that they are
always tempted to throw parties to
welcome them back!
And just when they are still
catching up and making up for lost
time, the call of duty beckons again,
leaving wives to juggle the roles of
dad and mum. And this happens
again and again, rendering such
men nothing but absentee figure-
heads. Differently put, such families
are run by wives. The million dollar
question is, howdo such wives cope
with this situation, bearing in mind
the freedom they have?
PATIENCE BANKS
Of course, some Kenyan men
are faithful to their wives. How-
ever, that majority of Kenyan men
have mpango wa kando (and those
who dont are desperately search-
ing) is a no-brainer. Strange as it
may sound, some women with un-
available husbands wait until their
patience banks run bankrupt. And
among the many things they do to
kill boredom or to spice their dull
lives is having fun, which, among
other activities, includes cheating
on their husbands.
LIKE SINGLE MUMS
Most Kenyan husbands are un-
available, so much so that their
wives live like they are single mums
or widows. A case in point is the
US President Barack Obama. Mr
Obama (a Kenyan man?) seems to
be too busy for his wife, Michelle
Obama. So much that in a recent TV
interview, Michelle let her tongue
slip and referred to herself as a
busy single mother.
Of course she quickly corrected
herself and regretted the slip of
tongue. But then, we all know what
psychologists say about slips of
the tongue; they are windows into
our minds and clues to repressed
thoughts! That was before Obama
defended her in a separate inter-
view saying, But theres no doubt
that there have been times where
Michelle probably felt like a single
mum... when I was running for the
US Senate, when I was running for
president, there were times where I
wouldnt see her for a week and she
was still working and looking after
the girls...
Michelle Obama is not alone.
There are many Kenyan women
who feel like married single moth-
ers because either their husbands
have jobs that require them to trav-
el too much or to work during fam-
ily time or, for reasons known to
them, spend their family time with
other women.
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
Take the case of one such des-
perate housewife inNairobi who re-
quested anonymity. She complains
that her husband is hardly home
on time. I never see him, I cant re-
member the last time we sat down
with him and our children over a
meal. He comes home late, when I
and the kids are asleep, she says.
She adds that she is lucky to see
him because his clumsiness while
getting into the house always wakes
her up, but they hardly talk or en-
gage in matters conjugal.
She laments that she cant recall
last time her husband took her with
their two daughters out as a family.
I cant even remember when we
last went together to church, shop-
ping, or even out on a picnic. In
fact, a neighbour once asked
me if Im married and
when I answered her,
she wondered why she
has never seen my
husband, she re-
veals. Apparently,
her husband
leaves very ear-
ly in the morning and comes back
very late in the night, every day.
A week can go by without my
daughters seeing him, she adds.
The woman, who hails from the
Coast, likes cooking but unfortu-
nately her passion for the art of
cookery is slowly but surely fading
away because her man never eats
her meals. She cant recall the last
time he did. Apparently, he only
goes home to sleep.
IN OTHER MENS ARMS
In my house, love died long
time ago. In fact, yeye huja tu kwa
sababu ya giza na kulala (he only
comes home to sleep). I dont have
another man on the side but Im
considering that..., she giggles.
Most wives, due to frustra-
tions caused by unavailabili-
ty of their husbands, end up
in other mens arms. And
seeing as women are very
good at multitasking and
covering their tracks,
these affairs go on un-
noticed for decades.
That many mar-
ried women have
increasingly be-
come available for
social excursions
is no secret. It
has increasingly
become com-
monplace to see
married women
hanging out in
clubs till late,
and posing as
single women
ready to min-
gle. Reason?
Hu s b a n d s
are unavail-
able. And the
few available
ones are too
busy looking
for money or
chasing other
women.
Many mar-
ried women
who live like sin-
gle ladies, or single
mothers cite reasons such as emo-
tional and physical neglect, or
physical separation especially in
cases where the two live in differ-
ent towns, cities or countries due
to work commitments. Others
talk of revoking or slashing down
the mans privileges and rights
as a husband if he cant provide,
among many other odd reasons, as
we found out.
READILY AVAILABLE
Take the case of Jack Mbugua*,
a businessman at the Karen Exhi-
bition centre. For slightly over five
months, the 29-year-old was in a re-
lationship with a woman whom he
met at the Exhibition centre. She
was a good-looking and reasonable
woman. We did all the things that
lovers do. The parties, the drinks,
the outings, gifts, fights and all
that, says the businessman. In fact,
he says, it is the fights that made
him realise he had been going out
with a married woman.
That she was always read-
ily available surprised him. Never
did she even express fear of being
caught. Jackson explains that even
after he found out later that the
woman was actually married, she
reassured him and told him not to
worry about being caught because
her husband was too busy to notice
a thing.
She told Jack, among many other
things, that her husband was too
busy for her, there was no love in her
marriage, her husband never even
touched her and that they lived
like a brother and a sister.
This happens to be one of the
reasons given by wives in such mar-
riages. For this lady, the circum-
stances made her situation worse.
Her husband lived in a different
town. According to most women
interviewed for this report, some of
these men have drifted away from
their wives; others are just too bored
with their wives; others are bogged
down with looking for money so
much that they lack the stamina
and virility needed to satisfy their
wives. Yet others just dont have the
time for their wives.
He is never home. He cheated
on me, then I found out. Although
he apologised, and I forgave him,
the incident opened up my eyes; I
no longer just sit there like a fool
while he is having fun out there.
No need preserving yourself for a
man who is out running around,
says one who gave her name only as
Wanja.
PAY IN KIND
Wanja lives with her husband
but goes out on dates with other
men. She accepts drinks and is
game for outings whenever an op-
portunity arises. In fact, she has a
steady boyfriend whom she meets
at least once a week. Interestingly,
her husband has absolutely no clue.
No, he has no clue and will nev-
er know. But my boyfriend knows
that Im married, he does not care,
she adds. Her reason for doing this
is clear; if he has a side dish, then
she too can have one. Better still,
she feels entitled get everything a
single lady is entitled to.
Providing for the family is not
the issue for most of these men.
They provide basic necessities, pay
school fees, pay rent but are not
available; something some hot-
blooded wives cant stand. However,
there is another group that doesnt
provide and whose wives are on
their own. Yet most women believe
that men ought to provide and that
if for some reason the man cant
provide, then he forfeits the respect
and privileges that he is entitled to
as the man of the house.
If he is not providing and a lunch
offer comes, she will take it. When
the drinks come, she will take them.
When the ride home comes, she will
get into the car. When the tumble
in the sheets comes, she has no op-
tion. To keep the goodies coming,
she is only too willing to pay in kind,
as she knows there is no such thing
as free lunch out there.
Some unavailable husbands sus-
pect their wives cheat, but they are
either too busy (looking for money
or with other women) to investigate
or take action. However, some know
their philandering ways are well
known to their wives, thus they have
no moral authority to complain!
T
he Holy Book
clearly states
there is nothing
hidden that wont
be revealed, and
there is nothing secret that
wont become known and
come to light.
But much as everyone who
attended Sunday school is sup-
posed to keep the verse at the
back of their minds, more and
more Kenyans, especially we
men, are proving that they for-
got the wise words a long time
ago.
You need to pick a copy of our
sister publication, The Nairobi-
an, and you will be surprised by
the number of women coming
out to tell the world about some
affair they had with this, that or
the other prominent man.
In one recent issue, one
woman sensationally claimed
she had an affair with a senior
State House aide and they al-
legedly sired a child together.
Naturally, the man in ques-
tion came out fighting, claiming
he is a target of extortion and
there is nothing he did with the
said woman apart from assisting
her as just another ordinary stu-
dent who could not afford to pay
her school fees.
I wont delve any deeper into
the matter because its not with-
in my powers to determine who
between the two is telling the
truth and who is being dishon-
est.
BLACK MAIL
Nonetheless, one thing I
have to remind all men is that
there are so many opportunis-
tic women on the prowl. They
are looking for men with means
to have an affair with, and later
blackmail.
But then, again, gentlemen,
when did you become so reck-
less to have unprotected sex
with suspicious women you
barely know? Please dont tell
me you dont know the price of a
packet of condoms.
For Christ sake, I dont know
where these types of men came
from. Even your average crimi-
nal knows that wearing a hood,
gloves and covering ones tracks
is one of the most important
things to think about before
committing a crime.
Surprisingly, most of these
men that these opportunistic
women are hauling to court
for child support are married,
therefore, I cant comprehend
how such a man would dare go
around sowing wild oats like a
village bull.
WRONG PLACE
See, a guy may deny sleeping
with whats-her-name again?
woman, but if he sired a love
child, I wonder how he would
tell his wife the baby was made.
Thing is, if you are married
and cant resist the allure of
women who throw themselves
at you, at least invest in that rub-
ber sheath. Unless you are ready
to be haunted by a Jezebel
One more thing, stop taking
those nauseating sex session
photographs. The sex and pho-
tos might be fun activities to do
in the heat of the moment but
remember one day the wrong
things you do today might soon-
er or later come back and bite
you in the wrong place.
feminist/WITH CHEGE MUIRURI
Please use protection, spare us the drama
chauvinist/WITH NIKKO TANUI
Its a bad gals world out there;
shes selsh, mean and tough
She does not want me
I started dating my girlfriend
in the second year of high school
and currently we are waiting to join
campus in September. But she is now
denying that we are in a relationship,
and claims she is single. She now
says she only wants to be my friend.
What can I do to get her in my box?
Nathan, Nairobi
There is no putting anyone in a
box, you are still young and have your
life ahead of you. Let her go and if she
is yours she will return. If not you will
nd someone else.
His snoring irritates me
I just moved in with my boyfriend,
we have been dating for a few months
now. I have had to learn the hard way
that he snores loudly, and as a result I
cannot sleep. I have tried everything to
sleep, but I am unable to get sufcient
rest and I thus wake up agitated and
unhappy. It is too much for me. Do you
think it is silly to dump him because he
snores loudly? Cathy, Nairobi
My dear no judgement here, we
all know what we can and cannot
live with. And if you cannot stand his
snoring, then you know what you need
to do.
Can I hit on my lecturer?
I am 19 and I am in love with my
university lecturer. He is everything
I have always wanted in a man. He is
tall, handsome and passionate about
his work. I cannot stop thinking about
him. Whenever I see him on campus
I get butteries in my stomach. I do
not know if he is married or seeing
someone or if he even likes me. But
he knows my name and greets me
when we meet on campus. I am really
stuck, it physically hurts loving a man
I cant have, and deciding what to do
is torturing me . Should I just try and
forget about him or try or make a
move on him? Joy, Nairobi
Its always best to avoid a
relationship with those who are
in authority over you like bosses,
teachers and even colleagues, as
it never ends well. In fact, you are
playing with re.

Friend problems
There is this guy who I have known
for over four months now, and I like
him a lot. We do everything a couple
does but he says he is not ready for a
relationship and so I should not fall for
him. However, he does not want to see
me hang out with any man, and has
major trust issues because of his ex. He
also says I can go ahead and look for a
boyfriend. Yet he wont let me go. What
do I do? Sue, Nakuru
Find someone who is sure they
want to date you. That man is playing
games.
Send Doctor Love your
relationship problems on:
fabulousfeminista@gmail.com
Dr cupid
I
am vain. I constantly
put myself first and
I will admit I do love
myself a lot. Yes, I am
very selfish!
The choice was quite sim-
ple, I could either be the good
girl; a pushover, a doormat and
someones personal free cheer-
ing squad. Or I could simply
be selfish and happy. It was not
really that hard of a decision to
make.
And for some reason when
a woman makes that kind of a
declaration, it makes people
very uncomfortable. Or you
get the how-could-you-say-
that-out-loud look, because we
women are supposed to be self-
less, to constantly sacrifice for
everyone around us and to put
all our dreams, opinions and
needs in the back burner, lest
they offend someone.
This while men are told to do
what they damn well please and
to go after every dream and de-
sire, and never care whose toes
they step on as long as they are
happy. We are taught to be self-
less: always think of others first;
pour a bucket of water on your
burning desires or needs and
dreams. Well, bugger that.
After all, who else is going to
have your best interests at heart?
Most women think being selfish
is bad. I bet you do, too. I used
to think so too but I have quickly
come to learn that the best thing
a woman can do for herself is to
be very selfish. In fact I think of
selfishness as a parallel form of
selflessness.
IMPOSSIBLE IDEOLOGIES
Take babies for example.
They are very selfish but also
very happy, and men are like ba-
bies, I want this now, I do not
like this and I do not care if you
like it, Give me that now.
Just watch men and how
they go about their everyday life
and you will quickly realise that
women have been handicapped
by impossible ideologies of self-
lessness.
Men seem to have it all with
being selfish and self-indulgent,
they know what they want and
are not afraid to voice their opin-
ions no matter how ridiculous.
Take the workplace for example
and we women are too docile,
nice and accommodating.
Look at Parliament for in-
stance, and the silence from the
women reps end is palpable.
I still cry over my vote, its
almost as if they went to Par-
liament to ensure they are
neither heard nor seen; just
working hard to be good girls.
Even in marriage or relation-
ships, women are the ones who
sacrifice everything.
Yet there is no gold medal
at the end of the tunnel for a
woman who buries her dreams
so that her husband can shine.
There is no gold-filled purse,
special happiness or reward for
a woman who chooses to stay
with a man who cheats on her or
who disrespects her.
So while good girls struggle
to fit into societys mode of the
angelic long-suffering woman,
in the end they get nothing but
years of regret for opportunities
lost and opinions not voiced.
And guess who rules the
world, holds all the top po-
sitions, and are living their
dreams? Bad girls.
TOUGH, ARROGANT
Yes, bad girls who are self-
ish, and at times described as
tough and arrogant. Girls who
are self-indulgent, narcissistic,
break all the rules and do what
they damn well please. They
never apologise for going after
what they want, always put their
needs first, and are quick to put
anyone who purports to stand
in their way in his/ her place.
Basically, they act like men!
ateachersdiary/WITH MWALIMU SOCRATES
bulletin/WITH FERDINAND MWONGELA
Where did sound bite-spitting politicians go?
M
ost Kenyans
must be miss-
ing the days of,
When you rattle
a snake..., There
comes a time..., Siasa mbaya...,
Id rather die than resign... and re-
lated phrases and such gems from
politicians always tickled us. After all
the hype about a new Constitution
and all the goodies that appertain to
what hacks call a new dispensation,
politics is fast becoming boring.
The Cabinet all of a sudden under-
stands this animal called collective re-
sponsibility. And lets be frank, noth-
ing is as harmful to a gossip-loving
public like a Cabinet that keeps mum.
It is certainly a difficult time to be a
political journalist. You can only write
so much about dialogue and refer-
endum before you start running out
of ideas as those anonymous highly
placed sources thin out.
It was more interesting in the times
when some disgruntled Cabinet min-
ister or a close aide would leak Cabi-
net minutes surreptitiously. The im-
age of a burly minister in a suit a size
bigger at the shoulders slinking away
from a meeting with a phone in hand
to leak some juicy bits comes to mind.
QUICK LUNCH
Now everyone hides behind the
phrase Cabinet decision, what does
this even mean? Today there is no
compulsion to listen to the One
oclock radio news bulletin, for what
are the chances that anyone is going
to be fired? Heck, even Prezzo firing
some underperforming hack is a te-
dious process hed rather not get en-
tangled in.
Gone are the days when official
drivers left immediate former minis-
ters stranded after they were kicked
out of government as they enjoyed a
quick lunch.
It is all good that a government
portrays a unified front, but the public
needs its fix of rumours and muck-rak-
ing politicians. It would certainly be
interesting to throw a few foxes into
the chicken house and see what hap-
pens. How the corporate-types would
hack it in a cut-throat race for airtime
and political mileage.
A Cabinet full of corporate types is
killing even pub talk.
No impromptu press conferences
or village harambees where you could
call out that other Cabinet colleague
you did not like.
Of course corporate types take this
thing called communication very seri-
ously and the chances of a few price-
less sound bites are fast becoming a
mirage.
That is of course unless it is about
the fast-changing numbers of terror-
ists and whether they were terrorists
at all. And even these are not memo-
rable.
SPICE UP
We want the ...if you rattle a
snake... or Id rather die than resign
kind of quotes. Gems that ring in your
head as you enjoy your ugali at sup-
per.
Something to spice up your day
as business reporters tell you about
an expanding middle-class while you
cant pay your bills.
Tunaomba serikali, #bringback-
ourpoliticians.
G
reetings from the
Meta meta frater-
nity. Sir, we have
keenly followed
the progress of
your task force in the press since
none of your members has set
foot at Meta meta to get our
views. Had you visited us, we
could have even organised for
a goat to be slaughtered at JJs
our popular local joint.
Please sir, receive our propos-
als which were arrived at under
the chair of our own Vasco Da
Gama during a session at J.Js.
Being aware of the likelihood
that none of your taskforce mem-
bers has children or grandchil-
dren in primary or secondary
public schools, we feel embold-
ened to share our views.
Those with kids in public sec-
ondary schools are likely to pa-
tronise premier institutions in
the league of Alliance and Kenya
High. We are not complaining
since we have learnt to cope with
the hypocrisy of Kenyans who ex-
tol the virtues of water while div-
ing and swimming in wine.
BEI YA JIONI UNIFORMS
Sir, school uniforms are a curse
to many a parents wallet. You may
be aware these items are bought
from specific shops as directed
in the schools admission letter.
What may have escaped your no-
tice since perhaps your wallet
never experiences drought is
that the uniforms are overpriced.
A Form One students blazer is
sold at a price equivalent to that
of a Jacket from the exclusive city
centre shops specialising in Ital-
ian wear. By the time a parent is
through with the uniform and
assorted toiletries for boarding
schools, most pockets are torn.
The uniforms could have
been cheaper but for some con-
fidential understanding between
many school administrators and
shop owners. We thus propose
that uniforms be abolished or the
sector be liberalised. Let parents
buy cheaper uniforms even if it is
at Nairobis Gikomba market - bei
ya jioni offer.
WALKED BAREFOOT
After all, very few Kenyans
wear new clothes. As you read our
proposals, the person sitting next
to you may be donning a mtumba
item. The fixation with the colour
of shoes and socks should also
be discarded. Many of your age
mates probably walked barefoot
to school. That did not prevent
them from chewing books up to
university.
And the knotty matter of ties?
Most of our graduates may nev-
er wear a tie after school. That
is, unless one comes from a clan
which deems it indecent to send
off a dead relative without a tie.
Alternatively sir, uniforms for
all public schools can be stitched
by the NYS. This would kill two
birds with a single stone: provid-
ing youth employment and get-
ting them off killer alcohol brands
and chewing muguka throughout
boarding facility. The poor who
cant afford fees in boarding
schools have a right to quality day
schools if we are serious about
access to education.
The Education Cabinet Sec-
retary and KNEC may be loath to
let go of this opportunity which
allows them to address the whole
Nation. But sir, of what value is
the exam ranking when every
Kenyan suspects that the KNEC
firewall is as porous as the Ken-
ya-Somalia border and that exam
papers leak like a spoilt tap?
the day.
Ranking of schools in nation-
al exams should be stopped. Be-
ing the dream of every school to
appear on national TV as having
topped the charts, the pressure
is passed on to parents who have
to pay money for all types of dis-
trict exams, teacher motivation,
revision material, reams of pho-
tocopying paper and ad nauseum.
CANT AFFORD
We should also stop convert-
ing every good day school into a
Radical changes proposed
by the Meta Meta fraternity
wemen/WITH TONY MASIKONDE
T
hank Goodness it
is over, the World
Cup. This calls for
joy, ululations and
celebrations from a
majority of Kenyan women who
feel zilch about 22 grown-ups
chasing a piece of leather in-
flated with air.
With the end of the World Cup,
mens relationship with the TV re-
mote control is also over. As the
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff
handed over the trophy to Germa-
ny Captain Phillip Lahm, scores
of men in living rooms across the
world were preparing to hand over
the TV remote to their women.
The president was quite dis-
pleased that she was not handing
over the trophy to a fellow Brazil-
ian. As soon as Fifa President Sepp
Blatter handed her the trophy to
present to the eventual winners,
she quickly offloaded it, without
even bothering to show her teeth,
as if it was burning her fingers. It
has been the same case for the
men. They no longer have unlim-
ited access to the TV remote and
normal programming in most
homes has since resumed.
My pal Mark tells me that his
madam, despite having an early
morning the following day, waited
for the final match, and the tro-
phy presentation to confirm that
indeed the damn tournament is
over.
You should have seen the hor-
ror in her face when I told her that
there would be another World Cup
in December, joked Mark. She
looked like the devil incarnate.
But I dont remember hearing
this in the media? she had pro-
tested.
My dear, it has been advertised
on social media. Its the digital way
of doing things, Mark had teased
her as she struggled with the pros-
pects of missing her favourite soap
operas and fashion programmes.
FAVOURITE SOAP
How long will it be? the mad-
am had asked, conceding defeat.
This one will be three months,
Mark lied.
Three damn weeks? she
shrieked.
Yes, baby. They will even have
women football, so you may actu-
ally get something that you can en-
joy, Mark had reassured her. But
apparently she was not even aware
that women play football.
But there are more reasons as
to why women hate football. Your
favourite soap has been kicked
out of its sacred God-given slot
and banished to some ridiculous
hour of the night, just because of
a stupid soccer match. Grrrr. Then
there is that belief that watching
football lowers mens IQ by about
100 points - and these are points
they can ill afford to lose.
Football nal whistle is blown
its time to hand over TV remote
There is abundant evidence for
this phenomenon. For example,
during a match, men will scream at
the TV screen: Cross it, Messi, you
muppet! Yet Messi cannot hear
them!
Often Messi is not even in the
same country. And even if he could
hear, why would one of the high-
est-earning footballers in the world
pay the slightest bit of attention to a
pizza-munching sofa tactician?
FINANCIAL DRAIN
There is the financial drain as
well. Most Premier League football
clubs change the design of their
strips about every year.
You wont get much change out
of about Sh5,000 for a shirt alone.
Each time your sons team brings
out a new strip, he wants one. You
cant really afford it but you con-
vince yourself if you dont buy it, his
friends will ostracise him, he may
become withdrawn, his education
will suffer and ultimately he will
end up an unemployable introvert
with a weight problem.
If that is not enough, profes-
sional football players appear to
think spitting is big and clever. Its
not, its disgusting. Its even worse
when the spittle dribbles down the
shirt - someone has to wash that.
As for that thing they do when they
close one nostril and blow out the
contents of the other...yeuch. Yuck!

Campusrover/WITH BILL ODUNGA
We demand varsities return comrades freedom
I
f you are on
Twitter, then
surely you must
know Cyprian
Nyakundi. It is
hard to not to know him
with his viral trends and
disciples adding up to
220,000 in number.
He caught my atten-
tion some time back when
he was expelled from his
university somewhere in
Meru County, following
his adamant assault on the
alleged miscreants manag-
ing the university.
KICKED OUT
Thankfully, he got a
scholarship to study Polit-
ical Science in the United
States. Lucky guy, that?
But he did not leave. He
stuck around to fight for
the rights of his comrades
at the university. Now, that
is patriotism if you ask me.
Early this month, stu-
dents from his university
went on a 30-minute ram-
page against the very same
alleged rot Nyakundi was
expelled for pointing out.
Only that this time, they
left five vehicles burnt and
a few others in varying
states of disrepair.
Well, three students
were arrested. The chair-
person of the students
council, the secretary gen-
eral and one commoner.
When you think of it, it
sort of reminds you of The
Hague proceedings where
the President, Deputy
President and a radio pre-
senter are facing trials.
But I digress.
Now, lets just be honest
with each other here. Stu-
dents went on strike and
destroyed property worth
slightly over 3 million ac-
cording to the authorities.
Was it right? Well, let us not
go into the merits of the
matter, as it is in court.
For the longest time,
University students have
been agitating for better
healthcare, against sex-
ual harassment by rogue
lecturers, insecurity and
mishandling of university
affairs to say the least.
Whenever someone
speaks up, they are ex-
pelled or suspended indef-
initely. Efforts to dialogue
with the university has
borne as much fruit as a
farmer in Kalahari Des-
ert would. If a student so
much as tweets or posts an
update on their Facebook
walls concerning such in-
justices, they are expelled.
COME BABA, COME!
Those throwing stones
from the comfort of their
glass houses, condemning
them for rioting unneces-
sarily, tell me. What is one
left to do?
Even Unye invited Baba
for tea; at the very least,
he was ready to listen. But
most local universities will
not listen. Things are fine
according to vice chancel-
lors and university man-
agements.
This is the sad state of
affairs that we call Kenya
Yetu Today. This is what
happens when we simply
accept and move on. For, if
you talk, you are arrested.
Put on your thinking caps.
/ Page 13 Monday, July 21, 2014 / The Standard
Picturespeak Unwanted guest: Old boy my foot! Get lost!
This man, known as Kadir
Banda, an alleged old boy of
St Patricks High School, got
more than he bargained for.
All he wanted was attention
as he desperately attempted
to outdo everyone else in
showing how passionate he
was about a deceased teach-
er, Norman Thomson, during
his memorial at the school
last weekend in Iten town.
Mr Banda found himself in
an awkward situation after
he was forcibly evicted from
the function for being a nui-
sance. [PHOTO: PETER OCHIENG/
STANDARD]
ugandanafairs/GRACE NAKATO
Debunking wrong perceptions
about us - boda boda pilots
Y
es, Nakato is still away and
I want to clean up our bad
public image. Many of you
believe that we (boda boda
men) all ride under the in-
fluence of banned substances and are
crooks who cannot be trusted.
This is especially so for those who have
visited Ugandas Mulago Hospital and
seen the number of boda boda accident
victims who are admitted there.
First, I doubt you can safely ride under
the influence in this day and age when
everyone is an aspiring actor in an action
movie. And this reminds me of an expe-
rience. I once carried a female passenger
and we were manoeuvring through traffic,
riding downhill towards the intersection
after Makerere University on our way to
one of the Kampala beerbelts, Wandegya.
Suddenly, out of nowhere a truck ap-
peared. My female customer screamed
and jumped off the motorbike and landed
in the path of oncoming traffic.
Had I been drunk, I would not have
managed to keep my head and swerved to
avoid the truck, while balancing from the
jolt due to the sudden loss of extra passen-
ger weight.
VANISHING CUSTOMERS
I could not stop as police would have
arrested me for careless driving, and a
lynch mob would surely have beaten me
and stolen my boda boda. I was not to
blame and she should have trusted that I
also value my life.
You have to be alert in a business that
entails carrying strangers from place to
place, and a good knowledge of the city
and its environs is paramount for success.
A guy hops on my bike and we negoti-
ate the fee Sh100 to take him home.
He asks me to give the person who has
escorted him Sh400 and promises to pay
this together with the fare.
As we approached his purported
home, he suddenly jumps off the bike and
attempts to vanish into the surrounding
bushes.
MASSIVE ACHES
Being a big fun of action movies and
having mastered a few tricks, I immedi-
ately gave chase on my bike as I shout-
ed at the top of my voice, in the process
causing a commotion.
Upon apprehending him, I gave him a
number of resounding slaps and emptied
his pockets. He, of course, reported it as a
robbery but I call it karma.
In regard to the perception that most
of us drink a lot, smoke bhang, shisha and
many other banned stuff, I have the fol-
lowing to say. Drinking and smoking are
not my thing. When the second bottle of
beer reaches my legs, the blood solidifies
and they become like cement blocks.
It is very hard to walk in this state. As
for smoking, I do not like the taste of ciga-
rettes and shall never try this thing called
shisha. I had heard that it is very sweet,
and smells nice.
The last time I tried that thing called
shisha, my last memory was that the world
became quieter and more colourful.
REPEATEDLY SLAPPED
I woke up fully clothed in my bed, with
my shoes on, and suffering from massive
aches and pains in every part. I also felt like
my face had been repeatedly slapped.
When it happened to me, my door was
wide open, and the neighbours probably
thought I was just enjoying fresh air as it
was 10am. I was glad that I had not been
robbed and I was too embarrassed to ask
what happened?
Who, in their right mind, would want
to get hooked on a substance that makes
them get into bed with their dirty shoes?
And only wake up to realise they didnt
close their door at night?
Folks, give us boda boda pilots a break!
fortheloveofthegame/WITH ANIL BAKARI
Footballers are scoring ma-
chines. If you do not score a goal,
especially if you are a striker, you
fall out of favour with fans. But do
you know it reaches a time when
celebrating a goal does not make
any sense to a player.
This is the situation former Ar-
senal lethal striker Thierry Henry
finds himself in. Henry, who plays
for New York Red Bulls FC, no lon-
ger celebrates after scoring.
The 36-year-old scored in his
teams 4-1 win over Columbus in a
recent match and walked away as
if nothing had happened.
In fact, he appeared almost
annoyed that he had scored.
Thierry Henry has scored so
many goals in his career to date
that netting them nowadays just
doesnt seem to excite him any-
more, reports Metro Sports, a
British online news site.
In his English Premier League
football career, Henry scored 174
goals for Arsenal in his 254 ap-
pearances.
It is understandable; Henry
must act like a senior. At his age,
who wants to see him do a somer-
sault after netting a goal?

Thierry doesnt
get excited about
scoring anymore
T
he World Cup came
and went. And like
in bullfighting
matches, the best
carried the day.
Certainly, it was a month of ex-
hilarating action both in stadi-
ums around Brazil and at home,
where billions were following
the games on TV.
In stadiums, we saw big men
and women bawl like newborns
after their teams were bundled
out of the tournament. But it is
at home, especially here, where I
believe there was plenty of drama.
With the man taking over the TV
remotes, the silent wars that took
place in houses were as dramatic
as Brazils seven-nil loss to Ger-
many.
At the height of the games, a
female colleague came to the of-
fice in a foul mood. Reason? She
had missed her favourite soap
opera the previous night because
her husband was busy watching
Brazil lose to Netherlands, which
she considered a not-so-import-
ant match.
As the dust settles on the World
Cup, For the Love of the Game be-
lieves the tournament was full of
lessons for women.
Here are some of them.
CAN DO WITHOUT SOAP DRAMA
If soap operas were that im-
portant, then they should be
screened once after every four
field day at home with the World
Cup having ended, but For the
Love of the Game believes they
must have learned that soap op-
eras are not a matter of life and
death. They can do without them.
MAN IS HEAD OF THE HOUSE
years, like the World Cup. It is for
this reason that men take charge
of the TV remote control when the
World Cup or the African Cup of
Nations starts. You cannot com-
pare what is screened every day
with a once-in-four-years event.
Women must now be having a
Womens 7s rugby team needs support
Dear woman; what did you
learn from World Cup?
The names Keziah Achieng, Mary
Musieka, Linet Moraa and Dorcas Ocho-
li will certainly not ring any bell in your
mind. Perhaps this is because they
sound like those of the girl next door.
But these are some of the members
of the womens national sevens rugby
team, in whom we have placed lots of
hope, as they prepare to go to the IRB
2014/2015 World Sevens Series.
The women will square it out with
Japan, China, South Africa, Brazil, Fiji,
France and the Netherlands, among
others, in the qualifying stages. Well, the
rival countries are all big, if not the best
in the game across the globe.
If it were Shujaa, the mens equivalent
led by the likes of Humphrey Khayange
and Collins Injera, For the Love of the
Game would not put this special request
to you because the boys have experi-
ence.
But the girls need your prayers, very
heavy ones, if you know what I mean.
They have not been in such a tough
competition before, and thus need more
than experience come September 12
when the games begin.
Looking at the girls, they have the
zeal and skills to beat their opponents
and reach the apex of the games. In
fact, if we treat them nicely, they might
just steal the bragging rights from their
brothers at the world stage, and that is
what should happen if we are to develop
the game.
sportingsnapshots
Feminists have planted into
heads of some women the fallacy
that they are equal to their hus-
bands. What a joke!
The World Cup helped remind
some strong-headed women who
always harass their husbands and
subject them to watching soap
operas on daily basis that men are
in charge.
And they only let their wom-
en watch soaps daily because of
love. With most matches being
screened past 11pm, this meant
men stay at home to assert their
authority, especially on what was
to be watched on TV.
MENS FIRST LOVE
Men love football and they can
sacrifice everything else for the
sake of the beautiful game. That
is why they would stay until 3am
watching football and crawl to
bed later without minding about
things like morning glory.
LEARN TO BE INDEPENDENT
The match between Brazil and
Germany offered the most im-
portant lesson to women. With
Brazil having relied on Neymar for
everything, they crumbled sev-
en-nil when he missed the game
because of injury.
So, dear women, shed off the
diva mentality and learn to fix
that tyre, bulb and be financially
independent. Your man, like Ney-
mar, will not always be there.
SIT IN: They went to Brazil to count sheep in seven winks. NGETA? The lengths rugby players go to! OH BABY: Mother Russia is ready for 2018 World Cup.
brokenmirror
Hamza Babu serves and sips juicy gossip
in the breezy Coastal town of Mombasa
kahawatungu
Y
our one-stop gos-
sip shop has over
the years witnessed
happenings some
of which border on
the bizarre.
Recently, a local mchunga-
ji (pastor) was moistening his
throat after a lengthy battle with
the devil from the pulpit.
The shouting had made his
loud voice hoarse, so he ordered
for a concoction to mend his dis-
tended vocal cords and balance
the PH in his mouth.
I gave him a cup spiked with
cinnamon, chamomile and gin-
ger. He knocked back two cups
in quick succession, and began
testing his vocal cord as he nod-
ded his head as if to confirm the
effectiveness of the remedy.
However, unbeknown to him,
a self-proclaimed witchdoctor
was out searching for him over
an outstanding debt his wife
owed him. The witchdoctor is
only known as Madevu, perhaps
because of his long and scraggly
beard. A naughty patron with a
twisted sense of humour at the
cafe joked that Madevu must
have been a relative of the late Jo-
nas Savimbi. Unknown to most of
us, Madevu and the servant of the
lord were enemies by default.
DARK SPIRITS
The two served masters who
have been at loggerheads since
the beginning of time. Madevu
was a medicine man who insisted
on being addressed as a witchdoc-
tor and derived his powers from
dark spirits, whereas Mchungajis
job was guiding the masses to-
wards the light.
The two had never spoken a
word to each other. Locals were
satisfied that though there was
no love lost, harmony was ob-
served at all times. Madevu, who
had been searching for the pas-
tor all day long, eventually stum-
bled upon him at Kahawa Tungu,
where he was relaxing and sip-
Pastor forced to pay
wifes love portion
arrears to witchdoctor
ping coffee, after fixing his throat.
Interestingly, Madevu had
tagged along a bunch of hecklers
who did not want to miss the ac-
tion when the fireworks began to
fly. They soon filled up the place
and orders were streaming in left,
right and centre.
The two adversaries sized up
each other before Madevu ap-
proached the table where the
pastor was sitting, and politely re-
quested to see him outside to dis-
cuss business. Now, the man had
heard of sinners who wanted to
repent but never a self-confessed
enemy of the Lord ordering a ser-
vant of the Lord around.
SUMMONING LIGHTNING
Get behind me, thou Satan!
he declared in a loud voice. The
only business we can discuss will
be me banishing you to purgato-
ry, the pastor informed Madevu
in a way that was meant to em-
barrass him.
Madevu, with bloodshot eyes,
lifted a bony finger from beneath
the sleeves and shook it towards
heaven, as if summoning light-
ning or some other unseen pow-
er. The entire place fell silent. In
a very cool voice he announced,
The fee! I have come to col-
lect the fee. It must be paid! he
roared to the servant of the Lord.
I dont hire your type so how
can you collect a fee from me?
the pastor asked derisively.
Maybe you dont, but your
wife does. I am the force behind
your happy marriage and for
that I must get paid my dues. I
have been supplying your wife
with love potions and consul-
tancy services that hold your
marriage together! But she has
reneged on our payment agree-
ment, the witchdoctor hissed.
That is when the truth dawned
on the pastor that his wife had
been consulting a witchdoctor
to keep their marriage intact.The
pastor was shocked. Surprisingly,
the pastor declared his wife di-
vorced, yes, right there and then,
for associating with the enemy.
That woman must go! the pas-
tor swore, as he unceremoniously
left the cafe with egg all over his
face. The man of God had to pay
up to avoid further embarrass-
ment, leaving patrons in stitches.
Gland-to-gland combat turns awry as
illicit lovers get clamped into each other
D
rama unfolded outside
Kericho District Hospital
a week ago, after word
went round that two illicit
lovers had got stuck into
each other during an amorous congress,
and had been rushed to the hospital for a
separation of powers of sorts.
The shocking news attracted a huge
crowd of local residents who jammed the
hospital to witness the off-the-wall inci-
dent. So riotous was the crowd that the
management of the hospital had to call
cops from Kericho Police Station who
lobbed teargas cannisters to disperse the
curious onlookers.
When Crazy Monday crew visited the
hospital later on to file this report, the gate
was locked and the hospital administration
declined to speak to the press over the mat-
ter, terming it as sensitive.
MORNING GLORY
According to multiple sources, the un-
fortunate man who found his crucial tool-
box clamped is an employee of an interna-
tional road construction company working
on a major highway.
In the morning of the fateful day, the
two lovebirds who live in Kericho town,
allegedly got locked as they attempted
BY NIKKO TANUI
to have quick early morning act of the rod
commonly referred to as morning glory.
At the steamy love heights, the couple
realised they had been clamped together
and began groaning and writhing in pain,
as their screams attracted neighbours who
came to help, said a source at the estate.
He added that the driver of a Probox
rushed to the scene and ferried the two to
the hospital. However, the hospital admin-
istration sent them away, claiming they
didnt have capacity to separate the two.
The Good Samaritans who had rushed
them to the hospital were forced to rush
them to an undisclosed location.
One of the locals claimed the husband
of the two-timing woman had been tipped
off about his wifes philandering and had
consulted a witchdoctor who cast a spell on
her. Immediately word reached him that his
wife had been caught locked in gland-to-
gland combat with another man, the hus-
band declared he was only going to unlock
them after the honeycomb-thieving man
parts with Sh100,000.
All the cheaters in Kericho County have
been put on notice that they cant keep raid-
ing others jars for cookies and think they
can get away with it, warned one angry res-
ident.
JILTED IN LOVE
Elsewhere in the same county, a man in
his mid-30s allegedly committed suicide in-
side his lovers house in Chesinende market
in Kipkelion East constituency.
According to a local teacher who resides
at the trading centre, the deceased had been
jilted in love, and couldnt stomach the
heartache. His ex-lover, a single mother, had
not only broken his heart but also sent him
packing. She kicked him out and warned
him against ever setting foot at her house
where he regularly visited.
She left for the market where she runs a
small business.
The jilted lover forcefully gained entry
into her house only for her to return and find
him hanging from a rope in the house.

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