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No. 18084

JUSTICE | Former Prime Minister speaks at Yale University in lecture tour of the United States

Raila: Judges
must decide
whos lying in
Uhuru case

In search of
more prots
Seeds of Gold

The new crops

farmers are growing,
how they are adding
value to their produce
and their innovations

Cord leader says he cannot tell who between AG

Githu Muigai and Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is
telling Hague court the truth Story on Page 4

ON OTHER PAGES
ANALYSIS

Why
rebasing
of GDP is
academic

Jubilee bigwigs, tycoon ght over Sh8bn city plot

BY ANDREW TEYIE
@Muholo
ateyie@ke.nationmedia.com

David Ndii oers

reasons why Kenya is far
from attaining middleincome status, P. 10
INDEX

News P.1 - 9

enior government ocials embroiled in a dispute involving

a Sh8 billion piece of land in
Karen have moved in despite a court
order stopping any development.
The matter, which will be heard
at the High Court on Monday, has
sucked in the who-is-who in the Jubilee Government.
Yesterday, 14 earth-movers were on
the 134 acres building access roads.
The dispute involves businessman

Opinion P. 12 - 14

Letters P. 16

CHRONOLOGY

Da Gama Rose and former National

Social Security Fund managing trustee Jos Konzolo, who both claim to
own the land.
Da Gama Roses lawyer Cecil Miller
has alleged that the personal assistant
of Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity
Ngilu (right) is at the centre of the
dispute.
According to court documents,
the land along Langata Road, after
Galleria Mall and opposite Hillcrest
School, was registered by a company
owned by Da Gama Rose, Muchanga

1982: The year businessman Da Gama Rose says

he bought the 134-acre
land for Sh1.2 million.
1983: The year Jos Konzolos rm says it bought the
property for Sh135 million.
May 2013: The National
Land Commission says the
land belongs to Da Gama
Rose.

CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

Weekend P. 19 - 40

International P. 41 - 44

Business P. 45-47

Sport P. 50-56

2 | National News

SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

STRATEGY | Party leader Odinga proposes exercise be held a year before polls

Orange party begins to draw

new rules ahead of primaries
Shambolic primaries
for the last General
Election resulted in
defections and cost
the party dearly
BY ISAAC ONGIRI
@ongiri2
iongiri@kationmedia.com

DM is working on
new nomination rules
to prevent chaotic
primaries, which analysts
say contributed to dashing
party leader Raila Odingas
quest for the presidency in
the 2013 General Election.
The chaotic nominations,
particularly in Mr Odingas
bedrock support base of
Nyanza and Western, resulted
in defection of losers and voter
apathy.
This comes days after Mr
Odinga declared that ODM
would conduct nominations
at least one year to the General Election to give enough
room for dispute resolution
and recourse to the losers.
ODM executive director
Magerer Langat said work
on the proposed nomination
rules that would put in place
credible primaries ahead of the
polls has begun.
We will come up with a raft
of proposals to ensure we get it
right this time round. We may
not do the primaries one year
earlier, but we are proposing

FILE | NATION

Men dressed in black destroy ballot papers and boxes during ODM
elections in the Kasarani Gymnasium on February 28. The party is
working on new nomination rules.
between three to six months,
Mr Langat said.
He said even three months
were enough time to allow
dispute resolutions and to
give losers time to decide
their fate.
Budalang i MP Ababu
Namwamba supported the

20 days
Period over which some party
ocials want the nominations
held.

early nomination proposal,

saying it was among reforms
he had planned to inject into
the party if he could have become secretary-general last
February.
I remember in February
2013 when people hurled shoes
at Raila Odinga at the Homa
Bay Stadium during a rally to
express their rage on the conduct of the nomination. The
proposed early primaries are
perfect, Mr Namwamba said.
The partys performance
was compromised by crooks,
brokers and gangs at its
headquarters who turned the

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secretariat into a shop where

certicates were auctioned to
the highest bidders.
Mr Langat declared that he
was closing all shops where
corrupt party members who
lost elections would buy nomination certicates.
Nomination has largely
aected the outcome of the
poll. We must do everything
possible to avoid a recurrence,
the ODM ocial said.
Mr Langat said that the
party was also strengthening
its branches by hiring county
secretariat staff for digital
recruitment next month.
We can ensure clean nominations by having a reliable
data of our members. We are
launching digital registration
in all our sub-branches next
month. This will lock out
non-party members from gate
crashing, Mr Langat said.
He said a proposal had been
made to zone the country and
to conduct staggered nominations over a period of 10 to
20 days.
This will help us in dealing with places such as Nyanza
where the party is popular so
that the entire party machinery concentrates in one region
and not making it national
and exposing our skeleton
manpower, Mr Langat.
Last week, Mr Odinga admitted that nomination has
been a big headache to the
party and promised to have
the rules reviewed to favour
early primaries.

Tomorrow
Auditors query billions
spent in the counties
At least 35 counties are in the spotlight over cash
amounting to billions of shillings held in accounts of
former local authorities and which the Kenya National
Audit Oce is raising questions about. Find out why
county bosses have questions to answer and how
some of them may have pocketed huge sums as the
former councils transformed to counties.

Let the bishop speak

As the dust raised by Jubilee over President Uhuru

Kenyattas appearance at ICC settles, Kenyans will spend
the next few weeks awaiting the verdict of the judges.
Read an expert analysis on the issues before the court
and the weighty matters that the judges will most likely
consider before they can pronounce themselves on the
case. Will they agree with President Kenyattas lawyers
who argued for an acquittal or grant the prosecutions
request and adjourn the case indenitely?

Maverick and archbishop do not always go together.

But they did in the life and times of Kenyas third
primate of the Anglican Church, the late David Gitari. In
his memoirs published a year after he breathed his last,
the archbishop walks readers through some
of his most controversial moments ghting
the Kanu regime over democratic space
and freedom of speech. In a review
tomorrow, we delve into
the world of the ercely
independent cleric as
captured in the book
to be launched next
week.

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Jubilee bigwigs, city

tycoon lock horns
over prime land

FILE | NATION

Former NSSF managing trustee Jos Konzolo whose rm says it

bought the land in 1983.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Investment Ltd.
The firm was once partly
owned by former Vice-President Moody Awori, who has
since relinquished his shares.
Yesterday, the Saturday
Nation established that earthmovers were on site despite
the court order and a protest
letter from Muchanga Investments Ltd.
In a letter dated October 9
and addressed to Mrs Ngilu,
Mr Miller stated that the invasion was allegedly supervised
by one Mary Ndunga, whom he
claims is a personal assistant
to Mrs Ngilu.
On October 4, persons unknown to our client who were
accompanied by ocers from
the regular and Administration
police and ocials from your
ministry, who included your
personal assistant, turned up
at the clients property claiming
ownership of the same, said
Mr Miller.
The illegal invasion of our
clients property together with
the sub-divisions of the same
and all other activities carried
out are in agrant disregard
of a court order issued by the
High Court on September 3,
reads the letter.
Muchanga Investments had
hired AP ocers to guard the
land. However, when the
earth- movers appeared, they
attempted to enforce the court
order in vain. The APs were
later withdrawn.
Mr Miller further says Lands
ocials are involved in the illegal allocation of the land.
Our instructions are that
your officials have fraudulently changed records within
the ministry to reect that the
owner of the land is another
entity. They have created fake
deed plans and issued fake
title deeds over our clients
property. Further, the original
les pertaining to our clients
property are missing from the
registry, says Mr Miller.
According to court documents, the land has been
subdivided by Telesource, a
company associated with Mr
Konzolo, and sold.
The National Land Commission in a May 10, 2013, letter
said the land belongs to Da
Gama Rose but Telesource

says it bought the land from

Jina Enterprises Ltd 20 years
ago at Sh135 million.
Muchanga has also listed,
Habenga Holdings, Jina Enterprises, Director of Surveys,
Ministry of Lands, Director of
Physical Planning, Registrar of
Titles and Chief Land Registrar, in the dispute.
The court barred the parties
from interfering with the land
until the matter is determined.
The temporary orders were extended to Monday.
According to an affidavit
signed by Mr Da Gama Rose,
he bought the land in 1982
from Arnold Bradley through
Barclays Bank of Kenya at
Sh1.2 million. The documents
show that when he bought
the land, its registration was
number 3586/3.
The instruments of transfer dated December 29, 1982
clearly indicates that the initial
grant over the said land was
a grant registered as number
94/1 which was in respect of
land reference 3586/3, says
the documents.
Mr Konzolos rm says it
bought the land from Jina
Enterprises.

Invalid approvals

Jina Enterprises allegedly bought the land from

Habenga Holdings, who are
the rst defendants. Despite
being registered on March 17,
1994, Telesource Com was
incorporated on September
14, 2005, with Konzolo and
his spouse as directors.
According to Da Gama Rose,
the defendants are now using the
invalid and illegal certicate of
title together with other illegal
and invalid approvals to subdivide the land and to register such
subdivisions and Deed Plans
with the intention of selling
and disposing of the same.
Habenga, Jina and Telesource have illegally and
fraudulently acquired an illegal and invalid certicates
of Title over Muchanga Ltds
property known as Land Reference Number 3586/3 situated in
Karen, states Da Gama Rose
in an adavit.
The documents show that
the transfer of the land from
Habenga Holdings to Jina
Enterprises was registered on
April 26, 1983.

National News 3

SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

REHABILITATION | Homeless families living in fear as City County government plans to ush them out

Group in quest to shed o street life tag

They quit the streets for Madaraka

estate, vowed to eat from their own
sweat and now the 22 boys and girls
are saving for their future at KCB
BY ELIZABETH MERAB
@lisamcleans
emerab@ke.nationmedia.com

We have
learnt to
depend on
ourselves. No
one is ready
to assist a
street child
because they
are always
suspicious of
us,
Street family
group leader
Peter Muchega

ark clouds hang ominously for Samuel Osir

at Langata Police Station, Nairobi.
Passers-by are warmly dressed
but not Osir. He is in a Barcelona
Football Club jersey and a pair
of trousers as he picks discarded
clothes from a garbage dump and
puts them aside.
Osir settles on a torn brown
shirt, a worn-out black skirt and
a soiled blue pair of trousers.
Soon, he has a pile, which he
stuffs in polythene bag as it
starts to drizzle.
The clothes, he says, are meant
for a group of street children he
is rehabilitating at Madaraka Estate near Strathmore University.
This and many other odd jobs
have been a source of livelihood
for 27-year-old Osir since he left
Kwa Ngethe Rehabilitation Centre many years ago.
For him, the desire to be part
of change among fellow street
children makes him go out of
his way to assume these duties
and more.
I always want to be the change
people can emulate. These boys
and girls have nowhere to go and
no one to turn to. Therefore, whatever little I get from the police
station, I take it to them, says
the former street child.
In 2005, the government ,
in a sting operation, flushed
street families from the streets
of Nairobi and hauled them into
rehabilitation centres.
The programme was started by
retired President Mwai Kibakis
Narc regime to rehabilitate street
children and absorb them into the
National Youth Service.
But this was not to be, for a

year later the project ran out of

funds and the families returned
to the streets.
Today, they are all over the city
centre and estates. Some beg, others do casual jobs at bus stops and
markets, while others survive o
the proceeds of crime mugging,
vandalism, pick-pocketing, theft
and robbery.
However, for the 22 boys in Madaraka, begging for a Sh10 coin
is a shame they do not want to
subject themselves to.
They live in plastic-paper shanties erected against the wall of the
estate. They are lucky that nobody
has evicted them from the backyard of the apartments.
Most do not know their parents
or siblings, but their bond is so
strong that they have nurtured a
family known as Madaraka Farmers Self-help Group.
The group squats on a rectangular plot, where they cultivate
food crops.

40 acres
Land the Nairobi County
government has purchased
to put up a rehabilitation
centre for street families.

Boiling sukuma wiki (collard

greens) from our garden for a
meal gives us gratication. We
dont need to be begging on the
streets, says Philip Baraza, a
father of ve.
In their seclusion, they have
set rules which each abides by.
One of the rules is to stay away
from drugs.
We live by these rules and if
anyone breaks them, we throw
them out, says Peter Muchega,
the groups chairman, adding:
We came here to seclude ourselves from reckless groups. We
dont want drugs or to be called
thieves because our homes have
no roofs.
Every Sunday, the group holds a
must-attend meeting, where each

GERALD ANDERSON | NATION

Former street boy Samuel Osir (standing) addresses a group of street people (members of Madaraka Farmers
Self-Help Group) whom he is trying to rehabilitate on June 23. Members of the group, who live in Madaraka shanties, say they dont want to beg for money in the streets and instead they want to work for their livelihood.
contributes Sh50 to their sacco. The
money is banked through a friend at
a local nancial institution.
We have learnt to depend on
ourselves for everything. No one
is ready to assist a street child because they are always suspicious
of us, but our friend has helped us
all through for the last four years,
said Muchega alias Konje.
I had no one to turn to after
my parents passed on. The streets
became my home and I found
peace there, he says.
For, Muchega it was a complete
change from a life of drug abuse
and crime when he was introduced to the group.
During our short visit to their
turf, it was evident that the group
has not only changed the perception of many, but also created a
life far from begging.
Though Martha Katonge says
she is 21, she looks much younger.
I joined the street life when I
dropped out of school many
years ago.
She says that bad company led
her to the streets. However, when
she talks about her life at home,

tears roll down her chin.

My mother was not capable of
taking care of us (she is the rst
born in a family of two) and at
some point we had to drop out
of school, Katonge said.
With a gradual introduction
to street life, she thought it was
an easier way of forgetting the
misery at home. What do you
do if there is no food at home?
she posed.

Fend for his family

Like Baraza alias Osama

explains, the constant cat-andmouse games between the county
askaris and street families, drove
many of them from the city centre. Most sought refuge in other
places, one being the Madaraka
shanties.
Baraza, 37, says since he joined
the Madaraka group, he has been
able to fend for his family which
he houses and caters for in Kibera slums.
I was tired of being chased and
sleeping in the county cells. I even
quit drugs just to join this group
and I dont regret it, he says.

The county government of

Nairobi recently announced an
operation that will see almost
1,000 street families pushed out
of the central business district
into a rehabilitation centre.
Unlike the 2005 project, Christopher Khaemba, the County
Executive for Education, says
there are stringent measures
put in place to ensure that the
programme succeeds.
The county government has
bought 40 acres in Ruai and is
in the process of setting up the
rehabilitation centre.
We are aware that the previous operation did not succeed
but this time, it must, he said,
adding that: No group will be
spared because even those who
look harmless will sooner or later
grow into crime.
For Osir, the impending
crackdown reminds him of the
clouds that left him in the cold
at Langata Police Station.
His prayer is that the county
government spares their skin and
shanties for another day, month
and year.

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SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

LECTURE | Africa must learn to hold free and transparent elections, says Cord leader

ICC will get the

truth on Uhuru
probe, says Raila
Attorney-General has
denied prosecutors
claim that government
is withholding records
By KEVIN J KELLEY,
New Haven, USA

t is up to the International Criminal Courts judges to decide

whether the Kenyan Government
is cooperating in the investigation
of President Uhuru Kenyatta, Cord
leader Raila Odinga has said.
Mr Odinga, who was speaking at
Yale University, said prosecutor Fatou
Bensouda maintained that the Kenyan Government had not cooperated,
while Attorney-General Githu Muigai
asserted that the government had provided all the information asked for.
Where Im standing, I cannot tell
between the two who is lying or telling
the truth. Its something we leave to
the court to decide, he said.
Mr Odinga spoke on President
Kenyattas case in response to a
question from the Nation following
a speech he delivered in the Ivy
League university.
He said at the outset of his response
that it was not necessary for Mr
Kenyatta to declare he was temporarily ceding power to Deputy President
William Ruto before he travelled to
The Hague for the ICC status conference on his case.

The Cord leader said Kenyas Constitution provided that the Deputy
President should take charge when the
President was out of the country.
He also cited but did not comment on President Kenyattas
position that the ICC case is a
personal issue and not a national
issue.
In his speech, Mr Odinga tied Africas future to the continents ability
to share opportunities and produce of
the land fairly and equitably, ensuring
inclusivity and holding free, fair and
credible elections.
President Kenyattas crimes against
humanity case at The Hague arises
from the 2007 presidential election
results.
Mr Odingas Coca-Cola World Fund
at Yale Lecture was titled Afro-Optimism - Has the Pendulum Swung
Too Far?
The question refers to cover stories
in two editions of the London-based
Economist magazine. The rst, from
March 2000, described Africa as The
hopeless continent. The other, in December 2011, was headlined Africa
Rising.
The sharp shift from pessimism
to optimism was largely justified,
Mr Odinga said, noting in particular
the declines in malaria deaths, HIV
infection rates and child mortality.
At the same time, he said, life expectancy was increasing, real incomes
were rising and democratic elections
were becoming the norm.
He appealed to leaders to learn what

I cannot tell
between the
two who is
lying and
who is telling
the truth
Raila Odinga
on the face-o
between AG
Githu and Ms
Bensouda

FILE | NATION

President Uhuru Kenyatta with politicians who had accompanied him to The Hague for the status conference on his crimes against humanity case.
the continent did right in those 10
years and carry on with them. So
much has changed between 2000
when the Economist declared Africa
a Hopeless Continent and December 2011, when the same magazine
proclaimed Africa Rising, with a real
chance to follow in the footsteps of
Asia.
He paid particular attention to
issues of democratisation, equity,
sharing of wealth and ending corruption as insurance against relapse
into the misery and hopelessness of
the past years.
The opposition leader said the
gains were products of progress on
the political front, stressing that the

2007
The year Kenya held the disputed
presidential election that led to widespread violence

continents democracy dividend

must not be reversed.
He pitched for devolution of power
and resources as that held the key
to Africas stability and prospects
for growth.
Inclusivity must be the name of
the game. We must decentralise and
devolve power and resources equitably
to all our citizens. We must spread the
benets of growth.
Mr Odinga, who was Prime Minister in the Kibaki government, called
on leaders to tackle inequality as a
matter of priority.
He blamed inequality and lack of
access to opportunities for some of
the conicts re-emerging in previously
stable African nations like Central African Republic.
He said the experience of the last
10 years clearly showed what worked
and what did not and the continent
had no reason to fail again.
He singled out greater democratisation and involvement of citizens in
public aairs as the reasons for the

great strides the continent had made

on the economy.
With economic growth across the
continent, he said, Africa needed
to invest in far reaching economic
reforms and reign in corruption,
tribalism, nepotism and patronage.
Africa must particularly learn to
hold free, fair and transparent elections. Every vote must count. Every
vote must be counted. Most of Africas
political problems start at the polls,
Mr Odinga said.
He is in Yale at the invitation of
the universitys Macmillan Centre
for International Aairs.
Describing himself as an Afro-optimist, Mr Odinga declared: Despite
persistence of the old habits, change
is taking place at a dizzying pace all
over Africa.
Kenya is a technologically advanced
country, he said, citing its creation of
the M-Pesa mobile money transfer
system and the fact that mobilephone penetration stands at 80 per
cent for people over 15.

National News 5

SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

ANALYSIS | Sekou Owino

Politics clouds legal dimension of Uhuru case

The Kenyan mind and media
were intense on the political
implications of a sitting
president being the rst to
appear before a foreign court
and its eect on sovereignty

he events of the past

week with regard
to President Uhuru
Kenyattas appearance at the
International Criminal Court
have been very captivating
for Kenyans. However, the
excitement was more focused
on what happened in Kenya
rather than what actually
transpired in court.
The Kenyan mind and
media were intense on the
political implications of the
President being the rst to
supposedly sit in the dock of
a foreign court and what its
implication would be for the
sovereignty of the country
and what the decision to appoint the Deputy President
William Ruto to act as President would herald.
The danger with this
stance in looking at the
events of the week is that the
majority of Kenyans missed
the fact that there was a legal
dimension of the case beyond
the politics of it. A positivist
view of the matter is that a
suspect facing trial for crimes
against humanity was invited
by the tribunal presiding over
the case and he obliged parochial as that may sound.
The idea here is that this
case is rst a legal matter,
which will, hopefully, be
resolved within the legal
channels. Whatever other po-

litical implications the case or

the parties in it may bear on
it. In limiting the focus to the
case as a legal issue, it will be
remembered that the reason
for which the judges before
whom the case is being tried
decided that the Presidents
presence would be necessary
because the issues that were
to be discussed at the status
conference aected his rights
directly and that the case had
reached a critical juncture.
At hand were two applications by the prosecutor and
the defence, respectively.
The prosecutor had sought
an adjournment of the trial
which was intended to start
on October 7, 2014. This was
based upon the contention
that Kenya, as a party to the
Rome Statute, had declined
to facilitate the prosecutors
investigations by failing and
or refusing to provide information sought.

The idea here is that

this case is rst a legal
matter, which will,
hopefully, be resolved
within the legal
channels

This non-cooperation on
the part of the government
of Kenya, the prosecutor
said, was the reason why the
trial could not start. Consequently, Mrs Fatou Bensouda
wanted the court to adjourn
the case indenitely until
Kenya complied with her requests.
The defence on the other
hand argued that the continued requests by the
prosecutor for adjournments
bearing in mind that the
commencement of the trial
had been adjourned on at
least three prior occasions at
the request of the prosecutor
was prejudicial to Mr Kenyattas rights to a quick trial.
They, therefore, sought an
acquittal following Mrs Bensoudas admission that the
evidence in her possession
would not tilt the scales beyond reasonable doubt.

Two stark claims

There is clearly a lot of

material and information
available to the court but
which is not available to even
keen watchers of the case,
leave alone casual observers
as most Kenyans are. What
the judges will have to decide are two stark claims in
respect of what sometimes
did not even appear to be the
same set of facts.
The prosecution contends
that the case should be adjourned for the reason that
the Government of Kenya
has declined to grant its
cooperation to the prosecutions request for several
categories of details which
would enhance its evidence
and help it either take the
case to trial or withdraw the

Court bars senators from

discussing Kibwana ouster
BY NATION REPORTER
AND CORRESPONDENT
The High Court has barred
the Senate from discussing
the impeachment of Makueni
Governor Kivutha Kibwana
(right).
Lady Justice Mumbi Ngugi
granted the orders sought by
lawyer Wilfred Nyamu, who
stated in a case he led under
a certicate of urgency that a
resolution paving the impeachment of Prof Kibwana had been
forwarded to the Senate.
Unless this court intervenes
and grants a temporary relief,
the Senate will proceed to
discuss and act on the recommendation of the county
assembly, which has since
passed a motion to remove
Prof Kibwana, Mr Nyamu
told the judge.
The lawyer said on October
6, Prof Kibwana received a
letter asking him to appear
before the assembly to respond

to a motion touching on his

conduct.
He told the judge that on the
same day a four-page document without any supporting
annextures was delivered to
the governors office. The
document contained some allegations against the county
boss.
On Thursday, members of
the county assembly voted to
send the governor home.
This followed a protracted
battle with the members, who
have been accusing him of
incompetence.
The MCAs have also been

accusing him of outing procurement procedures and gross

misconduct.
Yesterday, Mr Nyamu told
the court: Prof Kibwana
prepared a detailed response
to the motion denying every
allegation and pointing out that
there was no documentation
attached to substantiate any
of the allegations.
In her brief ruling, Lady
Justice Ngugi certified the
case led by the Council of
Governors, Prof Kibwana and
the Makueni County Executives as urgent.
She directed that the case be
transferred to the High Court
in Machakos for hearing on
October 16.
I shall defend my case
before the Senate and I hope
it will be fair. Im ready to use
other legal processes to defend
myself as the charges being
levelled against me are laughable, Prof Kibwana told a press
conference in Nairobi.

charges. It claims that it has

sought these documents from
the Government which has
remained non-compliant for
almost two-and-a-half years.
The prosecution claims
that it has sought from
Kenya details of the accused
persons bank accounts and
statements over a period of
three years, tax returns for
a number of years, details
of the accused persons real
estate property, company
shareholdings and directorships and cell phone records
for a specic period during
the post-election violence
from December 2007 to February 2008.
The government contended that it had provided
this information but instead
of three months before the
further request was made for
the three years. Another set
of information required are
details of vehicles owned by
the accused, and which it was
admitted had been supplied
before the prosecutor again
demanded a dierent set of
information with regard to all
vehicles which the accused
may have had access to.
Another contentious one
was that the prosecutor
sought copies of the accuseds tax records and

complained that it was

instead given the tax declarations which are derivatives
of the information contained
in the returns and do not
normally include all the information in the returns such as
directorships and shareholding in companies which was
what the prosecutor appears
to have sought by the request
for the tax returns.
Of importance within this
series of accusations is that
the prosecution side admitted that it had no evidence
on which it could claim that
the obfuscation on the part
of the government could be
ascribed to any action on the
part of the accused.

Most powerful person

Not so for the legal representative of the victims.

While most of the submissions were steered away from
merger of the ocial role of
the accused as President of
Kenya and as the accused
in the case, the legal representative made this attempt
at walking that line of dichotomy.
He was direct that the accused also happened to be
the most powerful person
in Kenya in terms of formal
power. Therefore, in his view,

the court ought not to overlook the possibility that if

the accused desired it, then
Kenya would comply with
its obligations to provide the
information the prosecution
sought in this case.
A look at the transcripts
of the status conference of
October 7 in which the Attorney-General appeared on
for the Republic of Kenya and
that of the following day in
which Prof Githu Muigai was
excluded, it is clear that the
issues in this case are convoluted and it is unlikely that
any side will have a home-run
on them.
It is now for the judges
to make a decision on the
respective applications. The
decision, as and when it
comes, is the one which may
for once fuse the fates of all
the parties to that case with
Kenya because a nding that
the Government is or has
obstructed the prosecutor
of the court in her work will
portend something, however
minor, for all the citizens.
By the same token, an outright acquittal of the accused
will be no less signicant for
the country.

Mr Owino is the head of Legal

Services at NMG

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SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

HEALTH | CS insists Kenya prepared to handle disease

POWER TO READ | ...And a fresh start

Airport Ebola tools

unreliable, say sta
Gun thermometers
are giving same
readings for, say, 10
dierent passengers
BY MIKE MWANIKI
mmwaniki@ke.nationmedia.com

AND EUNICE KILONZO

ekilonzo@ke.nationmedia.com

ealth workers screening travellers for Ebola

at the JKIA, Nairobi,
have complained of poor
equipment, lack of followup on passengers and low
morale.
The workers yesterday said
the gun thermometers they
used were not reliable, as they
gave dierent readings.
The same person can have
over ve dierent readings
from these thermometers,
a worker, who asked not to
be named for fear of reprisal,
said.
The claims follow Health
Cabinet Secretary James
Macharias assertion that up
to 10,000 health workers had
been trained to handle the dis-

ease if it broke out in Kenya.

Mr Macharia said Kenya was
among the countries well-prepared to tackle Ebola.
The CS said the number of
trained workers was expected
to rise to 20,000 by the end of
the year. He spoke after presiding over the World Mental
Health Day celebrations at
Mathari Hospital in Nairobi.
He said the emphasis was
on screening all passengers
from the West African countries grappling with the Ebola
outbreak at Jomo Kenyatta
International Airport and
border points.
Our level of preparedness is among the best and
neighbouring countries like
Ethiopia, Rwanda and Burundi
send suspected Ebola samples
for testing at the Kenya Medical Research Institute.
The CS had earlier said
health workers at JKIA used
gun thermometers to record

10,000

The number of health workers

trained to handle Ebola, according to the government

passengers temperatures.
Mr Macharia said eight
themo scanners would be
delivered.
According to the workers,
there has been no follow-up
on screened travellers from
the Ebola-hit countries after
21 days, as required.
They said since they were
deployed to the airport in
mid-August, they had only
received meal allowances for
10 days.
Mr Macharia said the
country was on high alert for
Marburg another haemorrhagic fever after one
person died in Uganda.
The ministry has set aside
Sh670 million for Ebola preparedness while isolation
centres have been established
at the JKIA and Kenyatta National Hospital, he said.
And in a statement signed
by Director of Medical Services, Dr Nicholas Muraguri,
two suspected Marburg cases
had tested negative for the disease after their blood samples
were tested at Kemri.
The cases involved a man
and a woman who had travelled from Uganda.

BRIEFLY
NAIROBI

Woman seeks help to

escape Saudi torture
A Kenyan woman in Saudi Arabia has pleaded with the Government to help her return home. Ms
Anne Njeri Mwaura told the Daily
Nation on the phone she went to
work in that country as a househelp three weeks ago, and since
then has not had a decent meal.
I survive on baby milk and leftovers, she said. Her agent, Ms Eva
Kambo, said she was aware of
the situation and was working to
bring her back home.

NAIROBI

Lawyer in power hand

over case seeks asylum

ANTHONY OMUYA I NATION

Former Starehe MP Margaret Wanjiru follows proceedings during yesterdays graduation ceremony at
St Pauls University in Limuru. Bishop Wanjiru, who
graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Leadership and Management, said she had quit ODM and was
shopping for a new political party.

Health CS assures
on tetanus vaccine
BY SATURDAY NATION
CORRESPONDENT
A tetanus vaccine to be
given to women is safe,
Health Cabinet Secretary
James Macharia said yesterday.
He also dismissed claims
that the vaccine is a family
planning drug.
Speaking to the Nation
after presiding over the
World Mental Health Day
celebrations at Mathari
Hospital in Nairobi, Mr
Macharia (below) took issue
with the Catholic Health
Commission for accusing
the government of trying
to inject women between
the ages of 19 and 49 with
family planning drugs.
I held a meeting with
Catholic bishops in my ofce at Afya House, where
we discussed the tetanus
vaccine campaign, which
begins on Monday. Im not
surprised by their stand
since they have previously questioned other
vaccination campaigns,
Mr Macharia said. He was
anked by Principal Secretary Khadijah Kassachoon
and the ministrys head of
preventive and promotive
services William Maina.
On Thursday, the Catholic
Health Commission chairman, the Rev Paul Njiru,
said there was limited infor-

mation given to the public

about the vaccine.
The priest said there was
no tetanus crisis warranting
the campaign. He asked why
the target was women in
their most productive age.
Meanwhile, Mr Macharia has said that more
than 400,000 Kenyans are
schizophrenic.
He said the disease develops early in life and becomes
chronic, seriously interfering with the patients social
and employment life.
In Kenya, 25 per cent of
patients seeking outpatient
services suer from mental
disorders, he said.
The
World
Health
Organisations Country
Representative, Dr Custodia Mandlhate, said most
cases of schizophrenia
could be treated.

The human rights lawyer who

was pressing to have Deputy
President William Ruto sworn
as Kenyas fth president now
claims that his life is in danger.
Mr Felix Kiprono Matagei is
seeking asylum. He alleged that
he was kidnapped from Nairobis
Ambassadeur Hotel stage by four
men who drove him to Thika
where they threatened to shoot
him. The case was moved to October 27.

NAIROBI

Miraa destined for the

UK seized at airport
A consignment of miraa destined for the UK was yesterday
intercepted at the Jomo Kenyatta
International Airport. The leafy
plant, typically chewed for its
stimulant eect and also referred
to as khat, was banned in the UK
in June. Airport ocials said the
exporter had concealed it using
arrow root leaves, which are normally exported due to their nutritional value. The ocials said
some exporters could be using
tricks to sneak out the leaves.

LAIKIPIA

Moi enjoined in a
community land case
Former President Daniel arap
Moi and African Wildlife Foundation have been enjoined in a case
in which nine men have been
charged with trespass. However,
Mr Joseph Lekamario and others
have also sued Mr Moi, the KWS
and AWF alleging illegal alienation of the land from the Samburu community. The rst case
was put on hold but the second
one will proceed on November 21.

NAIROBI

School with lthy

cells to be probed
The Teachers Service Commission has launched an investigation into claims that a principal
in Kisii was locking up students
in lthy cells. TSC SecretaryGabriel Lengoiboni said action
would be taken if the claims are
established. Yesterday, the Daily
Nation reported the St Charles
Lwanga Ichuni Girls School head
had been locking up students in a
cell with only two meals a day to
discipline them.

SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

8 | National News

SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

HUMAN RIGHTS | Group says extra-judicial killings on the rise

Police on the spot

over rearm misuse
Ocers accused
of contravening
law that assumes
suspects innocent
until proven guilty
BY STELLA CHERONO
@stellacherono
scherono@ke.nationmedia.com

he number of extrajudicial killings have

gone up, according to
a human rights lobby.
And the Independent
Medico Legal Unit is concerned by the misuse of
rearms by the police ocers, who do not follow the
National Police Service Act
that gives the guidelines on
the use of rearms
The lobby groups executive director, Mr Peter Kiama
said extrajudicial killings had
gone up this year, compared
past years.
As of the end of September, we had documented a
total of 176 cases. Until the
end of last year, there were
143 deaths from extrajudicial

killings, Mr Kiama said.

He was worried by the
shooting dead of suspects,
who turned out to be innocent.
The statistics question
the commitment of the
National Police Service to
respect human rights and
the assumption of innocent
until proven guilty by an
impartial judicial process,
he told a press brieng in
Nairobi yesterday.

Speed-up case

On the killing of 14-yearold Kwekwe Mwandaza in

Kwale, he asked the oce
of the Director of Public
Prosecutions to speed up
the quest for justice.
The executive director said
out of all deaths by bullets in
the country, 67 per cent were
from police rearms.
Mr Kiama cited the speed
at which police officers
opened fire without questioning suspects.
He gave the example of
the alleged killing of an Administration Police officer
by his fellow ocer at the
weekend.

Such incidents are a clear

indication of how careless our
ocers have become and we
hope justice will be served,
said Mr Kiama.
Corporal Joseph Obongo
Makori, attached to the Security of Government Buildings
Unit, was allegedly shot in the
head by regular police ocers
after a bar attendant raised
the alarm when she saw his
ocial pistol.
This is not the rst time
the police are accused of
extrajudicial killings.
In August, Human Rights
Watch, an international
human rights body, stated
that it had found evidence
linking the Anti-Terrorism
Police Unit to arbitrary arrests and mistreatment of
suspects in detention.
The groups deputy Africa
director, Ms Leslie Lefkow,
said the violations happened
with the knowledge of the
government.
Kenyan counter-terrorism
forces appear to be killing
and causing people to vanish right under the noses of
top government ocials, Ms
Lefkow said.

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources

Kerio Valley Development Authority

PROCUREMENT NOTICE
N SIWWIP-K02
Kerio Valley Development Authority on behalf of Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources State Department of
Water, plans to award a contract for CONSTRUCTION SERVICES FOR CARRYING OUT CIVIL WORKS COMPONENT OF THE
SIGOR WEI WEI INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT PHASE III.
Funded by a soft loan from General Directorate for Development Cooperation of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italian Republic (MAE
D.G.C.S.).
This tender is composed of:
1: Civil works, for maximum available budget of 5.372.291,00 (including 521.620,00 for safety costs);
Participation is open to Italian rms composed of single or joint, companies or consortia.
Tenderer must demonstrate:
1: Civil Works; Turn over, in the last 3 years, not less than 5.372.291,00 for works,
Enterprises which have been established for less than 3 (three) years may prove their economic and nancial standing with any
document which the Contracting Authority may deem appropriate. The tenderer should deliver the ofcial nancial statement document
(art 41.b D.Lgs 163/2006 Italian Republic).
Tenderers must submit the signed declaration, included in the tender dossier, to the effect that they are not in any of the situations listed
in point 2.3.3 of the Practical Guide to contract procedures for EU external actions.
Notice of contract is published on the website of the MAE:
http://www.esteri.it/MAE/IT/Ministero/Servizi/Imprese/Opportunit/Ricerca_BandiGara.html
The Tender dossier will be provided upon written request to the following addresses:
Embassy of Kenya in Italy
Viale Luca Gaurico, n. 205 - Roma (Italy)
or
Kerio Valley Development Authority
KVDA Plaza,14th Floor., Oloo Street
P. O. Box 2660 -30100
Eldoret (Kenya).
upon payment of a non refundable fee of 100.00, for the civil works Tender documents, which excludes delivery costs. The amount
is to be paid by all tenderers for participation to the tender procedure.
Payment must be made by
A/C name
A/C No
Bank
Swift code
Sort code
Clause

bank transfer to the bank account:

:
KVDA Premises
:
01001027717003
:
National Bank, Eldoret Branch
:
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:
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:
Buy tender dossier for Construction Services For Carrying Out Civil Works.
Component of the Sigor Wei Wei Integrated Development Project Phase III. SIWWIP-K02

The deadline for submission of tenders is xed on Wednesday at 12:00 noon, (Kenya time) 5th December, 2014. Tenders must be
submitted exclusively to the Contracting Authority at the following address:
Managing Director
Kerio Valley Development Authority
KVDA Plaza, 13th Floor,
Oloo Street
P. O. Box 2660 - 30100
Eldoret (Kenya)
Tel./Fax: +254 53 2063361/2 . Email:info@kvda.go.ke

SHOW | Kandies tourism plan

Punish Raila
attacker, say
Cord leaders
BY SATURDAY NATION
CORRESPONDENT

TOM MATOKE I NATION

Trade and Tourism Cabinet Secretary Phylis Kandie accompanied by Nandi Governor Cleophas Lagat on a tour
of Nandi Agricultural Show. Ms Kandie said her ministry
would work closely with the 47 county governments to
ensure their tourism opportunities are fully exploited.

Cord leaders in Kwale County

want Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Kwale Governor Salim
Mvurya to withdraw the clemency
they extended to Mr Lengo Mdzomba, who assaulted them.
Their call comes after a Kwale
court on Thursday withdrew
assault charges against Mr Mdzomba, who caned the two leaders
with a walking stick at a rally in
Kinango two weeks ago.
Before the charges were
dropped, Mr Odinga and Mr
Mvurya presented in court a
sworn adavit showing they had
forgiven Mr Mdzomba.
Speaking in Kwale yesterday,
county ODM chairperson Hassan Mwanyoha (Matuga MP)
said the matter should not be
taken lightly.
The truth should be uncovered
because it seems the man not act
on his own, he said. He added
tough legal action must be taken
against Mr Mdzomba so that it
acts as a lesson to other people
with similar intentions.
South Coast Council of Imams
and Preachers of Kenya chairman
Amir Banda condemned the act.
Nominated MP Zuleikha Juma
said Mr Mdzomba should have
taken responsibility for his actions.

National News 9

SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

CRIME | Victims accuse banks of failing to carry out due diligence before extending credit

Alarm as loan fraud takes root

Innocent Kenyans have been
blacklisted after fraudsters took
loans from banks using their
names and forged documents
BY ANGIRA ZADOCK

zangira@ke.nationmedia.com

raudsters are using forged

documents to secure loans
from banks, investigations
have shown.
Most victims only learn that
their names were used to secure loans after they have been
blacklisted by the Credit Reference Bureau for defaulting on
repayments.
In other cases, employees of a
rm mandated by the bureau to
collect the money on its behalf
fail to remit it and issue the
defaulters with fake clearance
certicates.

It is sad that even after the bank

repossessed the vehicle and sold it,
Credit Reference Bureau has not
deleted my name from its records
Daniel Gacanja Githaiga, businessman

One of the latest cases is that

of a United Nations employee
who had been blacklisted by
the credit bureau after he failed
to service a loan he obtained
through a Barclays Bank of
Kenya credit card. He later
cleared the amount through
Collection Africa Limited and
was issued with a clearance
certicate.
When he applied for a loan
last month, he was told that
he still owed Barclays Bank
Sh103,000.
On checking with Collection
Africa, the agent acknowledged
that the amount was not submitted in full but could not explain
how the clearance certificate
was issued. They later gave the
customer a bankers cheque for
the same amount.
A supervisor with the firm
said that they had sorted out
the matter with the customer.
Mr Daniel Gacanja Githaiga, a
businessman, told the Saturday
Nation that when he applied for
a loan from Equity Bank, he was
informed that he could not be
given any since he had failed to
service one he had taken from
CfC Stanbic Bank.
The loan was to nance the
purchase of a lorry. It had been
applied for by a Mr Daniel Gacanja Githaiga of postal address
90 00209 Loitokitok. It was
processed through account
number 0100001237197.

Sh4.79m
The cost of a lorry for which a
fraudster obtained a loan using
forged documents belonging
to Mr Daniel Gacanja Githaiga
I had never held any account
with the bank and had also not
lived or visited Loitokitok, he
told the Saturday Nation.
In a letter purportedly written to Mr Githaiga, CfC Stanbic
Bank said they had approved his
loan application for the purchase
of a Mitsubishi FH 215 Cargo,
which was registered as KBL
905M.
The loan was to be cleared
in 48 months, with a monthly
payment of Sh111,106.
The purchase price of the vehicle was Sh4.79 million but the
fraudster made a down payment
of Sh958,080.
However, after some investigations, it was established that the
loan was applied for by a man
who lives in Loitokitok.
Investigators have not yet
established how the man approached the bank using forged
documents with Mr Githaigas
signature.
Mr Githaigas name was listed
in credit bureaus database as a
defaulter.
It is sad that even after the
bank repossessed the vehicle

and sold it, the credit bureau

has not deleted my name from
its records, he said.
Mr Githaiga then wrote to
the Banking Fraud Investigations Unit but so far nothing
has been done.
Yesterday, his lawyer wrote to
the fraud unit, the Central Bank
of Kenya and CfC Stanbic Bank
to speed up the investigations.
The banks head of Legal and
Compliance, Mr Ken Kanyarati,
said he was aware of the case but
declined to comment.
Some victims have accused
banks of failing to exercise due
diligence.

Block access to credit

A businessman moved to court

last month seeking Sh215.8
million compensation from
Co-operative Bank after the
lender allegedly caused him to
be blacklisted over an unpaid
loan without his knowledge.
Mr Obadia Gitonga Micheu
said Co-operative Bank blacklisted him with the credit
reference bureau for allegedly
defaulting on a loan for which
he was a guarantor, blocking
his access to credit for seven
years.
He had guaranteed Chogoria
Junior School, where he was a
director, for the loan from the
bank. The bank later recovered
the money by selling the school
land.

HARAMBEE | Development is our new form of politics, Ruto tells critics

Deputy President William Ruto (left) and Kisii
Governor James Ongwae
(second left) join students
of Gionseri Secondary
School in a song during
a funds drive in aid of
the school in Nyamache,
Kisii, yesterday. The DP
defended his contributions at harambees, saying Kenyans need development. Cord leader Raila
Odinga has questioned
the source of the millions
of shillings Mr Ruto has
been donating at fundraisers.
DANIEL ONYANCHA I DDPS

BRIEFLY
KIRINYAGA

Dons fault bid to stop varsity diplomas

Enforcement of county
alcohol law set aside

BY SATURDAY NATION
CORRESPONDENT

The High Court in Kerugoya

has temporarily stopped the
county government from implementing its new alcohol control
law. The new county law requires
that bars be re-inspected after the
traders get licences. Some 1,154
bar owners in Kirinyaga moved
to court alleging harassment and
disruption of their businesses
by county workers and the police. The traders sought to know
whether the county law was in
accordance with the Constitution.
The hearing continues.

University teachers yesterday

faulted the move by Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi to stop
the institutions from oering diploma
and certicate courses.
They said that middle-level colleges lacked the capacity to offer
post-graduate diploma and certicate
courses and that universities should
continue oering them.
According to the scholars, only
certicate courses should be oered
by mid-level colleges and technical
institutions.
This policy will be difficult to

implement. Diploma courses are

signicant given that they provide
a channel for bridging courses for
students who failed in a particular
subject and want to pursue a specic eld of study, said Prof John
Shiundu, head of education studies at
Masinde Muliro University of Science
and Technology.
Dr Nabea Wendo, Laikipia University-Naivasha campus director,
said universities should be allowed
to oer both diploma and certicate
courses because of their capacity to
transit from one level of education
to another.
I find Prof Kaimenyis move
anomalous given universities have

their own curriculum and this would

bring diculties when a diploma student transits to a degree programme,
said Dr Wendo.
But Kisii University Deputy
Vice-Chancellor Maurice Amutabi
welcomed the move.
Prof Amutabi said most technical
institutions performed below capacity
because universities were competing
with them to oer such courses and
as such led to the death of most middle-level colleges.
He said that the policy, should it be
adopted by the Commission of University Education, would make the
institutions concentrate on oering
quality degree programmes.

BRIEFLY
KAKAMEGA

Students injured as
wind ruins classrooms
Ten students were injured
when a strong wind destroyed
four classrooms at Makhokho
Secondary School on Thursday
night. Principal Gerald Bulinda
said the injured were treated at
Iguhu Health Centre and discharged. The students lost all
their notes as their books were
ruined, he said, adding that
those sitting for this years Form
Four examination were the worst
hit.

KISUMU

University elections
put o over chaos
The election of student leaders at Maseno University was
called o after chaos erupted.
The returning ocer suspended
the polls following the destruction of ballot boxes by a group
of students on the main campus
and the one in Kisumu town on
Thursday. University spokesman
Jasper Otieno said that some students raised the alarm, claiming
that some voters had duplicated
the ballots and were casting
them.

JUBA

KDF jets bomb and

kill 60 Al-Shabaabs
The Kenya Air Force yesterday
said its jets attacked and destroyed an Al-Shabaab position
north of Gulagadud in middle
Juba region. KDF said initial battle assessment indicated that 60
militants had been killed in the
1pm attack. The defence forces
added that many ghters had
been injured and were retreating
towards Jilbi. Kenya sent its military forces in Somalia in October
2011 to ght the insurgents.

KAJIADO

County sets aside

Sh30 to ght drought
The Kajiado County government has set aside Sh30 million
emergency fund to ght the current drought. The devolved government said it was focusing on
protecting residents from losses
associated with the droughts.
Governor David Nkedianye yesterday said it had driven many
children from school. He called
on the national government to
supply relief food to starving
residents.

LAMU

Learners protest
over delayed pay
A group of students from
the county who were awarded
government scholarships have
protested over the delay in giving out monthly stipends. The
200 students are taking studies
in readiness for the new Sh1.5
trillion port project. Lamu Port
Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport authority ocial Benson
Thuita said they had started paying the students.

10 | Special Report

SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

THE ICC ON TRIAL | Gabrielle Lynch

SPECIAL REPORT | What has changed is that Africa has nally joined the globa

ICC must go back

to drawing board
after Kenyan cases

Why rebasing of

his week President Uhuru

Kenyatta made history as
the first sitting Head of
State to appear before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in
The Hague.
However, formal judicial proceedings were overshadowed in media
coverage and public debates by
parallel theatrics. Relatively little
attention was given to the courts
decision that the President be addressed as Mr Kenyatta (rather than
as President Kenyatta) in the status
conference, or to the legal arguments
presented.
Instead, coverage focused on the
dramas, spectacles, and staging
of responses that occurred outside
of the courtroom.
More specically, it focused on Mr
Kenyattas address to the joint session of Parliament on Monday; the
temporary appointment of Deputy
President William Ruto as acting
President; President Kenyattas departure and arrival at Jomo Kenyatta
International Airport; demonstrations
in The Hague; the Presidents public
statements.
Published photos in turn provided
portraits of the Presidents relaxed
demeanour; the Deputy Presidents
support for his colleague; the demonstrations on the steps of the ICC
building led by the always colourful
Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko; and the
warm welcome the President received
on his departure from and arrival in
Nairobi and The Hague.
For me, what this coverage
highlighted is the extent to which,
the virtual trial or the trial of
cooperation whereby the political
interactions between [court], State,
and international communitydetermine a State response to [a courts]
demands for cooperation (Victor
Peskin 2009) has taken centre
stage. This is not unusual.
On the contrary, Mr Peskins
work on the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
and International Criminal Tribunal
for Rwanda, as well as Duncan McCargos analysis of the Extraordinary
Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia,
reveal a common pattern whereby political debates around an international
criminal judicial process tend to gain

REBECCA NDUKU | PPSU

President Uhuru Kenyatta on arrival

at the ICC in The Hague.

predominance. But why is this?

First, international tribunals and
the ICC lack the vestiges of a State
and are therefore reliant on government cooperation to carry out
investigations, locate witnesses,
and bring suspects to trial.
However, there are a number
of reasons why states or political
elites might not want to cooperate with such processes, or might
seek to bring them to a halt. For
example, they may seek to protect
particular individuals or institutions from successful prosecution,
or to defend themselves against
(or to use) nationalist arguments
regarding the need to protect state
sovereignty from external interventions. As a result, the prosecution
tends to try and negotiate with, but
also to shame states in an ongoing
eort to motivate state cooperation;
while targeted states often seek to use
the courts intervention for their own
ends or to counter-shame the court
whereby they stress (and sometimes
exaggerate) a courts shortcomings
and mistakes in an attempt to undermine its moral authority.
In this case, Kenyan elites have
proved particularly adept at countershaming the ICC and at questioning
its neutrality, its interpretation of
events, and potential impact. Thus,
emphasis has been placed on the fact
that all of the ICCs cases focus on
Africa cases.
In turn, President Kenyatta and his
Deputy have presented themselves
as innocent parties who have been
taken to The Hague by vested interests. Finally, it is argued that as
democratically elected leaders of
a regional powerhouse in an area
wracked by terrorism that the cases
are detrimental to peace, security, and
development.
I leave it to others to determine
whether they are swayed by the arguments presented by the ICC or the
Jubilee Alliance and their respective
supporters in this virtual trial. But
what is clear is that the ICC is also
on trial.
Moreover, it is evident that, if
the ICC is to be more successful in
future cases, it needs to learn that
it cannot simply rely on the moral
high ground of being an international judicial body or the strength
of its legal arguments to ensure that
it enjoys sucient support to conduct successful investigations and
prosecutions.
Instead, it has to work to inculcate
greater faith in all aspects of its works
so as to ensure that it is generally
perceived as an example of neutral
justice, and that it cannot be so easily
recast as a performance of injustice
and as a threat to a countrys sovereignty, peace and security.
In short, it is time that the ICC
gave more consideration to the whole
range of its operations from its selection of cases and investigations
to its public relations and outreach
programmes.
Gabrielle Lynch, associate professor
of Comparative Politics, University
of Warwick (g.lynch@warwick.ac.uk;
@GabrielleLynch6)

The economy
is bigger but we
are not better
o, so why is
the rebasing of
African GDPs
such big news
these days?
BY DAVID NDII

satnation@ke.nationmedia.com

t is ocial. Our economy is

25 per cent larger than what
our previous estimates. As
we have been told repeatedly,
it does not mean that we are
better o than we thought we
were. So, if it does not make a
material dierence, what was
all the fuss about?
I am perhaps more intrigued
by the media and public attention that the rebasing of GDP
is attracting than most people.
I am intrigued because the
whole thing is a rather boring
and routine statistical exercise that has in the past not
attracted much attention. That
said, we have been told that it
will enable the government to
plan better. I doubt it, but let
us look at some examples of
the implications.
Let us start with a rather
inconvenient one. Earlier in
the year, we were told that we
were hurtling into an economic
crisis because the public wage
bill was heading to 14 per cent
of GDP, against a benchmark
of seven per cent.
Using the new GDP, the
consolidated public sector
wage bill was 6.8 per cent of
GDP in 2013 compared to 8.5
per cent using the old data.
This includes the wage bill of
parastatals and the majority
of government-owned companies.

Wage bill

Excluding the majority government-owned companies, the

wage bill comes down to six per
cent, compared to 7.4 per cent
using the old data. The wage
bill of the core government,
namely, the National Government, county governments and
teachers is about 4.6 per cent
of GDP compared to 5.7 per
cent using the old data. I have
asserted before that we do not
have a public wage bill problem.
These numbers reinforce this
assertion.
The new data also tells us
that our revenue eort is not
as strong as we think it is. Our
tax revenue is in the order of
18 per cent of GDP, down to
22 per cent using the old GDP.
The old data put our revenue
way ahead of the African norm,
which is between 14 per cent
and 18 per cent of GDP.
The revenue yield has
declined from 21 per cent
a decade ago. This is very
significant. Three per cent

of GDP is a very tidy sum of

money, something in the order
of Sh140 billion. Why is it declining? There are two reasons.
First, the economic expansion
is primarily accounted for by
the growth of the labour force,
and virtually all of this growth
occurs in the informal sector,
in economic activities whose
scale is below the tax net.
Second, the economic expansion in the rest of the economy
has been investment-led,
including both public infrastructure investment as well as
private, and investment does
not yield much tax revenue.
There is much talk about the
government bringing the informal sector into the tax net. My
own sense is that it is largely a
waste of eort. In economics

101, we learn that a perfectly

competitive economy characterised by many small rms
and easy entry and exit would
not generate prots. Our jua
kali economy is as close to the
perfectly competitive economy
as you are likely to get.
Running after kiosks is not
the way to increase the tax
yield. The way to increase it
is to make it worthwhile for
entrepreneurs to grow their
businesses. As it is now, the nancial and psychological cost
of formalising small businesses
far exceeds the benets that
accrue to the owners.
Only the most ambitious and
determined are willing to tough
it out with all the compliance
costs, including bribery, and
most of us are not that ambi-

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October 11, 2014

al economic rat race

the economy is academic

in the group are experiencing similar development or
that other economies have
reached a preferred or nal
stage of development.
Here is a case in point.
Nigerias per capita income is
more than twice ours, but our
life expectancy is nine years
more than the West African
countrys. This brings us back
to the observation I made at
the outset. GDP rebasing is a
routine statistical exercise that
has been going on behind the
scenes all the time, but why has
it become newsworthy?
My take on this comes from
economists George Akerlof and
Michael Spence, who, together
with Joseph Stiglitz, were
awarded the 2001 Economics
Nobel Prize for their contribution to the understanding
of how lack of information
distorts markets and peoples
economic behaviour.

Honorary doctorates

In one of his contributions,

a 1971 paper titled Economics of caste and of the rat race
and other woeful tales, Akerlof
gives the example of a native
American tribe, the Kwakiutl,
whose chiefs competed for status by burning blankets during
feasts the more blankets a
chief burned the more prestige
he would enjoy.
This is not unlike the current
craze among Kenyan CEOs
to acquire and aunt honorary doctorates, even though
they add nothing to a CEOs
management knowledge or
leadership ability.
A more familiar example of

this is academic credentialism. Since it is impossible

to observe someones ability,
prospective employers reason
that a person willing to read
for an MBA at night is likely
to be more hardworking than
one who heads to the pub
after work, even though the
job does not require an MBA.
So we observe that the more
competitive the job market
gets, the more credentials
employees acquire.
The qualifications are acquired to beat the competition,
not because they are required
to do the job. This particular
proposition, known as job
market signalling is due to
Michael Spence.
The biggest news about
Nigerias GDP rebasing was
that it had overhauled South
Africa to become Africas largest economy. We, in turn, have
overhauled Ghana, Tunisia and
Ethiopia to become the ninth
largest economy in Africa, and
the fourth in sub-Saharan Africa. This is, of course, until
another bunch of countries
rebase and the order changes
all over again.
It seems to me that what
has changed is that Africa
has nally joined the global
economic rat race.
It looks like the status indicators of leaders is changing from
the length of the motorcade to
moving up the economic pecking order. Not a bad thing. Let
the blankets burn.
David Ndii is the managing
director of Africa Economics.
ndii@netsolafrica.com

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expected to give the economy a major boost once they are completed.
tious. We just want a decent
livelihood and if we can earn
it informally, the better.
A more interesting and problematic implication of the new
data is, of course, that we are
now a middle-income country.
The most widely recognised
categorisation of countries by
income status is done by the
World Bank.
It is updated every July. As
of July 2014, a middle-income
country was one with an
income per capita (national
income divided by the population) in the range of $1,045
all the way to $12,746. The
bracket is further broken into
two, lower and upper middle

at $4,125. Prior to the revision,

our income per capita in 2013
was $930 just 10 per cent below
the cut o. The next revision
in July next year will denitely
see us join the lower middleincome club.
So what are we to aim
for, now that we have hit
the target 16 years ahead of

25
Percentage by which Kenyan
economy is larger than what
was previously estimated

schedule? Well, not quite.

The Vision 2030 target is to
sustain growth at 10 per cent
per year from 2012. This, in
itself, is not sucient to tell
us what the actual target in
terms of income per person.
To calculate that, we need to
have a population growth rate
and I dont know what the Vision 2030 population growth
assumption is, if any, so I will
assume my own 2.5 per cent
per year. This gives us a per
capita growth target of 7.5 per
cent per year for 18 years. This
would be quite a feat, so far
only achieved by China, but I
suppose visions are meant to
be ambitious.

A 7.5 per cent per capita

growth puts the Vision 2030
target at $4,700 per capita,
which is at the lower end of the
upper middle-income, halfway
between Tunisia ($4,360) and
Angola ($5,010). The new data
tells us that our per capita income is growing at 2.7 per cent.
At this rate, we are looking at
$1,900 by 2030, just ahead
of Ghana today ($1,760) and
way below Nigeria ($2,700).
At the current rate, we are
looking at 50 years to hit the
$4,700 target.
In its classification statement, the World Bank observes
that the classication does
not imply that all economies

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Clear mess at the

Immigration oce

oncerns have been raised about the goings-on

at the Immigration Department, with the accent being that very many illegal immigrants
have been able to acquire passports and work permits
through dubious deals.
In particular, it has been established that criminals,
among them suspected terrorists, have valid immigration documents, which they obtained through
collusion with immigration ocials. This is why there
have been calls to reform the department and create
foolproof systems that lock out wheeler dealers who
auction the countrys security for a pittance.
It is with this background that a new director
was appointed recently to head the department and
charged to drive the reforms. However, this is running
into headwinds. Already, there is sti opposition to the
changes being instituted. Insiders are unenthused with
the eorts to turn around the department and create
some order.
Not that the changes are a panacea for the problems
bedeviling the department. Some of these, such as
closing eld oces in Garissa, Embu, Eldoret and
Nakuru, do not sound inspiring. At this time in point,
the practice is to devolve services and make it easier
for the citizens to get services within their localities
and save them the agony of travelling to Nairobi.
Moreover, this enhances eciency and eliminates
bureaucracies that open oodgates to corruption. Unfortunately, the merit for the closure of the oces has
not been explained and the public is left guessing.
Nonetheless, the point is that the Immigration
Department is crying out for reorganisation and reorientation. Service delivery must be expedited and
loopholes that allow bribery and other underhand
dealings that imperil national security sealed. The new
director, Major-General (Rtd) Gordon Kilahangwa,
must guard against ights of fantasy and spearhead
a reform agenda that serves the practical needs of the
country.

RIGHTING WRONGS | Magesha Ngwiri

Girl child must be freed from the

shackles of culture and tradition
Kenyans should be a lot
more concerned about the
vulnerability of the girl
child as we mark Day of the
Girl Child set aside by UN

Uplift girls and aid boys

aving a special day dedicated to addressing the

plight of girls in their families and communities is perhaps the most signicant assault on
the diabolical discrimination that has been glossed
over for generations. Girls have always been treated
badly in the paternalistic society, where the bias is
deeply rooted in traditions, myths and some beliefs
that do not hold water.
Today, the world will, once again, be focusing attention on the girl child and reecting of the
achievements realised since the United Nations, in
2012, declared October 11, the International Day of
the Girl Child. The campaign has seen the phrase girl
child gain currency worldwide.
In Kenya, this has boosted chances for girls in
education and other spheres of life. Policies and
programmes initiated to redress the situation would
most likely never have happened had this campaign
not been endorsed by this major global body. Today,
armative action to boost the numbers of girls at university is already bearing fruit.
However, there is also justiable concern that the
intense focus on girls could spawn another problem;
neglect of the boy child. Though this is far from becoming a crisis, it is food for thought, as a situation
where one form of discrimination gives way to another
must never be allowed. The boy child deserves attention, too.
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wo years ago, my
daughter, who was still
in high school, was
upbraided by her mother
for not carrying out some
routine chore in the kitchen.
After brooding for a while, on
her way to the kitchen, she
jokingly muttered something
about child labour, which I
didnt quite catch, but which
still left me in stitches.
Since I was not sure that
she had read Section 53 (d)
of the Bill of Rights which
expressly forbids hazardous
or exploitative labour for
children, I only told her that
if she wanted to eat, she had
to obey her mother without
question.
But it set me thinking about
my own childhood and what
the framers of the Constitution 2010 would have thought
of it. I was born in the village, and we not only had to
labour, but also suer serious
consequences like going to
bed hungry if we shirked our
duties. If there was any law
protecting us, we didnt know
about it, nor would we have
done anything about it.
But now our Constitution
seeks to protect children
with unique rights under the
law, including the right to be
looked after by their families,
to be schooled, and even
the right not to be forced to
work.

The Childrens Act Chapter

141 says: Every child shall
be protected from economic
exploitation and any work
that is likely to be hazardous
or to interfere with the childs
education, or to be harmful
to the childs health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral
or social development.
But it appears that not
many people in this country are aware of these
rights especially where the
girl child is concerned. That
is why the United Nations
xed today, October 11, as
the International Day of the
Girl Child.
But as happened in the
past two years since its
inception, it is a day that
will be marked in near-total
silence from the political
establishment. Most likely,
only the concerned local and
international civil society
organisations will show that
they care through activities
that will be mainly attended
by fellow-travellers.
But the way I look at it,
Kenyans, in general, should
be a lot more concerned
about the vulnerability of the
girl child.
To start with, girls are different from you and me. Not
only do they get pregnant
before they know what hit
them due to ignorance, they
are also likely to get married

o long before they reach the

age of consent.
Many others are forced to
drop out of school because
their parents just do not see
the value of educating girls.
To such parents, girls are like
calves to be looked after
until they reach an age when
they can fetch a decent brideprice.
This results in the abominable child marriage which
is a great loss to any country.
But then you might ask yourself: Why should this veteran
scribe be so exercised about
the fate of the girl child? To
which there are two answers.
First, those scrawny,
at-chested wenches who
you refuse to take to school
are the same ones who will
grow up to be curvaceous,
mouth-watering dishes in the
future (an unforgivably sexist
observation, to be sure). So
why refuse to prepare their
minds so they can become
independent, mature human
beings who can think for
themselves and others?
The second reason is even
more important. I am a rm
believer that no country
can develop without the full
participation of women. Not

Many others are forced

to drop out of school
because their parents
just do not see the
value of educating
girls

only are they our mothers

and wives and therefore the
propagators of our race, they
are also the most essential
ingredients in the life and
health of every nation.
The wealthiest, most developed nations are those
that recognised early that
by allowing the liberation of
their women, they were freeing a vital spiritual force that
would help free their own
minds from the blinkers of
stereotype, paternalism and
mediocrity.
Even if it is true that some
very rich countries, especially
in the Middle East, still keep
their women in fetters inside
the veils, the only reason
they survive is because they
have oil. What will happen,
Allah forbid, should the oil
run out?
No, I dont believe in the
shrill, ball-breaking ideology
of feminism. There is a great
deal of negativity in this form
of activism, which is outdated anyway.
Nor do I believe in afrmative action, especially
in higher education, which is
why I am totally opposed to
the trend of lowering grades
for women entering university.
That enters into the realms
of reverse discrimination and
is also a form of paternalism
that should not be entertained.
What I do believe in is that
the girl child must be freed
from the tradition-bound
shackles which have for too
long kept her in bondage.
amagesha@ke.nationmedia
.com.

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THINK AGAIN | Maina Kiai

Lack of political goodwill to blame

for the near-stalled police reforms
T

Training,
oods
of cash
and hope
against
hope wont
deliver
Kenya from
the hell
of rogue
Police
Service

here is probably no sector

as crucial to Kenyas development and democracy
as security. And, sadly, there is
no sector in more dire need for
transformation than this one. A
signicant number of our problems
stem from the failure to reform the
security services, focusing instead
on rhetoric and modernisation.
Thus, our tourism sector is limping from the impact of terrorist
attacks that appear preventable.
Our economy cant become a 24hour one because of fear of thugs
lurking around, or cops demanding
bribes in the night. Our transport
sector is hobbled as trac police
demand bribes from every truck,
bus and matatu, allowing non-roadworthy vehicles and drivers to
remain on the roads leading to frequent horric accidents.
Citizens cower with fear in the
slums, attacked by gangs on the one
side, and police, on the other side.
We are reluctant to give information
on criminals to the police, unsure if
it will come back to haunt us, courtesy of the same ocers.
And communities accumulate
grievances as police allow killer
alcohol dens to thrive. Community
punishment is used instead of real
action against terrorists. And, some
communities are so marginalised
that rather than providing police
protection directly as they do for
other Kenyans groups with traditions of cross-ethnic conicts are all
armed instead.
Yet, proper and adequate security
is the foundation for economic activity, peace, enjoyment of human
rights, and the management of our
tense, bickering and cantankerous
politics. It ensures that we can engage in tough and robust debates

Inspector-General David Kimaiyo: Police reforms are mostly about political

will of the services leadership.
about ethnicity and nationhood
without feeling like some militia,
gangs or warriors will be sent out
against those who refuse to toe the
community line.
An eective security sector would
be a crucial partner to the prosecution and the Judiciary will not
have to rely on confessions to
get convictions. It would be more
brains than brawn, taking the difcult route of proper investigations,
rather than beating up suspects.
This would then help in increasing public condence in the police,
reducing that horrible Kenyan tradition of mob violence lynching
actually which the media, bizarrely, term mob justice. There is
no justice from mobs, and there can
be no justice when someone is presumed guilty and the mob becomes
investigator, prosecutor, judge and
executioner.
Police reform is not just a technical issue to be handled by training,
money and hope. It is mostly about
political will by the leadership of the
police and the regime in power. And

it is about accountability for the

vast powers including the legal
use of lethal force and resources
that is thrown at them.
And this political will is badly
lacking. Human Rights Watch released an excellent report in August
on the use of extra-judicial killings
and forced disappearances by the
Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU),
after investigations that should
teach the police a lesson or two on
basic investigations.
The report detailed specic cases
of killings of people last seen in
police hands, as well as of suspects
shot after being accused of terrorist attacks when they were in jail!
Yes, some Kenyans are part of the
terrorist networks. But this sort of
approach will not end terrorism. In
fact, it could have the opposite effect of increasing discontent. And
whether we like the terror suspects
or not, they are innocent until
proved guilty, in exactly the same
way that Mr Uhuru Kenyatta and
Mr William Ruto are considered innocent until proved guilty.
Remarkably, the ATPU receives
substantial resources from the US
and UK, which always remind us of
their commitment to human rights
and anti-terrorism, being victims
of terrorism themselves. The two
countries also tout the fact (at least
since 2008) that counter-terrorism
work should be done with respect
for human rights and have held
some of their own ocers and soldiers accountable for torture and
other violations in the war on terror.
So what is it about the ATPU that
they are silent when their tax-payers resources are used to commit
human rights violations?

gdolan54@gmail.com.

kwamchetsi@formandcontent.co.ke

Church must do more to support family

A

There is no State
monetary contribution
to family life

tory language like living in

sin, intrinsically disordered
are no longer in vogue and you
suspect that Francis theology
begins with an analysis of the
lived experience of the people,
rather than doctrine imposed
from the top.
Yet, the issue of contraceptives will certainly feature
in the discussions, as most
Catholics have by now chosen
to ignore the 1970 teaching
prohibiting their use. Yet since
the church has not reversed its
teaching, many couples are left
feeling guilty about their use
and many church-run medical
facilities the world over are
unable to assist couples with
family planning options in an
open, compassionate and ma-

ociating at marriages and

to increase marriage certicates by 150 per cent. There is
no government monetary
contribution to family life, to
aordable housing, to a living
wage or to low-cost quality
education.
Families are left pretty much
on their own to survive, mature
and grow. Regretfully, many
of them have little capacity to
cope with indelity, poverty,
immaturity, anger and the challenges of parenthood.
The State forgets that everything from trac jams to
ination; from grand corruption to pollution eect family
life rst and foremost. Families
are the greatest blessing and
support when they are happy
but the tragedy of broken families and unhappy homes is all
too common. Faiths have the
capacity to heal and help needy
families but the state too must
take measures to make families
more comfortable.

mkiai2000@yahoo.com

ture manner. There is nothing

unnatural about contraceptives
and nothing sinful about couples consciences determining
how many children they can
aord or manage. But beyond
the controversial issues, the
real hope is that the church will
do more to support family life.
Ordained ministers spend up to
10 years in preparation and just
about every profession requires
years of study, examinations
and licences before being allowed to practise.
Marriage and parenthood is
arguably the most dicult and
challenging undertaking in life,
but what preparation and induction do couples get from the
State or faith? Most learn on
the hoof and being parents is
not as natural or easy as many
imagine. But what support do
couples get from churches that
seem to put most energy in
fund-raising and development
projects?
The States only recent intervention in family life was to
raise licence fees for ministers

ICC should clear

Uhuru after his
popular welcome
atou Bensouda, the Chief
Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court,
should see proof of the collapse
of the case against President
Uhuru Kenyatta in the crowds
that received him on his return
to Nairobi. Nobody in living
memory has ever been mobbed
as the President was during his
homecoming.
Were Mr Kenyatta a criminal, as Ms Bensouda has
been insinuating by propping up a crimes against humanity case against him, all those people who came
on foot and by bus from as far as Rift Valley would
never have lined the streets, danced and sang for joy
as they did.
The judges at the ICC had required Mr Kenyattas
presence in court at The Hague during the status
conference on the crimes against humanity case
against him merely to tempt him to defy them. They
expected that Mr Kenyatta would choose chairing a meeting of the East African Heads of State in
Kampala and attendance at Ugandas independence
celebrations over court so that they could order his
arrest, but these people do not know our President.
Although the African Union this time last year
specically ordered the ICC to terminate the cases
against Mr Kenyatta and Deputy President William
Ruto, and further instructed them not to attend
the court, Kenyas President is a man of such great
humility and compassion that he chose to go. Mr
Kenyatta knew that if he failed to attend court, the
ICC would have collapsed and rendered hundreds of
Europeans, Americans and Asians, who work for it,
jobless.
He has dutifully signed the leave forms for the
Deputy President to be absent from the country attending the numerous useless court appearances at
which he is not even required to exercise his oratorical talents.
Just to prove how useless the requirement for his
presence in court really was, Mr Kenyatta gave the
judges and prosecutor the contempt card by refusing
to speak to any of them directly and instead delegating the function of speaking to the earthling of his
British lawyer so they could converse in their European mother tongue.
Mr Kenyattas restraint in the face of open provocation and race baiting by the ICC is remarkable,
and has served as an example to other Kenyans who
might have been inclined to act out of turn.
At least one Kenyan Member of Parliament had
threatened to strip and bare her all, thus cursing all
the people who work at the ICC with sterility and
sickness. Another legislator, the only Senator elected
with over half-a-million votes, would have mobilised
all the people who voted for him and then added
some more to form a one-million youth shield to
prevent the Kenya Airways ight from leaving Jomo
Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi with the
President. Instead, he led a delegation that accompanied the President to The Hague to bring an African
avour to the cold climes of the Netherlands.
On the little matter of the post-election violence,
God has already shown his hand, smiting the liars
with death and aiction, and laying his hand on
the President to resettle all the internally displaced
persons. Foreigners who keep crying louder than the
owners of the corpse, funding tribal leaders to cause
trouble by reminding already healed victims of their
injuries should know that Africans do not appreciate
that kind of conduct.
These are matters that should be left in the hands
of Africans, who demand respect when dealing with
their own problems in their own way. As it were, Mr
Kenyatta is all focused on providing jobs for youth,
building good roads, and putting medicine in hospitals because a time of great sickness is coming.

DIFFERENT STROKES | Gabriel Dolan

few weeks ago, Pope

Francis ociated at the
weddings of 20 couples
in Rome. What was unusual
about the ceremony was that
some of them had been cohabiting and attended with their
children while others had been
married before. The Pope said
that they were a realistic representation of modern life.
Pope Francis has touched
the worlds heart by his mercy,
humanity and authenticity.
Now, he has called the cardinals, bishops and lay leaders to
Rome to discuss Family Life.
Some prominent women
have expressed disappointment
at being under-represented
asking what a bunch of celibate
men who have never changed
a babys nappy know about
family life. However, the mood
of the meeting genuinely appears to be conciliatory as the
Ponti is slow to condemn and
knows marriage is not just for
the good and saintly but for the
ordinary, average human being.
The days of harsh condemna-

POLITICALLY CORRECT |
Kwamchetsi Makokhas sideways
look at President Kenyattas case

14 | Opinion

SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

POINT BLANK | Godwin Murunga

MARK MY WORD | Philip

Ochieng

Where, as a country, are we looking Studious silence

for heroes and heroines of our time? has nothing to
M

In our
midst are
men and
women
who have
done small
things in
very big
ways
achieving
unimaginable
successes

y parents are retired teachers. As

a family, we have
interesting memories
about school and schooling. My father, Arnold
Murunga, rose through
the ranks and retired as
an Assistant Education
Ocer.
My mother, Rita Murunga, taught lower
primary all her life. She
often talks about those
big people who owe
their success to the discipline she introduced and
nurtured.
Last weekend, some
of these memories came
back as we congregated
at Kabarak High School
for prayer day to wish our
children success in their
nal examination. I have
been working together
with the class teacher,
Mrs Gertrude Siita, and
some parents to motivate
Form 4E to perform better and they now have our
best wishes.
Of course, I am always struck when I
visit Kabarak or Booker
Academy in Mumias how
empowered students
are. Students play a signicant role not just in
their academic work but
in many other areas of
personal and collective
growth. This is unlike
other schools that tend
to restrict the role of students to entertainment
and rote learning.
Indeed, our national

habits on education dont

help much as they pay
only lip-service to developing all-round students;
students whose creativity
is useful beyond mute
compliance and entertaining visitors.
My wish, therefore, has
always been that more
Kenyan children access
what other children get
from private schools.
I am critical of the
elitism fostered by our
institutions of learning.
I hope this will one day
be mediated by the values of integrity, honesty
and respect for diversity;
values that inculcate different leadership habits
from what our politicians
practise.
Any such development
would deal with a big
challenge in our school
system that instils an elite
aspiration in our children,
giving them a form of
education that they deserve but which is out of
reach for the majority of
Kenyans and out of touch
with the reality of our collective existence.
Thus, hearing of Butere
High School this past
week was a humbling experience indeed.
This is a private school
in Butere, formerly Butere Patel. It has 150
students and 16 teachers.
At the helm is the Director, Mrs Priscilla Were; a
familiar name in Kenyas
education story.

Diana Naibei (red) of Tartar

Girls High tussles for the ball
against Vivian Kuteru of Butere High School, led by Mrs
Priscilla Were.
Mrs Were is a role
model, a pioneer of a different form of school in
Kenya. She runs a school
that is led by school values not school rules.
The school does not
have prefects yet the girls
know how to solve their
problems collectively.
Girls have deep respect
for one another and
their diversity, and have
collective solutions to
problems. So, they set up
a Samaritan Bank where
students deposit extrashopping to be used by
those not able to aord.
This has eliminated petty
theft in the school and
created prudent use of
shared items.
Talking to alumni
of Bunyore Girls High
School where Mrs Were
was headmistress from

1975 to 1992, one encounters a leader of rare skill

and tenacity, a woman
whose personal agenda is
changing Kenya, one girl
at a time!
She leads by example;
students walk into her
oce to remind her of
what she has failed to
do. Here, they invert the
notion of leadership common to us.
The director is not
the all-knowing ogre of
knowledge. So, rather
than simply issuing
orders, at Butere High
School, inuence is exchanged as students also
exercise leadership.
I heard of Mrs Were
back in high school when
Bunyore Girls was the
envy of western Kenya.
Within three years of
assuming leadership of
Bunyore, she moved the
school from oblivion to
the top 10 nationally.
At Butere, she has
moved the school from
a mean score of 2.1 in
2009 to a new average
of 7.4 in the 2014 mock
examination putting the
school at position ve in
Kakamega County out of
more than 300 schools.
Surely, where are we
looking for our sheroes?
Godwin Murunga is senior
research fellow, Institute
for Development Studies, University of Nairobi.
gmurunga@gmail.com

FAIR PLAY | Peter Mwaura

When handcung is dehumanising

P

robably no person in Kenya today

knows better than Solomon Muiruri
how handcus can be used as instruments of torture and dehumanising
punishment. His agony is retold in the
2004 case of Solomon Ndichu Muiruri v
David Murebu Waiharo.
Waiharo, a chief of Githunguri in Kiambu County, ordered two Administration
policemen to arrest him. This is how a Kiambu court described his suering:
(Muiruri) was unlawfully conned in a
most inhuman way by being handcued to
high window grills in a standing position
for a good nine hours. During this period
(he) excreted and urinated on himself
a thing, I agree, must have occasioned
him grave embarrassment as members of
the public could watch him through the
window. The humiliation continued as he
was walked all the way to the APs Post.
It was aggravated by being handcued
to a drunk fellow who was later called to
testify (as prosecution witness). They
remained in that position throughout the
night and on the following day were led to
Githunguri (town) still in handcus.
At the oce of the defendant (he)
remained conned to an embarrassing position of squatting from 9am to 2pm when

The Police Code of Conduct and

Ethics also forbids subjecting
arrested persons to hardship,
torture, inhuman treatment

he was released. (He) was not fed during

this period, which no doubt added to his
suering. Finally (he) was released without any charges. Muiruri had sued for the
unlawful arrest, assault, illegal connement, and gross inhuman treatment. He
was awarded Sh160,000 damages by Kiambu magistrate John Kingori (SRMCC
No. 1772 of 1996).
Muiruri was actually lucky. Many other
victims have not lived to tell their stories,
leave alone successfully sue for damages.
Such was the fate, for example, of Gilbert
Ngomonin. He was arrested and handcued by two APs, Patrick Omondi and
Collin Osore.
In a 2011 case, two witnesses testied
they saw the APs kicking Ngomonin in
the head, stomach and groin after handcung him at Siyoi Town in West Pokot.

Ngomonin was admitted to Kapenguria

hospital where he died the same day.
Beating a suspect is illegal. So is the
unnecessary use of handcus. In Peter
Macharia Ruchachu v Director of Public
Prosecution and Attorney General, Justice Jairus Ngaah made this clear in his
judgment, on March 3, 2014, that police
should not handcu persons who submit
to the custody of the arresting ocer. He
said section 21 of the Criminal Procedure
Code proscribes use of greater or excessive force than necessary particularly
where there is no threat of escape or resistance to an arrest. Handcung in such
cases is intended to intimidate, humiliate,
and dehumanise. Its a violation of the
Constitution, which outlaws torture and
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
The Police Code of Conduct and Ethics
also forbids subjecting arrested persons
to hardship, torture, inhuman treatment
or any treatment in excess of what the law
stipulates. In addition, the UN Standard
Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, to which Kenya is a party, prohibits
the use of instruments of restraint, such
as handcus, as a punishment.
gigirimwaura@yahoo.com

do with books
W

hen, by a certain date,

President Kenyatta had
not specied whether
or not he would travel to The
Hague, a page-one Sunday Nation pointer called it Studious
Silence. The question is: If
studious is an adjectival form of
the noun study, how can silence
be described as studious?
No. Silences do not read
books and, therefore, cannot be studious. Yet the
sub-editors use was correct and powerful. Here,
rather, the Presidents attitude, not his silence, is
what is studious. Silence is merely the mode by
which he sometimes expresses his studiousness.
The Presidents silence can be described as studious, not because he is a bookworm much less
because he is too busy studying for nal exams to
answer stupid questions from every Tom, Dick and
Harry in the opposition but only because the silence is deliberate, thoughtful and calculated.
It is in this extended sense that the adjective
studious has branched out to capture such other
semantical nuances as precise, careful, serious and hard-working. A studious student is one
thoroughly devoted to his or her studies in all these
senses. For the English adjective studious comes
from the Latin adjective studiosus, meaning devoted to.
That reminds us of the devotion which an artist
gives to her or his studio, the room in which she or
he works and, as it were, studies to perfect her or
his art, be it photography, lming, music, painting
or recording. That is why all scholars no matter
how accomplished they may be remain students
in their particular domains.
Though extraordinary and inimitable, even Englands Stephen Hawking is nothing more than a
student of the physical universe. Hawkings studio
namely, his library, the book-lled room in which
the British genius studies the origin of matter and
arrows of time is also known as a study.
To study is to engage in the search for, learning
and comprehension of one aspect or another or
all of our worlds physical, chemical, biological,
mental and social realities. To study is to examine,
research, investigate, scrutinise, analyse, synthesise, etc often by experimentation to ascertain
the reality of the things and phenomena which assault our sensual and logico-mathematical organs.
Knowledge, then everything we acquire by
means of specic or individual intelligence, hands
and tongues is usually the reward of studying.
That is why, although a person may be born with
a certain aptitude (a natural gift), one may also
acquire it long after birth, by means either of socioenvironmental inuence or of study.
Here the adjective studied arrogance is arrogance which has been socially acquired, carefully
planned and practised only in such circumstances
to yield great advantages, especially in the eld of
competitive politics. A possessor of studied arrogance knows exactly when to behave with disarming
humility.
The American media frequently described Kenyas Tom Mboya as a town sophisticate full of
studied arrogance. That could only mean that Tom
Mboya was not born with any arrogance but that he
had acquired it through his upbringing, schooling
and political activity.
philipochieng39@yahoo.com

QUOTED
The scales of justice have to fall either way. The
rights of the accused do not trump the rights of victims.

ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda.

M-PESA TILL NUMBER

-999522-

16 | Letters

SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

To the editor
Kimaiyos order gagging
police chiefs is harmful
To be informed is to be forewarned. That is why I am still in
shock after listening to InspectorGeneral of Police David Kimaiyo
ordering county and divisional
police chiefs not to issue press
statement on crime. We depend on
police to get information on road
crashes, murders, suicides, theft
and the Nyumba Kumi programme.
With Kimaiyos order, how will local
police inform the public that stolen
properties have been recovered or
killers are in a certain area? This
directive will prove detrimental
because if information from every
nook and cranny has to go through
his desk, there will be unnecesasary
delays. Result? Delayed responses
and lost cases.
VERONICA ONJORO, Mombasa.

Can someone at Nema

hear me out, please?
I am concerned about the ongoing wanton destruction of forests
and rivers on Limuru Road near
Ruaka. The environmental degradation is happening at Two Rivers and
the Rosslyn-Riviera construction
sites. How come the National Environmental Management Authority
(Nema) has allowed the destruction
of indigenous forests that have been
here for hundreds of years? The
river that passes through this area
has also been diverted posing a
serious risk to the eco-system.
Are these developers going to restore all the trees and environment
they have destroyed in this area?
What is their plan to ensure the forests and life here are maintained?
Nema should make sure the developers build in a way that preserves
the environment. Any harm to the
environment should be punished.
MATHEW MWANGI, via email.

Governor should set up

smoking zones in Narok
I appeal to Narok Governor
Samuel Tunai to set up designated
smoking zones in Narok Town. As
I walked down the streets of this
town recently, I got irritated. Smokers went on enjoying themselves
oblivious of the health risk they
were exposing non-smokers to. I
am worried because, research has
shown that cigarette smoke aects
passive smokers more than active
ones. To stop this menace, erect
smoking zones.
CHEPKIRUI LILY, Maasai Mara University.

The editor welcomes brief letters on topical issues.

Write on e-mail to: mailbox@ke.nationmedia.com
You can also mail to: The Editor, Daily Nation,
POB 49010, Nairobi 00100.

TALKING POINT

THE CUTTING EDGE

Uhuru should order evacuation

of Kenyan slaves in Saudi Arabia

BY THE WATCHMAN

any of our young

girls have been
murdered in Saudi
Arabia by their employers.
I call them employers for
lack of a better word. Others have been assaulted,
maimed and sexually molested and yet others are
languishing in immigration
detention camps.
The fact that these helpless girls have a government
back home makes my heart
bleed. They have been
driven into slavery by the
biting poverty back home
and this poverty is to a large
extent the result of massive
corruption and bad governance.
Our embassy in Riyadh is
doing very, very little if
anything at all to ease the
suering of our children.
The revocation of licences
to the employment agencies
that facilitate this slavery
is too little too late. This is
what the government ought
to have done after the rst
case of mistreatment of
Kenyans in Saudi Arabia
was reported.
About two years ago, the
governments of Madagascar
and Ethiopia sent planes to
evacuate and free their citizens from slavery in Saudi
Arabia. Our government
ought to have done this a
couple of years ago. The
Ministry of Foreign Aairs
blames the girls for going

FILE | NATION

Mourners carry the body of Rachael Kuto to the graveside in Kaloleni, Kili, in August. Kuto was found dead and her private parts
and tongue removed in Saudi Arabia.
there without notifying it.
The Ministry of Labour
blames the employment
agencies and the blame
game continues.
As the Russian roulette
is played and replayed, our
children continue going
through the hell that has become employment in Saudi
Arabia.
It is time the President
took charge and ensured the
evacuation of all Kenyans
going through the Saudi
slavery.
It is a paradox that people
who pride themselves as
the most religious on earth
can visit such atrocities and
suering on fellow human
beings on account of race
and social background. The
Saudis should look else-

where for slaves, not Kenya.

When a Saudi kills a fellow Saudi, he is punished by
death. Of all the Saudis who
have killed Kenyans, none
has even been arrested, let
alone charged with murder.
That explains the contempt
and conspiracy of the Saudi
Government and the murderers.
When the Saudi diplomats appear on national
TVs to explain the atrocities, they simply fumble.
Enough of death, torture
and suering has happened
in Saudi Arabia and the
government should bring
these to an end if at all it
cares for its citizens.
MATIGARI MA NJIRUNGI,
Nairobi.

Leaders who accompanied Uhuru to ICC betrayed victims

President Kenyattas trip to the ICC this
week exposed a hoard of issues long forgotten but which ought to be addressed.
A host of lawmakers thronged the
premises of The Hague-based court in solidarity with the President on the pretext
of comradeship.
They purportedly accompanied him to
oer moral support and demonstrate
his vindication. According to them, the
prosecution has failed to prove its claims
and should ask the court to end the trial.
The elated leaders seemed so concerned
about the suspects well-being that the
victims felt left out. The leaders they
elected to address their plight are now

too busy to even listen to their side of

the story. To the victims, hopes of ever
getting justice are growing thinner and
thinner.
Meanwhile, ululation and songs of scorn
to the prosecution by the Sonko brigade
depicted a country in leadership crisis. The
leaders have proved that they will always
stage spirited ghts against anything that
aects their allies, but drag their feet while
addressing the plight of the common man.
How I wish our leaders could exhibit
The Hague solidarity in nding solutions
to insecurity, corruption and hunger facing Kenyans.
OTIENO ODHIAMBO, Nairobi.

YESTERDAYS QUESTION

DEBATE QUESTION

Should ICC terminate the three Kenyan cases for lack of evidence?

Are you satised

with the ongoing screening for
Ebola at JKIA?

CHEPKIRUI LILY: Yes. What

is the point of continuing
while the prosecution keeps
claiming there is no enough
evidence?
JOSEPH ABUGA: Yes. Justice delayed is justice denied

for both the victims and the

accused. They should use
whatever little evidence they
have, or else terminate the
cases.
PERIS KIMARUA: Yes. But
after thinking about justice for

the victims.
ERICK GATEYA: Yes. If
the evidence does not meet
international standards, then I
guess its a waste of time and
resources. The cases should
just be dropped.

Send your comments to mailb

ox@ke.nationmedia.com

WORKING NATION? About 100 MPs and some

government ocials accompanying President Uhuru
Kenyatta to The Hague for the status conference on
his case in the ICC hardly portrays the picture of the
so-called working nation Kenyans say they are, remarks Mohammed Fazal. These leaders, he adds,
should be devoting their energies to building a better Kenya for tomorrow. He poses: Or are they implying that nation building is only for the common
mwananchi? His contact is mohammed78611021@ho
tmail.com.
CART BEFORE HORSE. Declaring that he is
not a lawyer and has no intention of ever becoming
one, Isaac Ngure says the manner in which the ICC
has handled the case against President Kenyatta is a
shame! The proceedings have left him wondering who
was supposed to investigate the case, as the prosecutor keeps on asking for evidence from the Kenya
Government. Its strange that they have a suspect
and are now looking for evidence, instead of getting
evidence and looking for a suspect. His contact is
isaac.ngure7@gmail.com
CITY IN MESS. The leadership of Nairobi City
County deserves an E on Sue Mcphees scorecard.
Says she: I am writing to detail my dissatisfaction
with the way the city is being run. On almost a daily
basis, we are forced to deal with faeces-throwing
parking boys, side mirror thieves at the Westlands
roundabout, daily robberies, garbage heaps, trac
jamsthe list is endless. May I remind Governor Evans
Kidero that he pledged to solve all these issues? Her
contact is suemc_phee@yahoo.com.
TRAFFIC PAIN. Residents of Nairobis Imara
Daima neighbourhood have never had it so rough,
having to contend daily with a trac nightmare that
has persisted since their road was dug up to lay cables and mounds of soil left a month ago, moans
Michelle Wanjiku. Motorists, she adds, are forced to
slow down on the stretch all the way to Riara Springs
School. A short distance of three minutes to the main
road by car, now takes over 30 minutes. Can the
county government come to our rescue? she pleads.
YES, ARM MCAS. Denitely tongue-in-cheek
or isnt it? Frank Laurence says it would have been
a good idea to let the members of county assemblies have all the guns they have been clamouring
for, a request that has been vehemently rejected by
many, who have warned that it would lead to unimaginable mayhem. Frank adds: I am in agreement
that the MCAs should have guns. After watching the
recent Makueni asco, I think they will save us the
problem of having to eliminate them. His contact is
feal60some@yahoo.co.uk.
Have a calculated day, wont you!

ON THIS DATE IN 1989

COMPILED BY DELVIN OMWODO

DIPLOMACY. President Moi receives credentials

from the new Australian High Commissioner to
Kenya, Mr David Colin Goss, at State House, Nairobi.

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SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

ANNIVERSARY | QFM radio to host a show tonight at Dream Village Restaurant, Nairobi, in memory of Le Grand Matre

Francos greatest songs

fans relish 25 years later
In a career spanning more than
four decades, Luambo Luanzo
Makiadi produced hundreds of
albums that are still loved by
music lovers on the continent
BY AMOS NGAIRA

angaira@ke.nationmedia.com

His music
always had
something
new to put
across
James
Onyango Joel,
Veteran radio
broadcaster

ome of the most popular

songs to ever come out of
the DR Congo, the mecca
of African music, were composed
by a maestro who died 25 years
ago, but is still revered by fans
across the continent.
This is the burly band leader,
guitarist, composer and vocalist,
popularly known as Franco and
who fans still excitedly talk about
as if he were alive.
As they mark Francos 25th
death anniversary, we ask: Which
ve songs do you consider to have
been the greatest ever composed
by the man, who in his prime, was
popularly known as le grand matre (the grand master) of Lingala
music? The lists the fans came up
with are fascinating. And there
was no consensus.
Those we interviewed include
leading Congolese and Kenyan
musicians, radio personalities,
who for years have played Francos music and other ardent
fans.
Titles that topped the lists include Azda, Arzoni, Tres Impoli,
Mamou, Sandoka, Mujinga, Non,
Makambo Ezali Bourreau, Mado

Muchai puts
up ght for
Cotu post
BY SATURDAY NATION
REPORTER
Suspended Cotu Deputy Secretary-General George Muchai has
challenged his dismissal.
Mr Muchai said he has lodged
a complaint with the registrar of
trade unions. He said intimidation by Secretary-General Francis
Atwoli would not deter him from
clearing his name. Mr Muchai is
also the MP for Kabete.
The Cotu executive board
unanimously expelled Mr Muchai
on October 6 and replaced him
with Mr Benson Okwaro. The
latter takes over in an acting
capacity until May 2016, when
the governing council will conrm him.
This comes as Mr Atwoli yesterday endorsed the ban, saying
that legal action would be taken
against Mr Muchai for giving
false information to the Criminal
Investigation Department.
The falsified information
was aimed at incriminating the
secretary-general and undermining his oce. Mr Muchai usurped
the position and is obsessed with
the oce to utter dismay, Mr
Atwoli said.

and Candidat na Biso Mobutu.

Luambo Luanzo Makiadi, who
was born in 1938 in Bas Congo
(then lower Congo), made his
way to the capital Leopoldville,
now Kinshasa, as a gangly youth
who would later mesmerise many,
including experienced crooners,
with his guitar wizardry.
In a career spanning more
than 40 years, having begun in
1955, Franco was able to establish
himself as perhaps the greatest
Congolese musician of all time.
His major rival was Tabu Ley,
previously known as Paschal Rocheareu, but the discography of
his Afrisa International, though
impressive, was nowhere near
what Franco and his TP OK Jazz
Band produced.
From today until the end of
next week, radio stations, nightclubs and live bands will be
playing Francos songs.
In Kinshasa, though, no major
shows are planned. However, veteran guitarist Lutumba Simaro
Massiya, a long serving assistant
of Franco, will lead his Bana OK
band in tribute concerts.
Speaking to the Saturday Nation from Luanda, Angola, Sam
Mangwana, another longtime
associate of the legend, hinted
that he would be teaming up
with some colleagues to remember Franco.
Other former members of TP
OK Jazz Band contacted earlier
this week were the Belgium-based
solo guitarist Dizzy Mandjeku and
singer Nana Akumu. Nana lived
in Kenya for many years.
However, ace singers Josky

FILE | NATION

Luambo Luanzo Makiadi, popularly known as Franco, at a performance.

Many Kenyan radio stations will dedicate this weekend to the rhumba
king who died in 1989. He has a considerable following on the continent.
Kiambukuta and Prince Youlou
Mabiala, both living in Paris,
have been o the stage due to
illnesses.
In Nairobi, there will be a special QFM Rumba Night at the
Dream Village Restaurant. The
show will feature performances
by resident band Bilenge Musica

Du Congo. Band leader Darzee

Kalend said the group had been
rehearsing some of Francos popular hits like Mario, Pesa Position,
Frein a main, Matata ya Mwasi na
Mobali and Mado.
Francos songs will also be
blaring in other clubs, including Citizen Vibro, Club Samba,

Police ocer shot dead by two

suspected Al-Shabaab terrorists
BY SATURDAY NATION
TEAM

policeman has been killed

by gunmen suspected to be
members of the Al-Shabaab
terrorist group.
Eyewitnesses said Mr Simon Chelugho was shot by two young men on
a motorbike outside the Royal Court
Hotel on Haile Selassie Road, Mombasa where he was on night duty.
The attackers escaped soon after
spraying the policeman with bullets.
Sources said the killing may be a
revenge mission after police recently
killed a man they said was a wanted
terrorist with links to Al-Shabaab.
Mr Chelugho, described by colleagues as a polite and humble man,
was attached to the Central Police
Station.
His colleague had left briey to answer a call of nature, only to return a
few minutes later to nd him bleeding. The Thursday shooting occurred
shortly after 9pm.
Witnesses said the assailants shot
the ocer at close range more than
seven times. They did not take the
ocers AK-47 rie. Mr Chelugho has
been in the service for 17 years.

Police spokesman Masoud Mwinyi

said yesterday that investigations had
been launched into the killing.
We cannot speculate or establish
a link on the motive of the killing for
now, Mr Mwinyi said.
A watchman, Kimanzi Mutunga,
who witnessed the shooting said after
Chelugho was hit, he fell on his knees
still holding his rie. Mr Mutunga said
he heard at least ve shots.

17

The number of years slain ofcer Simon Chelugho has been

in the police force. He was
sprayed with bullets by gunmen
on a motorbike
Another witness, Mehul Dave, who
watched the killing from the balcony
of his house said there was no argument between the ocer and the
attackers.
He said the killers collided and fell
as they ran to their motorbike.
Mr Ali Mohammed, a manager
with Auto Ancillaries Ltd, said he
was saddened by the death of a man

who was very friendly to the people

he protected. It really hurts that
an innocent man can lose his life to
heartless people, he said.
The killing comes after the August
26 shooting of the Mombasa District
Criminal Investigations Ocer, Ndumba Thangalani.

Bail rejected

Mr Thangalani was shot in Tudor

while trailing some suspects. He is
recovering at Mombasa Hospital.
Yesterday, a suspect Abdalla Swaleh
Shaibu who has been charged with
attempting to kill Mr Thangalani, was
denied bail for the second time.
Mombasa Chief Magistrate Maxwell
Gacheru said he found compelling reasons to deny Mr Shaibu bail.
It is true all oences are bailable.
However, each case has its own merit
and in this one, a top CID ocer has
been critically injured by gunmen,
said Mr Gacheru.
The court noted that there was evidence to show that Mr Shaibu was
booked in a guesthouse nearby at the
time and was using a false name.
Mr Gacheru said coupled with the
condition of the DCIO who is still
hospitalised, he rejected the application for release on bail.

Egesa and the Simmers Bar and

Restaurant.
In Nakuru, it will be Club
Samba while in Eldoret, the
Signature Club will dedicate the
weekend to grand matre Luambo
Makiadi.
In Mombasa, singer Crispine
Tambwe and his Amitie Musica
Band will tonight stage Francos
special shows at the Zaituni Club
in Bamburi.
Veteran broadcaster James
Onyango Joel of the KBC Radio
Zilizopendwa programme has
nothing but praise for Franco.
His music always had something new to put across. The
songs left a lasting mark, he
says.
Mr Onyango attended Francos
funeral in Kinshasa in 1989.
Citizen radio man Fred Obachi
Machoka says he will dedicate his
weekend shows of the popular
Roga Roga show to Franco and
the TP OK Jazz Band.
Musician Vincent Ongidi of
the Luhya Mama Mulayi hit song
fame, says he cherishes most of
Francos popular songs, including
Sanc ya Fabrice, Tokoma ba Camarade Pamba, Kimpa Kisangani
and 12,600 Lettres.
I have listened to his music
since my childhood, and he
remains my all-time favourite
Congolese artiste, he adds.
For Eliab Kiemo, the weekend
will be spent listening to Francos
hits, the same case for Ms Vivian
Achieng of Nairobi.
Mr Samson Jumba, a Thika
resident, has a huge collection
of songs by the TP OK Jazz.
Many will remember Francos
collaboration with his erstwhile
rival, Tabu Ley, which yielded
the great album Lisanga ya Banganga (unity of music wizards),
a reference to the two, who made
a big contribution to Congolese
music.

BRIEFLY
NAIROBI

Government in drive
to promote cohesion
Interior Cabinet Secretary
Joseph ole Lenku has said the
government will partner with
private organisations to promote
national cohesion and reconciliation. He identied National
Council of Churches of Kenya,
the Inter-religious Council of
Kenya and the Kenya Private Sector Association as organisations
that they will partner with. He
was speaking yesterday in Nairobi
during the launch of the Pamoja
Initiative to promote peace.

NAIROBI

Heed Uhurus call for

unity, youth leader says
Young people have been urged
to embrace President Uhuru
Kenyattas call for peace and
unity. Speaking in Nairobi yesterday, National Youth Council
chairman Clement Ayungo said
the National Youth Service (NYS)
intake, which has risen from
4,500 to 20,000, is a boost for
young people. Get involved in
empowerment projects, join the
restructured NYS programme or
other transformation drives, Mr
Ayungo told youths.

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SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

City Girl

With
Njoki Chege
nchege@ke.nationmedia.com
She is bold, sassy and audacious. See it through her prism
and ride the roller-coaster life of Nairobis young and trendy.

Five commandments of gold-digging

Do not ask a man for his money
in the rst 90 days of your
relationship, or else the red ag will
go o. I call that the 90-day-rule

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ur towns, in particular
Nairobi, are full of gold
diggers out to spend a
penny they did not earn. I have
no problem with gold digging. I
mean, women have to survive by
hook or crook. Again, who I am
to judge them?
What I do have a problem with
is those ladies who have not yet
grasped the art of gold digging.
Most gold diggers have been
doing it wrong for years, giving
women a bad name.
The only way to reap major
benefits from gold-digging is
doing it like a pro. I will teach
you how.
If you are going to date a man
or be in a relationship for his
money, then choose someone
worthy. I mean, if you are out to
eece a man, why eece someone
who has a few millions?
When selecting a species to
fleece, please, by all means,
choose someone with a fat
bank account. Dont go for a
man with a managers job while
you can net a CEO.
Dont settle for an MCA while
you can land an MP, or a Cabinet
Secretary. Dont just be satised
with a businessman. Go for an
oil tycoon. What I am trying to
tell you, in simple terms, is if you
are going to strike gold, dont
settle for a small goldmine. The
bigger the wallet, the more the

Think
beyond rent;
get enough
money to
buy yourself
land. Get
money to
buy a house
and register
it in your
name
Author

returns. That is the rst rule.

Lets assume you have landed
a goldmine and you want to swindle him. What you need to realise
about these rich men is that they
did not get where they are today
by being stupid.
They may look and sound
stupid, but they certainly arent
dimwits. Some are sharp, others are even intelligent, but
never stupid. They can smell a
gold digger from far.
You are not the rst gold-digger they have encountered and
you denitely will not be the last.

They know the drill. They meet

a girl who seems nice and before
long, she sticks around him like
a blood-sucking leech. Dont be
that girl. Let me teach you how
to beat these rich men at their
own game.
Ripping o a man his money
is very easy. The trick here is not
to ask for his money a common
mistake most of you ladies do.
Let him oer you the money.
Make him volunteer the money
without throwing too many hints.
Heres the deal; it is against the
rule in the gold diggers manual

to ask a man for money. I know it

sounds strange and unreal.
This is what I call the 90-dayrule. Do not ask a man for his
money in the rst 90 days of
your relationship or else the red
ag will utter. In the rst three
months, act like you do not even
notice his Salvatore Ferragamo
shoes. Act like you havent
noticed his Brioni jeans or his
Rolex. Pretend to be unimpressed
by his wealth. Act like you do not
care about his money.
When you appear oblivious
of his wealth, you turn him on.

Then you turn him around. He

will think that you are dierent
and when you nally convert him,
strike your gold.
Ladies, if you are going to date
a man for money, do not do it
for small stu like a cheap dinner at Kempinski or a chopper
ride to Nanyuki for a sundowner.
Do not do it for a cheap Toyota
Mark X or for a three-bedroom
maisonette in Karen.
Do not bend over for him for
an iPhone 6. Plus, do not do it
for a job or for a pair of designer
shoes. Have some standards. I
know many of you wear heels
higher than your standards, but
you simply cannot aord to date
him for simple things.
Think beyond rent; get enough
money to buy yourself land.
Think beyond shoes; get money
enough to boost your business.
Think beyond furniture, let him
give you enough money to buy
a house and register it in your
name.
Remember how in school you
were told to think big? The same
rule applies in gold-digging.
The pitfall with gold-digging
is that most of you never know
when to stop and take o. You
are too greedy, and being greedy
is the beginning of the end of
gold-digging.
Know when to stop and move
on to the next victim. So when
do you stop? Just when he is
about to realise who you truly
are. If I were you, Id give a good
gold-digging job a maximum of
between six-months to one-year.
Then, I would leave quietly with
my money and no drama.

MY TOWN | War on alcohol abuse has been welcomed by Nacada boss Mututho

Ol Kalou steps up bid

to keep residents sober
Investors
should be
forewarned
as there are
frequent
land
disputes in
the area

BY SHEM CHEGE

satnation@ke.nationmedia.com

l Kalou is a Maa word for

safari ants. True to the
name, the insects are ever
crisscrossing the unpaved streets
of this agricultural hub. It is also
the headquarters of Nyandarua
County.
The ants bring a lot of misery
to farmers as they kill fowls and
rabbits.
It is time the residents considered changing the towns name
and perhaps call it Buttery. They
can even name it after some other
benign insect.
Ol Kalou is at the forefront in
the ght against alcohol abuse.
The Nyandarua Alcohol Drinks
Control Act, which seeks to
regulate the sale and consumption of alcohol, came into force
in August.
Oenders pay a ne not exceeding Sh500,000 or face three years

imprisonment.
The move has been welcomed
by the National Authority for
the Campaign against Alcohol
and Drug Abuse chairman, Mr
John Mututho.
Ol Kalou is among the least
developed towns in the country.
The cold weather that often
characterises the town apparently renders it a little inactive.
However, it is now awakening
from the slumber.
Agriculture-related businesses
are doing well in Ol Kalou.
Every other street is lined with
agrovets selling fertilisers, seeds
and animal feeds, among other
inputs.
The town has an open-air market that opens on Wednesdays
and Saturdays. It draws farmers
from Kinangop at the foot of the
Aberdares in the south, and others from the shores of Lake Ol
Bolossat.
They come to sell their produce,

District Hospital is located in

the town, on the Ol Kalou-Nyahururu road.
Taiwan and Bullhead hotels
are the main eateries. From
these high points, one can view
the green hinterlands of the town,
which is virtually in a valley.

500,000
Fine, in shillings, for not complying with Alcohol Drinks Control
Act

Residents march in Ol Kalou Town as they mark Ushirika Day.

including green peas, cabbages,
carrots tomatoes and potatoes.
The town also boasts of a couple of supermarkets and a host of
wholesale and retail shops.
Recently, Maasai Mara University opened a satellite campus in

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Ol Kalou. Another institution of

higher learning that has set up a
campus in the town is the Gretsa
University. It is located on the Ol
Kalou-Gilgil road, on the outskirts
of the town.
The JM Kariuki Memorial

Infrastructure is wanting. Save

for the Njabini-Nakuru Class C
road, which passes through the
town, Ol Kalou consists of gravel
roads.
The town has a lot of potential as an investment destination.
However, investors have to be
careful, especially with the frequent land disputes in the area.
With the town rapidly growing,
the real estate business is worth
venturing into.
I feel pity for the internally
displaced persons in Mawingu
and Kasuku camps.
Tell us the interesting things about
your town. Send your stories to
satnation@ke.nationmedai.com

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A HUG FOR CRITIC CHRIS

AND ALL THE NONFICTION WRITERS
Austin Bukenya takes on the
man who has made a name for
himself tearing into African
Literature. Page 34

LITERARY DISCOURSE | Women do not possess any bottom power, literary icon tells critics with tongue-in-cheek

Chimamandas tiny new

book packs powerful
punch for African women
In We Should All be Feminists, the
literary queen does not just take on
men who put skirt wearers down, she
proves she is the C21st woman of letters
BY EVAN MWANGI

satnation@ke.nationmedia.com

he foremost icon of 21stcentury African writing,

has done a superb job in
revisiting the issue of feminism
in African cultures.
This is in a beautiful new
e-book titled We Should all be
Feminists (2014).
Published in New York
by Vintage Books, the
small and easy-to-read
book is based on a popular 30-minute TEDxEuston
lecture that the Nigerian literary star gave in 2012, in
which she deftly combines
levity with searing critique
to put a strong case for the
need to stop devaluing African women.
Adichies prose is gorgeous as always. The only
misgiving I have about this
otherwise magnicent book
is that it fails to condemn coitus; to me,
sex is an enemy of
freedom and should

Bottom power is not power

at all, because the woman
with bottom power is not
actually powerful; she just
has a good route to tap
another persons power.
And what happens if the
man is in a bad mood
or sick or temporarily
impotent
Nigerian Literary icon
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

be avoided at all costs (about that

later).
The lesson we learn from Adichie is
that we can talk about serious issues
with a sense of humour. The book is
infused with funny anecdotes and
hilarious observations that help the
author deliver us with a basic truth: it
is an absurdity of the highest order for
any right-thinking person to consider
men as superior to women purely on
the basis of their sex.
Adichie makes fun of the notion that
feminism is unAfrican and that it is an
ideology best practised by unhappy
women, especially those who cannot
get husbands.
While earlier African women writers (eg Buchi Emecheta, Grace Ogot,
Miriam Tlali, Margaret Ogola, and
Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye) were in
the 1980s and 1990s suspicious of
feminism and appeared uncomfortable
whenever critics lauded them as feminists, it is now clear from Adichies
e-book that the 21st century African
woman writer is ready to champion
the feminist cause without making
any apologies about it.
Without mentioning Nigerian critic
Chinweizu Ibekwe, We Should all be
Feminists is a fascinating riposte to
Chinweizus notorious Anatomy of
Female Power (1990), in which the
ery polemicist warns men about the
tricks female men-hunters use to
ensnare men to sexual slavery.
For Chinweizu, women use their
subtle, manipulative, and indirect
[] soft, passive, and self-eacing
power to enslave clueless men; it is
therefore not women but men who
do need protection, both from their
own stupidity and from their susceptibility to female beauty.
Contrary to Chinweizu, Adichie
argues that women have no bottom
power, this being the term used in
Africa to name womens ability to use
their sexuality to get things from
men. For her, bottom power is not
power at all, because the woman with
bottom power is not actually powerful; she just has a good route to tap
another persons power. And what

happens if the man is in a bad mood

or sick or temporarily impotent?
Adichie is a great inspiration to
Africas upcoming male and female
writers, as she leads the path towards
more global visibility of African letters. This new work is another proof
if any were needed that she is
the most important 21st century African writer.
But there are moments in We Should
all be Feminists when Adichie fails
African women. She cites Kenyas
Nobel laureate, Prof Wangari Maathai
(19402011), but from the book, except
Adichie and her great-grandmother,
everyone else from Africa is averse
to feminism. These include a well
meaning Nigerian journalist and a
Nigerian female academic.
Adichie is not the only living
African feminist she, with a tinge of
self-righteousness, markets herself
as in the West
She follows a solid tradition of African gender studies that insists that
the consideration of gender relations
on the continent should be based on
the particularities of African womens
experiences.

Tried to improve

The use of such terms as Stiwanism (by Molara Ogundipe-Leslie),

Womanism (several times by Chikwenye Ogunyemi and Mary Kolawole,
alluding to the African-American
feminist Alice Walker), Nego-feminism (by Obioma Nnaemeka), and
Motherism (by Catherine Acholonu)
to name African womens movements,
epistemologies, and struggles are not
necessarily total negations of the socalled western feminism per se.
Rather, the terms signify the contingency of feminism as it is practised in
Africa to combat both local patriarchy
and western imperialism.
Unlike in Adichies West Africa, in
southern and eastern Africa, the term
feminism was accepted much earlier
in Sylvia Tamales, Patricia McFaddens, and Micere Githae-Mugos
theoretical and creative works.
It would have been good for Adichie
to use her prole to highlight (even if in
footnotes) the work of her non-Nobelwinning African female predecessors
who have tried to improve the lives
of women in Africa but have been ignored among the predominantly white
friends of Africa she addresses in
the 2012 TEDxEuston talk on which
the book is based.
At one moment, Adichie leads her
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SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

IN THEIR OWN WORDS | Kenyan authors speak

MY FAVOURITE BOOK

Pain in the trenches pushed

me to print my own books

Jude the Obscure

mirrors how society
kills peoples dreams

It is unfortunate
that established
as I am today,
I still consider
publishing my
own writings

satnation@ke.nationmedia.com

BY DAVID MAILLU

satnation@ke.nationmedia.com

he writer and publisher are

like an expectant woman
and a midwife. Let me
start by asking what would
happen to a pregnant mother in
labour in the absence of midwife?
Would she die or end up having
a stillbirth?
There is not a single answer
to this question. One of the answers is expressed by the fate of
one mother in my village called
Mutete. In 1970s when Mutete
was pregnant and time came to
deliver, she didnt care sending
people to look for a midwife.
She did it all herself. Dont
ask me how. To make the matter more bizarre, if she gave
birth today, tomorrow morning
you would see Mutete going to
the eld to fetch water or rewood just like any other normal
woman.
Everybody looked at her with
awe and what she did appeared to
mock women who are terrorised
by childbirth.
Next: what happens when a
writer has toiled writing and
nally nishes the manuscript
but there is no one to publish
it? This question, like Mutetes,
has not a single answer.
As a writer, I have been through
the heartbreaking experience of
being unpublished in my early
years. I started writing during
colonial times when no British
publisher would ever think of
publishing anything written by
an African. I remember at one
time I asked my teacher: Can
an African write? The teacher
thought hard and replied scratching his head, I have heard about
someone in Nigeria who wrote
a book. Later I would guess,
perhaps, that writer was Amos
Tutuola published in early
1950s.
My writing span from that time
to 1960s when I took one of my
rst manuscripts to what used
to be the East African Literature
Bureau, now Kenya Literature
Bureau. The manuscript was
rejected. I took another one to
Macmillan Publishers and it was
rejected too. Then I went through

Most of the publishers

we have in Kenya are
thinking nothing else
but about publishing
school textbooks
Author David Maillu

Author David Maillu. The risks of self-publishing are the risks of self-midwifery, he says.
the most tormenting time of
sending one manuscript after
another to publishers and getting rejections through the Post
Oce. It was during that time
that I asked my Mzungu boss at
the Voice of Kenya whether he
thought I could write. He told
me, maybe I could, but I would
have to wait until I reached the
mature age of 50s when I will
have gathered enough writing
experience.
I sent another manuscript to
another Mzungu in Zambia who
was conducting writers workshop
and he sent it back to me with
the advice that I should start
exercising writing every day by
writing something, reading it
to myself, destroying it only to
write another one, until I acquire
experience.
But the irony of it all was
that in the same year, I had my
first manuscript accepted for
publishing at the East African
Publishing House under John
Nottingham. Nonetheless, the
rejections continued coming
back one after another. I was
not alone. Okot pBitek had had
Song of Lawino rejected by ve
publishers before John Nottingham said, Lets try it.
The humiliating story is longer
than that, but I want to explain
why I decided to take the risks
taken by Mutete. I decided to be
my own publisher. I registered
a company called Comb Books
and with scant funds I went
headlong to publish my first
Kikamba poetry book Ki Kyambonie, which was followed by the
notorious small book called Unt
for Human Consumption with a
print run of 5,000 copies. It took
nine months for me to sell the
copies. The proceeds funded the
publication of My Dear Bottle,
whose sales proceeds funded the
publication of the most famous
After 4.30, each with a print run
of 10,000 copies. The books got
the nation by storm and I made
my name. Then, surprisingly,
now that I had made a name,
the same publishers who had
rejected my manuscripts earlier
came looking for me to write

for them Macmillan Publishers UK, who published four titles

from me, in the lead.
The East African Literature
Bureau took interest in my
work and I signed contracts.
However the Bureau collapsed
with the crumbling of the East
African Community. By the time
it was renamed Kenya Literature
Bureau, it had lost the contracts
and never published any of my
works. Then surprise, surprise,
after nearly 50 years, just a month
ago, the Kenya Literature Bureau
has published my rst book with
them, Mwanzo the Nairobian,
from a manuscript they had
held for seven years!
The risks of self-publishing
are the risks of self-midwifery.
The world has the records of
how many mothers have died
at childbirth and how dicult
and dangerous it is to deliver
without a midwife. But what if
the midwife is not there? There
are stories that some husbands
have been forced by circumstances to become midwives of
their wives!
Likewise, the world has
records of how difficult and
dangerous it is for one to publish their own work. However, if
I did not venture into it, perhaps,
nobody would have ever heard
of a famous writer called David
Maillu. Circumstances forced me
to do it and, before I went for
it, I had to learn certain things
about what I should publish, how
to publish it and how to market
the book. If I did not publish my
Kikamba poetry, who on earth
would have done it?
Prof Kyalo wa Mitila has gone
the Mutete way and come out of
it successfully with is Vide-Muwa
Publishers Ltd. It was just the
other day he told me he is now
the proud publisher of his 100th
title.
The problems of writers and
publishers in Kenya are far from
over. If anything, they are on the
increase. Most of the publishers
we have in Kenya are thinking
nothing else but about publishing
school textbooks, scared of taking risks outside school books.

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The reasons why they do are

very many.
But let me go back to when
I published my rst books at a
time people were saying, Africans dont read. I proved to
them that Africans can read. The
Kenyan nation can be cultivated
to become a reading nation. If
that has to be achieved, then it
must be a national responsibility.
It starts by asking, what actually
should be published for people
in order to make them a reading nation? You cant say people
dont want to eat what you have
never introduced to them. Reading culture is not natural; it is
cultivated and promoted.
The question is, are we cultivating and promoting it? It
was just the other day when the
government imposed VAT on
books! What a shame!
The other day I approached
one of the publishers with two
manuscripts, one called Blackmans Practical Philosophy and
Wisdom and the other, Revelation
of Traditional African Witchcraft.
The publisher looked at me and
asked, These? He thought and
asked, Dont you have story
books for children?
That publisher was throwing
me back to the Mutete fate.
Kenyans are writing more than
people think, but the publishers
are awfully restricted to certain
areas dictated to them by other
forces. It is left to the upcoming frustrated individual writer
to nd out whether he should die
intellectually or do something
based on the philosophy of Asiye
na mwana aelekee jiwe.
It is unfortunate that, even as
well established as I am today, I
still have to consider self-publishing. But lest we forget, all world
publishers were once started
by someone, most likely, very
frustrated. We cant afford to
say, Leave ying to kites. And
not every expectant mother will
afford going to maternity for
delivery. Some of them end up
in the Mutete fate. This is Africa,
mark you!

maillu@davidgmaillu.com

BY TIMOTHY MUCHUNKU KANGORI

I have just read Thomas Hardys Jude the Obscure and
wish to laud the way the writer adroitly handles various
critical issues on the backdrop of the morally overwrought
late Victorian society in the ctional Wessex setting in
England.
Although it is a classical, Hardy grants us the opportunity to see how societies interfere with genuine love
and aection, fundamental human rights, dreams and
aspirations of its people.
The main characters in the novel are Jude and Sue
who prematurely fall in love and marry the wrong partners. Jude, a young man with a dream of becoming a
distinguished scholar, meets Arabella who tricks him
into marrying her by cheating him that she is pregnant.
The marriage does not last long and they have a nasty
separation. Arabella leaves with her parents for Australia
where she re-marries while Jude goes to Christminster.
While there, he comes across his cousin Sue who, to his
chagrin, has already promised to marry Mr Phillotson,
an elderly man.
Sue and Mr Phillotson wed and move to Shaston as
schoolteachers but Jude and Sue who seem to have profound aection for each other keep on communicating
through letters. Eventually, Jude succeeds in wooing Sue
from her husband. They do not formalise their marriage,
arguing that getting married would weaken their love. In
the meantime, Arabella is delivered of Judes child while
in Australia. She asks Jude and Sue to take care of the
child. Sue observes that parents love for their children
and dislike for other peoples is like class feeling, patriotism, save your-own soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean
exclusiveness at bottom,
Thus saying, she adopts Arabellas child. The society,
though, cannot understand Sue and Judes digression
from the customary love and marriage institutions. Consequently, it punishes them by ostracising and alienating
them from all the aspects of the society. The situation
worsens when the building industry denies Jude contracts
on the ground of his queer union with Sue. Failing to
cope, they migrate from Aldbrickham to Christminster
where they are less known.
In Christminster, fate still haunts them. They nd
it dicult to nd lodgings since they are with their
children. When they nally get them, they are told to
leave the following day after Sue tells the landlady their
circumstances. The Victorian societal conventions make
Arabellas child, Father Time, to start questioning why
children are a burden to parents. To the boy, it would be
best for parents to kill such children immediately they
are born. This psychological torture makes the boy to
hang Sues two children, as well as himself. He leaves a
note saying he did it because they (the children) were
too many.
The death of these children is the apogee of Hardys
criticism of the religious and moral extremism in this
society. Its rigid religiosity and morality has led to the
death of the innocent children. Childrens space in the
Victorian society seems to be very limited.
In our society today, children are prohibited from functions such as weddings, graduations and main church
services. There are also street children who have been
abandoned or neglected by their parents and many cases
of abortions.
Further, we have some societies and families that hold
to the tradition that a marriage is only legal if ociated
in a church, by elders or at the Attorney-Generals oce.
Ironically, there are marriages that have ourished without
a certicate while there are others that have fallen apart
barely days after colourful weddings. The social political
and economic structures in our society have crushed
dreams of their own as they did to Jude and Mr Phillotson. Concisely, our society is the same as the Victorian
society that Hardy satirises in Jude the Obscure.
As the novel ends, Sue succumbs to the societal pressure after realising the vanity of ghting against those
structures and decides to rejoin Mr Phillotson, her lawfully wedded husband; while Arabella, whose second
husband has died, takes that advantage to force herself
to Jude, her rst husband. Despite these last remedies,
Sue, Arabella and Jude are unhappy in their legal unaffectionate rst marriages.
This novel is an obligatory read particularly by children,
human rights activists and couples.

The writer teaches English and Literature at St Massimo Day Secondary School in Meru County.

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feedback

Things you need to know about tomatoes and

POTATO FARMING

I would like to grow sweet potatoes in Mwea,

Kirinyaga County. What are the management
challenges and any other expectations?
Farmer
The crop grows well in well-drained, deep
sandy and loamy clay soils with rainfall of
750 to 1,500mm per annum. Its grown on
raised beds or ridges with single-row spacing
of 100 by 30cm or double rows of 50 by 60
by 30cm. Use healthy vines of 30cm long to
cover a depth of 4 to 6cm. Maintain the eld
weed-free and look out for pests like the
sweet potato weevil and moth. Ensure you do
crop rotation and eld sanitation to manage
diseases.
Lilian Jeptanui, Crop science Department,
Egerton University

BEST BEAN VARIETY

Which of Egerton Universitys new bean varieties does well in western Kenya?
Farmer
Egerton University has high-yielding and
popular varieties called Chelalang, Ciankui
and Tasha for high and medium altitude areas. They can yield between 750 to 1,200kg
per acre (eight to 12 90kg bags per acre).
We also have chickpeas named Chania Desi
1 for growing during short rains season. You
can grow Chelalang in Kiminini, Trans Nzoia
and Bungoma while Ciankui can be grown
in most other areas. Buy from Mazop Enterprises in Kitale or Nakuru.
Prof Paul Kimurto, Crop scientist,
Egerton University

FRENCH BEAN FARMING

I am interested in farming French beans. I

understand there is a company that oers
farmers seeds, training and marketing.
Stella

French bean marketing is currently a big

problem. This is mainly due to the restrictions imposed on horticultural produce by
the European Union. This has forced most
of the contracting companies to opt out of
French beans marketing. The local market is
limited since the produce is not consumed
much as a vegetable. However, there are a
few companies that are still in the business,
although they are scattered. Please specify
where you would like to grow your French
beans to enable us advise on the companies that may be near you.
Sylvans Ochieng Ochola,
ocholaochieng@gmail.com,
Department of Crops, Horticulture and soils

HASS AVOCADO VARIETY

Where can I get the Golden Hass Avocado

variety in Thika?
Muthuri
Go to the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock
Research Organisation. If they dont have it,
they would direct you to their other centres.
John Nganga, Crops Soils and Horticulture
Department, Egerton University

MY TOMATOES ARE
WILTING AND DRYING

Bumper harvest

Readying for the lucrative banana market

Vicky Nyaboke
harvests
mature
bananas from
her farm in
Mosocho, Kisii.
She sells each
of the grafted
bananas at
Sh800.

I am Philip Bera, a greenhouse

farmer. Lately, my tomatoes have
been wilting and drying. Please
help me identify the disease and
how I can control it.
Wilting and drying of tomatoes in
the greenhouse can be caused by
several factors, but mostly pests
and diseases. The cause cannot be
conclusively be determined without examining the crop and the
growth conditions. I would advise
that you provide the picture of the
wilting crop to enable us determine what the cause could be.

DENISH OCHIENG
| NATION

Sylvans Ochieng Ochola,

ocholaochieng@gmail.com,
Department of Crops,
Horticulture and soils,
Egerton University

TOMATOES IN
GREENHOUSES

I would like to know the best variety of tomatoes to plant in a greenhouse.

Farmer

There are several varieties of tomatoes

that are suited for greenhouse production.
The dierence in brand names is mainly
because they are from dierent companies.
However, the bottom line should be highyields. The hybrids (F1 varieties) are recommended since they are bred for improved
performance and high yields. Tylka F1 (Syngenta EA Ltd), Anna F1 and Eden F1 (Monsanto), Mavuno F1 and Bravo F1 (Royal Seed
Company), are among hybrid varieties.
Sylvans Ochieng Ochola,
ocholaochieng@gmail.com, Department of
Crops, Horticulture and soils

mature three to ve months for bulb and four

to six weeks for spring. They require rains
of 500 to 700 mm per annum hence can be
grown at the onset of the long rains and during the short rains. Onions dont have serious
pests and diseases but look out for Downey
mildew where a mould develops in the plant
making it to fall. Dry control by using copper
based fungicides. Other diseases include Purple Blotch, Onion Rust, Fusarium Basal Rot
and White Bulb Rot. To manage the above
diseases, use certied seeds, do crop rotation
and practice eld hygiene.
Lilian Jeptanui,
Egerton University,
Department of Crops Horticulture and Soils

My name is Gichuki from Ruai, Nairobi. I

would like to know where to get Stevia
seeds or plants.

I want to plant onions in Nakuru and would

like information on which is the best month
to grow as well as a variety you recommend.
I also need information on whether to use
plant seedlings, onion sets or seeds for good
returns. I will also appreciate information on
the diseases to look out to and maintenance
measures.
Harun
There are two types of onions, the bulb and
spring. You can grow either of the types in
Nakuru. The bulb onions varieties include Red
Creole, Bombay Red and hybrids like Sivan F1
and Hybrid Frare F1. Good varieties for spring
onions include Spring Green Bunching and
White Lisbon. For better returns, buy certied
seeds from an established nursery. Onions

Stevia is an emerging crop in Kenya and is

currently promoted by a company in Kericho
called Pure Circle. You can reach them for
more information on +254(0)518002540,
www.purecircle.com, or info@purecircle.co.ke
Lilian Jeptanui,
Egerton University,
Department of Crops Horticulture and Soils

HOME-MADE MANURE

Your response on how to quicken the process of making home-made manure was
greatly appreciated. Please advise where to
buy annelids. What do I do with them once
my manure is ready?
Nyaim Lilo

ASK THE EXPERTS

Prof Kimurto

Hi, I am interested in venturing into poultry

farming. I started with 30 chicks. However,
some of them started passing yellow lose
droppings and I administered coccidiosis drug at age of one month. Please advise
me on the vaccines.
Farmer
You have not indicated which chicken breed
you are rearing. However, there are various
vaccinations which you must administer,
including for Marek, New Castle Disease, Fowl
Pox and Gumboro. Please involve qualied
animal health personnel when carrying out
vaccinations.
Seeds of Gold Team,
Egerton University

WHERE TO GET
STEVIA SEEDS

GROWING ONIONS

Prof Bebe

INTEREST IN POULTRY

Do you have any question

or enquiry on agribusiness, marketing, logistics,
processing, innovation,
and technology? Our pool
of experts from Egerton
University will respond to
your questions with proper
advice. Please send your
questions to: satnation@k
e.nationmedia.com. Read
us online at nation.co.ke/
seeds of gold

You can enhance the process of making

compost by adding eective microbes,
chafer grub (Phyllopertha horticola and Hoplia
philanthus) and ensuring that the carbon and
nitrogen ratio is balanced. For example, if
your compost has a lot of stover from maize
and sorghum or straw from wheat and barley,
you need to add some nitrogen preferably
from organic sources to avoid Nitrogen lockup by the microbes and the chafer grub. You
can also talk to Peter Kanyagia, an earthworm
farmer on 0713032797.
Muriuki Ruth Wangari,
Department of Crops,
Horticulture and Soils, Egerton University

MY COW PRODUCES LESS

THAN 10 LITRES A DAY

I recently started dairy farming and I keep two

Friesians in Sagana. Production has not been
good and I would like to know what I need to
do to maximise productivity. My cows produce
less than 10 litres, which is quite low.
Farmer
Dairy production involves three core areas you
have to optimise to maximise production. Your
cows have to be good producers (genetically),
you always know by looking at their lineage.
This is because milk production is a highly inheritable trait. This can always be got from the
production records and traits the bull whose
semen was used to serve the cow. The other
thing is nutrition. Cows must be fed adequately
depending on body requirements. This starts
from calving, through the heifer period and
most intense at pregnancy (steaming) and post
calving. Mineral supplementation especially
calcium is also very important for high production. The milking cow must also be fed with
concentrates such as the commercial dairy
meals or home-made ratios. This is because the
energy requirements at this stage are high. The
dry periods of 60 days on average should also
be observed strictly as they allow time for udder
development and mastitis control for the next
milking. The last area is management. It covers
disease-control and housing. The more healthy
and comfortable (good animal welfare) the cow
is, the more the milk.
Dr Moses Olum, Veterinary Surgeon,
University of Nairobi

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dairy cows

VERSATILE BAMBOO HELPS TO ABSORB HEAVY METALS FROM THE SOIL

I ALWAYS
BELIEVE THAT
WHEN I BUY
BAMBOO FROM
A FARMER, I
GIVE THEM
COURAGE TO
PLANT MORE

CASSAVA FARMER

I need the contacts of the farmers group in Muranga that was

growing cassava. I need some
stems.
Peter

Samson Koross

I enjoyed reading the story Idea

turns village into cassava hub. I
come from Busia County, and I
plant cassava, but lack of market
has hampered my eorts. Please
give me the contact of Michael
Murigi for advice. I am Thomas
Buluma
Akwata
EDITOR: Talk to Michael Murigi on
0725284685.

RABBIT BREED
FOR MEAT

I am interested in rearing commercial rabbits. Please tell me

which breed is best to keep for
meat production. I would also
like to know from where I might
acquire the rabbits.
Antony Kabugu
EDITOR: Please talk to Rabbit
Breeders Association of Kenya
chairman Peter Waiganjo on
0721219092.

POULTRY KEEPING

My name is Rodgers from Silibwet, Bomet County. I am an

aspiring farmer interested in poultry. I need the contact of Richard
Rono of Kapchekoro.
Please give me the contact of
Richard Rono of Kapchekoro Village, Bomet.
Teresa
My name is Joseph Mutai. I would
like to have the contacts of Richard Rono, the poultry farmer from
Bomet County. I need the contact
of Richard Rono of Kapchepkoro
Village in Bomet County, who
hatches kienyeji chicks.

23

Samson Koross at the

recent Mara Day Exhibition
in Narok with the umbrellas
he makes. ANGELA OKETCH
| NATION

Stanley Kimutai
EDITOR: Talk to the farmer through
our reporter on 0723954044.

APPRECIATION

The story on Rongai Boys was

encouraging. If the same could
be adopted in other schools, we
could possibly not be having high
fees. Kudos to the management
of the school.
Yvonne Kiogora
EDITOR: Thank you for your observation. Keep reading.

SILKWORM FARMING

My name is Caroline. I am enquiring about sericulture. I am

interested in the venture but I lack
the necessary information. Where
can I be trained or educated on
the same?
EDITOR: Please talk to Ann Igecha
of National Sericulture Station in
Thika on 0722565091.

DAIRY FARMER

I need the contacts of James

Mburu, the dairy cattle farmer
from Matuu.
Farmer
EDITOR: Reach Mburu on
0712042563.

My bamboo umbrellas
A bamboo stem
costs Sh300 and
gives Koross 22
umbrellas, which
sell at Sh700 each

BY ANGELA OKETCH

satnation@ke.nationmedia.com

ressed in a white
T-shirt and black trousers,
Samson Koross looked like
any other exhibitor at the
recent Mara Day Exhibition
in Narok.
However, his products
stood out. In his stand were
several beautiful red and
white umbrellas made from
bamboo.
The Seeds of Gold team
found Koross stepping on
one of his umbrellas. I want
to prove to my customers
how strong the bamboo umbrellas are; they are better
than what is in the market,
he said.
Three reasons inspired him
to create the umbrellas.
First, many people in the
Rift Valley have been struck
by lightning while using me-

tallic handle umbrellas.

Second, most of the umbrellas in the market do not
last. The metallic part normally rusts and breaks leaving you with the canopy.
Third, using bamboo gives
farmers a chance to make
cash from the under-used
grass.
After some research,
Koross settled on bamboo
for umbrellas. Bamboo is
strong and a poor conductor
of electricity, which makes it
the best material to use, the
mechanical engineering technician says.
Koross comes from Olenguruone Village, Nakuru
County.

Various pieces

He began the project while

undertaking a diploma course
at the Rift Valley Institute for
Science and Technology between 1998 and 2000.
The institute gave him
Sh30,000 capital. I used it
to buy a machine for splitting
bamboo into small pieces. I
made small-scale umbrellas
while at college.
On completing his course,
Koross, 42, landed a job at
the United Nations Industrial
Development Organisation

in Nairobi where he worked

from 2011 to 2013 and later
resigned to work on the umbrellas. He invested Sh12,000
in bamboo.
To make the umbrellas,
Koross starts with buying
bamboo from a farm in Nakuru and cutting into various
pieces.
We use a machine called
a router to roll the bamboo
pieces into round shapes and
drill small holes on them.
Further, using a machine
called wood lithe, he makes
the handles, the runners and
the parts that support the
canopy. The parts are then
joined together to form a
complete umbrella.
Koross has been making
the umbrellas for the last
four years. He fastens his
own canopy after buying the
materials at Sh50 a metre.
Sometimes, however, he
imports from India when
clients demand.
Most of my clients are
corporates, though individuals are also buying them. The
prices range from Sh700 to
Sh1,300 each depending on
the size. From a 20-foot
bamboo stem that goes for
Sh300, Koross produces 22
umbrellas, which last up to

ve years depending on use.

I always believe that when
I go to a farmer to buy bamboo, I am giving them courage to plant more.

Creative designer

Koross has since employed

10 people, ve who run the
machines while the rest do
the xing and put the nal
touches.
Apart from the 10 workers, I also have a creative
designer, who engraves company logos on the canopy.
Getting good canopy that
is waterproof has become a
challenge to the businessman.
The project has seen Koross scoop various awards,
including at the National
Devolution Jua Kali Conference held at the Bomas of
Kenya in Nairobi this year.
International Network for
Bamboo and Rattan ocial,
Dr Fu Jinhe, said bamboo is
one of the most protable
grasses.
Bamboo is a promising
alternative since it can take
up nitrogen, phosphorous
and heavy metals from soil,
besides being used in the
furniture and construction
sectors.

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October 11, 2014 SATURDAY NATION

TECHNOLOGY FARMERS ARE ADVISED TO UTILISE HYDROPONIC FODDER SYSTEM TO GROW PASTURE IN SIX DAYS

What livestock farmers

can get from ministry
High cost of animal feeds and
semen has made it dicult for
dairy farmers to make money.
Livestock and Fisheries Principal
Secretary, Prof Fred Segor, spoke
to Owuor Owuor and Mike Mwaniki
on what farmers can do to obtain
great returns from the livestock

ou recently moved to the

Department of Livestock Development in the Ministry of Agriculture. What plans do you have
to put money in the pockets of
farmers?

The government has lined up

a number of projects in arid and
semi-arid lands to enable locals
to eectively adapt to climate
change. Among them is the construction of boreholes and water
pans as well as plant pasture to

ensure sustained fodder throughout the year.

The government is also piloting a livestock insurance fund
to cushion farmers from climate
change-related losses. Locals are
beginning to embrace livestock
keeping as a business.
Currently during the dry
season, farmers are able to sell
their cattle and invest in other
businesses to sustain their livelihoods. The government has
wider plan to expand the Kenya
Meat Commissions capacity to
handle more livestock.
We are also encouraging our
farmers to adopt technology to
boost farming. One key area that
has a huge potential, but has not
been utilised, is using hydroponic
fodder technology to help grow
pasture in six days.

The soaring prices of animal

feeds are driving dairy farmers
out of business. What are you
doing about this?
We are encouraging more investors to put resources in this
area. More players would bring

healthy competition, hence lowering prices. The government is

also providing subsidies to cushion farmers from high costs.
We are also encouraging farmers to grow their own feeds to
save costs. But livestock is not
just about dairy. There is a huge
potential in hides and skins, for
example. This great potential
could be tapped by leather industries and this goes a long way in
creating jobs for our youths.

How can we promote agriculture when we are not teaching

children the subject in primary
school?
The government is already
engaging with relevant institutions to reintroduce agriculture
as a subject in primary schools.
We want our children to learn
farming at early stages. The
government has also initiated a
smart bursary project which is
being driven by the Agricultural
Finance Corporation to target
schools.
Under this project, some Sh10
million has been set aside for

schools to engage in farming. Already the World Bank has shown

interest in pumping in more
money to expand the project and
once they provide funds, we will
expand the scheme to all schools
across the country.
We are also rolling out Sh120
million
programme
called
Youths in Modern Agriculture
targeting to engage the youths.
These are the projects whose
implementation I will speed up
during my time in oce to ensure their objectives are fully
met.

Do we have enough semen for

farmers?
Demand for semen doses
stands at 1.2 million straws,
against production of 900,000.
In the interim, we expect to
bridge the gap by sourcing additional semen from the US and
Finland. However, our plan is to
be self-sucient in the next three
years by producing two million
straws for local consumption
and export. We have conserved
100,000 straws of semen in our
strategic reserves. We also intend
to build stock for goats, sheep
and other livestock breeds.

Why is the cost of semen so

high yet it is produced cheaply
by the Kenya Animal Genetic
Resources Centre?
We are working on having a
memorandum of understanding
between the centre and 52 agents
(inseminators) to keep the price
of the semen low. The inseminators buy the semen at Sh300 per
dose from the centre but later
sell it to farmers at Sh1,000.
It should go for a maximum of
Sh500, which is why we need an
agreement with them.
But besides that, new liquid
nitrogen plants have been established in Eldoret, Meru and
Nyandarua. The plants, which
will be commissioned in January,
will enable the semen to be readily available at aordable cost to
farmers.

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SAFETY CAGES MUST BE RAISED ONE METRE FROM GROUND

Step aside men, women

too can breed rabbits
Workers harvest
cane in Kisumu.
Many farmers have
ditched the crop for
maize. SULEIMAN
MBATIAH | NATION

Rahab Wanjiru
dissects one of the
rabbits she keeps in
Nakuru. SULEIMAN
MBATIAH | NATION

Wanjiru
rears
over 100
rabbits as
she seeks
to dispel
the myth
that the
animals
are kept
by men
only

BY FRANCIS MUREITHI

satnation@ke.nationmedia.com

ground to keep the rabbits

safe.
Some ants attacked my
rabbits and killed 10 of them
when I was starting. I also lost
ve kits soon after they were
born and this was because I
did not have good cages.
Wanjiru keeps various rabbit breeds that include New
Zealand and California, which
she sells to farmers at between
Sh700 and Sh1,000. She sells
up to 10 rabbits in a good
month.
The farmer slaughters
other rabbits herself and sells
the meat at a butchery in Free
Area trading centre at Sh500
a kilo.
The butchery is owned by
a group of farmers who were
brought together under the umbrella of
Kenya Agricultural
Productivity and
Agribusiness
Programme
through
the
Ministry
of
Agriculture
and the World
Bank. The meat
is inspected by
health officials
at a cost of

t is easy to mistake the

young woman carrying a hand
brush and a bucket of water
for a farmhand as she walks in
her fathers farm in Maili Sita,
Nakuru.
Rahab Wanjiru stops at a
rabbit cage. She opens the
door, pours in water and starts
to scrub the oor.
When she is done with
one cage, she moves to the
next which takes her about 15
minutes.
I clean the eight cages
every week to ensure my
rabbits are free of diseases,
explains Wanjiru.
She rears 100 of them
under the business name
Rajiwa Rabbits.
I started four years
ago with two rabbits.
I bought them at
Sh1,000 each and
used Sh25,000 to
build the cages.
I saw there was
growing demand for
rabbits and decided
to try my luck,
says
the
fa r m e r,
who constructed
t h e
cages
using
offcuts
and wire
m e s h
with the
help of a
carpenter
specically
trained
by
Kenya Agricultural Productivity and Agribusiness Programme.
Rahab Wanjiru with one of the
The cages are
rabbits she keeps in Nakuru.
raised one-and-half
SULEIMAN MBATIAH | NATION
metres above the

Sh100 per rabbit before it is

sold to consumers.
She feeds the rabbits on
hay, sukuma wiki (collard
green), carrots and watermelon leaves.
Her biggest challenge is
diseases and lack of proper
feeds. However, joining the
agribusiness has enabled her
learn skills to take care of the
animals.
She advises women not to
fear engaging in any agribusiness, but they must rst do
research. Rabbit farming is
cost-eective and is not labour intensive.
The industry is on the rise
and the future looks bright.
Women should not fear to
keep rabbits.
According
to
Nakuru
County Rabbit Value Addition Group chairman Moses
Gathua, farmers are trained
on how to keep the animals,
slaughter, market and add
value.
Farmers also learn how to
construct cages, coordinate
exchange visits with other
rabbit farmers, feeding methods, disease detection such
as pneumonia and how to
deworm them.
I have also been taught
how to comb rabbit fur, keep
records and seek market,
says Wanjiru.

THE MEAT IS
NORMALLY
INSPECTED
BY HEALTH
OFFICIALS
AT A COST
OF SH100 PER RABBIT
BEFORE IT IS SOLD TO
CONSUMERS
Rahab Wanjiru

Switching from
cane to maize?
Heres what to do
Farmers should grow
maize and bean seeds
coated with rhizobium
bacteria to quickly x
nitrogen in soil
JACQUELINE KUBANIA
@jacqui_jade

satnation@ke.nationmedia.com

ome years ago, Benjamin Wanguba was harvesting just two 90kg
bags of maize from his one-acre
farm.
Like many other small-holder
farmers in Mumias, Kakamega
County, he would barely have enough
to feed his family or sell the surplus
on market days.
The soil on which he was trying to
eke out a living had been dedicated
to cane farming for decades.
His grandfather and father had
planted the cash crop, which they
sold to the nearby Mumias Sugar
Company.
But sugarcane farming has not
been doing well of late and thats
why Wanguba and fellow farmers in
the region shifted to maize.
However, what he did not know
was that the many years of growing
sugarcane had stripped his farm of
essential nutrients.
The soil was decient of nitrogen
and was highly acidic.
In parts of western Kenya where
sugarcane has been grown for years,
the soils have become acidic due to
excessive usage of DAP and urea
fertiliser. While these fertilisers are
good for vegetative growth, they
lower the soil pH (measure of how
acidic a substance is), warn experts.
In addition, the Western belt is a
high rainfall area.
Consistent precipitation contributes to soil acidity by leaching
nutrients deep into the soil where
crops cannot reach them. For these
reasons, maize does not do well on
such soils.

Wanguba, however, is now part

of the integrated soil fertility management, which is helping farmers
transition from sugarcane to maize
and beans smoothly.
What makes soil acidity such a serious issue is that it hinders nitrogen
xation, says Dr Martins Odendo, a
scientist at Kenya Agriculture and
Livestock Research Organisation,
who is spearheading the change.
We are encouraging farmers to
apply lime to their farms in addition
to using nitrogen-fixing methods
such as growing beans.
Even then, the farmers do not
grow beans or other legumes like
soya beans normally.
The beans must rst be coated
with rhizobium (rhizobia), nitrogenxing bacteria, which enhances the
development of nodules on the roots,
thus making it possible for the plant
to trap nitrogen, says Dr Odendo,
who is working with support from
Alliance for a Green Revolution for
Africa.
Rhizobia x nitrogen after establishing themselves inside the root
nodules of legumes. They require a
legume plant to host them since they
cannot independently x nitrogen in
the soil.
Dr Odendo explains that farmers
need about 120g of rhizobium to coat
30kg of bean seeds, which is enough
to plant on an acre. This will in turn
ensure xation of around 8kg of nitrogen into the soil for an acre.
Rhizobium can be bought from
agro-dealers at Sh1,180 for a 100g
pack.
He advises that while using rhizobium, farmers should not abandon
fertiliser.
They should use NPK and Triple
Super Phosphate fertiliser instead
of DAP or Urea. Beans only give 20
per cent nitrogen, NPK will add the
other 10 per cent to complete the 30
per cent the soil needs.
Dr Odendo says they have now
reached over 2,000 farmers in the
sugarbelt region.
The rst time Wanguba started
intercropping the beans with maize
in 2012, he harvested up six bags per
acre, but this has increased to 15.

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new frontier

BEST RESULTS TREE TOMATOES THRIVE IN FERTILE, LIGHT SOIL THAT IS RICH IN ORGANIC MATTER

Why Ill not trade tree tomato for other crop

It is a new
plant that
many
farmers
are not
particularly
keen to
embrace,
but
Wangombe
took it on
and it has
not let him
down

George Wangombe
in his tree tomato
farm in Nyeri. FAITH
NYAMAI | NATION

A trader at Nyeri
market sells tree
tomatoes. The fruit
has become popular
in the region. FILE |
NATION

GROWING THE
JUICY FRUITS
The average life of a tree
tomato is four years.
The crops tolerate many soil
conditions. However, the soil
must be well-drained.
Farmers should use compost
manure for optimal growth.
The tree tomato has shallow
root system, thus must be
protected from wind.

George Wangombe in
his tree tomato farm
in Nyeri. FAITH NYAMAI
| NATION

NORMALLY THE TREE

TOMATO REQUIRES A
LOT OF WATER. THE
PLANT IS KNOWN
TO HAVE SHALLOW
ROOT SYSTEM,
WHICH CAN BE
BETTERED THROUGH
GRAFTING John
Wambugu, agronomist

55

A worker sprays a tree

tomato farm in Nyeri.
FILE | NATION

BY FAITH NYAMAI
@faithnyamai

satnation@ke.nationmedia.com

he weather is chilly and

there is a drizzle as Seeds of
Gold reporter and photographer
go to Kagumo village in Tetu
sub-county in search of George
Wangombe.
We meet Wangombe in his
tree tomato farm. He is in black
gumboots as he walks around the
three-acre farm.
On this day, some of the work-

ers were planting new seedlings,

others were harvesting the fruits
and applying manure.
Wangombe informs us that
he had that morning harvested
10 bags of tree tomato each
weighing 50kg. He sells a kilo at
between Sh100 and Sh150.
The market is huge because
not many people grow the crop
here. In Nyeri, the main crops are
tomatoes, vegetables, coee and
other fruit trees.
Wangombe shifted to tree
tomatoes (tamarillo) in 2009
after incurring losses from coee
due to low prices. He invested
Sh20,000 capital in the new

crop. The farmer has planted

four varieties red giant, red
oratia, ruthamer and rab red
giant.
Wangombe first plants the
seeds in a nursery. Once they
germinate after about two weeks,
he transfers the seedlings in polythene bags where they stay for up
to three weeks and are then taken
to the farm.
They are planted using fertiliser mixed with soil. The crop
must be watered thoroughly.
His rst batch of 50 tree tomatoes matured after two years and
earned him Sh25,000.
This encouraged him to grow

The minimum number of kilos

a single tree can produce in six
months. The fruits are picked
after every two weeks.

more fruits. But he was keen to

shorten the period the crop was
taking to mature.
Besides, the farmer realised he
was spending a lot of money on
fertiliser and pesticides.
The plants also needed a lot
of water to enable them to bear
large fruits and survive especially
during dry seasons.
Using knowledge on grafting
he had learned at Wambugu
Agricultural Training Centre in
Nyeri, the farmer took an indig-

enous tree tomato from a friend

which he grafted to the ones he
was planting.
But before I did that, I sought
help from the Horticultural
Crops Development Authority
where the fruit was tested and
given the green light to be grafted
to my variety, says Wangombe
who holds two certicates from
crop development authority and
another from the Kenya Plant
Health Inspectorate Service.
His grafted varieties are called
red giant oratia grafted, red giant
ruthamer grafted and rab red giant grafted.
Normally, a tree tomato takes
two years to bear fruits, but the
grafted one matures in nine
months.
The grafted variety is more
resistant to diseases, matures
faster and does well in high altitude as well as drier areas.
He supplies the fruits in markets and supermarkets in Nyeri
and Nairobi.
Unlike other plants, tree tomatoes can bear fruits all-year round
with a single tree producing between 55 to 85kg in six months.
The fruits are picked after every
two weeks and can survive for
between four to 10 years.
Besides
selling
fruits,
Wangombe has, at any given
time, 10,000 tree tomato seedlings, both grafted and nongrafted, which he sells at Sh100.
He sells over 500 seedlings a
month. He decided to sell them
at an average price because he
says the demand was nearly
equal.
John Wambugu, an agronomist
at the Wambugu Agricultural
Training Centre, says tree tomatoes thrive in fertile, light soil
that is rich in organic matter.
It requires a lot of water. The
plant is known to have shallow
root system, which can be bettered through grafting.
Unlike tomatoes which are
mostly used as vegetable, tree
tomato is eaten as a fruit and
is a rich source of Vitamin B
Complex such as thiamin and
riboavin.
The fruit also contains copper,
manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc and iron.

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BEST RESULTS TREE TOMATOES THRIVE IN FERTILE, LIGHT SOIL

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27

Seed breeding

Upland rice oers

new alternative

George Wambugu in
his tree tomato farm
in Nyeri. Right: The
jam he makes. JOSEPH
KANYI | NATION

Inside this beautiful fruit

theres jam, juice and wine
Wambugu
makes the
products
from tree
tomatoes,
and
they are
steadily
gaining
popularity

BY BONIFACE MWANGI

satnation@ke.nationmedia.com

ne by one, George
Wambugu peeled the small red
fruits and put them in a transparent plastic container.
He poured them in a juice
blender, then blended and then
sieved it.
Earlier, he had boiled the fruits
for 20 minutes and let them cool.
He harvested the fruits two
weeks ago. Fruits that have
stayed for two weeks have a high
concentration of juice. Boiling
makes the peeling of the outer
skin easier. But one should ensure
they do not over boil the fruits.
Wambugu is a tree tomato
farmer who grows the red oratia
variety and uses it to make jam,
juice and wine.
Once I have blended, I boil
the heavy paste again for several
minutes to extract water and,
thereafter, add sugar or stevia,
he explains.
The mixture, which at this point
has become jam, is cooled, and he
then packed in containers of different sizes.
He labels the products Oratia
Rich and he sells them to shopkeepers in Nyeri, where is he
lives.
The 30-year-old started with
propagating red oratia variety of
tree tomato and then diversied
into making jam.
However, he also buys the fruits
from farmers at Sh80 a kilo and
sells in Nairobi at Sh100.
Only red oratia variety of tree
tomato is suitable for making
the jam since 97 per cent of the
fruit is edible and contains few
or no seeds at all. I do not add
any chemical or preservative to
the jam or juice, he says, noting

George Wambugu in his tree tomato farm in Nyeri. Right: The Jam he makes.
JOSEPH KANYI | NATION

that he only adds lemon, sugar

or stevia.
A kilo of ripe red oratia fruits
can produce 700ml red paste
that is used in making his three
products.
The farmer sells his jam in
50ml, 100ml and 500ml sizes,
which go for Sh100, Sh200 and
Sh750.
For the juice, he packs only in
one-litre containers that go for
Sh100.
I do not make wine because
the market has not been receptive. Besides, that needs a lot of
ingredients and work, says the
farmer, who ventured into tree
tomato ve years ago after work-

125

The protein in grams the red oratio

variety contains, making it highly
nutritious.

ing in Tanzania for some time as a

deliveryman.
He learned the trade from a
fellow farmer, but he has worked
with a food expert to perfect it.
Kenya Bureau of Standards has
certied his products. He says his
biggest task now is to expand his
small business.
Wambugu teaches other farmers in Nyeri how to grow tree
tomato and add value.
He also sells seedlings at Sh50
each. His monthly earnings
from tree tomatoes total over
Sh100,000.
Martin Wanyeki, a nutritionist
and a food expert from Egerton
University, who has been working
with Wambugu, says red oratio is
a highly protable crop.
It contains 125g of protein,
10.3g carbohydrates, fibre 1.4g
and 0.4g nitrogen. The jam can be
used as any other in the market,
says Wanyeki, who advised farmers to add value to their produce
for higher pay.

RICE FARMERS in western Kenya will get a new variety

of the crop that grows faster, is less susceptible to diseases
and is drought-resistant.
The breed identied as Aromatic Upland Rice is among
the 75 new varieties that have been released by the Kenya
Agricultural Research Institute.
The rice is good for farmers in Bungoma, Kisumu, Siaya,
Vihiga and Busia. Other new varieties for various regions
include Nerica 10, 1 and 4, which take three months to mature and will give farmers an opportunity to plant twice a
year. Kari senior research scientist Philip Lelei said the rice
is rain-fed and is high-yielding and matures in 90 days.
With this breed, there is no need for farmers to irrigate
the elds given that the crop requires little amount of
moisture, Dr Lelei said.
He added some of the varieties have been blended with
the existing ones such as IR, Basmati and Sindano.
He urged farmers in western Kenya to embrace the variety to boost food security.
Bungoma County Director of Agriculture Arlington
Omushieni said the Aromatic Upland Rice, which is currently being grown in Bumula Constituency, has yielded
good results since it was introduced to some farmers in
June this year.
We bought the variety from Kari this year in May and
we have been distributing it to farmers across the county,
Omushieni told Seeds of Gold.
He added that a farmer can get a maximum of 2.5
tonnes from an acre translating into 50 bags weighing
50kg each.
Alex Wekesa, a rice farmer in Bumula, said he harvested
10 bags of the variety from his quarter acre last week.
Johannes Onyango, a rice farmer at Nyachoda Irrigation
Scheme in Kisumu County, said the upland rice is doing
well. I am optimistic that Ill reap better yields because the
crop has not been attacked by any disease, he said.
He expects approximately 95 bags from his two acre
rice eld.
Everline Okewo

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technology

BETTER VARIETY >> THE BANANAS ARE FREE OF DISEASE, MATURE FAST, HAVE BETTER YIELDS AND ARE SWEETER

How I propagate
tissue culture
banana seedlings

Nyakundi
saw a gap
in banana
seedlings
and lled
it, now he
produces
up to three
million
plants

BY DAVE OPIYO

@DaveOpiyo
satnation@ke.nationmedia.com

ucked away in the scenic

Nyamataro location of Kisii
County is a building that looks
like any other in the neighbourhood.
To reach it, one has to follow
a long winding dirt road. The
building has no fence but there
are plans to put up one. A septic
tank is also in the initial stages of
construction. A seedling nursery is
also coming up.
Despite its ordinary look, the
building houses a key laboratory that oers banana farmers
planting materials that are free of
disease, mature fast, have better
yield and are safe for human consumption.
This is Track Green MultiPurpose Company Limited, the
rst tissue culture laboratory in a
region famous for bananas.
Tissue culture is exposing plant
tissue to a specic regimen of nutrients, hormones and light under
sterile conditions to produce many
new crops, each a clone of the
original mother plant.
According to Cyrus Nyakundi,
the farmer who runs the laboratory, they have a capacity to produce at least 13 million banana
tissue culture every year.
So far, we have only done three
million, but we are working to increase our output, he says.
Developing tissue culture bananas starts with establishment of
a plant tissue by sterilising the material and initiating it into culture.
The tissue is further sub-divided and placed in a medium with
plant growth regulators that in-

duce the proliferation of multiple

shoots. This process is repeated
many times until the number
of plants desired is reached,
explains Nyakundi, an Education and Agricultural Extension
graduate from the University of
Nairobi who further sharpened
his knowledge of tissue culture
at a horticultural rm in Nairobi,
where he worked for many years.
Then hormones are introduced to induce rooting and the
formation of complete plantlets.
The plants are then moved from
the laboratory to the greenhouses
for further development. He,
thereafter, grows the plants in a
nursery before they are sold.
Nyakundi says he set it all up
in April this year. I saw a gap in
banana seedlings production and
exploited it. Cutting shoots from
mother bananas to plant is now
outdated and insucient.
One of the banana varieties that
he produces is known as Cavendish. The variety is popular in Europe, especially France.
Its shelf-life is more than 40
days. Exporters like this variety
because it meets the European Union standards, one of which is that
its ngers must be at least seven
inches, says Nyakundi, adding
that the long shelf-life enables it to
be transported to Europe by sea,
where it is sold at Sh24 per kilo.
On an acre, a farmer can plant
at least 500 stools (stumps or
rootstock that produce shoots or
suckers) of this variety.
Once the banana matures, you
can harvest six times after every
two months. If one bunch weighs
70kg, multiply this by Sh24 for a
kilo and the number of times you
will harvest to know how much
one can earn, says Nyakundi.
Other varieties propagated at the

Cyrus Nyakundi
tends to banana
seedlings in
his nursery in
Nyanchwa, Kisii
County. Below:
The crops in
the lab. DENNISH

CUTTING
SHOOTS FROM
MOTHER
BANANAS TO
PLANT IS NOW
OUTDATED

OCHIENG | NATION

Nyakundi

lab include FHIA-17 and Ngombe,

which are best for cooking and go
for Sh100 per seedling.
Nyakundi opened the lab in Kisii
because the region is the largest
producer of bananas.
I started the lab to make it

easy for farmers in the region to

access quality bananas at aordable prices, he says, adding that
he supplies bananas to at least 22
counties and a well-known politician from Nyanza has purchased at
least 6,000 seedlings from his lab.

Nyakundi says he has spent at

least Sh51 million, part of which
he sourced from donors.
Most of the money went to
biosafety cabinets, three autoclave
machines, a virus indexing machine and things like chemicals,
says the farmer, who has 28 employees.
One must have a licence from
Kenya Plant health inspectorate
Service to operate the facility.
Kenya Bureau of Standards must
also certify that the products produced are of high quality. Other
certication must also be received
from the Horticultural Crops Development Authority.

Cereals What you should know about growing sorghum

SORGHUM FARMING is an important agricultural activity, particularly for dry areas. In Kenya, the
crop is grown mainly in western,
northern Rift Valley, eastern and
some parts of Mt Kenya region.
The crop is fairly drought-resistant and it is also resistant to water
logging and yields reasonably well
in infertile soils.
However, small-holder farmers
growing the crop face several biophysical and socio-economic constraints in their eort to improve
productivity.
Before growing sorghum, start
by knowing the target market.
For instance, if your target market
is breweries, you will need to
grow the white sorghum such as
Gadam.

On the other hand, if you target

the millers for porridge and ugali
our, you will be safer growing the
red seeded varieties such as Seredo
and Serena, among others.
The crop requires a rainfall range
of about 420 to 630mm per year that
is well-distributed throughout the
cropping cycle. Sorghum does well in
areas that are of low altitudes preferably below 1,500m above sea level.
This is because in a high altitude
area, the crop is highly susceptible
to pests such as shoot y and downy
mildew disease.
The crop can be planted as an
intercrop with either a legume such
as beans, cowpea or green gram or
a cereal such as maize, or as a mono
crop.
When planted as a sole crop, the

spacing should be 60 by 15cm. The

land should be prepared like that for
maize.
Fertilisers are not commonly used
in growing sorghum, however, it responds well to farm-yard manure on
moist soils.
Birds are the major cause of crop
loss in sorghum. The most devastating species is the Sudan Dioch (Quelea Quelea Aethiopica). Others that
eat sorghum are weavers, starling
and bishops birds.
However, the goose neck sorghum
varieties are slightly resistant to birds
attack. The Ministry of Agriculture
has a quelea control unit, which is
responsible.
Sorghum shoot y (Antherigona
varia), is another major problem.
An adult shoot y lays eggs on the

underside of young plants. After

hatching, the young larvae enters the
funnel and moves down to feed on
the young stem, killing the shoot.
Control is mostly done by early
planting and application of insecticides.
Stem borers (Busseola fusca), the
common maize stalk borer, is another
problem. This, however, is easy to
control because it feeds in the funnels before moving down to feed on
developing tissues. Application of
insecticides kills it.
Stem borers are also controlled by
proper disposal of crop remains after
harvesting.
Muriuki Ruth Wangari, Department of Crops, Horticulture and
Soils, Egerton University

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29

FERTILISER USE OF COMPOST MANURE ENABLES CROPS TO BE CHEMICAL-FREE

New variety

SCIENTISTS SET TO UNVEIL NEW

MAIZE VARIETY FOR DRY AREAS
At the Kiboko Research Station in Makindu, two
trial gardens thrive with maize. The maize, which is
currently undergoing drought-tolerance and insectresistance testing, is bound to revolutionise farming,
according to scientists involved in the research.
Dr Murenga Mwimali, the agriculturalist coordinating the Water Ecient Maize for Africa project in
Kenya, explains that the maize is four times more
resistant to drought than what is currently available
in market.
This is the sixth experiment of the MON 810maize variety, which is not only drought-tolerant
but also fast-maturing, high-yielding and pest and
disease-resistant, Dr Mwimali says.
One more test will conclude the trial phase for the
maize allowing for the commencement of open eld
trials ahead of commercial approvals.
The project is being overseen by Agricultural Technology Foundation and funded by Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation. The technology has been donated
by Monsanto, Kenya.

Pauline Kairu

Taxes

I pick my pension from

traditional vegetables
Rioba, a
former
military
man grows
the crops,
harvests
and sells
himself in
a venture
that has
kept him
busy after
leaving
work

REPRIEVE FOR FARMERS AFTER

COURT STOPS CESS COLLECTION
The High Court in Nairobi has temporarily stopped
the levying of cess on agricultural produce in several
counties.
In a 33-page ruling read by Justice Isaac Lenaola
this week, the court said that cess collection was a
form of taxation which requires to be legitimised either by an Act of Parliament or by county by-laws.
An order is hereby issued directing Narok, Nairobi, Nyeri, Muranga, Trans Nzoia, Uasin Gishu, Nandi
and Nakuru to stop the levying or charging of agricultural produce cess or related tax until such time
they would have enacted a supportive legal framework or until they produce evidence of such a legal
framework within the next 30 days, ruled the judge.
The case was brought before the High Court by
the Cereal Growers Association and Mr Hugo Wood,
a large-scale cereals farmer.

Jacquline Kubania

Laboratory

BY RACHEL KIBUI

long the Nakuru-Nairobi

highway, various traders have
erected stalls selling different
horticultural produce that include
vegetables and fruits.
There is big business along the
road as travellers normally stop
and buy the produce.
Standing out among traders
with stalls at a spot on the highway is Rtd Colonel John Rioba,
58.
Rioba sells mainly traditional
vegetables that include sagaa
or saget (spider plant), managu
(night shade), kunde (cow peas)
and terere (amaranth), which he
harvests from his farm.
Afande nipe kunde mbili (Officer, sell me two bunches of
kunde), a man says as he hands
him Sh100. Each bunch goes for
Sh50.
Rioba retired about 10 years
ago and soon embraced traditional vegetables, which he grows
on his home in Lanet, Nakuru.
With his wife Lilian Kwamboka,
the Riobas have been growing the
vegetables on two acres for the
past two years. They own an acre
while they have leased the rest
from a neighbour at Sh6,000 a
year.
To plant cow peas and saget,
the farmer digs shallow trenches
at a space of 12 inches.
I then spread manure in the
trenches and put in the seeds and
cover the holes, says the farmer
who invested Sh4,000 when

NEW CROPS LAB BRINGS

SERVICES CLOSER TO FARMERS
Farmers seeking to export their horticultural produce now have one more place to test it for chemical
residue to know beforehand if it meets set standards.
This follows the opening of a laboratory in Nairobi
to oer the service. SGS, an inspection and certication company, launched the Pesticides Maximum
Residue Limit laboratory last week bringing closer to
farmers the services.
Speaking during the launch in Nairobi last week,
Albert Stockell, the managing director, said there was
need to have a laboratory set up locally to provide
subsidised testing to farmers and exporters.
We have been testing the level of chemicals in
foods but this was limited to the local market. After
receiving numerous requests from stakeholders in the
horticultural industry, we decided to set up a larger
and advanced laboratory, he said.
Farmers in Kenya are currently on the edge as the
European Union deliberates on if to impose sanctions
on produce from the country due to high-level chemical residue.
SGS will work with Horticultural Crops Development Authority, which issues regulations governing
certication of exporters and the Kenya Plant Health
Inspectorate managing director, which is mandated to
provide phytosanitary certicates after ensuring that
export produce meets the requirements and standards of the European Union.

Elizabeth Merab

John Rioba with his wife

Lilian Kwamboka at
their vegetable farm in
Lanet, Nakuru. CAROLINE
CHEBET | NATION

satnation@ke.nationmedia.com

starting the business.

However, night shade is harder
to produce as he has to plant the
seeds rst in seedbed for three
weeks before transplanting.
But what made them start selling their produce themselves?
There is a day last year we
went to a supermarket in Nakuru
and realised that people were
looking for traditional vegetables
but could not nd them, recounts
Kwamboka.
The couple were then selling
their produce to traders at wholesale price. They decided to start
selling the vegetables from the
boot of their car.
We took our produce at a spot
near the supermarket, which is
along the highway, and on the
rst day sold vegetables worth
Sh1,000, says Rioba, who was
making Sh400 a day by selling
to brokers.
Since then, they sell the vegetables themselves from the boot
of their car at the spot along the

GET IT FAST

SELL YOUR OWN

FARM PRODUCE
According to experts, it
makes agribusiness more
protable.
It is a way of informing
consumers that you value them
and what you do and can oer
the best.
Farmers get a chance
to explain their means of
production to consumers.
And nally, those who can
brand their products will be able
to sell more since consumers can
recognise and identify the items.

Nakuru-Nairobi highway.
Sundays are usually their peak
days as they sell vegetables worth
Sh10,000.
On average, Kwamboka says
they make up to Sh80,000 per
acre every month.
The earnings are better than
what they used to get from maize,
which they were initially growing.
Maize takes eight months to
mature, but the vegetables only
six weeks, and there is ready
market.
The couple use organic manure
from their 13 cows to grow the
vegetables.
People travelling to Nairobi
along the highway are our biggest
customers. They normally buy in
bulk.
They produce their own seeds
by leaving some of the vegetables
to overgrow. Then they harvest
seeds, dry and plant to save
costs.
Riobas experience as a farmer
has made him stand tall among
former military men. He is often
called to speak to his colleagues in
barracks in Nakuru on how to live
sustainably after retirement.
Georey Kahuho, a trainer at
Participatory Ecological Land
Use Management, says farmers
need to plough twice to ensure
they plant the seeds on ne soil.
Compost manure is the best as
it ensures no chemicals are used
yet the crops remain healthy. Traditional vegetables are protable
for small-scale farmers, especially
if they sell directly to consumers.
Getting into direct contact with
consumers, according to Kahuho,
also gives a farmer chance to explain his means of production.

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October 11, 2014 SATURDAY NATION

BREEDING EXPERTS WARN AGAINST CROSS-BREEDING OSTRICHES, WHICH CAN LEAD TO WEAKER BREEDS

Elegant bird that

oers you diversity
Apart from eggs
and meat, ostrich is
sought for its skin,
shells, feathers and
toes that fetch a
fortune, and can
now be kept even
by the small farmer
BY KIHU IRIMU

satnation@ke.nationmedia.com

he long-necked gigantic
bird standing eight feet tall
releases a deafening hissing
sound triggering others to join
on impulse.
In a ash, I am drowning
in ear-splitting noise, with the
restless birds moving about
while others dance and stretch
their necks on the ground as if
spoiling for a ght.
But a move as slight as a
cough or mere movement of
my hand to reach out for my
camera sparks a pandemonium.
And soon, the slowest bird
is already a considerable distance away vanishing as fast
as its leg can carry it into the
safety of the horizon in the
vast plains.
That was the welcome I got
at Maasai Ostrich Farm, the
only one in the region located
in Kitengela on the Namanga
Road, 25km from Nairobi.
We have 300 of them, explains the manager, Friedrick
Chideyi, to forewarn me of
how the elusiveness, speed
in running away and inherent
fear of human being, which is
typical of ostriches, were likely
to make me miss to see what I
expected.
The ightless birds known
for their urry plumes not so
long ago roamed freely in their
hundreds in all the entire area
from Thika Road, Kitengela to
Mombasa Road.
The ostrich was perhaps
only sought by local people for
its hardtoget eggs. The egg
is delicious and weighs about
1.5kg and if fried can be eaten
by 12 grown-ups.

But only the daredevils

could venture near, leave alone
touch the ostrichs eggs, which
are laid collectively in one nest
then guarded by females in
daytime and males during
the night. They hatch after
42 days.
As the grassland was invaded by developers from
1990s, the bird became rare.
Many Kenyan adults meet
ostrich only in books or lms
and may think it is an imported bird.
As the ones roaming free
retreat to Mara and Tsavo
National Park, the birds value
has been on the rise, but again
its real economic worth is
only known by those with real
stakes in ostrich farming sector and they are few.
The Maasai ostrich indigenous in Maasailand is the
commonest species all over
Kenya.
It is more preferred for its
tasty meat and eggs than its
sister the Somali ostrich found
in Samburu, Somaliland and
Ethiopia, notes a chef at
the farms resort.
Apart from eggs and
meat, ostrich is sought for
its skin which makes expensive shoes, handbags
and belts; shells which are
used to make lampshades
and other high-prized
ornaments; and the toes
used to make purses.
The grey dusters
and wall decorations
you may see in embassies and high-end shops
are mostly made of ostrich
feathers.
Ostrich is an asset, an unexploited resource. It can provide livelihood for thousands
of families, including the small
farmer, Chideyi insists, explaining that the bird is peaceful, does not destroy crops and
coexists with all other domestic animals as it feeds on rats,
grass and insects.
If viewed as a small or
medium business, an average
family can keep one, two or

40,000
The price in shillings of a
seven-month-old ostrich.

10m x 30m drip irrigation kit at 50k

EVEN THOSE
OWNING LAND
AT THE HEART
OF ITS NATURAL
HABITAT HAVE
BEEN RELUCTANT
TO START OSTRICH
FARMING
Dr Kennedy Mumo,
Maasai Ostrich Farm
resident veterinary
ocer
Ostriches at Maasai Ostrich Farm in Kitengela on the outskirts of Nairobi. Below: Worker John Githiga at the
farm with two-month-old chicks. KIHU IRIMU | NATION

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three birds subject to approval
by the Kenya Wildlife Service
(KWS), says an ocial.
One bird needs about an
acre and in its second year it
produces an egg every three
days during the breeding season, which comes twice a year,
from February to June and
October to December.
An egg goes for Sh800
while a kilogramme of ostrich meat goes for Sh1,400.
A seven-month-old bird will
produce 45kg meat.
Small-scale farmers can
start with one bird, which if
it is about seven months old
goes for Sh40,000. If well
taken care of, the bird can
remain highly productive
most of its life. It lives for 40
years with many going up to
80 years.
Ostrich, which eats natural
feeds supplemented with commercial ones, is also ideal for
sports and eco-tourism and
families can oer rides for a
fee.
It carries 70kg and can run
for long distance at 30km per

hour. It can pull a cart or chariot in a wedding and in other

ceremonies or for fun.
Although the demand for
ostrich meat has been on
steady rise, keeping the birds
has not taken roots.
Even those owning land
at the heart of its natural
habitat have been reluctant
to start ostrich farming,
says Dr Kennedy Mumo, the
Maasai Ostrich Farm resident
veterinary ocer, who points
out lack of information as the
major hindrance rather than
government read tape as many
would want us to believe.
Apart from Kenya, only
Uganda has started a breeding unit while Botswana has
had one for several years.
Kenya can take lead in training, policy development and
creating awareness on ostrich
farming.
The Ministry of Agriculture,
Livestock and Fisheries Development lists ostrich alongside quails and crocodiles as
emerging livestock with great
potential.

KWS has a number of

wardens assigned to discuss
with interested farmers, oer
training, visit their farms and
advise them how to go about
it, including where to get
recommended chicks and the
prices, but a warden described
local interest as low.
Maasai Ostrich Farm holds
awareness sessions on request
for school children as well
adults. They highlight challenges farmers face like biosafety. Often, the temptation
to cross-breed leads to spread
of diseases.
Dr Mumo says purity of
the breed is not an option if
the country wants to avoid
diseases like us that spread
fast, wiping out birds. The
other challenge is high mortality of chicks.
Out of every 100 chicks,
only 40 survive in the natural
habitat and 50 in captivity.
Predators like lions, hyenas,
dogs, leopards and human beings are the most notorious in
undermining development of
ostrich farming.

SIX REASONS TO
KEEP OSTRICHES

The birds produce

nutritious meat that
contains low fat, calories and
cholesterol.
An ostrich produces up to
40 eggs every year and
chicks usually reach marketsize in about 14 months.
A single bird can produce
up to 50 square metres of
leather and 36kg of feathers.
A female ostrich can oer
2,000kg of feathers in its
lifetime. These feathers are
used in making door mats and
for decorative purposes.
Egg shells are used for
decorating homes and
oces. The hard shells are
painted various colours for
the purpose.
Ostriches will help you
protect your farm by
feeding on predators like
snakes and rats.

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4
5

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poultry

October 11, 2014 SATURDAY NATION

31

Why not make your own incubators?

Farmer improvises the
electric gadgets from
chipboard, ts fans
and heaters, and sells
them at Sh70,000

BY EVERLINE OKEWO

@ivaachieng
satnation@ke.nationmedia.com

ive wooden incubators are neatly

arranged in a room at a farmers
house in Awendo, Migori County.
Vincent Aloo, 30, opens one of
them to reveal dozens of eggs waiting to hatch.
He then shuts the machine and
checks the temperature to ensure it
is at 37.5 degrees Celsius.
I have to turn the eggs every four
hours to enable them to get the heat
evenly, says Aloo, who makes the
incubators himself.
Hatching takes 21 days. During this
time, the heat must be regulated.
I have been making incubators
since 2009, depending on demand
from clients. The cost depends on
the number of eggs it can carry, he
tells Seeds of Gold.
It takes two weeks to make the
incubators, which cost between
Sh50,000 and Sh110,000.
I use chipboard to make the machines. I work with a carpenter who
makes the wooden part. If I want, for
instance, to make an incubator that

holds 1,000 eggs, I will require three

chipboards, measuring 3 by 2 metres,
which go for Sh4,500 per piece, says
Aloo, who studied agricultural engineering at Egerton University, and
graduated in 2004.
Once he has constructed the
wooden shell, Aloo does the electrical ttings.
This entails the installation of
fans, temperature control system
and heaters. A fan goes for Sh6,000.
There are fans specically designed
for the incubators. The heaters cost
Sh800 each. I order them from Nairobi, says Aloo, who has modelled
his machines on the imported ones
in the market.
After I have xed all the items, I
test the machine, improve on it if it is
not working to the optimum and then
deliver to the client.
He sells an incubator with a capacity for 240 eggs at Sh50,000, 540
eggs at Sh70,000 and 1,000 eggs for
Sh110,000.
Besides making incubators, his
other business is hatching chicks,
which he sells to poultry farmers.
I started hatching chicks because
many farmers asked for them more
than the incubators since they could
not raise the money to buy the machines, says Aloo, adding that his cli-

1,000

The number of eggs his biggest incubator holds. The agricultural engineer sells the gadget at Sh110,000.

Vincent Aloo
with some of
incubators,
and right, in
his hatchery.
JACOB OWITI AND
EVERLINE OKEWO
| NATION

ents come from Nairobi, Kakamega,

Vihiga, Kisii, Nyamira and Kisumu.
The engineer-turned-farmer has 200
layers and 100 cocks he bought from
TechnoServe, an NGO.
Aloo, who runs the business he has
named Awendo Kienyeji Hatchery,
gets eggs from his brood to hatch
into chicks.
He says he has a capacity to hatch
up to 5,000 chicks a month.
The young farmer went into poultry after failing to get a job.
I taught for four years in Nakuru
and Naivasha as an untrained teacher,
earning Sh7,000. I quit teaching and
went back to the village to plan my

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life. It is in 2009 that he decided to

put into use the knowledge he had
acquired at the university.
I made brochures and advertised
in Awendo that I was making incubators. I got two clients. One wanted a
machine with a capacity for 240 eggs
and the other, 120 eggs.
They believed in him and made
a downpayment of Sh30,000 and
Sh20,000, respectively.
Samwel Atula, Aloos client, says
the incubator he bought a year ago at
Sh35,000 is working perfectly.
But Aloo has yet to register his
innovation with the Kenya Bureau
of Standards. I have not bothered

because my main concentration is

hatching chicks.
Besides hatching eggs, he broods
chicks for farmers at a fee of Sh150
each.
Some farmers give me their
chicks soon after hatching to rear
them for three weeks, says Aloo, who
also hatches eggs at Sh50 each. He
has 10 workers and sells over 2,000
chicks a month.
His main challenge is lack of constant power supply due to frequent
blackouts.
I use a generator as a backup
though its expensive because it consumers a lot of fuel.

32 SEEDS OF GOLD

October 11, 2014 SATURDAY NATION

listing

GREEN MARKET : Where buyers and producers meet

BUYERS
SEEDLINGS: I am looking for
the following seedlings ready
for transplanting; sukuma wiki,
spinach, courgette, tomatoes,
capsicum and managu. The seller
should preferably in Nairobi and
its surroundings.
Contact: 0713147310
geokenya2014@gmail.com

BUYER: GOATS
Looking for certied Galla
and Boer goats for breeding.
Contact: Kimani
0722408539

PURPLE PASSION FRUITS: As

per demand.
Location: Eldoret
Contact: 0721235029,
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CUSTARD APPLE FRUITS: I am

looking for a constant supplier of
custard apple fruits (tomoko) for
export. Price negotiable.
Contact: Alex Gathaara
0726955817

SEEDLINGS: For avocado and

other fruits.
Quantity: As per demand
Price: Sh70
Location: Pipeline, Nakuru
Contact: 0787579322

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INCUBATOR : Automatic incubator capacity for 540 chicken

eggs.
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FRESH SOYA BEANS: I am

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Contact: Cornelius Rono
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KIENYEJI CHICKEN: I am interested in buying kienyeji chicken
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Contact: Dennis, 0718160609
POULTRY FARMING HANDBOOK:
A guide to help farmers move to
the next level.
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Contact: 0727957029
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FISH: Tilapia and catsh
Quantity: 15 ponds. Each pond
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Location: Vihiga County
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Contact: 0722809380

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Contact: 0728343327
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INCUBATOR: Chicks suppliers,
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services.
Quantity: As per demand
Location: Kahawa West
Contact: Muhia Steve
0722850673
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Price: Sh24 per seedling
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Price: Negotiable
Location: Karachuonyo, Homa
Bay County
Contact: Gordon Otieno,
Nyagowa 0727040845
KIENYEJI CHICKS: Kari Kienyeji
chicks from two weeks to two
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Price: Two weeks old at Sh220, a
month at Sh 320 and two months
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Contact: 07205020061
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Quantity: 32
Price: Sh3,500 each
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Contact: Loise, 0722957251
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Price: Negotiable
Contact: Peter Sironka,
0722581153
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DUCKS: As per demand

Price: Sh1,000 (negotiable)
Location: Nyeri
Contact: Elisha 0723806977
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CHICKEN: Kari chicken as per
demand.
Price: One day old (vaccinated
against marek) at Sh100, one
week old at Sh150, two weeks
old at Sh200, three weeks old
at Sh250 and one month old at
Sh300.
Location: Rongai, Nairobi
Contact: Ochieng 0716259330 /
0716259223
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SELLER :
SEEDLINGS
Grafted Hass avocado variety.
Quantity: As per demand
Price: Sh70 for Hass and
Sh20 for Purple passion
fruits. Location: Thika and
Muranga. Contact: Henry
0707548300

BEEHIVES: (Top bar) and any

consultancy on apiculture.
Contact: 0707 889407, Dennis
Mukora or 0731 538009, Isaac
Nzuki.
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Price: Sh12,000 (22 months) and
Sh8,000.00 (11 months).
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Contact: Ngatia, 0728901522
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Pigs availabe from 10 months
as per demand in Karatina
Contact: 0723836684/
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KUROILER CHICKS: Day old

chicks
Quantity: As per demand
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MODERN LANGSTROTH
BEEHIVES: We give buyers free
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Contact: 0719120021
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Quantity: Throughout the year
Price: Starting price Sh150 and
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Location: Farms in Nakuru and
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Price is negotiable Contact:
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BEES and GOATS: Bio bees for
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GREEN GRAMS AND DRY WHITE
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and 5,000 bags per week (dry
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Contact: 0725055887
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INCUBATORS: Chicks suppliers,

makers of commercial (automatic) egg incubators also hatching
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Quantity: As per demand.
Location: Kahawa West
Contact: Muhia Steve
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Email: kentccs07@gmail.com

RABBIT: Does and kids

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SELLER:
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A large supply of Irish potatoes
available in Mau Narok at
Sh5,000 per bag. Contact
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KARI KIENYEJI CHICKS: As per

demand.
Price: A day old at Sh100, one
week old at Sh150 and two weeks
old Sh200.
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Contact: Nancy, 0723-736025
MORINGA LEAF POWDER: As
per demand.
Price: Sh200 per 50g packet
Location: Joska, Kangundo Road,
Nairobi.
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PASSION FRUIT SEEDLINGS:
Purple.
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Price: Sh20 each
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Contact: 0728698433
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GREENHOUSE MATERIALS: Irrigation pipes and ttings
Price: Negotiable.
Location: Nyeri.
Contact: 0704586333/
0705922288
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SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

Readers break kola as

Arrow of God pierces
through the 50th year
BY JOHN KIBET

satnation@ke.nationmedia.com
Chinua Achebes Arrow of God has struck its 50th
Press Day this year triggering a series of commemorative activities across the world. The novel was published
in 1964, just three years after Nigerias independence
and focuses on matters governance, power struggle and
leadership from personal to national levels.
Rated as Achebes greatest novel, Arrow of God was the
third book of the iconic writers works by Heinemann
Educational Books after his popular Things Fall Apart
(1958) and No Longer at Ease (1960) that formed a trilogy of his novels about Africas traditional life from the
Igbo society.
Many forums have been lined up throughout the year
to mark the books 50th anniversary of publication as
well as commemorate Achebes works and contributions
to the world literary scene. Celebrations began in his
home-country mid this year when the book toured various
cities in Nigeria for local readers to break kola. The fetes
later moved to Mexico and the United Kingdom where
The Igbo Conference held a symposium on the book in
London last week.
A two-day colloquium has also been planned for October 24 and 25 at the University of London, UK, in which
two Kenyan writers are listed among expected speakers.
According to the programme, Prof Simon Gikandi and
Billy Kahora will feature in the closing panel at the conference to discuss Achebes inuence; translating Achebe;
Achebe and post-colonial studies; global reception of
Arrow of God, trauma and ecology and African writing
post-Achebe.
Set in a Nigerian village in the early 20th century, the
novel revolves around Ezeulu, a rather enigmatic chief
priest of Umuaro community. As the representative of the
communitys god, Ulu, Ezeulu is beset with challenges
navigating the myriad power struggles both at home and
in the community amid rapidly changing circumstances
among the people.
At one time, he considers himself the most powerful
individual with near absolute authority over his domestic and communal charges. He is the custodian of the
peoples cultural and religious customs and declares the
beginning of important ceremonies such as the feasts of
the Pumpkin Leaves and the New Yam Feast. Yet it is the
exercise of such or failure thereof in the complex mix of
things that lead to his downfall.
On the one hand, Ezeulu is ranged against his restive
sons jostling to succeed him as spiritual leader and on
the other, he faces competition for power and authority
from Ezidemili and his friend Nwaka in what pans out
to be a supremacy battle between their gods, Ulu and
Idemili.
The book easily compares with Things Fall Apart though
its setting appears slightly older than the latter. It is also
more intricate as it delves into the subtle conicts and
relationships of issues in society. Achebe later acknowledged Arrow of God as the book that he could most likely
be caught sitting down to read again.

LITERARY DISCOURSE | Author insists feminism is not for unhappy women

In Chimamandas new book,

women cant do without men
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19
audiences in poking fun (in a well-delivered
dramatic aside) at men who do not exhibit
the biological characteristics associated
with maleness (eg muscular power).
This is disturbing because in places
like Kenya, male power is a queer aair.
In our backward thinking (no pun meant),
we have a tendency to feminise men we
disagree with and to tacitly threaten them
with sodomy.
She also tends to equate masculinity with
patriarchy; to me, men do not have to sway
their hips when walking, gesture with limp
wrists, or speak with high-pitched voices to
reject patriarchal excesses. Masculinity is
ne as long as men dont use it to subjugate
women and fellow men.
Adichie stresses that the gender mess in
Africa results from skewed socialisation of
boys and girls, which, I think, can be corrected with the proper upbringing of future
generations. But it is not clear how adult
women, trapped in patriarchal systems, can
free themselves from their servitude.
Although she does not sing panegyrics
to the elusive joys of African motherhood
as Flora Nwapa and Buchi Emecheta before the 1980s, Adichie appears not just
ready yet to openly disagree with Gwendolyn Mikells claim in African Feminism
(1997) that African practices of gender are
distinctly heterosexual, intrinsically heterosexual, and pronatal.
Some of the earliest African feminists to
depart from Mikells view include Juliana
Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi in her Gender in African Womens Writing (1997), in which the
Cameroonian critic agrees with Adrienne
Richs and Monique Wittigs condemna-

MARTIN MUKANGU | NATION

In We Should All be Feminists, Chimamamanda also supports Kenyas Binyavanga Wainaina

(above) for coming out as gay and vehemently condemns Nigerias draconian anti-gay laws.
tion of compulsory heterosexuality and the
marginalisation of lesbian women.
For the record, I no longer believe in
coitus. Sex is the source of all evils. Its
a selsh, dirty, and invasive practice we
should all stop. If you must have children,
they should be adopted to help ease the
pressure on the worlds natural resources
and save the environment. The closest
we should come to anything like sexual
pleasure should be when were screwing
the system.
In Adichies book, it appears women
cannot do without men. Just as Adichies

I no longer believe in coitus. Sex is the

source of all evils. Its a selsh, dirty and
invasive practice we should all stop. If
you must have children, they should be
adopted
Prof Evan Mwangi, the author

great-grandmother is celebrated for leaving one man for another like Chinua
Achebes Ekwe in Things Fall Apart, girls
in Adichies book should marry a man of
their choice. She even accepts the logic of
competition, as long as that does not mean
women competing for a man.
To be fair to Adichie, she has elsewhere
supported Kenyas Binyavanga Wainaina
for coming out as gay and she has vehemently condemned Nigerias draconian
anti-gay laws. Both in the book and her
TEDxEuston speech on which it is based,
Adichie successfully debunks the stereotype
that a female feminist has to be unfeminine,
whereby a liberated woman is expected to
be a male-like phallic female who adopts
all the oppressive and aggressive characteristics of men.
As usual, Adichie is incapable of saying
anything boring. In this new book she is
as entertaining, provocative, and original
as ever.
Despite the few heteronormative lapses
in it and its failure to condemn coitus, I really enjoyed reading the book and I highly
recommend it.
evanmwangi@gmail.com

PROFILE

Award-winning author who speaks for the downtrodden

BY EMILIA ILIEVA

ilieva@africaonline.co.ke

he recent publication of Blue

White Red (Indiana University
Press, 2013), the English translation (by Alison Dundy) from the original
French of the rst novel of Alain Mabanckou, calls for a celebration of the
vast work of this Congolese author, who
has become one of the most inuential
African writers of the 21st century.
Poet, novelist and literary scholar,
Mabanckou, 48, has received wide
acclaim for his exuberant works, innovative use of African oral tradition
and for being a champion of the integration of African literature into world
literature. Mabanckou studied letters
and philosophy at a college in his native Pointe-Noire and then left Congo
to pursue a law degree in Paris. Upon
graduation, he worked for a while in the

eld of corporate law. But all along, he

had been writing. His rst publications
were three volumes of poetry. However,
these came out of small and independent publishers in France and remained
largely unnoticed.
Blue White Red was taken up by the esteemed Prsence Africaine and, upon its
publication in 1998, won the Association
of French-Language Writers Literary
Grand Prize of Black Africa. The novel,
whose title makes an ironic allusion to
the colours of the French ag, focused
on the all-consuming desire of Congolese
youth to migrate to France and live the
glamorous life of Parisian dandies. This
illusory vision, itself a symptom of a pervasive post-colonial malaise, is shown to
metamorphose into a nightmarish trap
in which human lives are malformed forever. Encouraged by his early publishing
success, Mabanckou abandoned the
legal profession and dedicated himself

entirely to literature. Within a decade,

he produced seven more novels and a
ctionalised memoirs. These have been
translated into some 15 languages of the
world. Since 2002 he has been writing
and teaching in the US, currently at the
University of California, Los Angeles,
while regularly returning to Congo.
One shocking discovery Mabanckou
made early on was that, of the six African
languages he spoke before he learned
French at age six, none had a written
tradition. To get to know anything about
writing, he had to immerse himself in
French literature, which was in any
case the only one taught at school.

IN SUM

n Author: Alain Mabanckou

n Book: Blue White Red (2013)
n Publisher: Indiana University
Press

Under these circumstances, the only

way to express something directly to
his people was to break the chains of
pure French. He came to believe, as
the protagonist of one of his novels puts
it to his students, that the French language isnt a long quiet river, but rather a
river to be diverted. His eorts towards
this diversion have become a triumph,
and his prose breathes with a rhythm
that recreates the Congolese way of
speaking.
Mabanckous prize-winning ction
deals with the shadowy existence of
migrants in Paris, the manufactured
crises in post-independence Africa, and
the arrogance of Western civilisation. A
hallmark of his writing is the presence of
laughter in the midst of desperation, and
the use of a rich gamut of humour as a
tool of criticism. One point that clearly
comes out of all his creations concerns
the autonomy of the individual will, the

inescapability of personal responsibility,

the choice human beings must make to
act for good or for evil.
Broken Glass (2005), Mabanckous
sixth novel, which rmly established
his reputation as a first-rate writer,
presents a view of Africas urban rira
with gusto and irreverence. The narrator,
Broken Glass, is a 64-year-old suspended
teacher, who becomes a regular at the
local bar Credit Gone West.
Having recognised his literary abilities, the bars owner, Stubborn Snail,
soon gives Broken Glass a notebook and
assigns him the task to record, witness
and pass on the history of the place.
Broken Glass gets it clear that:
the boss of Credit Gone West
doesnt like ready-made phrases like
in Africa, when an old person dies, a
library burns, every time he hears that

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SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

REFLECTIONS OF A SCHOLAR | Thoughts of a pioneering man of letters

A hug for Chris Wanjala and

all the non-ction writers
The man who in 80s
felt there was a need
to take standpoints
on African literature
based on principled
study is currently
doing the opposite
BY AUSTIN BUKENYA

stanation@ke.nationmedia.com

owe my Bakoki, Chris

Wanjala, a hug. In fact,
its been pending for over
ve years now.
When we last met, in the hall
of a commercial bank in Anniversary Towers in early 2009,
he was just going to envelop
me in his characteristic bear
hug, when I held out my hand,
maybe with a faint scream, asking him to hold o!
I had to dispel his bewilderment with elaborate
explanations of how decrepit
I felt, and how I didnt want
him to cause a medical emergency in those inhospitable
surroundings.
The surroundings were, indeed, inhospitable, as I had just
been told that my account had
dried up, and they had closed
it, killed it, or whatever they
do to such accounts. There are
few things worse than being
sick and broke.
Since then, I have only been
following Chris Wanjala on
social media. I am proud of him
for being one of the few of our
generation in East Africa not to
be intimidated by technology,
especially ICT, and also for
his indefatigable and uniquely
articulate engagement with all
matters human and humane.
He has also consistently
said positive things about my
humble literary practice and,
although I know some of them
are a little exaggerated, Im inclined to believe them. After
all, a little appreciation never
did anyone any harm.
But what brought Christ
Wanjala back to my mind
are the recent posts on social
media regarding his activities
at the Kenya Non-Fiction and
Academic Writers Association.
Strangely, I hadnt heard of
this important organisation
before!
But then, I noticed that even
my sister, the indefatigable
minister (servant) of the
arts, Margaretta wa Gacheru,
was wondering how to get in
touch with the association.
Well, Margaretta, follow
the bee and eat honey. The
Non-Fiction Writers are sitting pretty and tight on the
third floor of Viking House
in Westlands and some of
their phone numbers are
0724711562, 0729145836 and
0722837731.
I will certainly drop in on
them when next I am that side
of town, and maybe I will catch

up with Chris Wanjala there.

What doesnt surprise me,
however, is that Wanjala should
initiate this kind of organisation since he is one of the most
knowledgeable and serious
people about literature and
writing in our region.
As such, he knows that ctive literature, which we tend to
privilege, is only a tiny fraction
of the main business of texts.
Indeed, most of the texts that
we produce or have to respond
to are patently non-ction.
Secondly, Wanjala knows
that all texts, whether of
fiction or non-fiction, are
seriously important. Indeed,
as the football coach told his
team, they are not just a matter
of life and death. They are far
more serious.
Some sections of society,
for example, have subjected
others to slavery and exploitation for millennia, just because
some holy text says, as the
exploiters claim, that those
others have to be their slaves,
hewers of wood and drawers
of water.
Others stone, bomb and
behead those that they regard
as indels and apostates because they think thats what
their holy writ prescribes.
Constitutions, too, over which
such epic battles as referenda
are waged, are plainly texts.
The main problem about
these situations is that many
of the touted promises, prescriptions or provisions of
the writings are often gross
misreadings and misinterpretations of those texts.

Profound respect

In Christianity, for example,

many so-called churches have
been turned into dinning halls
(and Im not talking about dining but dinning, noise-making
madhouses), with every selfproclaimed prophet yelling
about what the Bible says,
when very few of them have
ever engaged that text with the
respect and seriousness that it
deserves.
Thus, experts like Prof Wanjala know that the only measure
that can save texts, and ultimately humanity, is thorough,
competent and conscientious
reading and interpretation.
This is probably the fruit
of the kind of education and
training that Wanjala and
we, his agemates, received in
handling texts. As disciples and
apprentices of the pioneers of
Practical Criticism, mostly
Cambridge men, like I.A.
Richards and F.R. Leavis, or
of their immediate students,
we were persuaded to treat all
texts with the most profound
respect, and never to take anything for granted in a text.
The enterprise was to establish and promote literary and
textual study as a professional
discipline and practice with
basic principles and a strict
method that systematically

FILE | NATION

Kenya Non-Fiction and Academic Writers Association chairman

Chris Wanjala. Standpoints on African literature should be based on
principled study of African texts.
and fully accounted for the
competent readers response
to a text, whether ction or
non-ction.
You were not expected to
comment on a text until and
unless you had subjected it
to an astringent scrutiny, in
the words of F.R. Leavis, under
whom I was privileged to study
for a term in 1966.
The hugely inuential critical journal that Leavis founded
and edited for 30 years was, not
surprisingly, called Scrutiny.
What the practical critics,
or new critics as they were
called in America, set out to do
was to raise literary scholarship

You were not

expected to
comment on a text
until and unless
you had subjected
it to a astringent
scrutiny, in the
words of F. R.
Leavis

above the decadent, dilettante

and amateur ramblings, based
on vague notions of taste, talent, culture and inspiration,
that dominated literary discourse in the late nineteenth
and early twentieth century,
and practise it as a precise,
principled discipline based
on concrete and objective
evidence.
This is underlined in I.A.
Richards manuals, Practical Criticism and Principles of
Practical Criticism, on which
our generation was raised.
As it turned out, this upbringing stood us in very
good stead in East Africa as
we struggled to preserve the
integrity of the literary discipline in the face of the rabid
ideological onslaught to which
it was subjected through most
of the 1970s and 1980s.
Wanjala felt it was necessary to take Standpoints on
African Literature, a title
of one of his early texts, but
these standpoints were not to
be based on raw emotional or
ideological excitement but on
the principled study and scrutiny of African texts.
Doesnt he deserve a hug for
that, however unsystematic
and unprincipled?
abubwase@yahoo.com

Author breaks
French chains one
letter after another
CONTD FROM PAGE 37
worn-out clich he gets mad,
hell say depends which old
person, dont talk crap, I only
trust whats written down
As Broken Glass warms up
to his project, he captures the
history of not just Credit Gone
West but that of its neighbourhood and the entire ghostly
country since independence.
Broken Glass adopts a narrative
technique that is unique and extravagant: the whole notebook
is lled with one single meandering sentence, punctuated
only by commas and empty
spaces, with twisted words,
incoherent words, nonsensical
words . . . in this shit-poor language of mine. Oral tradition
runs like a deep current in the
writing and is vital to both the
shape and the meaning of the
stories of these shattered souls
who eagerly pour their bleeding
hearts out to Broken Glass and
who retain a glimmer of hope
that perhaps lifes waiting for
me somewhere.
Mabanckous great achievement lies in the fact that he
has expanded the realm of the
literary by opening entry into
it of the sordid tales of those
who are usually kept outside
the mainstream national narratives.
The oral tradition, however,
merges with other literary
currents. Mabanckou makes
reference to some 300 books
in his novel, giving prominence
to titles such as Petals of Blood,
Gods Bits of Wood, The Famished Road, Satanic Verses, A
Confederacy of Dunces, Death
on Credit, One Hundred Years
of Solitude, and The Catcher in
the Rye. Through the use of
this device, Mabanckou not
only charts his literary terrain, but also draws attention
to the interconnectedness of all
literatures. Memoirs of a Porcupine (2006) won Mabanckou
the prestigious Renaudot Prize.
Based on an African folktale,
the novel is written from the
perspective of a porcupine who
was born as the animal double
to a Congolese boy with a murderous predisposition.
After some 40 years of
gory service, during which he
dutifully kills any villager who
crosses his vengeful masters
path, the rodent, who, contrary
to tradition, outlives the man,
withdraws to the hollow of a
baobab tree to seek solace in
confession. The memoirs he
delivers, turns nasty, witty
and perceptive, builds into a
dark record of human insecurity, feebleness and moral
cowardice.
In 2007, following a literary season in which most of
Frances major book awards
were won by foreign-born authors, a multinational group of
writers, one of whose spokespersons Mabanckou became,
issued a Manifesto for a World
Literature in French. The 44
signatories to the document
declared: The centre, from
which a franco-French litera-

ture supposedly radiated, is no

longer the centre the centre
is henceforth everywhere, at
the four corners of the world.
In the words of the manifesto,
French had to be freed from
its exclusive pact with France
and French literature had to be
turned into world literature
written in French. We will no
longer come from a country or
a continent, but rather from a
language, Mabanckou said in
a separate statement.
This idea echoed what
Goethe in 1827 famously called
world literature: I am more
and more convinced, Goethe
remarked, that poetry is
the universal possession of
mankind, revealing itself everywhere and at all times I
therefore like to look about me
in foreign nations, and advise
everyone to do the same. National literature is now a rather
unmeaning term; the epoch of
world literature is at hand, and
everyone must strive to hasten
its approach.
Nearly two centuries later,
Eurocentrism still stands on
the way to the realisation
of Goethes projection. Mabanckou, however, believes that
its time has come. Indeed, the
movement for world literature
in French is part of Mabanckous larger vision of one world
literature. He has urged for a
vigorous programme of translation to speed up its arrival.
Setting an example, in 2008, he
translated Nigerian Uzodinma
Iwealas haunting novel Beasts
of No Nation into French.
But to translate presupposes
to know one another well. We
dont know enough about our
own continent, he pointed out
in a conversation with fellow
writer Binyavanga Wainaina.
I want to see a Kenyan writer
writing a novel set in CongoBrazzaville. We need to show
our readers that we can deal
with our continent, that our
writing can pass through the
boundaries of colonisation.
In fact, Mabanckous Broken
Glass has already shown the
way. His bitter life notwithstanding, Broken Glass has
had one experience that has
been entirely redemptive: I
have travelled widely, without
ever leaving my native soil,
Ive travelled, one might say,
through literature, each time
Ive opened a book the pages
echoed with a noise like the
dip of a paddle in midstream,
and throughout my odyssey I
never crossed a single border,
and so never had to produce
a passport, Id just pick out a
destination at random, setting
my prejudices firmly to one
side, and be welcomed with
open arms in places swarming with weird and wonderful
characters.
Alain Mabanckous work can
be seen as an ode to that literature without a single border,
of which African literature is an
integral part.
Prof Ilieva teaches Literature
at Egerton University

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Readers corner

Separate
Fasihi from
grammar

Literary Discourse

Let us stop teaching

and perform orature
BY EDWIN OTEYA LUNYIRO

A number of contributors on this page have decried

the death of Oral Literature in schools. Some have
blamed teachers and others the curriculum. I wish
not to continue with the mourning and lamentations,
but to suggest some remedies to help enliven this
noble subject.
First, S K Akivaga and A B Odaga in Oral Literature A school Certicate Course dene Orature as
...a spoken, acted ( performed ) art whose media like
that of written literature is words. Therefore, this is
where the epicentre of Orature tribulations lies.
In many lessons, Orature in theory reigns supreme.
Texts are read and notes made. Performances narrations, singing and dancing, riddling, unravelling
puzzles and others rarely feature in class. Let teachers breathe life into these lessons by shifting from
written Oral Literature to performances even if it
means carrying the class to the school halls. Again,
let the actors and actresses resource persons be
the students themselves.
Instead of only watching folk songs and dances
and listening to oral narratives during the Kenya
national drama and music festivals, let us take their
recorded material to class and use them as teaching
and learning aids. I reminisce with nostalgia the radio
lessons and my primary school teachers of the 1990s.
We ought to take memory cards, CDs and ash discs
with Orature genres to class and play them. Let us
use our desktops, laptops, DVD players, touch and
at screens for this. Crying for lack of a cassette
player wont quench the thirst of our urbane-culturealienated pupils and students.
As Geography, History and Science teachers plan
academic trips, let us take Orature students to museums, Bomas of Kenya and theatres where Orature is
performed. A group like Zamaleo, based in Nairobi,
specializes in exclusive Orature performances. Invite
such groups to your schools. Let the April, August and
December homework and assignments be to collect
data on this subject from our aging grandparents,
lest they die with untapped oral knowledge.
Let us tell our learners that banters are not the
only sub-genres of Orature. There are many others.
On Saturdays morning let the children tune in to
KBC Kiswahili service for Kipindi cha Watoto. Let
teachers in nurseries and primary schools encourage children songs, riddles, tongue twisters, jokes,
narrations and others.
Mr Lunyiro is a journalist and teacher of English and
Literature based in Nairobi.

Syllabus coverage is
the key to sucess
BY FRANKLIN MUKEMBU
The exam season is here with us and every school
is preparing students for KCSE. Many have invited
motivational speakers to encourage candidates while
others have bought mountains of revision materials.
This is all good but I wish to point out that motivation
without adequate preparation is futile. The best way
to prepare candidates is covering the syllabus in time.
That marks the dierence between performing schools
and those that aspire to join that short list.
The secret is performing schools make sure that the
syllabus is covered by Second Term and the students
are left with all the time to revise. Completion of syllabus in time inspires a lot of condence in candidates
and this applies to the six Ps of success Prior Proper
Preparation Prevents Poor Performance.
No matter how much we try to employ other methods of enhancing performance, it can never work
unless the students are convinced that the syllabus
has been thoroughly covered. The syllabus should
be covered in totality without speculation of what is
likely to be examined.
Mr Mukembu is a student of Literature at UoN.

To boost writing standards,

go beyond literary awards
BY WAPANGANA WAFULA

iterary critics and some

lovers of writing have on
several occasions decried
the low literary standards in
Kenya.
There is a dearth of writers; we
are staring at a literary desert;
we hardly ever beat Ugandans,
Zimbabweans or West Africans
in literary contests, we say.
Indeed, these fears are not altogether unfounded. The question
is how can we change this state
of aairs?
One way of encouraging creative writing has been the award
of prizes in literary competitions.
The Jomo Kenyatta Award for
Literature, the Wahome Mutahi
Prize for Literature and the Burt
Award for African Literature are
examples. Indeed, these awards
have encouraged creative writing
in some quarters. However, they
have neither enhanced the study
of literature nor encouraged the
reading culture in Kenya.
It would be foolhardy to
imagine that we shall only develop writers by awarding those
deemed the best among the contestants. There is an urgent need
to go beyond these awards.
It is high time we stopped
seeing creative writing as the
other. As a country, we should
ensure training and development
of creative writers. Schools and
institutions of higher learning
should make deliberate eorts
towards this end.
Teachers should go beyond the
prescriptive compositions writing

FILE | NATION

The 2014 Wahome Mutahi and 2011 Jomo Kenyatta Literature prizes
winner Yusuf K Dawood. Awards alone cannot improve our literary
standards.
methods that result in so much
duplicity one can hardly tell
apart the so called best compositions, with no indication of
genuine creativity.
Teachers should encourage
learners to consider writing as
a profession. Recently, I met a
13-year-old girl from St Christophers School who I dare say has
a shrewd creative mind. With the
help and support of her parents
and teachers, she has set her
mind on becoming a creative
writer in future.
A chat with two young boys
from Moi Forces Academy, during
the Nairobi International Book
Fair, brought to the fore intricate
plots. There is great potential in
these young people but they must
be trained and mentored to excel
in the writing business.
More needs to be done in col-

leges. The unit called The Art of

Writing in some of our universities is, I am afraid, nothing more
than the usual introduction-bodyconclusion composition writing
chat. Tertiary institutions should
stop treating creative writing as a
unit in a course and instead consider running a creative writing
course on its own. This is successfully done elsewhere.
Publishing houses should also
be involved in the development
of writers. After all, they are the
beneciaries of such endeavours.
Good writers will translate to
quality products; they ease
the editors burden, reduce the
time it takes to produce texts
and ultimately reduce the cost
of production.
Mr Wafula is an editor in a publishing rm in Nairobi.

Budding writers should up their game

and think global to beat literary veterans
BY PEEL MAINA MACHARIA
Stop any educated person
and ask him to name any Kenyan
creative writer.
If you are person who regularly
explores the world of literature
and books, you will frown with
frustration after the fth person
responds.
Many people will name Ngugi
wa Thiongo and our beloved John
Kiriamiti but their faces will be as
blank as new foolscaps when you
mention Nganga Mbugua and
Kinyajui Kombani among others. Consequently, many Kenyan
creative writers are shivering in
the cold of non-recognition and
most of them are languishing
in abject poverty because they
lack serious jobs to fend for
their families.
Even the choices of setbooks
for our literature classes make
one to suspect that our upcoming
writers either are or are considered to be literary featherweights
because they are dominated by
veterans. They silently call on

upcoming writers to grow their

muscles more as accomplished
writers whisper into the ears of
the digital generation through
their books.
Now, am not dismissing the
old generation of writers. Their
pens were dipped in lightning
and the likes of Ngugi have
received worldwide respect. If
our upcoming writers are to be
heard, I believe we should write
more powerful works of literature
to get the attention of the world
as case studies show that charity
begins abroad before your own
countrymen appreciate you.
How come we got to know
Binyavanga Wainaina and Yvonne
Owuor only when they won prizes
abroad? It seems that for our
young writers, recognition and
money will be like a gment of a
ckle imagination if foreign markets do not buy their books.
Ngugi and other intellectuals hesitate to come back. Let
us not blame them, we will do
better by promoting ourselves.
The fat ram does not have to

get advertised. Many readers

confess to buying more foreign
works than local ones. I fear we
cannot blame these readers too
much as foreign writers are more
adventurous and experimental.
Read Orhan Pamuks My Name
is Red and you meet a novel with
more than seven narrators and
the writer diplomatically gives a
dog, Satan and even the colour
red a chance to narrate but cautions the reader to believe the
exact opposite of what Satan
says. Our youthful crop of writers should also learn from the
successful veterans.
Some young poets and writers have never read the works
of Jonathan Kariara and Austin
Bukenya yet even world renown
writers confess that learning at
the feet of the gurus will help
you write more powerful works.
Budding writers have the talent
but let us think global to increase
chances of success.
Mr Macharia is a teacher at Dr
Kiano Boys, Kangema.

BY LEON RUPIA
Literature and its Swahili
equivalent, Fasihi, are distinct subjects from English
and Kiswahili grammar.
However, the 8-4-4 syllabus
treats them as part of the language subjects. I strongly feel
Literature and Fasihi should be
independent subjects.
Firstly, Literature and
Fasihi are vast because they
cover both oral and written
forms, and require a lot of
time to be covered well. As
a result of their integration
with English and Kiswahili,
respectively, they compete
for time with grammar. The
competition sees fewer lessons
being used to cover Literature
content, especially setbooks.
The books are read and discussed in a hurry, with many
students being spectators. Consequently, most candidates are
ill-prepared for the Literature
paper and this contributes to
poor performance in KCSE.
Secondly, Literature and Fasihi
serve purposes that grammar
cannot do impart human values, promote critical thinking
and instil an appreciation for
other peoples culture. The
ministry of Education should
separate these subjects.
Mr Rupia is a Media student.

This is how
to stop
exam fraud
BY EDWARD LOKIDOR
Cheating in national examination is a vice that has always
given the National exams council a headache. Every year,
thousands of candidates miss
results because of cheating.
We need to look for a lasting
solution to this vice.
I believe teachers and creative writers have a vital role
top play in instilling honesty
and hardwork through their
writings. Teachers of English
and Kiswahili have the task of
cultivating honesty in tests by
constructing comprehension
passages that praise sheer
handwork and honesty.
In the same vein, creative
writers can also come up with
creative works that convey and
promote the sane virtues. It is
very sad to see that very few
writers have tackled this theme
in their pieces of art.
Themes that most writers
like explore are bad leadership,
corruption, unemployment
and place of women in our
society.
Mr Lokidor is Balozi wa
Kiswahili in Nairobi.

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THEATRE | Ban raises serious questions about how art can approach subjects in the shadows

New lm re-opens dicult talk

on the queer habits of our lives
Industry
regulator
bars The
Nest
Collective
from
screening
Stories of
Our Lives,
citing
obscenity
and scenes
of explicit
sexual
activity

By focusing
their lm
on the gay
lives of 15-25
year olds,
The Nest did
themselves
no favours.
This agegroup
lends itself
to public
recriminations so
easily
The author.

BY JOYCE NYAIRO

satnation@ke.nationmedia.com

he Kenya Film Classication Board has barred

The Nest Collective from
screening Stories of Our Lives.
In a letter dated October 2, the
board refused to allow distribution and exhibition of the lm
because it has obscenity, explicit scenes of sexual activities
and it promotes homosexuality
which is contrary to our national
norms and values.
How can art, as a system of
representation, approach invisibility? How do you use pictures
in motion to tell a story about a
subject that is in the shadows?
The rather clichd title deects
alarm over the lms content.
Jim Chuchu, who directed and
edited the lm, says its goals
were a little basic in terms
of just saying that gay people
are people.
Like Invisible, the collection
of poems and short stories published by Kevin Mwachiro last
year, The Nest used interviews
as the basis of their lm about
gay people nding themselves
and nding love.
We had over 250 audio conversations of queer-identifying
people from around the country
Kisumu, Nakuru, Naivasha,
Kipini, says George Gachara,
director of The Nest.
I have never told anyone this
was a constant refrain that struck
Gachara and motivated The Nest
to create the space for these
muted voices to be represented
fairly and heard publicly.
Lead researcher Njoki Ngumi
found some of the stories so
visual they naturally lent themselves to this medium of lm.
What emerged is this powerful
hour-long anthology lm made
up of five distinct vignettes
written by Ngumi and Chuchu.
These vignettes are not necessarily the stories of this or the
other interviewee, just as the actors in the lm are not the actual
people who were interviewed.
The vignettes are composites
of the numerous experiences of
homosexual love, desire, anxiety,
betrayal and fear.
Their titles are as cryptic
as they are sensual Ask me
Nicely, Run, Athman, Duet
and Each Night a Dream. The
sequences ow into each other
creating an interconnected
narrative that opens with the
hesitation of lesbian schoolgirls
up against a harsh headmistress
(played by Ngumi) and a tyrannical mother.
The nal segment is about the
nightly terror suered by Liz, a
lesbian who is always anxious
that nosy neighbours will nd out
about her and Achieng; or that
the police will come and arrest
them. The dream sequence alternates between graphic images of
violent ouster and the miraculous escape proered by a sex
change. Interestingly, this sex
change is achieved by invoking
a traditional Kikuyu myth, which

holds that if one ran around a

mugumo tree seven times they
would change from being female
to male, or vice versa.
Is the choice of grey-scale in
this lm meant to ensure that
nothing is seen too clearly? Or
is it meant to enhance the emotional connection between the
viewers and the characters?
In an age when digital technology allows film-makers to
manipulate colour extensively,
a black and white lm evokes
nostalgia and makes a claim
to telling an ancient tale. Here,
the absence of colour dramatises the issues of a heavily
contested subject even further.
Everything is grainier, making
the high contrast a reection
of the sharp binary of opinions
on homosexuality where one is
either living in the dark shadows
or out in the white fearing the
consequences.
By detracting colour, the lmmakers give bold edges to the
actors faces forcing the viewer
to focus on the actors vivid expressions and nuances as they
navigate the treacherous terrain of desire, confession, guilt,
confusion, anger and even pure
bliss.

TODAY
GBA OKTOBERFEST 2014
The German Business Association will
today host the GBA Oktoberfest 2014
at Karura Forest in Gigiri. Revellers will
be entertained by The Dirndl Jger
and The Calabash Band. Entrance IS
Sh1,200. Show starts at 7pm.
METRO DUMBE DUMBE LIVE
Veteran Tom Kodiyos Metro Dumbe
Dumbe band every Thursday to Sunday
at the Railway Instute in Kisumu. The
group specialises in Benga and Rumba
favourites.
LIONEL RICHIE EVENING

The Tamambo Village Market at Gigiri

will this evening host An Evening of
Lionel Richie with Dangers Crew featuring Victor Muli. Show starts from
8.30pm. Entrance is free.
CHILDRENS ORCHESTRA
The Nairobi Childrens Orchestra performs every Saturday at the Peponi
House Preparatory School in Nairobi. It
is an exciting programme for children
aged 5-14 years. Musical instruments
available for hire. Performances start at
9am through 12 pm.
TOMORROW
THE BEST OF REGGAE
The best of reggae, roots and dancehall
is happening this and every Sunday at
the newly refurbished The Shadows
(formerly Red Carpet, Ngara). The legendary DJ Ken and the Cascades DJs
hosts the party till dawn.

Fly under the radar

But maybe this sustained use

of grey-scale reinforces the legacy of invisibility that dominates
the subject of homosexuality.
In conservative societies that
silence public conversations
on alternative sexuality, queer
people learn how to y under
the radar.
The contrast between old
grey-scale images and the vibrant
Sheng spoken by the characters
creates an interesting aesthetic
clash. It is a struggle to underline that the experiences being
narrated here are truly local
and old.
Those unfamiliar with the
1950s origins of Sheng would
argue that its use here is a testament that homosexuality is a
new fad among the youth.
Jim Chuchu created the soundtrack, weaving an intricate mix of
tender melodies. Some of them
carry a distinctly jazz feel but like
the highly imaginative music he
made during his stint with Just a
Band, many of Chuchus songs
here are genreless! The most
compelling of them is Ixana
Yaadu. It floods the dream
sequence in the nal vignette
after a haunted Liz ponders,
tutapigana, ama tutahepa?...Na
tutahepea wapi ? Sometimes na
wish tungepewa land yetu.
It is tempting to call Stories of
Our Lives a brave lm. Indeed,
that was the repeated description at the Toronto International
Film Festival (TIFF) where it
premiered on September 5.
But Stories of Our Lives is more
strategic than brave. When it was
entered at TIFF, the lms directors, producers and actors were
listed as Anonymous, stirring the
kind of curiosity that would later
occasion labels like brave and

WEEKS PICK

FILE | NATION

Lawyer Edward Nyakeriga in August led a petition and handed a draft

Anti-Homosexuality Bill to the National Assembly. Films like Stories
of Our Lives may never be produced in Kenya if the House adopts his
proposal.
risky. When Ngumi, Gachara
and Chuchu travelled to Toronto
they ultimately owned up to their
work.
At interviews with the trio,
the Canadian press turned recent events in Uganda into the
standard plight of homosexuals in Africa. Wearing suitable
expressions of bewilderment, the
reporters invoked the 2011 killing
of Ugandan gay activist David
Kato to heighten the chorus of
fear over the serious dangers that
The Nest was courting with a
lm about being gay in Kenya.
It is ironical that these reporters kept subsuming Kenyan
experience under the broad
umbrella Africa (does that include South Africa and its liberal
laws?). In the Duet sequence
of the lm, Je, a Kenyan homosexual on a visit to England,
quickly cures the white lover he
hires for 250 of this common
generalisation with his rmly
stated demarcation: Kenya.
Africa is a continent. We dont
like it very much when people
group us together like that.
This films treatment of
homosexuality as a valid existence, however, overlooks some
variations in same-sex relationships, particularly those that
were sanctioned by traditional
institutions.
Take for example the nonsexual, socio-economic basis of

the woman-to-woman marriage

common among Kikuyus, Nandis
and Kisiis.
By focusing their lm on the
gay lives of 15-25 year olds, The
Nest did themselves no favours.
This age-group lends itself to
public recriminations so easily;
forever condemned for imitating
decadent fads from the West.
Ngumi claries that the oldest
person they interviewed was 42
years old.
Still, this film would have
had greater resonance if it had
actually depicted the 65 and 80year-old queers in our midst. Can
they also tell us why no Kenyan
has ever been hauled before
the courts, prosecuted for homosexual activities?
The Classification Board
gave The Nest 14 days to appeal
against the restriction. Without
worrying too much about the
reasons why the sex comedy
House of Lungula (2013) was
licensed for 18+ viewing, will
The Nest expunge the scenes
that the Board found disturbing and reapply for permission
to screen their lm? Hopefully,
a reassessment is in the ong
because there are many things
to be learnt from Stories of Our
Lives, including the aesthetics of
lm-making.
Dr Nyairo is a cultural analyst.
Email: jnyairo@gmail.com

OCTOBER 15
CARNIVORE HAPPY HOUR
Live every Wednesday at Carnivore
Restaurants Simba Saloons new
Heineken Gold Bar is Wednesday Happy
Hour. Carnivores DJ E on decks from
6pm till late.
OCTOBER 13
BACK TO THE 80S
K1 Klub House in Parklands hosts The
Ultimate Back to the 80s on Monday
Nights with DJs Charlie and Eve.
DJ Charlie will be taking you back in
time with 70s, 80s and early 90s hits .
OCTOBER 16
AMANI LIVE SHOW

Roots International presents Thursday

Night Live on next Thursdays at Choices
in Nairobi featuring Amani. Show starts
at 8pm till 11pm.
OCTOBER 18
CLASSICAL DINNER
The Hotel Intercontinental in Nairobi
will next Saturday host a Classical dinner featuring Mark Obama Ndesandjo
treating patrons to the best of classical
music.
CNIRBS TRIO JAZZ TRIO
The Goethe-Institut in Nairobi will next
Saturday host the Cnirbs Jazz Trio Tours
Africa. Meanwhile the same venue will
host the Udada Festival from October
25 to 20.
angaira@ke.nationmedia.com

41

SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

17-YEAR-OLD MALALA, INDIAS

SATYATHI SHARE NOBEL PRIZE
Malala, the youngest ever Nobel laureate,
heard news while in class. Page 42

WORLD

Dalai Lama
row puts
Zuma on
the spot
JOHANNESBURG, Friday

CURTO DE LA TORRE | AFP

Heath workers demonstrate in Madrid yesterday during Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoys visit to the Carlos III Hospital where 13 people are in quarantine following
the admission of Spanish nurse Teresa Romero, who is infected with the Ebola virus. Spains Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy warned Friday of a complex and dicult
situation after a Madrid nurse was infected with the deadly Ebola virus.

EMERGENCY | Health ocial urges quick action to prevent virus becoming the next Aids epidemic

New York on high alert after rst

Ebola fatality on American soil
First
death on
Wednesday
has sent
concern
rippling
through
major
cities

NEW YORK, Friday

ew York is on alert against

the deadly Ebola virus,
rolling out tough new
airport screening measures
and introducing strict rules at
hospitals while simultaneously
warning the public there is no
cause for panic.
The rst death from Ebola on
US soil in Texas on Wednesday
sent concern rippling through
major cities, which are now
ramping up eorts to prevent
an American outbreak of the
disease that has claimed 3,900
lives in West Africa.
New Yorks John F. Kennedy
International will become the
rst airport in the United States
to start new screening measures
on Saturday.
Travellers from Ebola-aected
nations of Guinea, Liberia and
Sierra Leone will be screened by
border agents checking for signs
of illness such as high temperatures, even if theyve already been
checked upon departure.
The number of travellers
likely to fall within the scope
of screening measures at JFK is
small, estimated at only a few
dozen a day at an airport which
saw 50.4 million people pass
through it last year.
Similar controls will be intro-

REACTION

Panic fears grow as

nurse ghts for life
A Madrid nurse infected
with Ebola was ghting for
her life Friday as authorities
worldwide tightened screening of travellers and tried
to prevent panic over the
deadly disease spreading.
Teresa Romero, 44, is very
ill and her life is at serious
risk, Madrids regional
president Ignacio Gonzalez
told parliament.
She is the rst person known
to have been infected with
Ebola outside Africa.
From Australia to Zimbabwe,
and Macedonia to Spain
people who showed signs of
fever or had recent contact
with Ebola victims, were
whisked into isolation units
or ordered to stay at home.
With authorities warning
that hoaxes could trigger
panic, a man was taken o
a US ight after he sneezed
and reportedly said, I have
Ebola. You are all screwed.
duced next week at Newark, the
other major international airport
serving the New York area, and

airports in Washington, Atlanta

and Chicago.
Mayor Bill de Blasio chaired
an Ebola preparedness meeting of city agencies on Thursday,
comprising representatives from
emergency services, hospitals
and coroners to run through
possible scenarios.
There has not been a case in
New York City, de Blasio said.
There is no cause for alarm.
The city is particularly
well prepared for any possible
instance of Ebola because of
our extraordinary health care
system, he said.
Physicians, hospitals, emergency medical personnel are
trained in how to identify this
disease and how to quickly isolate
anyone who may be aicted.
New York City Halls website
now offers information and
advice on Ebola to New Yorkers as well as to universities,
schools, nurseries and health
professionals.
Manhattans Bellevue Hospital
has been designated as a facility
to treat patients.
In Washington, a top US health
official urged swift action to
prevent the deadly Ebola virus
from becoming the next Aids
epidemic.
The US Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention pre-

dicted the number of cases could

rise to 1.4 million by January unless strong measures are taken
to contain the disease, which is
spread though close contact with
the bodily uids of an infected
person.
We have to work now so that
it is not the worlds next Aids,
CDC director Tom Frieden told
the heads of the United Nations,
World Bank and International
Monetary Fund gathered in
Washington.
I would say that in the 30
years Ive been working in public health, the only thing like this
has been Aids, he added, warning of a long ght ahead.
In Brazil, health ocials quarantined a Guinean man feared to
have Ebola after he checked in at
a clinic with a fever following his
arrival from Africa last month.
The 47-year-old man was
taken in an air force plane from
the southern state of Parana to
the National Infectious Disease
Institute in Rio de Janeiro.
Authorities stressed that the
mans medical condition is stable that he no longer has a fever,
but said he is being isolated as a
precaution. (AFP)
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Most people would be reluctant

to pick a ght with a revered Buddhist holy man and 14 other Nobel
peace prize winners, but thats just
what South African President Jacob
Zuma has done.
When the Dalai Lama asked for
a visa to attend next weeks rst
ever summit of Nobel laureates
in Africa, Zumas government demurred and the Tibetan cancelled
his trip.
Its the third time Zumas government dragged its feet on a visa
for the bespectacled monk, so the
president knew exactly what to expect: public opprobrium and a pat
on the head from Beijing, which
calls the Dalai Lama a terrorist.
But this time the backlash was
tougher and more damaging.
Zumas decision resulted in the
embarrassing cancellation of the
Cape Town Nobel event, which
as if to underscore the contrast
of the ANCs idealistic past and
its hard-nosed present had been
scheduled to mark the 20th anniversary of apartheids collapse and
the election of Nelson Mandela.

2009
The year Jacob Zuma took oce
as the President of South Africa
South Africans of all stripes
who remember the pain of being
the polecat of the world accused
Zuma of rubbishing the image of
Nelson Mandelas Rainbow Nation.
The party of Nobel prizewinner
Mandela, of the anti-apartheid
struggle and the moral high ground
had become a party in hock to
dictatorships and authoritarians
in Beijing and Moscow.
Its true that Mandela also
wanted better relations with
China.
Beijing aided the ANC while it
was ghting apartheid and they
still enjoy close ties. Many leading
members of the ANC are communists, including powerful secretary
general Gwede Mantashe.
But since taking oce in 2009
Zuma a former communist who
once received leadership and military training in the Soviet Union
has gone further than Mandela,
who after all allowed the Dalai
Lama to visit on numerous occasions.
But accepting Chinas embrace
so readily may be a dangerous
gambit for Zuma, one that could
kick away the cornerstone of his
domestic support.

42 | International News

SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

HONOURED | Girl becomes the youngest ever laureate

Pakistani Malala,
Indias Satyarthi
take Nobel Prize
17-year-old survived
being shot by the
Taliban to become
a champion for
childrens right
OSLO, Friday

he Nobel Peace Prize was

awarded jointly Friday to
17-year-old Pakistani
Malala Yousafzai, who survived
being shot by the Taliban, and
to Indias Kailash Satyarthi for
their championing of childrens
rights.
Malala, the youngest ever
Nobel laureate, heard the news
while in class at her school in
Birmingham, England, where
she moved from Pakistan to
receive life-saving treatment
two years ago.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the duo, who will
share the $1.1 million (874,000
euro) prize money, were chosen
for struggling against repression
of children and young people and
for championing the right of all
children to education.
Malala, who had fought for
years for the right of girls to
education in her strictly Muslim
home region, leapt to global fame
after a Taliban gunman got on
her school bus in October 2012,
asked Who is Malala? and shot
her in the head.
Her campaign, the Nobel committee said, has been carried out
under the most dangerous circumstances.
Through her heroic struggle she has become a leading
spokesperson for girls rights
to education, the committee

Zambian ex-air
force chief
jailed for graft
BY MICHAEL CHAWE
NATION Correspondent
LUSAKA,Tuesday

Former Zambia Air Force

commander Andrew Sakala
has been jailed for ve years
for corruption.
Sakala was found guilty of
theft of K1.5 million ($250,000)
meant for covert operations at
the height of the 2011 general
elections.
Im sentencing you to ve
years in prison with hard labour for stealing public funds,
said Lusaka magistrate Wilfred
Muma.
The court acquitted Sakalas
co-accused, former Zambia
Army Commander Wisdom
Lopa and former Zambia National Service Commandant
Major-General Anthony Yeta,
on the same charges.

said.
The selection of such a young
winner was bound to be eyecatching, but another unusual
aspect of this years prize was
the choice of citizens from the
hostile neighbours of India and
Pakistan. Seventeen civilians
have been killed in the last few
days in the disputed Kashmir
region, the worst violence for
decades.
The choice of winners shows
that this is an issue that matters to us all, no matter what our
age, gender, country or religion,
Amnesty Internationals general
secretary, Salil Shetty, said.
The laureates are expected to
come to Oslo to pick up their
prize on December 10.
Pakistani Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif called Malala
the pride of his country and
said she would inspire children
worldwide.
She has made her countrymen proud. Her achievement is
unparallelled and unequalled.
Girls and boys of the world
should take the lead from her
struggle and commitment, he
told AFP in a statement.
Satyarthi, who founded a
consumer campaign in the
1980s to combat child labour in
the handmade carpet industry,
said he was delighted, calling
the Nobel prize recognition of
our ght for child rights.
The low-prole, 60-year-old
activist heads the Global March
Against Child Labor, a combination of some 2,000 social groups
and union organisations in 140
countries. He is credited with
helping tens of thousands of
children forced into slavery by
businessmen, landowners and
others to gain their freedom.

CAPTIVATING WORDS

Frenchman wins
Literature award
French historical author
Patrick Modiano has won the
2014 Nobel Prize for literature.
The Nobel Academy described the novelist, whose
work has often focused on the
Nazi occupation of France, as
a Marcel Proust of our time.
The award is worth eight
million kronor (691,000).
Previous winners include
literary giants such as Rudyard
Kipling, Toni Morrison and Ernest Hemingway.
At a press conference in
Paris, the publicity-shy Modiano expressed his surprise at
the win and said he was keen
to nd out why he was chosen.
Modiano beat bookies
favourites Japanese writer
Haruki Murakami and Kenyan
novelist, poet and playwright
Ngugi wa Thiongo. (BBC)

PHOTOS | AFP

Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai

when she was discharged from
the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in
Birmingham, England on January
3, 2013. Left: Joint Nobel Peace
Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi

Something which was born in

India has gone global and now
we have a global movement
against child labour, he told
Indian television.
Satyarthi quickly discovered
fame in the wake of his award. A
social media minnow, with fewer
than 200 followers on Twitter

before the announcement, he had

more than 4,500 followers less
than two hours later.
The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee,
Thorbjoern Jagland, said Malalas
youth was not a factor in awarding the prize.
Our consideration has been
to highlight the young who have
stood up...and the old who have
worked for years against child
labour and for childrens rights,
he said.
We have noticed that she
has received a long line of other
prizes... The most important
thing in the ght against extremism is to give young people hope,
he added. (AFP)

LETTER FROM AMERICA | Randall Smith

Ukraine is a repeat of West, Russia conicts

Beneath the blood-red moon witnessed
worldwide this week, the dull roar of battle continues in eastern Ukraine.
Headline material for most of the year,
attention went elsewhere when a truce
was declared in Ukraine in September. Instead, the world mobilised against Islamic
militants in the Middle East and worried
about Ebola after it touched the shores of
both America and the European Union.
Out of sight, the battle in Ukraine
rages on in the stretch of the country
that hugs Russia and is separated by
the Denieper River, one of the longest
north-south waterways in Europe. Reports this week from the front say over
300 have died and the damage is beyond
comprehension.
What is happening is a repeat of the
conicts that have occurred between the
West and Russia since the fall of Communism in 1989.
Gone are the international battles that
occurred in places like Angola and South
Africa or in large parts of Central and
South America. Almost all of the recent
conicts have involved former satellite

countries of the Soviet Union. The scenario is the same. A country has large
pro-democracy rallies by citizens who
want the better life oered by the West
and a free economy. The West fans the
ames and provides lots of behind-thescenes support.
Next step is for the relatively new democracy to try to join the EU or North
Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

In physical danger

In 2008, Georgia was getting ready

to join the EU and Nato. Putin said that
Russian-speaking people are in physical
danger and sent in his powerful military
to oer protection and often take over
large swaths of land.
By taking over Abkhazia and South
Ossetia, Russia divided Georgia and
put troops within a few miles of the
Georgian capitol.
The situation remains mired. Despite
Georgias immense military help to the
Wests eorts in Afghanistan, it is still
not a member of Nato.
The same scenario is playing out in

Ukraine. To make sure that the Russian

land grab sticks, Russia is threatening
former Soviet satellites from Lithuania
to Poland to Romania.
At the same time, Putins popularity is
iconic in Russia. The platitudes oered
on his 62nd birthday this week are usually reserved for rock stars. My Russian
friends say their country has historically
had a strong leader and Putin is the latest example.
Russias military might is real and could
easily run through Eastern Europe in a
matter of weeks, testing Nato and re-establishing a sphere of inuence that might
not be challenged in a meaningful way.
When I was a child, our greatest fear
was nuclear war. Once each week, sirens
sounded in schools and children sat in
hallways with their heads between their
knees in preparation for a possible attack
from the Russians.
Despite all of the advances created
by humanity, the past could become
our new reality.
rsmith4825@gmail.com

7 witchcraft
suspects
set ablaze
in Tanzania
DAR ES SALAAM, Friday
Seven people accused of witchcraft have been burned alive in
Tanzania, police said Friday, adding they have arrested 23 people in
connection with the crimes.
They were attacked and burnt
to death by a mob of villagers
who accused them of engaging
in witchcraft, the police chief for
the western Kigoma region which
borders Burundi, Jafari Mohamed,
told AFP.
Five of those killed were aged
over 60, while the other two were
aged over 40, he added.
Among those arrested on suspicion of carrying out the killings
was the local traditional healer, or
witch doctor.
Relatives of those killed described horric scenes, with the
bodies of family members hacked
with machetes or burned almost
beyond recognition.
When I returned home in the
evening, I found the body of my
mother lying 10 metres away
from our house, while the body
of my father was burnt inside the
house, said Josephat John, according to Tanzanias Mwananchi
newspaper.

When I returned home in

the evening, I found the
body of my mother lying
10 metres away from our
house, while the body
of my father was burnt
inside the house
Josephat John
The attack in the village of
Muruti took place on Monday
but reports only emerged after
police announced the arrest of
the suspects.
We are holding 23 people including local leaders in connection with
the attack, Mohamed said.
Belief in witches and black magic
remains strong in many parts of
Tanzania.
A local rights group, the Legal
and Human Rights Centre (LHRC),
has estimated as many as 500
witches are lynched every year,
based on reports that counted some
3,000 people killed between 2005
and 2011. Many of those killed were
elderly women, the centre said.
The rights group said some are
targeted because they have red
eyes seen as a feared sign of
witchcraft.
The centre said that many local
people believe that witchcraft is
behind every misfortune from
infertility and poverty to failure
in business.
Past attacks have included
bloody assaults against albinos, as
well as against young children.
In Tanzania, albinos are killed
and dismembered because of a
widespread belief that charms
made from their body parts bring
good fortune and prosperity.
(AFP)

International News 43

SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

JITTERS | Soldiers tried to shoot down activists balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaets

Koreas trade heavy

re as Kim fails to
appear at key event
Fierce exchange comes
as speculation rises over
missing North leader,
who has not been seen in
public since September 3
SEOUL, Friday

he two Koreas traded heavy

machine-gun re across their
border Friday, as missing
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Uns
failed to attend a key political event,
fuelling further speculation about his
physical health and political future.
No casualties were reported in the
exchange of re which South Korea
said was triggered by the North Korean military trying to shoot down
balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang
leaets that were launched by activists in the South around 2:00pm.
Some rounds fell on the South side
which then responded with highcalibre machine gun re towards
the Norths guard posts, a defence

ministry spokesman said.

There was a further exchange of re
10 minutes later, he added.
Local residents of Hwangsan-ri
township in the border area of Yeoncheon were evacuated to shelters.
While naval confrontations along
the Koreas disputed maritime border occur from time to time, military
engagement across the heavily-militarised land frontier is extremely rare.
In 2010, the North shelled the South
Korean border island of Yeonpyeong,
killing four people and briey sparking
fears of a full scale conict.
The balloon launch from Hapsuri
was one of several planned to coincide with North Koreas celebration
of the 69th anniversary of its ruling
Workers Party.
Seoul allowed the exercises to go
ahead, despite prior warnings from
Pyongyang of catastrophic consequences.
Some of the balloons carried messages denouncing North Korean leader
Kim Jong-Un, who has not been seen
in public for more than a month.
Competing theories for his disappearance range widely from an

If hes forced
to stay
away for an
extended
period, it
could cause
murmurings
within the
political elite
and weaken
his control
FILE | AFP

This le picture by North Koreas ocial Korean Central News Agency taken on October 10, 2013 shows
leader Kim Jong-Un (centre) and senior army ocials visiting the Kumsusan Palace in Pyongyang to
pay tribute to late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
extended rest period to a leadership
coup, via a long list of possible illnesses and ailments including broken
ankles, gout and diabetes.
Kim was last seen on September 3
and his absence Friday was considered signicant as he had attended
the ceremony each year since coming
to power following the death of his
father in 2011.
A heavy smoker, Kim has shown
striking weight gain over the past year
and recent TV footage had shown him
walking with a pronounced limp.
Cheong Seong-Chang, an analyst
at the Sejong Institute think-tank in
Seoul, said his disappearance was
almost certainly down to a health

Leader seeks UK
immigration ban
on HIV carriers

problem that would have little impact on his leadership at least in

the short term.
But if hes forced to stay away for
an extended period, it could cause
murmurings within the political elite
and weaken his control, Cheong
said.
South Korea, which has largely distanced itself from the disappearance
rumours, said it saw no indication that
Kim was no longer in charge.
Unication Ministry spokesman
Lim Byeong-Chul noted numerous reports in the North Korean state media
of Kim exercising his authority.
Judging from these, it seems that
Kim Jong-Un is ruling normally,

PHILIPPE LOPEZ | AFP

A pro-democracy demonstrator sleeps on a highway in Hong Kong

yesterday. The protesters are planning a fresh show of force after
talks with the government collapsed.

Hong Kong protesters

dig in for the long haul
HONG KONG, Friday
Thousands of pro-democracy supporters took to Hong
Kongs streets Friday night
after protest leaders implored
them to dig in for the long haul
following the collapse of talks
with the government.
But numbers were below the
tens of thousands seen during a
series of mass rallies last week
as protest leaders struggle to
maintain their momentum.
Negotiations between protesters and Beijing-backed city
ocials were slated for Friday,
but fell apart Thursday after the
government pulled out, blaming protesters for threatening
to expand their campaign.
The decision deepened the
political crisis convulsing the

Asian nancial hub, with the

failure of talks expected to
reinvigorate mass rallies that
have paralysed parts of the city
for nearly two weeks.
Demonstrators are calling for
Beijing to grant the former British colony full democracy and
for the citys Chief Executive
Leung Chun-ying to resign.
Under plans unveiled by
China in August, Hong Kongers
will be able to vote for Leungs
successor in 2017, but only two
to three vetted candidates will
be allowed to stand.
The movements leaders
are banking on both mustering significant numbers
over the weekend and potentially expanding their
sit-ins to keep pressure on the
government.(AFP)

People with trades and skills

In bracketing those living with the condition with murderers, and suggesting there
is no place for them in his vision of Britain,
Mr Farage has stooped to a new level of
ignorance. He should be truly ashamed,
she added.
When asked by Newsweek Europe who
should be allowed to enter Britain, the
anti-immigration leader replied: People
who do not have HIV, to be frank. Thats
a good start.
He refused to retract the comments in a
interview with BBC radio, saying public services couldnt cope with the extra demand.
We want people who have trades and
skills but we dont want people who have got
criminals records and we cant aord people
with life threatening diseases, he said.
I do not think people with life threatening
diseases should be treated by our national
health service, he declared. (AFP)

Lim said, adding that the government had no specic intelligence on

Kims health.
In a front-page editorial on Friday,
the Rodong Sinmun described Kim
as the symbol of the ruling partys
dignity and invincibility, and said
his authority should be protected by
all means necessary.
What little light North Korea has
deemed necessary to shed on the
rumours surrounding Kims absence
has only added to the confusion.
State media alluded at one point to
his discomfort, but one member of a
top-level North delegation that visited
South Korea last week insisted Kim
had no health problem at all. (AFP)

BRIEFLY
IGUALA

New mass graves found

in missing students case
The case of 43 Mexican students
missing since an attack by ganglinked police took another grim
turn Thursday with the discovery
of new mass graves where suspects
said some were buried. Four new
suspects took investigators to the
site of the four pits, 200km south of
Mexico City, but the number of bodies remains unknown, said Attorney
General Jesus Murillo Karam (right).
They say there are remains of students, he said. The discovery has
put another dent on hopes of nding
the students alive two weeks after
they were pursued by Iguala police
ocers accused of working with the
Guerreros Unidos gang. (AFP)

LONDON, Friday
HIV campaigners said Friday British political leader Nigel Farage, whose party has
won its rst seat in parliament, should be
truly ashamed after calling for an immigration ban on people carrying the virus.
The Terrence Higgins Trust, Britains oldest HIV and Aids charity, said comments
made by the leader of the anti-EU UK Independence Party as polls were closing in the
Clacton by-election won by his candidate
Douglas Carswell displayed a new level
of ignorance.
The idea that having HIV should be used
as a black mark against someones name is
ridiculous and shows an outrageous lack of
understanding of the issue, said the charitys
Rosemary Gillespie.

Cheong
Seong-Chang,
an analyst

MOSCOW

LONDON

Russia agrees to new

EU-Ukraine gas talks

British queen makes

Angelina Jolie a dame

Russia on Friday agreed to take

part in a fresh round of gas talks
with the EU and Ukraine in Berlin
on October 21 aimed at settling a
dispute over gas deliveries. The
Russian side accepted the date for
the three-way negotiations on ensuring the security of gas transits
through the territory of Ukraine, the
energy ministry said in a statement.
The European Union on Thursday
called for fresh talks with Russia
and Ukraine to settle their ongoing
dispute over gas deliveries. European ocials have been anxious to
resume three-way talks with the two
countries since Russia cut o shipments to Ukraine in June. (AFP)

American actress Angelina Jolie

was made an honorary dame for
her work in combating sexual violence by Britains Queen Elizabeth
II at Londons Buckingham Palace
on Friday. The star of such Hollywood lms such as Tomb Raider
and Malecent was made an Honorary Dame Grand Cross of the Most
Distinguished Order of St Michael
and St George, which recognises her
close work with Britains Foreign Ofce. Jolie and former British foreign
minister William Hague struck up
an unlikely professional partnership
while campaigning to raise awareness of sexual violence in conict
zones. (AFP)

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SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

BATTLE FRONT | IS ghters have been attacking Kobane for three weeks

Jihadists seize Kurdish HQ in Syria

UN envoy warns of possible massacre
and appeals to Turkey to take action and
protect 12,000 civilians still in the town
SURUC, Turkey, Friday

ihadists captured the headquarters of

Kurdish ghters defending the battleground Syrian town of Kobane Friday
as a UN envoy warned of a looming massacre by the Islamic State group.
Outgunned Kurdish militia were struggling
to prevent the jihadists closing o the last
escape route for the thousands of civilians
still in or near the town, prompting an appeal
for urgent military assistance.
US-led warplanes have intensified air
strikes against IS ghters who have been
attacking Kobane for three weeks but the
Pentagon has warned that, without a force
on the ground to work with, there are limits
to what can be done.
Neighbouring Turkey has so far held back
from any action against the jihadists on its
doorstep, despite four straight nights of protests among its own large Kurdish minority
that have left 31 people dead.

Completely surrounded

If they
achieve that,
they will have
the Kurdish
forces inside
Kobane
completely
surrounded
Syrian
Observatory
for Human
Rights

The jihadists advance has brought the

front line to just 1.3km from the border.
IS now controls 40 per cent of the town,
said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights.
The capture of the headquarters will allow
the jihadists to advance on the border post
with Turkey to the north of the town, its
director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
If they achieve that, they will have the
Kurdish forces inside Kobane completely
surrounded.
UN envoy for Syria Staan de Mistura appealed to Turkey to take any action it could
to protect the 12,000 or so civilians still in
or near the town, warning they will be most
likely massacred by IS ghters.
Kobane was literally surrounded except
for one narrow entry and exit point to the
Turkish border, de Mistura said.

PHOTO | AFP

Smoke rising from the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds. Jihadists
captured the town yesterday, sparking fears of a massacre.
Up to 700 mainly elderly civilians were still
inside the city centre, and another 10,00013,000 gathered nearby.
If this falls, the 700 plus perhaps, if
they move a little bit further, the 12,000
people ... will be most likely massacred,
he warned.
The envoy called on Turkey, if they can,
to support the deterrent actions of the coalition through whatever means from their
own territory.
We would like to appeal to the Turkish
authorities in order to allow the ow of volunteers at least, and their equipment to be
able to enter the city to contribute to a selfdefence operation, he said in Geneva.
The statement marked an unusual one by
the United Nations, which usually strives
to stay neutral in conicts, but de Mistura
explained the rare appeal by the precarious
situation in the border town.
The coordinator of the US-led campaign

against IS, retired US general John Allen,

was to hold a second day of talks in Ankara
after the NATO ally insisted it could not be
expected to take ground action against the
jihadists alone.
The number of coalition air strikes around
Kobane has jumped from a handful previously to 28 on Wednesday and at least 14
on Thursday, according to US Central Command, which runs the air war.
But ocials insisted there was no change
to US strategy which prioritised the battle
against IS in neighbouring Iraq where there
were capable local forces to work with on
the ground.
Commanders were mindful of the dire
humanitarian situation for the Kurds in
Kobane, but Washington did not consider it
a strategic location, a US ocial said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Were not going to be drawn into a townby-town strategy, the ocial said. (AFP)

Libya clashes drive 287,000 from homes

GENEVA, Friday
A spike in clashes between rival
militias in Libya has pushed the
number of people driven from their
homes to an estimated 287,000, the
United Nations refugee agency said
Friday.
UNHCR spokesman Adrian
Edwards told reporters that some
100,000 people had ed over the past
three weeks from Warshefana, on the
outskirts of the capital Tripoli.
Another 15,000 people were estimated to have been displaced around
Libyas eastern city of Benghazi, he
said.
The oil-rich North African nation
has been in turmoil since an uprising toppled longtime leader Moamer
Kadha three years ago, with interim
authorities facing powerful militias
that fought to oust him.
A total of some 287,000 people are
estimated to have ed conict and
are scattered in 29 towns and cities
countrywide, many of them in dire
straits, he said.
The need for healthcare, food, and
other basic commodities plus for
shelter ahead of winter has become
critical, said Edwards.
He said aid agencies were working
at out to help those in need but faced

Three leading Christian clerics

in the Holy Land appealed Friday
for more European governments to
recognise a Palestinian state with
east Jerusalem as its capital.
The call from the Catholic,
Greek Orthodox and Lutheran
prelates all of them Palestinian
came after EU member Sweden
last week announced its intention
to recognise Palestinian statehood,
to the anger of Israel.
PHOTO | AFP

major constraints in funding for the

internally displaced, while the security situation over recent months has
posed challenges in reaching those
in need.
Most displaced people are living
with locals who in some cases have
opened their homes to several families
at a time to meet the growing need
for shelter, Edwards said.
Those unable to stay with relatives or host families were sleeping

in schools, parks and non-residential

buildings converted into emergency
shelters.
Host communities were finding
themselves swamped, Edwards said,
giving the example of the small town
of Ajaylat, some 80 kilometres (50
miles) west of Tripoli.
The community of around 100,000
people had taken in 16,000 more who
ed ghting, placing a massive strain
on health facilities. (AFP)

IS militants
execute nine in
northern Iraq
Islamic State group ghters executed nine people on
Friday in two northern Iraqi
towns on suspicion of ties to
anti-jihadist Sunni grassroots
organisations, security sources
and witnesses said.
In the town of Az-Zab, 90
kilometres west of the oil hub
of Kirkuk, six people were executed in public.
IS executed four residents
of the lower part of Az-Zab
and two from villages near
Az-Zwiya, a few miles further
to the west, a local security
ocial said.
Witnesses said the six were
accused of being involved
in eorts to organise Sunni
resistance to IS in the Hawija
region. They were executed
on a marketplace, they said.
It was in the same area that
residents of the village of
Tel Ali burned an IS ag last
month.
In retaliation, the jihadists
abducted 50 residents and
put up ags across the region,
even booby-trapping some
of them to stop locals from
removing them.
In Baiji, about 35km to the
south, three men were beheaded on Friday, a security
ocial in the region said.
The ocial said the three
were abducted a few days
earlier and were former members of the Sahwa organisation funded by the US military
to combat Al-Qaeda in 200708. (AFP)

Recognise Palestine state,

top Christian clerics urge
JERUSALEM, Friday

Libyan protesters during a rally in Tripolis central Martyrs Square on September

26, 2014. Clashes by rival militias have displaced thousands.

FRESH ATROCITY

Justice and peace

From Jerusalem, our occupied

capital, we send our urgent message
to the whole world and particularly
to Europe we are yearning for
justice and peace, the three churchmen said in an open letter.
Recognising Palestine and dening Israels borders is a rst step
towards that goal.
Signing the letter were the
former Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Michel Sabbah, the Greek
Orthodox archbishop of Sebastia,
Atallah (Theodosios) Hanna, and
Lutheran World Federation presi-

dent Bishop Munib Younan.

The current Latin patriarch,
Fouad Twal, was not among the
signatories.
We are tired of calls for resumptions of negotiations while we cant
reach our churches due to a foreign
power and our people continue to
be humiliated by an undesirable
occupation, the letter said.
Europe has a moral, legal and
political duty to hold Israel accountable and support Palestinian
non-violent initiatives to end the
Israeli occupation, including the
recognition of the State of Palestine on the 1967 border with east
Jerusalem as its capital.
Other EU member countries that
have recognised a Palestinian state
are Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech
Republic, Hungary, Malta, Poland
and Romania.
Israel, with the backing of its
US ally, insists that Palestinian
statehood can only come through
negotiation.
Nine months of US-brokered
peace talks broke down in April
and prospects for any resumption
remain remote. (AFP)

45

SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

FIRMS TO START NYANZA

OIL SEARCH NEXT YEAR
Move follows recent acquisition of data on
the block, which reveals 10 structural leads
to be relied upon during drilling. Page 46

BUSINESS

SELECTION | Companies that failed to qualify were barred due to low turnover and cash ow

49 rms pass rst tender stage

to build roads worth Sh260bn

Olympias
former boss
to be new
executive
BY NATION CORRESPONDENT

Funding wont come from the Treasury

but from a new method where local
banks will provide money to contractors
guaranteed by the government

Olympia Capital Holdings has

appointed Mr Michael Matu as its
new chief executive ocer. The
appointment was announced by
the board yesterday.
The move will see Mr Matu
resume the position which he had
held for many years until September 2012 when he was appointed
the rms deputy chairman.
Olympia Capitals chairman, Dr
Christoper Obura, said yesterday
the board decided to appoint Mr
Matu as CEO because he understands the company and its
strategy well.
We felt we didnt need to recruit
a new person yet he (Mr Matu) has
the experience. New people take
time to learn, Dr Obura told the
Nation on phone.
The move comes eight months
after the sacking of former chief
executive Kenneth Kareithi on allegations of disagreement with the
board over the rms strategy.
Mr Kareithi has since sued
Olympia over his dismissal and
is seeking compensation likely to
amount to millions of shillings. Dr
Obura said the rm would defend
itself in court following the suit.

BY MWANIKI WAHOME

@mwanikiwahome
jwahome@ke.nationmedia.com

orty nine rms were named yesterday

as having passed the rst tender stage
to build the initial 2,000 kilometres
of the targeted 10,000 kilometres of roads
in the next three years.
Out of the 49 rms, 22 are Kenyan and
the rest are foreign rms, Infrastructure
principal secretary John Mosonik said.
He said most of those that failed to qualify
were barred due to low turnover and cash
ow, lack of technical capacity and lack of
previous experience.
The 2,000 kilometres are in phase one.
Phase 2 will cover 3,000 and phase three
5000 kilometres of roads.
The rms that will qualify will be allocated
between 300 kilometres to 30 kilometres of
roads to construct.
The Sh260 billion funding for the roads
will not come from the Treasury but local
banks who will provide money to contractors
guaranteed by the government.

Devise ways of repayment

49
Number of
construction
rms that have
passed the rst
tendering stage.
Of these, 22 are
Kenyan

Treasury will then devise ways of having

the money repaid to banks over time.
Mr Mosonik said the construction will
start in January.
He was speaking at Crown Plaza when he
announced the 49 construction rms that
had passed the rst tendering stage.
The rms were selected out of 146 that
submitted bid documents.
The request of proposal for the rm will
be done on Monday followed by site visits on
Wednesday. We want to nish the process of
bidding by October 27 and be ready to roll
out the projects by January, he said.
Mr Mosonik said the arrangement has

JEFF ANGOTE | NATION

Infrastructure Principal Secretary John Mosonik. The ministry has given priority to counties that
have poor roads but the building will be spread countrywide in the next ve years, he said.
a component of performance contracting
where the government will pay for the roads
that have been built as opposed to those that
are being built.
Through annuity concessions, the contractor is paid through a xed, periodical
payment (annuity) by government.
He said the ministry had given priority to

counties that have poor roads but the project

would be spread throughout the country in
the next ve years.
We estimate that it will cost between
Sh20 million to Sh30 million to construct
one kilometre of a road in rural areas and
between Sh50 million and Sh80 million in
urban areas.

Land tussle could scare away donors, says Kalro chief

BY NATION
CORRESPONDENT

The parcel of land under dispute between the Isahakias and

Kalro in Naivasha.

The ongoing tussle over land

ownership between the government and the Isahakia people
in Naivasha could see donors
withdraw funding for projects
designed to enhance food supply in the country.
The director of Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research
Organisation (Kalro) Naivasha,
Dr John Kariuki, yesterday said
continued interference by the
Isahakias on the land has been

detrimental to research and

threatens donor relations.
He said donors were threatening to withdraw their support
if the tussle was not sorted out
once and for all.
Kalro Naivasha is the breeding station for the world-famous
Sahiwal breed of cattle.
The breed is extensively used
by pastoralists for upgrading
purposes across Kenya and
Eastern Africa.
Dr Kariuki was speaking after
police halted a Kalro sta-Isahakia skirmish, after tractors
were brought in to cultivate the

land by the Isahakias.

Heated verbal exchanges ensued but armed policemen were
called in to diuse tension.
Naivasha Subcounty Deputy
Commissioner Abraham Kemboi addressed the warring
factions.
He urged them to maintain
peace as the matter was still
in court.
The Isahakias claim to have
been allocated land in the area
but the government contested
the claim.
The matter is currently in
court.

We felt we didnt need to

recruit a new person yet
he (Mr Matu) has the
experience. New people
take time to learn,
Christoper Obura, Chairman
Earlier in September 2012, Olympia Capital replaced Mr Matu,
a long serving CEO, with Mr Kareithi, to inject fresh ideas.
The 2012 changes also saw the
exit of Mr Paul Ndungu, the rms
largest individual shareholder with
an 11.53 per cent stake, from the
board to bring in independent
directors.
Other significant shareholders include Dr Obura, through
Karen Enterprises Ltd, Mr Joel
Kibe and the Matu Wamae family, which now has one of its own
at the helm.
Members include Ms Gladys
Kamau, Mr John Simba, Mr Suresh
Lakhani and Mr Alex Kimani.
Olympia deals in the manufacture and sale of products used in
the construction industry, such as
oor tiles, adhesives, windows and
door frames, cleaning chemicals as
well as re prevention equipment,
water pumps and real estate.
It has subsidiaries in Botswana
and South Africa.

46 | News

SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

PROSPECTS | Firms estimate 44 million barrels

EASY AS PIE | Taxpayers week to start on Monday

Tullow, Swala to
start Nyanza oil
search next year
Move follows recent
acquisition of data
on the block, which
reveals 10 structural
leads to be relied
upon during drilling
BY IMMACULATE KARAMBU
ikarambu@ke.nationmedia.com
@ikarambu

xploration of oil in Kisumu

will start next year as the
country steps up eorts to
become an oil producing nation.
This is after two companies
licensed to explore, Swala Energy and its partner Tullow Oil,
announced plans to drill the rst
well on block 12B, located within
Nyanza Rift basin.

Acquisition of data

Swala said in a statement that

the move follows successful acquisition of data on the block during
the second quarter of this year.
The data revealed 10 structural leads to be relied upon
during drilling. The maiden well
will be drilled in the second half
of 2015.
We are excited at the decision
by the remaining parties to drill
one of a number of prospects
identified in block 12B, and
which our technical teams are
continuing to investigate, said

BY NATION CORRESPONDENT
Flame Tree, a manufacturer of
consumer products, is awaiting
approval from the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) to list on
the bourses segment for small and
medium enterprises.
The company, which received approval from its board on Thursday
to list on the Growth Enterprise
Market Segment (GEMS), is seeking capital and an opportunity to
enhance its prole.
One of the reasons (for the
planned listing) is to access capital at a lower cost. The other is to
step up the prole of the business,
chief executive ocer of Burbidge
Capital, Mr Edward Burbidge, told
Nation on phone.

Swalas chief executive officer

Davis Mestres Ridge in a statement to the Australian Securities
Exchange.
In July, Tullow and Swala suffered a blow after CEPSA, an
exploration company with roots
in the United Arab Emirates, withdrew its interest in the block.
CEPSAs withdrawal from block
12B took eect from September
1. It is not clear how the remaining rms share interest in the
block.

Largest interest

At the time when CEPSA left,

Tullow held the largest interest
in the block at 50 per cent while
the rest was held equally by Swala
and CEPSA.
End of September, Swala announced that it would go for
arbitration to have the 25 per cent
stake held by CEPSA returned.
CEPSA rst farmed into block
12B when it bought a combined
25 per cent stake from Swala and
Tullow Oil, which jointly held interest in the block.
CEPSA, owned by Abu Dhabis
sovereign wealth fund, bought 8.33
per cent stake from Swala and
16.67 per cent stake from Tullow in March for an undisclosed
amount.
Tullow estimates that the well
contains 44 million barrels of
gross recoverable volume based
on the position of the prospect
within the East African Rift
system.

List entire share capital

DIANA NGILA | NATION

Kenya Revenue Authority Commissioner General John Njiraini demonstrates to

taxpayer Fridah Sigilai how the mobile itax works. This was at a media brieng
ahead of this years Taxpayers Week, which runs from October 13-17. The authority announced plans to roll out itax support centres in four counties in the current
nancial year. The four are Nakuru, Kisumu, Eldoret and Nyeri.

Kenya among top investment hubs in Africa

BY NATION CORRESPONDENT

past seven years.

The rms have invested over 200
FDI projects in seven years, creating
33,000 jobs with a combined value of
Sh1.8 trillion.
Coca-Cola, DHL Express, BAT,
Nestle, IBM and GE are among the
companies with their headquarters
in Nairobi.
The survey states that Kenyas attractiveness has grown by about 24
per cent annually since 2007 to date,
with Nairobi as the key urban centre
improving the gure.

Kenya is among the most attractive investment destinations in sub

Saharan Africa.
According to Ernst and Young
2014 Africa attractiveness survey,
Kenya ranks third after Nigeria and
South Africa as the most attractive
in the region.
The three are said to attract 40 per
cent of the total foreign direct investments in the region.
EAC regional integration, latest
infrastructural developments and oil
discoveries in Kenya are the key attractive points, said Ernst and Young
global chairman Mark Weinberger during a press brieng at Serena Hotel on
Friday, while unveiling the survey.

Focus on infrastructure

Less aware

He noted that despite Kenyas rank,

investors not yet established in the
country are less aware of opportunities available, other than those in
South Africa.
The EY survey states that projects
attracting foreign direct investments
(FDI) in Kenya are: Sh2 trillion Lamu
Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport
Corridor (LAPSSET) and East Africa
Community (EAC) integration that

Consumer
goods rm
seeks nod to
list at NSE

PHOTO I SALATON NJAU

EY Global chairman and CEO Mark Weinberger (right) and East Africa CEO Gitahi
Gachahi during a brieng at Serena Hotel, Nairobi, yesterday. Mr Weinberger is in
the country to meet clients and discuss the investment environment in emerging
markets.
oers investors the second largest
single market in Africa.
The market has over 100 million
consumers.

Further, Kenya is among countries

that have benetted from investments
made by 14 companies considered the
continents growth leaders over the

Nairobi and Lagos are ranked third

and fourth most attractive cities, respectively, after Johannesburg, says
the survey.
To attract more investments, Mr
Ajen Sita, chief executive ocer of
EY Africa, said Kenya needs to put
more focus on infrastructure, consumer base, local labour cost and
productivity and a skilled workforce,
respectively.
Mr Gitahi Gachahi, chief executive
ocer EY East Africa, said investment
condence in the region had driven
up intra-Africa investment momentum
from eight per cent in 2007 to 23 per
cent in 2013.

Flame Tree, which has also

appointed Housing Finances
managing director Frank Ireri and
Dar-es-Salaam Stock Exchange
chief executive George Theobald to
its board, is to list its entire share
capital GEMS next month.
George and Frank are excellent
additions to the Flame Tree Group
Board. Both are highly experienced
and successful in running publicly
listed companies. This is a big validation of the groups listing and
growth plans, said Mr Burbridge,
whose rm is a Nominated Adviser
to the transaction.

East Africas major

economies are net
importers of plastics
for construction. Flame
Tree Group is well
positioned to bring
on local production
capabilit,
Frank Ireri, Housing
Finances MD and Flame
Tree board member
The manufacturer boasts of
a number of wholly-owned fast
moving consumer goods (FMCGs)
subsidiaries in Mauritius, Kenya,
Rwanda, Ethiopia and Mozambique.
These include cosmetics products sold under Zoe name.

First rm to list

Empire Microsystems (technology rm), Mayfox (a mining rm)

and East African Data Handlers (a
data recovery company) also plan
to list on the GEMS, on which
Home Afrika, a property developer,
became the rst to list.
The major economies in East
Africa are net importers of plastics for construction. Flame Tree
Group is well positioned to bring
on local production capability. I
have no doubt that the FMCG and
cosmetics business will continue
to expand in light of East Africas
population growth and increasing
urbanisation, Mr Ireri said in a
statement.

Business 47

SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

RECOMMENDATION | Firms should train sta on how to identify customers at high risk and raise awareness on con-schemes

Rise in mobile
money crime
worries experts
Ease of registration of
phone numbers and wide
adoption of new services
has fueled vice, they say
BY GITONGA MARETE

gmarete@ke.nationmedia.com

raud targeting mobile money

transfers has increased following acceptance of the service
in nearly all sectors of the economy,
with experts worried that ease of registration of mobile phone numbers and
accounts has fueled the vice.

Using a mobile phone, one is able to

make payments for bills, investments,
receive dividends, market services and
a variety of other services.
This has attracted criminals to use
technology to con unsuspecting users,
experts told a conference in Kwale
County yesterday.

Fake credentials

Security

Agricultural

46.00 23.50
215.00 81.00
167.00 110.00
965.00 460.00
30.00 24.50
19.95 12.80
320.00 210.00

Eaagads Ord 1.25

Kakuzi Ord.5.00
Kapchorua Tea Co Ord 5.00
The Limuru Tea Co. Ord 20.00
Rea Vipingo Plantations Ord 5.00
Sasini Ltd Ord 1.00
Williamson Tea Kenya Ord 5.00

Automobiles & Accessories

52.00
13.00
9.40

21.50
8.00
4.50

Car & General (K) Ord 5.00

CMC Holdings Ord 0.50
Marshalls (E.A.) Ord 5.00
Sameer Africa Ord 5.00

43.00
210.00
150.00
14.70

41.75

Previous

39.50
220.00
151.00
900.00
27.50
14.75
301.00

10.85
6.80

38.50
13.50
10.80
6.50

17.05
127.00
264.00
49.25
47.50
137.00
59.00
27.25
70.50
340.00
21.75

17.15
129.00
259.00
49.75
47.50
137.00
59.00
27.00
70.00
341.00
21.75

Shares

500

100
500

18,700

Barclays Bank Ord 0.50

CFC Stanbic of Kenya Holdings Ord.5.00
Diamond Trust Bank Ord 4.00
Equity Bank Ord 0.50
Housing Finance Co Ord 5.00
I &M Holdings Ltd Ord 1.00
KCB Ord 1.00
NBK Ord 5.00
NIC Bank Ord 5.00
StandardChartered Ord 5.00
Co-op Bank of Kenya Ord 1.00

Commercial & Services

8.45
14.70
30.75
345.00
78.00
37.00
53.00
23.00

3.55
8.30
5.00
296.00
40.00
25.00
32.00
10.00

Express Ord 5.00

Hutchings Biemer Ord 5.00
Kenya Airways Ord 5.00
Longhorn Kenya Ord 1.00
Nation Media Group Ord. 2.50
ScanGroup Ord. 1.00
Standard Group Ord 5.00
TPS EA (Serena) Ord 1.00
Uchumi Supermarket Ord 5.00

Construction & Allied

98.50 84.00
220.00 146.00
124.00 60.00
18.00 13.50
110.00 52.00

ARM Cement Ord 1.00

BamburiCement Ord 5.00
Crown Paints Kenya Ord 5.00
E.A.Cables Ord 0.50
E.A.Portland Cement Ord 5.00

Energy & Petroleum

17.90
10.50
16.00
7.50
28.75
26.50

8.70
7.90
12.85
6.70
15.85
13.00

KenGen Ord 2.50

KenolKobil Ltd Ord 0.05
KP&LC Ord 2.50
KP&LC 4% Pref.20.00
KP&LC 7% Pref.20.00
Total Kenya Ord 5.00
Umeme Ltd Ord 0.50

Insurance

37.75
7.80
12.40
4.20
500.00 255.00
21.00 13.10
24.75
11.05
145.00 55.00

British American Investments Co.0.10

CIC Insurance Group Ord.1.00
Jubilee Holdings Ord 5.00
Kenya Re Corporation Ord 2.50
Liberty Kenya Holdings Ord 1.00
Pan Africa Insurance Ord 5.00

302,100
5,900
3,013,500
438,300
21,700
12,000
1,042,500
3,400
28,500
3,700
3,925,100

36.75
9.95

8.30
20.25
9.00
22.75
312.00
45.75
33.75
37.50
10.05

85.50
155.00
120.00
15.55
70.50

87.00
150.00
116.00
15.45
70.50

64,700
100
2,900
2,200
1,300

11.60
9.60
15.40

11.20
9.50
14.95
8.00
5.50
30.00
20.00

161,400
1,298,800
349,800

9.15
23.00
311.00
46.00

28.00
20.00

22.75
3.50
19.50

Centum Investment Co Ord 0.50

Olympia Capital Holdings Ord 5.00
Trans-Century LtdOrd 0.50

Nairobi Securities Exchange. Ord 4.00

22.75

190.00 113.00
1000.00 521.00
67.50 25.00
346.00 212.00
5.35
2.40
122.00
4.40
4.20
1.85
56.50 15.00

13.50

7.45

A.Baumann & Co. Ord 5.00

B.O.C Kenya Ord 5.00
British American Tobacco Kenya Ord 10.00 999.00
Carbacid Investments Ord 5.00
26.50
274.00
East African Breweries Ord 2.00
Eveready EA Ord 1.00
4.00
Kenya Orchards Ord 5.00
127.00
Mumias Sugar Co. Ord 2.00
1.95
Unga Group Ord 5.00
49.75

11.10
162.00
926.00
26.50
274.00
3.80
122.00
1.95
54.50

293,800
13,000
301,200
93,300
1,800
1,553,500
1,000

12.85

6,563,100

BANK RATES
ABC
Barclays
Co-op

143,400
184,900
4,400
14,900

KCB

52,500
347,000

27.50
11.15
439.00
18.35
22.50

29.75
11.30
411.00
18.45
22.25
121.00

1,954,900
829,200
5,500
25,000
59,500

56.50
8.65
20.75

58.50
9.60
21.50

102,100,
20,900
54.300

12.80

17.50
3.20 Home Afrika Ltd Ord. 1.00
4.60
4.45
760,900
NSE All Share Index(NASI)-(1 Jan 2008=100 Up 0.12 points to close at 162.54
NSE 20 Share Index Up[ 7.92 points to close at 5280.46 EquityTurnover-1,627,657,021 Prv 975,824,3221

NBK

7,900

2,648,900

Growth & Enterprise Market Segment (GEMS)

7,500

132,500

Safaricom Ltd Ord. 0.05

money by mistake. They even use

funeral schemes where an imposter
collects money on behalf of the bereaved family, he said during the

22.50

Telecommunication & Technology

1,600
73,200

Investment
84.50
10.85
37.75

15.00

Equity
7.70

consultant.
They use promotion schemes by
sending messages that one has won
a prize, or by saying they have sent

Manufacturing & Allied

800

Banking
19.15
15.30
155.00 68.00
280.00 166.00
63.00 29.50
53.00 23.75
147.00 85.00
62.00 41.25
39.25 18.60
85.00 54.50
350.00 280.00
25.00 14.80

Delegates at the Institute of Certied Public Accountants of Kenya conference at

Leisure Lodge in Diani, Kwale County, yesterday. The institute wants to establish
a framework to control fraud and cyber crime.

Investment Services

28.00

Prices
Yesterday

Fight the vice

KEVIN ODIT | NATION

Fraudsters are targeting to steal

from bank accounts but access the
stolen money using mobile money
accounts. This takes various forms,
such as signing mobile money accounts
using fake credentials and interfering
with the m-banking interface, said
Mr Stephen Omuga, a forensic audit

NAIROBI SECURITIES EXCHANGE

Last 12 Mths
High Low

Institute of Certied Public Accountants annual forensic audit conference

at Leisure Lodge Resort.
The expert said in order to mitigate
the impact of mobile money frauds,
institutions should train sta on how
to identify customers who are at high
risk and raise awareness through campaigns warning about con schemes and
other nancial crime risks.
However, current eorts clearly
lack structure, coordination and
consistency, he told the conference
themed The Role of Professionals in
Curbing Fraud and Corruption.

CBA
CFC Stanbic
GulfAfrican
FCB
Prime

buy
sell
buy
sell
buy
sell
buy
sell
buy
sell
buy
sell
buy
sell
buy
sell
buy
sell
buy
sell
buy
sell

Euro
112.04
112.33
112.88
113.31
112.98
113.25
112.95
113.56
112.80
113.55
112.40
112.90
113.40
113.80
113.35
112.63
112.89
113.18
112.80
113.20
112.60
113.00

CBK RATES
1 US Dollar
1 Sterling Pound
1 Euro
1 South African Rand
Ksh/Ush
1 Ksh/Tsh
1 Ksh/Rwanda Franc
1 Ksh/Burundi Franc
1 UAE Dirham
1 Canadian Dollar
1 Swiss Franc
100 Japanese Yen
1 Swedish Kroner
1 Norwegian Kroner
1 Danish Kroner
1 Indian Rupee
1 Hong Kong Dollar
1 Singapore Dollar
1 Saudi Riyal
1 Chinese Yuan
1 Australian Dollar

$
89.20
89.40
88.95
89.15
88.95
89.15
88.95
89.15
88.80
89.40
89.00
89.20
88.95
89.15
88.95
89.15
88.90
89.10
89.00
89.20
88.90
89.30

142.68
143.04
143.34
143.84
143.41
143.76
143.15
143.45
143.20
144.16
142.60
143.20
144.00
144.40
143.82
144.14
143.33
143.69
143.10
143.50
142.80
143.30

Mean
88.9600
143.5975
113.1586
8.0382
29.8718
18.8889
7.7263
17.2875
24.2435
79.6269
93.4192
82.6045
12.3513
13.7689
15.2041
1.4558
11.4792
70.0913
23.7397
14.5225
78.1748

C$
79.42
79.74
79.50
79.71
79.87
79.80
79.34
79.92
79.40
79.90
79.10
79.60
80.14
80.32
79.42
79.63
79.40
79.70
79.60
80.00

SF
92.44
92.69
93.19
93.59
93.26
93.51
93.26
93.10
93.10
93.76
92.90
93.40
93.60
94.00
93.49
93.70
93.22
93.46
93.20
93.50
93.10
93.60

Buy
88.9600
143.4367
113.0311
8.0281
29.7863
18.8142
7.6738
17.1582
24.2193
79.5302
93.3144
82.5156
12.3381
13.7494
15.1879
1.4544
11.4679
69.9976
23.7151
14.5073
78.0802

IR
1.44
1.45
1.45
1.45
1.45
1.43
1.45
1.46
1.45
1.46
1.45
1.45
1.45
1.45
1.44
1.45
1.45
1.45
1.30
1.60
1.45
1.46

JY
81.68
81.91
82.45
82.79
82.51
82.73
82.27
82.78
82.39
82.96
82.40
82.80
82.40
82.80
82.48
82.87
82.48
82.68
82.40
82.70
82.50
83.00

ZR
7.96
8.02
8.02
8.06
8.04
8.31
7.91
8.23
8.02
8.02
7.90
8.25
8.07
8.10
8.05
8.14
8.03
8.05
7.90
8.50
8.80
8.20

Selll
89.1350
143.7583
113.2861
8.0482
29.9573
18.9636
7.7788
17.4168
24.2676
79.7236
93.5239
82.6934
12.3645
13.7883
15.2204
1.4572
11.4976
70.1850
23.7643
14.5377
78.2694

Regarding growth of Internet use in

Kenya, Mr Nasumba Kwatukha, a consultant at Wachira & Irungu Associates,
said the fact that cyber fraud has been
recognised as one of the big crimes
at 22 per cent prevalence according to Price Waterhouse Coopers 2014
crime report there was a need for
concerted eorts to ght the vice.
Cyber threat is evolving even with
enhanced security mechanisms and
the changing face of social engineering. There is a need to understand
the technology used by perpetrators
and continually evaluate IT risks,
he said.

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Money Market Funds
African Alliance Kenya Shilling Fund
Old Mutual Money Market Fund
British-American Money Market Fund
Stanlib Money Market Fund
CBA Market Fund
CIC Money Market Fund
Zimele Money Market Fund
Amana Shilling Fund
ICEA Money Market Fund
Madison Asset Money Market Fund
GenCap Hela Fund
UAP Money Market Fund

Daily Yield Eective Annual Rate

7.37%
7.63%
Kenya Shilling
7.09%
7.32%
Kenya Shilling
10.65%
11.24%
Kenya Shilling
9.71%
10.15%
Kenya Shilling
6.30%
Kenya Shilling
6.11%
10.63%
11.17%
Kenya Shilling
9.0%
9.31%
Kenya Shilling
10.39%
10.90%
Kenya Shilling
8.38%
8.74%
Kenya Shilling
10.41%
10.92%
Kenya Shilling
10.93%
11.38%
Kenya Shilling
10.96%
11.58%
Kenya Shilling

Fixed Income Funds/Equity Funds/Balanced Funds

African Alliance Fixed Income Fund
CIC Fixed Income Fund
Standard Investment Income Fund
UAP Enhanced Income Fund
African Alliance Kenya Equity Fund
ICEA Equity Fund
British-American Equity Fund
CBA Equity Fund
CIC Equity Fund
Old Mutual Equity Fund
Stanlib Equity Fund
Madison Asset Equity Fund
GenCap Hisa Fund
African Alliance Managed Fund
British-American Managed Retirement Fund
ICEA Growth Fund
Amana Growth Fund
British-American Balanced Fund
CIC Balanced Fund
Old Mutual Balanced Fund/Toboa
Madison Asset Balanced Fund
Amana Balanced Fund
Zimele Balanced Fund
Stanlib Balanced Fund
GenCap Eneza Fund
GenCap Iman Fund
Stanlib Bond Fund B1
Stanlib Bond Fund A
Old Mutual East Africa Fund
British American Bond Plus Fund
GenCap Hazina Fund
ICEA Bond Fund
Old Mutual Bond Fund
UAP High Yield Bond Fund

Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling
Kenya Shilling

ARAB CURRENCY/$

Algerian Dinar
Bahrani Dinar
Djibouti Franc
Egyptian Pound
Jordanian Dinar
Kuwait Dinar
Lebanese Pound
Libyan Dinar
Moroccan Dirham
Omani Riyal
Qatar Riyal
Saudi Riyal
Syrian Pound
Tunisian Dinar
Yemeni Riyal
UAE Dirham

Currencies are quoted against the US Dollar

Buy
11.42
9.10
94.91
10.37
209.74
158.29
216.73
168.44
14.69
406.55
188.60
52.36
138.44
23.09
138.25
150.63
112.26
198.07
13.84
162.23
67.18
114.98
5.88
131.31
132.17
119.49
101.02
100.63
158.36
143.37
116.77
97.34
100.71
10.27

Sell
11.05
9.33
95.85
10.88
196.97
166.62
223.62
178.81
15.46
435.61
188.60
55.59
133.60
21.74
139.42
158.56
112.26
203.86
14.50
172.75
70.87
114.98
6.06
131.31
127.54
113.52
101.02
100.63
167.59
146.30
112.68
98.33
103.10
10.27

82.33
0.3777
177
7.15
0.708
0.28775
1512
1.212
8.2107
0.38494
3.6412
3.7508
159.95
1.663
214.8
3.6728

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A822 Computers

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KITENGELA 1/8 plots with titles

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COLLEGE For Sale in Nairobi . Fully

MAKUYU 2ac grn hse biogas water

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ready titles value 850K clearing 750k

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Death and Funeral Announcement

It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we

announce the death of our beloved Daniel Kimani
Gitau Kibe (formerly of Gachika farm, Londiani).
Son of the late Wilson Kibe Kimani and the late
Damaris Wangari Kibe. Husband of the late Hannah,
late Jedah, Lydiah, Rose and Carolyne Kimani. Father
of Paul, Simon and Amos Gitau, Mary, Catherine
and Brenda Wanjiru, Damaris and Emma Wangari,
Wanyoike, Mwati, Kamau, Margaret and Eunice
Nyambura, Muthoni, Njeri, Waithera and the late
Mwangi. Brother of Joseph Mwati Kibe and Ruth
Muthoni Ndungu. Father-in-law of Stanley Tito
Kilonzi, Ann Nyambura, Susan Waithera, Veronicah
Wangui, Lucy Wanjiru and grandfather of many.
The cortege leaves Kenyatta University Mortuary,
Thika road on Tuesday 14th October, 2014 at
8.30am for burial at his Komathai farm, Wangui
village, Gachika Location, Kiganjo Division, Gatundu
Sub-county.

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Daniel Kimani
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Leah Muthoni
Ndiangui
(Nyina Ndumia)

The blow was too hard to bear, the shock so severe.

We never dreamed of your death so soon Papa. It
has been long and lonely year without your physical
presence but fond memories we have of you and
gentle yet warm spirit has kept us going. We fondly
remember the values you instilled in us that has kept
us going especially in difcult times.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Dr.
Wanyoike of Nairobi Hospital, Kapsabet Community,
Funeral Committee led by Seth Mwirotsi, ACK Church
Ngong Road, Friends Church Mukomari, Nairobi
Vijana Erick, Edu, Kim, Muiruri, Madete, our cousins
and persons from all walks of life who supported
us spiritually, morally, nancially and materially. God
Bless You All.

William Mwinamo
Johnsons

Papa, in Gods hand you rest, in our hearts will forever have a special place till we
meet again. Read: Psalms 23

Death and Funeral Announcement

Zaverchand Nangpar Maru

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of Mr. Zaverchand Nangpar
Maru of Eveready Transport Co. Nairobi, who was residing in London, U.K.
He passed away peacefully on 4th October 2014 in London.
He was Husband to Mrs. Manjulaben (Manu Ben).
He was Son of Late Nangpar Parbat Maru and Jomaben Nangpar Maru.
He was father to Jaimala Vimal Gala and Nilam Zaverchand Maru.
He was son-in-law to Late Amritlal Premchand Khimasia and Late Mrs.
Maniben Amritlal of Mombasa.

KITENGELA 1/8acre plots behind

For condolence messages, please send to jaymalashah@hotmail.co.uk

Thorngroove Sch. Tel 0722956037

Friends and relatives are meeting daily at her home for

burial preparations from 4.00 p.m. The cortege leaves
Mathari Consolata Hospital at 9.00 a.m. for a funeral
service at PCEA Ihururu church starting from 11.00
a.m. and later burial at her home Hathaini village.

Fondly missed by your dear loving wife Jedidah

Mwinamo, loving children Grace, Jeff, Judy, Phanyce,
John, Parto, Vivian, Brenda, Moddy. Grandchildren,
Sharon, Shamim and others. All relatives and friends
alike.

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Acacia Sch. 450k, 0720-043288

Wife of the late John Ndiangui Njama. Sister of the

late Wanjiru Muchora, the late Wathuti Kigombe, the
late Ndirangu Kirindiri and Giachuka Kirindiri. Mother
of late James Ndumia, Mary Wamuyu Ndirangu, the
late Simon Nderitu, Joseph Kariuki of Riftvalley
Railways, Susan Kirigo of D.K. Jolly Stores, David Maina
of Marmanet, Rahab Nyawira of PGH Nyeri and Anne
Wanjiru of P.C.E.A Kikuyu Hospital Mother-in-law of
Duncan Kinyua Macharia of D.K. Jolly Stores, James
Makara Kingori and the late John Ndirangu Munyiri.

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Njogu

Mum rest in peace.

We loved you but God loved you the most.
I have fought the good ght, I have nished the
race, I have kept the faith. 2nd Timothy 4:7

LULUS Guest House Ngong rd Ksh

Development. 10M 0723960682

Promotion to Glory

It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we

announce the promotion to glory of Hannah Njeri
Njogu formerly of Nairobi Hospital.
Daughter of the late Geoffrey Chege and late Mary
Wanjiku Chege. Beloved wife of Paul Njogu Mugo
(KTDA, Kiru Tea Factory). Loving mother of Sabina
Caroline Wanjiru, MaryClalyce Wanjiku (both of
Narumoru Girls) and SarahLiz Wainoi. Sister to
Daniel Ndungu, Wilfred Gacheru, Richard Nganga,
Elder Elizabeth Ndiko, late Rose Wanjiru, Zachary
Ngugi, Margaret Wambui and Penninah Wairimu.
Step sister of Edith Wariara, Fred Ndungu and Billy
Nganga Kabete. Sister in law to Julius Murage,
Jacinta Wainoi, Stephen Njiru, Lucy Nyaguthii,
Simon Nyaga, Anthony Wachira, James Mwangi,
Peter Muriithi and Ann Karuana.
Friends and relatives are meeting daily at her
home, Kahawa Sukari, 2nd South Lane, Kwale Road
off Kahawa Sukari Avenue. The cortege leaves
Kenyatta University Funeral Home on Tuesday 14th
October 2014 at 7.00am. Thereafter mass and burial on the same day at her rural home in
Kiandaka Village near Kangaita Tea Factory, Kirinyaga County.
May the good Lord rest her soul in Eternal Peace

It is with deep sorrow and humble acceptance of

Gods will that we announce the passing on of Leah
Muthoni Ndiangui (Nyina Ndumia) of Kabendera
Hathaini, Ihururu.

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Death and Funeral Annoucement

It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we

announce the promotion to glory of Mzee Kipsongol
Arap Tonui of Kenegut Sub-Location, Kapsoit Location,
Kericho County. Son of the late Chebochok Kiptonui
Rotich and the late Tapsamoei Rotich. Husband of Grace
and Sarah Tonui. Brother of the late Chesilim Tonui,
Obot Kibii and the late Kimibei Tonui (Bilisti). Father of
Rachel Lily Cheruiyot (Kapset Jolly academy) William
Bett (Kimatkei Primary), Jane Koech (Chepsir Primary),
Samwel Bett (KENGEN) Engineer Joel Tengecha, Philip
Bett (Kosisit Primary), James Maritim (Kenya Police), David
Mursoi (Kenya Police, Kakamega), Ruth Bett (Kapset Jolly
Academy), Sarah Chepkemoi (KEWASCO, Kericho)Paul
Bett (Ministy of Labour ,Kitale), Esther Bett (Hilmark Ltd,
S. Sudan), Samson Bett (Nairobi), Nancy Ngetich, Betty
Kirui (UNIDO S. Sudan), the late Jackline Sikia(formerly
Queens Hospital Kampala, and Norah Mwasuri ( Mwangaza
Primary Kwale). Father-in-law of John Cheruiyot, Jeremiah
Koech, Josephine Bett, Sally Bett, Sarah Tengecha, Jane
Bett, Philomena Maritim, Sarah Mursoi, the late Joseph
Bett, Joycelin Bett, Wilson Bett, Robert Kirui, the late John
Ngetich, Rehema Bett, Dr. Ceasar Sikia( Kampala) and Felix
Mwasurui. He leaves behind over 50 grand children and great
grandchildren. The burial will be held at the family home
1922 - 06/10/2014
Singoronik Village, Kenegut, Sub-location, Kapsoit Location,
Kericho County on 11/10/2014.
Dad, you remain in our hearts forever. May God grant you eternal peace

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It is with humble acceptance of Gods will that we

announce the passing on of Master Ian Kariuki
Kanjau which occurred on 8th October 2014 at
Valley Hospital, Nakuru.
Loving son of Ayub Kanjau Kariuki and Ann
Nyokabi Kanjau(Nakuru). Brother of Vivian
Mugure and Esther Muthoni(Lions primary
school). Grandson of Mr & Mrs Karobia (Mangu)
and Mrs Martha Mugure(Kiamunyeki). Nephew
and cousin of many.

The cortege leaves Valley Hospital mortuary

on Tuesday 14th October 2014 at 9.30am for
a funeral service at Nakuru north cemetery.
Friends and relatives are meeting at Kokeb
restaurant and their residence at pipeline for
prayers and funeral arrangements.
Ian our son, we loved you, we will cherish
you forever. Amen

Ian Kariuki
Kanjau
Sunrise: 23rd Oct 2010
Sunset: 8th Oct 2014

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SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

Sport

DJOKOVIC, FEDERER TO CLASH IN

SHANGHAI MASTERS SEMI-FINALS
World number one Novak Djokovic and
17-times Grand Slam winner Roger Federer
will battle for a place in the Shanghai
Masters nal after they powered through
their quarter-nal matches yesterday. Gilles
Simon of France and Spaniard Feliciano
Lopez will also meet in todays semis.

IRB 7S WORLD SERIES | Nakuru forward Owila one of the players on debut

Treu test for new-look Kenya

Champs KCB, Impala

clash in Floodlight tie
BY AYUMBA AYODI

sayodi@ke.nationmedia.com
The 33rd edition of the
Impala Floodlit tournament that kicks off this
afternoon at the Impala
Sports Club promises to
be competitive aair with
most of the teams opting to
eld full-strength sides.
Defending champions
Kenya Commercial Bank
(KCB) have said they will
not be under pressure when
they face Impala but that
they are leaving nothing
to chance in their 7:30pm
showdown.
Sevens international
Philip Wamae, who starts at
back-row, has been handed
the armband and will be
banking on the support of
regulars Moses Amusala
and Curtis Lilako.

No pressure

CHRIS OMOLLO | NATION

Kenya Sevens players acknowledge the crowd at last months Safaricom Sevens Rugby tournament at the Safaricom Stadium, Kasarani. Kenya
plays South Africa, Wales and American Samoa today in the opening leg of the IRB World Sevens Series in Gold Coast, Australia.

Sevens coach to
parade rookies in
todays opening leg
against SA, Wales
BY AYUMBA AYODI

@AyumbaAyodi
sayodi@ke.nationmedia.com

enya coach Paul Treus

focus this weekend is
to discover new talent,
instill mental resolve and cultivate a winning culture as he
starts his Gold Coast Sevens
campaign against debutants

American Samoa at 4:40am.

The team will then take on
former World champions Wales
at 8:01am before wrapping up
their Pool B xtures in Australia against continental rival
and Commonwealth Games
champions South Africa at 11:
17am.
Our focus this weekend will
be to establish which players
have the potential to acquire
new skills and the desired
mental resolve, Treu said.
We want to build a winning
culture and as with every challenge, it often starts with small
steps.
Treu heads into the opening
leg of the 2014/2015 World Sevens Series with a changed side

after he axed several regular

players following a contracts
dispute. Treu acknowledged
that it had been a challenging
two weeks trying to bring the
new players up to speed.
We wont be ready by far,
but will give our best in every
game, said Treu.
We moved away from outcome goals to process goals
and as long as we learn and see
progression, it will be a good
indication of future potential.
Treu explained that he wants
his new players to take to the
pitch and maximise every learning opportunity. One of the new
players Treu intends to use is
Nakuru forward Martin Owila.
The South African will once

again renew acquaintances with

his former Springbok side that
he met six times last season but
beat only once.
The last time Kenya met
South Africa was at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games
preliminaries where the Boks
triumphed 20-0 on their way
to winning gold.
Kenya and Wales shared the
spoils from their four meetings last season with each side
claiming two wins apiece. Kenya
nished the series seventh with
84 points.
TO COMMENT ON THESE AND OTHER
STORIES GO TO

www.nation.co.ke/sports

Deputy coach Dennis

Ironman Mwanja yesterday said that Ken Moseti
and Moses Mbai will operate from centre with Allan
Omuka and Collins Wanjala
moving things at the wing.
Billy Isabwa will be at yhalf and Malim Mukolwa at
scrum-half.
The bankers will also be
trying out their new forward
front-row Elly Mukaisi and
back-row Morgan Muinde
who have joined the team
from Mean Machine and
Mwamba respectively.
We are under no pressure to retain the title
since we have won it before
and we are coming from a
long sevens season, said
Mwanja. We want to get
our systems going and get
into the right mind frame
for the 15s season.

sayodi@ke.nationmedia.com
Kenyatta Universitys Blak
Blad will launch their Impala
Floodlit universities title
defence against Daystar this
morning (10am) at the Impala
Sports Club.
Blak Blad stunned Strathmore II 20-15 in sudden-death
to lift the universities title last
year.
Catholic Monks are up
against Mount Kenya University
at 10am at the RFUEA grounds
while former champions United
States International Univer-

sity-Africa (USIU-A) and the

Technical University of Kenya
will clash at 11.30pm at Impala
grounds.
The University of Nairobis Mean Machine II have
a date with Jomo Kenyatta
University Agriculture and
Technology ( JKUAT) at 11:
30am at RFUEA.
In the schools category,
Ofafa Jericho, who stunned Alliance 17-0 to claim their maiden
title last season, start their title
defense against Moi Forces
Academy. Upper Hill will play
against Makini with Laiser Hill
facing Mangu High. Alliance

and Lenana will complete the

quarternal pairing at RFUEA.
The semi-nals of this tournament, which has been played
since 1983, are scheduled for
next Saturday with the nals
slated for October 25. The winner of the clubs category will
pocket Sh200,000 while the
losing nalist will take home

1983

Year the rst edition of Impala

Floodlight rugby tournament
was held

Sh100,000. The winner of the

play-o will receive Sh80,000
and loser Sh50,000.
The universities contest winner will get Sh 60,000 while the
most valuable player at the tournament will pocket Sh 10,000.
Man-of-the-match in each game
in the clubs category will pocket
Sh 2,000.
Return tickets for two to
South Africa for the Nelson
Mandela Bay Sevens will be
up for grabs for lucky winning
fans. Fans have been asked to
keep their tickets in readiness
for the draw that will be done
during the nals.

Record Impala Floodlights

titles that Mean Machine
have under their belt
In other matches at the
same venue, two-time
former champion Kenya
Harlequin take on Mwamba
(4pm), while Nondescripts
have a date with Mean
Machine of University of
Nairobi at 2pm.
Later on at 6pm, Kenya
Cup and Enterprise Cup
champions Nakuru will
clash with Homeboyz as
both team target their
maiden Floodlit title.
Machine is the most successful team in the event,
having won it nine times.
TODAYS FIXTURES - Clubs: Nondies v
Mean Machine (2pm), Quins v Mwamba
(4pm), Nakuru v Homeboyz (6pm), KCB
v Impala (7:30pm)
Universities: Blak Blad v Daystar
(10am-Impala), MKU v Catholic University (10am RFUEA), USIU v TUK
(11:30am-Impala), UoN v JKUAT (11:
30am-RFUEA)
Schools: Ofafa Jericho v MFA (1:
15pmImpala), Upper Hill v Makini
(1pmRFUEA), Laiser Hill v Mangu (2:
10pmRFUEA), Alliance v Lenana (3:
30pmRFUEA)

Hamilton posts fastest time

in Russian GP free practice

Blak Blad begin Cup title defence against Daystar

BY AYUMBA AYODI

Impala deputy coach

Nick Abok reckoned that
the bankers will be a tough
nut to crack.
We know how physical
they can be but we shall
try to neutralise that impact, said Abok, who has
the likes of Dennis Karani,
Paul Oimbo, Joel Omer
and skipper Duncan Ekasi
in his forward line. Sammy
Oliech, Anthony Nyandigisi and Peter Sidindi will
be the key men in the
backline.

was second fastest behind

his Mercedes team-mate
and title rival German Nico
Rosberg in the mornings
opening session, wound up
quickest in the afternoon
with a dominant lap in one
minute and 39.630 seconds.

Championship leader
Lewis Hamilton put aside
his concerns for Jules
Bianchi and produced a
dazzling lap to top the
times in yesterdays free
practice session ahead of
this weekends inaugural
Russian Grand Prix. The
29-year-old Briton, who

This was eight-tenths of

a second faster than the
chasing pack led by Danish
rookie Kevin Magnussen of
McLaren and made Hamilton
the only man to break the 1:
40 barrier at the newly built
track. Two-time champion
Spaniard Fernando Alonso
was third for Ferrari ahead
of Rosberg, Finn Valtteri
Bottas of Williams and
Briton Jenson Button in the
second McLaren. (AFP)

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SATURDAY NATION
October 11, 2014

Greensharks up against Parkroad in hockey league

BY BRIAN AYONGA

byonga@ke.nationmedia.com
Greensharks will be aiming to go top
of pool A when they take on Parkroad
in a Kenya Hockey Union (KHU) mens
Premier league match tomorrow.
A win will see law enforcers Greensharks move top of the pool with eight
points from four games as the race for
the play-os gains momentum. Only the
top two teams in the pool will make it to
the semi-nals and the race is already
intense, with only two points separating
leaders USIU and fourth placed Western
Jaguars. Sharks have not won a match
since their opening days win against

champions Kenya Police and will be out

to gun down their opponents who are
fth with a single point.

Crucial match

Sharks coach, Nixon Nyangaga, says

his team has to win the match if they
are to take one of the play-o spots.
Nyangaga (left) said his team has been
struggling to replicate the form that saw
them shock the champions.
We have been struggling. Since we
played our rst match, we have been
unable to implement our game plan in
the past two matches and I hope we can
get back our rhythm on Sunday and get
the points, Nyangaga said. Nyangaga

will bank on national team player Leon

Magomere for goals. Magomere scored
the winning goal against Police to lead
the attack.
The tactician has warned his team
against underestimating the winless
Parkroad whom he described as tactical and tough to break down.
Sharks held pool leaders USIU 3-3 in
arguable the best game of the season
so far, ghting back from three goals
down to earn a valuable point against
the university students.
Fixtures: Today: Mens national league:Parklands v
Kabarak 5pm, City Park. Tomorrow: Parkroad Tigers
v Kabarak, 1 pm, City Park
Greensharks v Parkroad, 3pm, City Park.

BASKETBALL | Weekends key xtures in league lined up for Makande Hall in Mombasa

KPA out to settle

old scores with
archrivals USIU
Struggling dockers seek
to avenge heavy loss to
students at Zone Five Club
Championships today
BY PHILIP ONYANGO

@philiponyango4
ponyango@ke.nationmedia.com

enya Ports Authority womens

basketball team and United
States International University - Africa (USIU-A) will renew
rivalry today when they clash in the
second leg of the National Classic
Basketball league at the KPA Hall,
Makande.
The 2pm match will be the highlight of the action-packed weekend
at the Coast which will see KPA men
host USIU today before the dockers
take on Equity Bank tomorrow.
KPA women will conclude their
weekend fixtures with a match
against Kenya College of Accountancy University (KCA-U).

Emphatic win

KPA women have not won any home

game since their 63-28 loss to USIU
in the nal of the Fiba Zone Five
Club Championships in Mombasa
on August 31.
During that encounter, KPA women
earned the dubious distinction of becoming the rst team at the regional
championships to complete an entire quarter without making a single
score when USIU outscored them 180 in the third quarter enroute to the
emphatic 35 points win. Since then,
things have not been any better for

KPA, with Eagle Wings beating them

41-37 in a league match in Mombasa
last weekend.
But whether they can pick themselves up and get their revenge
against the high-riding students
remains to be seen.
USIU arrived in Mombasa on
Thursday ready for the bruising
battle, with coach George Mayienga
terming it just another xture.
We are taking one game at a
time with the hope of sustaining
our good run in the league to the
end of the season, Mayienga said
of the students.
The visitors are expected to eld
among others Zainab Chan, Hilda
Indasi, Zippy Adhiambo, Emma
Nyakweba, Angela Akoth and diminutive point guard Cynthia Irankunda.
On the other hand, KPA will have
in their ranks Hellen Oketch, Linda
Alando and Yvonne Akinyi.
In other matches of the weekend,
KPA men will take on USIU at the
same venue today from 4pm while
tomorrow, KPA women will meet
KCA-U from 2pm. Thereafter, KPA
men will entertain Equity from
4pm.

byonga@ke.nationmedia.com
Competitors have set their sights
on records at this weekends Nairobi
Swimming Association (Nasa) Triple
A Age-group Championship set for
Makini School.
About 150 seeded swimmers from
more than 25 schools and swimming clubs in Nairobi County will
compete for top honours in various
events. After three weeks of intensive

BY LARRY NGALA

lngala@ke.nationmedia.com
South Africa-based Kenyan pro
Nelson Mudanyi beat a eld of 35
pros at the par-72 Royal Nairobi
Golf Club course to win the nal
leg of the Nation Golf Circuit
yesterday.
Mudanyi, who has been featuring in the Sunshine Tours Big
Easy series in the Southern Africa, birdied the par ve-seventh
at the front nine after bogeying
the third and sixth. He birdied
the par ve-14th, eagled the next
one, then dropped a shot at the
16th but recovered quickly with
two back-to-back birdies over the
last two holes (17th, 18th) for three
under par 69.
He beat Nyanza Golf Clubs
David Odhiambo by a shot as
Odhiambo birdied the second and
seventh both par ves, dropped a
shot at the fourth but holed for
two at the 17th for two under par
70. Nakurus Richard Ainley led a
group of four on one under par
71 to tie for the third place. The
others were were Muthaigas Paul
Thuo, and Nicholas Rokoine and
Limurus James Karanja.
Three others were on level par
72 and they were John Wangai of
Sigona, Railways Njuguna Ngugi
and Ajay Shah. The pros played
their round yesterday due to the
huge eld in todays round which
will now feature Royal members,
guests and sta of Nation Media
Group. The pros played in all but
the Machakos round in this years
series where they played for a total
of Sh1.2 million courtesy of Nation
Media Group.

Ndalat Gaa
race is on
BY AYUMBA AYODI

sayodi@ke.nationmedia.com

We are taking each game

at a time with the hope of
sustaining our good run in
the league to the end of the
season
George Mayienga, USIU coach

MARTIN MUKANGU | NATION

Linda Mfuchi of USIU dribbles the ball during last seasons Kenya Basketball
Federation play-o match against KPA at Nyayo Stadium Gymnasium. The
two teams will meet today in a league match in Mombasa.

Competitors eye records at Nairobi swimming championship

BY BRIAN AYONGA

Mudanyi wins
Nation golf

competition in the single and double

A events, the stage is now set for the
grand nale as the nalists go headto-head in the pool.
Last weekend, hosts Makini School
and International School of Kenya
(ISK) dominated the double A age
competition, winning the girls and
boys competition respectively.
ISK, who emerged victorious with
a total of 166 points, will fancy their
chances of clinching the overall title
and will be represented by about

15 swimmers in various categories.

Brendan McCoy who won the boys 14
and over 200 meters backstroke title,
stole the show last weekend with an
impressive display, touching the wall
in 2min,49.44sec to beat the qualifying time by a whopping seven minutes.

150

Competitors at this weekends Nasa

Age-group swimming championship

Mccoy is out to break the record this

weekend and believes the conditions
are perfect for him to do so.
Hopefully I can break a record,
said Mccoy after last weekends
triumph.
The 14 year old will also be aiming
for a double when also competes in
boys 14-15 years 100m. Other swimmers expected to shine are Ezell
Wambua, Lizzie Tooth and Yashna
Khatry all of ISK, and Peponis Taiga
Nakamura.

A 4km special category for elite

track athletes has been introduced
in the sixth edition of the Safaricom Ndalat Gaa Cross-country
championship set for today at
Ndalat Gaa Girls High School in
Nandi County.
The senior categories - mens
12km and womens 8km races
- have also been reduced to 10km
and 6km respectively. World
1,500m champion Asbel Kiprop
and World 3,000m steeplechase
champion Consenslus Kipruto are
among the elite athletes set to grace
mens 4km race.
World, Commonwealth Games
and Africa 800m champion Eunice Sum and Commonwealth
Games 1,500m champion Faith
Chepngetich will battle it out in
the womens race. Africa champion Moses Mukono and Matthew
Kisorio will highlight senior mens
10km race, while Joyce Chepkirui,
the Commonwealth Games and Africa 10,000m champion, will defend
her senior womens 6km title.

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ATHLETICS| After getting clearance to compete again from AK, athlete now wants to lower Eritrean Tadeses imposing four-year-old

Kisorio on the mend, targets world

Former African junior champion
makes brilliant return after
serving a two-year ban for using
performance-enhancing substances

JARED NYATAYA | NATION

Mathew Kisorio (right)

trains with his two brothers Kimeli Some (centre)
and Nicholas Togom in
Kapsabet on Tuesday.

BY COPPERFIELD LAGAT
@copperlagat
clagat@ke.nationmedia.com

athew Kisorio has

done time for cheating in sports and on
his return, has literally hit the
ground running, seemingly in
a hurry to take care of some
unnished business.
The long distance runner this
week publicly declared that he was
preparing for a shot at the world
half marathon record.
In fact, the condent Kisorio
said he was going to make the
bold attempt next week when he
breaks breaking Eritreas Zersenay Tadese four-year old record
of 58:23 set at the Lisbon Half
Marathon on March 21, 2010.
Kisorio, 25, winner of the African junior 5,000 and 10,000
metres titles in 2007, sounded
an early warning of his intentions
last weekend when he clinched
the Family Bank Half Marathon
title in Eldoret.
A few weeks ago, in his rst
race after serving his ban, he
cruised to victory at the Safaricom Jaramogi Oginga Odinga
15-kilometre road race in Bondo,

I want to run for my country again. I want to erase all my

bad history and anything negative Kenyans may have felt
about my ban, says man-on-a-mission Kisorio
winning in 45 minutes and 15
seconds, well ahead of secondplaced Vincent Yator (45:51).
Kosorio tested positive for
anabolic steroids at the national
championships in June, 2012
and was subsequently banned
for two years.
He said he was incited to use
drugs by his doctors and is now
craving to retrace his steps to
stardom. If last weekends Bondo
result is anything to go by, his rivals should better take notice.
I want to run for my country
again. I want to erase all my bad
history and anything negative
Kenyans may have felt about my
ban, Kisorio said in an exclusive
interview with the Saturday Nation Sport.

Given green light

Athletics Kenya has already

given him the greenlight to
compete again following three
mandatory post-ban tests which
put him in the clear.
He did not need any prompting, storming Bondo before
searing opponents at Ndakaini
and Eldoret in emphatic wins.
I feel like ying the Kenyan
ag again and at the moment as
I await the conrmation, I am
so thirsty to be back on track
to embark on my career, said
Kisorio at his Kapsabet training base.
Kisorio, who was Kenyas
team captain at the 2011 World
Cross-country Championships
in Punta Umbria, Spain, fell to

JARED NYATAYA | NATION

Mathew Kisorio stretches during a training session in Kapsabet on Tuesday. He will attempt to break the half marathon world record next week.

Kisorios races
2007:
World Cross Championships,
Mombasa (bronze medal)
African Junior Championships,
Burkina Faso (won 5,000 and
10,000 meters)
2008:
World Junior Championships,
Bydgoszcz-Poland (Silver medal,
5000 meters)
2010:
African Championships, Nairobi
(fourth in 10,000 meters)
2011:
Cross Internacional de Soria,
Spain (silver medal)
Kenya Cross Country Championships, Nairobi (silver medal)
Stramilano Half Marathon, Italy
(winner)
2012:
Discovery Kenya Cross Country,
Eldoret (third)
Kagawa Marugane Half Marathon, Japan (winner)
2014: Comeback
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga 15km
(winner)
Ndakaini Half Marathon, Kiambu
(winner)
Menengai half marathon (second)
Family Bank Eldoret Half Marathon (winner)
the depths of utter desolation
when he was given a two-year
suspension that ended in July
for using erythropoietin.
The rst-born in a running
family tells of the ordeal that

he endured being
away from the sport
he so loved.
It was hard and
devastating. Staying
out in the cold for two
years was a nightmare
especially since it aected my
plans of training to shatter the
world 10 km and half marathon
records. I received the ban when
I was in top shape to break the
mark, Kisorio says.
In fact, the elder brother to
2013 Paris Marathon champion
Peter Kimeli Some, world junior steeplechase champion Ruth
Jebet and Nicholas Togom says
he almost give up running.
Seeing my friends training
and jetting out for international
races was almost too much for
me to bear. To maintain my
sanity I held onto my faith and
prayed that this period would be
over and that I would rise again,
Kisorio goes back a the dark period in his running career.

Seen as a traitor

I took up the Police job as

a way to get away from it all
being seen a traitor. I was
posted to as far as Isiolo and
Kuria where I worked as a constable, at times serving in night
duties. The long hours on the
beat allowed me to converse
with myself and I got back my
morale and decided to return to
training.
Kisorios personal best time of
58:46 minutes in the half marathon mark him as third fastest
man ever over the distance.
His father, the late Some
Muge, went down in history as
the rst Kenyan to win a World
Cross Country Championships
medal, a bronze in 1983. He

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time of 58 min 32 sec over 21km competition

FOOTBALL| 18-man Kenya squad y out to Marrakech for Mondays friendly

record

JEFF ANGOTE | NATION

Harambee Stars fans cheer their favourite team in their 2014 World Cup qualier match against Namibia at Safaricom Stadium,
Kasarani, on September 8, last year. Kenya plays Morocco in an international friendly match on Monday.

No Oliech as Williamson
begins rebuilding Stars
CHRIS OMOLLO | NATION

Mathew Kisorio dashes to

the nish line to win the UAP
Ndakaini Half Marathon on September 13.

died in 1997. In the past

ve weeks, I have managed to
win three races and nished
second in one. The victories
coming at such short intervals have convinced me that
I am ripe to go for the world
21km record, a feat I have
been aiming at all my life,
Kisorio said.
I set my best time at
this distance in 2011, then I
wasnt really trying for any
record. Now I am seeking to
slash the 26 seconds. That is
my aim.
Kisorio, who has Philadelphia and Kagawa Marugane
half marathon titles under his
belt, has a marathon best of 2:
10:58 hours posted on debut
over the distance at the New
York City Marathon in 2011.
Kisorio trains with his
brother Some at Kapsabets
high-altitude and lush green
tea belts, always with ashed
of his 2007 glory days.
His running siblings Some,
the 2011 Paris Marathon
champion, and Togom have
been crucial to Kisorios comeback, not just as family, but as
training mates.
When we train together
our minds are settled, Togom
said.
Kisorio is now looking for a
new management as he prepares for his international
return. It could be with a
mighty bhang!

It was hard and

devastating. Staying
out in the cold for two
years was a nightmare
especially since it
aected my plans of
training to shatter the
world 10 km and half
marathon records
Mathew Kisorio

Banned but
back athletes
Justin Gatlin banned in 2001
and 2006 after testing positive
for amphetamines. He returned
to win gold at the World Championship in Helsinki clocking
9.88 seconds. On September 5,
2014, Gatlin won the 100 metres
at the IAAF Diamond League
nal in Brussels with a personal
best of 9.77 seconds.
Christine Ohuruogu was
banned in 2006 after missing
three out-of-competition drug
tests. She came back to win
silver at the London 2012 Olympics in the 400m and won gold
in the 2013 world championship.
Tyson Gay was banned in
July 2013 for testing positive for
anabolic steroids. His 100 m
personal best of 9.69 seconds
in 2007 is the American record
and makes him tied for second
fastest athlete ever, after Usain
Bolt. He returned this year and
was back to running routine
sub-10 seconds 100m.
- Compiled by Brian Yonga

Kenya coach picks

several fresh faces for
friendly match against
Morocco, Wanyama
retained as captain

BY CELLESTINE OLILO
colilo@ke.nationmedia.com

enya coach Bobby Williamson

yesterday implied that there may
be no room for former national
team captain Dennis Oliech in future
when he named his nal 18-man squad
to face Morocco in Mondays friendly
international match.
The 29-year-old Oliech trained with
the team hoping to be picked to represent his country but Williamson opted
for the fresh striking trio of Enoch Agwanda, Ayub Timbe and Noah Wafula.
Williamson also chose to drop regular
goalkeeper Wilson Obungu and instead
picked his former clubs captain Jerim
Onyango, who will team up with Norway-based custodian Arnold Origi for
the Marrakech showdown.
Rookie goalkeepers Robert Mboya of
Mathare United and Tuskers Samuel
Odhiambo joined the likes of West Kenya

Sugars Nelson Simwa and Libertys Anthony Ndirangu who were dropped from
the nal squad, although the coach said
that they still have a chance to represent
the country in the next matches.
All the players that came into camp
were impressive but we couldnt travel
with all of them. The rest will be considered in the next matches, he said.
Another notable exclusion from
Williamsons nal squad was Tuskers
Cliord Alwanga, who failed to secure
his travelling documents on time.
Southamptons defensive midelder
Victor Wanyama will captain the team
against Moroccos Atlas Lions, who
have named a squad of 25 players that
KENYA TEAM:
Goalkeeepers: Arnold Origi, Jerim
Onyango,
Defenders: David Owino, Edwin Wafula,
Aboud Omar, Charles Odette, Jackson
Saleh, Sammy Meja
Midelders: Dunson Kago, Timonah
Wanyonyi, Humphrey Mieno, Osborne
Monday, Dennis Odhiambo, Godfrey
Kataka, Victor Wanyama (captain)
Strikers: Enock Agwanda, Ayub Timbe
and Noah Wafula.

includes 16 foreign-based stars.

The Atlas Lions squad includes
Bayern Munichs Mehdi El Moutaqui,
Marseilles Barrada Abdelaziz and Bounou Yassine who features for the Spains
Real Zaragoza.
Harambee Stars will also have to be
wary of China-based Hamed-Allah Abderazaq, who scored a hat-trick during
their warm-up match against the Central
African Republic on Thursday.
Wanyama, however, remained confident that they will overcome the
Moroccan team despite their modest
squad.
This is a very important match to the
country and winning it will be a good
start as we struggle to rebuild our international status. There are many new
players but we will all be serious as we
tackle our opponents and I believe we
shall post good results, he said.
The Monday xture has been scheduled to kick o at 10.30 Kenyan time at
the 45,000-capacity Marrakech Stadium,
and will be handled by Senegalese referees Melang Diedhiou (centre), Abubacar
Sene (rst assistant) and Aliou Sandigui
(second assistant).
Williamsons 18-man squad and ve
technical bench were hosted by the
Moroccan Embassy yesterday before
ying out to Marrakech.

West Ham oer free entry for JMJ clash

BY ABDULRAHMAN SHERIFF
asheria@ke.nationmedia.com

All Coast teams will enjoy home

xtures this weekend in the National
Division One League action.
West Ham United chairman Omar
Mzaham asked Mombasa football fans
to turn up in great numbers at the Mombasa County Stadium today where they
will host Nairobis JMJ. He said entry
will be free of charge.
Fans were similarly not charged entry
fee to watch West Ham against Sparki
Youth in a recent mid-week derby.
We are giving football fans another
opportunity to watch our game free of

charge, said Mzaham, who thanked

Mombasa County Minister for Sports
Hazel Koitaba for allowing them to use
the stadium without paying.
Meanwhile, Tiki will go all out to
avenge the rst leg defeat they suered
at the hands of their traditional rivals
Taveta Sisal when the two teams clash in
a Coast regional league match at Taveta
Primary School ground tomorrow.
Tiki coach, Okumu Zuku, said they
had prepared well for their second leg
match against their rivals and expressed
optimistic of winning the match.
Weve played a warm-up game against
Home Boys from Tanzanias Kilimanjaro
region and Ive hopes of turning the ta-

bles against our rivals, said Zuku with

condence.

National Division One league xtures.

Today: Coast United v JMJ (Tudor Day
Secondary), Magarini v Jericho All Stars
(Malindi), Takaye Stars v Kibera Celtic
(Takaye Primary), Vimbwanga v Kanjeru
(Peleleza), Shimo Prison v Fresha (Shimo
Secondary), Brighter Stars v Kemu (Shella,
Lamu)
Tomorrow: Sparki Youth v Jericho All
Stars ( R G Ngala), Coast United v Yatta
Combined (Tudor Day), Magarini vs Kibera
Celtic (Malindi), Tum v Fresha (Tum), Vimbwanga v Police (Peleleza), Shimo Prison
v Kanjeru (Shimo Secondary)

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October 11, 2014

EURO 2016 QUALIFIERS | Lewandoswkis side chasing historic win

QUALIFIERS ROUNDUP
SHOW ESTONIA SOME RESPECT. England manager Roy

Hodgson has warned fans not to

expect another stroll park when
they face Estonia in their latest
Euro 2016 qualier in Tallinn on
Sunday.
Hodgsons men maintained
their perfect start to Group with
a 5-0 defeat of part-timers San
Marino the worlds joint-lowest ranked side at Wembley on
Thursday.
However, Estonias players are
professionals appearing in various European leagues and the
Baltic nation would have qualied
for the last European Championships had they not lost a play-o
against the Republic of Ireland.

WHAT A START! Just twoand-a-half months as coach of

Greece, Claudio Ranieri is heading towards a pair of key Euro
2016 qualiers that could put his
job at risk.
After a disastrous start to his
campaign with an opening 1-0
Group F loss at home to Romania
last month, the 63-year-old Italian certainly feels the pressure
to make good against Finland
in Helsinki today and at home
against Northern Ireland next
week.
I hope we win. Both
matches are dicult. They
are both good teams who
ght to the end. We are
ready and optimistic about
the matches, Ranieri
(inset) said.
A sports website in his native
country and
at least one
sports writer
in Greece
have written
that negative
results by the
Greeks in
both matches
may lead to
Ranieris de-

parture.
However sources at the Greek
football federation have stated
that Ranieri has a two-year contract to help the team qualify for
the Euro 2016 nals and that
there is no question of his replacement, at least at this stage.
He took over as Greeces coach
after his predecessors, Portugals
Fernando Santos had taken the
team to the World Cup 2014
and before that Germanys Otto
Rehhagel led Greece to the Euro
2004 title.
Ranieri, who was sacked from
Monaco in May, had very little
time to gain knowledge of the
players and it showed with the
loss to Romania..

STOCH STUNS SPAIN.

Former Chelsea midelder Miroslav Stoch struck three minutes

from time as Slovakia stunned
defending champions Spain 2-1 in
a Euro 2016 qualier in Zilina on
Thursday.
The central European minnows
now top qualifying Group C after
this famous victory, although
Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque
wont be too concerned with
qualication a near certainty.
It was Spains rst qualifying
defeat since 2006.
I denitely didnt expect
this result, it was unexpected,
said Del Bosque, who refused to blame his players.
We should have scored more
goals but we got hit with a
deadly counter. This is football, we cant reproach the
players. We were patient
but we didnt manage to
nish it o and their goalkeeper was outstanding.
He added: Its our rst
defeat in 28 qualifying
matches. We drew level
but then couldnt
respond to their
last move.
I think we
deserved at
least a
draw, I dont think
were in a negative dynamic.

Fifa boss Blatter now calls

for end to away goals rule
Paris

FIFA president Sepp Blatter yesterday called for an end to the away
goals winner rule in clashes with
two matches.
Blatter said the rule favours clubs
who play away in the second leg
because extra time can give an extra opportunity to get a goal with
double value.
It is time to rethink the system,
Blatter said in a column for the
FIFA publication The Week.
Away goals are notably used in
the Champions League knockout
stages and other European club
competitions where it was introduced in 1965. Where two sides
are level after two legs, the team
which has scored more goals away

from home go through.

The idea dates back to a time
when away games were often an
adventure, involving journeys that
could be long and arduous, said
the 78-year-old FIFA leader.
As well established as the rule is,
it can be viewed critically today,
because it favours the team playing away in the 2nd leg.
The system is no longer used
in the semi-nals of promotion
play-os in the English League.
US Major League Soccer and the
CONCACAF Champions League
in the Americas only count goals
scored in the 90 minutes of regulation time. Football has progressed
since the 1960s so the away goals
rule may now be questioned, said
Blatter, who did not propose an
alternative. (AFP)

Injury-hit Germans
Loew will miss skipper
Schweinsteiger, Ozil
Mertesacker, Khedira,
and Reus against
todays opponents
Warsaw

oland are chasing an historic

first win over world champions Germany in Warsaw
today with top spot in their Euro
2016 qualifying group at stake.
Adam Nawalkas Poland top Group
D on goal dierence by virtue of
their 7-0 rout of minnows Gibraltar
in their opening match.
But Joachim Loews Germany
are hard on their heels after seeing
o Scotland 2-1 in their opener in
Dortmund last month.
Poland are searching for a maiden
win over their neighbours at the 19th
attempt, while the Germans are rebuilding after several key retirements
in the wake of their World Cup triumph and a host of injuries.
Both veteran defenders Philipp
Lahm and Per Mertesacker have
retired, while Loew has a mounting
injury list to contend with including
new captain Bastian Schweinsteiger,
plus Sami Khedira, Marco Reus,
Mesut Ozil and Mario Gomez.
Germany still boast an impressive
recent international record.
They are unbeaten in 18 competitive matches and have not lost any
of their last 33 qualiers since a 3-0
home defeat to the Czech Republic
in October 2007.
Staggeringly, Germanys last
away defeat in a qualifying match
was a 3-0 loss against Portugal in
June 2000.
Poland have scored just once
in their six competitive meetings
against either Germany or West
Germany, but the visitors are taking nothing for granted.
Poland are the sort of team who
will put up a ght, they have good
technical players, they have evolved
and are more compact, said Germanys assistant coach Thomas
Schneider.
They are certainly a team who
will demand a lot from us.
Bayern Munich striker Robert
Lewandowski is hoping to trouble
Germanys goalkeeper and stand-in
captain Manuel Neuer, his teammate
at the Bavarian giants. The Polish

JOHN MACDOUGGALL | AFP

Germanys midelder Thomas

Mueller (second, left) celebrates
with teammates after winning
their UEFA Euro 2016 Group D
qualifying match against Scotland on Tuesday.

hot-shot wants the hosts to catch

their powerful guests cold after he
scored four goals in last months rout
of Gibraltar.
Maybe they will be too condent
after winning the World Cup. Maybe
they will oversleep a little and we will
be able to take advantage, Lewandowski, who has plied his trade in the
Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund,
then Bayern, told UEFA.com.
We know their qualities, but we
will not park a bus in our penalty
area.
Germany have targeted six points
from their next two games including
next Tuesdays visit by the Republic
of Ireland to Gelsenkirchen, but the

3-0
Germanys loss to Portugal in June
2000, the teams last defeat which
came more than 10 years ago

hosts are dreaming of an upset. If

we beat Germany, we will write new
chapter in Polish football history as
we have never beaten them, said Poland defender Kamil Glik. Matches
against Germany are always special.
We are full of adrenaline.
With Khedira and Schweinsteiger
out, Loew is set to name Christoph
Kramer in the defensive mideld and
Bayer Leverkusens Karim Bellarabi
is set to complete his fairytale rise
with his rst international appearance. The 24-year-old attacking
midelder spent last season on loan
at relegated Eintracht Braunschweig,
but is now leading the Leverkusen
attack.
Dortmunds Erik Durm and Hoffenheims Sebastian Rudy are set
to feature at left and right back respectively as Loew looks to settle
on his prefered back four with Lahm
and Mertesacker now in retirement.
(AFP)

Scottish focus on attack, says Naismith

Glasgow
Scotland striker Steven Naismith
says the emphasis will be on attack as
his side prepare to take on Georgia in
their European Championship Group
D qualifying match at Ibrox.
The Scots earned many plaudits
for their performance in a narrow 2-1
defeat away to world champions Germany in the rst qualifying match,
a result which brought to an end a
six-match unbeaten run for Gordon
Strachans side.
However, Group D rivals the Republic of Ireland and Poland have
already stolen a march on the Dark

Blues by beating the Georgians and

Gibraltar respectively, and Naismith
knows the Scots risk being left behind if they do not pick up three
points this weekend.

More freedom

And the Everton striker believes

the Scotland manager will allow
his side to play with more freedom
against Georgia.
I think we will be more positive.
Playing with two strikers doesnt
necessarily mean you are being more
positive but the manager will have a
system in mind. He has very rarely
got it wrong since he took over,

Naismith said. But one thing for

sure is that we will be more attacking than we were in Germany. We
will need to be.
Being at home you want to get the
crowd behind you, dictate the tempo
and play an advanced game that creates chances. So that has to be our
main aim from the kick-o.
We need to push the momentum
we have on into the campaign. But
we have 90 minutes to break them
down, its not a case of needing to
force it. In any international game the
away team tends to start o compact
and tries to feel their way into it, so
we expect that. (AFP)

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October 11, 2014

over the Germans who are unbeaten in 18 competitive matches and havent lost any of their last 33 qualiers

face Poland test in Warsaw

Real: Zidane
threatened
with ban

Shocks are warning

for the Three Lions,
says Roy Hodgson
London

PHOTO | AFP

Englands forward Wayne Rooney (left) in action during

their Euro 2016 qualier match against San Marino at
Wembley Stadium on Thursday.
London

STEADY PROGRESS

Bellarabi set for Germany debut after meteoric rise

Karim Bellarabi is set to cap
a meteoric rise today by making his debut for Germany
against Poland in a Euro 2016
qualier amidst the world
champions injury problems.
The 24-year-old was relegated from the Bundesliga
in May while on loan at
Eintracht Braunschweig and
watched Germany win the
World Cup in July as a fan
before starting pre-season
training when he returned to

Bayer Leverkusen.
A series of eye-catching displays, including the fastest
goal in Bundesliga history,
and Germanys lengthy injury
list has catapulted Berlinborn Bellarabi into the national squad.
He has been called up for the
qualiers against Poland in
Warsaw and Tuesdays visit
of the Republic of Ireland
in Gelsenkirchen. He turned

down the chance to play for

Morocco, the country of his
father, and having played for
Germanys junior sides, is set
for his senior cap at Warsaws
National Stadium.
It was a decision of the
heart. My mother is German
and I was born here, he admits. I spoke to my family
a lot about it and decided
to play for Germany. I hope
its the right decision for me.
(AFP)

PHOTO | AFP

Leverkusens forward Karim Bellarabi (right) vies for the ball during their German rst division Bundesliga football match against Paderborn 07.

England manager Roy

Hodgson warned of hidden dangers in Euro 2016
qualifying after his side
galvanised their position
atop Group E with a
straightforward 5-0 win
over San Marino.
England top the group
on goal difference from
Lithuania after Thursdays
stroll at a quiet Wembley
Stadium, with chief rivals
Switzerland six points o
the pace following an unexpected 1-0 loss away to
Slovenia.

Spain lost

Spain were stunned

by Slovakia on Thursday, while Portugal have
already lost at home to
Albania, and after a World
Cup dotted by shock results, Hodgson says the big
teams cannot take victories
for granted anymore.
I suppose theyre surprising (results), but maybe
not, said Hodgson, whose
side play away to Estonia
on Sunday.
I think we should
stop being surprised in
international football. If
you happen to be called
Spain, Russia or England,
we cant expect we can go
and beat whoever because
we have more people in our
country than them.
San Marino were better this year, better than
they were last year. Albeit
as an amateur team, itll
be a long time before they
can beat the likes of us at
Wembley, I hope.
Phil Jagielka headed
England into a 25thminute lead at Wembley,
but San Marino held out
until Wayne Rooney doubled the hosts advantage
with a penalty two minutes

prior to the break.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain teed up Danny
Welbeck for Englands
third goal early in the
second half, with a low
strike by substitute Andros Townsend and an
Alessandro Della Valle
own goal completing the
scoring.
England have now
scored 31 goals in their ve
games against San Marino,
conceding only once.
Hodgson dismissed
suggestions that he had
withdrawn Raheem Sterling and Jordan Henderson
at half-time to mollify Liverpool manager Brendan
Rodgers, with whom he

I think we should
stop being surprised
in international
football. If you
happen to be called
Spain, Russia or
England, we cant
expect we can go
and beat whoever
because we have
more people in our
country than them
Rioy Hodgson, England
coach
became embroiled in a
pre-game row about the
fitness of striker Daniel
Sturridge.
To be fair to Brendan,
when I spoke to him about
Daniel and we knew he
wouldnt be ready, we
spoke about Daniel and
Glen (Johnson), Hodgson
told his post-match press
conference. (AFP)

France legend Zinedine Zidane

has been threatened with suspension from his current role as Real
Madrids reserve team coach because he has not validated his
coaching badge, according to a
club source.
Weve received a notication
(from the Spanish Federation)
detailing a possible suspension.
We have 10 days to present our
defence, which is what Real will
do, said a spokesperson for the
10-time European champions.
Zidane holds a UEFA A licence level two coaching badge
but needs a level three licence to
operate in the Spanish third tier,
in which Real Madrid Castilla, the
clubs reserve side, play.

Coaching career

Yet since the beginning of the

season the two-goal star from
Frances 1998 World Cup success
on home soil has been nonetheless coaching the team.
He risks a three-month suspension for the oence, according
to popular Spanish dailies As
and Marca.
The 42-year-old, a former
world player of the year, has
yet to complete the full quota of
practice hours with the French
Football Federation to obtain the
promotion to level three.
Zidane was elevated to reserve
team coach at the beginning of
this season following a single
campaign as Carlo Ancelottis
assistant during their famous
decima season that culminated
with Mays Champions League
triumph.
However, the former playing
genius has hardly set the world
alight, losing ve of his seven
games in charge.

Submitted complaint

A Spanish coaching school,

the Cenafe, has also submitted a complaint to the Spanish
Federation against Real over of
Zidanes coaching of the reserve
team, claiming that they are using
his assistant Santiago Sanchezs
name on the teamsheet to bypass
the regulations.
The case has sparked controversy in Spain with national
team coach Vicente del Bosque
telling Cope radio station that
everyone should have a coaching badge.
Rayo Vallecano coach Paco
Jemez used tougher language,
describing Reals actions as
shameful.
However, both Ancelotti and
former Barcelona legend as
coach Johan Cruy have spoken out in support of Zidane.
(AFP)

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Saturday October 11, 2014

ATHLETICS
Returning Kisorio sets sights on half
marathon record after two-year ban
following substance abuse. P.52, 53

TODAYS FIXTURES

(Kenyan time):

SPORT INSIDE
FOOTBALL

HODGSON HEEDS
WARNING SHOT
England coach says Three
Lions must improve after
below-par showing. P. 55

2:50pm - England v Argentina;

3:12pm - Canada v USA;

Our main focus for

this weekend will be
to establish which
players have the
potential to acquire
new skills

3:34pm - New Zealand v France; 3:

56 - Samoa v Japan; 4:18 South
Africa v Wales; 4:40am - Kenya
v American Samoa; 5:02am
- Fiji v Scotland; 5:24
- Australia v Portugal;
5:51 - England v
USA; 6:13 - Canada
v Argentina; 6:35
- New Zealand
v Japan; 6:
57 - Samoa v
France; 7:39
- South Africa
v American
Samoa; 8:01
- Kenya v Wales;
8:23 - Fiji v Portugal; 8:
45 - Australia v Scotland;
9:07 Argentina v USA; 9:
29 - England v Canada;
10:11 - France v Japan;
10:33 - New Zealand v
Samoa; 10:55 - Wales v
American Samoa; 11:17 South Africa v Kenya; 11:
39 - Scotland v Portugal;
12:01 Fiji v Australia.

Kenya coach Paul Treu

11.17am
Time Kenya will play
South Africa in the Gold
Coast IRB Sevens in
Australia today

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Sevens Rugby tournament at
Safaricom Stadium, Kasarani,
last month.

Kenya faces Springboks,

Wales test at Gold Coast
Paul Treus new-look team
opens seasons campaign against
American Samoa from 4.40am

Amonde the only notable

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saturday magazine

From the editor

p20

once went to one of those personal

development boot camps for a month, and the
onl thing I remember from it is this slogan:
What ou focus on becomes our realit. Now,
not too long ago, I eperienced the truth of this
slogan when I realised that I had this negative energ
towards men. There was a lot of male bashing going
on everwhere I turned, and it soon coloured m
views. As if that was not enough, whenever m girls
and I gathered for some girl talk, the conversations
often degenerated into ranting about men: Men are
deadbeats, men are cheats, men are evil men this,
men that it was all so ver draining. So one da I
sat down and asked mself: Is it reall possible that
there are no responsible, faithful and generall good
men left in Kena? I tried to count some on one hand
but for some strange reason I couldnt nd an. All
I could see were faults and more faults in the men
in m life. Surel, this couldnt be true. Something
had to give and I gave mself a challenge dubbed
the good man project. For the net 30 das I would
consciousl look for men who did thoughtful things
not just for me, but for other women, and blog about
them. I needed to prove mself wrong, so I accepted
the challenge. The rst da it was hard spotting an
good man; I still had m murk-coloured glasses on,
but luckil one stranger did an act of kindness that
I couldnt help but notice. There was a good man! I
kept at it up to the fth man; some das I was too
preoccupied to notice the wonderful men who were
all around me so the counting was not on successive
das. After the fth man, I got laz, but I was alread
convinced that there is more to Kenan men than
indelit, irresponsibilit and other vices. I was read
to view men in a more balanced
wa, and I even opted out of
conversations with m friends
that involved tearing down the
character of the men in our lives; I
knew better. What I was focusing
on the good in men had
become m realit. Fast forward
to this ear, not too man weeks
ago and I started to feel bogged
down b all the negative content
that I am consuming about men.
When I turn on the radio, theres
one caller or the other whining
about men. When I seek solace on
blogs or social media, men are being bashed from
all directions. Who needs all that negative energ? I
dont! So I will begin m good man challenge again.
Toda, I promise to look out for and celebrate the
man good men around me. True, not all men are
good, but wh should I bother with those when I can
relish the good ones? Will ou join me in this good
cause? As ou do that, take a look at our main feature
on page 6 and 7, where Joan Thatiah looks into this
culture of male bashing and the eect it is having on
all of us.

Who keeps
10 what
after the

breakup?

12 African
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pops

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Sub-Editor: Felista Wangari.
Contributors: Kate Getao, Bon Vivant, Jackson Biko, Rupi Mangat, Waceke
Nduati-Omanga, Sona Parmar Mukherjee, Irene Njoroge, Ldia Omolo, Maurice
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Money

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21

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p13

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immediatel,
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and heat
in the
microwave
for one
minute.

Pierce
the skin of potatoes and
tomatoes before putting
them in the microwave so that the

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microwave

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squeezing.

Put paper towels around

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CAREER MAKEOVER
Think before ou borrow
Waceke Nduati Omangas article on
the issue of taking loans refers. Man
of us believe that we need loans to
achieve big dreams. owever, I view
loans as a liabilit that can lead to
nancial slaver. Imagine taking a
loan and using it for entertainment
or other trivial things! That would be
a disaster, but that is what most of us
are doing because it has become so
eas to get loans. Banks realised that
we are an indisciplined lot with little
self-control and willpower and that
is wh the oer us attractive debt
packages that are hard to resist. You
even have people taking a loan in
one bank to bu out an eisting loan
in another bank. Loans should be the
last option after all other avenues
have failed, otherwise one might
nd oneself stuck in a never-ending
nancial crisis brought about b
overwhelming debt. Spending ones
mone wisel and living within ones
means is the onl wa to avoid falling
into this trap. If ou have to take a
loan, think through it carefull and
invest it in a wa that
it generates enough
income to pa the loan
and still leave a prot.
Franklin Mukembu
Kajuki-Nithi
***
A loan is a trick et
important treasure.
Man people do
not understand the
implications of borrowing.
A good loan should
alwas be able to repa
itself, but man are the
times we nd ourselves
struggling to repa loans,
Donrmfd
cbdhflort
et we squandered the
plb hbmft
xiuh xomfnmone. The mone is sweet
hivinh uhfm
hopf xhilf
when we are spending it,
dfdfpuivfl
tfuuinh uhfm
but harsh realit dawns
up for uhf
uluimbuf fbllwhen we begin the
cuu uhf xill
fvfnuubll
monthl repaments. If the
mffu uhfir
mbudh
loan is working for ou and
repaing itself, ou will have
no worries. It is high time
we dened our reasons for
borrowing and evaluated if
we trul need loans. Calvin
Queens, via email
***

so that our e-partner can move

on with his life in peace. Ldiah
Nambura, via email
***
If a relationship is not working it is
bound to break up. We all want an
amicable end and we do not want to
hurt our partners, so I can understand
wh some people tr to come up
with all sorts of reasons to eplain
wh a relationship will not work. The
best wa to end a relationship with
a person ou are no longer attracted
to is to just tell him the truth. Just tell
him the relationship is not working
and go our separate was. Charit
Gathoni, via email
***

Mster of the eternal bachelor

Saturda Magazine makes m
weekend. Last week Jackson Bikos
Mantalk on the eternal bachelor
was captivating. Some men
dela marriage because the are
workaholics who have no time for a
social life. On the other hand, some
are too choos to get a woman who
meets their impossible standards.

Games men pla

Thanks for eposing the nast games
men pla in the editors note last
Saturda. I alwas tell women this: If
he has not proposed, please do not
open our legs for him thinking that
he is alread in our bo. The ones
who are not plaing games will not
ask ou to open our legs till ou
walk down the aisle. While working
as a shop attendant in a boutique
at our small market centre, I saw
rsthand the kind of games men
pla with womens hearts just to get
them into bed. Men would come with
women and pa a deposit for clothes
and shoes to impress them. The men
would later come and withdraw
the mone after having their wa
with the women. Women should be
careful because such men will even
go to the etent of meeting our
parents to prove their seriousness
just so that the can take advantage
of ou. After the get what the want,
the dump ou and move on to the
net pre.
Robert Odembo, Ruiru
***

October 4, 2014 SATURDAY NATION

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WIT JADKTON BIKO

Worst breakup ecuses

I laughed m heart out after reading
about Linda, who feigned a terminal
illness to end a relationship with her
bofriend. While it was funn, it is
amazing how low we can sink in the
name of tring to lessen the blow
of a breakup. I imagine it is worse
when our e nds out that ou told
him such a grave lie just to end the
relationship. If ou are not happ
in a relationship, instead of beating
around the bush and coming up
with ridiculous lies, just sa the truth

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Relationships gone sour

I alwas wonder wh marriages
end in divorce. Wh take
marriage vows onl to dump the
bride later, thereb ruining her
life? I suppose sometimes men
fail to meet their obligations as
husbands and fathers or even
abandon their life partners,
leading to the disintegration
of marriage, while women irt
with other men and mabe
have aairs. In man cases it
is onl the wife who tries to
save the marriage. I wish more
couples could tr to work out
their dierences and uphold
the till death do us part vow.
Alnashir D Walji, Nairobi
***

Weight control

Thank ou for highlighting the

struggles women have with
weight in the main feature
last Saturda. Apart from their
facial appearance, women are
also touch about their bod shapes.
While most people tr dieting to get
to their ideal size, I believe there are
other often overlooked things that
can help a woman sta in shape. For
eample, most women do not want
to walk for even a short distance, et
this would help them shed the ecess
fat. Also, for those who are married,
spacing children helps a lot. Another
thing is that some famil planning
methods make a woman balloon, so
women should consider using birth
control methods that work best for
their bodies. Rev Avudiko Geore,
Botwa-Kitale

Tfnd zour gffdbadk uo taumahAkf/naujonmfdja/dom

That said, I wonder wh we get our

knickers in a twist over a man who
is not married after a certain age.
Marriage is a personal decision with
no age or time limit. Nevertheless,
remaining a permanent bachelor
is not a good thing unless one is
suering from a pschological
disorder known as gamophobia,
which is the fear of getting
married, being in a relationship, or
commitment. In such a case, we
would just have to be understanding
of such a man. Stanle Kimutai
Waitagei, via email
***

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Repackage
ourself for new
opportunities

epackaging ourself is the best wa to prepare

for upward mobilit. When properl done,
it will sell ou as an epert in our eld and
create a new reputation for ou in addition to
recognition of our abilities. ere are some tips to help
ou revamp ourself for greater challenges:

Obtain new skills

In order to change and grow, new skills must be
part of the deal. Update our IT skills regularl to
ensure that ou are aware of the latest applications.
It does not help our chances if ou often appear
confused when asked if ou have the latest phone
apps and real-time computer connections. If ou wish
to stand out in our work, get new and specialised
skills that are rare in the countr. This wa, ou will
receive plent of work and referrals.

Attend professional development seminars

Ever career is evolving at an alarming rate these
das. There are new electronic gadgets coming up
all the time, as well as new products and research.
It helps to be tuned into these new was of doing
things. Obtain new qualications if ou last did our
professional eams more than ve ears ago. The
internet provides the fastest wa to know what is
going on worldwide.

Look and speak the part

Update our stle to t in with whatever is current.
Learn the latest trade jargon in our industr b
constantl interacting with our peers. Monitor the
latest trends in our market segment b carring out
research and talking to the end-users. This wa, ou will
not sound old-fashioned when making presentations
or selling ideas.

Keep in touch with ke people

It will help ou a great deal to know and to be
known b the ke people in our eld. This tpe of
networking will pla a big role for our name to come
up whenever eperts are being identied. Man
professionals, especiall consultants, nd themselves
being famous without their even realising it simpl
through referrals. The easiest wa to do this is to sta
visible through career or business forums and social
media. Join professional associations and ensure that
our prole is updated on forums such as LinkedIn.
IRENE NJOROGE KRISTIAN
(etiquette lecturer)

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wonder what ou did with all our

schoolbooks after ou were done with
school. I hope the were not gleefull
thrown over our head alongside our
graduation cap. I thought about this
when I recentl came across an old driving
manual that I last studied decades ago
when I was preparing for m driving test. It
seems that even the life-and-death issue of
proper behaviour on the road was not left
untouched b the for-eams-onl culture.
So, rather shamefacedl, I started
reviewing the valuable information
contained in the little booklet and got
a culture shock. It seems the ighwa
Code needs a serious update if it has to
be in harmon with the current driving
environment.

New use for mirrors

For eample m booklet sas Before ou

move o, overtake, turn left or right, slow
down or stop, use our mirror and look
around for the nal check. Well, in todas
driving world, mirrors are used for one thing
and one thing onl: to reverse into a ver
tight parking space, usuall at a mall. (Well,
oka, sometimes I use it to check if I did m
makeup well.) Otherwise, looking around
to check if other drivers are comfortable
with m planned manoeuvre is just a sign
of weakness and will usuall cause the
other road users to begin to speed up
and franticall swerve to avoid the wimp
driver. As for giving the proper signal before
eecuting the manoeuvre, these das the

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Time to review
the ighwa Code
proper signal is a smile (for
women) and a stone face
for men to indicate that
ou will do eactl as
ou please and other
road users should
keep out of the wa
or face the ensuing
dangers.
In another place
m booklet tells me
that All drivers and
riders are advised
to keep well to the
left ecept when road
signs or markings indicate
otherwise or when the intend to
overtake Whoa! I onl keep to the
left when I am intending to park illegall on
the kerb. Otherwise I keep as far right as is
possible in order to (1) avoid potholes (the
potholes are alwas shallower on the other
side of the road,) (2) avoid being overtaken
b an road user following me (overtaking is
a mark of superiorit and allowing people to
overtake me proves that I am inferior.) and
(3) m phone accidentall drops to the oor

Spe
ed
limi
t

30

when I am tring to tet and somehow the

car just seems to naturall veer towards the
left hand side of the road when I dive for the
pesk gadget.
I could scarcel believe m ees when
m booklet prescribed: Alwas drive
carefull and at a reduced speed when
pedestrians are about. onestl, this is

just like saing Alwas keep our open

purse hanging casuall behind ou when
pickpockets are about! B driving carefull
near a pedestrian, ou present an almost
irresistible temptation for the person to
suddenl dive into the road in front of ou
in a desperate attempt to cross to the other
side. Either ou will kill the pedestrian or the
person behind ou, who will automaticall
swerve past ou when ou hit the brakes,
will kill the pedestrian. If nothing else is
addressed, this part of the code of good
driving practice needs urgent review.
Then there is the bit that sas, once
ou have entered a roundabout, avoid
changing lanes until ou have left the
roundabout. Well, when all the people
on the inside lane of the roundabout
are intending to head left and vice
versa not changing lanes within the
roundabout is likel to result in a fender
bender or worse. I also think that this
advice: Sudden stopping causes
accidents give the signal that I am
going to STOP in good time should be
moved from the driving manual into
the police manual.
The last thing that struck me as I read the
manual was the eplanation of the purpose
of a road sign, namel to help ou and to
supplement our knowledge of the road
conditions. onestl, I thought the main
purpose of a road sign was to supplement
the scrap metal industr.
This weekend change the people or
change the code.

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of a Gay woman
BY KINUTIA MBURU

Serving vodka is an art

POTO I JEFF ANGOTE

I began as a waitress but

bartenders and miologists,
I was drawn to the bar and
and instead opt for dismissal.
eventuall, I changed jobs and
In the same vein, man bosses
became a bartender. Earl this
want to pa women less than
ear, I became a miologist after
male bartenders even when
studing how to professionall
their work is far better. All in all,
distill, mi, add avour to
working hard and proving m
cocktails, and market Absolut
worth and abilit has spared
Vodka.
me from such treatment. I have
Yesterda, I woke up at 6.30am
learned to ourish b doing a
and headed to the gm where I
great job at whatever position
Yvonne
worked out until 8am. B 10am,
Wairimu Njeri I am in. I work to ecel for m
I was at our oce. I train people
is a consultant own personal satisfaction, for m
how to mi Absolut Vodka, mostl
miologist at emploer, and our customers. I
in the afternoons. I work with the
Pernod Ricard have learned that it is onl me
events andpromotions manager to
who can take me where I want
Kena
ensure that whatever function we
to be. Currentl, I have m own
are having goes on smoothl.
mobile bar compan called
Currentl, the highlight of m career
Wemi Epress. Each da, it gives me a
was winning the inaugural Kena Absolut
reason to work harder to put it on the map.
Miolog Challenge in November 2012.
In m work, I have had m fair share
Being a mother of three, juggling work
of bizarre moments, like recentl when a
and motherhood has often proved to be
drunk customer drew a gun at me when I
a tough nut. It is eas to neglect one side,
asked him to pa his bill. It was the second
which oftentimes is not work. In 2012 when I time a client was drawing a gun at me! The
traveled to Sweden to train as a professional
rst time, a client had drunk so much that
miologist, I was forced to leave m kids
he mistook me for someone hed given his
behind, including m lastborn, Zion Baraka,
phone at the counter. e drew the gun after
who was ve months old and still eclusivel concluding that I intended to steal it.
breastfeeding.
Due to the nature of m job, I do not
Working for emploers who dont trust
have a specic time when I leave the oce.
ou is another general challenge in this
owever, I alwas tr to get home earl and
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October 11, 2014 SATURDAY NATION

MAINFEATURE

Behold, the man-haters!

In most places where
women gather, the
conversation more often
than not veers into rants
about how men dont
measure up. As Joan
Thatiah found out, this
wave of male bashing is not
just another harmless wa
to vent, it has far-reaching
repurcussions

f ou have been spending a

considerable amount of time online
or around groups of women, then
ou have noticed that men are
the latest victims of gender prejudice.
Men are increasingl being portraed
as stupid, unable to bring up kids
and useless at anthing else other
than bringing home the bacon, and
sometimes the are chided for not being
adequate providers. Kenan women are
spending a lot of time in conversation
and on blogs emasculating men.
Saturda Magazine conducted a dip
stick surve of women between 21 and
36. Of 18 women surveed, 14 admitted
to having openl epressed man-hating
sentiments in the past ear. While most
of it was done in frustration, some of
the women we spoke to seemed to
think of man bashing as liberating and
progressive.
Liz Karita, a 28-ear-old masters
degree student and social media
enthusiast said, It is what it is. Its our
turn now and men should be able to take
it in their stride without whining.
Anita, a 32-ear-old music teacher
reckons that women are generall not
happ, and bashing men comes in hand
to cheer one another up and to empower
one another.
Men control virtuall everthing. A
woman has to work twice as hard just to
be at par, she sas visibl agitated.
What is most worring is that these
anti-male sentiments arent directed at
specic men for specic wrongs but at
all men in general. Even dependable
men are mauled. Take Leo, a 30-ear-old
single father, for instance. This insurance
salesman has been raising his ve-earold son single-handedl for a little over
two ears now. e has man female
friends and admits that it is dicult to
be around them especiall when one of
them is going through a breakup. The
negativit towards men, he sas, leaves a

SATURDAY NATION October 11, 2014

bad taste in his mouth.

M sons mother is irresponsible, to sa
the least, and our arrangement was a verbal
one. I have thought about ling for legal
custod of m son but I havent. I sometimes
worr that these attitudes that paint men as
irresponsible and selsh ma be present in
our courtrooms, he sas.
Your husband is our rst child, men just
dont think, he cant be trusted to take care of
the kids there seems to be no limit to what
women can sa about men. On the other
hand, even good-natured teasing directed
towards a woman will land a man in trouble.
Collins Nabiswa, a social media editor
who spends a considerable section of his da
online concurs that the Internet has become
a breeding ground for pervasive anti-male
sentiment. e attributes it to the sense of
securit and sometimes anonmit that
hiding behind a computer gives. e admits
that this is a subject he feels strongl about.
A culture is being created where its
acceptable to bash men and rant about how
awful the are. What if the same things were
said about a woman or a child? Would it still
be acceptable? he asks.
Are we tring to sa that men are
undeserving of fairness? This trend of vilifing
men and idealising women seems to have
caught up with the advertising world. Tune
in to an local television channel and ou will
not miss an advertisement portraing a man
poorl especiall around the home.
All these anti-male tirades make me
wonder whether I should refrain from getting
married or I should marr epecting hurt and
disappointed from the man I sa I do to,
shares Serah Githu.
Serah, 29, is a member of two women-onl
chamas. When the are at group meetings
especiall when there are news reports of
a rape or domestic violence, ever group
member seems to have something bad to sa
about men.
If these men are as stupid as the sa, as
heartless, as irresponsible, I wonder wh the
sta married at all, she sas of her peers.

Wh women are angr

With the help of feminists, women have come

a long wa in their liberation journe. The
have tolerated ears of discrimination and
abuse from men. ave the tables turned?
Is this their wa of paing back? Should
oppression be fought with aggression?
Looking at it from an anthropological
perspective Nairobi-based consulting
anthropologist Bernard Moseti sas that it
ma seem as if women are feeling a need to
step in and take charge because men have
messed things up but according to him, the
realit could in fact be the opposite.
The assumption has been that men are
in control and thus when things start going
wrong in the societ, women automaticall
blame them. The think that the failure of
men is the source of all their problems. The
leader is alwas to blame, he eplains his
view.
Mar Wahome, a sociologist and the lead
researcher at the Schizophrenia Foundation
of Kena, is of the view that this form of
reverse seism sas more about the basher
than it does about the group being bashed.
She notes that there are women who are

reall angr out there. With the shift in

gender roles, women have had to abandon
that fantas that men will alwas provide for
them without fail and have found themselves
burdened with nancial responsibilities
leading to the pent up anger the have
against men.
It will be easier for this woman to bash
than to admit a need for a man, she sas.
Sadl, bashing men doesnt seem to be
ing anthing.

armless fun

Our gender dierences have become a fertile

breeding ground for malicious jokes directed
at men. Ideall, men and women should
be able to tease one another in good taste
but when this teasing capitalises on ones
failure and starts coming o as man-hating, it
becomes a dierent stor altogether.
Seeing as women have been on the
receiving end of these attitudes, male
bashing shouldnt come as an utter surprise
as emotions, just like a pendulum, tend to
swing from one etreme to the other. One
wonders whether its being epected makes
it justied.
Anti-male sentiments have become so
natural that women barel recognise that
the are involved in male bashing. The
problem with this is that the do not shield
the oung generation from these attitudes.
According to Mr Moseti, the anthropologist,
while male bashing might not permanentl
impact on a mans self image in the present,
it might cause possible future problems and
even become a threat to the famil unit.
It ma look like entertainment
or harmless fun but children are
soaking up these images, he sas.
We are sending messages to
our sons that it is acceptable if
the are belittled and that their
feelings arent important. A
woman ma imagine that bashing
men is empowering herself but
she forgets that she is supposed to
raise her daughter to grow up with high
epectations of the men she meets.
Male bashing could
also be a threat to our
immediate relationships.
Whenever he hears
strong anti-male
sentiments,
Christopher
Mwaeni, a
36-ear-old
ower farmer
writes o
that woman
as hateful. e
shares that before
last ear, he didnt
pa much attention
to snide anti-male remarks.
e simpl dismissed them
thinking the couldnt hurt
him, because it was just talk.
Sometime last ear, he was
serious about marring a
single mother he had been
dating. Then he saw her siear-old daughter in a shirt
printed, Bos are stupid.
It didnt go down well

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with me that she could bu or let her child

wear such a shirt, he recalls.
e began paing more attention and
while this woman wouldnt tr to put him
down, she onl had negative things to sa
about her daughters father and even her
own father. She seemed to have soaked up
this attitude so much that she seemed to be
going through their relationship epecting
him to disappoint her.
I thought about having a son with her
and then having him grow up in such a
hateful climate. I couldnt, he sas.

What can we do?

ow do ou react to male bashing? I ask

Amos Ndege, a 29-ear-old interior designer.
is chosen career eld is female-dominated
and ever so often, hes had to listen to
women bashing the men in their lives. Once
or twice, hes seen cruel anti-male stickers on
cubicle walls around the oce. What did he
do about it?
Nothing. At a glance, most of it comes
across as a joke and ou begin getting
oended when ou think about it some
more, which most of the time will be after the
person that made the joke has left, he sas.
Silence is how the average Kenan man
seems to react to male bashing. Getting
oended but ignoring it and silentl hoping
that it will go out of fashion. Unfortunatel
ignoring it onl seems to be making these
attitudes stronger.
Gender activist and author Dr. Warren
Thomas Farrell in his
book; Women Cant
ear What Men
Dont Sa writes
that the highest
hurdle towards
eliminating
male bashing
is that men are
afraid to speak
up so that the
arent seen as

woman-haters. This might eplain wh wh

male advocac groups like the Nderitu Njokaled Maendeleo a Wanaume mostl speak
out against phsical violence while verbal
anti-male sentiments go unmentioned.
Dr Farrell advocates for both sees
speaking up and both sees listening so that
their children do not inherit this anger. This
means starting on a personal level. Being
aware of these attitudes is the onl wa a
woman can consciousl avoid the negativit.
Take a stand for the men in our life b
refusing to participate.
Mr Moseti, the anthropologist is of the
view that these omnipresent man-bashing
images can be neutralised b changing how
our children
are getting
socialised.
Male
bashing
stems from
women tring
to reclaim
their space.
Socialise our
bos and
girls to grow
up seeing
each other
as partners
rather than competitors. African life
is communal, men and women are in
partnership, not competition, he sas.
Seeing as the women are unaware that
this could be harming their ospring, raising
public awareness about male bashing seems
to be another possible wa of tackling it.

If men are as
irresponsible
as women
say, I wonder
why they stay
married at all.
- Serah

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8 saturday magazine

October 11, 2014 SATURDAY NATION

WIT LIZ LUNDI

Ale keeps sending Liz

owers at the oce, but
Liz remains unmoved

The way she

says it makes me
think she doesnt
like personal
displays of
affection

ILLUSTRATION I JOSEP NGARI

he rst thing I do is dump the owers

in the bin. Ales gesture in sending
them is useless to me. Then I focus
on getting m work done; Bertha
does not look like she will suer fools or slow
workers gladl, so I decide there and then that
I am going to put m head down and focus. A
new era, dierent from Chris time, is here now.
The net da when another set of fresh
owers arrives at 10.30am, same as the da
before, I do not need to open the card to see
who the are from. But I do, anwa.
I hope our week is turning out better than
mine. O. Ale, it sas. I roll m ees and toss
the card in the bin, but this time I look at the
arrangement of tulips and decide that I want
to keep them.
Flowers two das in a row now? Louises
voice startles me from the direction of m
oce door. I turn around and look at her,
peeking
over the jamb
and peering
at m owers.
The are
from that gu
that I told
ou about.
Ale, I sa.
The smooth
operator.
Ooooh,
she sas. I see
wh ou call him a smooth operator. I would
be quite attered b now.
I shrug. Its just owers that he ordered
from some compan, didnt even bother
to deliver them himself, I sa. I dont feel
impressed.
But hes obviousl thinking about ou,
Louise sas.
No hes not, I counter.
ow do ou know?

both laugh. And at lunchtime, Bertha

makes her entrance into m oce
to check on some paperwork.
I see ou have a rather avid
suitor, she sas when we are done
with work.
Well, um, es I sa. There is
something about the wa she said
it that has me thinking she does
not approve of personal displas
of aection in the oce. I can
ask him to stop sending
them if ou think its
unprofessional
I hedge, sort of
stammering out of
nervousness.
Oh, absolutel not,
she sas. I think oung love
is such a beautiful thing. Carr
on! she sas, smiling. Once again, the
smile does not reach her ees. Then she
walks briskl out of m oce and heads
into hers. I make a mental note to call Ale
and ask him not to send the owers an
more; I have a feeling I will lose m job if he
does.
On Thursda, an equisitel wrapped
bunch of white roses arrives; m favourite.
I cannot resist putting them in a vase and
displaing them prominentl in m oce.
Saw these and I thought of ou. O. Ale,
the card sas. And for some reason, I become
absolutel sure that this is not a personal
gesture. So I pick up the phone and I dial his
number.
Liz, he sas when I pick up. ave ou
been receiving m little gifts?
Yes, I sa.
Do ou like them?
Well, the are nice I sa. It feels like
pulling teeth, passing that compliment.
e laughs. Nice? Im going to have to work
harder to please ou, then, he chuckles.
Actuall, I sa, I was calling to sa, please
dont send me owers an more.
Wh not? he asks. And then I launch into
one of the most honest conversations I have
ever had in m life.

Relentless suitor
I beckon her into m oce and signal for
her to sit down. Let me show ou how plaers
work. I have dated enough of them to know
all their tricks, I sa. Then I reach into m oce
bin and pull out the card. Showing it to Louise,
I tell her: See? Theres onl one name on the
card. is.
So?
So, heres the thing; he probabl has
an account with the ower shop and he
calls them up and gives them two or three
addresses to send owers to ever week. The
cards are generic, so he probabl asks the
ower shop to rotate them among the girls he
is seeing.
Louise gives me a look as if she thinks I
am going insane. Liz, that is wa too much
thinking, she sas. ow about, the man was
simpl thinking about ou and thought to

send ou owers?
e doesnt even know if I like owers! I
throw m arms in the air. Trust me, Louise,
these owers are a standard plaer tactic. And
if ou keep up with his shenanigans I will show
ou just how much of a plaer he is.
Whatever, Liz, she sas. I still think ou are
being oversuspicious. I sa nothing but smile
at her, a knowing smile. Louise has no idea
what I have seen in m dating life. But I am
about to show her.
On Wednesda, another bunch of owers,
this time white lilies, arrives. I hope ou are
keeping well? Thinking of ou. O. Ale.
I see ou got another bunch of owers,
Louise pokes her head through m door
again. Still not impressed? she laughs.
Absolutel not, I sa. owever, m oce
is starting to look like a ower outlet! We

RESEARCHCENTRE

BY KINUTIA MBURU

Silent treatment is bad for mens health

It is not unusual for partners in a committed
relationship to give each other the silent
treatment, also commonl referred to as nilb-mouth, after a ght. But did ou know that
giving our partner the cold shoulder could
not onl cause him emotional stress, but also
urinar and bowel problems? This is according
to a new stud conducted b the Teas
Christian Universit. In fact, adds the stud,
giving our man the silent treatment could
cause him erectile dsfunction as well!
In an analsis of 74 studies with more
than 14,000 participants from 1987 to 2011,
the researchers established that when one
partner withdraws in silence or shuts down
emotionall because of perceived demands b
the other partner, the harm that is aicted is
not onl emotional but phsiological too.
The more this silent treatment pattern
emerges within our relationship, the greater
the chances that one or both partners will

eperience heightened levels of aniet, or

occurrences of more aggressive forms of
behaviour, said lead researcher Paul Schrodt,
a professor of communication studies at Teas
Christian Universit. The stud was published
in the journal, Communication Monographs.
The research analsis earlier found that
the silent treatment was the most common
pattern of conict in marriage or an
committed, established relationship.
The silent treatment occurred in a pattern
of demand and withdrawal, where one
partner, mainl the woman, pressured the
other with requests, criticism, or complaints
onl to be met with avoidance or silence, said
Dr Schrodt.
From the analsis, the researchers further
noted that couples who use the silent
treatment eperienced lower satisfaction, less
intimac, poorer communication, and divorce.
As if the emotional consequences were not

enough, phsicall, couples who used the

silent treatment suered bowel and urinar
problems or erectile dsfunction. According
to the research, the man in a confrontational
relationship where silent treatment is the
most common form of resolution was more
likel to eperience erectile dsfunction than
a man whose relationships conict resolution
mechanism did not revolve around or was not
preceded b the silent treatment. According
to Dr Schrodt, the man was likel to be the
one oering the silent treatment during a
confrontation.
Nonetheless, the researchers noted that
phsiological problems were more likel
to occur where silent treatment became
an established and prolonged pattern in a
relationship. We generall found that the
pattern itself was the main problem regardless
of the part each partner plaed, said Dr
Schrodt.

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WOMANOFPASSION
WIT ANGELA OKETC

A hair aair
Jane Awino Okoth chose to follow her passion
for hairdressing against her parents wishes and
eventuall proved that it was a good decision

HOW SHE DID IT:

ire professionals who can work
with little supervision.
Block out the nasaers. You can
turn our passion into a successful
business if ou put our whole
heart in it.

ane Awino Okoth alwas knew that she

had an aptitude for hairdressing. After
Form Four she planned to become a
hairdresser but her parents would not
allow her. The wanted her to stud
accounting and she obliged half-heartedl.
After completing the course, Jane got an
accounting job, but she was itching to do hair,
so she often snuck out at lunch time to make
friends hair. The thought of being emploed
doing something she did not want, et she had
a talent waiting to be eploited disturbed her, so
after two months as an accountant she quit her
job and started her hairdressing journe.
She started o making her sisters, friends, and
her own hair.
I did small-time hairdressing for close to one
ear, but I was not discouraged. I knew that one
da I would make a lot of mone doing what I
loved, she recalls.
M parents were disappointed, but the gave
up tring to talk sense into me and let me follow
m passion.

POTO I MARTIN MUKANGU

Learning on the job

One of Janes friends who saw what she

was doing introduced her to the owner of
Farouks Salon, one of the biggest salons
in Nairobi, where she honed her skills for
12 ears before opening her own salon in
Februar this ear.
I joined Farouks salon with little
professional knowledge in hairdressing
but because I had the passion, I learnt
man things on the job and aspired to be
the best that I could be.
While she was happ
getting the
eperience,
she still
nurtured
the
dream of
starting
her own
gig.
M
heart was
not at rest.
I wanted
to run m
own salon
where I

Retain our customers with great

customer service. Give our
customers our best ever time.
Focus on the things that ou are
good at and do not give up. Follow
our heart and the rest shall follow.

would implement m own ideas. I also wanted

to be a success in the path I had chosen to make
m parents happ and reassure them that I had
made the right choice, sas the 34-ear-old.
Earl this ear, she made up her mind to be
her own emploer. She praed over it and trusted
that her passion and hard work would take her
places. With savings of Sh15,000 and a little
top-up from her husband, she quit emploment
and opened her own salon. The mother-of-three
has now been running the elite Rapunzel air
Aair Salon in Westlands, Nairobi, for just over
eight months and has served an overwhelming
number of clients. After she opened the salon
Jane signed up for advance weaving technique
courses
with leading
trainers
in the US,
Dubai,
German,
Ghana, and
Zanzibar to
enable her
to meet the
standards
of the tpe
of clientele
she hoped to attract. With these advanced skills,
Jane has been able to attract politicians, news
anchors, top businesswomen, and celebrities,
some of whom were her former clients at her
previous job. er clients insist on human hair
shipped from Asia and South America and gladl
pa top dollar for it. And with her weave-making
skills, Jane uses hair cut from her Indian clients,
with their permission, for microweaving on other
clients.
While business has been good, it has not
been without challenges, the main one being
that most of her emploees come in without the
requisite skills. Jane trains them until the meet
her standards. elping upcoming hairdressers
grow in this eld was one of the things that
pushed me to open m own salon, she sas.
She considers the fact that she has been
able to prove to her famil that following her
passion was worth it to be one of her biggest
achievements.
When I quit accounting for hairdressing no
one in m famil would pick m calls, but now
the can see that I made the right decision and
support me. We are on good terms now.

I was not
discouraged. I
knew that one day
I would make a lot
of money doing
what I loved

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October 11, 2014 SATURDAY NATION

WIT JACKSON BIKO

Who keeps
what after the
breakup?

orget the heartache of

breakups. Breakups are not even
nast; that is if ou compare
them with the unpleasant
change that has to take place
once a relationship ends. Nobod wants

change, especiall after getting used to

routine, but after a breakup most things
just have to change.
There is the whole pretence that
people tr to ride on; that the can be
great friends after breaking up and that
the will be absolutel cool if the person
the dated for two ears started dating
again. That is bollocks! One person will
alwas harbour either resentment or
residual feelings, sitting there in silence,
pretending to be cool while the seethe
inside. When people break up, the should
just go their separate was; no contact
whatsoever, none of that jaded romantic
hoo-ha of keeping in touch because

friendship is much bigger than the

breakup mabe for one person,
but there is alwas someone still
carring the torch, hoping that the
tide will change. So, break up and go
separate was until all the feelings
have been buried long enough for
people to be friends without an
hang-ups or angst. In the meantime,
the question that remains is, after the
furniture has been moved, who gets
to keep what? Let us see.

angouts

So ou gus had our bar or our

restaurant. That place where ou
went often. It could even be a holida
destination. Common sense dictates
that as the gu ou avoid the places
ou used to frequent altogether.
Because ou do not want to show
up there probabl with a new
flame and our e is there with her
girlfriends (who all hate ou now),
sniggering across the table, shooting
ou withering looks. Who knows,
the might even strangle our new
flame in the washrooms with those
thin lethal-looking belts the tie so
close to their bosoms.
But who wants to look for a
different bar and start building a
relationship with a new barman?
Who wants to create a new rapport
with watchmen for parking? So, as a
general rule, let the gu keep the bar;
the woman can keep the restaurants.

Friends

It happens that she introduced ou

to her whole circle of friends male
and female and ou ended up
becoming ver good friends with
some of them, in fact more than she
is. After the breakup she will epect
all these friends to come back to her
brood, which means nobod will
be allowed to fraternise with ou.
It will be seen as a betraal and as

punishment, such friends will be

ecommunicated. So most of them
will be sneaking around to maintain
friendship with ou. And of course
some of them will be used as spies
to report back how unhapp, how
miserable, how unkempt, how lost
and utterl worthless ou have
become without her in our life.
An update about ou that is not
miserable enough is not taken well.
It would be prudent not to fight to
maintain such friendships because
the umbilical cord that connected
ou to them has been severed.

Gm

She thought ou gus training

together would be se (she called
it cute) so ou joined her gm. You
paid a whole ears membership
because she seemed sane then,
and also because ou thought
the relationship might last over a
ear at the ver worst. Then things
happened. A shoe got thrown at a
banged door. And that was that. That
was onl two months in. You now
have 10 months left of our gm
membership. Of course ou could
find another gm if ou had lots of
cash to throw around, but ou do
not. So ou sa ou will be a macho
man and continue going to the gm
because, reall, it is not like she owns
the gm, right? Of course the first
time she saw ou at the gm after
the breakup she almost threw up on
the dumbbells. Then after that there
was the loud cold treatment and her
snubbing our greetings with a dead
face. And since everbod knew that
ou were a couple, the will notice
the frostiness, which means ou have
to make that decision to move gms.
The point? Lovers should keep
some parts of their lives separate.
That whole ours onl sounds good
when she still thinks ou are a prince.

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After the relationship

ends there is the little
matter of dividing stu.
eres what ou should
leave for our e

SATURDAY NATION October 11, 2014

The mothers of
m children are
standing in the
wa of m love
This week we READERS ADVICE
advise a man The mothers of our children
misinterpreted our
who wants help have
kindness to mean love and
It is understandable
to shake o the aection.
that our current partner does
mothers of his not want to commit to anthing
until she is completel sure
children et
that ou have sorted out an
I am a 22-ear-old man and
m past is haunting me in
a major wa. When I was
in Standard Eight, I made
a schoolmate pregnant.
I made et another
schoolmate pregnant when
I was in Form Three. As a
result I have two children,
a bo and a girl. I love m
children and support them
and their mothers, but I
am in love with another
girl, whom I respect a lot
because I am now mature
and understand the essence
of love. I have told her
everthing about m past
and she still accepted me.
The problem is that the
mothers of m children do
not want to let go of me.
Could it be that the think
I am in love with them just
because I give them child
support? Should I withdraw
the support or what
should I do to make them
understand that we are onl
connected b the children
and nothing else? I am
read to establish a famil
with the woman I love but
she insists that I must settle
the issue with the mothers
of m children before she
makes up her mind. I do
not want to lose this girl. I
love her too deepl to break
the promises I made to her.
Please help me.

pending issues from our past

relationships. Nevertheless, do
not withdraw the child support
ou have been paing for our
children. Also, I would not advise
ou to start et another famil
at 22, not unless ou are one of
Kenas oungest millionaires.
Starting another famil now
would be too much responsibilit
over and above what ou alread
have. Eric Githinji
Thanks for supporting our
children. Do not stop doing
this because if ou neglect our
children, our e-lovers will take
legal action against ou. As for

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EPERT ADVICE
Maurice Matheka, a
relationship counsellor
answers:
Let us focus on the present.
I applaud ou for taking
responsibilit for our
children, but it must be a strain
considering that ou are a
oung man who should be more
focused on developing a career.
You must understand that the
two women will have some
emotional connection with ou
because ou share a child with
them. The are not likel to be
willing to see ou settle with
another woman, so the will do
the women in our life, how do
ou relate with our girlfriend? I
think she is afraid that ou might
also impregnate and dump
her the wa ou did with the
mothers of our children. She
might also be worried that ou
still get intimate with our elovers. ow do ou relate with
the mothers of our children?
You need to sit down with
these women and clarif our
intentions so that the do not live
with the false hope that ou will
marr them some da. Robert
Odembo
Do not complicate our life.
Remember, ou are et to go
to college and might meet et
another girl there. Continue

anthing in their power to have

a hold on ou. owever, no one
can force ou to be with them. I
recommend that ou continue
supporting our children and
also think about our future
before getting into another
relationship. Emotions have a
wa of clouding ones judgement
and looking after three women
and two children is not a walk in
the park. If ou continue on the
current path ou ma take on
responsibilities than ou cannot
handle and that ma create a rift
between ou and the woman
ou profess to love deepl. Make
our choices wisel so that there
are no regrets later.
taking good care of our children
and do not withdraw support out
of our selsh desire to please
our current girlfriend. Set the
two other women free, but make
sure that our children grow
up seeing ou as a responsible
father. Once ou have made our
decision, learn to be faithful and
satised with the partner ou
choose. Thomas Midoi
Kudos for supporting our
children! This is a responsible
thing to do; keep it up! One
thing ou must now do is to cut
links with the past in order to
forge forward into the future.
Stop all engagement with
the mothers of our children
because the are part of our
past. Do not allow them to hold
ou at ransom; after all ou are
alread rendering support to
the children. Focus on the new
relationship now that ou are
mature. John Musuku
Love is a natural feeling; ou
cannot force it. Though ou
made the two women pregnant,
ou do not love them. You need
to be open and eplain this to
them, but whatever ou do, do
not withdraw the support ou
give our children. Assure their
mothers of our support, but
do not entertain an intimate
attachment with them. Juma
Feli
Your girlfriend is right to insist
that ou settle the issue with
the other women. This will pave
the wa for a happ marriage
without sideshows. Let the other
women know that the are just
the mothers of our children
and nothing else. Rev Avudiko
Geore

NET WEEKS DILEMMA:

M bofriend and I love each other ver much and are even planning for our future. e is currentl in school and he
told me that b 2019 he will have graduated and will probabl be working, so he asked if it is oka with me if we got
married then. I agreed because I reall love him. e has just turned 19 and I am turning 20 in December. I am et to start
m college education. Even though I promised him that we would get married in 2019 and he promised never to leave
me, I am not sure that things will go according to plan. I once read an article b Jackson Biko warning a reader not to get
married oung and that is wh I have decided to seek our advice. Please help. ildah, Nakuru.

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PROFESSIONAL ADVICE FOR YOUR

LIFE PROBLEMS

M porn
habit is hurting
m marriage

I have been married for over ve ears

and m wife and I have a daughter. M
marriage seems oka but I harbour
a secret that m wife does not know about.
Whenever I am alone in the house, I watch
pornograph and later masturbate, a habit I
formed while in high school. I thought that I
would stop after marriage, but I have not. This
has aected our se life and m wife has even
accused me of cheating, though I have never
cheated on her. Should I tell her m secret? ow
can I quit watching porn and masturbating?
Please help me!

t is alread clear that if ou do nothing about

these two destructive forces, pornograph and
masturbation, the will destro our marriage.
This is a deepl rooted habit since ou formed it in
high school. It was wrong for ou to assume that
the habit would stop automaticall after ou got
married. You cannot epect to just stop something
that ou have got used to over the ears.
Changing our behaviour requires willpower,
sacrice, and a lot of work on our part. First, think
of watching pornograph as a bad habit and stop
justifing it to ourself. The fact that it is alread a
threat to our marriage should be enough reason
for ou to see it as maladaptive behaviour. Yes, it is
not eas but when ou overcome the temptation
to watch porn, ou will stop masturbating.
Second, spend time with our wife. Discuss our
seual life with her and come up with was to
rekindle the ame together. Third, avoid being left
alone in the house and keep ourself bus to keep
our thoughts awa from masturbation. Fourth,
get rid of all the porn that ou currentl have and
avoid buing or accessing porn sites and videos.
Fifth, consider discussing this issue with our
wife, but use the right approach. Be read for her
reaction and help her deal with it. Let her know
that ou have been masturbating, but that ou are
read to stop it because ou love her and want to
save our marriage. She might help ou quit porn
b being there for ou emotionall and phsicall.
As ou plan to quit, remember this is a journe
that requires a lot of eort and self-control. If ou
are having diculties ou ma consider visiting a
counsellor. I wish ou success.

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October 11, 2014 SATURDAY NATION

FASHION&STYLE

EXPERT
TIPS

Dressing
chunk
calves

ressing muscular or chunk

calves can be a bit of a mission,
but the ke is to make them less
noticeable. ere are basic guidelines
to slim them up.
Dress and skirts: Sta clear of
pencil-cut stles because the
emphasise our calves. Your best
bet is an A-line or owing skirt as it
will give an illusion of smaller calves.
Best of all are mais because the
cover up the problem area.
Distract the ee from our legs b
wearing lighter colours, prints, and
accessories which la emphasis on
our top half and darker shades on
our lower bod to downpla it.
Wear straight or bootleg pants.
Well-tting suits and pants in solid
colours work best. Avoid skinnies
and capri pants as the will make
our legs look stock.
Shoe choice: Mid-height heel is the
perfect choice because it makes
our leg look long and lean. Boots
are hard to nd, but when ou do

SATURDAY NATION October 11, 2014

get a pair,
pick one that
is wider on
top and that
has elastic
for a perfect
t. Slouch
stles are great
because the
oer enough
room.
Stockings are
a great wa to
make legs appear
slimmer. Invest in
dark shades paired
with shoes in the
same colour as the
stockings, or stockings
in the same colour
as our skin tone, to
make our legs appear
longer. Sta awa from
patterned stockings as
the will draw attention
to our calves.

HANDY FACTS
POINTERS

ip and chic

1
2
3
4

White bead and brass

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Camel bone
neckpiece (two
neckpieces worn as
one), Sh3,500 each,
Kafamilcraft.

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WIT LYDIA OMOLO

Black shift dress,

Sh1,900, Mr Price.
Brown bead and
camel bone medium
claw neckpiece, Sh12,500,
Kafamilcraft.
Black shift dress,
Sh1,900, Mr Price.
Metallic gre and
white bead strand
neckpiece and bracelet
sold as a set, Sh12,500,
Kafamilcraft.

5
6
7
8

Black shift dress, Sh1,900,

Mr Price. Black Maasai
tube neckpiece with West
African brass neckpiece
set with earrings and bracelet,
KafamilCraft.
Brass and gold bead
short strand neckpiece
sold as set with earrings
and bracelet, Sh7,500,
Kafamilcraft. Black shift dress,
Sh1,900, Mr Price.
Black shift dress, Sh1,900,
Mr Price. Purple bead and
brass disc tiered neckpiece,
Sh 12,500, Kafamilcraft.
Green bead and bone
choker, Sh2, 500; ellow
bead and bone choker,
Sh2,500, Kafamilcraft.
Black shift dress, Sh1,900, Mr Price.
Blue bead disc bracelet, purple
bead disc bracelet with brass disc
detail, ellow bead
disc bracelet,
Sh750 each;
ellow glass
bead bracelet,
gold bracelet,
gold spiral
bracelet, Sh650
each, all from
Kafamilcraft.

AFRICAN PRIDE
There are so man creative was to design beaded jeweller and come up
with unique pieces that dazzle. We went to Maasai market and found some
modern contemporar pieces that make a bold statement. Tr them on and
show our African pride.

Clockwise: Black and

white snapback, black
and white rose print
snapback, cerise pink
and aqua blue snap
back, Sh950 each, all
from Mr Price.

Snapbacks are hot

right now, giving ou
a chance to show
our hip and urban chic
side while injecting colour
into our look. Just ensure that ou pick a colour,
stle, and slogan that suits our personalit. Pla
around with the wa ou angle the brim b placing
it in dierent directions to suit our stle.

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Pictures b: Moses
Kamaka
Make-up b: Cath
Nderitu
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Zhuri Beaut
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(020) 386 1894

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October 11, 2014 SATURDAY NATION

FASHION&STYLE

EXPERT
TIPS

Dressing
chunk
calves

ressing muscular or chunk

calves can be a bit of a mission,
but the ke is to make them less
noticeable. ere are basic guidelines
to slim them up.
Dress and skirts: Sta clear of
pencil-cut stles because the
emphasise our calves. Your best
bet is an A-line or owing skirt as it
will give an illusion of smaller calves.
Best of all are mais because the
cover up the problem area.
Distract the ee from our legs b
wearing lighter colours, prints, and
accessories which la emphasis on
our top half and darker shades on
our lower bod to downpla it.
Wear straight or bootleg pants.
Well-tting suits and pants in solid
colours work best. Avoid skinnies
and capri pants as the will make
our legs look stock.
Shoe choice: Mid-height heel is the
perfect choice because it makes
our leg look long and lean. Boots
are hard to nd, but when ou do

SATURDAY NATION October 11, 2014

get a pair,
pick one that
is wider on
top and that
has elastic
for a perfect
t. Slouch
stles are great
because the
oer enough
room.
Stockings are
a great wa to
make legs appear
slimmer. Invest in
dark shades paired
with shoes in the
same colour as the
stockings, or stockings
in the same colour
as our skin tone, to
make our legs appear
longer. Sta awa from
patterned stockings as
the will draw attention
to our calves.

HANDY FACTS
POINTERS

ip and chic

1
2
3
4

White bead and brass

choker neckpiece,
Sh2,500, black, white,
and gold si-tube
neckpiece, Sh8,500, both
from Kafamilcraft. Black shift
dress, Sh1,900, Mr Price.
Camel bone
neckpiece (two
neckpieces worn as
one), Sh3,500 each,
Kafamilcraft.

saturday magazine

WIT LYDIA OMOLO

Black shift dress,

Sh1,900, Mr Price.
Brown bead and
camel bone medium
claw neckpiece, Sh12,500,
Kafamilcraft.
Black shift dress,
Sh1,900, Mr Price.
Metallic gre and
white bead strand
neckpiece and bracelet
sold as a set, Sh12,500,
Kafamilcraft.

5
6
7
8

Black shift dress, Sh1,900,

Mr Price. Black Maasai
tube neckpiece with West
African brass neckpiece
set with earrings and bracelet,
KafamilCraft.
Brass and gold bead
short strand neckpiece
sold as set with earrings
and bracelet, Sh7,500,
Kafamilcraft. Black shift dress,
Sh1,900, Mr Price.
Black shift dress, Sh1,900,
Mr Price. Purple bead and
brass disc tiered neckpiece,
Sh 12,500, Kafamilcraft.
Green bead and bone
choker, Sh2, 500; ellow
bead and bone choker,
Sh2,500, Kafamilcraft.
Black shift dress, Sh1,900, Mr Price.
Blue bead disc bracelet, purple
bead disc bracelet with brass disc
detail, ellow bead
disc bracelet,
Sh750 each;
ellow glass
bead bracelet,
gold bracelet,
gold spiral
bracelet, Sh650
each, all from
Kafamilcraft.

AFRICAN PRIDE
There are so man creative was to design beaded jeweller and come up
with unique pieces that dazzle. We went to Maasai market and found some
modern contemporar pieces that make a bold statement. Tr them on and
show our African pride.

Clockwise: Black and

white snapback, black
and white rose print
snapback, cerise pink
and aqua blue snap
back, Sh950 each, all
from Mr Price.

Snapbacks are hot

right now, giving ou
a chance to show
our hip and urban chic
side while injecting colour
into our look. Just ensure that ou pick a colour,
stle, and slogan that suits our personalit. Pla
around with the wa ou angle the brim b placing
it in dierent directions to suit our stle.

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Kamaka
Make-up b: Cath
Nderitu
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DIARY OF A
WORKING
MOTHER

WIT MARIA MWONGELI

Down with
the u

THE DOS AND DONT OF SHARING YOUR BABYS PHOTOS ON SOCIAL MEDIA
DOS

Share photos of our child showing

their talent: Choose pictures that will
make our child shine, not embarrass
them. Share photos of sports das,
plas, graduation da.
Get a second opinion from our
spouse or friend: If ou are unsure,
ask a second pair of ees to look over
what ou want to share.

Get permission: Ask for our childrens

permission before sharing. Respect
them if the sa no.

DONTS

Over-share: Over-sharing is oputting. Everone knows how

important our child is to ou, but it is
unnecessar to show that all the time.
Keep our own face as our prole
picture.

Sharing isnt
alwas caring
There is a thin line
between sharing our
childs photos on social
media and breaching
his right to privac. B
Florence Bett

oseph Barasa, 32, had his rst child,

a daughter, in March 2011. Within
an hour of her birth, Barasa shared
a witt paragraph on his social
media accounts about how his princess
had come into the world. e crowned the
announcement with si photographs of the
new-born and her worn out mother. is
Facebook friends shared in Barasas jo and
welcomed his daughter, Tamara, into the
world with comments and likes.
Tamaras birth inadvertentl sparked
the dail chronicle of her life in her
photographs and videos on Barasas social
media accounts. And from that da on, we
watched Tamara grow: We were there for
big moments (her rst steps, her rst tooth,
her rst famil holida, her baptism, her
rst birthda, her rst da at school) and
the not-so-big moments (her rst bath at
one month, her strapped to the car seat

at ve months, her photo with her ageing

grandmother at three ears, her doing
star jumps in the living room wearing
nothing but a strip of pink underwear).
Just last week, Barasa shared photos of
her in her pjamas curled up asleep on the
couch. The moments were frivolous, no
doubt, but were entertaining and adorable
nonetheless.
The question, however, is: is it in bad
taste for parents to share photos and
videos of their children on social media?
Is this public chronicle of a childs life a

Dont let your

desire to share
your parental joy
on social media
cloud your
judgement
violation of his rights to privac?
Freda Ochieng, a 27-ear-old parent
from Nairobi, thinks it is. She sas, I had
m twin bos in September 2010. The
onl wa m social network knew I had
delivered was because m friends and

Embarrass our child: There is

etiquette online. What can be
adorable to ou can be inappropriate
and disgusting to others.
Create a childs online prole: B using
a childs full name on the internet, ou
are creating a social media presence
for them before the have had the
chance to eert their right to privac.
Source: www.quib.l
famil posted me congratulator messages
on m accounts. Otherwise, I have never
posted an photos or videos of them and I
discourage m friends from sharing them
behind m back. I dont think the world
cares for what I do with m children in the
privac of our home, she sas.
Kimani Githongo, a lawer, sas that the
law does consider the privac of children
below the age of 18.
Article 31 of the Constitution and Bill of
Rights sas that ever person has the right
to privac, including the right not to have
information of their famil or private aairs
unnecessaril required or revealed. Article
28 sas that ever person has inherent
dignit and the right to have that dignit
respected and protected. Article 19 of the
Childrens Act 2010 sas that ever child
has a right to privac subject to parental
guidance.
Well, there are no hard and fast rules
neither in the law of the land nor on the
internet for what ies and what does not
on social media. So as a parent, ou ought
to think twice before that genuine and
overbearing desire to share our parental
jo on social media clouds our judgement.
You never know what someone out
there will do with those photos. And
should the safet of our children be
compromised because of this, consider the
pschological trauma it can have on them.
Children are aware of their rights to privac
from as earl as 13 ears. So seek their
consent before ou share their photos,
Githongo sas.
Is there a pscholog behind this
sharing? No, there isnt. I think its purel
a personal choice whether to share or not.
There is no deep-seated pschological
reasoning behind it. sas child
pschologist Anita Awuor.
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Monda 6:08am: Im down with the

u, thanks to Siji who feels that she
must use m face as her handkerchief,
when she blows stu out of her
blocked nose in the dark of the night.
I couldnt nd the handkerchief I had
strategicall placed under her pillow
for this use in time, and she clearl
could not wait for me to nd it. Eish!
Tuesda 8:00am: Finall, mumm has
heard Sijis cr and is staing home
all da with bab. She came running
into the sitting room and when she
saw me said, Nilikiri ni Auntas
she ew into m arms for a hug. Well
since I am here, I might as well make
her da and take over her care. I made
her breakfast, sat with her through the
rst stage of it where she ate two slices
of bread and half her cup of chocolate
the rest shall be eaten at stage two
of breakfast as I have now come to
learn.
Wednesda 11: 15am:
It is Nanns turn
with the u and
Im not even
full recovered.
I sent her o
to the hospital
knowing that if
she was feeling
how I was feeling on
Monda, she had best see
a doctor immediatel. She came back
and went straight to bed and I took
m bab and went into the kitchen to
see what the fridge would oer us for
lunch. Im thinking tomato, banana,
orange, apple and some arrowroot.
We shall eat them separatel of course
and as close to their natural state as
possible.
Thursda 5:57pm: ow is it that we
are ghting over m lip balm with
a three ear old? She came to me,
holding it tightl in her hands, asked
me to open it while she still held on
tightl (I was denitel going to take
it awa) saing that her lips were
getting spoilt. Then she went and
popped it into her handbag while
sending a bright smile and a giggle
m wa. mph, we are not sharing
that lip balm, girl!
Frida 6:23pm: Siji called to me
asking for a sharp knife. I couldnt
imagine what she would want a knife
for and ignored her for a bit. When I
eventuall went into the sitting room,
there she was, butter knife in hand,
tring to prise the DVD plate of the
plaer which had hung! Apparentl,
the butter knife was not sharp enough
to open it. I admit I have showed her
how to smack the machine, and that
usuall works, but a knife! She sas she
saw Aunt using a knife to open it.

Siji is thr
e
years, five e
months a
11 days o nd
ld
today

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saturday magazine

When
pleasure
becomes a
pain

hen Jane sat down

in m consultation
room, she closed
her ees and her
bod jerked as she pressed her
thighs together. It took her ve
minutes to get back to her senses.
That is the twelfth orgasm I
am having toda and I think it is
because I have banged the door,
she eplained.
She looked anious and
harassed and complained of a
headache. I oered her water and
some painkillers. Once settled, we
discussed her situation.
Jane had quite a unique
condition. From the age of 13 she
had been getting spontaneous
genital stimulation, something
similar to what a normal person
would get at the height of forepla.
At the age of 20 she started
climaing frequentl.
Things got worse when she
was on a motorbike or in a car on
a rough road; she could clima
as much as three times in one
hour. She was now 24 and there
were das that she could not
function because of the ecessive
stimulation.

With each orgasm I am left

too drained to concentrate on m
work, she eplained.
She sought m help because
renovations were being done at
her oce and with ever loud bang
she climaed. She could not tell
her colleagues at work, so she just
told them that she had unbearable
tumm pains and was allowed
to take the afternoon o to seek
treatment.
Because of her condition, Jane
had avoided getting involved with
men. She feared that things could
worsen if she had se and dreaded
the thought of having multiple and
painful bouts of orgasm.
Jane was suering from
persistent genital arousal disorder
(PGAD), a rare condition. A
recent stud b Dutch scientists
estimated that there could be 7,
000 women with the disorder in
the world. A woman with PGAD
gets genital stimulation which
is not accompanied b seual
desire. There are no emotions or
thoughts of se attached. Further,
the stimulation lasts for hours or
even das and sometimes ma
ease o after orgasm happens.

Dr Joachim
Osur looks
into a rare
condition
in which a
woman gets
spontaneous
but
unwelcome
seual
stimulation

Orgasm causes relief, not pleasure,

because it gives a break from the
stimulation, although sometimes
there ma be pain accompaning
it. Stimulation ma be aggravated
b factors that are usuall nonseual. For a number of victims
anthing that causes vibration
ma lead to stimulation. A most
important characteristic of PGAD
is that the woman feels harassed
b the condition and suers
signicant mental stress.
There is no known phsiological
cause of PGAD. Some theories

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Q&A
Q. I had a one-night stand
with m workmate when
m husband was awa. M
husband returned from a
business trip two weeks later. I
had unprotected se with both
and I am now pregnant (10
weeks). Can I work out who the
father of the bab is?
Yes, it is possible to know the
father of our bab, but it
would be important to know
the date of our last monthl
period, the frequenc of our
ccle, and when net ou
were epecting our periods.
Assuming our ccle is 28 das
and ou had se with our
colleague on the 14th da, then
he is the father of our bab.
If, on the other hand, ou had
se with our colleague just
after our periods, then two
weeks later (at around da 14)
with our husband, then our
husband is the father. Please
note that people have varing
ccles and the calculation is not
alwas straightforward. Your
gnaecologist or midwife can
help ou do this calculation.
point to abnormalities in the nerves
around the genitals, others relate
it to chemical changes in the bod,
while others point to abnormalities
in the blood vessels. This makes
treatment dicult. Usuall, the
doctor focuses on reducing
the severit and frequenc of
smptoms.
So ou mean I will be like this
forever, Jane interrupted.
Not reall. I epect
improvement from the treatment
plan that we have agreed on, I
comforted her. We had agreed

on counselling to alleviate the

mental stress, a cream to numb the
genital area, avoidance of causative
factors, and eercises for the pelvic
muscles.
Si months later, Janes
condition had signicantl
improved. She had gone for a
month without orgasm. As she
left the clinic after her review, it
occurred to me that the world was
unfair. There were man women
who had never had orgasms,
et Jane was traumatised due to
unwelcome orgasms.

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HEALTH&NUTRITION

BY SONA PARMAR MUKERJEE

ow periodic fasting can help ou lose weight

Clinical
nutritionist

Sona Parmar
Mukherjee

sas that
restricting
when, not
what, ou eat
can help ou
shed the etra
kilos

I am alwas talking about blood sugar.

I talk about how eating the wrong sort
of foods sends our blood sugar soaring,
onl to be followed b a crash a few hours
later, leaving ou irritable, lacking focus,
more prone to weight gain, and read to
get on the rollercoaster all over again. That
is wh I promote eating the right sort of
slow-release carbohdrates and vegetables,
coupled with qualit protein, and doing so
at regular intervals throughout the da.
Now that ou know this, what I am
about to sa will seem strange: I think that
certain tpes of fasting ma actuall be
good for ou. Yes, that is right: the evidence
suggests that restricting our food intake
over certain prolonged periods of time ma
have benets for weight loss and health,
and ma even etend our life.
And to demonstrate m point I will
tell ou about some mice, in a stud, that

were fed in one of two was. One group

was allowed to eat as much as it wanted
night and da. The other group of mice had
their eating restricted to just eight hours in
ever 24-hour ccle. What was interesting is
that, even though both groups consumed
the same number of calories, the mice
with restricted eating ended up weighing
signicantl less than the other mice.

Insulin resistance

When we eat, we secrete the hormone

insulin, which helps our bodies to absorb
nutrients into cells. I guess ou could sa
that the more insulin we secrete, the fatter
we get. Over time however, this can lead
our bodies to stop listening to the insulin,
a situation known as insulin resistance. In
such cases, cells become starved, leading
to smptoms such as fatigue and hunger.
Since insulin resistance is also implicated in

a number of chronic diseases from heart

disease and Alzheimers to tpe 2 diabetes
better insulin sensitivit is denitel a
good thing.
So, how would ou start? One approach
would be to etend the period of low
insulin tpicall seen at night. That would
mean either eating an earl dinner, or
delaing breakfast. As the bod gets used
to lower insulin levels, it will be able to
release fat more ecientl, which can be
used to fuel the bod. And when our
bod feeds o its fat, ou do not become
unnecessaril hungr, tired, or suer from
compromised brain function. Once the
bod is used to this wa of eating, ou ma
decide to drop some breakfasts or dinners
altogether. Drop the one ou feel is easiest
to do without, and see the pounds melt
awa.
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Stlish was to wear the Afro

Keep it pu
For quick comb-outs whenever our
Afro gets out of shape, use a metal hair
pick comb. This lifts the stle without
ruining the round shape.

Is there a wa to grow a huge thick

Afro? Lillian, Nairobi.
Yes, it is possible to do so. First, avoid
all blow-dring as this makes the hair
shaft thin. To hasten the growth, keep
our hair plaited in loose cornrows
until ou achieve the desired length.
The author is a cosmetolog lecturer.

ere are
some veminute
stling
ideas for
our Afro

ollowing the natural hair

revolution, the Afro is the
latest statement-making
hairdo these das. This
natural hairstle is popular
because of its no-fuss appeal. You can
step out with our natural hair looking
great in as little as ve minutes. There
is a wa to stle ever size of Afro
from the shortest to the biggest. ere
are some ve-minute stling ideas:

1. Classic Afro pouf

This is a stle to wear whenever ou

wish to add a touch of formalit to
our look. It is also hailed b natural
hair enthusiasts as the go anwhere
stle. The secret in getting it right lies

NATURALHAIRCORNER

All our natural hair questions answered.

Castor oil for

hair growth

: ow can I use castor oil for hair

growth?
A: Castor oil is one of natures
richest oils and it is also one of the most
viscous. It is normall used as a sealant to
help lock moisture into our hair strands.
Following a castor oil routine is a great
wa to accelerate our hairs length and
thickness. Moisture is rst and foremost
water, so ou should tr as much as

in the size of the pouf. Do not make it

too small. The hair is held back from
our face with an Alice band. If ou
wish to hold it back all the wa round,
use the Afro stling bands, available
widel.

2. Scarf updo for Afro curls

If ou have a bunch of wild curls,

taming them with a beautiful animal
print scarf is both stlish and trend.
The best wa to wear this look is to
have more of the hair than the scarf
showing. It makes a great weekend
and part look.

3. Side twists

If our Afro is long and thick, blow-dr

it slightl to loosen the curls. ave

four rows of twists on one side and
allow the rest of the hair to fall over
our face. This stle works for both
formal and casual wear. You ma
accessorise the twisted section to add
a touch of glamour.

4. Short Afro

This is the most popular wa to wear

the stle. Make it as dramatic and
eciting as ou wish with colour
and twist outs. The latest
colours are blond and
:
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possible to incorporate water into our

castor oil regimen. This is usuall the
case if ou also increase our water intake
to two litres a da while doing this. Add
castor oil into our dail spritz bottle
which alread includes water, and a
conditioner or oil of choice. Massage
castor oil into our temples and
scalp at least three times a week,
but preferabl dail. When stling
our hair, appl castor oil as a sealant,
paing special attention to the ends. If the
smell is unbearable, mi with rosemar
oil or a combination of our favourite
essential oils. Remember to document
our progress in pictures. If ou stick with

it for at least three months, ou will be

pleasantl surprised when ou look at
our before and after photos.

TRICIA WANJALA

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PERSONALFINANCE

hen it comes to
matters such as mone,
investment, and business,
man people want
someone else to tell
them what to do. I have talked and made
presentations to man people about
mone and sometimes I often sense an
air of disappointment because I did not
end the presentation with information on
eactl which plot of land in Machakos ou
should go bu or precisel which share on
the stock echange ou should instruct
our broker to purchase.
Man of us treat our nancial lives like
a movie we start watching, get bored
with, and fast forward to the end, to
the part where people live happil ever
after. We are not interested in the true
entertainment value that lies in the
challenges, the ner details, the ups and
downs, or the process that got people to
the end result of happil-ever-after. We just
want the assurance that the got there.
Even with mone, man people are not
interested in the process. The want the
instant gratication of being told what
works toda or what will make them more
mone immediatel. These are the same
people who will blame the stockbroker
for losing their mone. In most cases the
stockbroker did not lose mone, the clients
just did not take time to understand how
stocks work and sold shares when prices
were low. That is how the lost mone.
The did not instantl get the happilever-after the wanted, got impatient,
and blamed the stockbroker. Unlike the
movie, with investments ou cannot just
fast forward the process. For man people,
understanding the dnamics that make
investments work is the boring part. So
to avoid it, people move on and bu
something else from a smooth-talking
nancial salesman who happens to be
selling the stor the want. The end up
blaming that person too.
You
cannot
create
wealth
that wa.
You will
be forever
dependent
on
someone
else to
tell ou
what to do
or show
ou the
happilever-after if ou do not want to engage in
the process. If ou have that dependence
then ou are fullling someone elses
agenda and not ours. Sa ou want a
salar increase. Man people think their
emploer should be paing them more
toda (instant gratication) and blame
their emploer for not fullling their
happil-ever-after dreams. Fewer still
think about what to do, what levels of
performance to achieve, what additional
responsibilities to ask for to justif a pa
increase. Man people want a solution to
pa debts, et few of them cut epenses
or tr to pursue income-generating

Many of us treat
our nancial lives
like a movie we
start watching, get
bored with, and fast
forward to the end
where people live
happily ever after

No one else can

our nances or
create wealth for
ou. You have to do it
ourself. B Waceke
Nduati Omanga

The solution lies

with ou
ventures to do so. Man want to know
which properties to invest in and few
of them spend their Saturda mornings
driving around and actuall doing the
research needed to become a good
propert investor. Man want to have more
mone before the start a business, et
few of them tr to get their rst client with
whatever resources the have in hand.
Dependence is thinking that someone
else has a solution for ou. Whatever ou
want to do, ou are the solution. You
have to drive the process. You have to
be able to answer the question, What
am I doing about what I want? You
can consult professionals to give ou
advice on dierent things, but it is our
job to understand wh ou have taken
or declined their advice. It is our job to
actuall direct and produce the movie.
You can then get dierent actors to pla
the roles needed to get to the happil

ever after scene. These actors are our

emploers, banks, advisers, investment
partners.
Let us sa ou want to get to Mombasa.
You just do not get dropped in Mombasa
from the sk. Planning to go to Mombasa
does not get ou there. Buing a ticket
does not get ou to Mombasa. Sitting
at the bus stop does not get ou to
Mombasa. The onl thing that gets ou
there is entering the bus. You hardl ever
know the entire route but ou need to get
on the bus. Once ou are inside the bus
ou will learn dierent things or gure
out dierent was of doing things. You
want to invest start b saving mone
in an account as ou take a course or do
some research in a particular eld. It is
not perfect but it is a start ou are on
the bus. Do not epect to be able to raise
mone for a business ou have not even
started ou are not et on the bus. Do

not epect help to pa our debts while

ou maintain the eact same spending
habits. Be able to show what ou have
done before asking for help. appilever-after cannot come without this
responsibilit and control. This attitude
puts ou in the drivers seat. If ou were
to take the approach I have mentioned
at work and get a raise (irrespective of
the amount), ou would start getting
condent in our abilit to direct the
income ou earn. Starting with that one
client enables ou to understand what
ou need to do to get 10 clients. Cutting
an epense to pa debt gives ou control
over our lifestle in a wa that works for
ou. If ou want happil-ever-after, get on
the bus!
Waceke runs a programme on personal
nancial management. Find her at
waceke@centonom.com| Twitter
@cekenduati

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RELATIONSHIPS

Breakup that
was a blessing
Was the end of our
relationship the best thing
that happened to ou? ere
is how to nd out. B Joan
Thatiah

ther than the occasional

fallout that is normal in
romantic relationships,
June, 29, enjoed a happ
functional relationship for two ears.
Interestingl, most of her friends
felt that her bofriend was not right
for her, but for June, a marketing
eecutive, this came as a sign that
she should stick closer to her man.
I thought he was the one for me
and I desperatel wanted us to last,
but life had other plans, she sas.
June conceived. While it was not
planned, she did not think that it
would become a problem seeing as
the were both settled in their jobs
and in love or so she thought. In
fact, when she broke the news to her
bofriend she epected him to man
up and formalise their relationship.
Instead, he denied that he was
responsible for the pregnanc, broke
up with her, and quickl moved on
to another relationship.
Breakups are difficult and when

one is in the throes of heartbreak, it

is hard to perceive it as an imminent
blessing. Sometimes this fact onl
becomes clear when ou find
happiness again. June agrees.
I was hurt. I cried mself to sleep
for weeks. I thought that m son
growing up without him was the
worst thing that could happen. But
this breakup gave me a chance to
meet a loving responsible man. I
feel that even if he hadnt disowned
the pregnanc, he wasnt invested
enough in the relationship and he
wouldnt have been a responsible
father. A long-term relationship with
him would have been riddled with
fights and heartache, she sas.

Trail of tears

I am grateful I was left in a trail of

tears, sas Ruguru, 27, who agrees
that a breakup is not necessaril a
bad thing.
In fact, in hindsight, her getting
dumped was a huge blessing. She
saw from the onset that her e, a
man she dated for three ears, had
a fier temper. e would snap at the
slightest provocation and channel
this rage to whoever was with him at
the time. is closest friend tried to
talk her out of the relationship but
she would not budge. She did not
imagine that he could hit her.
e left me for m friend in a ver
dramatic fashion and then broke her
arms four times just a few months
later. That was when I knew that I
had dodged a bullet, she sas.
These two accounts are proof
that while it might feel like the
end of the world, a breakup does

not necessaril signal the end of

happiness. It is apparent that letting
go of a relationship ma be the
best decision that ou have made
et, but this does not mean that
breaking up will be an less difficult.
According to marriage therapist
Ezekiel Kobia, regardless of our es
character, a split can onl be a good
thing if ou can learn something
from it. To be able to learn, ou
must get to the point where ou can
admit to ourself that there would
have been a lot of miser in the
future of that relationship.

Lesson learnt

Mourn the end of the relationship;

that is important. Then change
our wa of thinking. Isnt it better
to suffer the short-term pain of a
breakup than to wait to make a
permanent bond with a person who
will cause ou constant pain? he
asks.
Susan Elliot, in her book Getting
Past Your Breakup, writes that the
end of a relationship turns into a
blessing when ou are able to learn
our worth and improve our life
with lessons learnt from the split.
Ruguru, for instance, now knows
that abuse, whether emotional or
phsical, is a deal-breaker for her.
Sometimes it is not our former
significant other who is the problem
but ou. If the breakup helped ou
recognise this, take responsibilit
and change accordingl.
According to Elliot, this
would be a blessing.

DODGED BULLET OR
MISSED CHANCE?
It became obvious for June and Ruguru
that their breakups were a good thing.
Sometimes, however, a dodged bullet is
not so obvious, making one drag out a
relationship or even go back to a love that
one is better o without. Is our breakup a
blessing in disguise or are ou missing out
on love? Take this quiz to nd out. Read each
statement and answer truthfull according
to our situation or how our e reacted to
things.

Scoring guide
Strongl agree 3 Disagree 2 Strongl
disagree -1
1. The breakup helped ou clarif who ou
are.
2. In the course of the relationship, more
than one close person voiced their
thoughts that the relationship was not
right for ou in one sense or another.
3. After this breakup, ou are now clear on
the things that ou can or cannot take in a
relationship.
4. When ou broke up, close friends and
famil sighed with relief.
5. While the relationship was functioning,
our intuition told ou that this man was
not right for ou.
6. It hurt when ou rst broke up, but ou
now feel as if ou have found inner peace.
7. It was dicult to get our needs met in
that relationship.
8. Who ou were before that relationship
and who ou were during the relationship
are vastl dierent.
9. There was a ver little
room for forgiveness in that
relationship.
10.
You have met
our es new love and
instead of jealous, ou
felt pit.

Results
21-30 The end of this
relationship is what is best for
ou and deep inside ou
know it. Take control
of our life and with
our newfound clarit,
work towards a more
functional relationship.
11-20 Depending
on whether or not
this relationship
was abusive and on
the circumstances
surrounding the
breakup, there is
a chance that the
other little issues
that ou had
ma have been
worked out.
1-10 You seem
to have been in
a relationship
where ou
were happ
and satised. If
the reasons for
our breakup are
reconcilable, ou
ma be missing out
on a chance at love.
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19

EATING&OUTING
EATINGIN

Great for sweet treats

This is just the perfect
place to rela while
indulging our sweet
tooth at a reasonable
price. B Bon Vivant

Ingredients

300 g chicken
150 g white onions
50 g corn oil
3 tbsp Dijon mustard
1 tsp black pepper
3 tbsp lemon juice
Pinch of salt

Method

Cut our onions julienne stle and fr them in hot oil for
about three minutes. Add mustard and stir, then reduce
the heat. Let it cool for about one minute. Add black
pepper and salt and nish with lemon juice.

Chicken

Cut half a chicken into four pieces. Blanch it in boiling

water with black pepper and salt. Drain the water, then
char-grill the chicken until it is golden. Once it is done,
take our cooked onion and put on low heat. Add in
our boiled chicken and then mi. Let the chicken infuse
all the ingredients, then serve the meal.
EVANS ARADI MAMBA

MEETTHECHEF
Evans Aradi Mamba,
head chef, Le Palanka
Restaurant, Nairobi
ow did ou become a chef?
I was inspired b m grandfather who was a
professional cook. I have worked in the French
baker and restaurant Bellmain otel, Nairobi Java
ouse, Palacina otel, Osinkiri otel, Nairobi Club,
Best Western Premier otel, and now Le Palanka
Restaurant.
What would ou be doing if ou were not a
chef?

I would be in the armed forces.

What has been the highlight of our career?
I am a quick learner and that is wh I am an allround chef.
Which celebrit would ou like to cook a meal
for?
Bill Gates.
What is the best advice ou have ever been
given?
Never give up!
Name one dish ou tried to cook that backred
horrendousl?
Fudge cake.
What is the secret to perfecting a simple
sponge cake?
Follow the recipe precisel.

that their handmade chocolate and

mousses were among m favourites.
The prices at Suite 101 are reasonable,
considering the calibre of the
establishment. Macaroons start at Sh50,
smoothies and mocktails at Sh450,
and doughnuts, muns, and cupcakes
average at Sh200. If ou have a sweet
tooth and enjo a relaed atmosphere to
meet with friends or get some work done,
I would recommend Suite 101.

What do ou love to eat when ou are at

home?
Fish with brown ugali.
Which are our three favourite restaurants in
Kena?
Le Palanka, Brew Bistro, and Nairobi Java ouse.
What tips would ou give our readers?
Alwas plan in advance for proper meal
preparation.
Which ve kitchen tools are never missing
from our kitchen?
Kitchen knife, chopping board, microwave, spoon,
and pot and pans.
Which is our number one spice/herb?
Coriander and garlic.

TRICIA WANJALA

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POTOS I MARTIN MUKANGU

Yassa chicken
(from Senegal)

n the past if, ou wanted to have a

cup of tea or coee at The Tribe, ou
would have to go down to their fullservice restaurant, Jiko. Or ou would
rela in the upstairs lounge and make our
order. It was adequate, but such a setting
felt somewhat impersonal.
A few months ago, the management
decided to open a caf just b the hotel
lobb. The dcor is modern, quirk, and
opulent. It has a glass counter where
an arra of goodies is displaed. Fanc
novelt cakes designed to look like
something out of Alice in Wonderland
are displaed prominentl. There are
also home-made ice creams, doughnuts,
specialt handmade chocolates made b
the pastr chef, cakes, cookies, muns,
mousses, and pies.
I arrived here on a sweltering afternoon
to meet a friend. There is plent of free
parking for patrons at The Tribe. The
securit guard who checked m
Suite 101
car was cordial and even cracked
Caf, The
l,
a joke. Once I had gone through
Tribe Hote
i
b
securit and arrived at the caf, a
ou can order anthing from
o
ir
a
N
fresh-faced oung man welcomed
chicken wings to ravioli and
me and brought me a menu.
pizza.
Suite 101 has two menus. The drinks
Lillian, an emploee of Suite 101, came
menu lists non-alcoholic signature
and took m order and served the items
mocktails, smoothies, and classic cocktails
in good time. I ordered some coee and
as well as wines, spirits, and liqueurs.
cookies. I enjoed m gluten-free coconut
There is a larger bar area which no doubt
cookie immensel it was soft, crumbl,
gets much busier in the evening. The Suite and not too sweet. I also had the pistachio
101 menu encompasses much more than
macaroons. The were not as good as
sweets. If ou are feeling a bit hungr
when I last ate some at The Tribe. I recall

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October 11, 2014 SATURDAY NATION

Snorkelling
in Kuruwitu

Blue-green
chromis living
in a coral head.
Photos: Des
Bowden

October 10-11

GBA Oktoberfest 2014

The German Business Association is happ

to invite ou to the Oktoberfest 2014
featuring The Dirndl Jger and The Calabash
Band. Refreshments will be served b the
InterContinental otel and Kena Breweries.
The menu includes traditional German meals
like pretzels, schnitzel, and sausages.
Venue: Karura Forest
Time: 7pm
Tickets: Sh1,200, available at the Delegation
of German Industr and Commerce, online
through ticketsasa, or at the event entrance.
Contact: (020)2140008

SECRETS OF TE SEA

Rupi Mangat eplores

the impressive world
beneath the pictureperfect sea at Kuruwitu
Marine Conservanc

t is a short drive from the lush fairwas of

Vipingo Ridge to the rustic Vipingo Ridge
Beach Bar, which has a sparkling-white
beach on its fringes. I am on Kuruwitu
beach for a morning of snorkelling.
It is neap tide, sas Gail Conwa of
Vipingo Ridge. The ocean is at its best.
It is a postcard-perfect snapshot of the
sea a calm sheet of beautiful blue shades
and the cleanest, whitest beach with barel a
soul on it. Katana Ngala inzand and Dickson
Juma Gereza of Kuruwitu Conservation and
Welfare Association have the snorkels and
ippers read for me and after being tted
with the gear, I slip into the shallow waters of
Kuruwitu Marine Conservanc.
It is surreal and overwhelming. A few
strokes from the beach and I am oating
above coral, sea grasses, anemones, and
polps of dierent shapes, sizes, and colours
and within this underwater world, shoals of
the most colourful sh waft through secret
passagewas that onl the know. It is simpl
mesmerising.
Look, theres an octopus. Its reall big,
points Katana as we raise our heads above
the water for a few seconds. It takes me a
while to spot the octopus camouaged in
the sand. It is staring right at us.

Fish of ever colour

Under the water are sh of ever colour

under the rainbow the Moorish idol

sh with its trailing n is the logo of the
association. Tin lime-coloured sh and
electric blue ngerlings swim this wa and
that, plate-sized clown sh and parrot sh
nibble on the corals. The have a smbiotic
relationship: the eat the debris o the coral
and keep them clean. Fat sea cucumberlike sausages lie still on the seabed.
Inconspicuous as the look, the sea would
be dead without them, for the forage the
ocean oors and suck awa the debris. Starsh and spik urchins are cradled in the coral.
And then m heart skips a beat. I am oating
right above what looks like a mini pthon
which is staring at me (or at least I think it is).
Thats the mora eel, Katana sas while
raising his head out of the water.

Vipingo Ridge supports Kuruwitu

Conservation and Welfare Association
(www.kuruwitu.org) b taking their
guests for snorkelling at Kuruwitu
Marine Conservanc. The best thing
is that ou do not need a boat to go
far. Just slip into the ocean with our
snorkel. The guides are great and will
tell ou all about the secrets of the sea.
It is such a success stor that other
communit groups in the area are
joining in but the unscrupulous
traders suppling the trade in
ornamental sh for aquariums are still
carring out business as usual. Coral
sh are better admired in the ocean
than in an aquarium or a home tank.
Log on to www.vipingoridge.com

Paradise at sea

It does not chase people and it does not bite,

so feeling more relaed, I spend a few more
moments enjoing the lull of the ocean and
all that is swimming below us. It is paradise
and we are so close to the shoreline.
It is more than an hour since we have
been snorkelling and I am still not read to
leave. With the sun nicel hot above us, the
water is warm. We have counted 30 species
of coral sh and Katana has named man,
pointing to corals with unpronounceable
names.
Lets drift with the current back to shore,
he suggests at noon.
Back at the beach bar fashioned with
seats from dugout canoes with oversized
cushions and swinging beds, there is hot
coee and tea and piles of cookies and cake.
Famished after the mornings snorkelling and
sea air, we dig into the goodies while Katana
and Dickson tell me the amazing stor of
Kuruwitu.

Reclaiming the coral

EVENTS &
ENTERTAINMENT
IGLIGTS

It was completel barren, the sa. I look at

them perpleed.
Yes, that place where we snorkelled was
completel barren. There was no sh and the
coral was dead.
A few things contributed to that. One,
the drastic El Nino in 1997 and 1998 that
bleached the coral and then the devastating
results of over-shing. Whereas the local
shermen had shed centuries in these
waters, in came the foreigners to swipe the
seabed clean for ornamental sh to eport.
Dickson takes over from Katana. We as a

communit had a problem but we also had

the power to take action.
The local communit mostl shermen
and the homeowners in the area met and
formed the association with a common goal
to protect their natural resource.
Dr Tim McClanahan of the Wildlife
Conservation Societ (www.wcs.org)
researching here estimated that it would
take 10 ears for the coral to recover after we
cordoned o the area, recalls Dickson. But it
took onl si months.
With three acres cordoned o and shing
prohibited, the little seashore is a thriving
nurser. The spill-o from the increasing
population of the sh into the adjoining
areas is also increasing the local shermens
catch.
This is an old area, Katana sas. From
what our elders tell us, the name comes from
two Arabs who settled here from Kuwait. We
even have a slave cave and a well from the
time of the Portuguese who came centuries
ago. The two had a quarrel and one left and
started the village on the main road called
Shariani. It means wh ght?

October 10-12

Bab Banda Pregnanc & Bab Fair

Its More Than Just A Bab Fair is this ears

theme of East Africas leading bab fair.
There will be specialists from various elds to
interact with mothers. The event will also oer
a shopping opportunit for unique mother
and bab products from both local and
international bab brands, not to mention the
opportunit to learn and have loads of fun
with other pregnant mothers over three das.
Venue: Sarit Centre
Time: 9am-6pm
Entr free

October 10

The Sa/I Am: A Pla

This is a pla intertwined with monologues

of poetr eploring the stereotpes about
women with the intention of shattering them.
Conceived and directed b Mwende Ngao
and written b Anne Moraa, the pla tos
with the perception of various women and
hopes to encourage the audience to rethink
how the view the women in their own lives.
Venue: Michael Joseph Centre
Time: 6pm-9pm
Tickets: Advance single Sh600; couple
Sh1,000. Gate Sh800
Contact: 0715 664104

Until October 15

Craon Rainbows: A Film and Art

Ehibition

This documentar lm and art ehibition

traces the growing divide between teachers
and their vocational devotion to their
students in Kenan public schools as told
through the ees of children.
Venue: Kuona Trust
Time: 5.30pm
Contact: 0721262326, 0733742752

October 4-31 (Out of Town)

KLA Art 014: Kampala

Contemporar Art Festival

Throughout the month of October, 30 artists

from Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kena,
Congo, and Rwanda will unveil new artworks
across Kampala.
Venue: KLA ART 014s Festival Ehibition
space, Kampala Railwa Station.
Time: from 2pm
Contact: +256785295 822 Entr free

www.rupimangat.com

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SIMPLE CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Wordy, using more words
than necessary
7. Appearance presented by the
moon or a planet at a specic
time
9. An epoch
11. Minutes holes as in a leaf
or the skin for perspiration,
absorption, etc.
12. To bring back as an answer
13. Colloquial for sister
14. A deep track made by
wheels in mud
16. Towards land from the sea
17. Honours with celebration
19. Information
20. Worship
21. A back door or gate
DOWN
1. Changes direction as the wind
2. Bellows or thunders
3. Burdens or crushes by
hardship or severity
4. Discharge as of a rearm
5. The lug of a mug
6. It is so
8. Firm or make fast
10. Controlled as a horse

Leisure
YESTERDAYS
SOLUTION
ACROSS
2. Commute
8. Clan
9. Area
10. Stainer
11. Alto
13. Pie
14. Wet
17. Wade
18. Jupiter
20. Aria
21. Aero
22. Mutter

14. A rascal
15. A joint that ts into the
mortice
16. Pertaining the air
17. An enthusiastic follower
18. A childs cone-shaped toy
made to spin on its point

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DOWN
1. Scrap
2. Caste
3. Onto
4. Mail
5. Urn
6. Teemed
7. Ear
12. Limuru
14. Wares
15. Tenon
16. Fiat
17. Wear
18. Jam
19. Pit

YESTERDAYS SOLUTION

COMPLEX CROSSWORD

ACROSS
1 Wolves? You couldnt call
them soccer players! (4)
3 I need franc changed must
be given new money (10)
9 Cry making contact, having
wasted time (4)
10 Following agreement, what
Parisian will get involved? (10)
11 Tabloids monetary fund is
something astronomical (7)
13 Growing good fruit to begin
with (7)
14 Do they also have night
vision? (11)
18 Visits planet and disappears
(4,2,5)
21 Sinatra upset member of
royal family once (7)
22 Drunk at this location oers
deant message (2,5)
23 Cinema shed done up,
given modern equipment
maybe (10)
24 Female leading ancient
church congregation (4)
25 Fish swirls by discharge (6,4)
26 Label attached to the back
of this animal (4)
DOWN
1 After game see team
somewhere by the water (8)
2 City types liable to lose their
aspiration (8)
4 Vessel to be raised, having
covered bottom of sea (1-4)
5 Rebel in south, pressing (9)
6 Right away, obtains a bit of
money, as one falling into line (11)

ANDY CAPP

CODEWORD
YESTERDAYS
SOLUTION

7 Minister in Magic Circle? (6)

8 Advanced years of magistrate
receiving cheers (6)
12 Voyage here and there as
green pirate at sea (11)
15 Chemical came with a diet
specially formulated (9)
16 Discharged, left place
exempt from duties (4,4)
17 One could make hog
speed? A dierent animal,
more like! (8)
1

21

9 Bill catches cat, one

power-driven somehow (6)
20 Dance suggested by
Tintin? (6)
22 Very good little son? Fancy
that! (5)

1 Dictionary
6 Arts
9 Variegated
10 Diva
12 Beep
13 Ebullient
15 Outsider
16 Gutter
18 Squeal
20 Restrain
23 Loneliest
24 Agog
26 Acre
27 Pilgrimage
28 Tied
29 Prosperous
DOWN
1 Dove
2 Curtest
3 Inexplicable
4 Neatened
5 Refuel
7 Raiment
8 Smattering
11 Illustrative
14 Consultant
17 Vestiges
19 Unnerve
21 Avocado
22 Metier
25 Wets

Each number in our Codeword grid represents a dierent letter of the alphabet. For example,
today 7 represents T so ll in T every time the gure 7appears. You two letters in the control
grid to start you o. Enter them in the appropriate squares in the main grid, then use your
knowledge of words to work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you get the
letters, ll in other squares with the same number in the main grid and control grid. Check o
the list of alphabetical letters as you identify them.

YESTERDAYS
SOLUTION

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October 11, 2014 SATURDAY NATION

YOUR STARS

TREAT OF THE DAY

5:00am
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Cubed

5:00pm
Africa Connect Music
Show

6:00am
AM Live

6:00pm
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9.00am
Generation
3

7:00pm
NTV Jioni

10:00am
The Penguins Of
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10:30am
Cool Catz
11:00am
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1:00pm
NTV
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1:30pm
Prankstars
2:00pm
Top Sport

5:00am AL-Jazeera
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6:20am Tumsifu
8:00am Rudicii Herbal
8:30am Lyle-Egiza
9:00am Kamusi ya Chamgamka
11:00am Mwanaspoti
12:00pm Vipasho
12:05pm Bunge La Wazalendo
12:30pm Face to Face
1:00pm Toleo La Mchana
1:30pm Rhumba Mzooqa
3:00pm Mwanaspoti
5:00pm Gozomo
5:30pm Sifa
6:00pm Mkulima Ni Ujuzi
7:10pm Tujuane
8:00pm Mwisho Juma na
Walibora
8:30pm I-Seme
9:00pm Coke Studio
10:00pm WWE :
Bottomline
11:00pm Irie-Reggae
12:00pm Movie: Royal Doom
01:00am AL-Jazeera

7:30pm
OSide
8:00pm
Coke Studio
Africa
9:00pm
NTV Weekend
Edition
10:00pm
Movie:
The X-Files
: I want
To Believe
12:00am
CNN

4:00pm
Scandal
- Omnibus

COKE STUDIO AFRICA 8:00PM

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to create a modern and authentic sound through musical fusion.
The purpose of Coke Studio is to reinvent the way music can
capture the spirit of a nation, opening hearts and minds, and of
course, Happiness.

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8:00 Knowzone
9:00 Wedding Show Omnibus 11:00 Great Debate
Contest 11:30 Xtreem Request Live
1:00 Live At 1
1:30 Shamba Shape Up
2:00 Dear Mother
2:45 Tabasamu
3:15 I Stand Accused
4:30Tall Dreams 5:00 Habibu
5:30 Kaa Rada
6:00 Jastorina
6:30 Saida
7:00 Nipashe Wikiendi
7:45 Naswa
8:15 Wild at Heart
9:00 Citizen Weekend
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01:30 Afrodizzia

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6:30 Joyce Meyer 7:00 Cartoons
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K24 TV
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K24 Alfajiri Social Hour 9.00 Just
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254 Live 3.00The Playlist 4.00
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6.00 Valgame Dios 7.00 K24

Wikendi 7.35 Kilimo Biashara 8.00

Isabella 9.00 K24 Weekend Report
9.50 Rave With Joe Mfalme
1.30 Beatbox 3.00 Aljazeera

EBRU AFRICA TV
7:05 Tarchins and Friends7:30 Caillou
7:40 Suzie Blue Bird8:00 Arthur
8:30 Marsupilami 9:00 Dino
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12:30 Plug N Play
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9:00 World Of Football
9:30 Movie1:30 Redemption
2:30 Plug N Play
3:00 Blank Canvas
3:25 Documentary 4:00 Ayna
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05.00 BBC World News

7.00 Fire Ministries 7.30 Miracle in
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huru 8.30 Jesus is Comng 8.45
Nguvu za Miugiza
9.00 Jesus Winner 9.30 Big Minds
10.30 J,ambo Toto 11.00 Angaza Live
1.00 KBC Lunchtime News
1.30 CCTV News
2.30 KBC Sports
4.30 Artitude
6.00 Taj Show
7.00 KBC Taarifa
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GONE GIRL
(TBA)
3.20PM
BANG BANG
6PM

NYALI CINEMAXMOMBASA
DOLPHINS TALE 2
(TBA)
2PM, 4PM
MAZE RUNNER (16)
2.45PM
HAIDER
5.30PM
GONE GIRL
6.15PM, 9.15PM
BANG BANG
9PM

AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19)

Timing is every thing and you could not pick a better
moment to approach those in positions to improve
your status or nances. The star setup today is denitely promising. Family members will be at their most
demanding and it might be good idea to steer clear
them right now.
PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20)
For the time being dont begin anything new and
that includes relationships. Instead, retrace your steps
because when you do you will nd matters or projects
that need your undivided attention.No one is more
interested than you when exciting things happen to
people you know or in the world at large, but when it
comes to changes it is your own life,
ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20)
This is not time to be too independent. Like it or not
you need the advice support and cooperation of other
people and you will be delighted to discover they are
easily persuaded into giving you the assistance you
need. Friends are likely to phone you today with juicy
gossip.
TAURUS (APR 21- MAY 20)
It is likely that you are enthusiastic and keen to make
a break from the past then again, when you are
not you are able to accept attempting after that has
been dangling under your nose. Although this may
involve unusual amount of traveling or putting down
roars everywhere, you are unlikely to shrink from the
challenge.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JAN 21)
No matter how keen you are to get things up and
running haste achieves little, especially when dealing with partners. However wait until next week to
nalize agreement and you wont have to contend
with the surprising developments are looming on the
horizon.Being disillusioned or let down by those you
had thought you could trust is never easy to accept.
CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22)
You may fell edgy, nervous, or that there is something
you are forgetting, but dont worry. At the moment it
may be impossible to understand the many changes
taking place the source of your anxiety but that does
not mean that most of them wont be in your best
interests.
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LEO (JUL 23- AUG 22)
The stars improve your mood considerably ending
a period of reection and there is better to come.
Breakthroughs indicated by the forthcoming planetary
setups will be lifting your spirits so that you will fell
more positive and ready to take on the world.There are
occasions when your physical and emotional batteries
will learn low and this is one of them.
VIRGO (AUG 23-SEPT 23)
The planetary setup today indicate that it is the quiet
side that can make the all the dierence in your
intimate relationships. At work no matter how genuine
your enthusiasm, if it comes between you and your
duties the am afraid it is just too much and needs
controlling.
LIBRA (SEPT 24-OCT 23)
The stars suggest that you should try to avoid
becoming involved with those who have fanatical
beliefs. The only guidance you need at this moment
is your conscience and everything else can be
disregarded. Those around you are completely
confused and will shrug their shoulders and eventually
give up.
SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22)
It will be all to easy for you to get trapped into a
negative way of thinking to believe that nothing is
good right and your situation wont improve. As a
Scorpio you are prone to sudden hours of depression
and insecurity.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23- DEC 21)
You must guard against the unreliability or even the
deception of other people today. The best thing you
can do Sagittarius is proceed in your usual day, namely
a step at a time towards your own chosen goal.
CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20)
There are some astrological reasons why you must
stop being so reasonable and instead put your own
interests rst. What takes place today could mark the
end of one particular face or cycle in your life and a
parting seems likely. There may be some problems
concerning joint nances.
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